The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-19

1904
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4 IS great house and his great ma
ion. a man who has d devoted his IF,
4 to the welfare OF his people, and who
#lEWnile keeping ever ready to defend
the rights of that people. has alse
A jmade5 it evident in emphatic fashion
u that he and they desire peace ane
8|frIendship with the other nations d
the earth
Is not my purpose here to dis
ctss at length the career OF the
mighty King and mighty General
whose statue we have just received
4 IN all history no other great com
Imander save only Hannibal fought
50 long against such terrible odds
land while Hannibal finally failed
Frederick finally triumphed In al
most every battle he fought against
great odd s.5 and he almost always won
1.-THE victory. When defeated he rose
Ito an even created altitude than
when victorious The memory OF
the Seven Years, war viii last as long
as their lives IN mankind the love or
studied to the mfnutest detail as long
as: the world sees soldier worthy Of
the name. 1t is difficult to know
whether to- admire most the victories
LOT Leuthen and Prague, Rossbach and
|Zorndorf. or the heartSrealling cam
paigns after Kunersdorf, when the
great King, after having been beat
en- TO the ground by the banded might.
Of Europe, yet rose again and by an
exhibition Of skill, tenacity. energy,
and daring. such! al had never before
been seen united IN one person, final
" wrested triumph from defeat. Not
turn 10 the career OF Frederick the
Great for lessons in strategy and tao
tics: not only must the military ads
minis traitor always turn to his career
for lessons in organizing success; not
only Will the lover of heroism read
the tales of his mighty feats as long
as mankind cares for heroic deeds;
but even those who are not attracted
by the yalor8 OF the soldier must yet,
for the sake of the greatness of the
man, ponder and admire the lessons
taught by his undaunted resolution,
his fnfexible& tenacity Of purpose, his
far.sighted grasp of lofty possibili
ties, and his unninching, uny Yielding
in following the path
he had marked out. Tt is eminently
fitting that the statue of this iron
soldier. this born leader of mem
should find a place in this War Gol-i
lege; for when soldierly genius and:
soldierly heroism reach the highest
point of achiev cement the man In
whom they are displayed grows to be-
long not merely to the nation from
which he sprang, but to all nations
capable of showing, and therefore ca
pable of approaching, the virile and
masterful virtues which alone make
vlctors in those dread struggles
"nere RESORTS at last MAO W slI1e az
of arms.
A But. Mr. Ambassador. in accept
ng the statue given us to-day through
,ou from the German Emperor, ac-
,ept it not merely because it is the
statue of mighty and terrible sol Il
lier, but accept it as a symbol Of /;
he ties of friendship and good will &
which trustSas the years go on will
lind ever closer together the Ameri-
an and the German peoples. There
s kinship OF blood between the two
ations. We of the United States
re of mixed stock. In our veins
uns the blood of almost all the peo-
les of middle, northern. and western
Europe. We already have%a history
which we feel that we have the !
light to- be legitimate1y proud. and
ct our ma tionality is still in the for
native period. Nearly three centu-
les have elapsed since the 1andinga
& the English at jamestown mark
the beginning of what has since