own kind of books into
the public schools to be sold at a
profit, but they actually force little children to learn the Interest
Collecting Swindle and thus create an incentive for them to cheat
feeble old folks out of their homes
after they have grown up. Many
a child returns as a grown-up
years afterward to defraud the
now aged teacher who taught him
the interest game when he was
young and pliable. As we give so
we receive.
Just as we act so there is a react sooner or later. NOW: If every avenue of publicity is controlled by the financial swindlers and our people are degraded by the miseducation they receive from their colleges, newspapers, radio, screen and schools, what chance have they for ever hearing the unadulterated truth of God told to them? None whatsoever. Truth is now an outlaw here on earth and will continue to be so until people stop worshiping Gold and Abolish Interest. It doesn’t make any difference what you earn, the financiers take it away from you either directly or indirectly by the interest swindle. The sooner you learn that, the better it will be for you. NOW: The basic law of production is effort. Therefore, effort is required to produce wealth. There are two classes of effort put into the production of wealth. Physical effort and Mental effort. Mental effort does the planning and Physical effort does the constructing. They can be classified in a general way as Capital and Labor. As the planner (or Capitalist) depends upon his ability to organize and manage large numbers of laborers in Mass production to create the maximum wealth with the minimum effort there is no way to decide his earning power except by his success in the general reduction of the cost of the product and the selling price to the consumer of it. Therefore, he takes what is known as a profit for his share of the efforts he put into the production of wealth. On the other hand, for their share of the efforts they put into the production of the wealth the laborers receive what is known as wages or salaries — a stipulated price for each, proportionate to their different abilities and regulated according to the law of supply and demand. But it is through the combined efforts of Capital and Labor that great wealth is produced — they are both necessary for its production. So, with this understanding, the Capitalist could be allowed a reasonable profit and the laborer sufficient wages to enable them both to live honestly and decently according to a purchasing power each would be entitled to for his productive power, and both could get along in peace and plenty if it was not for an outsider stepping in and demanding a tribute from both Capital and Labor for the right to produce wealth. This outsider, who produces no wealth at |