stick your first foot inside the door you then have one foot in the grave. When you put your other foot in the bank, you are then stending right in your own grave.
 They double you up and sit you down in a comfortable arm chair and purr in your ear until you are numb with anticipations.
 Then they gently but firmly slip their lengthy fingers into your pockets and hook out whatever you may have there.
 When they get through with you, you are done to the wolves’ taste.
 But the average idiot thinks he can beat those financiers at their own game. He likes to play around them as a June bug plays around an electric light. He likes to brag about keeping company with them.
 When I was a young fellow the average weakling used to like to brag about keeping company with a doctor. He would puff up and say “My Doctor.”
 As I grew older I run across a class of rummies who liked to brag about keeping company with a lawyer. One would boastfully say, “My Lawyer.”
 Then along about the years of 1927-28-29 the country was overrun with Donkeys who liked to brag about keeping company with a Banker. The popular saying then was, “My Banker.”
 Since 1929. however, the most popular saying for everybody is “My Undertaker.”
 Even the millionaire brags about his undertaker these days. Since 1929 more than 5,000 millionaires committed suicide in one way or another.
 These Alien Financiers like American Mil­lion­aires. They have considerable juice in them.
 They also like American manufacturers. Took 200,000 factories from them during the last ten years.
 Yes and while they were at it they also took 3,000,000 stores from American merchants, 3,000,000 farms from American farmers, and 6,000,000 homes from Amer­i­can workingmen.
 During this holdup they ordered 15,­000,­000 workingmen to lay flat on their bellies and keep quiet.
 Talk about your big jobs, that’s the record breaker.
 How did they pull it off? Well, it would take a long time to explain the details but I can relate the main facts while I am here.
 First, they doped the people with the idea that they could all get fortunes out of the air without having to work for them.
 They told the people to mortgage their homes, farms, stores, factories and publishing plants and with the money buy stocks from them at $100 a share that wasn’t worth $10 a share and Bonds at $1,000 apiece that wasn’t worth anything.
 Then the financiers withdraw their mon­ey from circulation and demanded that everybody pay them in cash the amounts they had borrowed with which to buy the stocks and bonds. Of course, if the Fi­nan­ciers had the money in their vaults the people could not get it to pay the Interest on the loans.
 By this simple method the Financiers