LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

hetoric. It is very easy for people to be swayed by cliché. No one is
immune from THAT danger. Least of all men who write in a hurry.
YOU are threatened. You are threatened by the Russian METHODS of
administration. Those methods are not theoretic. The theory of
Bolschevism has never constituted a danger to England. Mr. Churchill
knows quite as much about Bolshevik METHODS of administration as
anyone else. Mr. Churchill has in the past expressed himself quite clearly
on that subject. Nothing equivocal about Winston’s words when
referring to Russia under Bolshevik rule. The mass graves at Katyn
surprised NO one.
BUT the Russian system of administration in Iran, for example, is not
your sole danger. It is, in fact, so far from being your sole danger that I
have, in over two years of talk over this radio, possibly never referred to
it before.
Usury has gnawed into England since the days of Elizabeth. First it was
mortgages, mortgages on Earl’s estates; usury against the feudal nobility.
Then there were attacks on the common land, filchings of village
common pasture. Then there developed a usury system, an international
usury system, from Cromwell’s time, ever increasing. That system gave
you your slums. It brought in that civic leprosy that has made England a
byeword. It has taken the shock of this war, three years of war to jog
your memory, to bring your slums up again into headlines.
The usury system does NO nation good, it does no nation any good
whatsoever. It is an internal peril to him who hath, and it can make NO
use of nations in the play of international diplomacy save to breed strife
between them and use the worst as flails against the best.
It is the usurer’s game to hurl the savage against the civilized opponent.
The game is not pretty, it is not a very safe game. It does no one any
credit.