Mohave County miner., 1917-12-08
PATRIOTISM
By H. I. CHATTERTON,
 Everett, Wash.

Patriotism is a sentiment imperish- ably imbedded in the human soul. It ranks with love of family, which moves a man to brave the ice of Alas ka, the hot sands of Africa, or the gi- gantic stumps of Puget Sound to pro- vide a home for his wife and an ed ucation for his children.
 It ranks with love of truth, for which men rather than abjure it, have suffered every torture. It ranks with love of God which enobles men to bear and do all things worthy of the name of manhood. It is the sentiment which has kept alive the consciousness of na- tionality in all the oppressed and trampled peoples of the earth.
 Every real man is a patriot. One who is not patriot is a hybrid like the mule,-that prosaic, unromantic, unsentimental, unnaturally bred ami nal of which it has Eeen well said:
 He is without either pride of an- cestry or hope of posterity." One of the indispensable qualifications of real man is this sentiment. A man without patriotism is not all there. If you try to find what is the matter with an unpatriotic man you will discover that he is lacking in viscera. He has no heart to throb and thrill at the sight of that flag and of what Old Glory stands for. He has no lungs to breathe deep breaths and swell with pride over the. records of his peoples noble deeds. He has no stomach to sit at table with men whose social sense is well developed. He has no grit. He has no nerve to draw a sword or fire a shot to maintain for his women and to pass on to his children the blood bought freedom which true men will cherish and protect with their lives. He is another Mike-the-Mechanical- Man. 'brains e 'as nix" He is an- other window-trimmer's dummy. He is no good to the world, dead or alive. He can not even get slab-space in a medical college dissecting room.
 We have a right to patriotic pride in our relationship to the other pow CTS of the world. Our military and diplomatic history is unlike that of any other government. Our nation is today the moral leader; our nation from its inception, has been the moral leader of the political purposes Of the world. Our dealings with other na- tions have been lightly called dollar diplomacy" "shirt-sleeve diplomacy" '"
 Is it because we took off our coats and rolled up our sleeves and gave Cuba her freedom? Is it because we have always given, and insisted upon receiving a dollars worth for a dollar in our national transactions? Is it be- cause we have sconed hypocrisy in our diplomatic declarations, as other powers, and thereby mystified and confounded them more marvelously than if we had lied and cheated? Is It because we are the only nation whose accredited ruler ever looked proud hereditary monarch in the eve, king with an army and, a navy at his command and in precise and ac- curate English called him a thief and a liar? The diplomats of the Old World have yet to learn lesson from America, namely, that it is unhealthy, as well as dishonest to be discovered with five aces in one hand. It has beeen the fashion in Central Europe to take their hats off to MaehiaveiI. The time now has come when thev must take their coats off to Uncle Sam.
 The time has come for every true American, whatever his birthplace, to show his patriotism, not alone by wearing the flag, but by deeds of loy- atty, by every service which his talent may suggest or his country demand.