LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Toledo, that he was over here to get the full picture. The German
capitalists whom he was a cursin’ seem to me to be the very people who
went OUT of power in Germany. I mean I think that part of his speech is
out of date.
If you are trying to be fair, whatever facts you can heap up, I mean facts
not mere rumors, to support Mr. Welles’ thesis, you got to, I mean you
should if you aim at justice, you should take count of another set of facts
which I see as standing to total opposition to those Mr. Welles drug into
his foreground.
Every social amelioration, every clause of the homestead laws in
Germany, every act in Italy put thru [with] the intention of getting a
better life for the mass of the people, ought to be sacred.
I mean that part of the Nazi revolution and of the Fascist revolution.
Fascist revolution started it first, every part of that new social order,
which is the continuation of the strife for the rights of man, of OUR own
four revolutions, ought to be sacred. We ought to defend it, just as we
ought to defend habeas corpus, and our right to life, liberty and the rest
of it. No real liberty without economic liberty. And NO maintainable
liberty that does not recognize that the free man has DUTIES. That was
the bed rock of Mazzini’s sainthood, or the key to his quite impractical
historic opposition.
And when I cite “Liberty is not a right but a duty,” as I did the other day
to a young undersecretary, he opened up; he had been wondering what
sort of an animal he had in front of him. And he said: “Yes, THAT is the
real Mussolini.”
It is NO use puttin’ up false horizons. War is too serious. If war has a
use, it might be that it destroys false horizons. It never destroys
ENOUGH false horizons, and in the heat of the conflict other stage sets
are rigged up. Meet Europe, meet Mr. Europe. Something has happened