New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-18
REAL AND SPURIOUS PATRIOTISM"
SOME TYPES AS SEEN By THE REV. DIR. NJ. J
caNAcr IL TILE ppEsENr CRISIS

SOME TYPES AS SEEN By THE REV DIR. NJ j.
SAVAGE IN THE PRESENT CRISIS.
The Rev Mlnot j. Savage, at the Church Of the
Messiah, at Thrty-fourth-st and Park-ave. yes
terday morning took the subject Of his discourse
Real and Spurious Patriotism" In the course OF
his he said:
have In mind five kinds OF patriots who ought
TO come to the front and make themselves s spe.
cially important and specially obnoxious in Crisis
OF affairs like the present In the first place there
duellst and bully. who talks loudly or honor, OF
being lnsulted OF dVenging insults, OF iign,ihs
ErGn ~9 ap 9 o the not vel Of sseR me-
Then there is patriot who is willing TO see M, MS
AGNES it may be for his personal or pecunary
advantage. or for the advantage of his friends
Then there Is another kind OF patriorhe K,a o.
mighty than they are when she is right.
S snor e word 9l nd that fhe man
who far as talking Is concerned. at any rate Is
WINK 70 ve az FOR It. What we need today is not
a hundred thousand men ready to die for America
America. Ne Want some men who are ready
take the trouble 10 purify the elections, TO seiect
out to ycte if it nerferes little with their
business: who are willing TO do little consclen
out Which Way the welfare Of the people would
lead them. and not which way lies partisan sue
cess
Then there is another which I must speak Of a
moment and tina; is the patriotism Of a certain
type OF newspaper. whose conscience Is IN tneiF
counting-room. and who are only anxious that tney
may attract the attention OF the people and IN
crease their circulations. and so pile up the
revenue that comes from advertising. and win that
kind OF popular and financial success. II there IS
any one thing In our country to-day that seems 10
me- or ominous import II IS me success OF paper
Ike these. For what does II means IL means
not that there men so Infamous beyond any
words 10 he Willing 10 compose and publish sucn
apers but that there hundreds Of thousands
advertise IN them and support them. These papers
for nothing but this kind OF success, and they
would speedily seek the way OF virtue II they were
convinced thai IT would pecunl arily pay And then
I wonder at another thing-that ministers. under
the guse OF having opportunity 10 preach 10
the masses. should allow themselves 10 contribute
20 these papers.
In speaking OF the present situation DR.. Savage
said that the Queen Regent desired peace. and so
did Sagasta- Spain handicapped by the machi-
nations OF Don Carlos and an ignorant and pas
sonatc populace. He said further:
We ought TO give them more time. Consul Cen
ersl Lee has gone down good many degrees In
my estimation by the fact that he ventures before
What right has he with a personal opinion wnen
war is the issue? And yet. before that same COM
mission. he says that. for anything he knows 10
the contrary the mine might nave been carried out
position-four utterly irresponsible men, men. per-
hapS. in sympathy with the insurgents. and whose
purpose 10 compel the United States 10 be-
come ombroed with Spain. Consu-Gene-al Lee
ard patriotic people. TO 20 TO war on an issue like
this II seems to there may he time for war
In the future, but II would be disgrace. utterly
ineXcusabe. something for which the future his
We 20 to war in the face OF such a confusion OF