The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-23
PATRIOTIC. WOMEN
The National Congress Chooses
Patriotic Subjects for ".
Consideration -
ON WASHlNGT0NS BIRTHDAY,
The Patriotism Of the MARTYR
Higher Than That of the
Battlefield

"ASnANoiON, EeD. Gov aShlngtOn't
birthday the National Congress oi
Women chose patriotic subjects for con
slderation. Kate Brownlee Sherman oi
Ohio read the report of the committee
ON patriotic teaching. She then dis.
cussed the assistance of patriotism in
founding and preserving free institu.
tions. She said in part:
Highest Form of Patriotism,
patriotism does not reach its highest
form ON the battlefield when the trnm.
pets blare and the cannons roar and
the general cries Forwardr Splendid
is the patriotism that leads men to die
Tor their country in the forefront of
battle; but splendid beyond human
speech is the patriotism that>leads to the
martyrs stake, to the death of humiliA-
ton, defeat and the reproach of men.
she who leads temperance crusade is
Is nobler than he who wrenched Jerusa-
lem from the Saracens.
Schools Better Than Armories.
He who founds school is greater
than he who builds an armory. A free
kindergarten that teaches the use of
hand and eye and fertile brain is better
than a mission that distributes aims. A
national training school of industrial
arts would do more for popular advance
ment in decade than West Point has
done I'm all the years of it's existence.
Miss Frances Il. Willard then spoke
ON patriotism as factor i'm the advance
ment of women.
Ellen s. Bussey of Washington spoke
ON what the flag has cost women.
Patriotism i'm the School.
Louise Barnum Robbins of Michigan
then discussed the part played by pa
triotism through the schools i'm forming
the character of American citizens. She
said:
THE people have established free
schools and free education. If need be.
let them assume control of the text
books and let few Jeffersons and Web
sters and Clays and Wendell Phillips f,e'
found for the noble task of compiling
in our school books the high thoughts of
man ON God, liberty and patriotism, TO
be absorbed by the outreaching hearts
Of children. With the right text book.
place in the schools -~~~
Teachers With Lofty Ideas
Of integrity, honor, country and patriot
ism, place in the schools the starry flag
that the children shall learn to do hom-
age to it as well as to grand ideas.
Teach the inspiring Star Spangled Ban
ner' and Rally Round the Flag and
there win be a rally, and the children
will learn to love the flag whose folds
protect them. Teach youth the splen-
1or OF great ideas, by recounting the un-
numbered examples which enrich our
listory.''
Patriotism in New York Kindergar-
ems, was discussed by Isabella Chase
Davis of New York.
The Balch salute was rendered by q |
lumber of little girls under the direc-
ion of Sarah G. Mink.
Flag I'm the school Room.
''The American Flag in the School
Room as am Aid to Discipline, +" was the |
nbject taken by Ella ID. Keith of San
francisco. She said:
THE American flag should be i'm the
chool room, especially in every public
chool room in the United States. Chill
ren should be taught that the flag
tands for all that is great and glorious
our history that makes every boy and
irl proud to be an American. Make
ne children feel that its presence in the
chool room is both a protection and
enediction. Make that flag the basis
nd corner stone of every ceremonial.
.et the flag be i'm the ambition of the
eacher or scholar, to bestow or to earn
he custodian of the flag