27 December 1938 Good Will: Or Usury? Humanity can have good will and peace, but it cannot have usury and peace; it must make its choice. So says the London Chamber of Com merce Journal: and this expression of a central truth that affects the welfare of all mankind is all the more welcome as coming from a conserva- tive and unexpected source. At this season of the year all Christendom will breathe its custom- ary prayer for Peace on Earth and Goodwill among Men, as it has done for centuries past, but the spirit that conforms with the Christ sentiment will last little longer than the Christ- mas bells continue their ringing: and on the morrow these would-be Chris- tians will have resumed their place as units in a social and economic sys- tem that is based on Usury, and in which, consequently, peace is not pos- sible and real Christianity is not practicable. For it is the Usurers, the Interna- tional Financiers, who exercise domi- nant power on earth and prescribe what form civilisation shall take. They have usurped the ownership of money and credit, the tools of ex- change on which every branch of human activity is dependent, and the possession of which gives them power to control all trade and industry. What this power is hear Arthur Kitson, one of Britains advocates of monetary reform, say: It permits the control of elec- tions, the power to appoint Cabinet Ministers, the dictation of national, trade, financial and foreign policies, the power to create both employment and unemployment, to make wars and to dictate terms of peace, and the manipulation of public opinion through the control of the Press. It can overthrow and set up empires. It gives control of the drama, music, art, literature, and science; the raising and lowering of the worlds moral status, and of the pub- lic health; the power to aid or de- stroy the Churches, hospitals, and, in fact, any organisation; in short, power to control money involves the power to control civilisation. Imperialism Cannot Last George Lansbury, M.P., some little time ago visited Mussolini and con- versed with him. One of these con- versations is reported as under: I said to Mussolini that I had been in the Quo Vadis Chapel, at the be- ginning of the Appian Way, and for nearly half the night had lain awake thinking of the catacombs, the cruci- fixions, the Roman triumphs, and the glories the remains of which lay all around. I said to him: Empires come and go, but these truths that martyrs and men like Peter and others died for still live. Imperialism, whether British, French, German, or Italian, cannot last. You cannot build a new Roman Empire and you cannot re- store the ancient glories of Rome. These cannot last, because if mankind continues to put its trust in domina- tion and force civilisation will pass away. Signor Mussolini tried to persuade me that Britain, Germany, France, and Italy were the custodians of civi- lisation, and I said: You cannot take care of a civilisation built on force or domination, or on the shift ing sands of greed, ambition, and avarice. You can only do it on these principles of love and conduct which Christ came to earth to teach—love your neighbour as yourself; do unto others as you would be done by.
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