LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

B. Adams’ bright and enthusiastic view of America’s NEW EMPIRE
was based on America’s geographic position plus the invention (British
invention, let’s give ’em credit) of railways; and the oncoming canal thru
the Panama isthmus. The U.S. was to be the focus: the vortex of trade
movin’ economically from Asia to Europe.
England, as Brooks Adams saw, was declinin’ after 1897. Triumph of
Pittsburgh steel, exhaustion of British tin mines, etc. England, because
of her mental torpor and material circumstances, AND greater activity of
other nations in makin’ use of mechanic invention, England was on the
down, and the center of trade was a hurryin’ westward, to roost in
Manhattan.
BUT it was movin’ westward. The Japanese were a very brave people.
They were an active people. The British record in the Boer war was an
indication of whaar England was floppin’ to. The Japanese heroism at
Peony Mt. and at the Gemmu Gate had told the world the meaning of
Bushido. And the U.S. at the summit of her diplomacy had collaborated
with Tokyo in keeping the European powers out of the Chinese bonanza.
So what, In the days of your squalor. So what. America on the brink of
abundance. Loeb chart to show it. Prosperity round the corner. Land
flowin’ with milk and butter, no need for any American family to have
less than 4 or 5 thousand a year. Not with a sane money system, and so
on. What does your prize pig of a President do ON you? He cuts off the
trade with the Orient. He cuts off the trade with Europe. What is the
answer?
France in 1900 was already eccentric, commercially that is, eccentric;
off the central line of the main traffic. England is off there like a postage
stamp. An island, Denmark, OFF the main short line of traffic. And the
U.S. is NOT in the center. Geographically the position is unchanged,
BUT the trade is NOT passin’ thru the great American landways and
waterways. The U.S. faces the bumsides of both continents. Back to