Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-11-26

" \ eagle in our own country
n. n. NAYLoR. he sketched the great
ness Of this nation in her resources and said
that this was Gods country, and Gods country
demands godly people. They should have an
intelligent belief in equal human rights. This
sentiment since the enunciation one hundred
and fifteen years ago that all men were created
free and equal had met with reviling and GEN.
sure from an aristocracy of blood. 1t was a
new departure and the men who gave ii did not
appreciate its fullness. They grasped the
meaning when bringing men down to the level,
but overlooked the better meaning of uplifting
the down-trodden and giving freedom to the
enthrallcd. Nine decades had to pass before
the nation comprehended the full meaning
Such trust demands a citizen who enter
tains sacred regard for the law and law was
mans best friend, terror only to evil-doers,
and obedience to law is the nations pulse.
While all laws were not equitable there should
there was a way by which they could be blotted
from the statute books. While there they
should be revered. Such a regard for law
would create and enforce high esteem for the
rights of others.
REGARD FOR LAW.
The carrying of concealed weapons, the cause
Of the quarrels and shooting affairs with which
the daily papers are filed, would then be done
away with, lynch law, relic of barbarism.
Wouiu CC DAOttcu OUT, anu ulRuer lQcai
would result in greater care being taken in
creating laws. Policy and party would be for
gotten amid the responsibility OF equitably dis
pensing justice to 60,000,0U0 human beings
Law-making would not then be simply party
adjusting machine, dividing places of honor or
profit or studying ways and means for self
perpetuation. Civil service would then be-
come an arm Of the government and peace,
plenty. economy. equality, industry and Chris
tan civilization fill the land with happy homes
and joyous, contented, patriotic people.
WE LACK REVERENCE.
No nation lacks reverence more than We.
While the church and clergy are respected, we
hardly reverence either, and we as soon hustle
q clergyman in a crowd as any one else and as
soon run into church in shower as into q
ware house. But little respect is shown to law
makers, and if one fails to secure position for
an applicant he is threatened that another shall
take his place, forgetting that the country,
large as 1t is, is not capacious enough to supply
each OF the voters of either of the parties with
position and that the one who worthily rep
resents his constituency could have had q much
easier time and become rich much faster if he
had remained at home. The best wisest and
broadest citizens should be chosen for law
makers and toeXecute the laws, and they should
receive the profoundest respect and most sacred
allegiance.
CHARACTER OF OUR EDUCATION.
There is no lack of what is called education
here, but much, he feared, was not more than
a species of top dressing. One has said of the
character and most general result of the edu-
cation Is distaste for manual labor. There
are some good schools, but some teachers and
principals of high schools say that education
should raise the pupils above drudgery, and
American workshops are being emptied of
America s sons and American acres are being
given to sons of foreigners. He gave it as a
thought that the nation that is too weak and
too proud to dc its own tOiling cannot
have life enough to live at all.
1t can have but few subtler enemies than
that system of education which would separate
brain from muscle. 1t is one Of the mischiev-
Gus spades that helps to dig deeper the gulf
which places capital on one cap and toll OH the
other-one branded monopoly and tyranny and
the other waving the red flag of anarchy and
communism. general system of education
which appeals to mans lowest passions and SELL
ishness, seldom to duty, obligation, patriot
ism or adaptation. is not the system we should
have.
Is he a statesman whose thoughts and words
and toll and strife are actuated only by what is
called salary? Are they to become creators of
equitable laws, opponents of loyalty, &C.. to do
anything (excepting toilD to make a living?
COMMON SENSE WANTED.
Would that our educational system could be
inspired by common sense quite as much as by
uncommon sense and that great fundamental
truths be taught as easily as are doubtful
propositions.
American institutions of learning ought to
elevate the curriculum of education far above
those of other lands. He had failed to learn
why education was confined to the intellect at
the expense OF the heart; why so much pains
and time is given to dead languages and deader
principles, while not an ounce on the great
principles OF purity. rectitude, industry,
sobriety, magnanimity and patriotism. Edu-
cate young men and young women in head
only and you send out class too proud to
toll at any honest calling, but not too proud to
steal and to condescend to almos. any other
vilenes5.
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.
Such trust demandsIAmerican citizenship
a citizen who believes in and is loyal to the
superintendent of Gods providence over us as
nation. There is 8 demand in this crucial
hour for men who implicitly believe and
cherish the thought that this heritage is a
sacred trust; that the powers that be are
ordered of God. 1t should b. known that there
is more Of God in our history than Columbus,
Washington, Lincoln or Grant. Our citizen
ship is too broad to admit of all our acknowl-
edgment to second causes He would have it
written IL. the heart Of every citizen. II am a
citizen Of Gods country" and would debar
such DIS did not believe SO from citizenship, for
in the days of Hebrew glory there was no
greater enemy than the enemy to Hebrews
God-the blatant, flippant. goddess iutidels who
come here and talk OF free thought and free
speech-such have no right here.
After quoting from Napoleon at the pyramids
DR.. Naylor closed as follows: From the pyra-
mid pinnacle of opportunity in which God has
placed US VIC look down on forty centuries vet
20 come. We stretch our hands into the future
with power to mold the destinies of unborn
millions All.
1--WE are living. we are living,
In a grand and awi III time,
In telling
To be living is sublime"
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