LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

can put the blame on the climate. Well the U.S. hasn’t the fog-bound
excuse, there is clear air. Arizona and Nebraska. Why muddle, why
muddle any longer, why grovel before your bond-holders? And why, on
the other hand, be buffaloed by the half-baked idiot who says there
ought to be NO stock that pays interest on productive investment, by
which I mean share holding, sharing in [a] proper sense, SHARIN’ in the
fruits of labor and design combined into industry. Why be bolshevised,
that is, hoaxed, into thinking every man ought to be a lavatory attendant?
There are resources of American production, or at least there WERE,
before Roosevelt canned ’em. Before ALL useful effort, or half the
national income, or whatever you hoaxers call it, should be turned into
making tank for Chiang Kai-Shek that he can’t get because your air
force ain’t strong enough to tote them over the N. Pole BY AIR.
Naturally IF all or most the American production effort is turned into
making munitions to be sunk on the high seas, there will be LESS
production of American comfort. Mince pies will have less proper
ingredients, short cake will run short, and strawberries rise in price on
the internal market. You will be told: yes, we have no bananas, sweet
potatoes, or even cabbage.
Mebbe the Americans of European origin and of African origin for that
matter ought to leave N.Y., leave Manhattan Island, retire to the
American mainland, and make the cloak and suit trade pay for its eggs
and spinach.
But the world’s thought goes marchin’ on. No Lenin’s body, no cubic
mausoleum, all that is old stuff. You ought to wake up and listen. I mean
listen to something BETTER, and can the shysters; turn out the pikers
and shysters, and at least put a dent in your ignorance. I am willing to
believe in the existence of Christians. I have met very few. I know one
obstinate Christian, obstinate from sheer ignorance, but with rather less