Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/federalreservemo00clarrich THE FEDERAL RESERVE MONSTER by _JIM JAM JEMS_ Bismarck, N.D. Price $2.00 in U.S.A. Carriage Prepaid Compiled, Edited and Published by Sam H. Clark and Wallace Campbell Of JIM JAM JEMS Bismarck, North Dakota Copyright August 1922 EDITOR'S FOREWORD. WITH "charity toward all and malice toward none" we indite this volume of criticism of the Federal Reserve "Bunking" System as it is "practiced" in America. We are not posing as a modern David, nor do we underrate the size of the giant we have tackled herein by several damsights. And by the same token we are not depending on a single stone to deliver a knockout; on the contrary we are delivering a veritable volley of rocks at the object of our criticism and we hope that every chapter written here will raise bruises and welts on the back and belly of the critter. We have no intention nor desire to kill. And we don't believe in reform. When a thing needs reforming it needs an axe. But what we are striving to do is to awaken public sentiment to the damnable ramifications of the Federal Reserve Octopus in the hope that the people will "come alive" and eventually force the Federal Reserve System to be born anew. It is the abuse of the Federal Reserve System to which we object. Every little while some smart Alec mounts the bema and roars about the great good that the Federal Reserve System has accomplished. It is called the Savior of Credit and Industry. But it is misbranded. There's a vast difference between the picture on the tomato can and the contents of the can. If you have ever lived in the West or North or in any part of the country where wild ducks or partridges or prairie chickens nest, you are familiar with the antics of the mother duck or prairie hen during the hatching season. You have come suddenly upon the mother of a brood along the roadside and as she hops along there is every indication that the bird is wounded and she leads you away from her nest to a point where she figures the young are safe and then up and away she goes. These touters for the Federal Reserve System remind us of the mother duck and the prairie hen. They flap along and distract your attention from the nest which they are so beautifully feathering; they prate about "saving" and "benefiting" and flap you along until you lose sight of the brood of evils that they are really mothering.