LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

I can’t believe the sons or descendents of the Massachusetts colony, the
Connecticut colony, or even the sons of Rhode Island really want to
PAY two dollars for every dollar spent by the government. I feel sure
Alabama doesn’t. Nor does Nebraska, nor Kansas, nor Idaho, nor
Wyoming.
I am sorry this question of industrial silver has come up so soon after the
arrival of Sassoon in America. I wonder if you have mortgaged any of
your silver mines to him. I wonder if you have, or had, swapped a few of
’em to him for some of his hop joints, opium smokeries in Singapore
and Shanghai, just a bit before the Japanese got so active.
Of course industrial use is the future of silver. As for gold it is a bit
heavy to use copper-bottomin’ in boats with, and said to be a soft metal.
I s’pose they’ll find some kind of alloy that will harden it up into sothing
useful … some day … and plenty of people still wearin’ it inside their
faces. But porcelain is more in fashion for high class dentist’s work in
most countries.
EZRA Pound speaking. Why did you get into this war?
#57 (July 19, 1942) U. K. (B73)
JULY 16TH, AN ANNIVERSARY
Several thousands of people in England may recall where they spent the
evening of July 16th in the far off and happy year of 1939. In fact only
three years ago, the British world bore a different aspect. And of the
thousands [who] remember that evening, a few may be fortunate enough
to be able to hear the reminder. A. British patriot was offering them in
the midst of the world’s most prosperous empire, a patriot was offering
them FOUR points of sanity. And the text was “A Million Britons shall
not die in a Jew’s quarrel.” To defend Britain it was not necessary to
intervene in every Balkan problem. Britain could be strong enough to
defend herself WITHOUT entangling alliances in Eastern Europe, I