The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-23


 than one immortal in any single cen tury. In the fifteenth century He gave to the world Luther, in the sixteenth He gave Shapeskeare, the plummet of whose pen sounded the depths of hu- man passion and interest beyond any other secular writer since the dawn of the Christian era; in the eighteenth He gave Washington as the colossal exam pie of unsullied patriotism; in the nine teenth He gave Lincoln, who stands unique in history as the emancipator of a race.
 Then followed a brief history of Washington's life.
 THE GOSPEL OF PATRIOTISM"
 Rev. pr. Levi Gilbert made one of the most eloquent and splendid patri- otic speeches ever heard in this city. It was full of suggestions as to how the people of to-day maye be brought back into the way of the patriotism of our forefathers. He said:
 The kind of patriotism that we need to-day is not of the bumptious, shriek- ing, hysterical order but intelligent and thoughtful not effervescent and ebul- | lent--aot the sophomoric and bombas- l tic. There must be a deep sense of re- | sponsibility. Peace not only has her victoris as well as war, but her grave | responsibilities as well. We want to cry That's off, to the flag and to give it | cheer m cheer, but this may be but g. sentimntal and rapturous expression.
 Men must unite with it an understand | ing of the principles of our government and g. itern determination to uphold | them. There must be the right appre- citation If what liberty stands for and
 a conseGation to the discharge of duty. | We are not to take for granted the in- dubitabh perpetuity of our government | as If it lore life more charmed than the natins that have passed-as if the I name ofa republic was a mascot and
 amulet. If when the appeal is made
 to the pople1 they shall respond by choosingthe intelligent, the moral, the conscientous, the patriotic, then we
 may restln sense of security. But if when tha appeal is made they send to
 representthem the ignorant, the un- scrupulou, the unpatriotic and self seeking, ten a democracy may become
 only a hidous, hydra-headed mobocra-
 cy-no peter than any of the dead-
 and-gone 5cracies whose wrecks strew
 the shoresof time.
 We canfoster patriotism by filling
 our cities yith the monuments of our
 great menand with tablets to their
 memory. | this old historic center we
 should hav very many more of them
 to familiarie our youth with name and
 form. We hould everywhere build as
 here noble iistorical rooms filled with
 the portrait and the memorials of the . actors in asplendid cast. We should
 have frequet patriotic parades.
 We should on every appropriate oc-
 casion, disply the colors from houses and public bildings, particularly from : the school fisstaffs and on the pulpits of the churchs. Let men sheer at us if they will swing that we are as vain as children OCT pretty flag. It will do our childrn good to assemble and
 plight their ftlty to Old Glory, to the , nation and le laws for which it stands Someone has suggested that
 each year in eery community all who had that yealreached majority and : come thereby voters age should be
 inducted publidy into citizenship with fitting ceremoal and observances. , 1 There is good Nrk before the societies | of the Sons and hughters of the Amer ican Revolutionand the members of
 the Grand Arm of the Republic and | of the Sons of Nerans could have no worthier or grader task than to pro-
 mote everywher the growth of this | patriotic sentime,. We ought all of us . to do what we tn to counteract the
 excessive mammnism of to-day, be-
 lieving with LincG that Gold is good, | I but living, bray, patriotic men are : better than gold.1 Let us pray for a return of the old avs of the glory of A the United State' senate-the palmy days of Webster, ay and Sumner. There is vast pnise in the use everywhere of goo government clubs y and the banding tother of the better element. They n1r blunder at first but will grow wise experience, find a y way or make it.
 There is need of Limited self-sacri- :. fice--sacrifice of tie, money, ease strength-if we woui preserve the in-
 stitutions of freedonWe act on emer- o gencies, but when emergency ap- plies the spur we lse into indiffer-
 ence. Public affairs ust become our 4 daily, never-ceasing Asponsibility or = while men sleep thenemy will SOW
 tares. Evil men are ways ready to t rush back into places om which they have been busted, if Q eternal vigi- lance, which IS the pri of liberty, be e for moment relaxed.
 There must be a coentrated civic j. conscience if patriots and states = manship are to be adVaed over dem- = :. agogy and plutocraciesIt we would ~ dethrone the boss in nton and city !. if we would whip the bers and sell
 CTS out of the temple ofberty, if we
 would evict t he corruonists who
 make profitable trade politics and
 sheer at public office Ing a public 7" trust, if we are ever to ha clean bus Il iness-like, high-toned muripal admin istrations, if we are to reem our cit = ies and eliminate the bribs lobbyists n if we are to reform the pnaries an6 u elect men of character aneapacity tc 1T office, there must be, not spasmodic
 and temporary, but a peianent or n ganization of the intelltgenthe patri- Ls otic and the virtuous.
 = We must awake to thetudy. moi 'e only of politics proper, buof social ie conditions also. We are stled over er continent-wide strikes, anaristic out.
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