What is the purpose of this essay? and why is it in this archive ?Senator Owen's "senate document 23" had/has nothing to do with the US Senate and it is not a document. The good part in it is the listing of local currencies issued by municipalities to relieve currency shortage during the Depression.It does recite the run-off-the-mill conspiracy fake quotes, which, persons lacking knowledge, take as facts and run with them, and build theologies based on them.Owen was a banker, and instrumental in passing the FedRes Act. Secretary of State, cross of gold Jennings Bryan, gave his name and hearty support to it. On September 18, 1913, Representative Lindbergh voted YES to the FedRes bill when it passed the House.If people had the courage to read the story of the Federal Reserve bill, and to familiarize themselves with the story of central banking in the United States, they would have known that the Federal reserve sytem was/is nothing more than the organizational adjustment of the National currency Bank System, given to the United States by Abraham Lincoln (the same Lincoln who did not say what "senate document 23" claims he had said)Only people who do not know US history are impressed with what Delano said about the financial powers in the United States. The power of bankers was discussed loudly from end of the country to the other, in the 1820s, 1830s, 1840s; the power of banks were election issues in 1816, 1828, 1832, 1836, 1840, 1844. The letters from NMR and other banking houses were discussed in Congress.From day one, Baring, brothers &co. were bankers to the United States in Europe (which in those days meant the world). During Andrew Jackson's Presidency the account of the US was transferred from Baring to NMR (Senate document 23 never mentioned that tid-bit to you). NMR was very impressed with the performance of President Jackson, their letters of praise were published at the time (and are still available today, but don't look to conspiracy books for information). In 1836 one of the American representatives of NMR --in appreciation-- purchased a portrait of President Jackson and sent it to London, where it still is, hangs in the office (conspiracy peddlers never told you this public information)August Belmont, official representative of NMR, heartily supported President Abraham Lincoln and his effort to subdue the rebel States and to "restore cotton to loyalty". The Rothchild-friendly banker, Joseph Seligman, also supported the North in its efforts, for a while his House were bankers to the United States, and he sold $100million US bonds in Frankfurt (don't look in conspiracy books for this connection of Lincoln with the Rothschilds)Abraham Lincoln, as President of US, in his official document (second annual message), clearly stated that he considered bank-notes backed by government bonds, the best currency the country may have (Mullins and everyone who copied from him, missed this bit, although it is in the widely available collected works of A.L.)Nathan Mayer did not start the war against Napoleon, he did not start the Penninsular War, the British ruling class did (he merely made money off it). Nathan Mayer did not start the battle that ended at Waterloo, he merely made money off it. Whose fault was it that he outsmarted the English and Scottish speculators ? were those English Scottish speculators any better than a Jewish war financier ? would they not have profited from war if they could ?The Baring circle of friends owned the first Bank of the United States, established at the time when Nathan Mayer was a no-name guy. Neither did he have any part in the second Bank of the United States, established at the time when he was still counting the money he made in the Waterloo speculation.The difference between Rothschild-friendly and non-Rothschild-friendly bankers is the degree of financial success. It is the easiest thing to blame the Frankfurt circle of friends.Joseph and his house were (one of the) representatives of NMR in the United States, when Joseph went bankrupt his bills were paid; can any of the english, scottish printing-press bank incorporators of the 1820s and 1830s say the same ?Lincoln and his Dick invented greenbackslike Col. Saunders invented fried chicken