LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

John Marmaduke is a pseudonym, the rest of the names in the Canto are
real. The MacMillan Commission sat after the other war to look into the
sins of the British Financial system.
Antoninus Pius, a Roman emperor; lex Rhodi the law of Rhodes, well I
say that in the Canto. The Latin phrase: Aurum est commune
sepulchrum, gold the common sepulchre. Parallels: Troy the common
grave, I think it is a part of a line by Propertius. But it don’t matter who
it is quoted from. And the Greek: helandros, kai heleptolis kai helarxe
[usary destroyer of] men and cities and governments. HELARXE more
or less twisted from a line of Aeschylus; about Helen of Troy destroyer
of men, and cities. Geryon, Geryone; allegorical beast in Dante’s hell,
symbol of fraud and all dirtiness. Hic Geryon est, is a Latin tag
meaning, with the other phrase, Hic hyperu sura: this is extra strong
usury. Super usury. All right, now I am going on with Canto 46.
XLVI
And if you will say that this tale teaches ...
a lesson, or that the Reverend Eliot
has found a more natural language ... you who think
you will
get through hell in a hurry ...
That day there was cloud over Zoagli
And for three days snow cloud over the sea
Banked like a line of mountains.
Snow fell. Or rain fell stolid, a wall of lines
So that you could see where the air stopped open
and where the rain fell beside it
Or the snow fell beside it. Seventeen
Years on this case, nineteen years, ninety years
on this case
An’ the fuzzy bloke sez (legs no pants ever wd. fit) ’IF
that is so, any government worth a damn can
pay dividends?’
The major chewed it a bit and sez: ’Y—es, eh ...
You mean instead of collectin’ taxes?’ ’
Instead of collecting taxes.’ That office?