Evening journal., 1922-06-06
Attorney John p
Nied the Meeting of the Friends of old DauyeD
ChurchN OF

Mr.. Corbit Friends OF Old Drawers.
deeply appreciate the honor OF
speaking a second time at your an
nual gathering In this historic
church. Doubtless. the privilege
comes to me as a son-in-law of Mr..
Thomas J. Craven. a founder OF the
society. There are others here today
who miss his presence. He sleeps
on a neighborng hin OF this old
hundred he loved so well.
The subject Of nay address IS
Paid Patriotism" Patriotism IS
love of country. II the Stars and
Stripes symbolic America what do
we salute?
One hundred and fifty years ago
Bishop Berkeley. a great philosopher
came 10 Rhode Island and became
an American statesman. He wrote
these famous lines about America:
Not such as Europe breeds in her
Such as she bred when fresh and
young
When heavenly fame did animate
her clay
BY future poets shall be sung.
Westward the course Of empire takes
The first four acts already past.
A fifth shall close the drama with
the day;
Times noblest Offspring is the last
This prophecy OF western empire
ie fulfilled. An imperial domain
stretches from fresh water seas to
the Great Gulf and from ocean TO
ocean and far beyond. No country
. "a 81 aHf
from the hard wheat of the north to
the oranges and cotton OF the South.
II Is self-sustaining with its own
food. and it's own coal, steel. lead.
copper, textiles and oil. Although
seventy nauonslities contribute TO
the American strain. there is but one
language. one law and an equality OF
opportunity for all; a country dom
mating one hemisphere and helping
TO lift the other; a country worthy
OF our affection and commanding
our devotion. My country imports
all this and also. Intimate and fam
liar things-home. friends, fireside.
''Breathes there the man with soul 80
dead
Who never TO himself hath said
This Is my own. my native land.
Chief Justice White in a famous
recent case declared: 1T may not
be doubted that the very concep-
ton OF a just government and It's
duty TO the citizens includes the re-
ciprocal obligation OF the citizen to
render military service in case OF
need and the right to compel IT,"
The law commands that every citi-
zen-msn and woman-shaI fight,
IL need be. for the country. The
duty is one OF affection and Of com
pulsion. The lines on the Iron Duke
begin:
Not once nor twice in our rough is
land story
The path Of duty was the way to
glory"
So It has been with each generation
in American history, and doubtless,
II will continue.
So much for patriotism: What Is
the appropriate pay for patriotism?
should the 100000 American
soldiers and sailors Of the World
War be placed back on the Govern
ment payroll, four years after the
war Is over? II they go on the pay
roll now TO have their war-pay ad-
fusted Is Il likely that they will be
off the payroll within the next CEN
turv? After their war-pay Is ad-
iusted, will their compensation con-
time and Increase with succeeding
wears? Who will have the courage
10 get them of the payroll? This is
not a partisan question any more
than this is partisan occasion. For
two years this question has stalled
-
solved. II at all. by considering the
essential facts in the spirit Oh pa
triotism.
Assuming that the American eH-
service men were underpaid DURING
the war. there Is no moral OF legsl
objection to adjusting or readjustlng
their pay with available funds. But
were they "underpaid" by any prop
or standard? An exorbitant or ex-
tortionate civilian wage should not
az the standard. No one has really |
,urgested in figures such thing. IL
Is we'll 10 hear in mind that the |
American soldier was better FED
c,othed and cared for than any otner |
soldier. The appropriations on MS |
behaH were lavish. though trench
warfare and all forms OF modern |
warfare necessarily entail every
kind Of hardship, discomfort ana
sacrifice.
without available funds or
nroner regard for the nations credit
there is an insuperable objection OF
course. to any present adjustment,
In February 1875 Congress passed
a hill To eouaiize the bounties OF sol
diers who served in the late war OF
the Union. President Grant vetoed
the bill saying: The passage OF TINS
bill at this time is inconsistent WIN
the measure Of economy now de-
manded by the necessities OF the
country" Those words apply 10
these times. with a pending wal
debt OF % billion dollars, the duty
of borrowing 6 billion dollars 10
fund short term notes maturing
within a year and a half and WIN
interest charges and running
penses Of 5 billion dollars more
The pending measure for sd9us'-
ing the compensation Of all aoie-
bodied ex-service men invoiVe
new and additional pension list OF
4 million men. II matters not wheth-
er the pension be a 90 year paie-
up life insurance policy with loan !