Show PATRIOTISM President Eliot of Harvard has aroused much resentment towards himself him-self at various times because of his free criticism of men and manners For this he has been denounced That he has not always been in touch with public sentiment is true but to be in touch with the public sentiment is not always the test of being right Ef there were more such men as President Presi-dent Eliot in the country it would be better for the country He is a thoroughly thoro-ughly independent man and we have none too many he is a scholar and his ideals are high in all things He is not without his faults but his virtues far outweigh them He very recently since his severe criticism of the G A R has written a paper entitled What is true patriotism It is so excellent so very different from much of the current jingoism that passes for patriotism that it I deserves to be read by all He says Patriotism is love of country That love includes attachment to familiar scenes and places pride of race or of family stock love of friends and home religious devotion and loyalty to characteristic char-acteristic national institutions and aspirations All nations personify country coun-try as a robust and beautiful womanLike woman-Like a mans love for a woman patriotism may be true or false ennobling en-nobling or degrading salutary or ruinous ruin-ous according as the object loved be worthy or unworthy or the conduct which her real or idealized self inspires be righteous or unrighteous True patriotism is the clear sighted selfforgetting love of a country which cherishes and pursues noble ideals The ideals of different nations are various What true American patriotism is depends de-pends on what the national ideals are The American ideals are Freedom for individual from all oppression op-pression whether by magistrates or majoritiesfreedom of thought and speech for every humblest citizen freedom free-dom of religious belief freedom of action ac-tion in both church and state Public justice the equality of all citizens before be-fore the law and no privileged classes military or civilian religious or lay hereditary or nonhereditary Universal elementary education Social mobility to facilitate the rise of the competent and meritorious through all the social grades within a single lifetime Peace and good will among nations and therefore considerate con-siderate and just conduct towards other nations Deliverance from war and the dread of war and hence a small army a smaller fleet and a complete com-plete exemption from the burdens and i wastes of competitive armaments I Hospitality to the poor and oppressed op-pressed of all kindred nations The greatest good to the greatest number as the object of governmental and social organization Not equality of conditions or Uniformity of quality but unity of spirit through all classes of the community as the goal of social hopes The spread of IZree institutions over the world not by war or by any other aggression but through the influence in-fluence of the spectacle of private happiness and public prosperity under American institutions Whoever stands ready to further these ideals by personal labor and sacrifice is a true American patriot The false patriot is he who contravenes the noble ideals of his country even while loving her or imagining himself to love her And those who cultivate this kind of patriotism will cheeitfully lay down their lives when their country calls upon them to do so It was the cultivation culti-vation of such Ideals as are here portrayed that made Lincoln the great man he was it was because such Ideals as these were his that Grant having hav-ing brought a war for their triumph to a successful close said Let us have peace Truly Blessed are the peacemakers |