Evening star., 1901-07-04

teen years. and Joined the multitude that
welcomed him with every demonstration 11
Frenchman lived untT 1894. Ah 1t does
not seem so long ago. The veins of Amer1-
can citizens are still red with the rich blood
OF those immortal men of 16. 1t Is not
difficult matter for son of the American
Revolution to trace his ancestry back to
Lexington and Concord Bunker Hill. Tren-
ton and Monmouth. Saratoga. Yorktown
And who today cares to go back farther
into the past for rich. historical. illustrfous
blood?
There is no blood back of the revolution
that we would trade revolutionary
blood for. 1t is enough to have descended
from the Declaration of Independence ana
the blood, brain and heart that gave II
birth.
1T is meet that under the auspices of
such an association as the Sons OF the
American Revolution their grandchildren.
fyreat-grandchldren and great-great-grand-
children OF the men who made this nation
possible should assemble to celebrate the
return of the day which In the whole
galaxy of political history shines with an
t.ver-Increasing splendor and with a glory
uuexce1led If not unparalleled
On the occasion whose anniversary we
celebrate an illustrious patriot and scholar
uttered prediction which was little short
of a prophecy. a prophecy which we are
this day Loyalty helping to fulfill;
England. in her intellectual glory. could
not have produced greater heroes generals,
patriots diplomats. political philosophers
and statesmen than rose up to ach1eve
A
They stand out like mountain peaks
against the blue unclouded sky of historic
fame-Jefrerson. Adams, Henry, Morris.
Franklin Hamilton Washington
THE British parliament had never shone
with brighter and more original array OF
political genuses. Nor had there ever de-
volved upon the most accomplished brl1sn
statesmen so vast responsibility, nor hao
there ever been given to them so great a
work to accomplish 1t Is no dfsparagement
Of such statesmen as the inpassOned Chat
har Rrrrk 20 p plOOllpnt
the brilliant Sheridan, to say they were
never called upon to create a state. They
had only to guide the ship which had been
launched by others and which had proved
it's stanchness through a thousand years OF
stormy history. But men like Jefferson.
Lee. Adams Franklin: Morris. Hancock.
put to the herculean task of building and
launching a new ship of state-a nobler
work. a grander. more difficult mission than
the Pitts and Burkes were ever called to.
The New ship of state.
The launching Of that new ship Of state
involved the intellectual creation and patri-
otic. courageous signing of the Declaration
of Independence. the fighting Of the revolu-
ton. the invention and adoption Of the Con-
stitution of the United States. For such a
work there were giants in those days.
moral and Intellectual giants. giants OF
thought. conviction and purpose. the stall
wart sons OF God. mighty generation
of the archanseis of liberty. They
were trained and educated men. fit
to cope with Burke and Pitt and Sheridan
and Fox. and with Wedderburn, Greenville
and North. with the bright consummate geni-
uses and with the dull consummate asses
OF British statesmanship. But our fathers
had been trained in the school house and
college. and three-fourthS Of the Signers
were college graduates. men whose fathers
and grandfathers had associated with Locke
and Bacon. Raleigh and Spencer Shakes
peare and Milton. Men whose ancestors
followed N
Adolphus. Sidney and Cromwell; men whose
mighty blood had come from the best
Puritans and the best Huguenots, from the
best Independents and the best Episco-
palians. from the best Protestants and the
best Catholics of the best peoples of Eu-
rope. Glorious. tall-souled. superlative men.
any one Of them sufficient in himself to
have reflected Immortality upon his coun-
try.
Expansion.
Surely our fathers were the prophets Of
growth. development. expansion. Franklin
and Adams. Laurens and Oswald and Jay
and Washington. the Continental Congress,
insisted by the treaty of 1873 in expand
ing to the Mississippi river, In 1903 under
the leadership of that grand old expansion
lst, Thomas Jefferson, expanded over
the whole province Of louisiana and those
other famous expansionists Livingston
and Monroe. negotiated the purchase and
thought It the noblest work Of their lives
Then. IN 1879. Monroe, assisted by that
other arch-expanslonist Jackson tempted
US to expand over Florida. And we had
gotten 50 used to expansion that under
Polk. We took In Texas then. with the
aid Of Fremont. Scott. Pierce. Taylor
Grant. Buchanan. lot Of future Presidents
and candidates. We expanded over New
Mexico and California. and all the
region round about. Then in 1867 johnson
and Seward got expanded over Alaska
Grant was an expansionist. and wanted
Santo Domingo. but didn't get 1t: but with
a revival Of the old Washngtonian and
Jefr-rsonian and Hamiltonan spirit of
AInerlcanism during the present admins
tration the eagle has spread her protecting
wings over Havana, Porto Rico and the
Philippine Islands. and taken into her nest
new Tuba Just to teach her how to nv
We are still celebrating the Fourth Of
July. following the footsteps of our fathers
and experiencing the blessings of constitu-
tional freedom. while the government of
the people. by the people and for the peo-
pie was never more secure prOspero,s he
nfgn and invincibIe-
Now from the map of the United States
We may cut three Frances, three SPANS
three Italys. three German empires three
-Austro-Hungary empires three Great Brit
ans. SIX Switzeriands. six Beigiums six
Hollands, then have enough left for Swa
den- Norway. Greece. a Denmark and
fortusal- In its capacity for population it
IS virtually nmitiess- The expansion of
territorial domain. the increase of nonuIa
ton. the rapid growth of great cftias tho
development Of the material resources and
industrial demands OF the country have not
IPptd our intellectual
taxed the strength and adaptabilty of our
political Institutions
The Flag.
our nag is the emblem Of great. DOW
"riui and pacific nationaIism 1t stands for
power. which is the power of union and OF
the love OF freedom and for a peace which
rests securely on that significant quality
OF power II represents union and national
ISM as distinguished from that narrow and
petty sectionalism which would sacrifice
the greater to the less, the Union to a
state d state To city. and a city to a
MOD 1t represents the individuality of the
national Union
our flag il the emblem Of all that is
hoDieSt ana best. most Christian and most
humane In Anglo-Saxon civilization Not
that We have achieved all for which the
nag stands. but what we have not wrought
out We have Inherited. From many a bat
tIefeld and martyr stake. from many a
parliament, many a discovery and inven-
tion. but above all, from the Bible and the
m ~t.t ia,