"You also made great strides in your political sciences, in doing away with your titles, feudal lord systems, kings, and in your form of government; but you greatly, and criminally retrogress in your political economy.
"Your economic system looks to us to be on the same primitive level as in the many large regions of your earth where farmers are still scratching your earth surface with wooden plows, reap with the sickle, thresh with hand flails, and where your modern methods of tillage, irrigation, fertilizing, crop rotation, and seed selection are unknown or not used.
"Your moneyism with its constant devaluations, foreign exchange panics, oppressive custom duties, and tariffs on imports and exports, creating economic disruption, with different standards of life, is one of the main causes for the prevention of free trade and unity between your nations. As a result you have your wars, booms, and panics, your inflations and deflations, your prosperity and depressions, your overproduction and underproduction, your progressions and stagnations. Your abounding lands go to waste. Your lack of reclamation, drainage, and irrigation, your unfertilized, overcultivated, overgrazed lands; poverty, and famine among some of your nations with abundance in others. Hunger, misery and sickness in some and great wealth, affluence and plenty with others, within your same nation, city, street, block, and even apartment houses, where an assistant janitor with his family live in the basement in poverty. All without concrete plans, regulations, restraints, and control; resulting in your confused and chaotic economy.
"The perplexing languages, religions, customs and ideologies between the people of your nations, are incentives to enmity, turmoil, revolutions, and wars. Even now black clouds of dissensions and differences in your ideologies are looming on your horizon, seriously dividing the nations of your globe into two different camps and menacing your world peace. Perhaps another terrible explosive world war is in the offing.
"Our efforts have united us with our utmost zeal and devotion to loftier ideals and higher principles, and is the fundamental force that sustains, creates, constructs, and accelerates the continual perfection of the elements necessary to our harmonious, contented and happy life. All we have, all productions, possessions, or wealth, we create and labor for from our lands, seas, and air resources, are owned for the common use and free enjoyment of all of us, just as the air, sunlight, and sunshine on Earth are for the common use of all your Earthmen.
"The mediums of profit or force to spur us to work harder are non-existent. Our motto is solely to serve, and not to profit. One hundred per cent of our working time, labor, energy and production is solely and directly used and spent for our progress, construction, sanitation, cure and prevention of diseases, pleasures, amusements, and in all avenues to lengthen and make our lives more democratic in its true, and full sense. We are more comfortable, healthier, safer, better and happier. I dare say more than 90% of your working time, directly and indirectly, is used for the creation of offensive, defensive, destructive and killing instruments. Thank God that our teen age boys do not have to army drill and train as they do on your high school playgrounds and surrounding streets and we do not have to send them into gory battles to either get killed or become paraplegics.
"We are of our own free will controlled to our way of life, and have great potentiality of advancement, and attainment to an equal realization of our aims.
"I hope I have proven to you that our way of what you call regimented life is of our own choice and free will, and far superior and better than yours. It gives us real liberty, freedom and happiness.
"Your gigantic bonded Federal public debts to the amount of $252,292,247,513.[42]
"Burdened with payments on account of your many wars.