The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-06-20
Truth.

Recently, one of our eontempora-
ries INDUCED in an editorial which
reduced all human movements to the
last analysis of the question, Will it
Pay?
Undoubtedly nations. as well as in
diyiduals, must submit to the die
tates of the instinct for self-preser-
walton. That instinct is the most
powerful one of all. but there is q
hope growing broad and deep in
humanity that some day the doc
trines of the Sermon on the Mount
may, without hypocrisy. be of equal
force in the world
In this connection The Times de-
sires to print a letter recently re
ceived from one Of the most careful
students Of history, man whose
PHILOSOPHY is broad and deep and who
personally deplores what he conceives
to be the invariable teaching Of the
past.
To the Editor Of The Washington Times:
typhoid fever. Is a consumma ton de-
voutly to be wished. An antidote for
that perhaps less widely advertised, but
no less insidious disorder, hypocrisy.
should take the form OF fearless truth,
truth uninhuenced by desire, by belief
or by hope. It is to be regretted that
such truth can not be reduced to the
form of a serum and simultaneously in
jected into those whose duty is to teach
the budding idea how TO shoot, for moth
Ing short Of method SO drastic could
dispel the Illusion that we as people
are nailed to the cross OF self-aDnega-
ton. We point the finger of scorn al
Russia for the massacre Of the Jews
but were the Chinese as numerous In
this country as are the Jews IN Russia
who believes that We would escape the
shame of massacreS. The Jew is hated
and the Russian himself admits It is be
cause the former is successful bust.
ness man, money lender, usurer per
haps, and because he can thrive where
the more wasteful Russian would starve
The Muscovite in thus numbering is Inn
PEELED by an irresistible impulse, for ht
Is endowed with the Instinct of self
preservation and must of necessity turn
against the force which is rending him
= for he realizes that the weaker will per
fish. We do not persecute the Jew TN this
country solely because we can compet'
with him, but imagine the skill ant
ferocity with which we woalc turl
against race that was undersellint
us, or withholding what we conceived
to be our own. Before the struggle 70
trade is over the world perhaps viii
come to regard us as Romans, and /
we fail to merit this reproach it will b.
because we shall lack the physica
energy to "a-e3ropriate- To claim tina
we are inherently moral and that W.
would not ADOPT measures howeye
brutal and savape to repress a success
ful rival. is tantamount to saying tina
we have risen superior to the instinc
of se1f-preservation- We Americans ar
as strongly endowed with that instinc
as any race of which history make
mention and We will not fail to do wha
is needful to success even when tina
needfui thing is crime In the eyes O
been an Insignificant factor in N
achievement of opulence. as Is atteste
by the histories OF Babylon, Greece
Rome, Byzantium, Venice and moder1
England.
Yours. etc. ~
There is too much truth in VII a
our correspondent says; there is II
one who deplores the brutality of hi
conclusions more than he; but S
long as the world remains what it /.
so long as humanity refuses to al
serb and live the morality that
pretends to worship, just that Ion
will its hypocrisy be deserving G
exposure, and its mammon-worshi
lay it open to reproof.
Let us tell the truth