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By WOODROW WILSON
(An Unpublished Address Delivered at the Free Synagogue Anniversary,
April, 1911.)
Many men have entertained correct
principles, but have had no impulse
of action whatever. I have known
ninny men whose theoretical princi-
pals were unimpeachable, but whose
conduct was negligible, and the states-
manship of morals consists of getting
morals into action; at traslating them
into conduct; of elevating them into
the programs of life. Men who con-
ceive life as a body of sentiments do
not get this thing done; but men who
conceive life as a body of active duties
do get these things done.
You know that we often say that
this is an age in which mind is mon-
arch. I am bound to conclude from
what I have observed that if that be
true, man is one of those modern mon-
archs that reigns but does not gov-
ern, For the real government of men
always resides in some house of com-
mons that is made up of the passions,
and the most that we can manage is
that the handsome passions shall be
in the majority. Fur what moves us
is the force of principle; is the im-
pulse of emotion; is the feeling of ar-
dent desire to accomplish something
mere than the common round and rou-
tine of the day.
We are in the presence of a great
body of changing opinion in this coun-
try, and with the change of opinion
will conic the change of policy; per-
haps with the change of institutions,
will come a general readjustment of
our economic and political relation-
ships to one another. Many men have
looked upon the prospect with the
tremor of fear. There is no reason to
be afraid unless you create the con-
ditions of revolution, and the condi-
tions of revolution kre moral; they are
of the atmosphere of thought; they
are of the essence of feeling. If you
breed hatred, you will have revolu-
tion: if you breed sympathy, you will
have reform. The thing that it be-
hooves a holy of people like this to do
is to prepare their minds in calmness
for the changes that are to wine, and
to desire them, and then they will be
peaceful and beneficent.
What I would urge upon you, there-
fore, is to look to your thoughts. They
are going to constitute the atmosphere
and condition of change. We must
ask ourselves what we are going to
do with our power and our intelligence
as a nation. No nation has ever been
distinguished by the bulk and variety
of its wealth. A nation can gain dis-
tinction only by spirited means; only
by the uses to which it puts its pow-
er.
You pick out the men, the individ-
uals, whom you characterize as dis-
tinguished upon that principle and up-
on no other. You know that there is
one fine word in our language which
we are very chary 14 bestowing. We
call many a man rich because of his
power and the extraordinary intelli-
gence with which he has built up his
power, but we call only that rich man
noble who has used his power for the
benefit of his fellow men. That is the
American patriciate; that is the
American patent of nobility.
Now by the same means we shall
judge the nation. The nation is not
great which is merely rich and pow-
erful, but that nation is great and
truly noble which uses its power and
its wealth to serve sauce vision of the
mind.
Now, what do you think of politics?
What is you conception of politics? Is
it a game for advantage? Is it a bit
of strategy in order that the people of
one combination may have the upper
hand over the people of another com-
bination, or is it an effort to make a
fair adjustment of human relation-
ships all along the line? You know
that there are a great many artificial
distinctions obtaining in politics just
now. There is only one distinction
which I admit. I do nut care a pep-
percorn about the difference between
the nominal Democrats and nominal
Republicans, but I do care a vast deal
about the difference between progres-
sives and reactionaries. I do not ad-
mit party differences where they are
no real differences of principle and
purpose. And the process of politics
in America at this moment is a pro-
cess of, similar people getting togeth-
er. Labels do nut count for anything.
They do not count for very much more
that the pure food labels under the
constantly violated law of Congress.
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putting every bit of fortune they had
accumulated in the cast for the sake
of their fellow men, lived in vital em-
bodiment the life which had been con-
ceived for them by the makers ut lib-
erty in the beginning, joined the great
procession of men who, with Ilamp-
den and the rest in England, showed
us what it was to defy the wrong and
make great sacrifices for the right.
Shall America lose this heritage and
shall men fear to make the sacrifice
again?
I have heard it said that it required
courage to withstand the wrong and
to stand for the right. As I conceive
it, it would require courage to do any-
thing else. It would require courage
to turn away from the shining path
and plunge again into darkness. It
would require courage to refuse the
height and plunge into the pit. I/o
you suppose that it requires courage
when you have once seen the light to
follow it? It, you suppose that it re-
quires courage to climb the shining
heights? Could a man once having
seen these things turn away? And
can a nation like America once having
seen the glories of self-sacrifice and of
devotion turn away from that path
and devote herself to the sodden and
commonplace things which have drag-
ged other people down into oblivion?
Shall we in this time of change and of
crises not renew our ancient vows of
self-sacrifice and of service and of de-
votion, and say that we also will make
a new and constructive age, and re-
conceive the liberties of America?
What we want to know about a man
is, is he interested in those adjust-
ments of our economic life now abso-
lutely necessary; is he heart and soul
for those adjustments of our politics
which will bring government back in-
to the hands of the people and exclude
the secret cabal and the rogue?
Now the transition from business to
politics ought to he a more violent
transition than it has been. The real
thing that we are trying to do in
America just at this moment it to di-
vorce nosiness from politics; too many
business men have got into politics in
the wrong sense, and too many poli-
ticians have become dependent upon
business for their maintenance.
Do not let any man suppose that
progressives are bent upon disturbing
and uprooting the life of this country
or touching the least degree the an-
cient and sacred institutions of which
we are so proud. Our object is to re-
call you to your obligations to these
institutions, to restore their purity, to
reinfuse in them their old spirit, to
make you see again the ancient vision
of America, for America gained its
distinction when it was poor, when a
little group of people in a fringe of
colonies upon this coast, mustering
only two or three millions, arrested
the attention of the civilized world be-
cause they refused to submit to ty-
ranny, because they devoted them-
selves to right, because they opened
their doors as an asylum to all man-
kind, because they sow not the vision
of wealth and physical power, butt he
vision of freedom and brotherhood and
justice.
America cannot add one single star
to her crown by piling, up material
resources. She has one single chance
of abiding immorality, and that is to
devote herself in each i.teneration to
the ideals which gave her birth and to
the ideals which have given her the
spirit which has been in all her in-
stitutions until this time, the spirit
which has given nobility to those rare
sons of hers, who, generation after
generation, have risen above the
crowd and stood for all mankind to ad-
mire—the great Washington, the
thoughtful Jefferson, the indomitable
Jackson, and that great, touching, he-
roic figpre of Lincoln—these men, who
forgetting their material Interests,
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CARDINAL URGES JOINT
AUSTRIA
SUPPRESSES
TURKEY WILL RETAIN
OFFENSIVE POSTCARDS MANDATE FOR PALESTINE
THE GRAND RABBINATE
CHIEF RABBI OPPOSES
PLANS OF MEMORIAL
LONDON.—(.1. T. A.)--The chief
rabbi of England, Dr. Hertz, wrote
to the Jewish War Memorial council
protesting against a proposal before
the council to establish an academy
of Jewish learning in conjunction with
Jews' college, which trains for ad-
mission into the rabbinate, and is an
orthodox institution. The protest of
Rabbi Hertz was read at the meeting
of the Jewish War Memorial council
held recently, and presided over by
Lionel Rothchild. It characterizes the
project, which is intended as a
memorial to the Jews who fell in the
weir, as an outrage to the memory
of the dead, as well as an offense to
Judaism by perpetuating, through re-
form teaching, the religious schism.
In consideration of Rabbi Hertz's pro-
test, the project has been deferred.
Governor Preus of Minnesota has
formally announced the appointment
of Robert S. Kolliner, a Minneapolis
attorney of recognized outstanding
legal ability as judge of the Ilennepin
County District Court to fill the va-
cancy created by the resignation of
Judge George W. Buffington. Judge
Kolliner is a member of Temple Is-
rael Congregation, past president of
the Minneapolis lt'nai B'rith Lodge
and a thirty-third degre Mason. lie
was born in Baraboo, Wis., in 1868.
Fur a time he was instructor in the
College of Law at the University of
Minnesota.
('ONSTANTINOPLE.—J. T. A.)—
"The Turkish government will not
abolish the grand rabbinate in Tur-
key," the Turkish Ilakarn Bashi, Ef-
fendi Bejarano, declared in en inter-
vie• given to the representative of
the .1. T. A.
The grand rabbi further declared
that the Turkish government is tol-
erant to the Jews and its order, clos-
ing the non-Turkish national schools
in Turkey, does not affect the Jewish
schools maintained by the Alliance
Israelite and the B'nai Brith.
With the breaking of ground for
the Newark Museum, the gift of
Louis Bomberger, another city monu-
ment will soon be erected. The cere-
mony of breaking the ground was
witnessed by about 300 spectators.
Mr. Bamberger dug the first spadeful
of earth. The dedication was made
by Rabbi Solomon Foster and Bishop
Lines. The shovel used by Mr. Bom-
berger is silver and will be rest reed
as a memento of the occasion. Spe-
cial tribute was paid to John Cotton
Dana the librarian, who foresaw the
need of just such a building to house
the Newark Museum 15 years ago.
Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss has
been appointed by Federal Judge
Blake 'I'. Kennedy as one of two joint
receivers to take charge of the oil
lands in the Teapot Dome Naval Re-
serve, pending final settlement of the
government's suit to annul the lease
to the Sinclair interests. Admiral
Strauss rendered valuable services
during the world War. He was the
commander of the fleet that placed
the barrier of torpedoes in the North
Sea, and subsequently after the close
of the war superintended their re-
moval. This work was so thoroughly
done that not a single accident has
The King of England conferred the been reported resulting froin a vessel
honor of knighthood on the lion. Ar- coming in contact with a torpedo
thur M. Myers, formerly of New Zea- which Strauss' American fleet had
failed to remove .
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German Nationalist members of
the Prussian Diet recently submitted
a bill, according to which the eastern
frontiers of Prussia would be imme-
diately barred to all Jewish menu
grants, no more Jews would be al-
lowed to became German citizens and
all Eastern Jews who had entered the
country since April 1, 1914, would
be expelled by July I. Eastern Jews
remaining in the country after July
I would he concentrated in refugee
camps and made to earn their living
at farm work. Even the most opti-
mistic Nationalists hardly expect this
bill to become a law.
The third exhibition of photog-
raphy by Alfred Stieglitz, world-fam-
ous Americn-Jewish photographer, is
now being held at the Anderson Gal-
leries, New York. The collection in-
cludes "Songs of the Sky," "Secrets
of the Skies as Revealed by My
Lament" and scores of other notable
prints. The Boston Museum of Fine
Arts recently acquired a comprehen-
sive collection of Stieglitz photo-
graphs. Somewhat prior to that the
Royal Photographic Society of Great
Britain conferred its highest honor,
the Progress Medal, on Mr. Stieglitz.
NEW YORK.---(J. T. A.)—Wbile
praising the British government for
is excellent rule in Palestine, Cardinal
O'Connell of Boston, who arrived here
today on the "Franconia" after a pil-
grimage to the Holy Land, stated that
he would prefer another mandate in
which other nations, including Amer-
ica, would take part.
Cardinal O'Connell recently com-
plained to the Pope, according to re-
ports from Rome, of the British ad-
ministration in Palestine, claiming
that it discriminated against the
Catholics.
VIENNA.— (J. T. A.) — Picture
postcards depicting ritual murder
scenes were put on the market Icy the
anti-Semitic Ilakenkruezler party, in
preparation for the approaching Pass-
over holidays. The attorney general
of Austria ordered the confiscation of
these picture cards as being obscene
and unfounded. The Ilakenkruezler
party appealed from this decision of
the attorney general to the court, but
the court today confirmed the con-
fiscation order, stating that in its
opinion they accuse the Jews wrongly
and agitate the population.
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