LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

#8 (February 10, 1942) U.S.(A69)
THE STAGE IN AMERICA
Well perhaps I won’t stick to my title very closely, but to start off with,
when I was in New York a while back I saw Katharine Cornell in a play,
that was a bit soft, and the little sermon she gave from the stage, not
quite part of the piece sounded THEN a bit sentimental. I have no doubt
that vague language is used on both sides of the present discussion. We
can’t all be stylists.
I am chasm’ the METHOD of war scares, the method used for gettin’
people worked into hysteria. And part of it, is attackin’ one wrong,
appealin’ to the soft heart and then by false dilemma offering the hearer
a bit of sheer buncombe, i.e., offering him an alternative and doing a hat
trick to make him think it is the ONLY alternative; false dilemma, you
call that in a logic class.
Thus with the stink of Russia NO ONE with any thought in Europe or
North or South America believes in the abolition of ownership of every
thing.
East Europe and North America believe in the homestead, from A to Z,
and from bedrock to roof tree the American people believe in the
homestead.
The members of the floating population, to which the top crust has been
REDUCED, are beliefless, they got no belief, they want this, that or
tother, tinsel and limelight. The young, I ain’t the first to notice it, the
young WANT this, that, or tother, often they want something different
over two weeks. The stronger ones CIT it. After they git to be fifty, a
few of ’em try to see what all the fuss was about.
Lord knows j’ai roulée ma bosse. I wanted metropolitan life, etc. But
you can’t run a whole state or nation on the predilections of a few