Truth About Rockefeller - Emanuel Josephson |
The rise of the Rockefeller Dynasty takes its place beside the growth of the thievish Illuminist-Socialist-Communist conspiracy as the outstanding and over-shadowing developments of the past two centuries of world history. They are rapidly, and seemingly inexorably, casting a blight on the product of the American Revolution, human liberty, that was defined in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and was intended to be given creation and form in our Republic. Both had their origins almost simultaneously with our Revolution. And curiously, both are counter-Revolutionary and are certain to destroy human liberty unless they are checked.
The Illuminist conspiracy cast its shadow on the American scene shortly after it was launched by the Jesuit, Adam Weishaupt, in 1776, less than three years after the Jesuit Order had been abolished by Pope Clement XIV, on July 21, 1773, in his breve "Dominus ac Redemptor". It is reflected in the adoption of the Illuminist emblem as the reverse of the seal of the American colonies and the Continental Congress, that was later adopted as the seal of the United States. As such it has appeared since the mid 1930's, on the reverse of the silver certificates issued by the Treasury.
Following the exposure of the nature of the conspiracy launched by Weishaupt, alias Spartacus, by the Bavarian Government after a raid on his quarters in 1785, he transferred the headquarters of the movement to the United States under the leadership of his adherents there. In Europe, the organization was forced underground. And Weishaupt was forced to flee for his life and seek refuge in Saxe Gotha, because his records disclosed that he planned to destroy religions, other than the Church, and governments around the world; and to make himself "One World" ruler through a "United Nations."
Of necessity, this revolutionary movement was forced to adopt different names whenever it again emerged from underground into the open. Usurping the designation "liberal" in its pretense of seeking human liberty, it was named at various periods: "Jacobin", "Fourierism", "Marxism", "Socialism", "Bolshevism", "Communism", "Nazarenism", "New Deal", "New Frontier" and numerous other titles, at various times and in various parts of the world.
Though each of the groups laid claim to differences in their tenets, they all aim to communize property by the process of either surrender or looting, and to rule the world on one pretendedly "noble" pretext or another. That they call "internationalism". Their schemes are, in reality, nothing more than pseudo-philosophic justifications for wholesale thievery. It is quite natural that cunning thieves and gangsters fall in line with these thievish schemes for the purpose of fleecing the dimwitted imbeciles who are deluded by them. After its success in forcing the Vatican to reestablish the Jesuit order, IIluminism remained under its direction.
Throughout early American history these "liberals" have been given the generic name of "communists". As early as 1831, Ebenezer Elliott revealed how well-known was the true character of communism in his jingle:
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What is a communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division Of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler or both He is willing To fork out his copper And pocket your shilling. |
Additional evidence can be found in the 1875 publication of Charles Nordhoff entitled THE COMMUNIST SOCIETIES OF THE UNITED STATES (1794-1875) that recently has been reprinted by Hillary House Publishers Ltd.
The first of the progenitors of the Rockefeller dynasty who can be reliably identified, was a drunk by the name of Godfrey who is variously reported as the son of a Rhenish immigrant, and of a Hessian mercenary. He married Lucy Avery, of Great Barrington, and later migrated to Michigan Hill, not far from Apalachin, Tioga County, New York. The third of ten children of the marriage was William Avery Rockefeller who was born in 1810.
William Avery Rockefeller was the real, but unacknowledged founder of the Rockefeller Dynasty. He so firmly molded its character in his own image that the Dynasty has never swerved from the pattern that he gave it. Inasmuch as a knowledge of his character is essential for an understanding of the Dynasty, a biographic sketch of him that was published in 1929 and 1931 by the Vigilante Press under the title THE ROCKEFELLER DYNASTY is here reprinted. The facts, as presented in it, are verified and in some instances amplified in the biography John D. ROCKEFELLER that the family authorized Prof. Allan Nevins to write and publish. Additional data on the subject is supplied by William H. Allen, in his ROCKEFELLER, GIANT-DWARF SYMBOL.
"In the year 1835, a peddler, apparently nearing his mid twenties and who pretended to be deaf and dumb so that communications with him had to be carried on by signs or in writing, made his first appearance in Richford, a small village of Tioga County, N.Y., located about twenty miles northwest of Binghampton.
"As soon as the supposedly deaf and dumb peddler had located the farm of his father, Godfrey Rockefeller, had satisfied himself that the coast was clear, and, visiting his parents, had learned that he was not being sought or wanted by the Sheriff or local authorities, he broke out, to the astonishment of the natives, with a voice of such great volume for song and story that he was later acknowledged as the champion singer and spinner of yarns, anecdotes, jokes and stories in the township.
"Large for his age as a boy and of a roving pleasure loving disposition, he quit school early and, with a scant education, started out to earn money in various ways. Objecting to handing over his early scant earnings, as was the custom in those days, to his father to be spent in the rum shops of Massachusetts, he left his home at an early age, to see and make his way in the world. He returned to visit home and mother at times when he was hard pressed or in difficulties.
"Shrewd and tricky, anxious and ever ready to make money, by hook or crook, to satisfy his money greed and miserly instincts which were noticeable even in his early manhood, he tried many occupations and lived as it were by his wits but preferred working for or with peddlers and vendors of quack medicines and cures for man and beast. He also worked for horse traders and horse doctors and what are known today as gyps, and later in his life operated as a horse trader himself, with unenviable reputation . . .
"Bill's early physical development was such, that before he was nineteen he appeared in size and stature and strength as a full grown powerful man and when dressed in Indian fashion he was a striking figure, even as a boy and young man, when working the deaf and dumb racket to conceal his ignorance of the Indian language, and grunting his satisfaction as he passed out the Indian herbs and remedies and the great American oil medicine 'petroleum', 'Rock-oil' and 'Seneca oil' and received money in exchange . . .
"In 1828, the boy, Bill Rockefeller was engaged at Providence, Rhode Island by a master oil peddler who dressed up Bill partly in Indian and partly in trapper fashion. The 'high-pitchman' or 'Spieler' said that 'Bill* or 'Seneca' as he called him, had been found aiding the Chief Medicine Man of a tribe of Indians in collecting a supply of 'Seneca Oil' from secret Indian springs. 'Bill could not speak the Indian language' continued the spieler! 'He was probably struck deaf and dumb through fright, when he was lost or stolen as a child. But he was certainly a healthy example of the curative power of "Seneca Oil" . .
"'Seneca Oil* and 'Rock Oil' was handed out by Bill at $2 per bottle as medicine, to be taken as prescribed: three teaspoonfuls three times a day, for consumption, liver complaint, cholera morbus, etc. A thick mixture was offered as liniment."
This is the obvious root of the Rockefeller interest in oil, drugs and medical practise and "research". It has been a profitable tradition for them!
"William Avery Rockefeller, better known as 'Doc' or Bill, had no legitimate trade or calling and disdained to do farm work. He was generally well supplied with cash, and his clothes and horses were of a better class than those of his neighbors. He was liked, loved and adored by the ladies and returned their affection when possible. He was addicted to all the vices that the country sports indulged in, but showed no marked weakness for alcohol. He became the companion of the most notorious sports and men of the countryside and was ever ready to join them in gambling or carousing parties. He was the associate of gamblers, tricksters, horse thieves and bad characters and was looked upon as a 'suspicious' or 'dangerous' character by the respectable members of the community.
"His mysterious disappearances for long intervals, his invariable return with replenished pockets, the stories concerning him that leaked in from afar, coupled with local gossip and knowledge, caused some to look upon him as a professional gambler, others as a quack doctor, and still others as an agent or dealer in stolen horses, and to this day 'Rockefeller ravine' near Lake Owasco, is pointed out as the place into which horses gathered from many parts, were driven and where they were held until they were again driven away to be sold or traded off in parts and places other than those from which they had come. Three of his companions were indicted as members of a gang of horse thieves at Moravia in 1850. (6, p. 36)
"Shortly after the dumb peddler had regained his bellowing voice and acute hearing, and considered it safe to venture forth on further purse replenishing expeditions, he did so. In 1837 he returned from one of his treasure seeking expeditions not only with a well filled purse, but what was of still more importance to the future John D. dynasty, with a treasure, in the person of Eliza Davison, daughter of a farmer of Moravia, N.Y." (6, p. 27)
Nevins quotes from a clipping from the Elmira Telegram found among Rockefeller's papers that, a short time prior, "Doc" Bill had built a house in the Richford woods, furnished it and put in charge of it a young woman, Nancy Brown and her two illegitimate children that he had fathered, according to information given by John D.'s cousin Mrs. John Wilcox. It was to this fouled nest, it was reported, that William Avery Rockefeller brought his bride, to share it with his mistress. This is reminiscent of the housing arrangements made for his wives by Nelson Rockefeller.
"Folks who live nearer to the scenes of the elder Rockefeller exploits give other details that include allegations of illegitimate children and gambling. Of several illegitimate children, one is said to have been proud of her bar sinister, or at least its source, while another was tragically unhappy. 'He had to be mighty smart to get away with that,' said one relative. 'I fear I have many cousins round here who don't go by the name of Rockefeller', said another.
"It is said that Eliza married the irresistible Bill against the opposition of her parents. She bore him six children: first Lucy; then on July 8, 1839, John Davison, as the second born child and eldest son now known the world over as John D. the First; William, the next, was also born at Richford, Mary and the twins, Frank and Frances, were born on a farm near Owasco Lake and their mother's home town Moravia, where Frances died in infancy.
"After the indictment of three of Bill Rockefeller's pals on horse stealing charges, John D. the First, then in his eleventh year, was obliged to give up his profitable turkey raising enterprise at Moravia to go with his father, who thought it best to seek new pastures, many miles away on a large farm near Owego, N.Y. There he left his family, while he traveled about the country working the Indian Medicine Oil racket and peddling other cure-all quack remedies, which proved so profitable that he not only kept his family liberally supplied with cash, but that he was able to provide his sons, out of these quack medicine profits, with the cash capital required to establish them in business . . .
"In 1842, salt wells located at Tarentum, near Pittsburgh, owned and operated by Samuel K. Kier, flowed so much oil up with the salt water that it proved to be a serious nuisance, until the owner began to bottle it as Medicinal Oil, as a business, at Pittsburgh.
"By 1850, Kier's Petroleum or Rock Oil was sold all over the United States. The Crude Petroleum put up in 8 oz. bottles . . . and wrapped in circulars lauding its many virtues as a cure for the many ills recited, with explicit directions for its use, and accompanied with many testimonials of its efficacy as a cure, practically ruined Doc Rockefeller's 'easy Indian Medicinal Oil graft'. This caused him to take up other lines of quack medicines and he then majestically decreed and diplomaed himself Dr. William Rockefeller, the celebrated cancer specialist, and continued to represent himself as such until John D's commission business brought him back into the oil profiteering business.
"In 1922 The Fiddlestick, a local magazine published at Bainsbridge, New York told the following story about the medical practise of Rockefeller's father:
"A Moravia boy named Hewitt who was twenty seven years old at the time the Rockefellers moved there found Rockefeller's father fascinating as well as mysterious. He went off with Rockefeller senior as a deaf and dumb physician with magic powers. He was 'the celebrated Dr. Levingston'. He kept up the pretense throughout his life until just before his death when he became mildly insane and actually believed himself deaf and dumb.
"The reason for the hoax was that, as Rockefeller's father told him and as experience proved, the Indians had a superstitious awe of a person who lacked one or more senses. They believed the gods compensated such a person by giving him occult healing ability . . .
"Sometimes the two Moravians, Rockefeller's father and their neighbor Hewitt, traveled together as Dr. William May and the celebrated Dr. Levingston, a moneymaking precedent for Rockefeller's substitution of cooperation for competition . . .
"An itinerant peddler of quack medicines and sure cures for man and beast, he was known as Bill or Doc. Rockefeller by his friends on his rare visits to his known home towns . . . Away from home he was more widely known in his old stamping grounds in the middle west and other districts, as 'Seneca Bill' or 'Seneca Doc* the 'Indian Medicine Peddler', 'The Petroleum Cure Doctor' and the 'Rock Oil Feller', and after migrating to Ohio in 1853, as 'Dr. William A. Rockefeller, the celebrated cancer specialist', as he grandiloquently dubbed himself in his business cards and handbills, adding: 'All cases of cancer cured unless too far gone and then they can be greatly benefited.'
"Doc's usual dose for internal use was 3 teaspoons or 1 tablespoon 3 times a day, as he had been taught in his Indian cure days. His cancer cure medicine was made up of a few well known diuretics and water.
"He sold with the medicine his wonder-working cancer liniment, also at $2 per bottle. This cancer-cure lotion was practically his old Indian horse liniment 'good for man and beast.' It consisted of crude petroleum, with lighter oils boiled out, so that practically only the lubricating oil and paraffine or heavy constituents remained. He also had a black or so called tar liniment. This was made from crude oils with an asphaltum base instead of the paraffine base oils of Pennsylvania.
"Doc was the envy of his class as a master spieler, high pitchman, grifter, and Quack Doctor, as he worked his petroleum and medicine rackets on sick 'suckers' during the many unaccounted for days of his frequent, long and mysterious though profitable absences from home . . .
"Owego rumor says Rockefeller's father came home only in night times from the wandering that took most of his years; announced his return by tapping on the chimney pipe; gave each child a five dollar gold piece, saying that he would get it away again if he could; wore fancy clothes; said nothing about his business but talked engagingly about almost any other topic; paid all store bills and was off again.
"John D. himself, writing on 'The Difficult Art of Getting' wrote; 'To my father I owe a great debt, in that he himself trained me to practical ways. He engaged in different enterprises; he used to tell me about these things, explaining their significance; and he taught me the principles and methods of business'.
"Doc Rockefeller himself intimated just what these principles and methods were when he confided to an Ohio pal that he wanted to make his boys sharp. 'I trade with my boys and skin 'em. I beat 'em every chance I can. I want to make 'em sharp'.
"Rockefeller either in his own story or that of his official biographer says that his father practised medicine away from home; that he took long trips for this purpose; that on those trips he also practised trading, that he loaned money at high rates of interest in which Rockefeller says that he believed at the time and has always believed that money is worth what borrowers will pay. Miss Ida Tarbell . . . refers to the horse-stealing story only as neighborhood gossip. She does say, 'There's an indictment for something worse than horsestealing'.
". . . The old indictment, dated July 26, 1849, by twenty jurors of the court of oyer and terminer, reads:
"That William A. Rockefeller late of the Town of Moravia in the county of Cayuga, on the first day of May in the year of the Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, with force and arms at the town of Moravia in said County, in and upon one Anne Vanderbeak (v. Nevins) in the Peace of God and the people of the State of New York then and there being, violently and feloniously did make an assault on her the said Anne Vanderbeak then and there violently and against her will feloniously did ravish and carnally know against the form of the Statute in such case made and provided, and against the Peace and dignity of the People of the State of New York".
"Rockefeller's father left the county before he could be arrested. We know this from another old document on file in the Auburn court house which earlier investigators do not mention. Perhaps they never saw it. County officials claimed ignorance of it in 1926, nor did they know if Rockefeller's father was ever tried. However the Auburn Daily Advertiser carried a paid notice on its back page for six weeks in August and September, 1849, which pointed to a civil suit and eventually to this old record.
"Four days after the criminal indictment of William A. Rockefeller, his father appeared in Auburn and sought judgement against him for two overdue notes dating from August 2, 1845 and October 7, 1846, totaling $973.57 plus interest. The reason given for invoking the court's aid was that Rockefeller's father had told the father-in-law on 'Wednesday of last week' that he had heard that he was indicted for rape and hoped that his father-in-law would go his bail. The father-in-law said he was 'too old to go bail for any one', whereupon the indicted man told him he would never see him again, by which the deponent understood that Rockefeller's father 'intended to abscond from this state and never to return to it again'. The wife said he had already absconded. The father-in-law believed that the intent was 'to defraud his creditors' and therefore asked that 'some personal and real estate' left behind be attached. The next day, July 31, the sheriff and an assistant went to the Rockefeller home near Moravia; made an inventory; had two neighbors, Eliza and Thomas Vanarsdale, appraise the property; and attached it. On February 9, 1850, the judgement was satisfied . . .
"After he left New York . . . he rented two farm houses for his family in Strongville and Parma, Ohio, and at least one year in Cleveland . . . He sent Rockefeller money to loan at high rates of interest. He advanced son, John D., $1,000, the coming-of-age present he intended making two years later, and loaned $200 more—all at 10% interest—for buying a partnership in a grain commission business. After his wife's death in 1889 he occasionally made short visits to Rockefeller in Cleveland and at least once at Pocantico Hills. (6, p. 56)
"After his indictment in New York in 1849, Doc under the alias of Dr. William Levingston, operated from his Philadelphia headquarters. "In Philadelphia Doc and Bissell both interested in Rock-oil or petroleum met in 1854 and were soon discussing oil springs, larger supplies and Kier's saltwater oil well and medicine oil trade that had killed Doc's oil-peddling business.
"In 1854, George H. Bissell . . . on a visit to Dartmouth College was shown by a professor a laboratory specimen of Rock-Oil obtained from oil springs on the farm of a lumber firm, Brewer, Watson and Company, near Titusville, Pa.
"These old Indian oil springs had for years yielded oil, regularly collected and sold for medicinal purposes. Later, the oil was also used for lighting and lubricating purposes in the local mills.
"Bissell, impressed with the commercial possibility of petroleum, organized the Pennsylvania Rock-oil Company, leased the land on which the springs were located, sent a quantity of the oil to Professor Silliman of Yale College, received a highly satisfactory report on its illuminating, lubricating and other qualities, and so started the first oil company in the United States.
"But Doc was interested in medicine oil only, and took no stock in exploiting oil for industrial purposes. He sought therefore to obtain control of the Company, in order to utilize it for his own base purposes as a peddler and prescriber of quack remedies. By means of his usurious loans and advances on the shares and interest of the others, he almost succeeded in obtaining control.
"As a result of Doc's plotting the Company was soon in financial difficulties, and no progress was made in its well drilling operations, the specific object of its organization.
"The usurious Doc was putting the screws on his associates in Pennsylvania Rock-Oil Company. He induced them to change the Company's name to 'Seneca Oil Company'.
"Some of Doc's old pals, who had worked with and knew him as 'Seneca Bill' and 'Seneca Oil Doc' . . . knew that he was indicted for a felony and then a fugitive, incensed by his refusal to assist them financially, informed the officials of the Seneca Oil Company of Doc's crooked antecedents.
"This knowledge obtained at a critical moment enabled them to free the Company and some of its stockholders from the clutches of the grasping crook, Levingston.
"In this case his greed and crooked extraordinary profits denied opportunities in which he would have shared, had he played straight and aided the Pennsylvania Rockoil Company to drill the first oil well, even though he could not have shared publicly in the glory, because of his aliases, his indictment, his bigamous marriages, etc., etc.
"Bissell, the founder of the world's first Oil Company, and Col. Drake, the driller of the world's first oil well and other shareholders in the 'Pennsylvania Rock-oil Company' were not anxious to publish to the world the fact that the notorious swindler and quack, Doctor William Levingston, had been associated with them for a time, had loaned money at usurious rates and almost ruined some of them and their company, had caused them to change the name of the company to the 'Seneca Oil Company' to facilitate his medicine oil schemes, and who had almost obtained complete control of their company before they discovered that he was a notorious swindler and indicted fugitive from justice.
"In the Spring of 1859, Col. Drake visited Kier's well at Tarentum, purchased a crude well drilling outfit, engaged an experienced driller, brought them to Titusville, sunk a well near the end of August, 1859, struck oil, pumped twenty-five barrels the second day, and so caused the great oil rush of '59.
"Doc, under the alias of William Levingston, homesteaded 160 acres of Government land in Dakota on October 8, 1883. On Sept. 25, 1884, he assigned the receipt to John D's sister, Laura E. Briggs (. . . of Cleveland, Ohio); and gave her a quit claim deed in March 28, 1885. He again obtained title but under his right name, William A. Rockefeller by a warranty deed on June 23, 1886, and in October 10, 1889, deeded it to his son-in-law and purchasing agent of Standard Oil, Pierson D. Briggs.
"The first clause in this deed is: 'I William A. Rockefeller, widower.' At this time he was living at Freeport, 111. under the alias of Dr. Levingston with his Canadian wife whom he married in 1885, and with whom he continued to live as husband and wife until his death and burial from their home in Freeport in 1906. His will bequeathed all his property to his widow Mrs. Margaret Allen Levingston.
"When he deserted the Rockefeller dynasty in 1854, he was in fact 'keeping company' with his 19 year old Canadian sweetheart, Miss Allen, when the timely death of his alleged first legal wife (not John D's mother) left him free to consummate his marriage to Miss Allen, Doc's desertion of John D's mother and family caused John D. to apply for assistance to Dr. Emerson E. White . . .
"His Canadian wife, Margaret L. Allen of Norwich, Ontario, was misled by an alleged bigamous marriage and lived with him from 1855 for over 50 years before she learned of his deceit as a result of an accident. On Jan. 25, 1904, old 'Doc' broke his arm. For weeks he was near death. In his delirium he often said to her, 'You are not my wife, where is Eliza?' And when delirious moments carried him back to New York and Ohio and the days when he was Doc Rockefeller, he babbled the name of his wife Eliza, and also John, William, Frank, Lucy and Mary, sons and daughters of the Rockefeller-Davison union.
"John D's mother died on March 28, 1889, at the residence of her son, William at 689 Fifth Avenue, New York City, but was buried as a widow at Cleveland, though John D's father continued to live for a further 17 years as the husband of Miss Allen under the alias of Levingston.
"The New York World in its issue of 1908, speaks of Miss Allen as his second wife, and refers to the second marriage as bigamous, assuming of course that his first wife was Eliza Davison, the mother of John D. whom he married in 1837 . . .
". . . William Avery Rockefeller . . . died May 11, 1906, at Freeport, Illinois, where he was buried in an unmarked grave as Dr. William Levingston, aged 96 years, 5 months and 28 days.
"Seneca Bill's indictment for rape in Cayuga County, N.Y. on June 28, 1849, his bigamous marriages, his numerous infatuations and affairs with women whom he desired to possess and did possess by bigamous marriages, by felonious assaults, by seductive promises, or by other methods and his winning ways, all bear evidence of the fact that Bill Rockefeller was 'woman-mad', as his son was 'money mad'."
This account of the founder of the Rockefeller dynasty is verified by Nevins with amplifications from data provided him by the members of the family. It is not cited in full for the purpose of scandal-mongering, but because it serves a useful purpose in giving insight into the mentality and activities of the present generation who dominate the world scene and rule its destiny. In particular it enables us to fathom the character of his great-grandson, Nelson A. Rockefeller, who in so many respects resembles "Doc" Bill, and is a throwback to him. The inordinate greed, the contempt for law, the insistence on being a law unto himself, the trickiness and treachery, the pose of "good fellowship" that mask innate ruthlessness and the sexual and marital vagaries, are present in both to a greater degree than it has appeared in the other members of the Dynasty.
Possibly it is because Nelson so deliberately patterns his attitudes on those of his grandfather, but exhibits as dominant traits the characteristics of his great-grandfather, that accounts for what he is. His grandfather also acknowledged his debt and training to his father. But the religious piety in which he was drilled by his mother served to mask and camouflage the more obvious evil traits of his father. And the rest of the members of the Dynasty have patterned their conduct on that of their grandfather. In any event, the criminal psychopath, Seneca Bill, has left his stamp on the Rockefeller Dynasty and through them a curse on the nation and on the world.