Hydrophobia Quotes
Historically, this is an amazing quotation. It is typical of analyses of Islam in the 21st century when America and most of the non-Muslim world was having great difficulties with Islamic militancy. But this was written at the end of the 19th century, in 1899. Churchill had a grasp of much that it would take other politicians a century to understand. This book was relatively unknown to all but a few historians, military men, and political scholars. (There was a shortened version published in 1902 which did not include this passage and that is the version that Project Gutenberg posted on the Internet. So do not assume that the quotation is wrong if you cannot find it in the version you are reading on the Internet. You need the 1899 longer and more detailed version.
Hydrophobia was a name for rabies where and infected rabid animal would seemingly irrationally attack almost anything in the immediate vicinity. Gompers was the elected head of the newly formed American Federation of Labor which like all other active unions and union organizations to terrorize Van Cleave and other members of the NAM. Van Cleave was rabidly opposed to any anti-trust government “interference” with business and he was also virulently opposed to labor unions. See {638616}, {638615}, {638612}, and {638613}.
