LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

toil more or less consecutively to ameliorate living conditions. They are
often considered impractical. Sometimes they get into office.
There are also in all countries destructive or heedless groups. Sometimes
heedless, sometimes almost malevolent. Now to the outer world the
American history of the past eighty years appears to be an uninterrupted
record of economic aggression on the part of the U.S. The U.S. is the
home town of the Rockefellers, Guggenheims, Morgans. The world has
had on its newspaper stalls the works of Zischka (I suppose he is a
Polish author). Anyhow he wrote the War for Oil, the War for Cotton,
etc. We have heard of the wars for commodities, and the war for GOLD.
We have heard much less of the secret war that the U.S. LOST in 1863,
while the boys in blue and the boys in grey were obligingly dying and
taking the spot light. Our Civil War was at that time a world record for
carnage. And both sides were vanquished. The control of the national
credit, control of the national currency, the national purchasing power,
passed RIGHT away from the people, and right out of the control of the
national, and responsible government.
That’s why many of Mr. Welles’ foreign auditors will think there is a
nigger in Mr. Welles’ woodshed.
Suddenly a coalition of the three most aggressive powers, economically
aggressive powers on earth put forth not an official statement, but a
statement by the most authoritative member of the State Department, to
the effect that economic aggression is after all a factor in causing wars,
and that to obtain a durable peace we must lay off it.
England, Mr. Welles tells us, is aggressive economically. The U.S. has in
the past been aggressive, Russia has made up for lost time, and been
extremely aggressive quite economically. It does sound to the European
almost as if Legs Diamond, or Billy the Kid, or Jesse James had
suddenly decided to change his habits. I mean economic aggression has