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general welfare. The Mob is dom- inated by violence, license, hate, injustice, passion, subservience, intolerance, envy, distrust, ignor- ance, blind greed. -

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Those who want to maintain successful self-government have. the secret if they will watch. what governs, their own thinking about government. No citizen need look very far to see where violence, intolerance, subservience, and greed are attacking democracy Dr Butler believes one form of greed is particularly active, threatemng revolution through taxation," redistributing wealth

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Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 1988. and penalising enterprise. Cer-

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tainly grab-bag government, in which each individual or group asks only, What is there in it for me? is not democracy.

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Self-government has never suc-these animal-like types of thought.

are attempting to turn democracy ceeded except among men who into mobocracy. And for bring- exercised self-control. The Greeks ing out the opposite God-like qualities, nothing is better than had it. The Puritans had it. In the Puritan's practice of appeal-

ing to their goürzez addition, the Puritans sought to

govern self by divine help. They

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than a combination of private

to prejudices, selfish interests, or personal passions. It was rather

the sum of the best wisdom and motives they had that was why men could speak of "vox populi, vox Dei."

Mussolini'a increasing anti- Semitism would not have been approved of by Napoleon, upon whom he so often models him- self. Knowing their value, Bonaparte Befriended the Jews, and was largely led to do so by the play Esther produced at Court by Talma in 1806. The play, following the Bible story, told how Esther, Queen of King Ahasuerus, saved her Jew ish kinafolk from an impending "pogrom The next morning, when breakfasting with Talma and M. de Champagny, his Minis- ter of the Interior, Napoleon be- gan talking about the play. "Ahasuerus," he declared, "was but a poor sort of king" Then, turning to De Champagny, he asked, "What about the present Jews? What is their state of existence Make me out a re- port about them."

Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler does well to remind us that "for any real comprehension of the meaning and principles of a de-

The report made was closely mocratic form of government the studied by Napoleon. He sum- People must be distinguished moned before him an assembly of Jewish rabbis, questioned them from the Mob." The individuals closely about the Mosaic Law,

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are the same; what distinguishes them is their thinking. The People, as the electorate of ́ ́a de mocracy, must act to some, ex- tent at least on a basis of reason,

and then decided upon a most-re- markable step: the convening in France of the Sanhedrin, the Jews? highest council, which had not met for centuries. To the French Sanhedrin in 1807 came rabbis and learned; Jews from France Germany, Italy, and liberty, kindness, justice, self- Netherlands, and all parts of the o Napoleonic domains. The results restraint, independence, tolerance,

KALELERISING, TAG MYSTILL NO SHUTnt were greater freedom for the magnanimity, faith," telligence, Jews and the establishment of the regional Jewish organisation inselfish consideratio for the which France retains to this day.