LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Damn [it] all, I seem to be gittin’ moral. Well, what about it? Be
scientific, HOW much pizin’ can the national body stand?
That question can be put scientifically, just as well as puttin’ it in a
hortatory form, or asking what is nice, or what ought a decent man do.
No man will do anything WORTH doin’ till some sense of “OUGHT”
enters his system. Profit motive is silly, in the sense that it ultimately
kills the good life; makes the mare go, yass, makes the mare go, money
makes the mare go. And then somebody wakes up crazy. And that takes
JUST long enough, so nobody notices what is going on. Suddenly wake
up and find American abundance has been chucked out of the window.
Ten billion here, ten billion there, and then ease has departed, and sailors
don’t care.
Saxony under the Kings of Poland had emitted bonds, Slauer that had
fallen to 35%, reimburse ’em at par. The Congressmen who voted for
assumption invented nothing, they were just being dirty. And all of ’em
ought to have been shot. It’s a long list. Tunis bonds. These particular
kinds of swindle weren’t invented in the new United States of America
during the times of the early Congressional sessions. Just small town
stuff, provincial villainy. Should we keep on after 160 years? Does it
show political development?
What the United States lacks under the Morgenthau infamy is any sense
that dirty swindles bring misery to thousands of people, hundreds of
thousands, that we have risked something more than mere comfort.
My time is about up for this session.
Ezra Pound speakin’.
And of course, you ought NOT to be in this war. Even to cover up the
gross failure of the Administration to govern the United States of
America, let alone fixing up the affairs of Europe and Asia.