Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-28

noticed him but he has been loyal; as
loyal as the heroes we acclaim. He
has made an American home. one of
the ganglions that make up the rami-
flying nerve system of the republic. He
has never seen battle but he has
fought all his life in a struggle that
means as much to the life of his coun-
try and to Its advancement as any
cheered across. And he has fought
without music, without the inspiration
of tumult and the shouting of the
captains. 1t has been a brave and 81
lent struggle. fight in the dark or
perhaps in the semi-twihght wherein
the individual is not readily distin-
guished. He measures up to the height
OF loyalty. And side by side with him
has marched a faithful woman who
has kept and guarded the home, who
has done garrison duty over an out
post Of civilization, christianity and
national hope. She measures to the
full stature of any woman whose name
may be part of history because her
opportunity was greater.
The truest loyalty to country is to
be true to the best God gives to know
and feel every common recurrent day
that dawns. Those who are not loyal
70 the best that is in them are never
loyal to their country and their God.
Who lodges plain duty is disloyal.
The man who selAshly denies humans
" the assistance he may give is not
a patriot. The man who refuses to
Ialign himself upon questions which in
volve the future happiness of his fell
low men ana their common country is
not patriot. Such men there are,
hanging on the tanks of the march
of human progress, ca,mpfoilowers, cof-
fe coolers, towards, but not patriots,
never patriots. Loyalty to ones coun-
try includes loyalty to ones self, to
ones home, 10 ones children and not
| less to the homes and the children of
others. No man may be loyal to his
country who is not loyal TO his neigh
Dor, for he and his neighbor are his
country.
There are many names of women
who elected TO die for their country
and of those who lived under the spot
1 light Of public approval because of sac
riice but they stand no higher than
the common woman who does all her
duty day by day and proves her loyalty
in her home The woman who makes a
real home is a patriot. The woman
who refuses motherhood and denies
herself opportunity because she Graves
I selfish pleasures more than she accepts
responsibility is disloyal to her coun-
try. Every possible mother is ,natrtx
of the future OF her country. She is the
the universe is stored. When she de-
MES the world what it has already Civ
en- her she plays traitress to the future
of her land, for she and her children
are the country, the nation. Hers it
is TO give the world its leaders, its
commonalty, its men and women loyal
to the memories of the past and alive
with the promise of the future.
Motherhood is more than a priv
ilege: it is a debt, a duty and ov-
idence of loyalty to country. Every
mother is patMot who has faced pos
sible death for her country as surely as
any soldier ever risked himself on the
field Of battle. All the men who have
led the world to greener pastures and
beside the stiller waters Of modern ad-
vancement have been and are the sons
of brave mothers. No loyalty is deeper
than that of maternity. It is the es-
sence and crux of patriotism.
Let US thank God that loyalty is com
mon and that treason is not. That the
flower of loyalty blossoms and blooms
in the conmonest soil and thrives nore
uIdeF tAe caves OF the tHdlcN lnan 1T
the shadow. of palaces That it is the
virtue Of the poor and commonplace, OF
the common citizen. the middle classes
That no father is so overworked anG
humble no mother so lowly of lot thai
they may not give the world what il
Graves most. honest. loyal, faithful mer
and women to whom the future of his
republic may be confidently entrusted
and who shall as the days go by ant
the generations rise and pass to give
way to others, bring the world closer
TO common brotherhood and thus near.
er TO Christ.