The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-04-26
STAND AND FEEL PROUD OF IT.

When you see the Stars and Stripes
displayed, son, stand up and take off
your hat! Somebody may litter. It is
popular to deride ali expression of no.
ole sentiment You may blaspheme in
the street, and stagger drunken in pub
lie places, and the bystander will not pay
much attention to you; but if you should
get down on your knees in the street and
pray to Almighty God, or if you should
stand bareheaded while company of old
soldiers marched by with their flag, some
people will sneer.
Don't you mind! When Old Glory
comes along, salute, and let them think
what they please! When you hear the
band play 1.-The Star Spangled Banner
in a restaurant or hotei, get up, even if
you rise alone; stand there and don't be
ashamed of it, either!
For of all the signs and symbols since
the world began, there is never another,
save only the cross sanctifed on Cal
vary, so full of meaning as the flag of
! our country.
| That piece of red, white and blue
! bunting means five thousand years of
struggle upward. 1t is the full blown
flower of ages of fighting for liberty
! 1t is the century plant of human hope
1t means the answered prayer of gen
erations of slaves, of the helots of
! Greece, of the human chattles of Rome
| of the vassals Of feudalism, of the serfs
of Russia, of the blacks of America, of
all the down-trodden people of the ages
! Your flag stands for humanity, for an
| equal opportunity to all the sons of men
We haven't arrived yet at that goal;
there is injustice still among us, many
senseless and cruel customs of the past
still cling to us, but the only hope of
righting the wrongs of men lies in the
| feeling produced in our bosoms by the
sight of that flag.
It stands for no race. It is not like
an English, French or German flag It
stands for all men who will come and
live with us under it's protection. 1t is
the only banner that means mankind
Other flags mean a glorious past, this
flag means a glorious future. It is not
so much the flag of our fathers as it is
the flag of our children, and Of all chill
dren's children yet unborn. 1t is the flag
of tomorrow-the signal of the ''GooG
| Time Coming" It is not the flag of your
| king, it is the flag of yourself and of
your neighbors.
It has a power concealed in it's folds
and scatters abroad an influence from its
futterings. That power and influence
| mean Cn2C IN que Time, SLOWLY ana Oy
| force of law, yet surely as che footsteps
of God, the last ancient fraud shall be
smitten, the last unearned privilege re-
moved, the last irregularity set right
the last man shall have a place to work
and living wage, the last woman shall
! have all her rights of person and of cit
izenship, and the last and least of chill
dren shall be sheltered and trained and
equipped by the sovereign state, and SC
! have their right to live
| Don't be ashamed when your throat
cho1es and the tears come, as you see ii
flying from the mast of ship in some
foreign port. You will never have a
worthier emotion. Reverence it as you
would reverence the signature of the
Deity.
By thousands of the victims of old
| world caste are streaming westward
seeking here the thing that flag stands
fOr-opportunity. It stands for the ope1
door of ambition against the closed dool
of caste,
1t waves defiance at all ghosts, they
that have for long inundated men; the
+, ghost of monarchy, the ghost of aristoc
racy, the ghost of war, the ghost of &c
) clesiastic, rule; all they that still lay
shadowy hands upon the life of Europe
and Asia.
Listen, son! The band is playing "Tht
Star Spangled Banner" They have le'
loose ''Old Glory yonder. Stand III
land Hurrah for the flag of your country