not get what rightfully belongs to them while they have the power to do it, then it is their own fault, not the politicians. The financiers are making goats out of the politicians. They use them and then double-cross them just as they double-cross everybody even to their own hired touts.
 I am the only man with any influence in America that dares tell the people what is actually wrong in this country. If any one else talked as I do the financiers would have him ostracized. But the financiers are afraid of Lawson. They say, “That fellow is like a porcupine. If you go too near him something happens to you.” So, they keep their distance from me although some of them would like to see something happen to the Com­man­der-in-Chief of the Direct Credits Society. But nothing happens to me. It happens to the financier who has the evil thoughts. It is the reaction of his devilish intentions that punishes him.
 There are eighteen top-notch international financiers in the world. Six of them are in America.
 In the United States today three international financiers control all political parties. The other three don’t count much in political control except that they hand out a little money when called upon to pay for the election of some tout that will double-cross the people.
 Let me tell you right now that I spent twenty-five years doing business with financiers—mastodon, second story and peewee—and I know them well. If you haven’t spent a lot of time studying financiers then you don’t know them at all. So I am going to give you the benefit of my experience with them. What I say is not in a hateful manner for I would not harm a hair on their petrified craniums. After all, the foolish people of the United States made them what they are.
 The people of America gave so much wealth to the financiers that it made of them gold worshipping maniacs. You permitted them to take from you all of your property and everything you have earned and squander it with their half-witted relatives. You have gotten them to think that they have an inalienable right to force you to give them all of your earnings without them giving you anything in return whatsoever. You have acknowledged that you ought to be whipped and have furnished them with the whip for the purpose.
 So, there are now three financial houses in America that control all political parties. One of these three houses control three separate parties — a major political party and two radical parties. One of the partners of that financial concern controls two radical parties himself. His son is one of the leaders of one of the radical parties and his daugh­ter-in-law is one of the leaders of the other radical party. Can you beat that?
 One sometimes hears members of these two radical parties bragging about their connections with these big financiers. They seem to think that they have accomplished something wonderful in making such connections. They thought that way in Russia