Benefactor — Help the Merchants, by Alfred Lawson — Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 - Next

money has value. Then they control the supply of money and make you, the people, pay a tribute to them for the use of it. Make you pay a tribute to them in the shape of interest for something that belongs to you. Something that the people have agreed to use as a Trade Convenience for the interchange of their land, products and labor.
 So you, the Inventor, the Industrialist, the Merchant, the Farmer and the Laborer, you who have produced and distributed all wealth, you who have put the actual work into it, you who have put the value into everything, you let a bunch of slickers come along and take everything away from you through a trick money system based on a chunk of worthless Gold.
 The people are paying a tribute on something that has no value. Your forefathers fought against paying tribute on something that had value but their descendants pay a tribute on something that has no value. You let them rob you of everything you produce. You have lost your power of reason. You are now puppets in the hands of swindlers.
 By and through this Trick Gold Scheme these Swindlers are in a position to take away from you everything you have, even to your false teeth—especially if there is a bit of gold in them. Yes, I was told the other day that a man took out his teeth and laid them down for a moment and a bill collector snatched them and hung onto them until he paid some back interest to a financier. They seized his teeth to force him to pay tribute for the use of money that has no value.
 The people must be taught to think so they can understand the cause and effect of things. They must be taught the ways of the Slicker so they can forestall his diabolical schemes to cheat them.
 The financier is a Gold Worshipper. He doesn’t belong to God. He belongs to the Devil. God will have nothing to do with him. He is not a human being. You can look at his face and see that.
 A TOUT is one who leads a dupe into the trap of a swindler.
 Of course the tout is paid by the swindler to double-cross the dupe, although the dupe does not know anything about that. He thinks the tout is his friend.
 So the financiers’ tout is right at your elbow all of the time and you think he is your friend.
 What does the financiers’ tout buzz in your ear? He says that Sound Money and IN­TEREST tribute are all right. He says you must have Gold as a Standard of value. He is constantly pounding that into your heads, and the more he pounds it into you the more like a gold-headed cane you become. Some­thing to be used by the financier, that’s all.
 The financiers’ touts are everywhere. They are in all political parties. He pays their campaign expenses. He puts their pictures in the newspapers as “the choice of the people.” He lets them blab over his radio as long as the people will listen to them. He lets his touts say anything they like against him in order to gain the confidence of the people, but under no consideration must they tell the people how he swindles them by and through the

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