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Brann, the Iconoclast (2); A Collection of the Writings of W. C. Brann
Brann the Iconoclast A Collection of the Writings of W C Brann - 2 Author:William Cowper Brann Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: Pub. by Herz Bros. Subjects: Literary Collections / American / General Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there ... more »may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE AMERICAN SOVEREIGN. An Egotistical Ignoramus. The "able editor" and "prominent politician" are indulging a defenseless reading public with jejune speculations anent the salvation of the political feline next November. Predicting what the "American sovereign" will do with his vote half a year hence were much like standing in the vortex of chaos and betting on the phenomena -- or forecasting the result of turning a lot of lunatics loose on a country pregnant with opportunities for self-slaughter. We are wont to boast of our superior intelligence of the American sovereign, so-called, yet the fact must be patent to every man who hath eyes to see and a headpiece to understand the simplest social phenomena, that more than a moiety of the votes cast in this so-called enlightened land are but random shots into the darkness. It is safe to say that three out of five men who cast ballots at state and national elections, and thus, to a great extent, determine national polity and State policy, have no more idea of what they are doing than the automatons at a Punch and Judy show. Not one-half, not one-fourth of those good souls who are industriously huzzahing for Democracy or Republicanism, could, to save their supposed immortal souls, give a lucid explanation of the real difference existing between those "parties." Not one American sovereign in ten can explain wherein the so-called McKinley bill differs from the erstwhile Wilson bill. Y...« less