be a manufacturer. I was an industry build­er. During the last sixty-eight years. I have done a little of everything. So I know the trials and tribulations of manufacturers. I know that the financiers are ruining the American manufacturers; forcing them out. of business by the hundreds of thousands.
 Six so-called international financiers in Amer­i­ca today combining with twelve finan­ciers of other countries in separate groups are contesting with each other to see which group will ultimately own all property in America and enslave the American people. Whichever group wins will put in their own Dictator and democracy will finally die a lingering, horrible death.
 You manufacturers, merchants, farmers, inventors and laboring men produce and distribute all wealth, not one-fifth of it but five-fifths of it. So, why don’t you keep the five-fifths of the wealth between you? You give away four-fifths of it now to the finan­cier who does nothing to create the wealth, but, like a great sponge, merely absorbs it.
 How does he keep you in such a befuddled state of mind? By educating you. He controls all avenues of publicity in America except a little 2x4 newspaper called “Benefactor”. That is the only newspaper that I ever knew to come out and say, “Abolish Interest”.
 I have nothing against the newspapers. In fact, the newspapermen and women are, as a rule, bright and practical. I have associated with newspaper folks all my life. They are wonderful people, but the financiers have them by the throats.
 Another thing, the financiers control about sixty percent of the industries of Amer­i­ca and the advertising from their products must be published in the newspapers. The result is the financier says to the newspaper man, “If you say anything against our game we will withdraw all the advertising from your paper.” So you see the finan­ciers have the newspaper men tied up.
 The financier also controls the radio. He can stop you or me or anybody from talking over it. He won't allow anybody to talk over the radio unless they talk to suit him.
 Financiers control the colleges. There is not a professor of any college that I know of who would dare to teach that Interest should be Abolished. Doesn’t that prove who runs the colleges? The financiers donate mil­lions of dollars to the colleges. What for? So that the students will be educated as financiers want them educated.
 The Direct Credits Society teaches children that it is dishonest to take something for nothing. When you take interest from a widow for lending her money on a mortgage and then take her house, you not only cheat her out of the money you collect as tribute but you cheat her out of her house and God will punish you for that just as sure as you live. I wouldn’t want to go before God and say I stole a widow’s home, not me.
 Little Jimmie, a son of one of our officers, said to his teacher, “I don’t want to learn interest. It’s a skin game. I don’t want to learn a game that I will harm you with, teacher.”
 So the teacher asked, “Jimmie, what do