LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Such a statement any time in the last 80 years would have seemed at
least eccentric to 99.9 percent of all possible auditors if not down right
loony.
I think there was not in mens’ minds much distinction between
mercantile, the word mercantile, and the word mercantilist as applied to
a so-called mercantilist system. Which means that the difference
between TRADE and Usury was not very clear in the Western mind after
the year, say, 1527. Do be patient. I know the air isn’t the habitual place
for bedrock, but I might get one auditor in ten thousand who was willin’
to follow an argument. Even a hard one.
I assure you the problem of JUSTICE is not superficial. The problem of
interest on money is NOT superficial. Europe once spent a thousand
years gettin’ an answer. I mean the RIGHT answer.
Namely DIVIDE your crops AFTER the harvest. Usura and partaggio.
Two things, different, need to be divided inside your heads. A corrosive
charge that finally undermines ANY nation. Undermines it at home,
drives it into unsound foreign relations, drives it OUT of land gone to
waste (needlessly left to rot, to erode), drives it into indecent incursions
into less civilized countries, or smaller or weaker countries. Always
eating away at the life inside the nation.
Divide your crops after the harvest.
I know what is worrying honest men. I know what worried me when I
first came up against the doctrine of the free play of forces. I haven’t got
a century and more of Quaker tradition in one side of my family not to
be worried by ANYTHING that seems to go against peace.
BUT injustice goes against PEACE, and don’t you forget it. Injustice is
NOT pacific. I have told you before that the class war is a fake in
America, or an imported exotic, and I have given you the illustration of
the Wads worth family at their reunion 250 years after the two brothers