LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

like that. There is more of it. AND its value is mutable: and the need of
it or the want of it was declining, has in fact declined; could decline to
almost zero, no, not quite to zero, but to dental etc.
Well the answer was not to lower the price on the market but to put UP
the price, and to sell it to the American boobs, the great American
public, in what was probably the greatest gold brick wheeze of all time.
When the boobs have it all, the price will come down again rapidly as is
usual, when the boobs have obtained possession of anything, but during
the course of the present unpleasantness: old wheezes HAVE dwindled,
as the Virginia hot air conference showed. The sham about money
flopped. The wheeze of 60% interest has been ventilated. The wheeze of
varying the value of any national currency has at last had some publicity.
At the Hot Springs all the sham and the scenery fell, there was nothing
left but the stark evil desire to extort and monopolize. Flash lit from a
dozen capitals, “corner the world’s grain market,” said one Rome
commentator A half dozen voices from Berlin, at once denouncing the
swindle. AND also a few voices from England. Aware that the British
farmer will be better off if he has an INTERNAL market in England, at a
just price, for what he can grow.
But that is NOT in itself a desire for JUSTICE. That does not constitute
in itself a willingness to DO justice. It does not constitute in itself a
perception of justice. Let alone a will to support it, to support justice or
even to permit justice to others.
There was a murmer on the BBC air about unfairness; but it wasn’t of
unfairness extending outwards; it was a complaint that somebody had
said you hadn’t imperial confraternity, or solidarity. God knows you
have EXPLOITED Australian sentimentality about the mama country.
And probably will exploit it still further. That don’t mean that a new
Burke has risen amongst you. Row after row of pretenses has fallen, but
the sense of equity? What was at one time, or was at one time supposed