puts a tremendous premium on money and gives to those who own it, control of industries and trade generally, through loans upon which interest must be paid. Before the wheels of industry can be started, before manufacturers can open their factories, before contractors can erect new buildings, before real estate can be improved, money must be borrowed for the purpose and interest must be paid for the use of it. And please remember that this money has no value whatsoever except that granted by the people through acceptance as a trade convenience.
 “I believe that we must abolish interest and all other forms of payment for the use of money. Private banking must be prohibited! Control and supervision of money must be by the government, who will operate all banks and other financial institutions giving easy and liberal credit to its citizens and not charge a toll or tribute therefore.
 “We feel that the more wealth produced the more wealth there should be for everybody, providing it is honestly distributed. We know that new machinery, new inventions, producing a great deal of wealth with less labor required, are a blessing if the benefits were honestly distributed. We have asked ourselves this question many times: ‘How can we correct our present system of distribution of wealth, so that it would operate on an honest and equitable basis?’ My answer is: ‘That because of the fact that modern production is made possible, to a large extent, through a system of credit, which at present is governed by those who control the supply of money and our banking system, honest distribution of wealth cannot be accomplished until the Federal Go­vern­ment has complete control of currency and banking. Not until we correct a system which gives credit only to those who will pay ‘interest’ for it and who have wealth to pledge as security.’”

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 Acccrding to our present uneconomic system it is right to cheat each other and fatten ourselves at the expense of everybody.
 With such a dishonest program in vogue it is apparent that the slickest schemers get the most of the wealth, and that by a process of elimination these slickers will devour one another until but one enormous glutton will finally control all wealth.
 Heretofore the death struggle was carried on by Capital and Labor, but while they were clawing each other to pieces over the division of the wealth, Finance came along and took the bulk of it.
 Finance then became so brutally overbearing that he has almost wiped the Ca­pi­ta­list out of ex- istence and has forced Labor