"Your intensive money-craving tends to cause you, when you are ill, to
hazard your health by delaying medical examination, by trying to cure
yourself with home remedies or patent medicines, very often risking
your health and life by postponement. For the lack of funds, you are
often at great disadvantage by not being able to procure competent
medical attention.
"Politics and certain politicians give the Octopus another stronghold.
"Earth--Man by instinct is not wicked, he is molded by environment
and force of circumstances. Beset with the stress of uncertainties
and insecurity of life. And with vicissitudes of selfishness, greed,
temptations, desires for riches and power. Contributive to the breaking
down in some of you of love, honor, chastity, character, honesty,
respect, ethics and morality.
"Your lack of our sense of thought reading, and under your present
moneyism system of life the best form of your earth government cannot
guard itself against isolated cases of weak, unscrupulous, and
treacherous persons.
"Some of your opportunists, amateur and professional politicians, with
the lust for wealth and easy money, seek and secure high offices,
and permanent soft jobs in your Government. Few hirelings of crooked
political bosses and machines reach high places in Government, or
attain them through political campaign work, contributions, fixed
elections, and dishonest political maneuvers.
"Some few do not hesitate while in public office, through inside
information and political maneuvers, to influence and benefit through
a rise or decline of stocks, bonds, commodities, and real estate.
They use it to speculate on the commodity markets tending to increase
food costs. They obtain high salaries, Government offices, and other
positions for their near and distant inexperienced relatives and
friends, and get kick-backs on their salaries.
"Few of them have procured their nominations and elections by paying
for them in advance or by promising future favors. They get your vote
by promises that very often are not kept. Some officials sometimes
have been tempted to accept bribes. Dishonest ones demand them openly
or by subterfuge. In return, they help individuals or organizations
to operate unlawfully. Some, in Government office, have helped to
contribute to crimes of the worst exploitation, and extortion, against
your nationals, or other nations.
"Your money packs the potentiality of the greatest power force and
medium for most all your evils and is a constant strong tempting
magnet staining with its putrid stigma of corruption, some of your low
and high pillars of your temples of justice, law, righteousness, and
benevolence, since historical times they have shaken its foundation and
toppled over the weak edifice you call civilization.
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