tice is contrary to Natural Law which recognizes effort as the basis of productivity.
 That which is obtained without effort is weakening and degrading.
 The interest collecting system is a weakening and degrading game, a treacherous game that leads people to believe they can get something for nothing, but, before the game is over, they discover they have lost everything they had, even their souls.
 The interest collecting game is run by slickers who promise the people everything but give them nothing. They tell the people that if they lend their money at six per cent interest they will be the gainers. The foolish people think they are going to get something for nothing. and join in the game.
 But, while giving the people six per cent interest as their share, the slickers take, by various slippery credit methods, two hundred percent interest as their share. So the people, being unable to pay the two hundred percent interest, caused by compounded credits, are forced to give back their six percent interest to the stickers, and all of their property as well.
 So, because of the people’s greed and desire to get something for nothing, they become easy victims for the tricky financiers, and as long es the people take part in such a crooked game they must not only put up with the consequences, but, before God, they are responsible for all of their own misery and suffering as well as the suffering they have caused others. Especially the suffering they have caused the weak little babies and the feeble old folks.
 One thing the people must understand and that is that these horrible conditions are caused by themselves ana are not the fault of their Maker. God does his work perfectly, but the people do their work foolishly.
 To starve their babies when there are enough cows to furnish plerty of milk for all of them; to starve feeble old folks when God has furnished enough food for everybody; to close their factories when millions of men want work and everybody needs the products, proves that the people are not only foolish, but have put in charge of their affairs impractical persons without knowledge of the elementary principles of management or economics.
 Unless the people arouse themselves soon to the danger of their position and put a stop to this interest collecting swindle, they are doomed to descend to a race of paupers, slaves, cut throats and lunatics.
 Think of this: the people of the United States owe to the financiers, either privately or through their Federal, State, County and Municipal Governments, more than Three Hundred Billion Dollars. That means that at exorbitant interest they must pay Twenty Billion Dollars a year in interest. There is not enough money in the United States to pay the interest alone, not saying anything about the principal. And the principal itself is nothing more than back interest.
 So the interest, according to this game, must compound until there will not be enough wealth in the country to pay the in-