The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-29

mis- face, or with fewer fingers, ears,
or eyes, than those he had when he
left for his raid.
Perhaps one day we shall abolish
much of this exciting cause OF tron-
BILE People may come to perceive that
the symbols of battle and bloodshed
give a poor and wrong expression to
the love of that country in whose eX-
istence is the hope of humanity, ana
under whose fostering influence me
peace and well-being of the world
shall in time be assured. Then other
and finer ways of showing patriotism
will be found, ways OF expressing JOY
that shall be quite as satisfactory as
the noisy and savage methods of the
present-nethods of the same nature
as those of the ghost dance of the In
dian tribes, or as the mad, rude way
In which the Dahomey chiefs rejoice.
The Fourth of July, nevertheless, IS
day that has a peculiar interest ana
significance for women; and they are
fain to Join in it's celebration, whether
they like the manner of it or not
For in no country of Christendom DO
women receive the recognition that
they have in this one. Whatever may
still be lacking to them in measure OF
justice here, yet nowhere else DO they
nave the DIOIeCllOl W AliCh PSASO'f
and their possessions that is given TO
them under the American flag. 1T
Europe, where you see the women
yoked with the dog or the COW; IN
China, where their feet are crlppledi
in pOlygamous countries, where they
are ,the slaves of the harem, women
are often merely an appanage, an on
Ject of utility or pleasure. In tne
United States they receive tIeil
measure of justice and right, such as
it is, not for their beauty or grace OF
Charm or sex, but as individuals Win
stake in the country.
Men and women being, together'
really the unit of the race, the meas
ure of right that benefits one can not
but benefit the other; and IN as LdI
as men rave risen under the great SKY
of our liberty, women have risen Win
them, an dnot anywhere else on ear u. ~
has there been such an achievement III
the advancing of the whole generation
Of women as under this flag that 10
Cay, more than ever, seems peautilui
as a great bountiful flower when WaV-
Ing against the sky, and Deieaeh
whose starry folds women nave
larger outlook, higher reach sur
er grasp, a greater security noDler
honor. a firmer future Here the genius
Of the country has taught the boy 10
respect his mother as the boy OF Old
love her though he might win III rs
neart-neVer dreamed Of doing 10 re-
gard his sister as on a plane OF equai-
ny. TO despise no woman because she
is a woman. And she knows mat sic
owes all this to the independence OF
this country from the old world lnhu-
enee and greed. which has opened 70
every one all the avenues OF freedom !,
charging the borders Of thought "h 20,
feeling and consequent action ana an
Ne Possibilities Of growth
The flag. then, means more 20 80,
h4h woman than the flag 81 any 49,
country can mean 10 the women Pc
n.ath a. And they endure for me hthe
On N all the horrors ~ the fpllr s.th
Fourth saying 10 fhemseiNfa oi ~
nHf whenever and wherever meg
'it De- uy safeguard, mf fipl1i 80
nf shield aud feeling az iif"N "lilh
~ when De- sass be o"n nallpi.el
"Fn ~ Capf So vincent ftatais
go Gibrsiiar, Here an9 heif. ~
flF.ana help me-hon ean ! h'iP N's'
zoe, sagi'"