The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1922-12-01
AME ER|CA THE
WORLD 5 NJ D SES
OF THIS ACE
So Declares Rev. David Pike
In His Sermon Thanks
giving Eve
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trictism then was loyalty to the father
or head of the tribe. A man was
bound to fight for his tribe against all
others. 1t was crime to rob or kill
a member of his own tribe, but It was
no crime to take the goods or life of
member of an alien tribe. In course
OF time, tribes combined into larger
unit by inter.marriage Of the. tribal
heads, leagues for mutual defense, con.
quest or absorption of one tribe by
another, or by migration into foreign
territory. ss7 'Fs ~ e'st (
Patriotism, then, becomes a matter
OF LOYALTY to the larger unit made up
OF many tribes. The next step is for
tribes to be unified into nation I'M
der one Ring or chief. The process
Keeps on.s A number Of small nations
combine into agreater a under one king.
So we get France and the German en-
pire. See how patriotism has changed
from loyalty to family or tribe and
becomes loyalty to a king and to all
the people over whom the king rules.
SO today, patriotism for a Frenchman
is LOYALTY to France. But what is
France? France is made up of MANY
nation Norman, Gascon, Burgundian.
and so on. The same with Germany,
With an Englishman. patriotism means
loyalty to the British empire in which
you have men Of a dozen races. To an
American, patriotism means loyalty to
the United States-a combination of
4Sfsmall states. We live in Ohio, but
our loyalty is America rather than
OHIO. If am loyal to Ohio at the ex-
peHse of America am traitor to my
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LOYALTY has been growing steadily
LARGER and ~ore varied in its compo-
sit$ $n. Tt evolution is wholesome
and in line with tbs upward march of
civilization. A narrow nationafism is
fod@y really unpatriotic because 1t. is
co19fary to the true interestssSEa5 y
naA IONS. s.+ssSA., se IS
ro illustrate. Here are Two Nth
born on different sides OF an arbitrary
ling They eat the same food, wear
tho same clothes, worship the same
God. But one is n Frenchman and the
other German. and because of that
they are born enemies, viewing each
other with suspicion and dislike which
may readily deepen into murderoua
hatred. And this in the name of pa
triotism!
What a crazy Condition of things!
What crime against humanity! If
the states of America had not feder-
ated this kind of patriotism would re-
Quire that Ohio regard the men of
Pennsylvania and Michigan with sus-
picicn and hostility and be ready to
fight with them whenever there was a.
clash of interests.
''No people have shown greater 10y
atty, to the fatherland than the Ger
mans of the last 100 years. And their
patriotism has brought them down to
ruin, and the same thing seems likely
to ruin France unless she changes her
course. Surely there must be some
thing wrong with patriotism that de-
stroys rather than builds up nation.
Church Is First
IN his Outline of History, H. G.
Wells says, In the 18th and 14th cen4
turtles, the population of Europe was
religious, and only vaguely patriotic
That Is to say, the sense of national
ism was not very strong. Their loyalty
was to their religion and their church
first and to king and country next. BY
the 10th century says Wells, the pop
ulations OF Europe had become who'll
ly patriotic. In a crowded English,
French or German railway carriage, in
the later 10Th century, it would have
aroused far less hostility to have jeer-
ed at God than to have jeered at those
strange beings. England. France or
Germany. To thess things the minds
of men clung. They were the real and
living gods of Europe. Yet in the back
ground of the consciousness OF the
world. waiting as the silence and the
moonlight wait. above the flare. the
shoutings and the quarreling OF the
village fair, SO waits the knowledge
that all mankind is one brotherhood.
That God is the universal and impair
tial Father OF mankind. And only Ia
that service can mankind find peace.
or peace be found for the individual
SOUL
"one Of the reasons why the Jews
rejected Jesus aud fought against his
great Apostle Paul was hers-that
both opposed strongly the narrow ne.
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