The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-02

stlhct when they hit upon some radiant
symbol like this, pleasing to the eye and
captivating TO the fancy to stand for
those strong. yirile emotions that we
call loyalty and love of country. Just
how strongly so simple Il thing rs a
blt of bunting may evoke such emotions
one can never quite know unless one
sees it fluttering under strange skies or
ON foreign soil and love and kindred and
friends and home seem to hover inviting
ly within its starry folds. | saw it only
twice while | was away, once III the
Mediterranean and once on the river
Rhine, but ! pulled off my hat to 1t
and thanked God that | had country
too like those people jabbering about
me. where incidentally English was
| spoken. and that it was that country
and not another. And there was no
war then.
Now that it is borne in war for the
first time in a generation, and in war
not undertaken for revenge or territorial
lust or insolent pride, but to end ages OF
| Injustice and to mark the irrepresslble
conflict between the vital forces Of the
| world and those that are dying | feel
| tendcrer towards it than ever before.
"That is one of the good things about
this war and there are many high results
that flow from it.
1T SETS the current Of thought away
| from sordidness and self, the arts that
devitalize and cause accumulation to
seem a greater thing than sacrifice, and
| fixes it on the large, elemental questions
of duty and country and patriotism.
| There will always be the patriotism OF
war and men will always be thrilled by,
| and will honor the brave who elect to
die for country. When they cease to do
this the blood of the race will creep
| through it's veins instead of flowing
ahoundingly.
'.rherc is the childish and unthinkinG
patriot that shouts about "Old Glory
| and like Jobs war horse says, Ha! Ha'
among the trumpets There is the pas
sionate patriotism that says, My count
| nv. may she always be right but right
or wrong, my country"
/ "And then there is that false patriots B
i that DR. Johnson called the last and one
may add also, the first refuge of a
| scoundrel.
"But. young gentlemen. there is alsC
the patriotism of peace and duty; and s
university, and all places that seet
culture and knowledge and light anC
higher types must stand for that prima
rily. The real patriot is he who seeks
his countrys greatness through tbs
reign and the spread of intellect anC
honor and justice in all affairs, WHIT
realizes that righteousness eXalteth ;
Ination. The man who sets himself thi'
ideal. and believes that his country is
worth living for and working for. is as
| truly patriot as he who dies smlingly
for his flag, as our hero did the other day
amid the flashing of the guns. While he
who shirlls civic service perhaps i'll SONS
/ fortress of scholarly cOwardice is a'
much n craven as the soldier who llce'
from the hurtlc and smoke Of battle
"And so | shall place Your gift where
i your brothers of the future may see j
land may think sanely of its meaning ant
thus come to know that the mission o.
the great republic is to teach justice anC
humanity. the beauty of peace and tn
/ dignity of republican citizenship ever
i though it may have to achieve it by tn,
/ strange paradox of war itself"