The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-02-09

Oie very pTomIheuC poiltlCi''H Ee- gently said in an address delivered e in New York that among Americans there was a lack of vitalized patrl- otism. And he further averred that while he could not condono, counte- nance or do anything olse but de- n0unce tho rcscality of bombisr 4,iots, he thought that he would like to see American patriotism capable of the same enthusiastic love of country that inspired these actions however base. as
 But in the ordinary sense. Amer jeans are just as patriotic as any one. And no politician can adopt a more successful policy than i sturdy waving of the flag, ana there is no more effective political eioquence than oratorical outbursts in honor of Old Glory and departed patriots.
 But there are mighty few politi- clans will come before the people and say that the country's strength remains in the welfare of the peo- pie and not in the wclfare of privI- lege; that the greatest of all pre- parcdness is contented people in a contented land; that contontment must be based upon economic well being iD tho present just as real freedom mu9t basically rest upon the degree of industrial freedom There are none of them come for ward and declare that the land is made for the people; that the laws and the institutions and tho conyen- tions of the nations must be com pletely adapted towards ss- curing the happiness and freedom and prosperity of all; that human laws and human institutions and human conventions gre uSeless or worse if they do not do this, and the law that denotes instead of promotes the happiness of the peo- pie is not only not to be respected put SnOulu De dDOnSned.
 Real patriotism consists in love ot the people not in love of the coun- try's institutions except as they serve well the people; in respect for the person not in respect for pro perty unless as it serves tho persons who compose the nation. It does not consist in tho pride of achieve ment when billions arc exported to oth nations and thou3e rd5 Cf the people lack the nec6ssarics CT life It does not consist in glorfy!ng the fact that a state has authorized tho sale of horse meat for the poor Tt home while millions of wholesome beef, mutton and pork are exported to feed other nations.
 a Patriotism begins at home and it Sbegins in the person and passes to the family and thence to the com munity and thence to the nation But it remains in the family as an aggregation of persons, in the com munity as a society of persons and in the nation as union of com munities and families. It is only rightly personal; it cannot be ap- piled to anything inanimate. When it does it becomes idolatry and it possesses all the rotteness of false idol It does not live in the past except as the past is guide to the future It lives for the present and the welfare of those who exist today. Many physically and nor ally defective prided in his ancestors and gloried in their fine deeds: but their noble and bold and valiant deeds did not and could not change the degeneracy of their descendant Patriotism which sets itself to wor- shipping the past and forgets the present is only a sham. Today is the living time; the living time for thoughts and deeds and mon. The past takes care if itself; nothing we may do or say can add or detrac' from the dead. They can be sulliel by no aspersion, defamed by nc islander. tainted by no impure refiec tion, rusted by no acid criticism That they have done is itself judge. by it's historic consequences that nc man or set of men can obliterate and time is the unfailing judge that is to be infiuenced by no prid' 'of fame, no pomp of power. n,