liefs and political faith. For that reason it not only becomes the most coveted plum on earth but it also becomes the easiest prey for the financiers to devour.
 It is easy for the touts to stir up jealousy and hatred among the different language speaking races and also to create a discordant suspicion among the different religious sects. Bad feeling is easily generated between followers of the different political parties.
 It is difficult for the people to get along in peace and harmony when constantly pushed into pot-boilers by the swindlers who cheat them out of everything they earn.
 On top of that the swindlers get control of all organizations and besides setting everybody to quarreling amongst themselves and fighting each other over politics, religion and race questions they also get them to fighting over industrial matters. They set manufacturer against laborer, farmer against merchant and workman against workman until every hand is raised to strike somebody else.
 During my life I have had personal connections and transactions with leaders among all avenues of human efforts and from practical experience have learned that the financiers control every influential organization in America except the Direct Cre­dits Society.
 They control all political parties—conservative, progressive and radical. So no matter for whom your vote is cast it goes to uphold the financiers who force you to pay tribute by the interest collecting swindle.
 They control your manufacturers’ associations, merchants’ associations, farmers’ associations and labor organizations. In fact, they split them all in parts and force them to fight each other.
 So what chance have the people to do anything for themselves or even know what is happening? As far as knowing anything about TRUTH they are dead as the mummies of Egypt. They must be resurrected with the breath of Direct Credits for Everybody.
 The financiers certainly have put the bandage over the eyes of both Capital and Labor.
 They set them to fighting each other as though they were arch-enemies. When in fact they are the arch-producers of all wealth. Without the cooperation of Capital and La­bor there could be no wealth.
 In their miseducation of the people the financial swindlers bunched Finance with Cap­i­tal and then blamed all of their misdeeds upon Capital.
 But, in my book “Direct Credits for Every­body,” published in 1931, I pointed out that Finance was not Capital and that there was as much difference between Capital and Finance as there was between milk and a sponge; Capital being milk and Finance being the sponge.
 Capital is wealth, and wealth is anything and everything made valuable by human effort.
 Finance is a vacuum that absorbs wealth through a fraudulent medium of exchange. It takes everything and gives nothing.
 Finance is now swallowing Capital and