The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-02-28

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American Intelligence, an intelligence whic
will Justify the confidence oil the founders of til
Republic in the enduring power of free self-goy
ernment; an intelligence that teaches that h
| who lives for ones country is greater than h
who dies for it, an intelligence that is all en-
bracing, all-pervading, universal, the triumph
! of free thought, free speech and free and unfel
tered reason over brute force an intelligence
that bcholds in the Stars and Stripes the sym
boi of justice. equality aud fraternal love.
PATRIOTISM IN GOVERNMENT.
The report Of the committee was followed b,
| the following presentation of what constitute
true Patriotism as Factor in Founding ant
| Preserving Free Institutions" by Kate Brown
lee Sherwood, who spoke as follows:
IL it be true, as Webster says, that patriotism
| is the passion to love ones country, then WI
| women of the National Council are. indeed
patriotic. We have left the pleasures of home
| and home loves and our own fresdes to com,
| here to Washington to devise the best thing
| for our country. We are here at our own ex
| pense. with no thought of gain and no am hitioT
for office. emoluments and rewards. We are
here because we are patriots, in a country
founded on individual rights and because the
burden is upon us to extend those rights fol-
the protection Of ourselves, of society, of the
Republic itself.
Patriotism does not find it's best expression
in military review, the CLEAN of brass buttons
and the toss of feather. The greatest mill
tary patriot this country has ever produced
looked forward to the time when the only
armed force the United States would need was
rational police. In his patriotic watch word
" Let Us have peace" is couched the statesman
shin of the 18th century.
Patriotism does not reach its highest form on
the battlefield when the trumpets blare aud the
cannon roar and the General cries " For ward I"
y1n,d Il 49,. Al. - u
die TOR his country in the forefront of battle !;
but splendid beyond human speech to depict
is the patriotism that leads to the martyrs
stake, the death Of humiliation, defeat and the
reproach of men.
Regulus. captured by the Carthagenians and
sent TO Rome, on his honor to secure consent to
the proposed treaty or return to ignomiDious
death, and who gathering his compstriots
around him prevailed upon them to reject the
treaty. aud then, bidding good-by to wife and
home and children and friends, went back to
meet his DOOM was greater patriot than Julius
Cesar swinging the Roman eagles over Gaul.
The $50 captured Scottish patriots of Both
well Brig. who saw 600 Of their com patriots
die OF cold and exposure and starvation in
Gray Friars churchyard, yet steadily refused
the profered oath never to take up arms
against the King, but chose. instead. Danish
ment or death, were sublimer patriots than
they fell in a handto-hand fight with the
British dragons.
She who leads temperance crusade is nobler
than he who wrehched Jerusalem from the
Saracens. lie who POUNDS school is greater
than he who builds an armory. A free kinder.
garien, that teaches the use of hand and eye
and fertile brain, is better than a mission that
distributes aims. National trainiDg-school
of industrial arts would do more for popular
advancement in decade than West Point has
done in all the years of its existence
Madame de Stael said, " Liberty is ancient,
despotism is modern" Liberty, equality, fra
terniy are the natural rights of man. Priv-
legged persons lead to classes. and classes to
hereditary rights. and hereditary rights to in
equality and oppression. The highest patriot
Ism is to remove Inequalities, to maintain
rights. AZ q.
IN the earliest tribal family descent was in
The female line; paternity M ght be questioned,
maternity was snre.y When tribal families
multiplied and fought other tribal families |
Urcc became power, hestrong man became
he chief and demanded the rights of force. |
md brought MP Sous 10 perpetuate those rights. |
lie parceled out the lands among other strong |
men; the weak men became vassals and the |
women slaves. To maintain the strong man |
n all his dignities and emolumeDts; to grant |
Tim implicit obedience: to strive. to toll, to
ndnre, to submit; this was patriotism among
he Greeks and Romans and Germanic Aryans
Sut now aud again some germ, thrown up by |
he hidden fernent Of the subject classes
would assert himself, rally his clans, and lead
o new conquest. So from the tribal family
30 commonwealth was evolved; a poor, lame,
oLbling commonwealth. like that of Greece
r Rome, yet through it all recognition of
Individual rights. recognition that gave
dion to Athens, Lycurgus 10 Sparta, an Au-
ustjne to Rome, Luther to Germany a CAL
in to Geneva, a John Knox to Scotland, an
liver Cromwell 10 England, Washington to
merica. The world has been building its
louuments and shouting its huzzas for the
Iannibals, the Cesars. the Nspoleons, the We'll
nptons. the man on horseback, wherever he
Jay have harried and conquered. The time
coming when the men aud women who have
peace will be placed on our highest
the men and women who have re-
aimed humanity, and established fraterual
tiZenship, through the equaiIzng cults and
t., sciences and inventions, through good
through the Golden Rule lived
id taught in the hearts and conscences of
en-.
Patriotism is fraternal; it is the passion to
rye ones country through serving our fell.
w-creatures. To him whose heart has been
cited in its pure white fervent heat, how
utemptibe the boarding OF wealth, the emol- q
nents of Office, the clacking of the galleries, g
e plumes and pa eantry of power, the castles c
the nights, and the marble palaces on the Q
for which men live and diel
Thomas Jefferson's VOW, when entering upon
6 civic duties, never to enter upon any pro-
ri that would add 10 his private emoluments
bile engaged in his country's service, is wor- :
Y of the man who penncd the Declaration of \
dependence.
Under the lop-sided Republic of Greece re- !,
ricted rights usurped the place of individual q
1hts. In Athens the wife was house serf r
der the espionage of eunuchs; in Sparta she :,
ss a brawny street wrestler with prize train
8. This was the best that Scion and Lycur- =
IS could do for women. Indeed, Scion and y
rcurgus differed widely when they came =
legislate for women as do the American leg.
ators who follow their laws to-day-tbe laws | .
er against which, for nearly 2 500 years, has :
ELI written the word Failure" A
Do you wonder that the hghly-cnltiyated
d intellectual citizen Of Athens began to .
ink of his home as place for feeding and A
eping, and fled from association with slaves .,
d eunuchs to the intellectual compan ionship ~
an Aspasia, the siren embraces of q +
ryne2 >,
And what OF Republican Rome-ROme that Q,
tbheld the franchise from her strong young G
inhOod; that held her women chattels; that G
graded labor: that gave TO her idle masses m
3 alternative of military service in foreign Il
IDS, or poverty, nakedness and serfdom in So
Dir own country Rome, whose privileged | IL
sses fought their way to place and power for II
, paliry bread that fed a hungry mob?
me, where corruption staked in high w
ices; whose Consnls aud Senators took open | n,
hes. whose legisInfive halls poro crowd "a | 4,