LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Yes, I know what the decent English are resistin’ and what they were
even ready to fight to resist. And if they had any clear headedness, that
would be dandy. They want their cultural heritage, they think the
English once had nice manners.
Well I was talkin’ to a friend of mine, and she was born with a name
sacr’d to every man who cares for poetry written in English, Rossetti.
And she said, “The worst manners come from people trying to be nasty
to people whom they consider inferior. Matter of class. And the Nazis
have wiped out that feeling, and wiped out bad manners in Germany.”
The New Europe goes ON NOW doing what American democracy, in
the clean sense of that word, started doin’ when it made a
DECLARATION of Independence, but failed to define all the words
used, or compromised on the wording, struck out Jefferson’s original
sentences about abolition of slavery, and for the sake of a vote, omitted
to specify that “equal” means equal in the courts of law, no man having
privilege over any other, to be let off certain penalties cause he was the
son of his papa, or had been to a university.
I told my rare and precious readers ten years ago that there was an ANTI
snob movement in Italy. Of course no one paid any attention to that
sentence, so I repeat it.
Some things you are learning 30 years late, some things 20 and ten
years. And in others you swallow goof like Mr. Donovan, Colonel
Donovan, or you merely get hooked with press lies contradicted two
days or ten days later. I have a weakness for newspaper writers, ever
since a fellow named Monsier turned up in London in 1915 or some
such, and later when there weren’t any new book writers, I took to my
newspaper colleague, who of course allus looked down on the outsider,
but a few of ’em were kindly and tolerant, regardin’ me as an amateur,
who didn’t menace their pay cheque. And I finally took to noticin’ the
waves of credulity that pass over ’em. They know that most of what