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away from the American people properties that, in 1929, were valued at about $300,000,000,000. Yes, Three Hundred Billion Dollars.
What did these properties consist of? Well, there were more than 200,000 factories stolen from American manufacturers; more than 3,000,000 stores were taken from American merchants. or closed up entirely to make room for the financiers’ chain stores. There were more than 3,000,000 farms stolen from American farmers; more than 6,000,000 homes stolen from American workingmen, including many policemen’s home; there were railroads, trolley lines, bus lines, airlines, boatlines, hotels, apartment houses, office buildings, mines, inventions, theaters, churches and all sorts of other valuable things too numerous to mention. How do we know that these financial swindlers stole these properties? Because they now have them in their possession. If you catch a thief with the goods that is proof enough, isn’t it? Didn’t these alien swindlers, you ask, give the American people anything for these valuable properties? Not a thing. Absolutely nothing. They just cheated the American people out of their possessions by their swindling financial operations. They stacked the cards on the people. They used loaded dice and every fraudulent scheme that the ingenuity of sure-thing cheats could devise. Then, after they had actually swindled the American people out of their tangible possessions, they actually tied them up with I.O.U.s for another $300,000,000,000 (Three Hundred Billion Dollars) in the shape of interest bearing indebtedness. You know the old gambler’s trick of fleecing the victim out of his money and then permitting him to continue to play the game until he signs up I.O.U.s for more than he can pay? Well, that is the same sure-thing game the financiers play. Heads I win and tails you lose. The people haven’t the shadow of a chance in the Interest Collecting Swindle. Fools are allowed to cheat other fools out of six per cent interest on small money loans and then the financiers take it all away from them, plus 194 percent, through fraudulent credit manipulations. You police know how the gamblers fleece their victims. They let the dupes win the little pots and they win the big pots. That makes the dupes think they are just as good or better players than the gamblers—except, as the dupes put it, “Their luck is not so good.” The Financiers treat the people the same way. They let them think they are winning something when they cheat somebody else out of six per cent interest. Then the financiers cheat them all out of 200 per cent of their purchasing power by the Big Credit Swindle. Unless the people get wise and Abolish the Interest Swindle, which forces everybody |