The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-10

| population by immigration. Streams
from all the peoples Of the world have
been pouring into our country, an ever"
increasing volume. So that now it IS
estimated that emigrants and children
Of emigrants Of the first generation
form over one-fourth of our whole pop
ulation, They have brought with them
their political traditions, languages and
their religious faiths
While this mass of people have been
partly politically dgested and made
Americans, there are a very large num-
Der Of them who are wholly ignorant of
our republican ideas and of the patriotic
spirit Of our ancestors This renders it
| incumbent on all true Americans not
| only to be filled with a patriotic spirit,
| but also to instill it into this great mass
of our population. Some Of them be-
come good citizens with great rapidity,
while others of them do not easily as
simulate.
The second battlefield on which we
must fight is that produced by the
great concentration into cities in these
later days. This Of necessity increases
the spirit of dependence and decreases
mans Independence When the govern
ment was first founded the great ma
Jority lived in the country. There were
but six cities with eight thousand in
habitants or more. Statistics tells us
that in 1890 only ne-thirtieth Of the
population lived in cities, while now
more than one-fourth of our total popu-
latton live in cities. Every little COM
munity is now made dependent upon
larger community, and thus the Deepen
dence of the small communities is en-
dangered those little communities
which were the original nurseries Of
the spirit of independence in our ances-
tors.
But the great war now being Waged.
war of which our ancestors could MT
have dreamed, is the social war; that
Is, the war between the classes, of which
the struggle between capital and labor
is but one manifestation. This Is a long
war upon which we have now entered.
1T will last evidently far into the TWEEN
tieth century; and what its outcome
will be no one can tell. 1t Is our duty
to see to it that patriotism shall :har"
acterize its results. Then let us now
defend and maintain with all our power |
true liberty and justice for all SORTS and |
conditions of men. Let us look beyond !
the outward conditions which separate |
us. and maintain a true brotherhood. !
founded upon the Divine Image III
which we are all created, and which |
leads us to a common Father who Is in |
heaven. Let us do our part to make 1t
impossible even to think Of
any enslaved classes in our midst, of |
any social slaves however produced, by |
the sweating system or by any other
means.
/ can mention but one other battle
field upon which we must maintain to-
day self-sacriicing love of country, and
that is competition. This is a law
which now governs our business. |
must not enter upon this enticing sub
ject. Let me in a word or two point
out what | mean. Competition is an
other name for selfishness. Every man
for himself; every firm for itself-this
is the law which rules business. II we
are to succeed we must conform to it,
Some of us look forward to the time
when competition shall give place to
higher business law. The danger to our
patriotism comes in here 1t is the dan
ger, lest we take this principle of sell
fshness. which governs us during all
the working hours of the day, lest we
take this into our homes into our
churches and into cur relation to the
state. If we allow this to happen, then
here can be no true patriotism, for pa
rriotism is self-sacrifce, is self-devo-
ton to the state and not devotion to /
ourselves or selfshness.
Equipped with courage and with
faith stirred on by the inspiration of