This little National Bank in Alabama was in the grip of the Federal Reserve Octopus. It had to move the cotton crop in its territory. Farmers, planters, merchants--and in short, all industry in its territory including its own salvation--depended on the moving and on the marketing of the cotton crop. It was "root hog or die" and this little bank rooted and was looted precisely in this wise: It had to borrow from the Federal Reserve Super-Shylockery at Atlanta. It had no other house of refuge. It had to borrow something over $100,000 from the Federal Reserve Bank at Atlanta and for the week's period ending on July 31, 1920, it was charged and it paid as high as _thirty-one per cent per annum interest_! Two months later when its loan reached as high as $115,000 it was charged and it paid as high as _eighty-seven and one-half per cent per annum interest_ to this subter-human super-Shylock. For the two weeks ending on September 30, 1920, it was borrowing an average of $115,211. Two weeks' interest at six per cent would have been $288, but the records show that this little bank paid the Federal Reserve Pawnbrokery at Atlanta for interest on that amount for that time $2,189--running all the way from six to _eighty-seven and one-half per cent per annum_! The actual average time for this loan for that two weeks' period was almost exactly at the rate of _forty-five per cent per annum_, or at the rate of $51,884 per year for the use of $115,211! In about nine months that loan of $115,211 at that rate would have eaten up the capital and surplus of that little Alabama National Bank. Was that banking or was it putrid pawnbrokery? Oughtn't the Federal Reserve Bank at Atlanta to put the three ball sign of pawnbrokery over its portals? And yet you read subsidized headlines sprawled athwart the columns of a lick-spittle press about "Agricultural Interests Fostered by Federal Reserve Banks" and "Farmers Aided by Federal Reserve System" and messes of the like "bull" and "bunk" fed out by paid press agents and absorbed by a befooled people chained to such pawnbrokery! "Aided" by a sandbag! "Fostered" by pawnbrokery thuggery! It's enough to make a "kike" pawnbroker sob and moan at his soft-heartedness. It's enough to make Olomon Solomon Levi pull down his three balls and wail in the Synagogue!