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Show A SCllOOL OF PATRIOTISM. And now comes the news that Lord Roberts, Kipling Kip-ling and the London Spectator each wants a school of patriotism. Lord Roberts' plan is to compel every Englishman to serve two years as a military conscript, con-script, and forgets that the sufferings of the conscript, con-script, through the merciless drill and the arrogance of officers, might cause him to hate rather than love his country. The Spectator wants the boys trained to arms, but wants a new spirit given the teaching of boys in the history and literature of England. 1 1 Love of country is, we think, .the value received for something obtained. It is like the love that the child first gives its mother, then its home, and that expanded makes love of country. In its highest form it is founded on intelligence, but behind that the sense of justice must be satisfied. It is for that reason rea-son that we wish, every young man and woman in Utah could be, in short lessons, given an idea of the political history, and the results of it in the chief .countries of the world, ancient and modern. In accomplished ac-complished hands this ought to give intense interest to eight or ten evenings. With that completed, our own country should be taken up with the landing of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts, the Dutch in New Amsterdam, and the Cavaliers in Virginia, their career ca-reer should be traced up to and through the revolutionary revolu-tionary war, then the framing of our Government, the striking events since and the results. With it, too, should be clearly set forth the questions on which parties have divided, and the results of different differ-ent policies on the finances, morals and civilization of the people. That would require perhaps a sixty days' course, and the inevitable comparisons ought to fix a high standard of patriotism in the attentive student and incite in him a desire to have every apparent ap-parent wrong in or under our .Government righted. And such a course under able masters would, we believe, be-lieve, turn out a class better posted on national affairs af-fairs and on the history of other Governments than could be found in any other town or city in the Republic. Re-public. Better still, it would incite further and tho- rough study. ' . - After that no cunning politician could deceive them. They would know in an instant if the speaker was concealing something or magnifying something or trying any "of the arts that "make the worse appear ap-pear the better side." We think there might be sixty six-ty men selected in this city to take up and carry on this course, to each act for one night as half lecturer and schoolmaster, , and that in no other way could this people be so easily and so well prepared to judge the parties and the issues to be presented for indorsement indorse-ment in November, and that it would result in the preparation of a new and needed text book for our schools. |