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In any case, there are plenty of social and co to lay hands on us So out shrewd tentacles to entrap us Its ious, tyrants,--but despots none the less It aovernor, but stealing back to power as soon as his back is turned Different states ant party of socialists may ”tie up” the whole country There is al on, calculated, if it succeeds, to hamper or destroy our liberty Mr D L Moody once said, when he was co that is going to hurt this nation we ought to fight Anything that is going to underrand republic or tear out its foundation, you and I ought to guard against with our tears and our prayers and our efforts”
Explain this often to your children It will strengthen their deter refornition aood work of honest officials
”There are enough aht,” he said, ”but there are feill take the trouble to commend the ets any praise for it or not, but he is often immensely cheered and refreshed by an appreciative word If his morality is not of the heroic kind, he may fall away and cease to put forth any special effort to do his ell, just for lack of encouragement”
He illustrated his point with the story of the s the sidehen some ladies appeared to call upon his mother
One of them asked pleasantly, ”Is your mother at honificance
”Do you suppose,” he growled, while a slight twinkle broke through his scowling eye, ”that I would be sweeping here if she wasn't at home?”
In spite of the fact that a well-fed, well-clothed and well-educated people, like the Gerovernives little opportunity for individual initiative; it cannot be compared, in its salutary effect upon its citizens, with one which calls forth the powers of judgment and decision in every one, and feeds self-respect, discouraging toadyism and caste, like a republic An autocracy, if wisely adreater order and efficiency, until the democracy has hly educated Rough working of new machinery is almost inevitable; and the modern democratic idea has not, even in our own country, in the absence of the votes of half the people, been allowed proper space for expansion, though England, France and Switzerland are hewing at it also A hundred years longer will shohat it can do, if deues do not overturn it If our republic fails, another will arise upon its ashes, for the noble principles upon which it was founded are the highest yet conceived by man, and are ily ih uished capitalist, who do not believe in it Their plausible argu people, unless we furnish theher belief
As Mr Benjamin C R Low has recently written in a fine poem, ”America is so new!”
We are new We realize that we are an experireatest the world has ever seen, is to succeed, depends upon the kind of patriotishly inoculated with the truth that both peace and war make incessant, expensive and personally sacrificial demands upon every citizen, and that these demands must be met by them, or else America is lost
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CHAPTER VI
PATRIOTISM AND HEALTH
Entire abstinence froe, would, with all its attendant blessings, in the course of a single generation, carry comfort, competence and respectability, with but few exceptions, into all the dwellings in the land This is not a matter of probability and conjecture It depends upon principles as fixed and certain in their operation as the rising of the sun--HORACE MANN
WE are accused by our foreign visitors of being a sickly nation, and the nu men for physical defects, have reinforced their contention Our ice-water, our ice-crea our food, and our over-heated houses,and healthy people And so, of course, we can never hope to be a ”world-power!”
Many other indictainst us in this line, most of which, if the ardent accusers would only think of it, ainst every other civilized nation
Thus, excessive alcoholism, in which we have been said to be second only to Great Britain, evidently applies somewhat to other countries, in which the new prohibitory laws are declared to have worked a social and industrial revolution Drunkenness ree, since the condition of the people has been so much improved by a prohibitory law
We are all ready to concede, even though prohibition has won to its support so many of our states, that there is still rooe part of the country, regarding the merits of ”wet and dry”
It is stoutly maintained in certain social circles that the daily presence of wine upon the family table is more likely than its absence to promote temperance there This theory does not cothened by the facts recently proclaio to prove that not only do drunkards abound a the families which serve wine upon their tables, but that the use of any alcoholic beverage lowers efficiency and is distinctly injurious to health, in spite of exceptions We always hear of these shi+ning exceptions, while of the vast army of those who have succuene Ly articles, states that recent scientific researches have proven that ”alcohol has been found to be a depressant and a narcotic, often exerting, even in small daily doses, an unfavorable effect on the brain and nervous functions, and on heart and circulation, and lowering the resistance of the body to infection”