“The kind of compact prose that trips off the tongue as the Pledge does is deceptively difficult to craft,” wrote Jones.īellamy later said he wanted to find a way to express “intelligent patriotism.” That meant awareness of the nation’s ideals as well as love of country. However, this salute looked too similar to the Nazi salute that Adolf Hitler adopted in the early 1930's. This was a highly used salute across the country by the younger generation of the time. Jeffrey Owen Jones, in The pledge: a history of the Pledge of Allegiance, called it a “clean, easy-flowing and pleasantly cadenced piece of writing.” For instance, the United States once used the Bellamy Salute during the Pledge of Allegiance in schools of the late 1800's. I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The magazine’s publisher pondered, however, once the flag was in the room, what should be done with it? And so the pledge was born. Harrison issued a declaration that said on Columbus Day 1892, The Youth’s Companion had “an official program for universal use in all the schools.” 12, 1892, the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ arrival in the Americas.īellamy worked on the campaign, lobbying lawmakers, governors and even President Benjamin Harrison to support a flag-raising ritual on Columbus Day. They wanted schoolchildren to participate in a flag-related ceremony on Oct. Ford and Upham sought to link their flag campaign with the fair. It was 1892, the year of the wildly successful World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In one year, the promotion resulted in 25,000 schoolhouses acquiring flags. Youth’s Companion then sold flags to children at cost.
Upham, launched an effort to sell flags to schools, with the idea that every school room should have one as a way to revive patriotism. The magazine publisher, Daniel Sharp Ford, and its promotions man, James B.
Youth’s Companion then jumped on that bandwagon. Manufacturers found a lucrative market creating school supplies with patriotic images like flags, eagles and George Washington. Schools began to teach patriotism and American values. They thought foreigners should adopt American ways, and so campaigns for “Americanization” began. In a statement Tuesday, the Mountain Brook School System (MBSS) said that the footage has been misinterpreted, arguing that Webb was teaching a lesson on the so-called Bellamy Salute named. AmericanizationĪt the time, the arrival of millions of immigrants alarmed citizens born in the United States. Then in 1891 he landed a job with the Youth’s Companion magazine in Boston, a popular family magazine that began publishing in 1827 by the Perry Mason & Co. And like his cousin, he embraced the idea of a society in which government controls capital and spreads the wealth equally, known then as Christian socialism.Īs a young man, Francis Bellamy traveled New England preaching. Like his father, Bellamy trained as a Baptist minister.
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