The financiers drink the blood of the people

Another election comedy is about to begin in four provinces of Canada; Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan and Quebec. The punchinellos who will be participating in the election farces will be digging out and dusting off their usual speeches liberally festooned with flattery for the people, self-exaltation and a wide and varied assortment of abuse for their opponents.

These election campaigns form one vast vaudeville display on our political scene. Unfortunately they also conceal the tragedy of the poor people snarling and wrangling and literally at one anothers throats in the election turmoil. And the financiers drink the blood of the people...!

If we are ever to bring to an end this ravenous preying upon the lifeblood of society by Finance, the people must cease to battle among themselves at election time and must turn their heads from the acrobatics and sham battles of politicians in the electoral three-ring circus.

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Elections are not in the interests of the people; they are of profit only to those ambitious and unscrupulous few who seek office for the power and the profit which it may bring to them. Elections, are in fact, nothing more than quarrels between those who have sold themselves for money and the mere trappings of power. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, in them for the people.

My friends, for the sake of our own good! let these actors in the electoral comedy amuse themselves by themselves alone; stop acting as their audience; do not applaud either one side or the other, and above all, stop stooping to act as footstools whereby these mountebanks will climb to wealth and honor!

Unfortunately, few will heed these words, and there will be even Crediters who will lend their time, energy and money to participate in and promote these frauds we call elections.

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Probably the greatest hoax in history is the so-called democratic parliament as it functions today with all its trappings of elections and legislative procedure. There is little but sham in all this. It is being more and more widely acknowledged in the world today that politicians of all colors and even those without any color are the puppets of high finance who operate outside parliament in board rooms and the environs of little-publicized and highly exclusive societies. The true masters of the modern world are, the financiers. They are responsible to no one for their acts. The people do not even know their names. But these financiers are the true sovereigns in every country. It is they who decide the wars, the economic crises, the periods of prosperity. "They have become the masters of our lives and without their permission no one may even so much as breathe", said Pope Pius XI in his encyclical, Quadragesimo Anno.

This is a truth of which we are now only too well aware. Our representatives and our parliamentary ministers hold no real power. It is the financiers who hold the power. We are convinced of this. But if we are so convinced then why do we give so much attention and place so much importance on "representatives" and "candidates"? Probably because we are emminently suited to play the role of dupes. Elections seem to act like a drug upon the intelligence of the people.

The financiers, in order to retain their grip on the reins controlling the people, have used the old rule of "divide and conquer". They detach themselves completely (so they would leave us to believe) from the political scene.

They place full responsibility for whatever results, upon the shoulders of the elected representatives of the people. Then they divided these representatives into two or even three and four warring camps. So however detached from the political scene these financiers may seem to be, the whole farce of elections and parliamentary procedure as it exists and operates today, is the work of the financiers and the means whereby they keep the people enslaved to their power. It is the means whereby they keep the people in ignorance of who their true masters are. And the financiers use every means at their disposal: radio, television, the press, in order to foster this illusion of parliamentary democracy! Elections, today, are of no more importance in the lives of the people than are the debates in parliament in respect to the framing of legislation. It is generally conceded that, in fact, legislation is not decided upon on the floor of the Chamber. Nor do elections decide what sort of life the people are to have.

And yet so many people are well aware of the futility of elections. How often do you not hear people exclaim, "Well, it really doesn't matter for whom you vote; in the final analysis, one party is the same as the other!" And why is it necessary for the authorities to engage in so much propaganda to get the people out to vote? "It's your solemn duty as a good citizen to go to the polls!" How often do we hear that!

All of this simply goes to show that even the people are aware of the fact that elections and voting play a very minor part in the shaping of their daily life. Then why do people continue to place such stress and importance on voting, on election campaigns? Why do people bother to mix themselves up in elections at all?

After all, elections are a divisory measure. They divide friend against friend, brother against brother. They are the greatest source of dissension and disunity that our modern society knows. They lead to the most savage exemplification of "dog eat dog" that we know of, outside of actual civil war.

Perhaps it is because the poor people, seeing themselves enchained in a way of life which offers them no release from the pressure of want and insecurity, turn in desperation to whatever means is handed them for a way out of this manner of living. Like prisoners, long encarcerated in some dungeon, they are finally driven in desperation to hurl themselves frantically against the stone walls that surround them. A futile and damaging act, indeed!

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The poor people! If only they would realize that which has kept them in bondage for so long is that very lie which they so assiduously serve. If only they would realize that which will effect their liberation is the truth - the truth fully grasped and realized by themselves and then passed on and made known to others. Only the truth can liberate them from the chains cast about them by the financiers and those who serve the financiers, while pretending to serve the people.

"Man does not live by bread alone", says the gospel. Never has this truth been more acutely realized than today. Today, man sees before him mountains of bread. And yet he cannot avail himself of this bread, because of the system of lies, the barrier of lies which has been erected by the financiers, the lords of money and credit, between him (man) and this bread. The man of 1960 cannot eat of the good bread which Divine Providence has given in such abundance because his soul and mind have been blinded by the dust of the lies cast in his face by the financiers and those who are so willing to serve the financiers.

Never in history has there been known such an absurdity as that of the great mass of man going in starvation and want and insecurity for "tomorrow's dinner" while there is at hand such an abundance of food with which to assuage this hunger and provide for the morrow. This absurdity is propagated and maintained because of the great web of falsehood which is woven in the universities and spread abroad through the medium of all forms of communication by the financial dictators. This is how we come to understand fully the words of Our Lord; "Man does not live by bread alone but by the truth." Place your trust in the truth. Look for the truth. Turn your backs upon the ghastly farce which is wrapped up in the mockery of elections. They can bring no relief whatsoever for they have never brought any relief! It is a matter of history. The hatred engendered by the strife of party politics will not bring peace.

The truth must be known about politics, about financial dictatorship. The people must have the truth, they must be enlightened, formed to stand straight, and unyielding before lies and injustice. Here alone lies the hope for deliverance.

The truth must be known and it must be cried aloud, with the strongest voice possible, from the housetops until it becomes known far and wide and is taken up and multiplied by a vast number of other voices.