“Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.” James A. Garfield Assassinated September 19, 1881.  The Gold Standard Act of the United States was passed in 1900 by William McKinley. In 1901 William McKinley was assassinated.    The more you know the deeper it goes.