Benefactor — Watch the Slickers, by Alfred Lawson — Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 - Next

ers for their information they can never know. The books, like dice, are loaded to skin them.
 Professional Gamblers fix up Palaces and entice the innocents to go into their parlors. They say come in and win our money. The nit-wits go in with the notion that they are going to win the Gambler’s money. They think, or at least they have a tickling sensation—that the Gamblers have fixed up the Palace and run it for the sole purpose of letting dub-dubs win their money. The reason that such foolishness gets into their heads is because the Gam­blers put it there.
 Now that is exactly the reason the Fi­nan­ciers are able to skin the people. They put it into their heads through their various avenues of publicity and learning that the people can win money by playing the financial game. So a person goes to the bank and puts in a hundred dollars on deposit at six percent interest and then borrows from the bank a Thousand Dollars on six percent interest. At the end of the year the bank gives the Depositor Six Dollars Interest Money for his share and the Depositor gives to the bank Sixty Dollars interest as their share.
 Nice game, isn’t it—for the Financier?
 Now the difference between the dubs who go into the Gambler’s joint with the expectation of winning the Gambler’s money and the Depositor who goes to the Bank expecting to win the financier’s money is that the dub will listen to you if you will show him how the Gambler swindled him, while the Depositor, as a rule, will not listen to you if you want to show him how the Financier swindled him.
 He still thinks that some day he will beat the Financier at that sort of a game and he doesn’t want you or anybody else to disturb him in his pleasant pipe dream.
 At the Gambling joint after they win all of your money, they will let you continue to play and take your I.0.U. for future payment. That is exactly the way the Financiers play the big game with the people. After the Fi­nan­ciers have stripped the people of their money their newspaper plants, their radio system, their railroads, their factories, their farms, their stores, their homes, and their — self-respect, then they let the people continue the game by signing I.0.U.’s in the shape of Interest Bearing Bonds, Notes and Mortgages.
 So in this great Interest Collecting Swin­dle, the people have not only handed over to the Financiers everything that they heve ever earned but have signed up I.0.U. indebtedness in which they agree to turn over to the Financiers everything they will ever earn as long as they live and everything their children and their children’s children will ever earn as long as they live.
 Nice game, isn’t it—for the Financiers?
 Yes, during the last few years these flim-flam artists have taken away from the people of the United States about three hundred billion dollars worth of their wealth and increased their I.0.U. indebtedness to more than Three Hundred Billion Dollars, upon which they must pay tribute as long as they

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