LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

to be your sense of equity? Has it been lost, mislaid or stolen? And if
stolen, by whom?
Part II
10 Miscellaneous Scripts
#111 (early 1941)
HOMESTEADS
What will remain from this struggle is an idea. What spreads and will
spread from the determination to have a New Europe is an idea: the idea
of a home for every family in the country. The idea that every family in
the country shall have a sane house, and that means a house well built,
with no breeding space for tuberculosis bugs. I have seen the details of
some of these houses. It means that every family’s house will have land
enough, fields enough to support the family. It means that these houses
will not be burdened with mortgages. They will be inalienable, and
indivisible. The eldest son if he likes, or at any rate one son or daughter
will keep the farm, but above all the farmer will be guaranteed a sale for
his crop AT A PRICE that will cover his needs.
You may have heard that Andy Jackson OPENED the American lands to
the settlers. As against John Quincy Adams who had what might be
called a more communist idea, not that he was read, but he wanted at
least some land reserved to the nation and its proceeds used for schools,
and more highfalutin’ branches of education. He was “out of time.”
Jackson beat him. Jackson’s policy was a bit sketchy. American
homesteads in great part passed into great estates very quickly grazing in
place of farms etc , etc. My grandmother and great grandmother lived on
claims, land claims. The boys of 20 in New York now know very little of