The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-04
ON ONE POINT THEY ARE MUTE


they few months that they have squelched
the Money Question by throwing the spotlight Prohi-
btion The amount of socalled 'sound money" propa-
ganda in the country is amazing and it is being printed
in the best dalies we'll the smaller weekes of the
land There of be objection this: the
more propaganda the will the people realize that
there actually is Money Question and that it is not
academic of interest only fnancers. And the
greater the halloo for Sound money the better the
chances that the thinking classes of the people
que as to the cause of the hue and and investigate
for-themseves whether present system Ms sound"
The Dearborn Independent has contended all along
the financial mind. 1t is perhaps the of
emergency that with the financial mind have been
capvated by the profits of the present system than
with the principles by which money becomes necessarily
of all Not that the high priests of the
ent system that danger threatensthey
very well aware of it but there prophets lead
the financial world confession and reformation If this
state Of mind continues then always has been the
the awakening will only through disaster and it is
disaster which the warnings uttered here would
In all the propaganda sent forth by the various nan
cia groups there has been discussion
of Interest Yet it is the of Interest that the
system is to be wrecked unless its is
changed There have been it is thue few elementary
appeals the of the people showing that
hire reward due for money lent But to In
in the commercial sense Interest with boz
and commissions and the Banks have motor
iousy practiced it during the past ten years. word
As Interest itself what it is why it is how arrived at
the extent and character of its effect society," word
Yet the propagandsts must know if they admitted
the confidence of the financial high priests for whom
they work. that precisely this matter of Interest
causing nights among the hierarchy of
gold.
The problem is simple. There about five billions
of dollars among the people.
The people paying interest forty billions of
dollars.
How long a people pay interest eight times
the amount of money in existence at their disposal?
This question is more alarming than it would have
been twenty for mounting toward
the cracking point at a pace which the
financial rulers Because have paid for fifty years is
the slightest indication that shall be able pay
another fifty years. the being that the peak is
reached the crisis has been sighted by nanciers
who would like to deny the possibility of crisis.
Now that there many experts" writing on
these Subjects will of the bankers groups
of the political parties commission to take
the of Interest? Tell how much of the charge
made for money today is really interest and how much
something State the scientific basis of interest
the regarding the interest charges borne by
United today he rest of the world is simply
crushed under INTEREST," Tell if possible how the
nua charges be borne unless the increase of
national wealth will great increase in money
and if money should be based wealth what would then
become of that other fetish of the system, the Gold
Standard?
There is no objection whatever all the propaganda
the aroused financial interests desire to broadcast But
why discuss those parts of the question which touch
the peoples daily experience? In fact, challenge
discussion of Interest-Dearborn Independent.