The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-03-13
Justice NJ. B. Rosenberg
Gives An Informal But
Brilliant Address At
Guild Hall.
apply GOLDEN RULE !"
Distinguished Jurist Contends That
Present-Day World-Problems Can BE
Solved On BY the Use Of Chris
tian Principles.

In an informal but eloquent address
| delivered before the members of St.
Matthews Mems Club and their friends
at Guild Hall on Tuesday evening,
Judge M. B. Rosenberg, Justice Of the
Supreme Court for the State Of Wiscon-
sin, plead for the application Of Chris
tian principles and the golden rule in
industry, in business, and in world-poli-
tics. The distinguished jurist APP
Iproached present-day problems with
the supreme fearlessness and conviction
of man. who has seen them through
and who is honestly anxious to guar
antee justice in the relationships be-
tween man and man, nation and nation,
world and God.
Preceding the address Of the justice
Mrs. T. FL. Truax gave ultra-artistic
renditions of "Our God, Our Country,
and Our Flag, and ''The Americans
come. Accompanied by Miss Lorna
Truax, she completely captivated her
audience and was forced to sing as an
encore Herman Lohr s clever fantasy
!" Why Don't You Ask Me?''.
Justice Rosenberg gave an admir-
able summation of the principles in
volved in 1'The Present Crisis " when
he said:
The history Of the world from the
dawn Of civilization to the twilight
of the kings has been a struggle for
religious, political, and economic free
dom. The struggle for religious free
dom terminated with the Peace of West
phalia in 1648, which ended the Thirty
Years War and recognized the right Of
a country and ultimately of man to
worship as he pleased The struggle
for political freedom has been practi-
cally concluded by the present war won
by the nations representing individual
liberty and equality of opportunity.
The divine right Of kings surrendered
to democracy on the slopes of the Ar
gonne before the sledge-hammer blows
of new Martels, the Yanks from Wis
consin and Michigan. The struggle
for economic freedom, economic equal
ity, has just begun and is still. to be
won. 1t will be the supreme test Of
democracy, the elimination toward
which all history and philosophy have
been converging from the battle Of
Marathon to the battle Of the Marneo .
In commenting further on the new
war for industrial and commercial free
dom Justice Rosenberg warned his
hearers that class rule was not econ
omic equality any more than autocracy
was economic equality and expressed a
belief that more and more chastity
crimes had been committed by prole-
tariats than by Cars and emperors,
In proof Of this statement he cited the
atrocities Of the Jacobins in 1894, of
the Bolsheviki in 1918, and of the
Spartacans in the Sunday riots at
Lichtenberg.
To check these outrages, consummate
the victories won at Cantigny, Chateau
Thierry, and the Argonne Forest, and
make sure another triumph in the new
struggle for economic equality, the
judge urged non partisan-world-p pa
triotic application Of the golden rule
which advises edo unto others as you
would that others should do unto YOU.
Such policy the speaker contended
will guarantee every man religious
freedom, every nation a chance to
develop in accordance with is national
ideals and national aspirations, and
every class a right to live and live
serviceably without fear Of extermina-
ton by another class which for the
moment may hold the balance of poll
teal power
This will require complete re-
nunciation Of the old materialism the
justice admitted, the materialism for
which America stood for centuries and
demand a continued exemplifcation Of
the new idealism personifed by the
men who fought, bled, and died in the
popped fields of France without
thought of tangible reward or material
compensation
The judge refused to discuss the
League of Nations, in view of the fact
that it had become political issue and
judges are not supposed to dabble in
politics, but he asserted that the
world looked to America for leadership
and that America would betray her trust
if she rejected this opportunity of the.
ages 50. He insisted that the United
States had become the world-exemplar
of democracy and that she could not
further fulfill her sacred mission under