The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-23
JING0ISM DENOUNCED.
Pastor Raboteau Tells His
Hearers Not to Listen to
Gush and Rhapsody.

The Rev. Claude Robateau. last night,
in the Parmly Memorial Church, had the
following to say about the war scare
mot a fortnight ago our country was
enjoying peace, prosperity and a splen-
did business outlook. From Maine to
California we could hear the cheering
news of larger successes along Industrial
and commercial lines than we have en-
loved for many a year. But events some
times mature quickly. Within a week
has a thunderbolt shot from the clear SKY
and set the whole country in a tremor OF
excitement. We who ave boasted that
we have outgrown all our belligerent ten
denotes. and desired to conquer other ma
tions through our markets rather than
by our armies, are today in the thick OF
an impending national crisis; while from
the legislative halls of the nation pours
forth a stream of warlike sentiment.
stirring up our pacific land by arouslns
passions and reminding the smoulderlng
ashes of a once active hatred toward the
mother country. And with what results!
Prosperity nipped in the bud, business
| s~tagnated, our industries menaceo,
| finance crippled, until / am informed,
that we are a thousand millions OF dol
lars poorer than when the President
launched his message and the war clouds
began to gather around us.
Now war is an expensive business.
| The cost of conducting a successful cam
| paign is but a moiety of the tremendous
loss involved in the Gripping OF manu-
| f~acture, the shrinkage of business, the
ruin of We have begun 70
recover the awful loss involved in our
late civil war. To plunge into anothef
now would not only nullify the progress
we have made in our industrial and com
/ mercial life, but SO cripple the resources
| of the government itself that we shouIo
| lose our, place as one of the great NATIONS
of earth and sink back to the ievei o. d
third-rate bower. Grant even that we
were victorious and could aetualy SUI
due England, as we have done pelors,
not be iessened. A blight would nip the
bloom of our national greatness anu
wreck the old ship of state on the snoais
| of financial and political ruin.
ut may be patriotic to resist England
in her u~nwarranted assumptions, but let
US pause and ask ourselves II 1t, af5er an;
be the highest patriotism to wreck ano
ruin our land and imperil the very safety
of our government!
1T may be true patriotism to apply the
Monroe doctrine to the Venezuelan bound
airy dispute. 1t may be patriotism TO re-
sent the conduct of England on ms mat.
ter, but patriotism is cool, not lmpetuous'
ii is tolerant, not fanatical. We some,
/ time think that mere ranting at Engianu
is the sign of patriotic spirit. We are
prone to applaud as a hero one who has
the daring to twist the tail of the klnglsh
lion. But gush and rhapsody are not
what we want today. Fire-eaters and
fanatics should give way to the voice
of sober common sense. The KIND OF
IS not of that sort to plunge us into a
wicked war with our friends across tne
sea, but a patriotism that shall be brave
ano,,ph and true enough and American
enough to avert the impending dis
aster, with no loss of national dignity
and no sacrifice of American principles;
sThe truest patriot in these troubled
| times is not he who shouts war but he
who shall arise like another Moses to
lead us out of our Egypt OF difnculty
peace"