Excerpt from Financial Independence and How to Attain It, Vol. 1

Money or finance is the foundation of civilization. Every civilized human is more intimately concerned in a proper financial system justly administered than in any other human institution. As the happiness and well-being of all are vitally affected, and as we are all interdependent each upon the other, it is the clear duty of every citizen to understand, and to see that his neighbor understands, so that the existing evils may be corrected for the benefit of all.

The reader should realize that the matter in hand is too important to all of us to be lightly dismissed, even should he not agree with the author on either the cause, the remedy, or the result. There must be something radically wrong, otherwise we' would not have had Pujo Committee in vestigations, the anti-trust Laws, the Laws Prohibiting Interlocking Directors, the Fed eral Reserve Act, and lastly, the Act Providing for Rural Credit Institutions.

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