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Show IE ii i I! iNlifll! I PATRIOTISM. i flfiM I Love of country is about the highest attribute IP nffllil I of poor numan nature. We mean that order of pa- Hii Mljlljl I trlotism whioh absorbs a life, which causes a man PB! WHfWI f ' to hold all else as subordinate to his duty to ill iHillwi 1 ' country. The simple-minded mother becomes craf- I ilnfflil 1 ' ty and wls0 n ne 5ntorGst of her child, for moth- B H 11311 I er-love is all-absorbing and puts all her faculties B lifj flPH I on the alert in the interest of her child. In the if! Hill f same way intense patriotism gives to a man a B 111 IP i thoughtfulneas and wisdom which would never IP H- V PI i have been called up, except for the intense desire ! mt I ml in his soul that nothing of evil may come to his Bs H 1111 I country. It was in recognition of this that the 111 jfl I Fathers planned to make every man a part of his 1 1 III I government, and gave to each one the ballot H ' )' ill i i through which to express his will. Their theory Br : L I ill was that thG tumble mon of the Republic would Bi 1 1 ml hold n's to e sucn an nonor that they would Hr Ii fflflH always' be jealous of their country's honor and fV Ii InflB welfare, and would lay their hand upon the bal- BP" Wi HI Hi lo- wItn sucn a sense of pride and responsibility, B in' llifl na ney woul(i never make a mistake In casting B '1 'II ! tf an tba ft0r aggregate vote would represent ffl M llllf e u "waom of a roe PePa' Their thought was MR i Ii H? I ill correct. We would sooner have an illiterate man n Sjjjjr.. lit vote, a man ready to pledge honor, property and HE m! l on the welfare of his country than have the B, mil 11 ii educated schemer's vote. Br H H ! rt is tllls thought which causes all foreign gov- Hl 9l I B , ornments to hedge full citizenship around with & 11 I I guarantees. Bt If II Wo read overy day where In some country of Hk. fflt 18 the Old World a certain race or the members of Hh mm '' 1 B V'li a a certain organization are proscribed or banished B II 1 Jt s bQcauSQ of the fear of the government that IH Hi fl S . should a crisis come these people, in the crucial hour, would b6 found wanting. Every triumph of Japan in the present war has been due to the patriotism pf her armies, for they have won no easy victories. Except for this over-mastering passion, after they had fought for five or six days and nights, they would have said: "Wo have done better than any other modern armies arm-ies have ever done, why try impossibilities?" But with them the thought was: "Nothing is impossible for native land, if five days' fighting and the loss of half our armies is not enough, we will fight ten days more and lose the other half, for we may not go homo except as victors." Like the blood-horse that gallops all day and does his best when the sun is setting, those men fought and won. Their example should make us more careful of our free ballot. Last week there landed in New York probably 26,000 immigrants. The main body of them come merely to plunder this country. Not one in ten of them had a thought of becoming a true citizen of this Republic. Still when they have declared their Intention of becoming citizens and they will all do this if they think they can sell their votes in some seventeen sev-enteen or twenty of the states they can vote and their votes will count for just as much as will that of a native-born American who loves native land. It is not only a shame and sin that such things have been made possible, but It has become a menace men-ace to free institutions. It is a wound to the honest pride of the true citizen, it lowers his estimation esti-mation of the sovereign splendor of free government govern-ment and has a tendency to make him careless of his duties. If we had our way, we would put a curb upon this wholesale Inundation of our shores by the hordes from southern Europe. We would quarantine quaran-tine the land against them as against a pestilence, and not one should land "who could not bring with him undisputable proofs that in his native land he was a decent and honest man. |