you mean by saying that
your learning interest will harm
me? How can you harm me?” So Jimmie replied, “You see, teacher, it’s this way. I am only a weak little boy now, and you are a great, big, strong woman. But some day I am going to be a big, strong man and you are going to be a weak, little, old woman. So if you teach me now to cheat through the interest-collecting swindle, I'll come back some day when I am big and strong and take your home away from you when you are old and feeble.” The teacher said, “Well, that’s a new one on me, Jimmie. I’ve got to learn something about that.” “Well,” Jimmie said, “Here’s a little book, Direct Credits for Everybody, you can read it for yourself.” Little children are teaching the old folks now not to cheat or steal; so the youngsters are likely to rejuvenate the world unless the grown-ups start quickly to do it themselves. God has had enough of a human race made up exclusively of cheats, thieves, liars, dope fiends, beggars, kidnappers, murderers and suicides which are the out-growth of your Gold worshipping financiers. Unless the people begin soon to actually worship a living God instead of a dead piece of Gold, the race will exterminate itself through lack of ordinary intelligence. The world is already paralyzed and kept in a doped condition by Old Doc Financier who considers you as a meal ticket as long as he can keep you in that condition. It is my job to resuscitate the people and stand them up firmly on their own feet but that cannot be done as long as you take the old Doctor’s dope and let him extract four-fifths of your earnings. ![]() |