The Ocala banner., 1922-01-27

| fit the whole world"
"In what way?'
Just this way the manufacturer
answered, as he came to the corner
of great abutment Pointing his
finger for emphasis, he said: IF the
F., Government accepts my offer for Mus
Gle Shoals as we have made it and
will consider completing the dam ac-
cording to a financing plan which
/ have in mind, we can here do an epo-
chal thing-literally. mean it an
epochal thing. We shall eliminate
war from the world
But how?" / queried.
How" he asked in return. Just
this way. It's very simple when you
analyze it. The cause of all wars
is gold We shall demonstrate to the
world two things-ffst, the practica-
bility; second, the desirability OF dis
placing gold as the basis of currency
and substituting in its place the
worlds imperishable natural wealth.
q don't quite follow you," l ventur-
ed
q didn't expect you would Mr..
Ford came back. Most everybody IN
the world except the newspapers re-
cognize that civilization has entered
on new era-the newspapers and tie
bankers. The newspapers don't see
it and the international bankers don't
want to see tit would mean changes
in world finance and bankers always
oppose changes
Il can't see the connection, said,
between a river in Alabama and the
elimination of war;
But there is a connection Mr
Ford answered. And then abruptly:
You don't want war, do you? OF
course not. If you ask your neighbor,
you'll find he doesn't want war, and
his neighbor and the family next TO
him feel the same way.
And if you went out and knocked
at every door along every street and
read in the world, you'd find every
grown man and woman in the world
giving the same answer. No, nc,
God save us from war Then, il all
the families in the world are opposed
to war, why, in the name of Heaven,
do we have wars-did that question
ever occur to you? Well, there's q
reason. There's profit in war. I CON {
mean moral profit or increased reli-
gious interest or spiritual uplift,
through trial by fire, nor any of that
kind of bunk-it's money profits l
mean, profits in gold-that's the cne
and only reason for wars"
Would you destroy all the gold
in the world and prohibit mining any
mcre?'
Not at all-you don't get me yet.
Gold as metal is all right 1t is not
as useful as metal as many other
metals, but there are arts in which
it is useful-dont destroy an ounce,
keep it for the arts and industrial
uses. But it has this distinction from
copper, steel and other metals-it is
scarce. Hence, through its scarcity it
has acquired a fictitious value far be-
yond its value as useful metal.
of hn n
mistake, which has cost them genera
tions of financial slavery, when they
consented to make gold a basis for
the issuance of currency. They fail
ed to see that, because gold is scarce
there is only about ten billion dol
lars worth of it in the whole world
its total supply can be controlled. can
be got under the dominance of the one
interest or group of interests. and thus
the currency and capital of the whole
world controlled.
And just exactly that thing has
happened. There's group OF inter.
national bankers who today control
the bulk of the worlds gold supply
They have their members or their
agents in every country. No matter
to what country they, as individuals,
claim allegiance, they all play the
Isame game, to keep the gold they have
in their own hands and to get just
as much more as possible.
| But, having gained control of the
worlds gold. it has become curse
to them. Hoarded gold earns moth
g-they must keep it turning. max
ing profit, or lose its control. Peace
times with stable conditions do not
turn it fast enough. The way to make
it work hard and often is to create a
great demand for it in the form OF
loans-but always of currency in lieu
of gold. And the way to make a ire.
mendous demand for loans at any rate
of interest the money sellers want to