LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

thence centering the world trade in America, running the Asian trade to
Europe and the European trade to Asia via the U.S.A.
That was what the American acumen had charted in 1900, after the
victory of Pittsburgh Steel. That was the material base of America’s
chance for preeminence. NO monopoly, I said preeminence, in a world
system. Not the fool cluck idea of forcing the world into paying an
unjust price, of starving the earth in the interest of a few slobs of upper
Judea, but a collaboration in a world system wherein trade would follow
the easy courses. BECAUSE those trade routes could have undersold
other routes, because different goods lay at different termini. And the
U.S. lay in the middle. SO long as she collaborated with Tokyo. That is
what Frankie D. Roosevelt has foozied. He has cut off the trade with
Europe. He has cut off the trade with Asia.
America recedes into something like where she was in the days of T.
Jefferson. Larger, yes, larger: but not more powerful in proportion to the
world powers.
Three generations from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves. Mebbe you folks
will learn something BY it. Perforce constrained into thinking of
autarchy, into isolation. That Anglo kikes have failed to force upon
Europe. BUT which Europe had the foresight to provide for, and is
increasingly attaining.
A little decency would have kept the U.S. from error. An amount of
horse sense comparable to that reigning in the U.S. when Tom Edison
was a young man, when H. Ford was making his first automobiles.
Waaal, who would have thought that men of my age would ever have
thought of lookin’ back to the days of Wm. McKinley as a great and
brilliant American era? Days of American engineering preeminence and
of dollar diplomacy.