The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-22
MORNING 1907

pass on to new and larger ideals. In her last book which I have been read ing, Miss Jane Adams of Hull House, Chicago, has said: we may admire much that Is admirable in this past life of courageous warfare, while at the same time we accord 1t no right to dom- mate the present, which has traveled out of its reach into land of new de- sires. We may admit that the exper- fences of war have equipped the men of the present with pluck and energy, but to insist upon the selfsame expres- sion for that pluck and energy would be as stupid a mistake as if we would relegate the full grown citizen, re- spending to many claims and demands upon his powers, to the school yard fights of his boyhood, or to the college contests of his cruder youth. The little lad who stoutly defends himself on the school ground may be worthy of much admiration, but If we find him, a dozen years later, the bullying leader of a street gang who bases his prestige on the fact that mo one can whip him, our admiration cools amazingly, and we say that the carrying over of those pue- hile instincts into manhood shows ar rested development which is mainly res sponsibe for filling our prisons"
 Thus I have outlined to you what I mean by the new ideals of patriotism. They are the ideals that lift us up to all the obligations of civic life. The patriotism of tomorrow will be as gen uine as that of yesterday, but it will not be draped in the trappings of the past, it will not be associated with all the paraphernalia of warfare and con- quest We shall continue to believe that lit was fine thing in the old days to be soldier. But we shall come more and more to see that the world is outgrowing that ideal of patriotism; and that it is an infinitely finer thing to be a good citizen. We shall continue to honor the men who died for this country; but we shall honor, even more, those men who perform that truly difi- cult task of living for this country. Forty years ago we needed men to fight Oll LllG lClO OL QdLldiC5 cAllQ LAiC iiiCll were found to-day our need is even greater, for we have come to new crisis in our history. The need of the present time is need of a higher citi- zership, men who are resolute and un- daunted, men who are unfeignedly de- voted to the welfare of state and na- tion, to whom the vote is a weapon of a truly religious warfare, men who can not be swung away by any party alle- glance from the great principles of civic responsibility And such men we are finding on every hand Wherever q true leader of the people plants his ban ne- there they gather under the spell of the same fine frenzy, that in the old days men felt only when they heard the blast calling them to battle. I have had my faith in the principles of our de- mocracy renewed. l have come to be- lieye in a new and larger way in the regnancy of love over all the world. never before felt so wholly sure that Christ was right and that Christ would win Let us go out from here with a new faith in our hearts, and with a new purpose that looks towards a more responsible citizenship forming itself in our minds. Let us continue to look ex- pectantly for the coming of the true king, and let us believe that his com ing will mean all to the world that the prophet dreamed.
 "He shall come down like showers Upon the fruitful earth,
 And love i'd joy like flowers
 Spring in his path to birth;
 Before him on the mountains
 Shall peace the herald go,
 EAnd righteousness in fountains
 From hill to valley flow"