LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

get their four years’ worth. No body can do this for the students. They
have got to do it for themselves.
“Mark Hopkins on one end of the log, and the student on the other.”
When Abelard was kicked out of the University of Paris 5,000 students
followed him into the country, [where] there were no dormitories and
million dollar gymnasia. That is the sort of thing that spells “revival of
learning” or “intellectual rebirth.”
My generation was brought up ham ignorant of economics. History was
taught with OMISSIONS of the most vital facts. Every page our
generation read was over shadowed by usury. Not only was the press
false, but every current idea had been warped by generations of
antecedent perversion.
The ACID TEST of public men today is plain and simple. MISTRUST
any man, no matter how high in office who tries to get you AWAY from
the questions:
WHAT is money?
Who makes it?
How is it issued?
Why can’t the WHOLE people buy what the WHOLE people produces?
Start on that at once, and throw out any man who won’t give you a
straight answer. You can not cure Wisconsin in Pekin. I mean, start
where you are. Don’t let anyone wriggle out of LOCAL honesty, by
talking internationally. Investigate the Carnegie Peace Foundation.
When you find out why they avoid the study of the economic causes of
war, you’ll be part way toward preventing another.