The Washington times., 1906-05-30

| principle neither the individual nor the
/ nation can be strong. Without principle
/ victory is sovereign defeat and prosper
/ ity supreme disaster-bOth ending in in
| not richness of resources nor teeming
populations. nor boarded wealth, nor
great armies, nor big navies make a
great nation. The barbarian the heath
| en- and the tyrant might have all these
ana dominate in land whence liberty
ana Justice and right would be ban
lShed- And therefore. beyond and
! through and behind all these we must
look for that principle which constitutes
| TIE nation IN its particular being and by
which II is differentiated from all 9TH
ers BY this principle the nation is to
ured.
We began by the enunciation of the
liberty and equality of all men before
the law: Liberty and equality of all
men not based upon the magma charta
or kings or the concessions Of govern
ments, but innate by God-given right
ana divine creation in the breast OF
every individual. And when our sec
ond rate lawyers and poor imitators
or Things European. especially English
seek 10 ldentify the essential principle
OF american institutions with all or
any European state. they debase the
great thought which America Is and
IAN 40 see that here Providence estab-
hhneu, not only new state but q new
civilization America means the innate
divine right OF every man 10 life lin
erty, and the pursuit Of hanDInass I'D
TlShtlN understood. the Declara ton OF
independence. so much ridiculed by
Shailow-brained thinkers is the most
suoIime philosophical civil document in
the history OF the world
Il do not believe that America Il
without problems / see dark shadows
ever and again cast themselves across
our national pathway: great economic
ana social questions that ere long may
press Tor solution Bat / look 10 the
spirit Of 81 and '9S FOR salvation. and
charge you TO see that there shall
De IN the country so much civic virtue
tnat men VIII not only die for the Coun-
try, but that all men shall be compelled
70 live for 1t. That cur laws and our
institutions must be treated with re-
spect. that the Chief Magistrate must
broad liberty may permit men profound
~ TO differ with the President OF the
United States. It does not permit eth
er the press or Congress 20 speak dis
respectfully Of him.
And so shall we hand down untarn-
ished 20 generations yet unborn our
and perpetuate the work Of the heroes
whom we commemorate today"
Unite in America"
Led by the band and the chorus. the
great audience then sang America" b"
The benedlction was pronounced by the
Rev DR. Donald g. Mcleod. pastor OF
the First Presbyterian Church, and
bugler OF the band sounded taps"
The Takoma chorus. which added so
much 10 the musical effectiveness Of the
oC ca sion. is made up rs follows.
Sopranos Mrs. l.. NJ. Mooers. Mrs. J.
H. Neall. Mrs. f II. Easterling. Mrs. l.
J. Smith. Mrs J. L. Jackson. Mrs. Q
l. Shear. Mrs. s. y Curtis, Mrs. Rhine.
Miss Beulah Russell. Miss Mae Gould
Miss Lenora Perry. Miss Mildred Dyre.
Miss Lizette Hopkins. Miss Mabel
Bailey. Miss Laura Skinner. Miss Zeid-
CT.
Altos-Mrs. J. c. Miller. Mrs W. B.
Walters. Mrs. r. J. Perry. Mrs Wake
field. Miss Ethel Gilbert, Miss Helen
Miller. Miss Eva Dexter. Miss Carrie
Bailey
Tenors--Chapman Mccoy, z. Y. Crit
tenden. s. s. Shedd. J. ". Dyre. Mr.
Rhine. DIR. C.. H Head
Basso-E- j. Perry, l. J. Smith. Nor
man Jackson. &. L. Shear. DIT A Hart
Dexter, J. L Jackson. r II. Easterling.
T. G. Clark, S. y Curtis. DR.. J. H
NeaIl.
Director-James ". Dyre. Pianist
Walter c. John.