all, but collects a tribute from everybody who does produce wealth, is none other than that devilish old milk absorber with ingrown horris—the ancient and dishonorable FI­NAN­CIER.
 It is a wonder that this old financial humbug is allowed to remain on this mundane sphere so long, but it is possible that owing to his thieving reputation the real devil will not permit him to come into his territory at all for fear that he might steal it from him.
 NOW: What is wealth?
 Wealth is anything and everything made valuable by human effort.
 Does a financier create any wealth?
 No, not a particle of it.
 Then how does he get it?
 He absorbs it like a sponge through a fraudulent money system.
 In order that the people may facilitate the trading of their land, products or labor of different value to one another a trade convenience must be utilized for the purpose and this is arranged in the form of money made up of paper slips or coins of different denominations.
 Then as all of the people agree to accept that money as a trade convenience it becomes a public instrument for everybody’s use. So the people authorize their government to issue such quantities of that money as will be required for trade purposes.
 The money has no value at all—the value being in the land, products or labor. The money is merely the measurement thereof and should be used to measure value as a yardstick is used to measure distance.
 Now, if there was no fraud connected with this trade convenience then the government would issue and loan money to the people directly without charging any tribute for the use of it.
 But there is a fraud—the biggest fraud of all time—that has been introduced into the money system and that fraud is the collecting of tribute from the person who has no money by the person who has it.
 That contemptible racket is the main source from which all modern villainy flows. It is the central sewer pipe through which man accumulated his lowest degradation. It makes of men liars, cheats, thieves, murderers, beggars, blackmailers, kidnappers, dope fiends, drunkards, suicides.
 It makes men look no higher for intelligent pursuits than to cheat somebody else out of what they may possess, to try and get something for nothing.
 Tribute on money is the greatest monster mankind has ever encountered and he is now on the verge of falling into its filthy and cadaverous jaws. He is sealing his own destruction. He does not realize the enormity of his own destructive acts.
 The money system is not being used as a trade convenience for the people to measure the value of their land, products and labor with and is not loaned to them by their government without interest, but it has been confiscated by a number of alien swindlers who utilize it to control, curtail and force tribute from the people.