equal to their productive power.
 So, if Congress will do its duty as authorized by the Constitution, the people will then get the Justice they are entitled to.
 Heretofore the United States Congress has been unwatchful of the people’s rights and has permitted international financiers to assume the ownership of their money system and, through their infernal interest collection swindle, whereby they not only force tribute for the loan of money but they force tribute for the use of credit also, they are now enabled to milk the American people out of four-fifths of their earnings.
 The manufacturers, merchants, farmers, professionals and working people have all been caught in the same swindler’s web and unless they realize this soon and permit Lawson to show them how to escape from it there is no hope for them in this world.
 Almost a decade ago, I renounced the accumulation of money and properties and in order to prove my sincerity to the people. I have remained a moneyless and propertyless man ever since.
 Whatever my earnings have been since the establishment of the Direct Credits So­ci­e­ty have been used for the benefit of this organization and aside from having a bed to sleep in, something to eat and a few pieces of clothing to wear, I have retained nothing for myself.
 Since I have renounced wealth for my own private use and since I have been Com­man­der-in-Chief of the Direct Credits Society, the financiers have taken away from the Amer­i­can Manufacturers Two Hundred Thousand factories.
 There are none so deaf as those who will not listen.
 During the past few years there have been more than three million American merchants who have lost their stores through the same tricky financial swindle that put out of business the manufacturers, and I am here to tell you that all small merchants will eventually be put out of business by and through these same crooked methods.
 The financiers have also taken away from the American farmers more than three million farms during the past few years. No farmer will be able to hold on to a farm much longer unless this infernal interest collection swindle has been abolished.
 Unfortunately those who still have possession of a manufacturing plant, a store or a farm lack the vision to look ahead of the grind-stone in front of their noses before the financiers have clipped them.
 Since the Direct Credits Society was started more than six million working men have lost their homes. They are still losing their homes, but many of them think that some day they are going to own more homes.
 The people must put Congressmen at Washington to represent them, not the financiers, and it’s about time that the people told these Congressmen just what laws they must pass for the benefit of the people.
 The people cannot tell their Congressmen what laws they should pass unless they know what laws are necessary for their own