The Secret of Oz is about “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum. The symbols are well known but their meaning is not. When I was in graduate school I was doing research for my thesis paper. I came across a paper from a professor at the VA Tech University School of Economics. (I apologize, his name escapes me because it was a very long time ago.)
He explains that It was widely recognized in economics academia that “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” penned by L. Frank Baum in 1900, is replete with potent symbols of monetary reform. Additionally. this formed the essence of the Populist movement and influenced the presidential bids of Populist Democrat William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and 1900.
The Symbols in The Wonderful Wizard of OZ
The yellow brick road (gold standard), the Scarecrow (farmers), the Tin Man (industrial workers), The Wicked Witch of the West (Cleveland banker J.D. Rockefeller) and the Wicked Witch of the East (NY banker J.P. Morgan), the Emerald City of Oz (greenback money) the illusory power of the Wizard in the capitol city (who monopolized power through deceit), even Dorothy’s silver slippers (changed to ruby slippers for the color movie version – symbols of Baum’s and Bryan’s belief that adding silver coin to gold coin would provide much needed money to a depression-strapped, 1890’s America).
The Secret of Oz
Oz, crafted by someone deeply versed in the Populist monetary reform goals of the period (Baum, a newspaperman and author), serves as a virtual forest of monetary reform symbolism. These goals, which have remained unchanged, are as relevant today as they were then, perhaps even more so.
Oz author L. Frank Baum’s symbols represent the solution to relieve the growing economic hardship here in America. Moreover, 2024 marks the 85th anniversary of the 1939 MGM release of The Wizard of Oz movie. It has impressed audiences all these years; Thus, imprinting Baum’s cryptic monetary reform symbols on the minds of millions.
The Secret of Oz is Key to Solving Our Economic Crisis
Scholars recognize the symbols, their meaning not so much; yet they hold the key to solving our economic crisis. The question why are Americans going broke and the American middle class rapidly disappearing is relevant today more than ever. Now the question is how do we get out of this economic mess. Foreclosures are everywhere and those still in their homes can barely afford the mortgages.
Having private banks create money is the root economic cause of poverty, ignorance, hunger and more. Until the people – to their government take back the power of money creation (Emerald City), from the bankers we will never be able to make a dent in these economic issues.
The Secret of Oz
We can fix this in a matter of months – a year at most – if we have the will. Then, we can make our government the most financially sound in the world. The Secret of Oz – all we have to do is to take back the power to create and control the quantity of money from private banks (including the privately-owned Federal Reserve banks) and put the power back into the hands of Congress of the United States where it was under President Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln. President Kennedy was in the throes of doing this when he was assassinated.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
After the William Jennings Bryan era the bankers learned that in order to put the lid on this issue, they had to buy up the nations press. And they did, led by banker J.P Morgan. But that hasn’t worked as well in the Internet age. People are starting to ask the right questions. What is the Federal Reserve and who owns the stock in it? (See “The Creature From Jekyll Island” by G. Edward Griffin) Why does the Fed resist us – even thwarting Congress – from knowing what they are doing with our money? How did private banks get the power from the government and how can we get that power back? For the answers, just follow the yellow brick road with Dorothy.
If we value the Founding Father’s dream of freedom – an escape from serfdom by political self-determination – we ultimately have to conclude that creating our money is too important a function to put into private hands where it can and is being used to corrupt our political system. With the continuous printing of money we have lost roughly 95% of our purchasing power. We have no need of the banking Wizards in the Emerald City to create new money. Our government can create money itself if it ever regains the confidence to throw aside the Wizard’s curtain revealing the trickery of the bank-created-debt-money-system, as Presidents Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln did in their day.
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