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LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

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mankind.” That is true enough, but it ain’t reduced the moral ideal to<br />

ABSOLUTE impotence. This is what was worrying Butler; but he<br />

hadn’t got down to bed rock. He said there was a time, back apparently<br />

when Mark Hanna was running the United State of America, when the<br />

moral ideal was to all appearances gainin’ ground.<br />

Of course if by that he means that some empires were GAINING<br />

territory, he might have said so, only he didn’t. Ole Nicholas puts the<br />

rise of the triumph, real or apparent, the IDEAL, from the McKinley to<br />

the Wealsohn administration.<br />

Note of HOpe and progress.<br />

In 1910, the American Congress was unanimous for the moral principle<br />

(so long as no questions were asked about the privileges of the usury<br />

central). Nic complains that the moral ideal has disappeared in all that<br />

has to do with international relations.<br />

Which shows the state of DEEP ignorance in the WORLD; as distinct<br />

from Nicholas Butler’s circle or pot.<br />

And lookin’ at dates, he must have been blurrin’ this blurb the same<br />

week that a Chinaman, not of Wang Ching Wei’s party, but of Chiang<br />

Kai-shek’s party, and FAITHFUL to Chiang, saying what Hitler’s justice<br />

in scuttling international affairs was such that the Chinese of the ANTI-<br />

JAP, anti-Wang party might accept Hitler’s arbitrage.<br />

Mr. Butler then seems to fall into incoherence. He talks of a PLEDGE<br />

as something to be kept; what price, England, Churchill, and Roosevelt ?<br />

He objects to having the savings of generations swept away; he asks<br />

what has become of the influence of and guidance of the great religions;<br />

Christian, Mosel, HEBREW, and Buddhist, and begorrah, of Plato,<br />

Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, leaving out St. Ambrose<br />

and St. Antonio da Firenze, and graciously waivin’ a hand to the captains<br />

of the mind, Spanish, Italian, French, English, German. And of course

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