LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

The ashes of his fathers
and the temples of his gods? [Thomas B. Macaulay]
Those also are something worth fightin’ for. Great odds were NOT
against you in 1939. Nothing threatened your welfare.
You are NOT fighting for the bonnie blue eyes of old England. That
much is at least, and at last pretty clear. England is getting indebted. She
WAS indebted. She is now MORE so. Do YOU get anything out of it? I
think most of you do not, and will not. You most certainly did not, last
time. If Mr. Hopkins is to be believed, you are already constricted, and
Harry hopes you will be more so.
Sadism is one form of mania. Do you NOTICE it, in particular cases,
does it appear amongst ye, in any PARTicular instance?
Have you by contrast ever known a single case in which a mortgage did
any positive GOOD to a farm? Have you ever known a case in which a
debt benefited the debtor? In which the necessity to pay some interest
per month or per year on a loan was of any positive use to the borrower?
And if your personal interest payments on a loan or a mortgage
exceeded your income, would it help you to sleep and eat? Your allies,
the English, had the edge on you some years ago, but they are NOT very
intelligent. Some of you see a net gain in things, mostly territory that
used to be English, and that seems likely to belong to the U.S.A.
someday, if somebody don’t take it from you. It don’t strike me that
anybody in Europe ever had any intention of takin’ it from you. But then
there is Asia. Russia is largely in Asia. Russia and Japan are NOT at this
moment at war.
Mr. Wallace foresees danger of war with Russia unless Stalin will eat
angel cake and give you the icing. Mr. Stalin once spoke harshly of loan
Kapital. He once upbraided the Czarist regime with having spent a lot of
Russian blood in the interest of the loan sharks of Paris and London.