The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-06
TOoMAkE PATRIOTS.
Recommendations of the WOmen's Ma
tiOnal Council.

Recommendations of the Women's Ma
tional Council.
To the Editor:
II it would be your pleasure, would be
glad to see the enclosed clipping copied into
the Representative. Yours truly
WILLIAM MEIGHEN.
We take pleasure in complying with Sen
atOr Meighen's request The article is an
excellent one:
washington, D. c., Feb Pat today's
meeting of the National Council of Women
the following report was made by the COM
mittee on patriotic teaching:
Your committee on patriotic teaching
cannot too strongly commend the great
peace movement to teach patriotism in the
schools of the United States. public and
parochial, and cannot too earnestly con-
denim the military movement which would
turn our schools into drill camps and fill
the minds Of our boys with the un-Ameri-
can ambition for war and bloodshed Par
ticularly do they disapprove bill intro
duced into the United States congress au-
thorizing the government to detail officers
from the regular army to serve as drill
masters IN our pubic SCHOOLS.
Your committee believes there should
be some united action upon the part of the
women of the republic to educate our youth
and children in true American patriotism
since now, as ever, the fruits of ignorance
are oppression on the one side and lawless-
ness on the other. They believe that in
struction in free government should begin
In the primary grades of all our schools,
and that over every SchOolhouse and in
every school room the stars and stripes
should proclaim the gospel of the golden
rule upon which our government was based
Ihey believe that upon the fresh plastic
minds of the little children should be early
and lndelibly 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 the deca "a
ton Of independence should be hung be-
side every blackboard, and the great truths
demonstrated daily that freedom means
fraternity, and fraternity fair play, and
fa1r play an even chance in life, liberty and
the pursuit Of happiness; that freedom
means the fraternity that will give as well
as get, that finds it's highest function in
spending its resources for the common
good. AS patriotic women of the republic
scourged and laarried by wars that have
not been of ourOwnmaking and menaced
and tortured bgscalamities and crises, in
dustrial and financial. which an educated
patriotism might have averted. let us lend
our encouragement to every movement
which shall have. for it's end the assimila-
ton and unification Of all sections, classes,
creeds and nationalities into one homo
geneous American Intelligence, an intelli-
gence which will justify the confidence of
the republic inc the enduring powers Of
free self-governn1ent: an intelligence that
teaches that he who lives for ones country
is greater than he who dies for it; an in
telligence that is all-embracng, all-pervad-
ing, universal, the triltmph of free thought,
free speech and free and unfettered reason
over brute force, an intelligence that be-
holds in the stars and stripes the symbol
of justice, equality and fraternal love-"