The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-07
PATRIOTISM.

aroused much resentment towards hlm-
self at various times because of his
free criticism of men and manners.
For this he has been denounced. That
he has not always been in touch with
public sentiment is true, but to be
in touch with the public sentiment is
not always the test of being right. lf
there were more such men as Presi-
dent Eliot in the country it would be
better for the country. He is thoro-
ughly independent man, and we have
none too many; he is a scholar and his
ideals are high in all things. He is
not without his faults, but his virtues
far outweigh them. He very recently,
since his severe criticism of the G.. A.
r.. has written paper entitled, What
is true patriotism?" 1t is 50 excellent,
so very different from much of the
current jingoism that passes for
patriotism, that it deserves to be read
by all He says:
Patriotism is love of country. That
love includes attachment to familiar
scenes and places, pride of race or of
family stock, love OF friends and home
religious devotion and loyalty to char
acteristic national institutions and
aspirations. All nations personify coun-
try as a robust and beautiful woman.
Like a mans love for a woman,
patriotism may be true or false, en-
nobling or degrading. salutary or ruin
Gus, according as the object loved be
worthy or unworthy, or the conduct
which her real or idealized self inspires
be righteous or unrighteous.
True patriotism is the clear sighted,
self-forgetting love of country which
cherishes and pursues noble ideals. The
ideals of different nations are various.
What true American patriotism is de-
ponds on what the national ideals are.
The American ideals are:
Freedom for individual from all OPP
preston, whether by magistrates or
ajorities-freedom of thought and
speech for every humblest citizen, free
dom of religious belief, freedom of ac-
ton in both church and state. Public
justice. the equality of all citizens be-
fore the law and no privileged classes,
-
hereditary or non-hereditary. Universal
elementary education.
Social mobility, to facilitate the
rise of the competent and meritorious
through all the social grades within a
single lifetime. Peace and good will
among nations, and, therefore. con-
siderate and just conduct towards
mol
and the dread of war, and hence
small army, a smaller feet and COM
plete exemption from the burdens and
wastes of competitive ornaments.
Hospitality to the poor and op-
pressed of all kindred nations. The
greatest good to the greatest number
as the object of governmental and
social organization. Not equality of
conditions, or uniformity of quality,
but unity of spirit through all classes
Of the community, as the goal of social
hopes. The spread of tree institutions
over the world, not by war or by any
other aggression, but through the in
fiuence Of the spectacle of private
happiness and public prosperity under
American institutions.
whoever stands ready to further
these ideals by personal labor and
sacrifice is a true American patriot.
The false patriot is he who contravenes
the noble ideals of his country, even
while loving her or imagining himself
to love her.
And those who cultivate this kind
of patriotism will cheeifully lay down
their lives when their country calls
upon them to do so. 1t was the cult
walton of such ideals as are here
portrayed that made Lincoln the great
man he was; it was because such ideals
as these were his that Grant, hav-
ing brought a war for their triumph
to a successful close, said, Let us
have peace" Truly, Blessed are the
peacemakers.'