LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

economic system. Only it isn’t. It is the ADMINISTRATIVE BASE, the
material base is the raw stuff and the labor.
Brooks Adams was the mercantilist philosopher, or theorist, or better say
ANALYST, analyzer of mercantilist materialist process. Possibly the
most distinguished mind that ever tackled the subject. He saw a great
chance for the U.S.A. IF the U.S.A. kept awake and observed the
general laws of mercantile progress. Natural flow of goods by the easiest
routes (easiest routes ought to be cheapest and ARE the cheapest save
when the usurer or blackmailer intervenes).
BUT Brooks Adams observed that after Waterloo the mercantilist had
got the push and that usury reigned; blackmailing the terrestrial universe.
I want to separate in your minds the mercantilist administrative basis of
an economic order, and the accountancy, the tricks played with bits of
paper: bank ledgers, engraved certificates. You can’t understand the dirty
deal that has been put over you till you can keep those two things clear
in your minds.
And you have got the gold damndest ASS of a government in
Washington that ever the American people was called on to suffer from.
Eastern idea about money, said Bankhead of that saddistic slob in the
White House. Down on his knees every morning adoring the usury
system, saying his prayers to the usury system, maintaining six sorts of
racket for bleedin’ the American people. That had been going on for
some time. Mess of bleedin’ by gold. Mess of bleeding the American
people by silver, and then to war. The major ineptitude, the cutting of
trade with the Orient, the cutting of trade to the European continent, the
blackmailing of South America, and the dry pie crust left of French
Africa.
Well, the French were NOT the world’s star, the cynosure, best admired
model when it come to colonial empire. You are not taking on a perfectly