Show Thf Springfield Republican says that tin President when In New York city I a wck ago attended the Fifth Avenue PnMbyterlan church and that In tho course of his sermon the minister said I nut what IK patriotism often but a nar I p r > circ for ones land and city An it v K vltli thn Romans when In the t f i itriotlam they crushed out the name lives 01 ther nations so nowadays I m Is often nothing but that selfish patrlot feel In i vhlch Impels a man to battle with and ruthlessly tramplo down people of otln r races I The account says that the remark was construed by tho congregation asa I as-a rebuke to the President It seems to tin that It was but a platitude which II lion ever Intended was not worth i I I noting When Romans crushed out a pi onlt or a wild tribe they1 often killed the Bounded and Invariably sold their jMPonprs j Into slavery They looted the clttw that thoy captured and their rulo was ono of violence and blood from the birth of the nation up to the time of Its decay When therefore 911 American clergyman finds an apt com partiKm between that people and government gov-ernment and our own he simply ndvr tlsoa himself OB an opinionated and dishonest ana I |