LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

And a man with a Scotch front name married a gal who would appear
from the nomenclature to be Scotch, Welsh, and British. And Ted
Spencer has got his dancing man into print where it ought to be, and the
objections to it are as silly as one would expect them to be and mebbe
the young are comin’ on, as Mr. Calder Joseph; and Langston Hughes
has a book in press; probably out by now, which is allus a good thing
and Dr. Gogarty or goGARTY, better known to the outer world as Buck
Mulligan, has got to New Jersey, and keeps writin’ poems, and is
accused of being engaged on a novel. [He] has written a rather fine ode
for the revival of the Tailltean Games, Irish Olympics. I don’t quite
know why it is only published now, as the Tailtean Olympics were
restored nearly 20 years ago.
Well, that’s a human touch, and a relief from the noise of the American
papers. We need more communication between the five continents.
And some of the younger professors appear not to have been WHOLLY
hoodwinked by propaganda. Got tired of Georgian poets and so forth.
And that brings me to the question of AGE. Can you or can you not see
that this war is a war against YOUTH ? That there is in England a
whole generation or two generations ready to vomit at the mention of
Churchill, Beaverbrook, Garvin, and Baldwin and these senilities want
vengence for the lack of respect.
Back in the other war W.B. Yeats said of the old politicians: War, of
course they want war, they want all the young gals for themselves.
And in one way or another—lust for power, lust, jealously of the next
generation—pretended anxiety for the world as it will be in the time of
their grandchildren. Hurry, for fear they won’t be able to kill off the
present younger generation before the IDEAS of my generation go into
effect. It is NOT necessary to have the earth ruled by senile bleeders
and swindlers. The youth of Europe has discovered that cardinal fact.