Millions by the hundreds for parasitical speculation, for the pounding down of prices in "short" markets in a "bear" campaign waged against real values and millions by the paltry tens only for the real producers of real wealth! If these actual figures don't batter down the "prop" of Federal Reserve propaganda about "furthering agricultural interests," nothing will. "Furthering agricultural interests" with a bludgeon! "Equalizing credits" with a meter of equality so stretched as to enwrap parasitism! If these actual figures don't convict Federal Reserve Oligarchy of the height of Pecksniffian hypocrisy it's convict-proof! Look over--and don't overlook--these figures. You can't consider them in cold blood without irresistibly concluding that Federal Reserve Oligarchy pampers parasitism, penalizes production and bestrews its gigantic resources by favoritism instead of by merit. It is obsessed by a squandermaniac prodigality for speculation and by a niggardly parsimony for real production of real wealth. It exalts the tokens of wealth and the jugglers of it far, far above its real producers. It reaches out almost limitless largess to the pinnacles of parasitism while practically starving the real makers of real wealth on whose shoulders parasitism gaily rides. It shovels out hundreds of millions for speculation and serves with an eye-dropper tens of millions for production. It's unfair, unjust, inequitable and Janus-faced. It mumbles and mutters and chitters and chatters and propagandizes about "equalizing credits" and "emancipating credit," while in truth and in fact it is grossly discriminating in its credits and instead of "emancipating" credit enchains it to the golden chariot of speculative splendors! That's what it really does and that's the true tale of its Partiality of Pillage. CHAPTER IX THE TRAGEDY OF DRASTIC DEFLATION YOUR money masters, the Federal Reserve Board at Washington and the twelve tentacular Federal Reserve Banks in their regional satrapies, staged in 1920 the greatest financial debacle in human history. They were, and they are, as much your money masters, as was ever a slave-holder the master of his human chattel. Your labor and the produce of your labor--in whatever capacity you worked--were, and are today, as completely under their control as was ever the labor and the production of the labor of slavery before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation chiseled chains. So long as you exist in the U.S.A. and the Federal Reserve System exists, the lash of these money masters will writhe over your back and you must cringe under its sting. Make no mistake about that. No sceptered king nor bedizened kaiser ever wielded a tithe of the power which rests in the cunning brains and in the ruthless edicts of these money masters.