Written over 100 years ago - NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN THE UNITED STATES
From The Banking Octopus and the Silver Question by F.M. Fogg
"The republican and democratic parties are as closely allied as the Siamese twins. The ligament connecting them is the banking system. Their head, hands, feet and pockets are different, but their vitals are the same — viz: the Associated Bankers' trust, the money monopoly, the usury octopus. Kill one party, the other will die. They cannot live apart. Financial reform is as dangerous to one as the other. Every argument made against one is equally applicable to the other. Cleveland is only exercising the same power which made 306 men stand up for five days and vote in solid column for Grant a third term. Under this dangerous system of patronage it is not far from the white house to the throne room. Ours is a republic only in name. It is an aristocracy of wealth whose servants are called legislators."