The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-12

Denver, july 1.-THE National EGu-
cational association today elected the
following officers: President, n. c.
Dougherty, Peoria, ILL.,; secretary,
Erwin Shepherd. Winona, Mimi;
treasurer, I. c. McNiel, Kansas City,
Mo; first vice-president, N NJ. Butler.
New York City
Among the e-presidents are E. E.
McElroy of Portland, Ore, and T. B.
Lewis Of Ogden, Utah.
Among THE directors are Earl
Barnes of California; F. B. Gault of
Idaho; John NJ. Hamilton of Mon
tana; j. E. Stubs of Nevada; ]. H.
Alderman, of Oregon; w. r. Malone
of Utah; A. L. Putnam, of Wyoming.
The main paper for the morning
session was, The duty and opportun-
ity Of schools of promoting patriotism
and good citizenship George H.
Martin. supervisor of schools, Boston,
Mass, delivered an address.
New Standards.
George H. Martin. supervisor of schools.
Boston, Mass. addressed the association
on New Standards of Patriotic Citizen
ship" He said:
Five hundred years of history have be-
come crystallized in our American nation
or patriotism. Feudahsm Vassalage
serfdom. chattel slavery and constitution
down in fight.
Blazing across the sky has been the le-
gend, The Rights of Man" For hun
dred years to American children Bunker
NIL has preserved as a type of patriot
ism in the concrete. A patriot is a man
who loves his country and is ready to
fight for it, All our patriotic literature
has the same ring. and so have the songs
we sing. As q perpetual stimulus TO this
emotion, We have put the flag over all our
school houses and have taught our chill
dren to salute IL.
What does il all mean: and what is to
be the outcome OF it all? The practical
question is, Shall this sentiment of pa
tfiotism DC allowed to expend itself in
mere effervescence, or shall its energy be
transmitted into useful work. Shall men
and women be ambitious TO be them
selves fathers and mothers rather than
sons ana daughters of the revolution. In
a word. Shall our people be willing to live
FOR Their country While they are waiting
to die for it?
To bring about this change will necessi-
tate new standards of patriotism. We
must move from the fifteenth century to
the twentieth. Instead of class diStinc-
ton embodied in ths laws and customs
we must see legal, social equality. And
we must See that a great Independent ma
ton will not have to fight over the old
battles. Dut meet new enemies and call
for new weapons.
New Enemies.
When we have come to know what
these new enemies are, we shall realize
that the work of patriotism is no longer
struggle with principalities and powers,
but against spiritual wickedness in high
places.
Our work. therefore, in the education of
the young for citizenship, will be three
sided. We shall need first TO get beneath
the manifestations of patriotic emotions
in the past to the essential and underlying
principles. Next, We shall need to show
what are the peculiar perils of Our coun-
try today.
And, third we must teach how these
enemies are TO be met and conquered: in
other words, how tho old spirit must man
ifest itself under the new conditions. 1t
Will be our business to teach that our
foes are OF our own household; that idle
ness, intemperance, luxury and eXtrava-
gance may destroy d people, that a venal
ballot and a corrupt judiciary may throw
down in a night al the bulwarks Of good
government.
Wicked men on the bench may light
!. n, pipes with Magma Ch&rta. ana the
situations, and combina tons CT men may
make or unnake laws for selfish pur-
poses, and under the glise of laws for the
people the people may be oppressed. The
twentieth century patriot must be, first
of all, of soun1 manhood. We must
limit the two extremes in which two
fed and the hungry and ragged idlers,
both alike preying on the public.
The New Patriotism.
Next the new patriotism will recognize
in q substantial way the mutual obliga-
tons which grow OUT of the interdepen-
dence of men in society. Fair dealing
must be its supreme characteristic and it
must be shot through with the spirit of the
golden rule. The whole industrial sys-
tenn today is practically in the hands of
ism will penetrate to the core of this
system and bring back to it the sense of
personal responsibility which i. has lost.
By this standard will the patriotism of
the public good. for the countrys sake, TO
sacrifice private interests of time and
money and thought; to sink partisan pre-
JUDGES, and to unite with all other men
inclined in an alliance offensive
and defensive for good government, bust
ness government? VIII they vote? VIII
nicipal offices? Will they serve on juries?
Will they fight the saloon and the gamh-
ing interest on their own ground? VIII
ney ngRi , '9 i5eS p2I Demand and mgr rb o for
t-first, last and all the time-clean men
and clean measures
Southern Patriotism.
Joseph Baldwin, Austin, Texas.
.reated the subject Patriotism OF
Southland" He said the people of
he south rejoiced today that the lost
cause was lost. The great question in
The south was the lifting up of the
solored race ITO citizenship, and it was
being done. He spoke in defense of
he whites in restricting the political
lights of the blacks.
A P Marble, superintendent of
schools al Omaha, Neb.. read a paper
IN The ethical element in patriot
sm.''
Ethical Elements.
First-The word patriotism is derived |
from root that signifies TO protect. and
N its secondary sense, to feed. To pro-
ect and TO provide are the fundamental
IDEAS of patriotism This protection was |
1t first exercised by the patriarch or |
father of the family.
Second-With the growth of families, |
his fundamental idea was extended to |
he tribe or gems; and,A
7Third-After further extension. the idea