LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

the two Americans who lit up the horizon of American youth at the turn
of the century, and certainly some of his work will give joy to the elite as
long as the canvas or paper remains.
Whereas Chase was, in painting, the equivalent of Harper’s monthly
magazine, Chase returned to the American like Howells, but on one
occasion he disagreed with Jimmy, and on being kidded, he broke off: “I
won’t argue with you any longer.” To which Mr. Whistler with weary
patience: “But, Chase, I am NOT arguing with you. I am just telling
you.”
The Chinese have a more monumental exposition of the same theme: In
evil time the sage can enjoy his own wisdom; when the land is well
governed, the people benefit from his instructions.
Now apart from any national talents that I may or may not possess I
have, first in poesy, and then in economics, which is one of the
components of history, spent considerable more time and thought, and I
do enjoy or suffer a thirst for knowledge which is, to put it mildly, above
the common.
You are in a bloody mess. Bloody in more senses than that word has in
British jargon. You are in a bloody MESS. Who got you there? Why did
he do it? Does he know why he did it? Does he know HOW he dit it?
You have all of you been chicken-headed, frivolous, etc. You don’t even
know whether your various races of European origin will or CAN
survive on a continent that has seen the fade-out of Mayas and Aztecs.
And you have an ORGANIZED minority of a different race amongst
you. A race that never tires, a race possessed of subcrocodilian vitality.
And the lively lizard is “on this earth very antient” as huddy (W.H.
Hudson) remarks of the condor and other predatory foul of the Andes.
AXIOM. Against an organized force of four or more, probably EIGHT
million, a hundred individuals can NOT prevail until ORGANIZED. The