LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

But the question SUBSISTS ? WHY did the people of England LET
them selves get catched by the short hairs and HOG-tied, and led into
losing the eastern parts of their empire, and getting allied to red Russia?
Let the TIMES go into THESE things—TELL PAPA! WHY did the
Times, which LOST YOU Hong Kong, and Singapore, and Rangoon
KEEP the REAL news and the real thought of the past 50 years (yaaas,
not 20 but 50) years OUT of its columns. What causes that?
Well my time at this microphone is drawin’ to a close for this evening
and I haven’t leisure to go into the other columns of that issue of the Old
Thunderer. But when you are sad and downhearted, git out your back
issues of the Times Newspaper of London, if they haven’t been confis
cated by the dog-catcher to make biscuit for miner’s children, and lull
yourself with Tennysonian legends, such as “Dutch leadership in the
Indies,” rivaling that of Luzon, resistance, all merry and bright.
I do hate to return that stray copy of the Old Thunderer to its owner.
Lord knows when I shall see yet another one, and having my head chuck
full of things I want to emit to you, it will be a long time before I again
animadvert to the paleozoic habits of your island crustaceans.
#25 (April 13, 1942) U.S.(B20)
QUESTION OF MOTIVE
I do not expect perfect and COMplete comprehension of these
discourses on the part of all of my audience. I should be content if I get
over even a small part of what I am driving at, and WHY I am drivin’.
For over 30 years I have been driving at some of the same objective
objectives.
I thought in 1908 and before then that a nation’s literature IS important.
State of a nation’s literature, is important. Words, means of
communication, literature, the most condensed form of communication,