"Your economic system looks to us to be on the same primitive level
as in the many large regions of your earth where farmers are still
scratching your earth surface with wooden plows, reap with the sickle,
thresh with hand flails, and where your modern methods of tillage,
irrigation, fertilizing, crop rotation, and seed selection are unknown
or not used.
"Your moneyism with its constant devaluations, foreign exchange panics,
oppressive custom duties, and tariffs on imports and exports, creating
economic disruption, with different standards of life, is one of the
main causes for the prevention of free trade and unity between your
nations. As a result you have your wars, booms, and panics, your
inflations and deflations, your prosperity and depressions, your
overproduction and underproduction, your progressions and stagnations.
Your abounding lands go to waste. Your lack of reclamation, drainage,
and irrigation, your unfertilized, overcultivated, overgrazed lands;
poverty, and famine among some of your nations with abundance in
others. Hunger, misery and sickness in some and great wealth, affluence
and plenty with others, within your same nation, city, street, block,
and even apartment houses, where an assistant janitor with his
family live in the basement in poverty. All without concrete plans,
regulations, restraints, and control; resulting in your confused and
chaotic economy.
"The perplexing languages, religions, customs and ideologies between
the people of your nations, are incentives to enmity, turmoil,
revolutions, and wars. Even now black clouds of dissensions and
differences in your ideologies are looming on your horizon, seriously
dividing the nations of your globe into two different camps and
menacing your world peace. Perhaps another terrible explosive world war
is in the offing.
"Our efforts have united us with our utmost zeal and devotion to
loftier ideals and higher principles, and is the fundamental force that
sustains, creates, constructs, and accelerates the continual perfection
of the elements necessary to our harmonious, contented and happy life.
All we have, all productions, possessions, or wealth, we create and
labor for from our lands, seas, and air resources, are owned for the
common use and free enjoyment of all of us, just as the air, sunlight,
and sunshine on Earth are for the common use of all your Earthmen.
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