Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-31

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properly and wisely, the individual
must have some idea of the grea
principles for which this nation stands
land of his duty to maintain thes'
principles cost what ii will in so fal
las he is able The resources of thu
Inaticn are for the use of all-its pro
Election is for all--the flag symbolic:
our theory of unity and equality, blu
unless we who make up the nation
live up 20 the principles of unity ant
4 equality we shall be torn by conflict
ling interests We want citizens, moi
parasites, with their lack of RESPONSE
bility and defiance of order and moral
lily.
| The liberty for which our fathers
gave life and fortune, and to save
whose institutions, these veterans and
hosts of others fought in 1861. is mol
| the liberty of license. Liberty woth-
/ oat restraint is menace to the MAJ
/ tom We cannot have true liberty
without obedience to law -'.usYG -
/ ff we show an alien our monuments
ano memorials, If we relate III him the
| story of our conflicts and sufferngs
for freedom and unity, and then he
reads the story of our political cor
ruption, of our wars Jpn the curse OF
child-labor and the exploiting ana
shame of human life for gain. must
he not wonder in his heart whether
our monuments stand for forgotten
ideals or not? He may see men fail
ing to exercise the duty of suffrage,
he may see others, sell their very souls
To feed upon the bounty of corruption
| on OF rfc nd oil nm
justly poor; he may see great masses
of working men with bitterness writ
ten upon their faces, and he may hea'
the rising cry of class consciousness
Mobs wreck public buildings and
private enterprise. Strikes bring OF
disastrous conflicts. A yellow press
pours out its stream of filth, coloree
to catch sensations hungry eye and
spotted with maddening untruth.
Does this represent the America o
Washington and Lincoln? Is a dole
greater than the truth? Is unscrupa
lous ambition more to be desired thai
honor?
1t is quite true that this is not fan
picture of our nation as a whole, for
while there is both public and private
- oP%ioH etiioiiS iltiii Od0 NiIiENtt-
ship, there is still the great mass of
earnest citizens who do not counten-
anee these evils, or lend themselves te
such folly. We have too much conf
dence in the sane Judgment of our
best minds, too much in the moral in
tegrity CT the real citizen to believe
that these points of evil can ever Sc
unite as to form a solid cancer for ON
nv, low. V.t t. -.
should be gullible indeed, if as good cit
liens, we do not put forth every effo-i
to prevent any possibility of disaster
Ii We failed to impress upon our own
minds and our neighbors, that to be
born within such nation as ours
not only a privilege but a debt OF
honor whose discharge we owe thf
State.
Such debts were fully discharged by
thousands in the War of the Rebel
| Honour debt to them is greater thar
We can ever repay. We can show our
appreciation of their services only as
year by year we maintain the princi-
PIE, IS they did, that we owe every
/ thing to the State.
But there Is feeling quite evident
among those who have studied the
| question Of our future as nation with
care, that many have an idea that the
nation will work out its salvation
| quite by instinct, that as some one has
unwisely SAID, I'VE need have no more
worry about the future than we have
of the progress of the seasons" Bur
such comparison applied to a nation
is as pernicious as it is untrue. So
ciety is not mechanical. it Isl organic
and never two years the same What
II is, and what it may become, de.
ponds largely npon what are the ideals
subscribed TO by the majority of its
present members Before the Civil
War. when "A slave escaped from tn,
house of bondage. he hid in the thick
!: cts and swamps by day. and by night
pushed his way northward guided on
| ~ by the north star He never could
reach the star. yet it served him better
team candle which would have made
tie darkness less but would never have
guided him TO his destination in the
II land of freedom. So in these DAYS, ever
Though All around seems at peace and
We are tempted to believe that the
lamp of progress is always going te
bum because ii has been so long burn
ing. we should have our eyes fixed on
the great star OF DISQUALIFICATION
ism, that cur progress may be full O.
honorable loyalty as wei as CONNER
cially progrt ssiye. These are days OF
destiny, writes Newell Dwight Hillis)
for the people of the republic" The
one question of the hour is how Il
make all the coming millions patriot.
toy'ards their country. scholars to-
wards the intellect. obedieRt citizen
towards the laws of nature and God
. Our national peril is Mammonism AM
the sercid pursuit of gold If on
youth are TO make the 20th ccntur1
glorious. they must realize the contin
uity of our institutions and often re
turn TO the 18th century and the anti
slavery epoch" They need to hear sue
wOfds as the German Emperor recent
~ addressed an assembiage Of his off
csIs: The Fatheriand expects OF yof
III the first place. not martial laurels
but mefitnrious activity as citizens. !
counts upon your standing trle at tn
side II the German natian, and espe
cialIy Ct German youth, with counsa
and deed and exemplary charactel
Such championship Of the ideal value
al life viii render you al the more ef