Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-11
WOULD MUzzLE HOBSON.
Rabbi Wise Says Captain Is a Malign
Influence.

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If / could I'd muzzle Captain Hob
son." said Rabbi Wise, of the Free
synagogue, to the members of the
Peace circle at the Hotel Astor this
week. I'D muzzle him so tightly
that he could never speak again, ex-
cept perhaps to say Good morning to
his wife. That man is the most
malign influence in this country.
Once a hero, he is now disgrace.
He goes up and down the land cry
ing, War! War'!-striving to foment
war. If President Roosevelt wants
four battleships Captain Hobson calls
for forty. There is no limit for his
appetite for armament
Rabbi Wise declared that the
greatest single influence for. peace
in the world to-day was socialism
And don't be afraid of the word
socialism, he told his hearers.
1T won't bite
Two things the speaker said, had
stood in the way of the fuller develop
ment of human brotherhood men
had failed to realize the oneness of the
race and they had failed to realize
the inviolability of the individual.
I'VE must learn that the race is one, -
he said. why, there is no such
thing as salvation for a few men
1T must be for all or none
But the idea of brotherhood is
growing. Once there were religious
wars-absurd term! Why, war is
religious-can be nothing else. But
to-day the churches are learning that
they must save men by serving them,
not serve them by saving them.
Formerly each religion believed it
the sum of truth. We are beginning
to see that each has some truth.
Truth! We have been too much in
the habit of talking about truth as
If it were mining claim and could
be staked off.
THE growing belief in evolution
has made for brotherhood" Rabbi
Wise said, "for it teaches our COM
mon origin and the fundamental
idea of evolution is Independence. d"
The speaker objected to the phrase
survival of the fittest" in the eco
nomic sense. 1T is generally the
most unfit men who talk about the
survival of the fittest," he said
Nothing will succeed really unless it
is built upon the idea of brotherhood.
Take a settlement work. If settle
ment is full of the spirit of neigh
borliness it succeeds; but if, as too
often happens, it is pervaded with
the spirit of patronage and conde-
cension it fails. 1t is the brotherli-
ness that makes trade unions valu-
able. 1t is said that trades unions
are badly managed. Perhaps; they
are young, and the young make mis-
takes. For the matter of that, isn't
New York rather badly managed?"
Rabbi Wise thought President
Roosevelt's my spear shall know no
brother" ought to be modified to my
brother shall know no spear" But
he said that in his opinion the finest
thing done in this country In the
last fifty years was done by the
president and Secretary Root-the
remission of the balance of the debt
which China owed the United States.
"War," he said, lis horrible. We
are feeling the evil effects of our civil
war yet. Had | been living fifty
years ago think would have fought
for abolition; yet / say that the suf-
fering due to that war has not died
out yet. Women should be the. ad-
vocates of peace, for they pay the
heaviest toll when there is war. They
have none of the glory, they have the
Woe"