. The wonderful story of Washington and the meaning of his life for the youth and patriotism of America . patrioticscare sounds strangely like the calamity propheciesof politicians against every president in every na-tional crisis. In such cases it is well to rememberthat political partisans are not thus qualified to beAmerican patriots. They are special pleaders fortheir own particular party greed. Twelve other members believed as this one fromVirginia. They would much rather have censuredWashington for weakness than to have praised himfor strength. Among these thirteen partisans wasa young m
. The wonderful story of Washington and the meaning of his life for the youth and patriotism of America . patrioticscare sounds strangely like the calamity propheciesof politicians against every president in every na-tional crisis. In such cases it is well to rememberthat political partisans are not thus qualified to beAmerican patriots. They are special pleaders fortheir own particular party greed. Twelve other members believed as this one fromVirginia. They would much rather have censuredWashington for weakness than to have praised himfor strength. Among these thirteen partisans wasa young man from Tennessee named Andrew Jack-son, who afterward became one of the famous Presi-dents. These violent differences of opinion and the viciouspersonal attacks on motives, attributed each to each,has been one of the pitiable signs of injustice andincompetency in American politics. Time aftertime, as the presidential campaigns arrive, the fist-like will of each side is thrust into the others faces,as those belonging to a party fight to get votes forthe party candidate, not for a patriotic cause. In. Washington Statue in United States Capitol. Washington, D. C. REVOLUTION INTO GOVERNMENT 147 times of great national peril, whether in times ofwar at home or abroad, the president who preserves,as Washington did, the rights of his country in con-formity to the rights of man, which is the only pos-sible rights of either, is hated by the extremists onboth sides. They both call him weak, and, therefore,though hating each other, unite to defeat the manwho would not lead his country into taking up withtheir special interests. But, fortunately, we some-times have presidents with mind, patriotism andcharacter greater than any party. Most hopefully,there are increasingly greater numbers who belongto their country instead of to a party, and who electhuman principles to rule and to reign over us ratherthan the ring-managers of prejudice and partisan-ship known as parties. Presently there wil
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