LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

such affairs. My father still has 80 year-old cousins living I take it on
claims in Montana They do not represent the majority life of America.
But Jackson’s land policy was called DEMocratic. The New Europe is in
that sense DEMociatic, and if you folks rush out to SMASH this New
Europe history will NOT give you ANY medals whatever for saving
DEMocracy.
Italy does NOT confiscate the farmers’ crop. I have seen that lie along
with 200 others. Italy has not set up Utopia in XIX years, but the farmer
here knows he will be paid for what he grows. He knows what he will be
paid for it. Nobody will get an option on it and grab excess profits. Get it
quite firmly in mind that war mongers are asking you to prevent and
smash this idea of a solid and clean well built house with land for each
family. Look into it before you decide to go out and die for something or
other, without quite knowing what.
Let me remind you that Brooks Adams was seen shortly before his
death, an old man of 80 in running shorts and sweater, pulling the
weights in the gym of the Boston Athletic Club and prophesying a 30
years’ war, an IDEO LOGICAL war. And let me remind you that the
notion of ideological wars is FORWARD, not backward. Our American
forebears, given an empty continent, sketched in a civilization. Rough
draft without very great attention to detail. Settlers rushed onto the land,
they had hunger, land hunger, each man to be free: Free of RENT, free
of mortgage. Reflection came later. A new idea rises in Europe, it is not
confined to the continent. You can not confine it. No amount of postal
thieves, censors, examiners, can smash it or swush it. There arises the
idea that a man may own all he can use. But that he may not own what
he can’t use. And especially he may not use this surplus to starve his
neighbor, he may not prevent farmer Jones selling his corn. The
millionaire may NOT rush in and undersell Jones till he has ruin’d him,
taken a mortgage on Jones’ farm, turned out Jones’ children the day the
interest isn’t paid to the full. I will get round in time to the flimflam of a