LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

the AVERAGE American listener. When I was wonderin’, the American
press men left Rome; I was wonderin’ if anybody listened to what I said
on Rome Radio and an experienced well broken journalist said: don’t
worry, there’ll always be some fellow in a newspaper office sitten there,
trying to get something for his column or something.
Debt is the prelude to slavery. And you are now, I ’spose, arrived at the
intermezzo. America WAS promises. America today is largely, shall we
say, promissory notes that simply can NOT be honored. Britain’s debts
in the last war—who paid ’em? Oh, some of ’em didn’t get paid.
England in 1935 [was] a bankrupt trying to live by the lending of money.
But, brother, England in 1939 was inhabited exclusively by millionaires.
In comparison to what England is today under Churchill; and still
spending her treasures. Still losing bits of her empire. No, no, your
DEBTS will not be paid by England, nor by the French Jews headed by
Jewsieur de Gaulle. And your debts: oh yes, you have some. One
hundred billyum dollars unless some of your radio voices exaggerated.
Well, has anyone offer’d to PAY those debts FOR you?
The pressure to increase hours of labor IN the U.S. of A., where
prosperity was just ’round the corner. Am I to believe that you no longer
have complete liberty to eat and to use automobiles? Some of the reports
from the U.S.A. seem exaggerated; but in a country that swallowed
Morgenthau’s reports of the goings on of the American treasury: what
CAN be exaggerated?
One point for this evening. One point that the most humble citizen’s
political responsibility can stretch to. You, I mean YOU, can doubt the
intelligence, or shall we be forced to say, the sincerity, of any speaker
who uses the word freedom in any context where ECONOMIC freedom
is not implicit in the meaning of his whole sentence or discourse.
Without freedom from DEBT, there is NO total freedom; there is no
condition that can be called freedom save for the purposes of
babboozling the auditor or the elector. That is the primary lesson for the