Notes from The Kingdom of Shylock (1917) by Frank Anstey, M.P.

• Notes from 📘🇦🇺 The Kingdom of Shylock (1917) by Frank Anstey

Where is the Englishman who does not love the land of his nativity?

"Where is the Englishman who does not love the land of his nativity? Where is the one who in the hour of struggle does not forget all that is bestial in her cities and remember only all that is beautiful in the things left undefiled?"

"GIVE YOUR LIFE OR GIVE YOUR MONEY."

"Men may die, but Money makes no sacrifice. It looks upon bloody war as a rich gold mine yielding fat dividends for ever and without end."

There is nothing new under the sun.

"Where, in the name of God, is the "love of country" to those vampires who batten and grow rich on the rotting carcasses of the world's humanity?"

"Where does this vast quantity of “borrowed money” come from? Where does
it go to? How comes it that,
thousands of millions have been poured
into the gutter that as much remains
in the great banks as before the War?"

"... OUT OF THE WAR WILL COME FOREVER ANNUAL DIVIDENDS IN THE SHAPE OF INTEREST UPON THE MONEY INVESTED IN BLOOD. FOR THIS THE PEOPLE MUST TOIL.

Out of the war will emerge two classes - Bondholders and slaves to the Bondholders."

"Whosoever says that Money shall not
serve in this crisis unless it earns the
right of eternal tax upon the toil of the fathers and mothers and sisters and brothers of those who die ‐ that man is a
"Servant in the Kingdom Of Shylock, the Kingdom without a boundary..."

"The standard of life must be reduced."
#austerity #usurocracy

"He will draw blood from sweating brows and hungry mothers all the days that God gives them life... This war makes the living worker a slave and fills the treasury Of Shylock full to overflowing."

Australian Labour/Tories a century ago... makes no difference, whatever country or period of history.

"And for this financial fakery, and because it is the accepted fakery of our times, and because we have not the courage to break with it, the nation is to be looted..."

"But the National Parliament... has declared
by an almost unanimous vote that the present banking monopoly shall stand, untouched, and that the Nation shall
continue to pay annual tribute to Shylock...currency reform a sign of insanity... "