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children and parents
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The financiers certainly fool the workingmen whom they send into strikes. They have their wages raised 10% through the operation and they then raise the cost of their living 50% on their food stuffs, clothing, transportation, rents and in many other ways. The touts brag about higher wages but never say anything about doubling up on the cost of their living expenses. The working man hasn’t a real friend in America outside of the Direct Credits Society. Wonderful Direct Credits Officers work without pay to establish laws that will give Justice to Everybody and Harm Nobody, but it requires time to learn the TRUTH where false leaders control publicity. Laboring people should ask their leaders if they will publicly announce that they stand to ABOLISH INTEREST. If the leader says, “No, we must have interest,” then any sensible man or woman must know that he stands with the financiers who are milking the people out of four-fifths of their earnings through the interest collecting swindle. That ought to satisfy anyone that the leader stands with the financiers who swindle the people and therefore must be the enemy of the people who are being swindled. BUT—the people have one true friend whom they can always rely upon. That friend is the man who stands here talking to you. He is not afraid of the Devil, himself, let alone a swindling financier. He works for your rights without pay. He wants no money or property for his services. He wants to live and associate with honest working people. He wants nothing from them but their love and respect. However, that friend of the working man stands for JUSTICE FOR EVERYBODY THAT HARMS NOBODY. Therefore, he not only stands for the rights of the working man but he also stands for the rights of manufacturers, merchants, publishers, farmers, laborers and honest wealth producers of all kinds and wants everybody to have a purchasing power equal to their productive power. You try to play the financiers’ game and you lose. The financier says, “Heads I win and tails you lose.” In 1928 I told the people they were going to lose everything. They thought they were all going to get rich. One idiot said to me, “A fellow just showed me how to make a hundred thousand dollars out of one thousand dollars without working. What do I want to work for?” “Yes,” said he, “all I have to do is to take a mortgage on my property and he is even willing to loan me the thousand dollars to do it with.” When I told him that he would lose his property by playing the financier’s game he got angry at me. He said that I was a pessimist and that the financier was a gentleman and a scholar. One day in 1929 I wanted to get my shoes shined but the bootblack did not have time |