Original sentence: "-Henry Ford."The Federal Reserve Idea was doubtless right; if it had not been, it could not have been established.But it has been manipulated.Capable of being used to carry the country gradually back to a natural flow of business and to a natural level of prices, it was used to bludgeon business at a critical time and to bludgeon it in such a way that money-lenders profited when producers suffered.If that is the fact, there is no American banker but will say that the method was wrong; economically wrong, logically wrong, commercially wrong, if not criminally wrong.If the Federal Reserve would let out a part of that flood of money — a high financial authority suggests that less than 10 percent would do it — it would be like an infusion of blood into the nation's veins.It has been operated in the interest of bankers and not of everyone in general.It has not been a 'federal' reserve; it has been a private reserve.The height which the reserve has reached is a measure of the depth of the country's depression.Today the Federal Reserve boasts of its own reserve as if that were a sign of national economic health.With the country struggling to live, the Federal Reserve ought to be low, not high