LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

they want with peace? They might have been gettin’ twenty eight
dollar between ’em. TELL them, there will be a crisis in ten years’
time, and what of it?
That is undoubtedly the hinterland of several districts of the American
mind at this moment. Bitter experience of two wars. Well, I remember
the old Civil War veterans, the Grand Army of the Republic, settin’
’round the lobby of the old Mint in Philadelphia. Down there on
Chestnut Street with the front of a classic temple. Before it went up to
near Columbia Avenue, next to the Baldwin Locomotive Works, to be
just one more factory among factories. But nobody talked THEN about
the war that the United States LOST.
That is, I tell you, and I go on a tellin’ you THAT WAR that the U.S. lost
in 1863, and that was followed by the assassination of Lincoln. THAT
war is the war that you ought to be winning. Right now.
NOT after, not next to, not waitin’ till this war has destroyed the best
mosaics in Europe, and shot up a few hundred more or ten thousand
more school children, for the [sake] of getting’ a bonus. That was the
war FOR economic aggression, the war conducin’ to economic
oppression. And it got very little publicity, or rather it has had waning
and paling publicity. Calhoun said something about it. Lincoln knew that
it was in process. He said something about the internal enemy.
Now I think the U.S. has been hooked into sabotaging the clean forces of
Europe, just as the North was hooked into hostilities against the States
that stood out for state rights. I think Mr. Welles himself has been
hooked by propaganda. God knows he had a chance to see things in
Europe that perhaps I had not. I mean he had high and official contacts,
but he didn’t set ’round for so long. He came the last time, on a mission.
He learned, I mean he must have learned a number of things about
England, that were not confided to me, for example. And yet, I don’t
think he has the full picture. I never much thought, until his speech at