Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-28
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
THE NEW PATRIOTISM.

As once more we draw near the most tender day of all those in the year set apart for national commemoration, the uttermost sentiment in the heart of every true American is that of patriot
 ism. This is one of the three or four high emotions that give dignity and worth to life. Not easy to define in words we always recognize it when we see it embodied in deeds. When the little bands of veterans go from grave to grave with their floral offerings to their fallen comrades. we shall have no doubt that half a century ago in this country patriotism was a tremendous force. The empty sleeve here, the limping gait there. the fur roWed countenances, the bowed forms, tell the story of love to country as no amount of oratory could ever do.
 But when we turn from such sights and the scenes which they suggest. the gory battlefields, the forced marches, the crowded hospitals and the loath- some prison pens-to the world as it is today We find totally different sit- uation a united country, thousands of peaceful industries in operation every where throughout our borders and a far more complex, albeit less warlike national life. In this world with which we and our children have to do where is the field for patriotism; how can it manifest itself?
 At once the need of a redefiaftion of patriotism arises It is the Ss me word to the magic of which the boys in blue responded in the early sixties, but we
 must fill it with a large meaning, just as the content of the word parent" or the word christian ought to be larger and richer today because of all the light that is being shed on the duties and opportunities of parent hood. and on the meaning and reach of the Christian life. Patriotism in es- sence is just what it was when it sent men to a glorious death at Ther- mopylae and Runnymede and Gettys- burg but the form of it's expression in the goth century will not be just what it was in the century before Christ or in the 18th century after him.
 The new patriotism, the patriotism which we and the coming generation are called upon to foster and exhibit, will not have al it's chief symbol. the sun. Its first appeal will not be to arms but to the intelligence and req condolences of men. Its methods will be argumentatiVe, persuasive, not belligerent. It will say come, brother. let us reason together and md if we can, a way out of this difficulty that shal be alike honorabie to both. ~ris dogs delight to bark and fight but national beings in this enlightened age should not double up their fists and square off for a fight either with their knuckles or with a great fleet of Dreadnoughts. The new patriotism, if it is worthy to be a successor to the old will exalt the functions of inter national tribunals that shall nlete out justice to contending parties and whose decisions shall be universally accepted just as all sensible people abide by the decisions of the highest courts.
 The new patriotism will also be dis tinguished by it's cosmopolftanism. This does not mean that we shall cease to be especially fond Of our own nation. That is just as legitimate as to be fond of our own family or our religious de- nomination. But it does mean that we afof faG af af11 countries, and their just claims to a place in the family of nations. Amer