"Few of them have procured their nominations and elections by paying for them in advance or by promising future favors. They get your vote by promises that very often are not kept. Some officials sometimes have been tempted to accept bribes. Dishonest ones demand them openly or by subterfuge. In return, they help individuals or organizations to operate unlawfully. Some, in Government office, have helped to contribute to crimes of the worst exploitation, and extortion, against your nationals, or other nations.
"Your money packs the potentiality of the greatest power force and medium for most all your evils and is a constant strong tempting magnet staining with its putrid stigma of corruption, some of your low and high pillars of your temples of justice, law, righteousness, and benevolence, since historical times they have shaken its foundation and toppled over the weak edifice you call civilization.
"No matter how impregnable your officials may be, their jobs are difficult. There are always a few who sooner or later are tempted by economic necessity or desire for social betterment to advance themselves at the expense of their principles. The men resisting must have the integrity of flint. It is unfortunate that the weak ones by their action break down the good done by the strong. In your three branches of government we find that the officials of the upper strata, except for a few isolated instances, have kept their records clean.
"Your world history shows that dictatorship, unjust political, or government ruling power nearly always caused political violence and the early death of most of your leaders through revolutions, assassinations, overwork, and extreme tension.
"Even your religions are not immune from its contamination. Your money greed Octopus through his enticement has unlawfully violated and corrupted your most sacred religious commandments and sacraments.
"Disrupting and weakening your safety protection is another function of your Octopus.
"Property caused you to surround with guards all your government departments and bureaus, and all your business establishments and industry, from the largest to the smallest. Your office, your home, in fact, every building at immense costs is provided with all safeguards, contrivances, and precautions.
"Your legislative departments everywhere have passed innumerable stringent laws and created law enforcement departments of all kinds. You have built your so-called impregnable safes, safe deposit vaults, and burglar alarms. You have developed intricate and costly systems of business protective methods; and services and guards of all kinds to check and counter check every deal, item, and number of articles, down to the last penny or article of the lowest value.
"You have insurance of all kinds against loss and fraud; real estate title insurance, indemnity bonds, postal insurances. With all these precautions, you are still vulnerable to loss through your most trusted partners or employees, through your competitor, through unforeseen circumstances, through dishonest and crafty speculative plots against you by individuals, gangsters, or through a rapacious dictator, through plundering governments, or through predatory national wars.
"The double latches on your windows or the double locks on your doors do not always protect you. Day or night, awake or asleep, through all the regions on your Earth, you are prey to the most atrocious crimes. Alive or dead, your body is in jeopardy. Alive, you are in danger of being blackmailed, kidnapped, or waylaid openly or from ambush. Some will kill you for a few pennies or for your clothes; in a rooming house in England, persons were murdered in order that their bodies might be sold to dissecting rooms; and ghouls may desecrate your grave to sell your body.