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EDWARD FASSIG* ESTATB* 252 WEST 8-AV* COHJMBPS OHIO* January 9-1959Honorable Marriner S* Secies* Chairman Board Of Governors$ Federal Reserve System* Washington D*C# Dear Mr* Eccles~: It was with very much interest and approval that I read your letter to Senator Rpyd, !•»ttia/ym*wqmimw^7%y>h lamiA nt The United States News* January If you have not already done so I wish you would read the article in the December 27th number of the same paper by Representative Wade Kitchens of Arkansas* If your economic philosophyxtlix will permit you to endorse that larticle also, I hereby suggest that you be nominated for President of The United States of America in 1940* Being a banker with sensible economic thoughts you should be a winnerWho ami 1} Just an ordinary man of the streetcelebrating my 72nd birthday to day • I,am a registered Republican w$o thinks as a party they have gone hay wire * I am a strong supporter of Roosevelt , as I am one of those independent fellows who votes as I think best even though the laws of this state do not allow me to be as independent at the primaries* If the members of Congress could only know how strong many voters feel in favor of such ideas and as far as I can learn even many actual members of Congress have the same thoughts, they would do something worth while on this subject* I wish copies of both could receive a wider circulation than tl now have * Thank you sincerlj^i tj t ^ EDWARD FASSIG F+S# ---It is ridiculous that the Government should pay interest* You admit they owe this debt to themselves * lionet should be Issued by the Government on a two way baa is Viz: With each issue of money $ an equal amount of taxation should be levied payable by the people tfithin a fixed period of years , so as to prevent an ever inflation of moneyf unless there is a better way advocated* People should become yax conscious« Bonds should never be issued by the Government or any political suddifriaion* E TJI *CI