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Show PATRIOTISM A YOUNG MAN ABOUT TO CAST HIS FIRST VOTE By the Rev. Newell Dwight Hilhs. Ha-you Ilk men. Bo strong " Ay next a million young men I 'the, poll... ri.nl ....I their first! iBr Country n w.il hi wo'- For Winy uf ..uth the d.i v. ill l... 'l.and It" nn-innry will m;i fh in their book of Mf.- I r- fjH polling pl.u , I,,., , I,.' ..rl .i-jKaalooii. .i-jKaalooii. crowd? .. half di unk- i) lit i ;i ui . . 1 1.- i.f )-, -n i 1 1 , . . JHh'jul. i ml ill,, atmosphi re inwholosurr.o and wholly ...it If 'With lie .Iik-1. ii '. ..I :- . u:;. it For the i h i :i- i.i i n, ulden Ifft ol vol ing was :i hut i -,n -Tl .the .I., i win n it..- ri ,-, in. ri jdt tl. Ir ln.lrii. ni i! . i ,,tiir. JtS J.e,,.'. .iml (:J In-mulliil -,S (;iuK'd. At ri .. cl.ick In Hi.- ' pro. - .; ., . ,,;' ,.. M. With ill h. i.iic i. rub r: i n. Ha he- . ..; nsoivts , Jft Rpotl. - i Kiirnn ids, il - pmed toward I h c irtlv i JMests eai rl. I hurnlng RPlc cnanti ii line Ik cm ..f p i- hl ' ' Hi. i. i. -hod i :.. Partlu -aaer. .1 i,. ti , (, ,., , .;.,,, te cltlr. i a took ii -..I. ,,,,, i . 1 1 1 1 K' , I'" sclflid isldei ulons B lnt rest ,, le,.f th,,m. 5tc for the , , ,.. ,, yod Ala. i -n . lOt like ,r,li, ;, I, ,, ;, Ku of ,h" ',1k The x outh Kthe spe u,,d pre-. n.e ,,f the aratho,,. Their f:il r h:i,i V- They had lived ami dh .1 . imti Tin i nh..H had b . n scholars and m i . ',.,. BSde vi. Wh f.,i th ;,, - ,, Si01"1 1 ' I ... r ... .... '" ' ' ; I i . . . , . Hstlon. sobriety and under till t1m enl of patriotism v. .uld P and in TI . liiBtoi ... jmoch.s lor republics, th'. ; ,re '' nr.- ami diKidtv to BWOtln for Ih. iiiultltiiiles of kW Wh., will, on m xi Tuesday ln " 'Vr' ' ni :li n ship. Jthe Day With Reverence. HnghtKii young Ann rlcan MIX high dliv with I" v. I,.,,, e 7, : - K 1 v ,,,f ,h" '"Public that BBjnni. n. in. v., ,i i,i ,... Vi ll'-la.i, if and the ,n. versaiy uf Nelson s great nK- tory. "v"hat soldiers, ton, hao been i hens men Ilka Wellington and Cromwell! Crom-well! What rulers like Victoria and Ed-ward Ed-ward and Elisabeth! what poets like I Si i . p art and Milton! What orators j and jurists have been th. lrs' How glor- i Ions the solemn Abbey ot Westminster. With Its Pantheon of noble dead! Klllh wonder that the Englishman nays. "I am a part: of this great nation." The leaf nnvj be only a leaf, but it helped build the ireo munument, and the citizen may stand alone, but he Is a part of his conn- i try, and Its Institutions. But how much more reason f..r prld i the port Of the American youth, who will on next Tuesday Tues-day lay I K hand on the lever of political , Influence What country h,,th resources, with lake and vallO) and river. In pas- ! tur and meadow, In for. si and mine, that arc comparable to the natural resources of our country" How brief it history, in contrast tn ihe 1600 years of the older nations, And what achievements on the 1 1 1 tin 1.00k ihat history hath writ- j ten. How glorious the names of heroes from the Pilgrim Fathers to Washington and Lincoln ami Qrant! And McKlnJey! . What Institutions are these, named the Constitution the Declaration, and the Emancipation proclamation' What towns ! and i.lti. s ha. heun created: What col- ( leges mid giillerlcf. what hills of science and temples of religion) How manj happy hap-py homes' How Is Ihe rep ibllc sud.ienlv 1 lifted lip for wonder and admiration be- 1 fore thi eyes of all the world b reason ..." ...ir President's victory for pea. e, Every American youth ought to say this I country la my country. The achievements ' of Washington and Hamilton and letter- I son were my fathers' achievements, the language of Lincoln is mv language , the battle fields all stainod with Blood, and. the bam. its red with victory, arc mine. ; Kt irer will j be the Unworthy son of a gnat pant. Never will I v..ti for never will 1 . ots In s frivolous spirit, bUt oiilj us .1 cllly.cn ,,f the grcal republic, repub-lic, who understands the meaning of the words, "I. too, am an American " For this dav whn the youth 1 aslS his llrst vote must hcni.fortii -'and out an one of the most solemn and glorious duya in the book of human II f. Patiiotisni and Disinteiested Spirit. Not eS imi.ortant Is it for the vouth I" vote It necL.--.ar ana'tn-t In, ,,v. n s, - itsh Interests. Thai word "detachment" IS a great word. Now and then a man must slHiid aluof, and from afar ,r .- llniw ins actions and his own Interests It must be remembered Uial compara-lively compara-lively few vt out people have tho rlht of suffrage. Women and children do not vote. Men under 21 and old and infirm men do not vote. Foreigners, whether Aryan or Indian or Asiatic, do not vote Tin- result Is that in comparison only a small number of the people enjoy this privilege and exercise this high prerogative preroga-tive Fne institutions assume that tho youth will vote Intelligently, as one who hath Informed hlmm It on Ihe political or economic or financial aspects of tho question ques-tion at issue. Our fathers also assumed that the young citizen would vote In a high and dKhitcrcst.il spirit. No Inventor Inven-tor named '.mr..' Stephenson would build .. grri. I locomot e a ml put It Into t In-hands In-hands of a careless and Ignorant vouth, knowing that through liicompeti n'cy he would throw the engine from tho track. I or run Into a collision, or bring his pas-sengers pas-sengers Into peril And yet, when a oiith casts his voto. he casts It not simply sim-ply for one but" probably two homes. determining the fortune" and prosperity, I or bad fortune and adversity -of women ' and children. In OVI ry relation of factory and store, and home, through bad gov- j eminent r good government in view Of all these facts one would think thai I for months before voting the whole Nation Na-tion would be turned into a vast school 1 for one i venlng a weak to ask ami to have the great men of each Community answer question on the welfare of the 1 city. living; Not Dying for One's Country, j Our fathers fronted great crises for liberty, lib-erty, and It was given to them to dlo for the State, but It Is the duty of the oung j men now entering the political stage to : me for the State. Some months ago j heard the Governor of a W-si.-rn SltM- tell about a great patriotic meeting In St. Louis, when a speaker In connection with I the World's fan reviewed the history of our country. When the orator bad" finished, fin-ished, the Governor turned to llnd the j man next to him bathed In Pars The rich citizen stied In-d out his hands to hi-s friend, and exclaimed With broken voice, Oh. what a country is ours' i feel thut 1 could die for my country a hundred times!" Three months passed, pne day the Governor was astounded to discover ! that this rich citizen, who longed to die for his country ', was in.) willing to live i for her. He was quite willing to die for i her, but be had bribed Cltj Aldermen, he ' bad debauched legislators, he bad staff. -.1 payrolls, he had, loo tod his community of it- corporate wealth Between that hour when this rich citizen she. I profuse t. irs over the glory of the republic and ex- i pressed an earnest desire to die t..r her. i and the hour when he stood in (he pria-Oncr'S pria-Oncr'S dock, exposed as an enemy of the republic lay only three brief months Just now, the cause of corruption In pub- lie affairs seems) to be commercial and venial voting Men go about as agents of the corporations, buying voters on tic right and on the left, xoung men are debauched de-bauched bj retainers' feos Aldermen and Legislators arc hired as counsel, to keep them quiet, when the steal COmeS up In the Legislative body. The country s-,cnia to be going through a period of political disease, that in similar to the diseases of childhood History seems to P-n us that every nation has passed through these epochs Thero was an era for England when Cabinet Ministers, Mi mb. rs of Parliament, Lord Mayors, city rulers, gave th.-lr days and "nights to" pillaging the State and robbing the people. Now that era has passed, and now WOJhave an age when all the Aldermen of England's groat cities are retired men, who are rich In honors, and who servo tho State and tho city without pay, merely that I they may receive tho approbation and honor of their fellows. Our own country ! also Is now approaching that new era of municipal purity and national righteousness. righteous-ness. Young men of the loftiest Ideals are coming forward. Gilted leaders are being raised up, to serve the State The hops of the republic Is In Its young men who are to cat their first vote next Tuesday, if these young men betray tho republic, through Ignorance, through venality, ve-nality, and through selfish regard for ; their own advancement free Institutions will cme to nothing and their fall win be the saddest fall that history has i vor known. Hut better times arc coming And a new spirit of patriotism Is abroad I In the young men of the land The ultl- I mate victory and triumph of the rebubllc Is to be the greatest triumph and victory j In the annals of time . |