"Your controlling class who largely contribute to political campaigns
influence your ruling class through political parties who openly
or secretly help to elect some of their representatives to your
Congress, or appoint former directors, and attorneys as members of
important key cabinet and diplomatic offices. Their numerous inside
and outside lobbyists and subservient newspapers influence the passing
and suppression of laws. They even volunteer as advisers to your
administrations. Most of your professional politicians 'kowtow' and are
servile to them.
"There is always great agitation going on in regard to labor. Next
to war, it is the most important problem to your government and most
exciting discussions and newspaper headliners.
"Your moneyism and labor struggles are an old, festering sore. These
struggles are the general cause of your poverty and destitution. Your
system is such that you have no cure in sight. No matter how successful
you may be in your unionized demands for more remuneration, prices
and values are bound to spiral upward, increasing your living cost in
proportion. You are infallibly moving in a vicious circle which tends
for the rich to get richer. Many among you are born with pronounced
natural aptitudes; some of you have strongly developed these aptitudes
and inclinations and constantly use your full mentality and energy
for accumulation and hoarding for your own use. But you also use this
proficiency especially to gain power through the need of others. The
school boy with the accumulative instinct will spend most of his time
training himself to become an expert marble shooter in order to win
those of his schoolmates. Even though they should find his full bag of
marbles and divide them amongst themselves, or should he voluntarily
give them the marbles, there is no question that he is bound to always
win them back again.
"It is the same with your money and wealth; their division among all
of you would not heal your economic diseases, because it would be only
a question of a short time before most of you would lose yours to the
shrewd and crafty ones among you; very possibly to the same ones who
held them before.
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