dirty work, and the big skins get all of the hides.
 The big skins at the top are the big international financiers. Some of them claim to be Americans, but they are not—they are aliens. These alien financiers belong to neither man nor God. They are Gold Wor­ship­pers. They have neither heart nor soul. But the people never learn what terrible creatures they are because these Gold Wor­ship­pers control every avenue of publicity and learning and won’t let the people know how they skin them alive.
 They teach little children at school in arithmetic how to skin the people by the interest collecting swindle. Then the colleges polish the kids up and make expert swin­dlers out of them. With a university degree one should be able to extract the gold teeth from an old lady without her noticing it.
 So your expert skins get everything that the little two-by-four skins take away from you, and there is no way for you to know how it is done, because they control every avenue of publicity. They control the books in your schools. They control your college professors. They control the radio. They control the pictures. They control the magazines. They control the newspapers. Now, how are. you going to learn anything except what the big skins teach you? Do you suppose they are going to teach you how they skin you? They wouldn’t be expert dermatologists if they did.
 They control your minds. They feed you the only stuff that your mind is fed with. They teach you their stuff from the day you are born until the day you die. As long as you listen to a college professor; as long as you look upon those horrible pictures; as long as you listen to their dope over the radio; as long as you believe the financiers’ bunk published in magazines and newspapers, you are going to be miseducated as the financier wants you to be.
 He wants you in such a drunken condition mentally that he can skin you alive and you will be satisfied with it.
 What do the skins do to you? They take four-fifths of everything you earn, and make you think that is all right.
 Why do you think that is all right for them to take four-fifths of everything that you earn? Because they tell you it is all right.
 If a little thief put his hand in your pocket and stole four-fifths of your money you wouldn’t believe him if he told you it was all right but you believe those touts of the international financiers when they tell you it is all right to take four-fifths of your earnings. You believe them because you do not understand the tricky game they have gotten you into.
 You must learn how they swindle you by forcing you to play their game.
 You have a system whereby a piece of money acts as a trade convenience in your various transactions. Your Congress is supposed to operate that system so you will get the proper value of everything you produce. A little slip of paper merely represents the value of something you have traded. But