Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-02
Presentation Of
sTEUBEM STATUE
Imposing Ceremony in German Cap
MISREPRESENTATION Speech by
Representative Bartholdt OF
st. Louis.
[By Associated Press.l

Berlin, Sept. emperor William,
war lord by trade, and Congressman
Bartholdt Of Missouri, professional
peace advocate. were the principal fig-
ures today in ceremony which had
to do with the presentation to the
people of Germany by the people OF
the United States of a replica OF the
Won Steuben statue in Washington
The replica cost $4,000. voted by act
OF congress, and occupies a prominent
site in front of the kaiser's palace.
Representative Bartholdt made the
presentation speech, to which the en-
peror responded graciously, express
ing admiration for the United States,
fraterna feeling for President Taft,
love for the German-Americans in gen
eral and Won Steuben in particular,
and extending the glad hand OF well
come to the Missouri congressman
and his associate special ambassador,
C. B. Wolfram of the New York Ger
man Herald.
The address of Representative Bar
tholdt was, in part, as follows:
Your Majesty: BY direction of the
president of the United States we
have come across the ocean to fulfill
the purport of resolution unanimous
| ly adopted by the American congress
providing for the presentation to his
majesty, the German emperor, and the
German people of a statue of General
Won Steuben. a great German and erst-
while citizen and hero of two CONT
nents. as gift from the American
people II in the performance of this
honorable mission / may be permitted
to interpret the sentiments of the peo-
pie of the United States I would say,
on behalf of President Taft's special
embassy, that the preferred donation
is to be q pledge of peace and amity
and guarantee of the sincerity Of the
earnest hope, cherished by all Ameri-
cans, that the effect of this ceremony
may be to draw more and more close
ly the bonds of traditional friendship
and good will which, strengthened as
they are by the ties of blood, have
always so happily united the great
German empire with the great repub-
lis of the West, the United States OF
America.
THE name of Steuben will ever
awaken patriotic memories beyond the
ocean. It's bearer was the embodiment
of German order and discipline and
of that loyalty of which the poet says,
If it were not as old as the world,
surely a German would have invented
it, He was not only the order-creating
genius of the colonial army, but also
the indefatigable, though modest, or
ganiZer of victories. In just apprecia-
ton of his great achievements a CRATE
full people nobly disregarding national
distinctions. honored his memory by
the erection, in front of the White
House in Washington, of monument
which is to commemorate his valuable
services as we'll as those rendered by
the Germans generally to the cause
of American independence. And to-
days celebration? 1t is verify beau
tiful act of international courtesy, but
may we not also interpret the ready
acceptance of this statue as just and
generous willingness, on the part of
Steuben's old fatherland and its ex-
allied sovereign, to appreciate and
honor those who by their conduct
abroad have added lustre to the Ger
man name? Millions of hearts on the
other side of the Atlantic which throb
warmly on account of this dedication
will rejoice exultantly at such interpre-
tation.
From the material to the political
and ideal significance of today's act