LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

It’s not my period, and some specialist in English history may correct
me, but that is what I recall of the charter. It is the STATE of the manor
that mattered to me as an observer of England. Some of the best pictures
had been sold, the library was not in working order, there had been some
restoration, about Walpole’s time, I should imagine, but the ECONomic
system of THAT time hadn’t permitted FULL restoration. What had been
done when England had far LESS money, was not to be done; and now
the place, that OUGHT to have been a center of life, that would have
housed 80 guests splendidly was as far from action as you might say
Carcassonne or St. Bertrand de Cominges. Then, we drove some miles
across country for tennis, and an amiable man explained to me how
hound’s feet ought to be formed.
I asked something about a hound in a sportin’ print or perhaps it was a
water color of the— —sportin’ print period, and he said the hound was,
as I recall it, a bit long in the pasterns, if that is the word. And all of this,
as far as it was ALIVE is, I suppose, what Sir P. Gibbs was upholdin’ in
his liberal way. In 1938 and before that. But as an economist, I say god
damn, here you have the scene, you have the SHELL of the plant (to use
a commercial term), you have the perfect setting. You have the
OUTSIDE of the picture, and you go on from decade to decade, for
hundred years or more years, eating the VITALITY out of it. And this is
the work of the USURY system, you have done that with the adoration
of PROFITS, you have done that with SLOP in your politics, and the
JEWS have NOT saved you. Whatever they have done, they have not
saved you and they have not helped you to SAVE IT. And by IT I mean
all of your welfare. I mean all of your yeomanry. Jew Rothschild and his
fellow Jew Goldsmid and his fellow Christian Baring have NOT helped
you to save it.
And I now ask you and Sir Philip WHAT CAUSES that? I will leave one
of the regular lecturers here in Rome to talk to you of slums that he
knows better than I do. I will merely ask about a FEW rural scenes in
England. What caused ’em? Or a few friends from the English country,