LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Nobody in 200 years of American history ever got poisoned by soda
crackers. Hygiene is a— —on the unessentials. Oh yes, a few ounces of
real stuff somewhere in the hygienic wrapping. The nation’s booze bill
and tobacco bill, the campaign seven years ago against alcohol and
tobacco. There has never been a campaign against good wine in Europe,
not so’s you’d notice.
Artificial demand. Ruin of the nest. Ruin of the quality for sake of the
profit. Raw nations, uncivilized, in the deep sense of the word. Contrast.
No can— —said the old Chinese silk merchant to the traveller who
wanted to know why a certain bolt of silk was so expensive.
I bought some myself in London in 1914 of an old firm; three lots, three
different kinds for three pairs of pajamas. Result, one pair went with the
first washing, I kicked and got it replaced. Second lot lasted normal time
or a bit over. The third pair, I’ve got six of them left now, after 29 years.
What I am getting at is that we, as of Shakespeare, all the quality in the
product pre-date the advertising— —which is at— —, an attack on the
just price. I know it isn’t a hundred percent attack on the just price, but if
by any miracle two percent of the American spirit, or six men in
Congress would start thinking things out from the bottom up, you might
even discover Europe and know what is going on here in Europe.
German revolution, a revolt of the— —brothel against the— —.
American mammas have not thought of it that way. And the intelligent
— —has had 150 years of propaganda for the— —. Disguised as
romantic literature and disguised because of a falsification. At first the
Romantic literature was something sane. Then it got rotten. It began with
a return to nature. Purity of nature is against the rottenness of artificial
society. How come it went rotten? Oh, one thing leads to another. False
standards of puritanism lead to revolt, quite properly.