Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-12-10

other hand, IN proportion as the people are
wrong SO will the government be wrong.
Il believe it is the duty of Christian men
and women to take a great interest in pub
lie affairs, and / have come to think that
it is just as much the duty of the preachers
to talk on this subject it Is for them to
endeavor to reach by their words the
hearts of their hearers.
Il believe that when Christ said to his
disciples 'Ye are the light of the world He
meant that they should take part in pub
lie affairs. 1 believe the ministers of our
country have paid too much attention to
sin in the abstract and too little to the re-
moval of the causes which have led to this
sin.
Law of itself Is not reformatory so 1t
becomes absolutely essential for success
that healthy public sentiment in that di-
about there should be constantly an agita-
ton Of the subject of temperance. until the
people see that 1t is their duty to remove
the evil Of the saloon from their midst.
Sin is stalking through the land. show
ing menace to our forms of free govern
ment. and there are many people in the
United States who have not yet learned
that law Is supreme.
THE one great trouble in advancing the
temperance cause Is that so many cities,
towns and states derive a revenue from
Its license. 1 have. however. been told that
for every dollar received from that source
1t costs $23 to collect.
Il believe that they are the best party
men who will stand for the right, end ]
stand here tonight to assert that no party
is worthy of success that will not stand
UP for the right.
Il believe the time has come when politi-
cal conventions ought to be opened with
prayer, and that those prayers ought to be
offered by Christian minister's Today a
great many people in this country are
alarmed at the fact that there are an
archists In various sections. There is no
great cause for alarm in this. but we need
to place such restrictions upon immigra-
ton so that the United States shall no
longer be the dumping ground OF the ma
lions of the earth.
II believe that the day is not far distant
when the politics of my state undiana) will
no longer be dominated by the rum power.
and 1 believe that what is possible for In
diana Is possible in any other state. and
eventually in the whole United States. With
tne combined EFFORTS of all the societies en-
gagged In the temperance work they will
achieve the end in view"
Mrs. Platt's Address,
Mrs NJ. B. Platt. president of the w. G..
L. U. OF the District Of Columbia, opened
her address by an eloquent eulogy of patri-
otism.
There are various ways" she said, 'by
which a patriot can testify to his love OF
country. 1t is not always necessary to
die on the field of battle to attest ones
patriotism. To truly live for ones coun-
try Is Outlines harder thing than to
die for her ard tests to it's limit the en-
durance. the faith and the love of the pa
triot. '
Now. there is Individual patriotism, and
there Is concrete patriotism. There Is the
abstract patriotism Of the individual ex-
pressing itself in tangible form by ger
sonal acts and there is the concrete patri-
otiSm OF the organization, expressing itself
by its official utterances, by its general
character. by its influence upon society and
by the trend of its characteristics az an
aggressive force.
Hence it Is a self evident truth that
all the various forces which go to form
the complex character of a nation must
make either for or against true patriotism
The father and mother in the home Iiv-
ing tn the fear of God and obedience to
the laws Of the land. teaching their children
by daily precept and constant example the
principles which go to make up the char
acter of true patriot, these make pa
triotic force which no government can at
ford to ignore or discount.
The Sabbath school. the church and
the public school by their influence upon
the characters Of our children in their for
native period. each constitutes Of itself
a force for patriotism or hotbed for re-
bellion which may make or wreck a ma
ton: and to my mind there IL no church
SO sacred that the flag Of my native land
might not at all times be draped about
her walls; and I would that in Sabbath
school and day school every child before
he is ten years Of age might be taught
the principles Of true patriotism and to
resent with hot indignation an insult to
his flag: and had this been done IN the past
our glorious colors would not today be dis
graced by waving over 100000 licensed
centers of rebellion In this fair land-by
courtesy called saloons.
1.-The forces which make for patriotism
think of them!-the Christian home-the
church-the school-and any business or
any organization whose influence Is for the
good Of the people and the prosperity and
perpetuity Of the republic. These are
patriots-and the arbitrator against
which all these should be allied, the traitor
under whose banner hide all the 1ercest
enemies of the republic. is that home-de-
stroying, church-defying. youth-corrupting,
pauper-making. crime-inciting, vir.ue-mur-
dering. hateful, rebellious, vicious viper
called the liquor traffic.
who shall say that the liquor traffic is
patriotic? To be sure. it pays an immense
revenue into the treasury of the govern
ment. But all that 1t pays, and many
times more, il paid out again in order to |
provide for and ameliorate the disastrous
results Of its own existent.
mo force can make forvp patriotism which
exists by the destruction Of citizens-and
this Is what the liquor traffic does and no |
matter how high might be its license fee
1t could never compensate the state for the
loss Of the citizens whom II annually de-
stroys.
"A man who would place a battery of
guns at the exit OF our public schools. or |
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