Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-19

also made it evident in emphatic fash
ion that he and they desire peace and
friendship with the other nations OF
the earth.
Each nation has its allotted tasks
to do: each nation has, its peculiar
difficulties to encounter; and as the
peoples Of the world tend to become
more closely knit together alike for
good and for evil, it becomes ever more
Important to all that each should pros
per; for the prosperity of one is nor
mally not sign of menace but
sign of hope for the rest. Here on
this continent where it is absolutely
essential that the different peoples
coming to our shores should not re-
main separate, but should fuse into
one, our unceasing effort is to strive
to keep and profit by the good that
each race brings to our shores, ana
at the same time to do away with all
racial ard religious animosities among
| the various stocks. In both efforts
we have met with an astonishing meas
ure Of success. AS the years go by I
becomes not harder but easier to live
| in peace and good will among ourselv-
es. and I firmly believe that 1t Will
| also become not harder but easier to
| dwell in peace and friendship with the
other nations of the earth. A young
people. a people of composite stock, we
have kinship with many different ma
tions but we are identical with none
of them. and are developing a separ-
ate national stock asI we have already
| developed separate national life. we
have in our veins the blood of the
Englishman and the Irishman, the
German and the Frenchman, the
Scotchman, the Dutchman, the Scandt-
nayian. the Italian, the Magyar, the
Finn, the Slav, SO that to each OF the
great powers of the old world we
can claim a more Or less distant kim
| ship by blood; and to each strain or
blood we owe some peculiar quality IN
our national life or national character.
AS such Is the case it is natural that
we should have peculiar feeling of
nearness to each of many peoples
across the water We most earnestly
wish not only to Keep unbroken our
friendship for each, but SO far as we
can without giving offense by an ap-
pearance Of meddling, to seek to bring
about better understanding and
Grafton among all nations. 1t has been
my great pleasure, Mr.. Ambassador
In pursuance of this object, recently
to take with you the first steps In the
negotiation Of a treaty of friendly ar
bitration between Germany and the
United States.
"In closing, let me thank you, and
thru YOU the German emperor and the
L TIT,
German people, for this statue, Whlcn
7 accent in the name of the American
neonle: people claiming blood kinship
with your own; people owing much
to Germany; a people which, though
| with a national history far shorter than
that of your people, nevertheless, like
vour people. is proud of the great deeds
ne its mast. and is confident in the ma
| iestv of it's future. / most earnestly
nray that in the coming years these
two great nations shall move on toward
their several destinies knit together by
ties Of the heartiest friendship and
good will"
Remarks were made by Lieut.. Gen.
Chaffee. Maj. Gen. Gillespie. master OF
ceremonies. Lieut.. Gen. Won Loewen-
field special commissioner of the en-
peror and Charlemagne Tower, Amerl-
can ambassador to Germany.
| When Baroness Speck Won stern
burg pulled the silken cords that zoos
cned the American and German flags,
which shrouded the statue, there was
blare of military trumpets and the
marine bank struck up the German
national anthem amidst hearty cheers
and the applause of the multitudes
which surrounded the pedestal.
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