LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

A ruined Europe gives you no market. A ruined England will give no
market to the new usury control.
Systems grow rotten and die. You have thrown Poland, had thrown half
of Poland, to Russia, not in any attempt to save Poland. With the new
Russia you have no longer any need of that particular dagger thrust into
Germany’s vitals. Russia constitutes a quite sufficient counterpoise to
German force, now that they have a common frontier.
Let me interrupt myself at this point, to be perfectly clear as to my own
convictions. EVERY social reform that has gone into effect in Germany
and Italy should be defended. And the best men in England know that as
well as I do. The time of calumny is past, and its passing should be seen
very clearly. It should be seen very clearly IN England. Colonial empires
should be administered by those nations who can best TEACH how such
empires can and should be administered. That sentence perhaps needs a
whole talk to itself.
The usury system rots the earth. It is a malady dangerous to ALL people.
As your own slums can testify. The usury system has ruined millions of
poor devils in England just as it has brought misery to millions in India.
And that system is shifting its central. That shift represents NO gain to
your American allies. It merely means an increase of vigor, it means a
new and more violent infraction of America’s 120 millions, and that
infection will do YOU no good. Your middle class will be engulfed,
London will feel the blow as Vienna felt the blow after the last war. That
is to say, the glitter of scum, the feverish distribution of tidbits among a
privileged few, and among the art world surrounding “society” will
decline.
The nomadic parasites will shift out of London and into Manhattan. And
this will be presented under a camouflage of national slogans. It will be
represented as an American victory. It will not be an AMERICAN
victory. The moment is serious. The moment is also confusing. It is