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210 THIS DIFFICULT INDIVIDUAL
biological level at which human beings can conceive of the existence
of such a thing as honor, the liar would go out over the steps
of the American Capitol and commit hara-kiri, to atone for the
evils he has wrought upon the American people."
April 9, 1942. Indecision:
"Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the
American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their
representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to
determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers
have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite
decided law. . . . Now the point at which embezzlement of the
nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can
probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked
judges hired to support illegality.
". . . The stock broker is not my ideal. He is not a sport.
A poker player plays with his own money. If he loses, he loses.
A man who buys a lottery ticket takes his chances with the other
purchasers of lottery tickets. Neither of them gambles with the
purse of the people. It's the old contempt for others, but a long
way back, there was still some perception of ethics and men were
supposed to look at the consequences of their act, before thinking
they were being both honest and clever. 2
". . . The danger to the United States as a system of government
is not from Japan but from jury."
Apparently Pound means from the "juridical" in this instance,
as he earlier cited "hand-picked judges hired to support illegality."
This is an interesting prediction in view of the postwar decisions of
the Supreme Court. Numerous bills have since been introduced in
Congress to limit the power of the judges to "make law".
April 13, 1942. Question of Motive:
"I do not expect perfect and complete comprehension of these
discourses on the part of all of my audience. I should be content
if I get over one point of what I am driving at and why I am
driving. For over thirty years I have been driving at some of
these objectives, the same objectives. I thought in 1908 and before