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It Can't Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
Chapter 17
Like beefsteak and potatoes stick to your ribs1 even if you're working your head off, so the words of the Good Book stick by you in perplexity and tribulation2. If I ever held a high position over my people, I hope that my ministers would be quoting, from II Kings, 18; 31 & 32: "Come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig3 tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern4, until I come and take you away to a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil and honey, that ye may live and not die."
Zero Hour, Berzelius Windrip.
Despite the claims of Montpelier, the former capital of Vermont, and of Burlington, largest town in the state, Captain Shad Ledue fixed5 on Fort Beulah as executive center of County B, which was made out of nine former counties of northern Vermont. Doremus never decided6 whether this was, as Lorinda Pike asserted, because Shad was in partnership7 with Banker R. C. Crowley in the profits derived8 from the purchase of quite useless old dwellings9 as part of his headquarters, or for the even sounder purpose of showing himself off, in battalion10 leader's uniform with the letters "C.C." beneath the five-pointed11 star on his collar, to the pals12 with whom he had once played pool and drunk applejack, and to the "snobs13" whose lawns he once had mowed14.
Besides the condemned15 dwellings, Shad took over all of the former Scotland County courthouse and established his private office in the judge's chambers16, merely chucking out the law books and replacing them with piles of magazines devoted18 to the movies and the detection of crime, hanging up portraits of Windrip, Sarason, Haik, and Reek19, installing two deep chairs upholstered in poison-green plush (ordered from the store of the loyal Charley Betts but, to Betts's fury, charged to the government, to be paid for if and when) and doubling the number of judicial20 cuspidors.
In the top center drawer of his desk Shad kept a photograph from a nudist camp, a flask21 of Benedictine, a .44 revolver, and a dog whip.
County commissioners24 were allowed from one to a dozen assistant commissioners, depending on the population. Doremus Jessup was alarmed when he discovered that Shad had had the shrewdness to choose as assistants men of some education and pretense25 to manners, with "Professor" Emil Staubmeyer as Assistant County Commissioner23 in charge of the Township of Beulah, which included the villages of Fort Beulah, West and North Beulah, Beulah Center, Trianon, Hosea, and Keezmet.
As Shad had, without benefit of bayonets, become a captain, so Mr. Staubmeyer (author of Hitler and Other Poems of Passion--unpublished) automatically became a doctor.
Perhaps, thought Doremus, he would understand Windrip & Co. better through seeing them faintly reflected in Shad and Staubmeyer than he would have in the confusing glare of Washington; and understand thus that a Buzz Windrip--a Bismarck--a Cæsar--a Pericles was like all the rest of itching26, indigesting, aspiring27 humanity except that each of these heroes had a higher degree of ambition and more willingness to kill.
By June, the enrollment28 of the Minute Men had increased to 562,000, and the force was now able to accept as new members only such trusty patriots30 and pugilists as it preferred. The War Department was frankly31 allowing them not just "expense money" but payment ranging from ten dollars a week for "inspectors33" with a few hours of weekly duty in drilling, to $9700 a year for "brigadiers" on full time, and $16,000 for the High Marshal, Lee Sarason . . . fortunately without interfering34 with the salaries from his other onerous35 duties.
The M.M. ranks were: inspector32, more or less corresponding to private; squad36 leader, or corporal; cornet, or sergeant37; ensign, or lieutenant38; battalion leader, a combination of captain, major, and lieutenant colonel; commander, or colonel; brigadier, or general; high marshal, or commanding general. Cynics suggested that these honorable titles derived more from the Salvation39 Army than the fighting forces, but be that cheap sneer40 justified41 or no, the fact remains42 that an M.M. helot had ever so much more pride in being called an "inspector," an awing43 designation in all police circles, than in being a "private."
Since all members of the National Guard were not only allowed but encouraged to become members of the Minute Men also, since all veterans of the Great War were given special privileges, and since "Colonel" Osceola Luthorne, the Secretary of War, was generous about lending regular army officers to Secretary of State Sarason for use as drill masters in the M.M.'s, there was a surprising proportion of trained men for so newly born an army.
Lee Sarason had proven to President Windrip by statistics from the Great War that college education, and even the study of the horrors of other conflicts, did not weaken the masculinity of the students, but actually made them more patriotic45, flag-waving, and skillful in the direction of slaughter46 than the average youth, and nearly every college in the country was to have, this coming autumn, its own battalion of M.M.'s, with drill counting as credit toward graduation. The collegians were to be schooled as officers. Another splendid source of M.M. officers were the gymnasiums and the classes in Business Administration of the Y.M.C.A.
Most of the rank and file, however, were young farmers delighted by the chance to go to town and to drive automobiles47 as fast as they wanted to; young factory employees who preferred uniforms and the authority to kick elderly citizens above overalls48 and stooping over machines; and rather a large number of former criminals, ex-bootleggers, ex-burglars, ex-labor49 racketeers, who, for their skill with guns and leather life-preservers, and for their assurances that the majesty50 of the Five-Pointed Star had completely reformed them, were forgiven their earlier blunders in ethics51 and were warmly accepted in the M.M. Storm Troops.
It was said that one of the least of these erring52 children was the first patriot29 to name President Windrip "the Chief," meaning Führer, or Imperial Wizard of the K.K.K., or Il Duce, or Imperial Potentate53 of the Mystic Shrine54, or Commodore, or University Coach, or anything else supremely55 noble and good-hearted. So, on the glorious anniversary of July 4, 1937, more than five hundred thousand young uniformed vigilantes, scattered56 in towns from Guam to Bar Harbor, from Point Barrow to Key West, stood at parade rest and sang, like the choiring seraphim57:
"Buzz and buzz and hail the Chief,
And his five-pointed sta-ar,
The U.S. ne'er can come to grief
With us prepared for wa-ar."
Certain critical spirits felt that this version of the chorus of "Buzz and Buzz," now the official M.M. anthem58, showed, in a certain roughness, the lack of Adelaide Tarr Gimmitch's fastidious hand. But nothing could be done about it. She was said to be in China, organizing chain letters. And even while that uneasiness was over the M.M., upon the very next day came the blow.
Someone on High Marshal Sarason's staff noticed that the U.S.S.R.'s emblem59 was not a six-pointed star, but a five-pointed one, even like America's, so that we were not insulting the Soviets60 at all.
Consternation61 was universal. From Sarason's office came sulphurous rebuke62 to the unknown idiot who had first made the mistake (generally he was believed to be Lee Sarason) and the command that a new emblem be suggested by every member of the M.M. Day and night for three days, M.M. barracks were hectic63 with telegrams, telephone calls, letters, placards, and thousands of young men sat with pencils and rulers earnestly drawing tens of thousands of substitutes for the five-pointed star: circles in triangles, triangles in circles, pentagons, hexagons, alphas and omegas, eagles, aeroplanes, arrows, bombs bursting in air, bombs bursting in bushes, billy-goats, rhinoceri, and the Yosemite Valley. It was circulated that a young ensign on High Marshal Sarason's staff had, in agony over the error, committed suicide. Everybody thought that this hara-kiri was a fine idea and showed sensibility on the part of the better M.M.'s; and they went on thinking so even after it proved that the Ensign had merely got drunk at the Buzz Backgammon Club and talked about suicide.
In the end, despite his uncounted competitors, it was the great mystic, Lee Sarason himself, who found the perfect new emblem--a ship's steering64 wheel.
It symbolized65, he pointed out, not only the Ship of State but also the wheels of American industry, the wheels and the steering wheel of motorcars, the wheel diagram which Father Coughlin had suggested two years before as symbolizing66 the program of the National Union for Social Justice, and, particularly, the wheel emblem of the Rotary67 Club.
Sarason's proclamation also pointed out that it would not be too far-fetched to declare that, with a little drafting treatment, the arms of the Swastika could be seen as unquestionably related to the circle, and how about the K.K.K. of the Kuklux Klan? Three K's made a triangle, didn't they? and everybody knew that a triangle was related to a circle.
So it was that in September, at the demonstrations68 on Loyalty69 Day (which replaced Labor Day), the same wide-flung seraphim sang:
"Buzz and buzz and hail the Chief,
And th' mystic steering whee-el,
The U.S. ne'er can come to grief
While we defend its we-al."
In mid-August, President Windrip announced that, since all its aims were being accomplished70, the League of Forgotten Men (founded by one Rev22. Mr. Prang, who was mentioned in the proclamation only as a person in past history) was now terminated. So were all the older parties, Democratic, Republican, Farmer-Labor, or what not. There was to be only one: The American Corporate71 State and Patriotic Party--no! added the President, with something of his former good-humor: "there are two parties, the Corporate and those who don't belong to any party at all, and so, to use a common phrase, are just out of luck!"
The idea of the Corporate or Corporative State, Secretary Sarason had more or less taken from Italy. All occupations were divided into six classes: agriculture, industry, commerce, transportation and communication, banking72 and insurance and investment, and a grab-bag class including the arts, sciences, and teaching. The American Federation73 of Labor, the Railway Brotherhoods74, and all other labor organizations, along with the Federal Department of Labor, were supplanted75 by local Syndicates composed of individual workers, above which were Provincial76 Confederations, all under governmental guidance. Parallel to them in each occupation were Syndicates and Confederations of employers. Finally, the six Confederations of workers and the six Confederations of employers were combined in six joint77 federal Corporations, which elected the twenty-four members of the National Council of Corporations, which initiated78 or supervised all legislation relating to labor or business.
There was a permanent chairman of this National Council, with a deciding vote and the power of regulating all debate as he saw fit, but he was not elected--he was appointed by the President; and the first to hold the office (without interfering with his other duties) was Secretary of State Lee Sarason. Just to safeguard the liberties of Labor, this chairman had the right to dismiss any unreasonable79 member of the National Council.
All strikes and lockouts were forbidden under federal penalties, so that workmen listened to reasonable government representatives and not to unscrupulous agitators80.
Windrip's partisans81 called themselves the Corporatists, or, familiarly, the "Corpos," which nickname was generally used.
By ill-natured people the Corpos were called "the Corpses82." But they were not at all corpse-like. That description would more correctly, and increasingly, have applied83 to their enemies.
Though the Corpos continued to promise a gift of at least $5000 to every family, "as soon as funding of the required bond issue shall be completed," the actual management of the poor, particularly of the more surly and dissatisfied poor, was undertaken by the Minute Men.
It could now be published to the world, and decidedly it was published, that unemployment had, under the benign84 reign85 of President Berzelius Windrip, almost disappeared. Almost all workless men were assembled in enormous labor camps, under M.M. officers. Their wives and children accompanied them and took care of the cooking, cleaning, and repair of clothes. The men did not merely work on state projects; they were also hired out at the reasonable rate of one dollar a day to private employers. Of course, so selfish is human nature even in Utopia, this did cause most employers to discharge the men to whom they had been paying more than a dollar a day, but that took care of itself, because these overpaid malcontents in their turn were forced into the labor camps.
Out of their dollar a day, the workers in the camps had to pay from seventy to ninety cents a day for board and lodging86.
There was a certain discontentment among people who had once owned motorcars and bathrooms and eaten meat twice daily, at having to walk ten or twenty miles a day, bathe once a week, along with fifty others, in a long trough, get meat only twice a week--when they got it--and sleep in bunks87, a hundred in a room. Yet there was less rebellion than a mere17 rationalist like Walt Trowbridge, Windrip's ludicrously defeated rival, would have expected, for every evening the loudspeaker brought to the workers the precious voices of Windrip and Sarason, Vice88-President Beecroft, Secretary of War Luthorne, Secretary of Education and Propaganda Macgoblin, General Coon, or some other genius, and these Olympians, talking to the dirtiest and tiredest mudsills as warm friend to friend, told them that they were the honored foundation stones of a New Civilization, the advance guards of the conquest of the whole world.
They took it, too, like Napoleon's soldiers. And they had the Jews and the Negroes to look down on, more and more. The M.M.'s saw to that. Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
Each week the government said less about the findings of the board of inquiry89 which was to decide how the $5000 per person could be wangled. It became easier to answer malcontents with a cuff90 from a Minute Man than by repetitious statements from Washington.
But most of the planks92 in Windrip's platform really were carried out--according to a sane93 interpretation94 of them. For example, inflation.
In America of this period, inflation did not even compare with the German inflation of the 1920's, but it was sufficient. The wage in the labor camps had to be raised from a dollar a day to three, with which the workers were receiving an equivalent of sixty cents a day in 1914 values. Everybody delightfully95 profited, except the very poor, the common workmen, the skilled workmen, the small business men, the professional men, and old couples living on annuities96 or their savings--these last did really suffer a little, as their incomes were cut in three. The workers, with apparently97 tripled wages, saw the cost of everything in the shops much more than triple.
Agriculture, which was most of all to have profited from inflation, on the theory that the mercurial98 crop-prices would rise faster than anything else, actually suffered the most of all, because, after a first flurry of foreign buying, importers of American products found it impossible to deal in so skittish99 a market, and American food exports--such of them as were left--ceased completely.
It was Big Business, that ancient dragon which Bishop100 Prang and Senator Windrip had gone forth101 to slay102, that had the interesting time.
With the value of the dollar changing daily, the elaborate systems of cost-marking and credit of Big Business were so confused that presidents and sales-managers sat in their offices after midnight, with wet towels. But they got some comfort, because with the depreciated103 dollar they were able to recall all bonded104 indebtedness and, paying it off at the old face values, get rid of it at thirty cents on the hundred. With this, and the currency so wavering that employees did not know just what they ought to get in wages, and labor unions eliminated, the larger industrialists105 came through the inflation with perhaps double the wealth, in real values, that they had had in 1936.
And two other planks in Windrip's encyclical vigorously respected were those eliminating the Negroes and patronizing the Jews.
The former race took it the less agreeably. There were horrible instances in which whole Southern counties with a majority of Negro population were overrun by the blacks and all property seized. True, their leaders alleged106 that this followed massacres107 of Negroes by Minute Men. But as Dr. Macgoblin, Secretary of Culture, so well said, this whole subject was unpleasant and therefore not helpful to discuss.
All over the country, the true spirit of Windrip's Plank91 Nine, regarding the Jews, was faithfully carried out. It was understood that the Jews were no longer to be barred from fashionable hotels, as in the hideous108 earlier day of race prejudice, but merely to be charged double rates. It was understood that Jews were never to be discouraged from trading but were merely to pay higher graft109 to commissioners and inspectors and to accept without debate all regulations, wage rates, and price lists decided upon by the stainless110 Anglo-Saxons of the various merchants' associations. And that all Jews of all conditions were frequently to sound their ecstasy111 in having found in America a sanctuary112, after their deplorable experiences among the prejudices of Europe.
In Fort Beulah, Louis Rotenstern, since he had always been the first to stand up for the older official national anthems113, "The Star-Spangled Banner" or "Dixie," and now for "Buzz and Buzz," since he had of old been considered almost an authentic114 friend by Francis Tasbrough and R. C. Crowley, and since he had often good-naturedly pressed the unrecognized Shad Ledue's Sunday pants without charge, was permitted to retain his tailor shop, though it was understood that he was to charge members of the M.M. prices that were only nominal115, or quarter nominal.
But one Harry116 Kindermann, a Jew who had profiteered enough as agent for maple-sugar and dairy machinery117 so that in 1936 he had been paying the last installment118 on his new bungalow119 and on his Buick, had always been what Shad Ledue called "a fresh Kike." He had laughed at the flag, the Church, and even Rotary. Now he found the manufacturers canceling his agencies, without explanation.
By the middle of 1937 he was selling frankfurters by the road, and his wife, who had been so proud of the piano and the old American pine cupboard in their bungalow, was dead, from pneumonia120 caught in the one-room tar-paper shack121 into which they had moved.
At the time of Windrip's election, there had been more than 80,000 relief administrators122 employed by the federal and local governments in America. With the labor camps absorbing most people on relief, this army of social workers, both amateurs and long-trained professional uplifters, was stranded123.
The Minute Men controlling the labor camps were generous: they offered the charitarians the same dollar a day that the proletarians received, with special low rates for board and lodging. But the cleverer social workers received a much better offer: to help list every family and every unmarried person in the country, with his or her finances, professional ability, military training and, most important and most tactfully to be ascertained124, his or her secret opinion of the M.M.'s and of the Corpos in general.
A good many of the social workers indignantly said that this was asking them to be spies, stool pigeons for the American Oh Gay Pay Oo. These were, on various unimportant charges, sent to jail or, later, to concentration camps--which were also jails, but the private jails of the M.M.'s, unshackled by any old-fashioned, nonsensical prison regulations.
In the confusion of the summer and early autumn of 1937, local M.M. officers had a splendid time making their own laws, and such congenital traitors125 and bellyachers as Jewish doctors, Jewish musicians, Negro journalists, socialistic college professors, young men who preferred reading or chemical research to manly126 service with the M.M.'s, women who complained when their men had been taken away by the M.M.'s and had disappeared, were increasingly beaten in the streets, or arrested on charges that would not have been very familiar to pre-Corpo jurists.
And, increasingly, the bourgeois127 counter revolutionists began to escape to Canada; just as once, by the "underground railroad" the Negro slaves had escaped into that free Northern air.
In Canada, as well as in Mexico, Bermuda, Jamaica, Cuba, and Europe, these lying Red propagandists began to publish the vilest128 little magazines, accusing the Corpos of murderous terrorism--allegations that a band of six M.M.'s had beaten an aged44 rabbi and robbed him; that the editor of a small labor paper in Paterson had been tied to his printing press and left there while the M.M.'s burned the plant; that the pretty daughter of an ex-Farmer-Labor politician in Iowa had been raped129 by giggling130 young men in masks.
To end this cowardly flight of the lying counter revolutionists (many of whom, once accepted as reputable preachers and lawyers and doctors and writers and ex-congressmen and ex-army officers, were able to give a wickedly false impression of Corpoism and the M.M.'s to the world outside America) the government quadrupled the guards who were halting suspects at every harbor and at even the minutest trails crossing the border; and in one quick raid, it poured M.M. storm troopers into all airports, private or public, and all aeroplane factories, and thus, they hoped, closed the air lanes to skulking131 traitors.
As one of the most poisonous counter revolutionists in the country, Ex-Senator Walt Trowbridge, Windrip's rival in the election of 1936, was watched night and day by a rotation132 of twelve M.M. guards. But there seemed to be small danger that this opponent, who, after all, was a crank but not an intransigent maniac133, would make himself ridiculous by fighting against the great Power which (per Bishop Prang) Heaven had been pleased to send for the healing of distressed134 America.
Trowbridge remained prosaically135 on a ranch136 he owned in South Dakota, and the government agent commanding the M.M.'s (a skilled man, trained in breaking strikes) reported that on his tapped telephone wire and in his steamed-open letters, Trowbridge communicated nothing more seditious than reports on growing alfalfa. He had with him no one but ranch hands and, in the house, an innocent aged couple.
Washington hoped that Trowbridge was beginning to see the light. Maybe they would make him Ambassador to Britain, vice Sinclair.
On the Fourth of July, when the M.M's gave their glorious but unfortunate tribute to the Chief and the Five-pointed Star, Trowbridge gratified his cow-punchers by holding an unusually pyrotechnic celebration. All evening skyrockets flared137 up, and round the home pasture glowed pots of Roman fire. Far from cold-shouldering the M.M. guards, Trowbridge warmly invited them to help set off rockets and join the gang in beer and sausages. The lonely soldier boys off there on the prairie--they were so happy shooting rockets!
An aeroplane with a Canadian license138, a large plane, flying without lights, sped toward the rocket-lighted area and, with engine shut off, so that the guards could not tell whether it had flown on, circled the pasture outlined by the Roman fire and swiftly landed.
The guards had felt sleepy after the last bottle of beer. Three of them were napping on the short, rough grass.
They were rather disconcertingly surrounded by men in masking flying-helmets, men carrying automatic pistols, who handcuffed the guards that were still awake, picked up the others, and stored all twelve of them in the barred baggage compartment139 of the plane.
The raiders' leader, a military-looking man, said to Walt Trowbridge, "Ready, sir?"
"Yep. Just take those four boxes, will you, please, Colonel?"
The boxes contained photostats of letters and documents.
Unregally clad in overalls and a huge straw hat, Senator Trowbridge entered the pilots' compartment. High and swift and alone, the plane flew toward the premature140 Northern Lights.
Next morning, still in overalls, Trowbridge breakfasted at the Fort Garry Hotel with the Mayor of Winnipeg.
A fortnight later, in Toronto, he began the republication of his weekly, A Lance for Democracy, and on the cover of the first number were reproductions of four letters indicating that before he became President, Berzelius Windrip had profited through personal gifts from financiers to an amount of over $1,000,000. To Doremus Jessup, to some thousands of Doremus Jessups, were smuggled141 copies of the Lance, though possession of it was punishable (perhaps not legally, but certainly effectively) by death.
But it was not till the winter, so carefully did his secret agents have to work in America, that Trowbridge had in full operation the organization called by its operatives the "New Underground," the "N.U.," which aided thousands of counter revolutionists to escape into Canada.
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