The National tribune., 1897-01-07

can Flag Company If the gift of banner to
National Headquarters would be acceptable.
but that in her reply that il would she had not
even in fancy anticipated any such beautiful
creation as had been presented by Capt. Foster
under such delightful circumstances. She ex-
pressed her gratitude TO the patriotic donors,
and called attention to the aid they are giving
the patriotic movement going forward in the
Woman's Rsiief Corps.
She invited comrades Of the Grand Army and
the Sons of Veterans to call often. and referring
to the Woman's Rolief Corps she said that IL
anyone had any doubt as to what estimate the
Grand Army places upon it he should confer
with COMMANDMENT. Chief Clarkson and hear
his views upon the subject, as she had done.
The Womans Relief Corps, she said, would
exist long after the last of the Nations de-
tenders had been laid to rest in the eternal
camping-grouDds. Its work 10 but half done
when il cares for tho veteran end his depend
ent ones 1t must look to the future as we'll as
the past 1t must carry forward such system
of patriotic teaching in the schools Of the Ma
ton as will forever preclude the possibilities Of
another such shameful and s0rrowful conflict
as that which called the Woman's Relief Corps
into existence.
Past Department President Nettie M. Rans-
ford and members of the Sons of Veterans were
among the speakers. incidentally the loyal
woman question was discussed. and the speakers
all heartily Endorsed that clause of the consti.
tuition that made a loyal woman eligible to
mem bership in the Woman's Relief Corps. even
| though she had no armed soldier to represent
her loyalty in tho great struggle for National
The National President expressed the opinion
| that the loyal woman clause is one of the
| strongest features of the Constitution of the
| Woman's Relief Corps.
UP WITH THE FLAG.
Both Canada and Great Britain are awake to
| the mpo,tan of the patriotic teaching which
| the w r C. Is inaugnrating in the schools of the
| United States Mrs. Willoughby Cummings,
representing the National Council Of Women
! of Canada at the meeting0f the National COun.
| ell OF Women of the United States, held recently
| in Boston, said nothing impressed her SO much
| as the Flag Salute given BY the boys and girls
| Of Chauncey Case School, aud the report of tho
| Committee on Patriotic Teaching on work al.
| ready accomplished. She said that she would
use her utmost endesvor to have similar line
! of ork::introduced into the schools OF Canada
| on their own lines Of nationality.
Samantha West Miller comments upon a
letter in the London Times. which explains the
| American system Of patriotic teaching and adj
| vocates the introd ucti0n OF q similar system
| into the schools of Great Britain. She says the
letter has excited great Interest in England,
| and has received the ea1ctiOn of leading
newspaper, backed blythe assertion that The
union Jack stands for more than the Star-Span-
gled Banner, recalling 9 long aud glorious
past" ~
In her comments shs says: "This boast re-
calls the lines of that other Briton, who sang
of the union jack:
The battle and the breeze
cit is q pity to pull down this pretty struc.
ture of ine phrases, bnt truth is pitiless and
the truth is that the union jack, composed Of
the cross of Sir George, tho cross Of st. Andrew,
and the cross Of st. Patrick, dates its existence
from 1901. while the Star Spangled Banner has
led the American forces to victory for 1875 years
Not the least of these victories were those
wrested from the cross Of st. George and the
union jack.
"The Star.Spangled Banner is not only older
but it stands for more than does the union jack
| Henry Ward Beecher, eulOgizing the American
flag in 1861, said of it: 1t stands for the divine
right of liberty; every color means liberty
!. every thread means liberty; every form OF star
every beam of light means liberty-not lawless
ness, not license but organized Institutions
liberty, liberty through law and laws for lib
erty.'
ITO this add: Il stands for the oppresse'
) against tho oppressor; for National purity
honor and progress; for uncOnquersble val0r il
! war and for unequaled magnanimity to
vanquished foe However, the object Of thi
: is not to institute comparison between the ban
ners Of the two greatest nations Of the globe, bu
to call tho attention Of American readers to th
r promptness with which Great Britain adopt
Q any now idea thst promises to perpetuate he
power and facilitate her progress.