chasing 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 value. Then by controlling the quantity of gold and issuing a limited amount of money in its stead as a medium of exchange they force a tri­bute upon the people in the shape of inter­est charges for the use of it.
 Right here let me explain that money has no value whatsoever and should only be used as a trade convenience in the measurement of value.
 Value lies in the product and is decided by supply and demand.
 The stability of money then is given to it by reason of the fact that people will accept it as a trade convenience.
 The guarantee that all of the people will ac­cept it as a trade convenience is the official stamp of the people’s government.
 So the people of a country are the ones to de­cide as to the regulation of their money sys­tem and not swindling financiers.
 But the people of the United States have turn­ed over their money system to the fi­nan­ciers and these tricksters do not use this money as a pure trade convenience but as a medium to de­fraud the people by making them pay tribute for the use of it and thereby they are enabled to not only swindle the Ameri­can Manufacturer, American Inventor, American Farmer, Ameri­can Merchant and American Working People out of their Fac­tories, Inven­tions, Farms, Stores and Homes but they are able to run up con­tin­uously an indebtedness of future Interest pay­ments that not only increase to such proportions that they can never be paid, but it also enables them to actually make slaves of the people them­selves on account of the indebtedness.
 During the past ten years, through this interest collecting indebtedness that the Man­ufacturers, Merchants, Farmers, In­ventors and Working People were not able to meet, the fi­nan­cier foreclosed on more than 200,­000 fac­tories, more than three million stores, more than three million farms and more than six million homes in America. They took away more than three hundred billion dollars worth of the American people’s wealth by this swindling game for