Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-04-23
Their Observation-Disclosures
mentS Compared.
Splendid and Patriotic Address In
the Synagogue Last Night
by Hon. Simon Wolf,
OF Washington.

Simon Volt was greeted by a~repre.
sentative audience in the synagogue
last night, who listened to him for 81
hour in charmed attention and ever.
increasing enjoy ment of his splendid
address, rife rs it was with origina
thought n social and political ethics
along high and ennobling plains of pri-
waite life and public living.
His s~triiiugly original and as strik.
ingly appropriate comparison of Moses
and George Washington was most de-
lightfully drawn out.
After giving happy expression to his
pleasure al again facing a colds bore
audience, Mi. Wolf said, in part:
When I was a boy in distant Ger
many, two men doomed up in history
Lore prominently than any others.
One was Moses, the other George
Washington. The first led his core
ligiOnistS out OF the land of bondage
and misery, through the wilderness
and desert, giving them, at last, on
Mt Sinai, the Ten Commandments,
which have since circled the world
and through their influence made
men stronger adherents to law, or
der and morality. The other led the
Continental troops, composed of all
fnationalities and creeds, through the
trying ordeal of a great struggle,
freed his country from the yoke of
EGreat Britain and finally brought
about the establishment of this great
Republic. These two great men
wrought ~zealously, faithfully and
ideally for their countrymen and for
those civic duties which are incident
o our common humanity.
To the Ten Commandments there
was added the Eleventh:-in the city
OF Philadelphia, when on the memoir
able fourth of July, 1776, the bell of
the State House, since known as the
Liberty Bell" pealed the joyous
proclamation, that a new Republic
had been born, that a Nation of free
men had been created, and that all
and hat a Government "of the peo-
pie, for the people and by the peo-
Pile" had been established. What had
been 30 grandly laid at Mt. Sinai re-
ceived it's fulflment in Philadelphia.
The life work of these two men cul-
minated, and brought about not only
the revolution but revelation in Egypt
and on this continent. for Egypt has
caught the spirit of modern times,
and under the splendid administra-
ton of Earl Cromer has taken ad-
vanced strides towards new vitaliz-
ing, progressive conditions. Our own
country has lived up to all the prom
Uses and traditions of the colonial
times. We are still enjoying a land
of opportunity and possibilities, where
every one Is permitted to worship
God according to the dictates of his
conscience. The common schools is
the basic principle of our opportuni-
ties and the nation is made happier.
In the Republic the Christian and
the Jew stand side by side in peace
and in war, ready to uphold and de-
fend with life and honor the great
and indestructible institutions that
are the envy of the outer world and
the glory of our own.
In our own country the Feast of
the Passover is exempliied daily, for
we are In a land where milk and
honey flow uninterruptedly, and
where each and every one a sit
under his own vine and fig tree, su-
premely happy if they so will it; and
where b spirit of emancipation
from medieval conditions prevails, as
in no other country, and where free
dom for all, irrespective of national
ity or creed, reigns supreme.
No feast in the religious calendar
of our people brings home more forci.
bly, the blessings we enjoy than the
Feast of the Passover. 1t is inspir
ing, ennobling and elevating and
caches a lesson that is coincident
, with the spirit of American institu
tions,-equality of all men, respect fol
law and order, the liberal observance
Of any and all faiths. without clashine
IF any, every ven of human prefer
nent open to the lowly as well as
to the exalted, a condition so divine
:. i'll its fulfllment, as well as in its
! realization, that we cannot too otter
: bless the Creator and His co1onia
s Representatives of having wrought 81
gloriously and successfully. Let III
Q who r participants in this magnif
cent achievement, pledge anew gu
g fioyalty and our fealty to American in
# stitutions and to the starry flag
(which now circles the world with
message of peace and good will. W
!, have in the past been patriotic alon;
all the lines for which men strive an,
struggle; in peace and war, we hav,
: done our duty. Let us pray that n
i spirit of commercialism shall be s.
dominating as to deaden the feelin;
of patriotism, without which no cour
try can flourish or endure; and, final