LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

had gone out of fashion in England by 1914. And this is no subject for
merriment. When a nation loses its sense of justice, sense of fair play to
ALL corners and loses the use of its wits, it is the end of an era, or the
end of the nation, or BOTH.
We have seen the Russian Empire come to an end. Grand Dukes sellin’
the country, and thought not encouraged by the class that was then in
power. We have seen the end of the Hapsburgs. You would think old W.
Steed would have learned something from his study of the dealin’s of the
Hapsburgs, and that he would have applied it into his observation of
England, but evidently he has not.
I dunno where you folks will come out, but I know you won’t start
toward coming out till you recognize the use of straight thinking. Till
you stop bilking yourselves, till you get rid of the people who have
encouraged you in the worst of your vices—opium of one sort or
another, dumping one sort onto China, and using another sort for home
consumption. Landor, Trollope, Hobhouse, Major Douglas, even ole
William Yeats, plenty of your own wise men have told you.
And the Ta hsüeh, the Great Learning, First book of confucian
philosophy ends: Profits do not profit a nation. Lucre does not profit a
nation. The sense of equity, sense of justice is that wherefrom a nation
hath benefit.
The whole of your rulin’ class has run plumb haywire on profits; [FCC
transcript: run haywire on lucre; despised the use of the— —, despised
the good of the intellect; falsified everything.
I’m hep to your B.B.C, to your— —advocate in India. India has already
given way, that is,— —and false promises. Now the B.B.C. comics arid
falsification of everything. Now the only point I’ve heard on the London
Radio was what one Royal Canadian, who had swallowed all the— —,
swallowed all the lies you had told him. Still dreaming along in the years