Financiers create the new sources of profit by promoting foolish indulgences and useless customs.
Even the currency of the nation has been controlled and exploited by the Jews for their own gain, and not by the government. Both employers and workers pay tribute to the golden image, then grumble at one another for the state of things which follows. By manipulating the processes of manufacture and distribution so as to ensure large profits for himself, a man rises in social and national importance. He is elected to the government of the nation, or honored as a peer of the realm. Men may have high ideals and clear vision, but if they belong to the financially lower grades of society their influence is restricted, and their opinions disregarded.