The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-02
Congressman Bartholt, Rep
resenting President, Makes
Presentation to the Kaiser
and His Nation.
BERLIN WAS SCENE
OF CEREMONY TODAY
Won Steuben Fought Gallant
ly in Revolutionary War
for Americans Was an
Aide to Washington.
(National News Association)

(National News Association)
BERLIN, Sept. 2.-Symbolizing the
function as a pledge of peace and a
guarantee of the sincerity of the hope
of all American people that the two
nations be drawn closer together in
the bonds of peace, Congressman Rich
ard Bartholt, as special envoy of the
United States, today presented to En-
peror William and the German peo-
pie, the statue erected by America
in Berlin to the memory of General
Won Steuben, who fought with the
American army in the war of the
Revolution. The presentation was
made in the presence of brilliant as
semblage of German court attaches
and Americans.
Address to Kaiser.
Congressman Bartholt's address in
full follows:
Your Majesty:
BY direction of the President of the
United States We have come across
the ocean to fulfill the purport of a
resolution unanimously adopted by the
American congress providing for the
presentation to His Majesty, the Ger
man Emperor and the German people
of statue of General Won Steuben,
a great German and erstwhile citizen
and hero of two continents as gift
from the American people. II in the
performance of this honorable mission
may be permitted to interpret the
sentiments. of the people of the United
States ! Haald a ~ ahAtssES{s
dent Taft's special embassy that the
proffered donation is to be pledge
of peace and entity and guarantee
of the sincerity of the earnest hope,
effect that this ceremony may be to
draw more and more closely the bonds
of traditional friendship and good will
which, strengthened as they are by
the ties of blood, have always SO hap
PLY united the Great German Empire
with the great Republic of the West,
the United States of America.
awaken patriotic memories beyond the
ocean. It's bearer was the embodi-
mef1t of German order and discipline
and of the loyalty of which the poet
says, if it were not as old as the world
surely German would have invented
it. He was not only the order-creat-
ing genius of the Colonial army, but
also the indefatigable though modest
organizer of victories.
A Just Appreciation.
In just appreciation of this great
achievements grateful people, nobly
disregarding national distinctions,
honored his memory by the erection,
in front of the White House in Wash
ington, of a monument which is to
commemorate his valuable service as
well as those rendered by the Ger
mans generally to the cause of Ameri-
can Independence. And today's cele-
bration? 1t is verify a beautiful act
of International courtesy, but may we
not also interpret the ready accept.
ance of this statue as just and gen
erous willingness, on the part of Steu'
bens old Fatherland and it's exalted
sovereign, to appreciate and honor
those who by their conduct abroad
have added lustre to the German
name? Millions of hearts on the 9th
er side of the Atlantic which throh
warmly on account of this dedication
will rejoice exultantly at such inter
probation.
From the material to the political
and ideal significance of today's act
is but a step. The President extends
to the Peace Kaiser under whose
reign the phrase, "The Empire is the
peace" has been verified, the hand oi
friendship for hearty cooperation in
the peaceful solution of the grea,
problem of civilization. And are there
two other nations which, resting upor
the tradition of undisturbed friend
ship and looking forward to still clos
er relations, could more justly fee
called upon to make common cause
in the great humanizing tasks of oul
time, in the promotion of art and
science and in all tendencies looking
to the increased welfare of the peo
plee We. live in time OF interna
tional conciliation and have coVne u
realize that peaceful dew sopmehts o.
more transcendant impbftance thar
all that il now diytdilg the nation.
and Germany's forty years Of peace i,
an ample guaranfee to America thai
| il requires but an incentive in ordel
Ito crystalize mutual sympathy lmto !
political faef. May this heautifN cere
monf hasten such happy consumma
toni
AS special ENJOYS of the Pre&den
Iof the United States We hare the dis
ftinguished honor of asking Youf Nh
| jesty to accept this statue . = Jokes
of the sincere friendship Of the Ameri
lean government and people fort You1
Majesty and the people ot Geraepy.