People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — Patriotism. [ARTICLE]

Patriotism.

Cardinal Gibbons, in speaking to the Catholic children at Freeport, 111., said: ; “You, boys, I want to become noble, patriotic citizens of the United States. We have no titles in this country and we do not want any. The highest aim we can have is to be an American citizen. The people of Rome said they were glad of their am tiquity, their soldiers and their statesmen. We have no antiquity, of which to boast, but we are proud of our statesmen and of our soldiers, and of our citizens and every man who desires to live in this country should be a patriotic American citizen. “Then my dear children, let me say here that you should have two great aims in life. You should show fidelity to your dhurch and you should show love for your land by patriotic and unflinching devotion to the flag of your country.” »