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LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

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was more or less agricultural. Method of geographic division O.K. when<br />

many people were engaged in growing the crops of one sort or another,<br />

and the seaboard in tradin’, and fishin’.<br />

Rough sections still kept in the United States but no one havin’ any say<br />

now, but the banks and the Warburgs. People who FEED the lot always<br />

voted down by the RULERS. Naive blokes, populist, subject to<br />

caricature. All lead up to GUILD organization.<br />

Which does NOT appeal to abject NON-producers. Does not appeal to<br />

exploiters, that is the rub. Early socialists were boneheaded; didn’t dig<br />

down into problem of money.<br />

I dunno how far you now KNOW what the same men took twenty years<br />

tellin’ you, and that your press took those same twenty years keepin’<br />

from you.<br />

Even supposin’ you do NOW begin to see something, how are you going<br />

to GIT OUT of your present trilemma ? If SOME Englishmen could see<br />

where England’s course was leading back before this war started more of<br />

them ought by now to be seeing it, seeing that Singapore is no longer<br />

called by that name. What was the Sassoonery is now Shonanko. How<br />

do you save your homes ? Revolution behind the scenes in the palace ?<br />

A group of officers of the Army ? Or guild formation ? Movement<br />

coming up from the mines or the land?<br />

You can NOT eat minerals, and then HEROES ? The reformers all used<br />

to take it so easy. The new bright world was to be arranged over the tea<br />

cups. Why DIDN’T you settle it over the tea cups ? DID any one care<br />

for England enough to rattle the teaspoons, or risk cracking a saucer ?<br />

AND now your politicians talk of CONDUCT of the war. Don’t you<br />

realize that the only men with brains enough to conduct a war are the<br />

men who foresaw what the war would be; the men who tried to keep you<br />

OUT of it, and who would now try to CONDUCT you out if it ? You

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