The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-20
CHILDREN HONOR HIS MEMORY.
Decoration Day Addresses of Mar
riott Brosius Read In the schools.

As tribute to the memory of the late
Marriott Brosius. Representative from
Pennsylvania. there was read yesterday
morning in the public schools of Wash
ingtou the peroration OF Mr. Brosius' adj
dress delivered May 80 1900. at the Airing
ton National Cemetery. That part of Mr.
BTosius address created general comment
at the time. Through the efforts of Mr.
Franklin w. Smith the Board of Educa-
ton was granted permission for the read
ing of the peroration on the day Of the
funeral The peroration follows:
When | contemplate he said. the SUI
premacy of that lofty standard OF patriot
ism which win guide our footsteps in the
pathway to national duty and honor. a
vision of ineffable spiendor bursts upon
my imagination. l see this Republic in
the vanguard of the world. standing dis
tinctly for humanity. liberty. justice. and
progress. the essential principles of West
ern civilization; advancing in harmony
with that providential order by which all
races are at last to come under a higher
social regime. 1 see the extension of our
language. our literature. our laws. our
institutions, and our commerce over the
vast spaces of the earth and the islands
of the sea. / see the greater America
welding with a just and benevolent hand
her supremacy. holding the sceptre OF
commercial and financial empire 1 see
the realization of the dream OF patriots
and the aspiration of statesmen that our
country. through it's social. political, and
commercial influence. should become the
means of diffusing civilization among the
backward peoples on the oceanic spaces
TO the west of us as well as those on the
shores of Asia. ] see a people meeting
heir
ing the pointing of duty and destiny with
n profound sense Of obligation to those
ethical principles which constitute that
righteousness which exalts nations. never
forgetting that many is more than ma
ture: that wisdom is more than glory:
that virtue is more than dominion OF the
sea. and that justice is the supreme good
L see American valor COMMUNICATED
in magnificent monumental memorial
bridge connecting the capital with beau
tiful, cOnsecrated Arlington. the nations
Walhalla- l see our Capital City the IN
tellectual and educational as well as the
political centre of the continent enbody-
ing in her public ediices the nobIest in
te!lectual and patriotic conception Of
American art and architecture 1 see her
national galleries of history and art her
institutions OF law. medicine. and the
olOgy; her temples of science. surprising
In the amplitude of their resources for
knowledge any the world holds elsewhere.
riYalinS in architectural splendor their an
eient prototypes. L see rising against the
western horizon temples with columns
and entablature in perfection of beauty
requests of Greece to our new world-in
memOriam of thOs ewhn have welded the
executive power of the nation from its
origin. see her Executive Mansion com
mensurate with the rank and dignity of
the Republic. browning her Palatine Hill.
and surprising in artistic and architec-
tural excellence a palace of the Caesars.
all conceived and executed by American
Intelligence and patriotism TO be typical
OF American progress in the nineteenth
century