LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

COWARDICE. It is an expression of course of brutality. But the
European sees nothing distinguished in a mob of a thousand men,
chasing one man. It does not find lynch law heroic.
Neither does he find British treatment of Italian prisoners a convincing
proof of British honesty or civility or of military capacity. All that will in
time go into history.
What I am trying to work out in my head is WHY American violence
always takes such a monotonous form. Perhaps Clemenceau found the
answer in what he alleged to be the American incapacity for ideas.
You would think with all that anarchy and violence and contempt for
everything, that political violence might be possible in America, yet it
apparently is not.
I am asking, I don’t know the answer, does anyone in the audience, in
visible audience, know the answer? You lynch the Negro, you glory in
the manhunt, but you are incapable of political violence. But the
degraded Finkelstein, coward and accomplice of murderers, accomplice
of the men responsible for the labor conditions on the Stalin canal, put
such utter swine in an official position, and Americans at once become
little Lord Fauntleroy.
The British poisoners have become sacred persons. The 5,000 members
of a wholly corrupt secret government get diplomatic passports and all is
suave and serene. Perhaps some of our college psychologists will
explain it.
The American has the head, evidently of a chicken, he is incapable of
political revery.
The existence of a secret and IRRESPONSIBLE government does not
worry him. It has been there at least since 1863 and he takes it as a
matter of course. It gets worse daily and hourly.