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LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

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DREADFUL man!” Seems like she had a cousin, that was manager, or<br />

editor, or managing editor of a paper called Pig and Piffle, I mean by its<br />

own staff in private. And it sold for a lot less than it cost, I mean it cost,<br />

let us say, ten pence a copy to print, and sold retail for a six pence, and<br />

turned over ten or twenty thousand a year in net profits.<br />

Anyhow, Nelly’s cousin died, and left his sons in Cripps’ charge, Cripps<br />

being trustee or guardian, so my memory of Stafford boils down to Miss<br />

Nelly a sayin’<br />

“A DREADFUL man! Heaven KNOWS what he is teaching the boys!”<br />

Waaal, if heaven didn’t know then, mebbe heaven will find out during<br />

the next few week’s course of hostilities.<br />

I mean internal hostilities. I don’t know that England learns from<br />

abroad. I dunno that the fall of Madras, or Calcutta will teach you folks<br />

anything, cause Hong Kong, Singapore and the Island Indies don’t seem<br />

to have started you. But mebbe a few INTERNAL hostilities ? Heaven<br />

knows!<br />

Back in Queen Elizabeth’s time, farmin’ out their estates to some usurer,<br />

gettin’ out of their feudal duties, Cobbett and Hobhouse—all sorts of<br />

velleities toward reform; confined to a few special segments. Lord, can<br />

you call ’em segments. They were mostly kind hearted fellows, thought<br />

to be CRANKS by the public.<br />

Can you have ANY collaboration if you don’t MEET ? How can you<br />

meet in a CITY, unless you are financed?<br />

Yaas, you can, or COULD meet on a street corner, or in by Mubble<br />

Arch, so long as you didn’t do anything SERIOUS.<br />

Ole Kun, Cohen, Béla was serious. People in Budapest found out he<br />

was serious. Mebbe Sir Stafford is SERIOUS. The bolo agents in

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