thorizes the people to run their own money system so that everybody will get equal benefits through the utilization of it. But they don’t do it.
 Money is a trade convenience. It would have no purchasing power if the people refused to accept it in exchange for their products or services.
 In 1928 there were about twenty good-sized gangs of financiers in America, but in 1929 the biggest swindlers cleaned out about fourteen sets of their competitors and brought it down to six international gangs who are now in complete control of the U.S.A.
 Those big gluttons are eating one another up.
 You think they can’t take your piece of property away from you don’t you?
 Well, if they can take a big competitor’s bank that is worth a hundred million dollars and not give him a cent for it, what chance have you to keep a little piece of property worth ten or twenty thousand dollars? You must stop kidding vourself with such foolish thoughts.
 You owe the financiers three hundred billion dollars through your federal, states, counties, municipal, railroad, and all sorts of private indebtedness on which interest has to be paid by the people. So you owe them altogether, over three hundred billion dollars of interest-bearing indebtedness.
 Now, they have taken away three-quarters, or about three hundred billion dollars worth of property from the American people, which leaves a hundred and thirty million people owning a hundred billion dollars worth of wealth.
 But the American people owe three hundred billion dollars of interest-bearing indebtedness to the financiers which they can foreclose any time and take every piece of property away from you according to Law.
 They will do that just as soon as they decide among themselves which gang will govern the Dictator they intend to put in to rule America. In that case, the American people will become a slave race.
 The American people are fast asleep and don’t even want to be awakened nor warned as to their awful fate. They want to sleep until the damtouts drive them into separate stalls at the stockyards. Then they will cry to God for help.
 But God has sent help before this happens. He has sent a man named Lawson to teach the people how to help themselves in this emergency.
 You can’t play a game you don’t understand. Your man, Lawson, is teaching you the game. He says, “The financiers are swindling you out of four-fifths of everything you earn,” and he proves it. The tout says, “It isn’t so,” but doesn’t prove anything. Lawson is trying to save you, and if not you, he wants to save the helpless little children. If you sell out your children they will grow up to despise you.
 Yes, from the stockades they will say,“Our dishonorable parents got us into this. They could have prevented it, but they lay down