National Education

Then let us sacrifice.

Let the official sacrifice, by lifting up his brow before his foreign chief — for when the brow of the individual is lifted, the brow of the nation is lifted.

Let the young men sacrifice their daily ease and their silk-lined living, and let them demand military service with one voice; for the homeland whose foundations are kneaded with French or English blood ceases to be a homeland the day the mothers of France and England begrudge us the darlings of their hearts.

Let the girl who has time to spare sacrifice, and help her father to earn money — for money alone is the pillar of independence.

Let the woman of wealth sacrifice for the nation's sake: let her give of her money to the national schools and the national associations, and give of her long day a few short hours to spend in the nation's hospitals and its orphanages, and for the children whose mothers are forced to sweat blood for the loaf.

Let all the women of the nation sacrifice their worship of Western novelties; for the moneys they send to Europe as the price of stockings and buttons and gewgaws are the nation's blood and the sweat of its brow — nay, the water of its face — nay, they are the outright price of the chains whose links grow more numerous every day.