ANSWER:
 The bankers will do just what they are now doing except that they will be able to sleep nights with clear consciences. They will be glad that their nightmare has passed and that they do not have to take the widow’s mite or the baby’s milk in order to live happily. However, they will then be working for the United States Government instead of working for the International Financiers.
AUTHOR OF DIRECT CREDITS:
 What will be done about the interest outstanding on bonds, and notes and other loans that has already been contracted for? Will that be cancelled or paid?
ANSWER:
 Under Direct Credits every debt that has been lawfully contracted for will have to be paid. But as soon as Direct Credits begins to operate, the wheels of industry will turn so fast and wealth for everybody will be produced so quickly that paying three hundred billion dollars of back interest bearing indebtedness will not take very long. It is the ever increasing interest upon interest that devours the vital organs of mankind and produces periodical depressions to afford time for the financiers to take over the property of everybody in lieu of unpaid interest.
AUTHOR OF DIRECT CREDITS:
 I have a mortgage on a woman’s home that pays me $180.00 a year in interest. Must I lose that under Direct Credits?
ANSWER:
 A large number of people are just so situated. They will probably worry more because they cannot continue to extract that $180.00 a year through their strangle hold with a mortgage on the widow’s home than they do now when paying $10,000 a year in interest and taxes in other ways. We believe that it will be better all around for one to stop extracting the $180.00 a year from someone else and be able to save the $10,000 a year being paid to others.
AUTHOR OF DIRECT CREDITS:
 If you issue all the money necessary to carry on all business of the country, will we not have inflation of the currency and make the money valueless?
ANSWER:
 No, because according to the Lawson Plan, money will have no value whatsoever but will merely act as a measure for the value of Land, Products or Labor.
 The Lawson Money System is balanced as the equaeverpoise so it can be utilized as a trade convenience by everybody without loss to anybody. All people will derive equalized benefits from the utilization of it.
 This money system will be owned, controlled and operated by the people, themselves, under the management of their trustee—the government.
 The money will be loaned to the people by