answered the first one.
    "Well," sayeth the second one, "call it the Manufacturers' organization."
    And then again at a third table sat two more touts of the financiers and one of them said to the other, "We are going to start a new organ­ization and would like to know a good name for it."
    "Who are you going to skin?" asked the other tout. "The Merchants," replied the first one. "Then call it the Merchants' organization."
    And still again at another table sat two well groomed and nicely manicured touts and one of them said. "We are starting a new organi­zation and would like a good name for it."
    "Who are you going to skin?" asked the other tout. "The working people," answered the first one.
    "Well", answered the second tout, "Call it a Labor organization."
    Now that is the way the financiers get control of all organizations. They start them and name them after the wealth producers whom they intend to skin. Then they make them pay for skinning them with fees and dues.
    So with control of their organization they steer the wealth producers into blind alley­ways from whence they never escape and force them to pay tribute to them forever afterward with in­terest on money and credit.
    Wealth is anything and everything made valuable by human effort.
    The four main producers of wealth are: Farmers, Inventors, Manufacturers and Work­ing People. Merchants are auxiliaries who act as distributors of wealth between the produc­ers and consumers.
    First, the Farmer produces wealth through human effort in the shape of food and that is what the people eat in order to live. Therefore, I say that anyone who would mistreat a Farmer is like the dog who, bites the hand that feeds him.

    Second, the inventor designs the machinery to do the work and with this machinery oper­ated by human beings in mass production the cost of the product in labor power is reduced to such a low purchasing power that every­body can earn with reasonable effort the ne­cessities, comforts and even luxuries of life.
    Third, the Manufacturers put this machin­ery into factories, organize large numbers of working people to operate it and thereby help to cut the cost of production of wealth to a minimum.
    Fourth, the working people not only operate the machinery but they build the machinery and they also build the factory. In fact, without work­ing people there would be no machinery, no factories or any other wealth whatsoever. So, those who mistreat working people abuse the actual producers of wealth, for nothing can be produced without labor.
    Now, the question is, if the Farmer, Inventor, Manufacturer, Worker and Merchant produce and distribute the wealth, why shouldn't they own it and each enjoy a purchasing power equal to his productive power?
    They should, and anybody above the intelli­gence of a slicker or an idiot will agree that those who earn the wealth should have it.
    But do the people who produce and distrib­ute the wealth own it?
    No, they do not. The ownership of most of the wealth nowadays is in the possession of swind­ling financiers.
    What do these financiers give to the producers and distributors of wealth for it?
    Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
    Then how do the financiers get the owner­ship of the wealth produced and distributed by the Farmers, Inventors, Manufacturers, Working Peo­ple and Merchants?
    They defraud them out of it by a crooked money and credit system based upon the as­sumption that a lump of gold is the founda­tion of