The war closed before we did very much, then some Milwaukee men decided that this city ought to have commercial aviation, and they put up fifty thousand dollars for me to build the first airliner.
 Well, I had been working on the invention of a commercial airliner for more than ten years, and so I promised to build one as a sample and demonstrate it, which I did, as your oldtimers can vouch for. When completed, I flew it from Milwaukee to Wash­ing­ton, D. C. and back again and Milwaukee thus became the birthplace of the airliner.
 Now, the whole world knows that I did my part when I invented, designed, built and flew the first airliner as I promised to do, and if your financiers had done their part and done as I told them to do, Milwaukee would have been a city of a million population today. But your financiers did not do their part.
 I built the airliner, flew it to Washington and back. I got them a million-dollar contract from the United States Post Office De­part­ment to carry the mail on three of the best lines in America, worth a billion dollars today; got them a half-million dollar contract from the United States War De­part­ment to build military airplanes, and they let everything go by default.
 Officials of the War Department said, “Lawson, you know how to build airplanes. You can have the job on one condition, that your financiers put up a hundred thousand dollars in the bank that they are all right.” When they didn’t do it, the War Department Officials said to me, “Lawson, you’re all right, but your financiers are all wrong.”
 So I did my part. I built for you the first airliner in the world and Milwaukee will always be remembered as it’s birthplace. I brought here the first regular airmail contract from the United States Post Office De­part­ment totaling about a million dollars that would have grown to a billion dollar value; I got you a job from the War De­part­ment for a half million dollars as a starter for future big business, but your financiers didn’t do anything but quit.
 This city would have been to the aircraft industry what Detroit is to the automobile industry if your financiers had done the right thing.
 But that’s past and forgotten.
 What local financiers did to the Wis­con­sin people twenty years ago is but a feather stab to what the International Financiers have done to the American people since that time.
 Most of your old time Milwaukee Fi­nan­ciers are gone now. They either died with the gout, were put in jail or committed suicide, so I am told.
 What makes the financiers want to keep me out of every city in the United States? They are afraid that I will teach the people how they skin them out of four-fifths of everything they earn, that’s why. I am educating the people how the financier cheats them, that’s all.
 The financiers don’t like Lawson because after they have been stopped from skinning