LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

There is a poem, not by me, back in Blast, about a mud hydro. That was
healthy mud, by comparison.
Then after I saw it was BAD, I began to wonder how you could fix it.
After ten year askin’ questions, askin’ 'em of Bank Lawyers, askin’ 'em
of Max Pam or any other wise guy I could git near to. After ten years, I
say, I began to get top sides with the subject. Usury, profits,
monopolization of money. Then I began diggin’ into American history,
and other history. All there plain as a biscuit. But the means of TELLIN
you people ? That was the question. Oh Hamlet. Oh village hamlets.
Big papers did NOT want open discussion—it had to be bootlegged.
Then there was “education” beginning with the top shelves of the
colleges. I am goin’ to quote from a paper with an equine title printed
out in Wisconsin. A little magazine, the kind that comes up alive and
dies down usually rather sudden, inside a couple of years. Along in the
Spring of 1935 I came up with this answer to those young editors in their
quarterly as follows:
The best I can do in reply to yours is to offer programs recalling a few
FACTS. For 30 years I have been trying to reorganize the study of
literature so that it would be of some use to the student, and for 15 I have
been trying to reorganize education, in general, to the same end.
The best I can tell you to date, is contained in my ABC of Reading and in
my ABC of Economics with the volumes following it, Social Credit, an
Impact; Jefferson and/or Mussolini (then in press).
Why aren’t they used as YOUR textbooks ? For advanced students,
there is my Make it New, which must be correlated with my ABC of
Reading if you are clearly to see what it is driving at.
If American students will recognize that Universities are there to prepare
students for life in a given country and in a given TIME, and insist on
finding out what will help them to LIVE in that place and time, they can