LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

component. Wars rise from commercial competition, BUT to have that
competition, down under it is the production, production system.
That is what Brooks Adams was not writing about. God knows he had
enough to write about. Enough history that hadn’t been sorted out in
men’s minds, in ANY man’s mind. Over and above the books I have
mentioned at the start of this talk are the actual papers of statesmen.
John Adams and Van Buren and so on. Woodward suggests that the
explanation of the Adams family is to be found in glandular secretions. I
would say mebbe it was due to John Adams, the founder of the line,
gettin’ spliced to Abigail Quincy, that might explain some of that
problem. However, one point that Brooks Adams more or less passes by
is noted by Woodward and will do to fill in the chink of the story. Just to
keep from introducin’ Europe, and foreign systems, topics on which you
run ravin’ mad out of prejudice. Will you note that John Quincy Adams
and Henry Clay worked out in theory what was called the AMERICAN
system? Meaning that the U S was to be self supportin’. At a time when
there was one party, [the] idea was broached that all sections of the
country were to be harmonized, North East to develop manufacturing,
supported by protective tariff to keep out European competition; and that
the industrial towns would provide a market for the agricultural products
of the West and South; and the rural sections would provide customers
for goods produced by the factories. Nothing in it that is not plain
commonsense. Of course most American prosperity rose from the
application of those ideas, partial application. But still the good life in
America has been due to ’em.
Well now Europe has GOT that idea. There is nothing fancy or new
about THAT idea. It is just horse sense and intelligence. BUT it don’t
produce war. It don’t produce gallopin’ usury. It is not romantic enough
for the sheenies. And you will never understand American history or the
history of the Occident durin’ the past 2000 years unless you look at one
or two problems; namely, sheenies and usury. One or the other or
BOTH, I should say, both.