Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-17

aged its campaigns. conquered its foes.
founded the greatest nation on earth and
formulated the beneficent laws for its gov
eminent. Their Sufferings, their devotion,
not for their time alone, but for the long
future, deserves, and now has received, the
hearty unreserved recognition of those
who are glad to name themselves Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution
This memorial building, only partially
completed, is also designed for the head
quarters of the society, its walls to be
adorned by it's members with artistic de-
lineations of the thrilling deeds of an
eventful period, a repository for the inter-
esting and sacred relics of sacred time;
an ample auditorium, where will be held
the congresses of our society; a hearth
stone around which shall gather daugh-
tiers from the north, the south, the east
and the west, even from the Islands of the
sea, where each shall find greeting-a
welcome home.
1.-THE Greeks thought 1t duty to build
monuments of remembrance to the victors
of Salamis and Thermopylae. The Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution consider 1t
not only their duty, but have joy in the
thought that in the erection of this modern
Parthenon they render tribute to war
riors who fought, not for dominion, but
for the holy cause of home and country.
Society Reaches Goal.
"These dedication ceremonies mark a
point upon the calendar toward which this
society, animated by a love of liberty, of
justice and native land, has been like some
mighty force of nature, quietly but resist
lessly moving onward. Prayer, faith and
work have brought it hither. This is
place from which duty's clarion note sum-
mons US to renewed effort, concentrated
thought, more constant determination,
more persistent labor, that we shall not
permit this stately temple to remain long
unfinished but that, with union of pllr-
pose and glowing enthusiasm, we complete
this tribute of gratitude to the builders and
defenders of our great republic.
ct is truly a memorial to patriots; 1t is
also an incentive to all who behold it to
keep ever living and active the principles
of justice and liberty upon which 1T was
founded. 1t is the mute, yet eloquent, pro-
test against forgetfulness of American
ideas, of American justice and American
humanity. 1t Is also the physical express
sion of the beliefs of the society, whose
possession and pride 1t is, for 1t brings
to mind the lessons of patriotism, the per-
petuation of liberty which that society vas
founded to promulgate, whose existence
arose from devotion to country and from
the fear that the additions to our Coun-
try's population of subjects of despotIc
monarchies so imbued with hatred for gov
eminent it was they feared they might In
| time substitute license for liberty, anarchy
for law and order and would thus compass
the fall of the mightiest republic the world
has known.
From these fears sprang the Society of
the Daughters of the American Revolution.
which, with kindred patriotic organizations,
is reawakening the love for liberty and Is
teaching its principles. 1t believes that its
aims are to be attained best by the diftu-
sion of knowledge concerning the men and
women of the revolutionary period, their
| beliefs and their patriotic work. These ara
taught by Daughters of the American Rev
clution in the great cities of our country
| to the children of foreign parentage, as well
as to those who are to the manner born.
Study of revolutionary history Is every
where encouraged. 1t is believed that tab
| let's and monuments erected to immortalize
| the lovers of freedom serve as reminders,
as admonitiop to all who behold them.
Token of Veneration.
''1'his society, having erected all over the
| land tablets and monuments, has at last
| reared this token of its generation and
| gratitude to those whose valor made this
| country free and great--reared it not only
| to the statesmen and leaders. but to the
| men who carried the musket In the ranks.
J to the women at the spinning wheel.
/ "The Daughters of the American Revo-
| luton have reached a time of which they
long have dreamed-a place Tor winch tney
| long have sought earnestly worked for md
grandly achieved. The time is this day.
| April II, 1905, a date significant ever more
| il; It's annals, for now the representatives or
| $4,000 members of this society assemble a
| continental congress for the first time in
| their own auditorium, with their own roof
above them, their own walls surrounding
| them, their own ground peneath thelr rect.
| The dread has come true. Its reality is
! surprisingly fair: in good sooth, the place
| is almost holy ground to the true daughter.
II dreamed that stone by stone was
reared a sacred fame, a temple neither pa
| CODA mosque nor church, but loftier am
| bier always open doored to every breath
| from heaven and truth and peace and love
and justice came and dweit therein.
AFTERNOON SESSION.