Show I I The Spirit of 0 76 I m years cars ago the tho emotions and ns- ns I THREE JL I. I ph that swayed the tho heroes oY crr f J I 1776 1776 seemed as vitally a n part of oC American lIfe as In that off far earl early da day An Any that I doubted It could coule have annexed a fight on onI I an any street corner by bJ doubting It aloud TaIda To- To Ida day ona one Is much mo more likely to co contract tract asI as- as I fault and battery b by singing singing paeans to patriotism pa- pa J. J because the members of a a. certain 4 great political party part might consider tho the thoI I sentiment a a. personal reflection upon them them- I selves I Something has occurred since March tarch 4 t. 1913 1913 to cru crush h the tho spirit of or 76 and I tute for It an attitude Ie less adm admirable able SomeI Some- Some I how in some som way nation and i the American American people have been Influenced I to abandon their traditions and to den deny I r their inheritance Only a few days ago a a. I I member of the Presidents President's cabinet the Secretary Sec Sec- I I of bf War art had the assurance to comI compare com com- I I pare the soldiers of Valley F rge with Mexican l I can bandits to the advantage antage of or th tho tha l latter describing Washington's ragged Continentals Continent Continent- I als ais as a a. mere band of drunken thieves and andi 1 i was as not even cn ducked In the hor pond horse pond e-pond for hi Impudence p Mother iother nowadays doesn't raise ralee her boyto boy boyto boyto to bo bo boa a soldier fE apparently she raises him to be a a. doormat for whatever third or fourth LaSS S nation wishes to wipe its feet on him The flag lag evidently e is no longer to tobe tobe tobe be be regarded as a symbol of ot unconquerable courage and the passionate championship to of liberty In at nt least ono one country Mexico f to acknowledge allegiance to it and to claim its protection has become a a. new and tashI fash- fash I I form ot of suicide On about three- three of the surface of the habitable I globe the threatened American fondly I hopes he will be mistaken for or an English English- ma He Be boasts of ot his American citizenship away laway from home only if Jf life has lost its I I savor or and extinction is welcome t For this condition the the- conflagration In Europe Is not responsible Savagery Sa thou- thou upon thou thousands ands of miles away has not turned the American blood to water and sent ono one hundred millions of ot shivering Americans Into the churches to thank God Wilson We all endure the troubles of ot I others with equanimity The reason lies In It kho tho Insidious propaganda propaganda of three three years ears that has preached the beauties of ot cowardice glorified and andI I Idealized the other cheek performance The upstanding courageous patient but self re American has been characterized has has rs a a. bloodthirsty brute who has invest- invest in Mexico and seeks to guarantee his dividends with his fellow citizens blood The spineless ob obsequious cringing Amen Ameri- can who would have his country countr give gho an ant t Imitation of a walter head mutely mutch coaxing for or a a tip has been pictured as the last word wordan wordIn In an Americanism worthy of or emulation American citizenship has grown t to be wed with contempt because the Amerl- Amerl ican enn government views it with contempt J irhe The sole consolation the bereaved families l o Americans murdered in Mexico get from t the government go that ought to have protect- protect them Is that the victims victims' blood is upon j own heads for they were warned the they I would not be protected The American r dead ead of the the- horror evoked e inI in- in I tead of ot pity res resentment nt because the they went Rw y from home got themselves themselves' killed and Barred jarred self complacency at Washington Wholesale slaughter of Americans any any- here immediately prompts tho the administratIon adminis- adminis It not to a a. demand for tor reparation not t lip R a firm insistence upon guarantees for tor the safety of ot others b but t to a frenzied search for tor If somo tenable excuse for tor tho the butchers The Tho administration always apologizes f for r the I before the murderers have had hat to frame for tor themselves their customary cus cus- ternary tomary cynical mocking apology t v Patriotism has been If It unwittingly none nom the less Jess deliberately converted Into a use use- less Jess shopworn relic of ot the days when George Washington's soldiers were according accord accord- ing to Mr Wilsons Wilson's Secretary of War stealIng steal Ing ng eV everything the they could lay their handon hands hand fon on taking the silver sliver vessels out of ot th the hUrChes churches to get money moncy to buy drink drivIng ling Ing ministers out of the chur I churches hes and gen gen- cn proving themselves to bo be a as 1 bad C characters as the tho Mexicans E PlurIbu Unum probably B still m survives but In God Goc Trust has been amended to read In Ir legs w wo we trust and pur heres here's hoping we don't dont get set too fat to run 1 i Americanism once signified the ab ability III h tot of f citizen to think con every nationally to con con- lder himself a part of ot tho the republic and h profoundly concerned In it Its weal or woe Americanism In three years h has haa a. a become merely merel parochial It signifies nothing na na- na- na tonally because it signifies nothing Inter Inter- Citizenship has deteriorated to a until it recognizes no duties or obligations admits no concerns but those of or the Individual inch Indi vidual consents to share only in the prosperity prosperity pros pros- of the nation with the privilege of retiring re retiring re- re tiring within ones one's own dooryard at the thc first chill breath of of the winds of ot cr ad adversity But the tho spirit of iG 76 is not wholly crushed It is but lat latent nt awaiting awaiting- tho the proper national leadership to spring Into the tho same mc vigorous life it enjoyed before the re republic republic re re- public too proud or too cowed to fight IS Secretary Baker found lingering signs of or vitality in the apparent corpse of ot patriotism when he kicked it a n. few darsa days dars a ago o. o Mr r. VII Wilson's Wilsons ons on's famous Philadelphia speech Immediately following followIng- tho the horror may have been Intended as a coroners coroner's inquest upon the corpus delicti oCr of oC r American national national spirit but the function unction j I quickly assumed quite a different char char- acter Next Tuesday the spirit of 76 iG will either undergo a a. re-birth re or it will b bo indecently indecent Interred Four years more moro of ot the tho same lame evasion e of or national responsibilities tho the same emme surrender of national sovereignty and Individual Indi vidual rights the same samo pusillanimous display display dis dis- dis pl play of or the white feather and the yellow streak will drug drug- vIrile Americanism into a slumber so sf sd profound no threat of ot disaster aster can terminate and ana no approaching clouds of ot evil disturb Tho The republic must regain Its It own self respect and the respect of ot the other othel condition lie world orld In an any dangers greater than those avoided by IW timidity France is to bo be told officially that the use of or the term American corp corps in official off off- cial Is embarrassing to the tho United States government Even an nn AmerIcan Amerlean American Amer Amer- ican lean soldier In France offends the vision of or orthis this patriotic administration |