ment and will never be able to use their voices again through suffrage.
 Not only are the politicians and the people being doubly crisscrossed but the practical newspaper men are also being doublecrossed.
 The financiers have already gained control of almost every newspaper in America and newspaper men and women are forced to write articles in such a way that the people are made to believe that the politicians are responsible for all of their trouble.
 And there again is where the Politicians stand between the Devil and the deep sea. If one wants to play square with the people and tell them the truth; tell them that it is the Financiers who get the most of the taxes then by order of the financiers, the newspapers will roast him to such an extent that the people themselves will turn against him.
 So, if a politician actually sympathizes with the people and wants to stand by them he finds that the very people whom he is trying to fight for will turn against him because the financier’s publicity through the newspapers, magazines and radio is used for that purpose.
 Financiers have also been smooth enough to see that their touts are put in at the head of all organizations except the Direct Credits Society. So that every influential organization is forced to keep quiet concerning the manner in which the American people are being milked out of four-fifths of everything they earn through the interest collection swindle.
 If you don’t believe that just ask the leader of the organization you belong to, to publicly announce that interest must be abolished.
 That ought to prove to any reasoning mind whether or not the leader stands for the people or for the financiers.
 The financiers have gobbled up three-quarters of the American people’s wealth.
 Furthermore, the financiers have gotten the American people hooked for an interest-bearing indebtedness of over Three Hundred Billion Dollars, including both public and private loans.
 So when your leader refuses to publicly an­nounce that the interest tribute, which has caused such a state of affairs, should be abolished, you might know that he is for the financier and not for the people.
 The people are paying about five times as much interest each year as they have money in their pockets, which means that four-fifths of everybody’s earnings goes to the financier through the interest game.
 Not counting the gold. which is merely used as bait to hook and skin the people with, there is less than Eight Billion Dollars in American money today and more than one-half of that is laying idle in the vaults of the financiers. So, not more than Four Bil­lion Dollars in actual money is now in the pockets of the people.
 Now, if the One Hundred and Thirty Mil­lion people of the United States of America are paying Twenty Billions of Dollars annual interest (including both private and public loans) for the use of but Four Billion Dollars