LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

the first person singular. Nick wanted Americans to go fight for the
British exploiters; so he said “THE WORLD” etc. In this case THE
WORLD (meaning Nick and his pay masters). The World he sez, awaits
another Waterloo. And on the fifth page it turns out he meant a defeat of
Hitler!! Which might be called “metonomy” or takin’ a part for the
“whole,” and not the better whole either.
Now the WORLD, as any college president ought to know, before the
trustees pay him his fat annual salary, is spherical in form, and is
composed of MORE than one continent, and not wholly and totally
enraptured with the big usury central.
However let Nick Butler speak for himself, as he has never failed to do
in all his oleaginous lifetime.
Several pages of the old scamp’s palaver contain statements by which no
right thinking man would be offended. The slabs of print, the page
undivided by paragraph divisions, tends to lull the reader or auditor into
security.
Mr. Butler even disapproves (mildly, of course) of the “controlling
desire for gain,” alias our old enemy the profit motive. Of course he
keeps off the specific MEANS of gain, exercised by his owners. He then
pays a delicate compliment to Lord Holy Fox, without committing
himself, in fact nothing could be more downy.
The FIRST Lord Halifax, unaided by his charming and formidable Lady,
said there were three hundred years ago many things that riches cannot
buy. Therefore the American boys should bleed for the present Lord
Holy Fox. Now Ole Nick don’t go as far back as all that, he stops back
in the 17th Century; before Robert Cecil was so vigorous in defense of
the British OPIUM interests in Shanghai.
Victory for a moral ideal is not enough, according to Nicholas, because
the “gain-seeking interest has control of so vast a proportion of