Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-28
Review of Advantages.

London and Berlin and Paris are crowd
ed and you are not yet crowded. You
have still elbow room here to do what you
want. You have another great advantage
in not having any great manufactures or
factories.
with ali these advantages before you
in Washington, and with the bottomless
purse Of Uncle Sam behind you-with all
those things in hand, what might you not
make of Washington?
1T was the part of wisdom by the
founders to plant the capital In a place
where there was already no city and
where 1t was likely no great commercial
industries would spring up.
LAS well said by my predecessor, we
should make this capital of capitals, a
capital of the whole nation as each state
has it's capital. Washington to overtop
the capitals of those states as the nation
Overtops those states, representing all
that is finest in American conception, all
that is largest and brightest in Ameri-
can thought; representing in Ideal what
the capital of a great nation should be-
Let me add there is one thing you
really ought to have here, and that is a
university. l do not mean to say that it
should necessarily be a national univer-
sity in the sense that it should be man
aged by the nation through Congress or
necessarily endowed by Congress- but the
National Capital ought to have a great
university.
Duty of Capital Promoters.
What you have got to do. ladies and
gentlemen, is to make the nation feel it's
interest in Washington, make the man
from Maine and Arkansas and Minnesota
and Florida feel that Washington be-
longs to him. 1t is not alone those who
live here that are its owners. but these
men from all over the country. They
come to Washington and they are proud
of the nation, and ought to be taught
to be proud Of their capital. That is a
very great task for you to undertake.
am sure you will address yourselves to it,
and / cannot doubt you will succeed,
and j would like to hope / were to be
here at a time to witness the result of
your efforts.
"Having lived here among you with so
much happiness and delight during the
past six years, 1t is great pleasure TO
us TO remember those years and a great
sadness to my wife and myself to depart
from you; but l want to tell you that
wherever we may be our hearts, or a
large part of them, will always be in
Washington and our hopes and wishes
will always be with those who are striv-
ing to make Washington beautiful and a
worthy capital for this nation
Endorses Memorial Bridge.
SldlOTu, III ouuCIIS AHlDdS-
sador Bryce. Endorsed the plan of Con-
gress to build a memorial bridge across
the Potomac river, which he said would
be an arm to draw the north and south
closer together.
After mite years in Washington JUS
tice Stafford said, Il find that the love
and admiration of this inspiring city,
which ! brought with me when L came,
have grown deeper and more rich, and
that my hopes and wishes for it's future
have taken larger and more definite out
line as ] have come to see more clearly
what the National Capital may one day
be. This ideal, which has slowly fashioned
itself after by own mind I offer you-not
| because ii is mine, but because venture
to think it may be much the same as
that of multtudcs of others. and for that
reason entitled to attention and respect.
The capital of a nation. though it may
| lie. as ours does, at the level of the sea,
must be in a very true sense, a city that
| is set OH a hill and which cannot be hid.
| In the nature of things. it draws to itself
| the eyes not only of it's own people, but.
| IL it be the capital of a great nation, as is
| this, the eyes of the whole world.
Mecca for Feet of Patriots.
/ Tine natural sentiment Of men in these
| conditions will tend to make reverend and