cause you believe them you are led into the trap of the financial enemy.
 As the financiers take about Twenty Bil­lion Dollars worth of the people’s wealth each year for loans of about Four Billions of Dollars in actual money, that should prove that the financiers are defrauding them out of four-fifths of the wealth they produce.
 The people could understand that if it was properly explained to them but they have no way to find it out because the financiers have not only taken away from them their wealth and money system but have taken control of all avenues of publicity as well, and therefore, the people have no way to learn the truth of what is done. They are forced to live in ignorance and falsity among swindlers.
 The financiers not only steal four-fifths of the people’s earnings but they drive them like cattle and their touts lead them into different stalls so they can be slaughtered without the strength of numbers to defend themselves
 The people have been forced to sign I.O.­U’s on their future earnings just as weaklings sign I.O.U’s in gambling dens after being defrauded out of their money and valuables and then agree to pay the gamblers more money from their future earnings.
 When the touts tell you that the people owe only Forty-five Billions of Dollars to the financiers, they lie to you.
 Forty-five Billion Dollars constitute the federal debt but if you add to that the state debts, the county debts, the municipal debts and all private debts, such as mortgages and loans that interest must be paid on throughout the United States, the complete interest-bearing indebtedness of the people of the United States is more than Three Hundred Billion Dollars.
 Why don’t the touts tell you that? The reason is obvious. The financiers won’t permit it.
 The financial spider has the people tied up in its web as tightly as the real spider ties up the fly. The people can wiggle a little but never can they release themselves.
 How can the people of America know that these swindlers are taking four-fifths of everything they earn when the swindlers themselves control every avenue of publicity in America?
 Did you ever read in any of your newspapers, magazines, or books, or hear over your radio that the people are being led by the touts into the stockades of the financiers for future slaughter? Or did you ever read from any newspaper or magazine or hear over the radio that the people must Abolish Interest or nothing else counts?
 Of course not.
 Did you ever read in any of your newspapers, magazines or books or hear over the radio that financiers control all manufacturers organizations, all merchants organizations, all farmers organizations, and all labor organizations?
 Of course not.
 My greatest sorrow is for the laboring people. They are forced to work like slaves with-