per plants put up their fine buildings and filled them with the latest machinery, they borrowed a lot of money from the financiers for that purpose.
 When the International Financiers withdrew the most of the money from circulation a few years ago the newspaper owners were caught short and could not meet their financial obligations. So the financiers began to choke them and they are now choking them. And what is more, they intend to choke them to death before they get through with them. In fact, the financiers intend to take over all of the newspapers in the United States within the next few years. That is, of course, unless Direct Credits for Everybody is enacted as Law by the Congress of the United States before it is too late.
 The financier, with his fingers tightening about the throat of the struggling newspaper owner, says, “Now, you be good and I won’t take your plant away from you—just yet.”
 The average editor wants to write as he feels. But the Financier has a censor in most every large newspaper plant in the United States who will not permit any news going into print that says, “Interest must be abolished.”
 The Direct Credits Society stands tor the “Freedom of the Press.” That is exactly what the owners and editors of the newspapers want but they are being so strangled by their financial oppressors that they dare not oppose the gradual elimination of a free press. They know that laws are being made that will throttle the press and they know that when the Direct Credits Society wins, that Laws for a free press, free radio and free speech will be quickly enacted.
 The Financiers are the real, genuine slickers. They originally came from the Hocus-Pocus genus.
 There are various kinds of slickers that drain the people’s pockets, such as the mastodon slickers at the top, the second story slickers in the middle, and the pee-wee slickers at the bottom.
 The Pee-wee slickers are of the bed-bug variety that nip you when you are down; the second story slickers are the go-betweens who stack up your stuff in bales, and the mastodon slickers are the packers who store up your stuff for their offspring to gnaw upon.
 Now the slicker is slick, make no mistake about that. He is the slipperiest trickster that ever crawled or crept.
 The educated slicker with a university training is so masterful in misrepresentation and deception that he can take all of your savings, make you owe him money and then make you believe that you have cheated him. He is so slick that he can take all of your food from you, stick your nose in a garbage can and make you think he has done you a favor.
 The organized mastodon slickers who are known as the International Financiers have their long, lean, slippery fingers into everything that has value to it.
 They have their agents everywhere. Their