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strive to awaken the slumbering
creative instinct, to encourage its
exercise and development, to sti
mulate production ...”
A Jewish Homeland
Justice Brandeis did not live to
see his life-long work in the in
terest of a Jewish homeland come
to fruition but was able to set the
stage for it. “A man is a better citi
zen of the United States for being
also a loyal citizen of his state,
and of his city; for being loyal to
his family, and to his profession or
trade; for being loyal to his college
or his lodge,” he said. Every Amer
ican Jew who aids in advancing the
Jewish settlement in Palestine,
though he feels that neither he nor
his descendants will ever live
there, will likewise be a better
man and a better American for
doing so.”
The Jewish People
‘Throughout long years which
represent my own life, I have been
to a great extent separated from
Jews,” the Justice said. “I am very
ignorant in things Jewish. But re
cent experiences, public and pro
fessional, have taught me this: I
find Jews possessed of those very
qualities which we of the twentieth
century seek to develop in our
struggle for justice and democracy;
a deep moral feeling which makes
them capable of noble acts; a deep
sense of brotherhood of man; and
high intelligence, the fruit of three
thousand years of civilization."
Belief in the Individual
In an America fast becoming a
nation of mass communications,
mass production, mass selling, and
mass man, Justice Brandeis wanted
to protect the individual. "I abhor
averages,” he wrote, “I like the
individual case. A man may have
six meals one day and none the
next, making an average of three
per day, but that is not a good
way to live ...”
‘‘America has believed that each
race had something of peculiar val
ue which it can contribute to the
attainment of those high ideals for
which it is striving. America has
believed that we must not only give
to the immigrant the best that we
have, but must preserve for Amer
ica the good that is in the immi
grant and develop in him the best
of which he is capable.
“America has believed that in
differentiation not in uniformity,
lies the path of progress. It acted
on this belief; it has advanced hu
man happiness, and it has pros
pered.”
Trade Unions
The Justice saw in the trade
union a potential to limit the
power of the bigness of industry.
Like industry, however, he warned
against letting the unions themsel
ves become too big or uncontroll
able. “The citizen in a successful
democracy must not only have edu
cation, he must be free. Men are
not free if dependent industrially
upon the arbitrary will of another.
Industrial liberty on the part of
the worker cannot, therefore, exist
if there be overweening industrial
power. Some curb must be placed
upon capitalistic combination. Nor
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will even this curb be effective
unless the workers cooperate, as
in trade unions. Control and co
operation are both essential to in
dustrial liberty ...”
“Don’t assume that the interests
of employer and employee are
necessarily hostile — that what is
good for one is necessarily bad for
the other. The opposite is more apt
to be the case. While they have
different interests, they are likely
to prosper or suffer together. . .”
“Our employers can no more af
ford to be absolute masters of their
employees than they could afford
to submit to the mastery of their
employ ...”
In summing up his argument he
stated: “Industrial liberty must
rest upon reasonableness. We gain
nothing by exchanging the tyranny
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ditions of such gross inequality, as
to imperil the welfare of the em
ployees and of the industry.
“The history of combinations has
shown that what one may do with
impunity, may have intolerable re
sults when done by several in co
operation. Similarly what approx
imately equal individual traders
may do in honorable rivalry may
result in gave injustice, and public
injury, if done by a great corpora
tion in a particular field of busi
ness which it is able to dominate.
In other words, a method of com
petition fair among equals may be
very unfair if applied where there
is inequality of resources.”
The Justice believed that cor
porations should not be bigger than
man’s ability to control them. “I
doubt,” he said, “whether anybody
who is himself engaged in any im
portant business has time to be a
director in more than one large
corporation. If he seeks to know
about the affais of that one cor
poration as much as he should
know, not only in the interest of
the stockholders, but in the in
terest of the community, he will
have a field for study that will
certainly occupy all the time that
he has.”
Again he stated: “My objection
to interlocking directorates is not
on the assumption that men mean
to do wrong. It is because it is
humanly impossible for a man rep
resenting conflicting interests on
two boards to do right by both,
no matter how pure his purpose
is . . .”
“Multiplicity of pursuits is as
great a curse as bigness. The great
est benefactors of the human race
have not been they who attempted
many things but they who did a
few things well ...”
“Organization can never be a
substitute for initiative and for
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of capital for the tyranny of labor.
The Curse of Bigness
He saw the mounting empires of
business and government long be
fore they had matured and warned
against their uncontrolled growth.
“It may be true that as a legal
proposition mere size is not a
crime,” he wrote, “but mere size
may become an industrial and soc
ial menace, because it frequently
creates as against possible compet
itors and as against employees con
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