"They even control your new discoveries, and inventions, which they get possession of, for mere pittances. They often suppress some of them to suit their convenience. Through their financial power they directly and indirectly control and influence the political status of your land. They control operations of agriculture, commerce, industry, transportation, utilities, shipping and all kinds of intercommunication, your wineries, breweries, distilleries, and your tobacco industries, from the smallest business to your largest enterprise. Ultimately restricting your opportunities for economic advancement. "All these are interrelated: your Banks, Trust Companies, Business Banks, Savings Banks, Financial Companies, Loan Companies, Life and other Insurance Companies, Stock Companies and Exchanges, Boards of Trade, and other exchanges. Stock brokers, real estate brokers, pawn brokers, with numerous branches covering the best locations in the United States, occupy many buildings and establishments, and send their private wires over every section of your nation and foreign countries. All of them are maintained at your expense through your large deposit reservoir and your earnings. "Your moneyism has weakened you mentally, physically, and morally and has created in you an unquenchable desire for their acquisition; from your poorest to purchase his bare necessities to your richest to get richer, bringing on deficit spending, mounting debts, increasing taxes, incessant relief and unemployment payments. All these with no end in sight. "Everywhere, everyone among you always has a demand, and you create the demand for more and more money. You always have need for more of it, for more financing, and there never seems to be enough of it. But it is only your few who seem to get it and hold it." FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 21: _Story of Money_, Norman Angell, Garden City, Publ. Co., 1929. p. 72.] [Footnote 22: _What is Money_, Victor L. Clark, Houghton Mifflin Co., p. 2.] [Footnote 23: Ibid., p. 23.] [Footnote 24: Ibid., p. 24.] [Footnote 25: _The Family Circle Inc._, June 28, 1946, V. 28, No. 26, pp. 10-11, by W.W. Wheatley.] [Footnote 26: _The Story of Money_, Norman Angell, Garden City Publ., 1929, p. 381.] CHAPTER VII _Octopus Colossus_ Sun-Rank Banard remarked, "It's time for lunch, so let's adjourn to the thought transmission-proof dining room. Our women folk are away visiting, so we will be by ourselves, and we can informally and freely converse." During the meal we carried on an animated and pleasant conversation in which Sun-Rank Banard very often joined. The gist of it was mainly, at our earth men's lack of impression and perception of earth conditions.