Show HE WAS PATRIOTIC ChIcago News Time The trouble with us as a nation m that we are not patriotic enough h sal sail the luncher putting his folded newspaper between the sau bottle and the match safe Not ot patriotic exclaimed the man maii manI I opposite Id like to Know what we were weare are re it If w we aint patriotic Oh well hurrah lo 10 the Stars and Stripes when the young youns woman in the cowboy hat md and leggins comes up In front and waves it at Us said the bald headed luncher Well cheer Abraham Lincoln and George Washington when the candidate ens em Into his But all just a matter of habit You know any more about George Washington than a spring pul pullet pullet let does about municipal ownership and you dont know much more than n that h tp funny stories and was a a the Republican party part partHe He said Y Youcan ou can fool all of I 1 know It But do you know that nearly a year ear after the war began ne he sent a message to congress recommend tag Ing cooperation with any state that might adopt gradual abolishment or slavery W JI and j Ij u td d dIlka Ilka to bet a 1 you ou Xo No I bet said the man maa opposite But If he did r I dont see VeIl Vell the point Is that du kno know it ft Do you know when they fired firel on Fort Sumter No you Ol dont It was on April 12 1861 Do you know where Fort S mt r was Of course ourse not United St States teg t ats near enough for tor and Its near enough for the average man If I told you It was In South Carolina you ou would not know whether I was I lying ing to you or not the difference asked the theman theman man opposite I know that we fought the rebels and Ikno I knoW we licked em The difference is that ou dont have havea a clear view of things said the bald headed luncher The difference is 15 that If yo you dont know what your done and when It did It and why It did dd It you got an any good reason for being patriotic the difference Now take Washington say he licked the British he did heT heTHe he heHe He certainly did But that all there was to It That make t ef tb r oJ o his country m f British and so did J fa ette and G Geral eral Tha r reminds me that I 1 want sortIe soffie J i J cheese said aId the mal opposite b to a waiter Lots of men licked the British l the they have hae the genius of W lS Ington pursued the ded 1 Ull I Ier er When you think of that winter a Valley For ethe winter of Iii Well you ou dont think of it because j know anything It But hii I think of It when I think or of ton staying right with his men and c during the privations of the soldier and when I think of the condition we were with no power to levy ley taxes no exu ox U tive authority no lot committees fooling around and stabs at things and balling bailing then them 14 the fact that tha we did win our dence seems little short of When you think of all ail t that at you beg 1 to get an Idea of You know when we adopt adopted our n Theman opposite shook his head R al dropped a lump of sugar suar into his cof coffee fee We get the constitution rat rati ratified I fled fied by all the states until 1190 nine years after the ot Cornwa lis Ils Here we were plugging along all that time congress whatever Hi aws ws It darned darnt d pleased h th were constitutional or not there any constitution Vh the corporation lawyer er did then In hanged If I can figure out We Ve we se just running under articles of fedir tion The deals Sa Say Interrupted the man 1 you ought to get the chair or of in some Fome un university Where did you g gall gall all this anyway Ive Ie studied m my hist of course said the bald headed Jun I Ier er Every patriotic American cit elt Rats said the other mn rod ud rn Ill bet your kid brought his lesson to you ou last night and you ou got reading It Bet you cant tell mp me who was th the next president to Tyler Jackson I t I tasked asked the baJ headed luncher |