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6 Jewish Published by The Jewish Outlook Publishing Co. Office: 522 E. and C. Building, DENVER, COLORADO. TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS AND AD VERTISERS: Make all checks and money orders payable to Dr. M. Collins, treasurer and business manager of the Jewish Outlook Publishing Company. Entered at the Denver Postofllce as Second Class Mail. JEWISH CALENDAR Sunday. Dec. 18 Fast of Tebet. Saturday, Jan. 7 New Moon Sh'bat. Sun.-Mon., Feb. 5-6. .. . New Moon Adar. Tu.-Wed., Mar. 7-8 New Moon 2d Adar. Monday, March 20 Fast of Esther. Tu.-Wed., Mar. 21-22. . .Purim. Thursday, April 4 New Moon Nissan. Thursday, April 20 Ist day of Passover. Fri.-Sat., May 5-6 New Moon Iyar. Tuesday, May 23 Lag B’Omer (33d day of Omer). Sunday, June 4 New Moon Si van. Friday. June 9 Ist day of Pentecost. Mon.-Tu., July 3-4 New Moon Tammuz. Thursday, July 20 Fast of Tammuz. Wednesday, Aug. 2.... .New Moon Ab. Thursday, Aug. 10 Fast of Ab. Thurs.-Fri., Aug. 31- Sept. 1 New Moon Ellul. Saturday, Sept. 30 New Year (5666). DECEMBER 16, 1904. EDITORIAL. Russia’s Con stitutional Fitness tional government of even the most con servative kind, as constitutional govern ment is understood in western Europe. They may become ripe for it some day, but that day will not dawn in our time. ’ ’ In the twentieth century a Christian nation not fit for self-government! Just think of it! Church and state have cer tainly acted in harmony here and what a result! No one can say as much for Japan, but then the Japanese are heathen. When Isaiah, living in the eighth century, before the Christian era, announced to the peoples that “they shall Shall There be Peace beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more, ’ ’ he was not considered as uttering blas phemy, but rather as bringing a divine message for Israel and all the world. Says the London Times: ‘ ‘ The masses of the Russian people are unfit for constitu- THE JEWISH OUTLOOK Three centuries later that mighty intel lectual and moral genius of the Greeks, Socrates, speaking to a less spiritual minded and less morally earnest people than did Isaiah, was rewarded with that immortal cup of poison. And now, twenty-six hundred years after Isaiah’s preachment, the European newspapers, according to extracts in the Literary Digest, consider Air. Roosevelt’s peace conference as species of blas phemy. We read: “In any event, we would give to our friends of peace once again the good ad vice to cease their propagauda. It beats in vain against the force of those consid erations which make war inevitable. The impulse to make war is so intimately as sociated with the impulse of self-preser vation among nations that the effort to eliminate it is as hopeless as would be an attempt to extinguish human selfish ness as the mainspring of all human ef fort and achievement by merely de nouncing it as inhuman and immoral. Only fools could think of undertaking such things. Ever since there began to be such a thing as world history, the de velopment of nations and peoples has, as a rule, been accomplished by means of war. Why should there be a change .all at once? Since we must regard war, in view of the philosophical-historical con ception of Moltke, as ‘an element in the divine order of the world,’ it follows that those who would do away with it are act ing in opposition to Divine Providence.” O, Isaiah, thou shouldst be living at this hour. The world hath need of thee. Truly one would believe such expres sions as in the above citation to be a joke were they not written in so serious a vein. Now from the philosophic inter pretation of the evolution of society as set forth by Spencer and others, it is perfectly plain to the thinking mind that society from the indefinite homo geneous state in which every family like every germ cell and every egg was alike in all its parts, every family sufficient unto itself, its own farmer, bootmaker, clothier, etc., has developed into the present state through gradual unfold ment in which every individual like every cell in the organ or body is but a part contributing its share towards the proper functioning of the body social. And this body social has grown from city to state to nation. If the doctrine of evolution has any meaning, it must mean that all nations shall grow into one “humanity,” one grand harmonious social body in which it will be as impos sible for one nation to war with another and retain the integrity of humanity as it is now for the lung of an individual body to war with the liver and retain the integrity of the man. Or in other words, as the Hebrew prophet put it: A time shall come, must in the course of social evolution come, when “they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” The Jew has a mission and that mis sion is peace! Anent this Jewish mission let us turn again to the Jewish home. Our friend and schoolmate, Rabbi W. 11. Fiuescliriber does us the honor to criticize an editorial on “Zangwill and Zionism” in a newly launched publica tion, the Tri-City Advocate, lie prom ises to prove that “Zionism is eminently practical and that the enemy, by grace of controversy, is absurdly idealistic.” Our friend argues that because Moses, the first Zionist, married a non-Jewess, Zangwill’s step in that direction is quite pardonable. Comparisons arc usually odious and in this ease it is extremely so. It is al most absurd to argue on this subject. We might go further and show that David danced before the ark; that Jephtha sac rificed his daughter; that the priests of fered animal sacrifice; that Jeroboam set up a bull to be worshiped, etc., and that therefore anyone doing any one of these things is acting in harmony with Biblical examples. We need not be told that our Judaism to-day is not the Ju daism of Moses, nor are standards of right the same, nor are our “feelings” of moral right the same (note the differ ence between moral or religious “idea” and moral or religious “feeling”). Every Jew knows that Moses married a non-Jewess, and yet can our friend show us a Jewish pulpit, the occupant of which is married to a non-Jewess, or can he show us a Jewish congregation that would retain its spiritual leader after he had so married 1 And this not be cause the congregation is ignorant of the fact that Moses, our great spiritual leader, Zionist, liberator, etc., married