The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-02-06
PATRIOTS.
Mss. Williams tsives Her views of
Their Qualities.

Heroes and Saints" by Mrs. Flor
ence Williams.
There is remarkable movement
going on now with increasing force
and power in the world. No doubt |
Of the same movement has
been felt here. 1t is movement
that will grow in strength and import
ance. The movement in the United
States is a movement in the direction
OF the best encouragement to the
spirit of true patriotism. Profound
learning, arithmetic and mathema-
tics, only, are not sufficient to make
a citizen in the fullest and noblest
sense of the word. There must be
something more brought to bear in
the education, in the developing
thoughts of our citizens.
The wisest Americans are earnestly
considering how best to introduce
those influences in the schools and
colleges which shall make patriotism
not merely an emotion, q warming of
the heart toward the land that has
developed and brought up the indi-
vidual, but of what patriotism re-
quires from him and what its de-
mands are.
This growing movement has found
expression in some things that are
only sentimentalism and folly. An
incident occurred on board one of
the large steamers sailing between
San Francisco and Japan, under the
command of an English captain.
According to English custom the
prayers of the Episcopal Church
were read evey Sunday morning for
the benefit of all who would attend,
and in this service occurred prayer
for the Queen of England, followed
by prayer for the President of the
United States, and party of Ameri-
cans on board were indignant that
the President of the United States
should be prayed for after Queen
Victoria. This emotion moved them
so much that they made terrible
fuss, so that the captain had TO fix
this up the next Sunday morning.
He had to do something to quiet
these Americans q will not say
patriotic Americans). Theirs was
patriotism that we do not wish to
cultivate in many ways. In many
places in the United States they have
raised the flag oyer the school houses.
That is all right. Nobody doubts
that at all. The power of attach
ments formed in early life is meal
culable. 1t is not patriotism that the
nation is seeking to develop, then,
it is the power in the soul that will
make patriotism, not emotion or
sentiment. But 1t is continually in
creasing and expanding. But this
sort of patriotism, this outsweling
force of patriotism, this spirit OF
what the thing itself is, grows to be
living power. The more SO the
more distracting it becomes. The
less the individual recognizes that
it is not merely the praying for the
President of the United States ahead
of Queen Victoria alone which is
patriotism. 1t is not the kind that is
sought for in the hearts of our men.
II is with belief and hope that l
can find confirmation of my doctrine
in the history of the past that ] speak
to you this evening. My work has
laid more in past history than in
politics. 1t is comparatively seldom
that you will find patriotism In poll
tics, but in history often. For
without it no nation has remained
great. No nation has been able to
hold on to patriotism. With This
power of patriotic force come in the
men and women. BY it small states
have been great. Little countries
have stood in everlasting strength.
So long as there was in the hearts of
the men and women this genuine
patriotism, the national life was
strong. When it has died the nation
has died.
Before l take up this history of the
past l want to lay down clear and
distinct my views of that love of
country, the sentimental patriotism
which is not patriotism. The two are
distinct one from the other. In one
there is the thoughts Of the country's
beauty, its splendor, It's wealth, its
vince clad hills, its magnificent har-
bors, its quiet homes. AS home his
footsteps he has turned from wander
ing in foreign land, the citizen ex-
claims, "This is my own, my native
land" and his heart warns as he has
said it. Whether it be Scotland OIL
Switzerland, or the United States
That is net patriotism. IL is not the
thing that will make the country
safe. That 10 simply an emotion, a
sentiment, natural it is true; but We
must have more than that to build uI
national life. We must have per.
! fectly clear idea recognized in youth
When the boy stands at his mothers
knee he should get lessons from bel
which fire his mind to make him {
patriotic man. He must not only
reyel in its wealth and beauty, but III
must be ready to fight for it. AnC
l impress it on every woman be
fore me to consider that this is you