People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — Is This Plain Enough. [ARTICLE]

Is This Plain Enough.

What builds bank buildings? Interest. What builds bankers’ palaces? Interest What pays the bankers’ salaries? Interest. What pays the banks’ dividends? Interest. What pays the banks’ expenses. Interest. What is the cause of interest? Debt. Now are you silly enough to believe that bankers want a change in the financial system that will relieve the people so they may get out of debt and thus destroy the said bankers’ business? Dou you think the bankere want to destroy their own business? Do you think they employ lobbyists at Washington and the state capitals in the interest of the people as against themselves? As well to expect a king to recommend laws curtailing his power and’ enlarging the liberties of the people. If the people had the blinds pulled from their eyes they would elect men w’ho would make laws for them instead of voting for men whom the bankers like so well. The bankers work for their own interests just as other business men. They are not so much to be blamed. So long as the multitude remain ignorant and vote ignorantly, the bankers might just as well skin them as anybody. One thing is certain, somebody will skin them so long as they believe in and vote for the present system. If they do not want to be fleeced by bankers, they will vote for men who want government banks,,and government money. Until this is done, all the power of men who profit by usury will be used to have laws that benefit the lenders who are few against the payers who are many. The lenders are enjoying life pretty well. How are you fixed?—Appeal to Reason. Neither one of the two old parties can be “saved” without foreign aid. England is the principal backer for both.