and skin them out of what they earn, the thinkers find it necessary to keep the people in ignorance and instead of helping them to think they deliberately keep them from thinking and stupefy them with false notions and poisonous substances.
 Yes, half-witted thinkers not only manufacture dope, liquor and embalmed foods which they sell to the people at a profit that injures their phvsical bodies. but they also furnish them with filthy pictures and degrading radio slop for a profit that rots their mental instruments as well.
 Now these slickers have to produce considerable mental effort to be able to extract from the real producers of wealth the largest percentage of their earnings without giving them anything tangible in return for it. But by constantly thinking out new schemes and making false promises they actually hypnotize everybody into believing that it is right and proper to hand over to them practically all of their properties and earnings.
 If you have been reading the BEN­E­FAC­TOR you will remember that I told you previously how financial swindlers had gotten control of the money system, curtailed the quantity meeded for trade convenience and then forced the people to pay tribute for the use of it in the shape of Interest Charges.
 The financiers could not do that if the people would use the mental machinery that the Creator endowed them with to think.
 But because the people of the U.S.A. have become too lazy to think, the swindling financiers are able to milk them like goats and shear them like sheep out of Twenty Billion Dollars ($20,000,000,000) worth of their earnings annually.
 As the financiers do not let the people have in their possession more than four or five Billions of Dollars as spending money, it is easy to understand how they are defrauded out of four-fifths of their earnings.
 And because those who think gain the power to swindle the people they also teach the people that such swindling practices are right and that they, too, may enjoy the same privileges if they are capable of doing so.
 So through the adoption of such a debasing system the people of the entire world have degenerated into classes of converted cheats, liars, thieves and murderers, not to mention beggars, blackmailers, lunatics, dope fineds, drunkards and suicides.
 The Creator gives to every human being mental instruments for the purpose of thinking, but few creatures use these instruments to think with. Most people allow them to rot for the lack of right action. Yes, they deliberately ruin these God given instruments with poisonous substances which they force their bodies to absorb or by allowing filthy thoughts to enter their weak minds.
 Now there are two main factors in the life of man that he must take into consideration—they are, WEALTH and PRINCIPLES.
 Wealth is created by man and principles are created by God.
 Therefore principles must be put before wealth in man’s thoughts if he is to reach a