If thedomain of the automatically functioning economic laws is thus restricted, and if thedomain consciously regulated by the banks is considerably increased, the national economic responsibility of a very small number of guiding heads is infinitely increased,' wrote Professor Schulze vernitz, an apologist of German imperialism, who is regarded as an authority by the imperialists of all countries, and who tries to gloss over a 'detail,' viz., that the 'conscious regulation' of economic life by the banks is robbery of the public by a handful of 'completely organized' monopolists.