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TAKT I"? EIGHT TAGES.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1915.
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"Shall We Make am Epic of Washing Day, or the
Needle Mightier Than the Sword?" He Perorates,
and Then ?? "Anyway, the Quarrel Between
Man and Woman Can Never Be Settled
Because It ?s a Lovers' Quarrel."
By LOUIS H. WKTMORE.
.-?-?r jrn ?cu state the re.ason*- for your
?? YV osition to granting the vote to
? ? a Tren?"
Mr C*if terton leaned back heavily in his
.ome indistinct things under
?-ose. shook himself very much as
a InifC bo** v\i.,uld and replied as follows;
jppose it is due to the suffragettes to
mlain to them why I disagree with them
.ally and intellectually. In answering
you I shall .ilso answer a lady whom I know
to be both strong-minded and sane (the two
hut if I should forget to do so (as is unfortu?
nately quite possible) I can only hope that
she m*? y happen to read this interview, which
seems extremely unilkely!
*'The superficial answer is quite easy and
quite sound. It can be put in the cold col
lectivist formula?there must sooner or later
be a class war. The only thing that < ould
possibly stop a class war would be a sex war.
A suffragette typewriter might perhaps side
with Lady Cowdray because she is in favor
of female suffrage. An old-fashioned docker
might perhaps forgive Mr. Asquith because
stopped at the crossroads by an everlasting
procession following an unromprehended idol.
The sex war is at once so much more real and
so much more unreal, so much more practical
and so much more impossible that the parade
of it must prevent the mending of troubles
more temporary, but much more intolerable.
It really means that we must defer forming
any judgment upon Dives and Lazarus until
we have heard the judgment upon Adam and
Eve?and that will most certainly be the last
judgment.
"But in a sense more strictly instant and
The Paradoxical G. K. Passes Sentence: "Votes Are a Farce, " "Suffrage Is a Wealthy Woman's Hobby . . . It Is
Anti-Democratic Just Now. ''
iny means go together), who has
i'Ked ine why. since I constantly protested
humbug of English politics, I do
thiz? with the suffragettes, who
have certainly been instruments in exposing
.mbug. I hope to answer her letter,
he is against female suffrage. But the quarrel
between rich and poor may be settled. The
quarrel between man and woman can never
be settled, because it is a lovers' quarrel.
What therefore confronts us is the spectacle
of the mob marching on the Bastile, which is
practical suffr.ipism is anti-dcmorratic just
r.ow. The point is one of the very few polit?
ical points that seem to me almost mathe?
matically demonstrable. Suppose somebody
in a story says, 'Find me a four-leaved clover
and I can open all the treasuries of kings and
possess all the kingdoms of the earth.' Obvi?
ously you cannot put in the same story the
sentence, 'And these slave.? were abased and
were as the beasts of the fields, being turned
out in a field of four-leaved clover, with no
other sustenance and no pleasure in the world.'
A child listening to such a fairy tale would
say, 'But if the clover can do that it is the
fault of the slaves if they are not kings.' Now
it is the whole case for industrial democracy
that it is not the fault of the slaves, but the
fault of the masters. And when the suffrag
ettcs say, 'Give poor women a vote, and they
will alter all these things,' a child could an?
swer, 'Then why cannot poor men alter them?'
A SWORD MAYBE.
"Or suppose it were said in a child's story,
'I have burned and broken the houses of
harmless men; I have nearly killed my neigh?
bors; I have nearly killed myself, but all this
was to obtain a sword, which is a wand that
changes the world.' A cnild could point to
another picture in the book showing an emaci?
ated army, without food, without water, with?
out housing or without hope, but each still
girt with his idle sword.
"That is the superficial but very business?
like answer. At this moment all desire for
a vote, all praises of a voter, all loyalty and
heroism in the pursuit of a vote, are so many
excuses for the capitalist, who gives his slave
a vote and nothing else. All sacrifices made
for this are unconscious sacrifices to an idol, a
golden idol that Nebuchadnezzar the King has
;;et up. First and last the rich man can use
his terrible sneer and say: 'And how can I be
oppressing your brother, oh my sister, when
I grant him tint glorious thing for which you
are ready to die?' That is the brute logic of
the thing; and I have never heard a logical
answer to it."
"And that is your answer, your position?"
I asked.
"My own position is much more solid than
brute logic. In order to state it I must leave
all politics and talk of much more lasting
? ?ntimi. ?I (in fi.urtli pn?e.
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Zi?MsfB Es Jewis?h Ma???in\,?mll
^Miciemcy"
CZDCZ3
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Birsainidtei
By ERNESTINE EVANS.
1"t,HE hour has struck for a new chap?
ter in the destiny of the Jewish peo
ple. For whatever national causes
r lest in the great war the
nation, when all is ended and the peace
: ?n or in London or made
whatever compromise or anguish else
?tertain to stand before us restored
asure of its ancient glory, throb
its old "right to be itself" and
? 'ha mechanical leverage for oper
? e anti-Semitic fears of the
Christian world, never again to be despised.
. Zionistn bei_ame a tremendous thing in
Aaeri ry on the thirtieth day of last
American Jews took over the
the war had made impossible
in Berlin. A provisional
ttee was chosen to sit above
j-ul other branches of ac
Brandeis stcod at the head of
the committee.
? I ? vc yr?rs since Mr. Brandeis has
?- i ito Zionist channels, and
t,i?;uously took his place
ranks. Since last August he has
,nd in the speech of the
down on Twenty-third Street,
e liah O? Israel's hopes. With
' ir leader, they know that things
They trust his judgment,
I in his unfaltering devotion to the
en and the preciseness and streng.h
he will proceed with the organiza
C accomplishment of a living Jew
tate.
In his office in Boston, we talked over the
- ?if success that lie in the Zionist
orRdni/ation at this date.
"Zionis'n is the programme of Jewish na
?ional efficiency." Then Mr. Brand?is broke
off?effilier word of blood and iron.
ill naa?, bitten on, feared, unblessed, because
"o patient definition has remade it nearer to
?h? heart's desiie, was one he rather disliked
to Use. But he really meant it and explained.
"Bi'caiise." he said, "efficient y does mean for
?dividual and for nation the equipment with
This New Leader Explains the ?mpetus of This Restoration Movement, Gives Its Pro?
gramme and CorreIair.es It with Americanism.
whatever enables the process of self-expres
-sion to take place.
"It may be probable that the Jewish people
can, for they do, express themselves linguis?
tically in German. Russian, English and many
other languages, but it is of the essence of na?
tional inheritance that in no other tongue can
they so clearly, so eloquently, so precisely
speak as in their own Hebrew, the vehicle
through the centuries of their peculiarly na?
tional cultural contribution.
"Deeply imbedded in every people is the de?
sire for full development?the longing, as Maz
zini phrased it. to elaborate and express their
idea, to contribute their stone also to the pyra
mid of history. Nationality, like democracy,
his been one of the potent forces making for
man's advance during the last hundred years.
The assertion of nationality has infused whole
peoples with hope, manhood and self-respect.
It has ennobled and made purposeful millions
of lives. It offered them a future, and in so
revived and capitalized all that was valu?
able in their past. The assertion of nation?
ality roused Ireland from the slough of des?
pondency. It roused the southern Slavs to
heroic deeds. It created gallant Belgium. It
freed Greece. It gave us united Italy."
THE MILITANT VALUE OF SELF-RE
SPECT.
It is clear to see that Mr. Brandeis is wholly
aware of the poetic and militant value of self
., ?? ect When Arthur Schnitller, in his novel
on anti-Semitism, made the point that the Jew's
distrust of himself and willingness to take the
ctupid anti-Semitic valuation to heart was the
selling of his birthright, he was right The
Zionist movement ?a the temple in which every
lew has reclaimed by the fact of his being
there all that he has ever had taken away or
has given away of his sense of self-respect
"In the past." says Mr. Brandeis. "it has
been generally assumed that the full develop?
ment of one people necessarily involved its
domination over others. That belief is passing
"Since the destruction ol the temple, two
thousand years ago. the longing for Falestinc
hac been ever present with the Jew. It was
the hope of a return, to the land of his fathers
that buoyed up the Jew amidst persecution and
for the realization of which the devout ever
Until a generation ago this was a
nope merely?a wish piously prayed for, but
not worked for
"The Zionist movement is idealistic, but it
is also essentially practical, It seeks to real
:/e trat hope, to make the dream of a Jewish
life ;n a Jewish land come true, as other gr?a*:
dreams of the world have come true?by men
working with devotion, intelligence and sclf
Eai rit.ee.
"And now is most definitely the time when
wo*k will bring its accomplishment. Already
enough w*rk hat been done to indicate the
future of Palestine "
The old wet-blanket manner of speaking
about Zionism has been the portion before of
propositions that had not the immediate ear?
mark:* o! patent success. Was not Palestine a
barren land?did not the postcards sent by
Jews .inci Christum pilgrims, scattered broad?
cast over the very world that was invited to
make it again a land dripping with milk and
honey, show it a veritable desert of stone
crusted with a powdered dust as desolate as
salt'
ZIONISM IS PRACTICAL.
But thirty years of fact gathering by the
si -.entine argiculturists of Germany and Amer
:c i chiefly, most of them Jews, has told a dif
feient tltory, and if the mysticism of Zionism
d es it this date begin n. have the practicality
of definite, written and not rainbow promise, it
is because of the work done, say, by the Agri?
cultural Experiment Station underwritten by
Julius Kosenwald. of Chicago, and operated by
a genius re? ogni'rd by our own Department of
Agriculture. Aaron Aaronsohn, and the steady
??nd unremitting worl: ot the Jewish iaimers
who have gone there.
I'urthermore, not one sign, but twenty. po?nt
to the centring of a number of economic forces
in Palestine. The country not only draws ben?
efit from the agricultural research done by
their own experiment station, but the same
work as undertaken in Southern California and
in Tunis. The country has already beccme a
wine exporting place. A million Jrees have
neen planted in the last twenty years, part of a
tremendous re-forestment project. And not
ever the Swiss have more talent than the Jews
for organization and making the most ot 'he
constantly growing tourist trade of the coun?
try?tourists who support art industries, traf?
fic projects and h tels The stream that once
Mowed westward has eddied and whirled to the
sparsely populated regions of Southeastern
Europe and Southwestern Asia. The owner
ship of Asia Minor is a thing golden enough in
prospect to embroil all Europe, and it is into
the changing fortunes of that part of the world
that Jewish emigration directs itself. N.itive
historically to its valleys, the Jewish popula?
tion of the Turkish Empire has always shown
itself, as no other nation has, capable of living
amiably with the Moslem.
WAR CHANGLS TIU: SITUATION.
The war has necessarily made differences in
the feeling of the past, and though Turkish
hopes are high it has not been pleasant for the
authorities to hear Asquith promising the dis?
integration of the Ottoman Empire and pro?
posing the establishment of a buffer Jewish de?
mocracy under English protection. It has
been suggestive of suspicions to hear the Czar
stipulating the reward of a Promised Land to
his Beloved Jews and urging his Jewish regi?
ments op against the Dardanelles with Pales?
tine as the reward. It has irritated the mili?
tary governor of Palestine to hear of the ex
pulsed Russian Jews forming an English regi?
ment at Alexandria, and the Jews seemingly
ranged not for themselves, but on the side of
the Allies, and so it happens that the irriga?
tion pipes of the German and Austrian vine
growers have ruthlessly been torn up for mili?
tary purposes and years of the hard work of
th- Zion makers has been lost.
The war, too, has made the Jewish popula?
tion poor, and not so easily called on by the
tax g-atherer. Export has been stopped almost
completely. A single Italian line was for
months all that kept the Holy Land from com?
plete isolation. Even those boats have now
stopped. And over all has stood the misfort
un? of the worst pest of the lo' usts that the
land has ever known.
But nothing?no present misfortune nor
complication?touches the enthusiasm with
which Mr. Bran?1eis speaks of the return of his
peoole to active nationality.
HEBREW REVIVED AS NATIONAL
LANGUAGE
"Material development in Palestine." he says,
"has been attended by a spiritual and social
development no less extraordinary than the
materia' development in education, in health,
in -ocial order and in the character and habits
of the population.
"Perhaps the most extraordinary achieve?
ment of Jewish nationalism is the revival of the
Hebrew language, which h?s again become the
language of the common intercourse of men.
Tic Hebrew tongue, called a dead language
for nearly two thousand years, has in the Jew
icnies and in Jerusalem become again the
living mother tongue. The effect of the com?
mon language in unifying the Jews is great: for
the Jews of Palestine came literally from all
the lands of the earth, each speaking, except
for a 'ittle Yiddish, the language of the coun?
try from which he came, and remaining in the
main almost a stranger to the others.
"Bur the effect of the renaissance of the He?
brew tongue is far greater than that of unify?
ing the Jews. It is a potent factor in reviving
the essentially Jewish spirit. It was a bol?!
dream to plan the foundation of a new Jewish
state in Palestine by giving a common Ian
guage to the natives of so many lands, espe?
cially when the language had not only to be re?
vived, but adapted to modern use.
"Yet this has actually been accomplished in
a single generation, and the man who took the
first practical step, Elie zer Ben Jehuda, will
have a place in history.
"Mr. Ben Jehuda is at the present moment
in New York, completing hi ; great work which
he besan in 1880.
The Jewish problem is this: How can we
secure for Jews, wherever they may live, the
?ame rights as these enjoyed by non-Jews?
How un we secure for the world the full con?
tribution that the Jews can make if unham
; ere ! by artificial limitations?
"There are two sides to the problem, that of
lividual Jew and that of the Jews collec
tively. Obviously, no individual should be
subjected to a denial of any common right or
opportunity enjoyed by non-Jews anywhere by
?-. of the fact that he is a Jew. The Jews
collectively should enjoy the sarre rights to
?:rcw and develop as do other groups of peo
; le, snd, standing upon the broad foundation
of na'i nality, Zionism aims to give them full
development
is not a movement to remove all
the Jews in the wor'd compulsonly to Pales?
tine. In the first p'ace. there are 14.000,000
and Palestine would not accommodate
more than one fifth of that number. In the
second place, the movement is not one to com?
pe* any one to go to Palestine.
"Tbe burden ha-; fallen on America to main?
tain the Zionist movement, now so promising
after so many years of travail, while the leid
ers o* the governing committee, most of them
men of the nations at war, are not free l<s
work.
"There sre spc ial i casons why the Jews in
America will lully perform their obliRation,
.'estire i,ives promise of doing more for
American Jew than he can ever do for
l';!es?:r.e; fir the Jewish renaissance in Pales?
tine will help us to make for the attainment of*
Ameritan ideals oi democracy and social jus?
rice, that large contribution for which religion
and life have peculiarly fitted the Jew."