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Show 64 y . that tlcets shall sat] out and meet . days _,t . in these I"a it necessary . . is when the ' peaceful- wonder- with hostile intcnt upon the high ‘ , or erecting . the luring t plow the ocean and talloat t t are ptl'tecs 1 t '. that s "(‘ltln good the risine sun to the lands lying under the sun r . _. I 1 go 'and sptak shall iiayies D r that U is' it necessary. I ask kiss3 nieht ‘ ' "" 5 in nation a of ation of the power and t he might and the civiliz iaye made .it unnecessary. and_ these days when the public prints 1 . ot , the. news _ the distance across carries s te leirraphy 5 ‘ . when wireles nation: \\ e the busy toil and the power and the strength ot the . Lniinnerce do not heed the navies as messengers for conunerce. is a peculiar is independent of these excursions across the sea: ‘ it th we shall greeting of friendship which comes atid says: ' l‘I‘tCtl .bhould ction! destru s (it engine mighty the are be. for look. here a list, and you refuse the hand proffered it will he turned into ww Qimmflmlw H..." iron will speak for us and powder will bring our message to you." Friendship has never yet been made upon the basis 0t i‘ar, Friendship can only come on the basis of confidence in the instiee and the equity and in the righteousness of a nation that asks for friendship and returns it. In these days war for the purpose of bringing men together is antiquated \\'c have CllSCO\" cred other means of buildingT bridges across the sea and passages over the dividing mountains. But we aretold war is necessary in order that the world may not be asphyxiated in commercialism. \Ve must have war from time to time to learn that our life is not the summum bontun, to show men that there are higher things: than life, that men must lay down their lives: occasionally for a principle and for a cause, and therefore we must have war. \Vhat about the small nations on that theory" Are they all asphyxiated, morally Speaking? 15 their moral fiber weaker than that of the giant nations that can go to war and have these periodical moral battles and warlike fever and warlike stress and warlike trial, and then, of course, warlike triumph? The smaller nations are morally as strong and pure as any nation; nations that never had a navy, nations that have not a single regiment. I was born in a small nation of that kind, and 1 say the nation on whose territory 1 was born, a small nation, not in population as large as Chicago, is as morally strong as the giant nation which fortunately T have come now to regard as my own. and whose prosperity and honor are as dear to me as they 65 ever may be to one native under this glorious flag of ours. (Applause.) No, that theory falls to pieces the moment we test it, the moment we abandon generalities and look at the facts as they are. . They tell us we need war to save us from being submerg ed in commercialism, and then they tell us we need the navies, for commerce follows the flag. On the one hand, war is to save 115 front commerce, and on the other hand we must have war in order to further Commerce. 13 that logical? Must we have war to save us from commercialism? \Ylio profits by war? The men who control the money of the world; they profit by war and no one else. (Applause) Today ten men in this world can tell any nation to go to war or to sh *athe the sword. They have that power. No one has ever won except these ten men and their dependents. Commerce has always profited by war in that sense of the word in which is contained the proposition that we must have war from time to time in order to be saved from moral asphyxiation and moral stupor and moral decay. The facts protest against this theory. Trade has not followed the flag, and commerce has increased its hold upon the soul of the people after every war. The evils that are connected with commerce and commercialism in the sense in which it is used have always increased the day after a victory. Look at our recent history and you will find corroborating evidence. We wanted the Philippines, but at 5 per cent. and at concessions for our investment therein. So with Germany. \Vhat has come to Germany in consequence of the war that she waged against l'rance? Nationalism has come, racial prejudice has run riot. lit'lttt‘L‘ that war Germany was a nation of thinkers, a nation of men with high ideals. Since that war the German has come to believe himself to be the (iodchosen man of the world to whom all other men must pay respect; and lie has ettme tn t'trll‘nlflt'l' tierniana by the quality of their blood. My father and H'r.'intllatlier and great-grandlather were German by birth. they spoke the German language. and yet today they will tell me that l and they are not Germans. lit-cause I am not of Teutonic stock, l am a Semite. 1 am a Jew; therefore I cannot be a German. tierniany did not know anything: of this pernicious doctrine before her victory was won. |