Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-02-23
HONOR MEMORY
 OF WASHINGTON
(Continued from Pace One,


 paniment; and on this day of all others every one of its members should regard his membership as badge of honor Whatever else the organization may have done, it has justified its existence and earned the applause of those whose love of country is still unclouded by the work it has done for the deliverance of Washington s birthday from neglect or indolent remembrance.
 Holiday Exclusively American
 In furtherance of the high endeavor of your organization it would have been impossible to select for observance any other civic holiday having as broad and fitting a significance as this. It memo rizes the birth of one whose glorious deeds are so transcendently above all others recorded in our national annals {: and in memorizing the birth of Wash. lngton 1t eommemorates the incarnation Of all the virtues and ali the ideals that made our nationality possible and gave it promise of growth and strength. It IS a holiday that belongs exclusively to the American people. All that Wash ington did was bound up in our na- tional destiny. The battles he fought were fought for American liberty. and the victories he won gave us national independence. His example of unself ish conservation and lofty patriotism made manifest as in an open book that those virtues were conditions no more vital to our nations beginning than to it's development and durability. His Faith m God and the fortitude of his Faith taught those for whom he wrought that the surest strength of nations comes from the support of Gods al. mighty arm. His universal and unaf. fected sympathy with those in every sphere of American life, his thorough knowledge of existing American condi- tons and his wonderful influence in the eounsels of those who were to make or mar the fate of an infant nation. made him tremendous factor in the con struetion and adoption of the eonstitu tional chart by which the course of the newly launched republic could be safely sailed. And it was he who first took the helm and demonstrated for the guid. ance of all who might succeed him. how and in what spirit and intent the res. possibilities of our chief magistraey should be discharged.
 Services Above all Praise
 If your observance of this day were intended to make more secure the i'm. | mortal fame of Washington, or to add to the strength and beauty of his i'm perishable monument built upon a na- ton s affeetionate remembrance. your purpose would be useless. Washington has no need of you. But in every mo. | ment from the time he drew his sword | in the cause of American independ | ence to this hour, living or dead, the American people have needed him. Ii | IS not important now, nor will it be in | all the coming years, to remind our eountrymen that Washington has lived and that his achievements in his conn. | try s service are above all praise. But | It IS important-and more important now than ever before-that they should | apprehend and adequately value the vir. tues and ideals of which he was the embodiment, and should realize how es sential to our safety and perpetuity are the eonseeration and patriotism which he exemplified. The American people need today the example and teachings of Washington no less than those who fashioned our nation needed his labors and guidance.
 Three months before his inauguration as first president of the republic, Wash ington wrote letter to Lafayette, his warm friend and revolutionary ally, in which he expressed his unremitting de- sire to establish general system of policy which if pursued would "insure permanent felicity to the common. wealth, and he added these words:
 ''I think l see path as clear and as direct as ray of light, which leads to the attainment of that object. Moth. ing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy people. Happily, the present posture of affairs and the pre-. yailing disposition of my eounerymen promise to cooperate in establishing these four great and essential pillars of public felicity"
 Time to Look at Ourselves
 Sucl cOnSidpra tinna aa thaoa enoxaa.