LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

didn’t think he could get there. Or mebbe that was the trouble; mebbe
they DID think he could get there.
Of course the nomination has sometimes been quite within reach of
almost impecunious people. I have been given extremely low figures as
to the bottom price for the ante, which depends of course on the year,
and the state of the political market. But mebbe those low figures only
apply to duds, whom the wise guys just KNOW won’t be elected.
Such I suppose is democracy. Or perhaps such is the modesty of
political parties.
Well, up in BREMEN they seem to have decided that you folks can’t
keep your minds on any one thing more’n about three minutes. I used to
listen to their Mirror, now I hear their magazine. Three minutes talk,
then a gigue tune. Mebbe Rome would give me with music included if I
put up a howl. Not every topic NEEDS 12 and 2½ minutes. Sometime I
feel just like askin’ a string of questions; as fer example: WHY do you
Yanks fall for the FOREIGN or exotic wheeze? I mean Jews from all
over Europe come to America, and you think they are Frenchmen and
Dutchmen. Now why is that ?
And then this appointin’ ambassadors to imaginary unlanded
governments? Ought I to get ambassadors appointed every time one of
my Italian friends wants to ask me what time is it or whether Faulkner is
better’n Caldwell, and WHICH Caidwell or whether Josh Bathos writes
better’n Bromfield, or what’s become of that refined almost writer Mr.
Thornton Wilder ? Do you dare fall for it ? I mean this elevated from
rank of minister to that of dambastador, in order to treat with the
government of Ruthenia, at 29 Wardour Street, third floor back, W.C. in
London ?
I should like to see that subject treated in Puck or Judge, if those
monuments of the ash-barrel era still flourish. Puck used to be Democrat