live. A lot of this tribute is, of course, collected in the shape of Taxes, which enables the Financier to shift the blame onto the Politicians, who are made the goats who collect the Taxes to pay the interest to the Fi­nan­ciers.
 Now then, you people of the United States and elsewhere, you have lost all of your property, you have lost all of your money and you have signed I.0.U.’s in the shape of Interest Bearing Indebtedness for more than you or your children can ever pay. There is not enough money in America to even pay the annual interest on the I.0.U. Indebtedness.
 Now what are you going to do about it?
 If an officer of the Direct Credits Society comes to you and says: “Those slickers have swindled you.” Are you going to say, “No, they haven’t?” If you do, then you belong in the same class of idiots who would come out of a Gambling Joint after losing all of their mon­ey, all of their property, and signed up I.O.U.’s for future payment, who would say, “Those Gamblers did not swindle me; they are high class gentlemen.”
 But there is a reason why some of these idiots who have lost everything still cling to the notion that they have not been swindled; they expect that some day they are going to be able to swindle the swindlers.
  Therefore the people must be made to understand that they cannot swindle the swin­dlers. The interest collecting swindle is the slicker’s game and the people must learn before it is too late that they cannot beat the Slicker at his own game.
 How are the people ever going to learn that collecting interest on money and credit loans is a swindle? Over the Radio? The Fi­nan­ciers control the Radio. Do you suppose that they are going to let anybody tell the people over the Radio how they are swindled? Surely, one in his right senses cannot think that the Financiers are that dumb.
 Did anyone ever hear anybody say over the Radio that the people must abolish the In­ter­est Collecting Swindle in order to save themselves from pauperism and slavery?
 No, of course not.
 Do you think that you are going to get such information from your newspaper? No, you are not—at least not just now.
 Did you ever read in any Metropolitan News­pa­per in the United States that the Interest Collecting Fraud must be stopped? No, you did not.
 It is not because the Editors would not like to enlighten the people with such information.
 Editors and writers have told me that they are praying for Direct Credits to win. They know that if they should die tomorrow that their children and parents would become the prey of the Slickers and eventually become outcasts.
 They know that in case of their deaths Lawson and his valiant officers of the Direct Credits Society will stand between their little children and mistreatment; between their widows and parents and the poor-houses.
 When the owners of these great newspa-