LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

I dunno that they have yet learned ANYTHING. Some of the old horse
and buggy ways HAVE been jolted, by three years of conflict. But
Vandenberg mayn’t have heard of it. Bridges may not have heard of it.
They may not yet know that Mark Hanna is dead.
My view was and IS that the cabinet should be the school for the
executive. That system worked under Jefferson, the only thing I have
against Jackson is that he had a theoretical notion against it which
merely led Van Buren to desist from the cabinet long enough to qualify
for the succession. Useless formality. An executive OUGHT to have
some sort of executive training. No place like the cabinet for providin’ it.
Businessmen’s government, NUTS. Mercantilist or usurious mind is NO
good for any problem dealin’ with the whole nation. Hence use of
LEGAL minds in formin’ governments. At least [they] have some sense
of law, as something for the whole state, the whole of society.
Only man who ever raised any real objection to Gesell in argument with
me puzzled me bit. He had arguments that comptrollers and cabinet
ministers had not raised. He puzzled me. I had to think it out. Answer
was, he represented a sort of shareholders union. He was looking at the
whole show from point of view of a section of the community, NOT as
to how it would effect the whole nation, the whole society congeries.
Man spends his whole life thinking how he can welsh a profit out of the
public, produce more, regardless, I mean regardless of anything. Even
thinking how to produce a good article, well, that is better. What
happens to THEM. Get confiscated. BY the profiteer’s, racketeers in the
government in favor of Kaiser’s coffins.
Mr. Williams gave me some space in Greenwich Time, not that he is to
be implicated in my present opinions. But he might take up that idea
about the CABINET on his own. I believe a man fit to be President
ought to SEE his way to having a CABINET, and his party ought to see
his way to having a cabinet, and WHAT kind of cabinet, before the