Joseph Smith's (Socialist?) Plan to Nationalize the Banks

"For the accommodation of the people in every State and Territory, let Congress show their wisdom by granting a national bank, with branches in each State and Territory, where the capital stock shall be held by the nation for the mother bank, and by the States and Territories for the branches; and whose officers and directors shall be elected yearly by the people, with wages at the rate of two dollars per day for services; which several banks shall never issue any more bills than the amount of capital stock in her vaults and the interest."

*From a pamphlet originally distributed by missionaries in support of Joseph Smith's 1844 bid for the Presidency. _The Prophet Joseph Smith's Views on the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States_, 1886. Reprinted by Archive Publishers. ISBN 1-930679-26-2.