LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Waaal, that has been silver’s weakness. No commodity has a JUST right
over any other commodity and you can’t eat these METALS.
Commodity dollar, old pop Warren was right on that line. BUT who is to
ISSUE the dollar? Back to the old Constitution, old betrayed
Constitution. What has the gol darn Baltimore Sun, or New York Sun to
say about the U.S. Constitution? What has Col. McCormick got to say
about the U.S. Constitution? Put me out, or his weak-kneed half masted
editors put me out of his Paris paper too soon. Don’t matter a hoot. But
what has he got NOW to say about the U.S. Constitution? Mebbe he has
waited about 20 years, mebbe longer, that are JUST 20 years too much.
I’ll be seem’ you. What have the silver Johnnies got to say about
national money? No, I am not a social creditor. I passed by that alley
away. I am a national money man.
And there ought to be more AMERICANS WITH ME.
#35 (May 10, 1942) U.K.(B40)
THE PRECARIOUS
Mr. Vernon Bartlett, whom I shall define later this evening if my time
holds out, and I haven’t used it all up on more important items, Mr.
Vernon Bartlett has nearly crowned his long and not wholly ambiguous
life by writing an intelligent sentence.
He says that England’s position at the peace conference will be PRE
CARIOUS. I’ll say it will be precarious. I haven’t an etymological
dictionary handy in my hotel bedroom so I don’t know whether
“precarious” really springs from a couple of Latin words meaning the
state a thing gits into before it goes rotten. The English word is usually
used to mean in peril, uncertain. I’ll leave it at that, not go battin’ round
for a word like POST CARIUS.