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Show H CHILD REFUSES TO SALUTE FLAG.' j Yesterday a school girl, thirteen years old refused to salute the H flag in the Franklin school in Salt Lake City, and the little one was B expelled. Tn giving her reason for refusing to give the sign of al- H legiance, she said : J H "The flag today stands for a government that (Joes not belong H to the common people any more. 'It Allows some people to starve H and others to get all the good things in the world. My step-fathei' H has told me about Socialism, and I have read a lot about it myself H I think the Socialist flag is a better one to salute than the American H The child has received a wrong impression of what the Ameri- m can flag stands for. The flag is the emblem of a republic in which H the pebple have themselves to blame if they have not a government1 m suited to their wants. ' Our shortcomings should not be charged m against the starry emblem of equal rights, nor should any temporary m advantage which corrupt men may have obtained in the control of m the government, lessen our love for the flag. If the struggle in this m country of the masses were -a hopeless conflict in which the common m people had no means 6f redress, than we all might feel discouraged. m The authorities in the Salt Lake schools should not have expell- ed the chiia. They should have told ber the beautiful storv of the .American flag nnd the possibilities under its folds of correcting all wrongs, they should have taught her to lovo the flng rather than to have attempted to fcu'ec her to pay mock homage. But, however that may be, is this not an impressive lesson of the unrest and discontent in this nation? "When children begin to talk in a pessimistic vein of the class struggle, the outlook is ominous What is the causo? Why the powerful interests in control of tho old parties have refused to see the storm clouds gathering; they have refused to hear the shriek of the night winds; they have peered out of their sheltered abodes and have said that all is lovely and there is no storm brewing. But there is a storm coming for which this country will be wholly unprepared unless the pleadings of the masses are given more attention; unless many needed reforms arc brought about; unless we turn from the old standpat policies of the parly bosses and reactionary lenders nnd proceed to do something for the great body of the American people who are demanding more than the trickery and jugglery of the politics of men such as Aldrich, Crane, Stevenson, Lorimer, Penrose, Guggenheim in the Republican party, nnd Taggart, Sullivan, Murphy ; Belmont and Ryan in the Democratic party. The way to quiet the unrest is to vote the Progressive ticket, which has a platform of hope for every struggling man and -woman in the United States a hope that in its realization will teach evcrj man, woman nnd child to love the flng with an abiding fondness. |