LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

dealin’ with Japan than any of Mr. Roosevelt’s lowbrow assistants,
among whom I know of none who was fit for the Japanese mission.
England was bilked, and that was NOT done without United States
assistance. Well, I don’t admire the men who assisted. And neither, I
think, do YOU.
As to what you can do to get out of it, that is another story. Haven’t you
got any folks at home who can tell you ? After all my mission in life had
been rather special. Maybe that was my error, but one can’t be in ten
places at once. I believe, like bed rock, I believe, that if the American
people had been consulted in 1938–39 and 40 and 41 NINETY percent
of the American people would have been content to have the American
government stick to its best traditions, to stay OUT of international
shindies, and to USE the United States prestige. (We HAD some prestige
in those days.) And the American people would have wanted used to get
a SANE, peaceful arrangement of the problems of Europe. And a clean
government in Washington would have aimed at that target. When,
before Gawd, are we going to get a clean government ? It is time for the
American people to start gettin’ ready to think about that.
Whether Frankie is a gook or a kike, I don’t think the American people
LIKE him. I don’t think they wanted him back in the White House. And
the election figures don’t prove it. They may possibly prove the
DEFECTS of the American electoral system and the power of bribery
and corruption. And then again they may not. The only excuse of most
voters was “you don’t vote against Santa Claus.” Look what Santa has
brought you now. Waaal ole Franklin Kris Kingle, Sant Nicalaus, ain’t
got any live children back out of the pork barrel. If that is too mixed a
metaphor, let me remind you of the old French chanson, about St.
Nicholas. Frankie looks to me more like gettin’ the live young INTO the
salt pork barrel than rescuing the little dears out of it.