South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-04

That is why even the most satisfactory
measure of emancipation would leave the Jew
unsatished If the peace settlement produced
world parliament, some hOpelessly hopeful
spectators still anticipate. But the angle
from which the conscious Jew the world
is like the angle from which the homeless
tramp peers in at the dinner party. | have
dramatically put into the mouth of a German
war lord the argument that England's loathing
for Prusstan bellicosity is only the psychology
Of the successful gambler who wishes to break
off the game at the moment he holds the bulk
OF the stakes. And in truth TO eternaliZe the
momentary grouping of peoples and posses
sions in a world that has hitherto always pro-
ceeded by fux and combat in which empires
have risen and set, in which every hill has
been abased and every valley exalted as I'M
faiingly as by geologic process, would be to
make not a righteous but unrighteous peace.
There must, If the fux is to be suddenly
frozen, be a universal readjustment on the
basis Of reason and love. Otherwise, can any
one tell me why Russia should be left in per
petual possession OF half OF Europe and
third OF Asia, or One-sixth of the land of the
globe, while Jewry owns not a single square
inch Of national territory? The Fabian pro
jet recognizes between forty and fifty soy.
erelgn states. / know these sovereign states
One of the greatest (America) processes to
have the right to exclude and reship the DOW.
erty-stricken European emigrant after he has
sold off his all in the quest of better labor
market. And this with a territory almost as
large Europe peopled by little more than
twice the population of Great Britain. SOW
ereign right, Mr. Cecil Chesterton proclaims it.
AS a director OF emigration, whose heart has
been torn by these tragedies, l spit on these
sovereign rights.
Mr. Chesterton, who has done yeoman SER
vice in America as a champion OF the allied
cause. does not seem to see that for a petty
population to collar a continent is pure PTus-
sianism. The Germans demand the freedom
of the The Jews demand the freedom
Of the lands.
And these great powers, that are to be con-
frmed for ali time in their great possessions
they are TO have a free hand over their SUBJ
iects. The supernatural authority, says the
Fabian scheme, is not to require any altera-
ton In their internal laws. How familiar il
sounds! Il cannot interfere in the internal
affairs OF Russia" The hands are the hands
of the Fabians. but the voice is the voice OF
Sir Edward Grey. You make q moral desert
and call 1t peace.
No; for the Jew your world-peace would be
a premature, all-too-conclusive peace. The
world is not yet ripe enough. Leaden in
stincts cannot, as Herbert Spencer pointed out
be transmitted into the gold of an ethical civil
tzation. IL human nature were ripe for peace
any scheme, however bad would ensure it.
Though half my manhood has been devoted
to the quest for Jewish State l have never
regarded a world settlement based on racial
differences, as a final goal, nor do share the
current enthusiasm for the smaller nationali
ties. The mere fact that a group q people
hates It's neighbors affords no basis for rev.