Per cent Net Sandbaggery Location[1] Capital on Capital Per Cent New York $24,618,000 217 211 Chicago 13,213,000 195 189 Atlanta 3,759,000 162 156 San Francisco 6,412,000 159 153 Boston 7,454,000 137 131 Minneapolis 3,265,000 131 125 Kansas City 4,295,000 129 123 St. Louis 4,229,000 124 118 Cleveland 10,070,000 119 113 Philadelphia 8,278,000 116 110 Richmond 4,884,000 110 104 Dallas 3,757,000 89 83 Take all of your reading, take all of the history of banking or of finance since banks were first founded and see if you can approximate any such leviathan Shylockery. The stockholders in National Banks who provided the capital for this orgy of profiteering were gyped out of all the way from 211 per cent in the New York satrapy to 83 per cent in the Dallas satrapy. For the year 1920 all over the U.S.A. on the average Federal Reserve lootage took away from the real providers of its capital--the stockholders in National Banks--better than 154 per cent on the money they provided! These records are taken from the accounts of its own pillage rendered by the Federal Reserve System itself. You could be quite some banker yourself, you could orate and strut and preen and propagandize, you could swell out your pouter pigeon breast at stage-managed banquets and be a prince of high finance with a limitless expense account and with an altitudinous salary--if you could commandeer your neighbor's money at 6 per cent and then sandbag out from 211 to 83 per cent profit on it, couldn't you?