thought you could get something for nothing. You cannot.
 There is nothing in life worth while that can be gotten for nothing. God made you so that in order to develop yourself properly you must give honest effort for everything worth while. So when you try to get something for nothing you get BUNK.
 Now, the Mastodon financier has a game a million times bigger than that of the Pee Wee Slicker. He has a game that’s a real lullapa­loosa. And everywhere you go there is a FINANCIER’S TOUT right at your elbow and he buzzes in your ear, “Come and get some­thing for nothing—if you have some money to pay for it.”
 They never tell you that you can get something for nothing unless you have something valuable to give them. If you have money or property, then they will tell how you can get something for nothing by playing their game. You listen to them once, twice, a thousand times again and again and you always lose. You GIVE something for nothing—not GET something for nothing.
 You don’t know that God put you here to give your efforts to do His work; to do your duty here on earth, not try to get something for nothing.
 But you try to play the swindler’s game.
 And so you say, “I’ve got a hundred dollars.”
 Then your friend, the tout, says, “Why don’t you let the financier use it.” Says he, “The financier will make that hundred dollars give you six dollars at the end of the year.” You ask, “What for?”
 “For nothing,” says the tout. “You get that for nothing, the six dollars.” So he says, “Come with me.” And you go to the bunk with him. You step inside the door.
 Now when that right foot of yours gets into that bunk you’ve got one foot in the grave. And before you come out again you’ve got both feet in the grave. Your lower extremities are reeking with bunk. What those financiers do to you when you have money or property is a crime for anybody to talk about.
 So the tout takes you in and says, “Put your money in there.” You ask a fellow inside of a cage, “Can I make six dollars a year if I let you have my hundred dollars?” He says, “Sure you can, it’s the easiest thing in the world.” So you give the fellow your money and you start to walk out, saying, “That is a good game.”
 Then the tout says, “Wait a minute. I’ll tell you how to make nine thousand dollars.” So he takes you over to another fellow and he says, “That man will sell you some stock, that will make you rich. He will sell the stock at a hundred dollars a share; and it will increase to a thousand dollars a share; and you can make nine hundred dollars a share by investing in it.” Then he tells you how everybody that don’t want to work makes money that way.
 “But,” you say to him, “I just put all the money I had in the bunk.”
 “Well,” he says, “Haven’t you got some property?” “Yes, got a home—real estate.”