BENEFACTOR
"For the People, Of the People, and By the People"
Justice for Everybody Harms Nobody
Volume 1, Number 5

FINANCE
IS THE BUNK

THAT IS WHAT ALFRED LAWSON TOLD AN AUDIENCE AT KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN
(Taken verbatim by Beatrice Freese, M. G. D. C. S.)
UNLESS YOU KNOW THESE THINGS YOU ARE NOT EDUCATED
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You are now living in an age when bunk has reached its zenith.     Bunk has reached the inflation of its capaci­ty equal to the circumference of its explosion.     Bunk is something that you can hear but you cannot see. You can swallow it, but it doesn’t feed you.     Bunk is the cud the people of the world have been chewing on for hundreds of years. The smart-alecks call it finance.     They say that finance is the life of Trade. Well, bunk is the life of finance. The people, who produce all wealth, TRADE their earn­ings for BUNK. The Original Benefactor

Now the people of the world have been giving everything they earn to a class of swindlers who do nothing toward the produc­tion of wealth.     Why do they do it? Because these swindlers, otherwise known as financiers give them bunk and take their wealth in exchange for it.     They tell the people, “We will give you something for nothing,” and that is BUNK.     The swindlers only pretend they are going to give you something for nothing. And because you believe them, and because you do as they tell you to do, and because you enter into this little trick scheme of trying to get something for nothing, they take every­thing that you have earned that you have not already eaten.     You have heard the old three-shell slicker at the county fair and have seen his little table in front of him. When he sees the cops coming, he folds up the table and puts it in his inside pocket, and when they have gone he opens it up

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