| Show LOYALTY BASIS OF ALL civilization avery citizen owes moral and legal obligation to his government SAME IN COMMUNITY LIFE people have duty to their home town which Is no less binding because it Is not fixed by law copyright I 1 1917 western newspaper union loyalty Is ig the file foundation upon which the whole structure of civilization rests loyalty to ones country loyalty to ones state loyalty to ones city loyalty to ones business associates loyalty to ones friends friend sl loyalty Is essential to the ordinary progress of the world without it the world must bo be chaos there would be no stable government in the world wore were it not for the loyalty of the people to their government ov ern ment there would be no successful business enterprise on the face of the globe were it not for the loyalty of 0 the men and women who are connected with it itt no church could exist for a month were it not for the loy loyalty tilty of its members the sacredness ness of therome would be a myth were it not for the loyalty of the members of the family group the loyalty of a people to its government Is based partly upon sentiment and partly upon the recognition of an obligation that a people owes to its A people that has the benefit of good government owes a 1 duty to that government those who do not recognize this duty and perform it voluntarily are compelled by law to do so the man or woman who Is protected by the government in the pursuit of alf life e and happiness must contribute in money and service toward the support of the government the man or woman who under the protection of his ls government which preserves law and order is able to accumulate property must pay taxes on that property to help maintain the government which has protected him or her in time of war the government has the right to call upon its citizens to take up arms in its defense loyalty moral obligation I 1 in governmental affairs these things thing are regulated by law and the man W who receives the benefit of orderly government is required to fulfill the obligation which that entails but in the ordino ry y affairs of life loyalty Is a moral rather than a a legal obligation there are laws which prevent a man from stealing from his em employer plover or his business associates but arp there is no law that requires him to be loyal to them the success of a business institution however depends more upon the loyalty of its employees than upon the laws which prevent nt them from stealing its money likewise the stability of a government depends more ore upon the loyalty of its people than upon the laws which compel them to fulfill their obligation to the government ern ment it 1 equally true that the prosperity and growth of every individual community Is de dependent t upon the loyalty of the people who live la in it every citizen owes an obligation to his community and the obligation is a moral as well as a legal one the good citizen pays his taxes cheerfully and willingly ile he serves upon the juries which administer the laws of the community he fulfills every legal obligation I 1 that Is imposed impose upon him by his government but there Is a moral obligation which Is of still greater importance to the community this moral obligation consists in doing everything that Is in his power to promote the prosperity and happiness of hie community the man who is enabled to make his ih liing lug in any community Is under a moral obligation to spend his money in such a way as to help his community prosperity worth protecting anything worth having is worth protecting tec ting and if the prosperity of a community Is worth anything to the people living in it it Is worth protecting if the chatee chance tor for a man to earn a good living to live well to give his children a good education Is worth anything it Is worth protecting there Is just one way to protect the prosperity of a community and that is to keep the community from being drained of its cash working capital the only way vay to do that Is for the people of the community to keep their money at home every time the citizen of a community sends money away from home to a mall mail order house instead of spending it in his home stores he is disloyal to his community it Is disloyalty to themer the merchants cants only indirectly it Is disloyalty to the community of which the merchants are only a small but a very important part this is the moral obligation that every citizen owes to his community just as the payment of taxes and the loyal support of his government are his legal obligations disloyalty of a large body of the citizens spells disaster to any government and disloyalty of any large part of the people to their community Is followed inevitably by the don downfall fall of the community self interest if nothing else should convince every citizen of the advisability adris ability of full fulfilling Eling his moral obligation to his community |
