LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

an ecciesiast central; already corrupted, and fallen into the hands of a
banking family.
Religious base, no USE, that is written and proved over and over in
European history which you do ill to ignore. Church split into fragments
on one hand; and then any diplomatic representative of a foreign race
can SO easily go thru the motions of getting converted. Nothing new
about that and the thin veil of observance, torn off in a jiffy whenever it
seemed opportune even after centuries of pretending. No, no great hoax,
that of combatting on religious base. Simple-minded European
tribesmen fell for it, were weakened during about 1600 years, continual
attrition. Wonder we’re here at all. Must be something tough in
European and Mediterranean fibre.
As to effects on, let us take a test tube specimen, France. According to
some reckoning France had 38% of the population of the great powers in
Louis XIV’s time, 27% in 1789 and has 13% at present. I don’t know
just what powers are included in those figures, but on whatever
calculation it has been made, it indicates a DECLINE.
Anyhow, religious basis NO use. What CAN you organize on?
Can’t move ’em with a cold thing like economics. Marx advised fighting
on economic basis. I still meet people who fall for that bit of eminently
semitic strategy. For ONE HUNDRED years, simpletons and
inexperienced young men have tried AS, damn it, my friends, of a dozen
sects, economic sects; I tried ever since my kitten of mind got its eyes
half open. And what came of it? Five thousand in prison, Wörgl, Alberta.
Yes, yes, we lily-livered humanitarians fussed ’round wantin’ to cure the
evil by honest accountancy; and we did NOT prevent this war.
I think my most obtuse opponent, or my most enthusiastic opponent, or
Frankies’ most faithful UNhappy warrior Archie MacLeish will admit
that the reformers, the monetary reformers, the men who wanted honest