The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
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men are tempted to shrink liberty s
| pain. For the great rights which this
western world possesses under the
/ law may be maintained only at the
cost of watchfulness and service. The
peril of self-government is the 1ndif-
ference of the majority to the Oblfga-
lions of citizenship. Men who would
be among the first to leap to the de
Tense of the land against the foreign
invasion view with indifference the
usurpation of their rights by profess
sional politicians and by INSCRIPTIONS
corporations.
Love thou thy land with love far
brought
From out the stored past. and used
Within the present, but transfused
Thro' future time by power to
thought.
Love thou thy land. -Tennyson.
The man who throws a banana
skin upon the sidewalk is a distant
cousin of the capitalist who steals g
public service franchise.
The poet is often a more useful pa
triot than the major-generaL.
To help the children achieve a
to perform one Of the far-reaching
ministrations of patriotism.
Party regularity is responsible
Irregularities which do hurt to the
city and the state.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS be-
longs, not in the rank of patriots, but
in the file of branded corruptionists.
The fundamental treason is to put
self above the common welfare.
The stress which Christian Endeav-
or has laid upon good citizenship has
Of In IO1T1 Influence the
creation of the new and Hvelier sense
of civic obligation which prevails IN
this our day. A strong body of young
men have taken up the duties of citi-
Zenship in quiet, careful, thorough
going manner that has effected re-
suits. Some of these have gone into
public life: all of them have made
themselves a force for righteousness.
of the distinctive achievements OF the
Christian Endeavor movement.
The flag is stained by every dishonor-
able life beneath 1t.
The best patriots are they who serve
their time in most helpful ways. There
is no higher expression of citizenship
than the incu1cation in a neighborhood
or in a nation of those great ideals OF
individual character and social service
which we group under the name of re-
Iigion. The Canadian churches have
proved their loyalty to the nag as well
as to the cross by their imperial con-
ception of ministry to the newer por-
tons of the country. They have set
themselves in noblest man-fashion, to
the task Of carrying the Offices Of the
church to the very limits of pioneer
settlement. Wherever runs the law of
the land, there also goes the sweet and
upbuiIding message of the Gospel. In
SO doing, the nation is helping to con-
serve the Canadian type, and to mould
the expanding populations into the
characteristics Of reverence for law, for
order, for thrift, for education and for
religion.
The new patriot is not a lingo. His
horizon has broadened. To him, interest
in all nations Of the earth is an ex-
preston of his patriotism. For he
knows himself to be not only q son of
his own land, but also brother of all
men.
The battles which the twentieth CEN |
tury patriot must fight are harder than |
those waged on bloody field For he |
has to go forth against entrenched |
greed, inert ignorance, deadly class
hatred, and complex and difficult social /
problems which tax the best-trained !
brain and the stoutest heart.