LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

into North America to the ruin of North American farmers so long as the
ships will carry the stuff. BUT you can not get tungsten or even
petroleum out of the carcasses of Brazilian ambassadors.
In fact your chief purchases in South America seem to be
GOVERNMENTS, and you have yourself got more government than
you can use.
You are tied up to Moscow and you have not yet the faintest conception
of what that union means. You are tied up to England in a somewhat de
pressing hour. BUT the knot either may or may not prove a slip knot or
noose. When the strangulation becomes excessively painful, Winston’s
name may be spelled PAUL REYNAUD.
You should keep an open eye on these possibilities. I know Franklin has
his EYE on Australia and on Madagascar and on the African gold coast
the Belgian Congo, Liberia, and the whatnots.
BUT the dawg in the fable also had his eye on the meat, reflected meat
in the water. The aqueous metaphor may be invidious.
If I start on all the whatnots and the might have beens, this talk may start
gettin’ depressin’.
God Almighty, you go get out your readin’ books. They say no man
knows more than his grandad. If you can’t learn about money from
Jackson, Adams (I mean John Adams) and Van Buren, I dunno when you
are I going to start learning to read. Of course, very few people HAVE
read any history and it will become increasingly difficult for you to get
the real books. Henry Adams’ Life of Gallatin cost 35 dollars last time I
heard: and was out of print, nacterly, at that time. So I don’t even know
what is in it. But you MUST someday either DIE or learn the nature of
money.