Evening star., 1895-02-22
Patriotism Made the Subject of To-
days Addresses.
OLD GLORY HOEORED BY THE COUNCIL
Instruction at School is Ones Duty
to His Country.
SOME STIRRING SPEECHES

the platform We're draped American flags
of all sizes. The desks were hung with lit
tie silk flags. the front of the platform
was hung with mammoth flags and each
of the officers and delegates who were seat
ed on the stage held in her hands mina-
ture copy of the stars and stripes.
1t in every sense a patriotic occa-
sion. The session was held under the au-
spices of the councils committee on pa
triOtic instruction and all the set speeches
on the program were ornamented with
elouuent expressions of love of country.
Many different phases of the subject were
discussed-the influence of patriotism In
developing personal and national character.
as an element in government. as factor
In woman's development and the needs or
fuller and freer teaching or the prln-
ciplSS of patriotism
When the meeting was called to order
by Mrs. May Wright Sewall promptly at
IL o'clock this morning there was scarcely
vacant seat in the hall, and these dld
not long remain unoccupied.
waving Flags.
1t was an enthusiastic gathering. Many
of the ladies' In the audience carried little
flags and these they waved in the air
on occasion in lieu of the more conventional
forms of applause.
Some of the ablest speakers in .he
council were on the program or me
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the other that the subjects and the
addresses We're eminently suited to
national holiday like this. sufficed to
make the session the most interesting of
all that have been held so far. The spirit
of the life of George Washington seemed
to animate all alike. and the day was one
that will not soon he forgotten by those
who were so fortunate as 10 be present.
Mr. Bonney's Address.
The session started out with something
of in he Of adj
from a man. But the position he holds
made it very appropriate that that par
ticular representative of the stronger-phys-
tcally stronger-sex should be given the
freedom OF the platform"
II was Mr.. Charles c. Bonney. president
of the worlds fair congresses of 1893. In
that capacity he was brought into close
contact with the members of the worlds
congress of representative women and
with the women of the national council
The result of this is that Mr. Bonney has
the greatest respect for asSemblageS of
women and their ability in meetings of this
sort.
MIR. Bonney made a very handsome ad-
dress, in which he urged more general
teaching in the schools of the principles
of the American Constitution and of
American history. In conclusion he paid
high tribute to the congress of women
held in Chicago in lS.E-
Mrs. Sewali. on behalf of her fellow-of-
ficers and the members of the council,
pressed gratitude for the pleasant words
Mr. Bdnney had uttered. Then Mrs Kate
Brownlee Sherwood. chairman of the COM
him with u little flag. and this in turn
brought about another little speech of
thanks.
Mrs. Kate BrownIee Sherwood.
Then the regular order OF the day was
taken up, and Mrs. Sherwood read the re-
pert of the committee on patriotic con-
struction.
Lsnfa xrrIa har of
chairman of the committee on patriotism,
National Council of Women. is a native of
Pennsylvania.
She is the daughter of the late Judge
Jas. BroWnIee and the wife of Gen. Isaac r.
Sherwood, ex-Congres Snnan and eX-5ecre-
tary of state of Onio a soldier journalist.
They married early and have pursued
their editorial work together, on some of
the leading Ohio newspapers. and their cor
respOndence has extended far and wide
Both are authors of several books and
have an assured place in patriotic Htera-
tUre well as in journalism.
Mrs. Sherwood is the author of several
books anu a poet whose lyrics are recited
On every patriotic platform. Although the
recognized poet of the Union soldier. she
vas among the first of northern writers TO
prc claim the mission of peace. and for this
was the chosen poet of southern soldiers
imbued with the same spirit at the unveil-
ing of the Albert Sidney johnson eques-
trian\ statute at New Orleans. She is the
prs SiGent of Canton SOroSiS of the General
Federation of Clubs of the International
Press Association and the Daughters of
the Revolution. She was an early member
of New York Soross and the Washington
Literary Club. Mrs. Sherwood is past ma
tiCnal president of the Woman's Relief
Corps. and the official delegate of that
body, 10000 strong. to the national coun-
Gil
Report of Committee Oh Patriotic
Teaching.
Your committee on patriotic teaching
cannot too strongly commend the great
peace movement to teach patriotism in all
the schools of the United States. public
and parochial. and cannot too earnestly
condemn the military movement, which
would turn our schools into drill camps
and fill the minds of boys with the
un-Amerioan ambition for war and blood
shed. Particularly do they disapprove a
bill introduced into the United States Con-
gress authorizing the government to de
tail officers from the regular army to serve
as drill masters in our public schools.
Your committee believe there should be
united action upon the part of the women
OF the republic to educate our youth and
children in true American patriotism. since
row. ever. the fruits of ignorance are
oppression on the side and law
Ie.sncss on the other. They believe that in
structiOn in free government should be
begun in the primary grades of all our
schools, and that over every school house
and in every school room the stars ami
stripes should proclaim the gospel of the
golden rule, upon which our government
was based.
They believe that upon the fresh, plastic
m,Eds of the little children should be early
and iudelibly stamped the knowledge that
they are little American citizens. with
grave trusts imposed upon them which
they must exercise on behalf of themselves
and others. They believe that in repre-
sentative government, in which every Citi-
Zen of sound mind is may become a
voter and legislator. provision should be
made 10y the state for proper instruction
in the great problems that shall confront
them. They believe that the founders of
our government We're guilty of a terrible
oversight when they neglected a school of
American citizenship and bestowed all their
care upon founding military school DIT
West Point. that from this oversight came
the terrible and devastating war that swept
the rtpublic. that from this oversight has
come the Herce conflict between labor and
capital gng through land. They
believe that al school OF American citizen-
ship would he a bulWark of national safety.
and that instead of planning how 10 in
crease our regular army and perfec; our
state militia the whole trend of lesisla-
tion should be how to inculcate in the