LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Then came the kid glove era. Then came disparagement of the system.
“Decline of democratic DOGMA,” wrote Henry Adams shiftin’ his
words about hither and yon. The decline as I see it waren’t in the
DOGMA, it lay in absolutely leaving the dogma high and dry. Stranded,
paying NO attention either to the text of the vital affirmations of
DOGMA, such as liberty NOT to harm others. Paying no attention to the
vital points of the Constitution. Letting the WHOLE real power and
sovereignty be swiped from the people and the LEGITIMATE
representatives of the people, and from the responsible executive officers
and handed over to VERMIN. And not even American lice in all cases.
“We can not permit the circulation of greenbacks,” can not permit the
circulation of NATIONAL money, said the kahalists, because we can not
control ’em. AND the American MUGS let it go at that, took seventy
years to get wise to it. CALHOUN had known better. He had seen
through the northern loan sharks. Waal, Calhoun was dead by that time.
Well, being KILLED at the root, the ONLY effective means of ruining
the Amen can system, having been extracted, filched, pilfered, TAKEN
OUT of the system. The system naturally turned weak and pindlin’.
And AS the ideas inside the American Revolution had been grown in
Europe a bit before we took to actin’ on ’em, the American soil hadn’t
got ready to produce much original thinking. Even Ole Walt Whitman
got a shot in the arm, Hindoo ways of thinking, which he sprouted as a
means of bustin’ the tea-table manners of writin’ imported from
England.
Well, let me keep to stability, let me keep to POLITICAL ethics, and not
deviate into literary SYMPTOMS of a disease. Whatever the causes,
fertility, fecundity of American nature, it remains in the record that apart
from some seceding colonies with what were called FUNNY ideas, little
groups of people buying a bit of land and trying social experiments, in
New York, Utah, and in Connecticut, there warn’t much reorganizing
effort in the United States of America Representation of the