Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-04
FORMER ENEMIES JOIN
IN HONORING SOLDIERS
Chief of u. C. v. and
G. A. r. Deliver Addresses
From Same Platform.
PRESIDENT ACCEPTS MEMORIAL
Gift to Nation by Women of the
Southland Made by Mrs. Daisy
McLaurin Stevens-Exercises
Simple and Sincere.

monument unique in the worlds his
tory was unveiled this afternoon in
Arlington national cemetery.
1t is a monument erected by loving
thousands not to a President. not to a
great general, not to the soldiers of any
state. but to all the soldiers who fought
in lost cause
1t is monument erected on northern
ground to those southern soldiers who
fought the north in the fratricidal war
between the states.
1t is monument overlooking the Ma
tional Capital, which the southern forces
tried to capture, while the martyred
President of the United States stood upon
the battle line.
1t is erected at the home of Robert L.
Lee, the peerless Confederate leader,
whose statue now stands in the National
Capitol. Here at his home for the first
time in the history of the world a great
government is honoring the memory of
soldiers who lost their lives in lighting
against it.
II Is monument conceived and execut-
ed as a labor of love by famous sculp-
tor of the southland, Sir Moses Ezekiel.
cause who though his statues have
found place of honor in many of the old
world art centers. has striven and sue
cessfully, critics assert, to make this the
nnest categorical statue in the world and
the best effort of his career
Contributed by Women of the South.
Being statue contributed by the worn-
en- of the south and consecrated to the
devotion and sacrifice of women of the
south-mothers who sent their sons into
battle for principle, brides who buckled
on their young husbands swords-it was
fitting that the president general of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Mrs. Daisy McLaurin Stevens. should
have the honor of presenting it to the
nation. 1t was equally fitting that the
President of the United States, who ac-
cepted it in the name of a reunited peo-
pie, as a pledge of the indissoluble union
of the states and a guarantee of civil
peace. should have been born in the heart
of the southland and a northerner by edu-
cation and residence.
The spirit of the day and the spirit
of the south and north in honoring tho
soldiers both of the Confederate and Fed
eral armies who shared their food or
water even while they fought and who
now sleep side by side in this beautiful
plot set apart by the government for its
hero dead. We're typitied in participation in
the exercises by Gen. Bennett Young of
Louisville. Ky. commander of the United
Confederate Veterans, and Gen. Wash
ington Gardner of Albion. Mich, COM
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
These two men, spokesman for tho
armies in that great fratricidal war. the
most desperate the world has ever
seen. told of reunited brotherhood
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against all the world for country's
sake. They told the, real meaning of
the memorial being unveiled. as they
gazed across the Potomac to that other
monument erected by the people of the
nation to the father of his country.
1t the story which will be no less
thrilling to future generations than is
the story of George Washington. 1t Is
the story of how great the people grew
to be for whom Washington spent his
life, how fiercely they fought an
other over the disputed question thar
had been bequeathed to them by their
ancestors. and how out uf their bitter
struggle emerged a completed nation
ality that Washington and others of the
fathers had wrought for and prayed
for, but had not lived to see.
Veterans Mingled Together.
And while these leaders of the
veterans in blue and in gray. whose
are today wearing common uniform
in the country's service. preached the
gospel of peace and union from the
same platform. the remnant few who
survived the great struggle of 616o.
since the close of the war. mingled to-
gether as living examples of the words
of brotherhood their leaders spoke.
ADDITIONAL romance OF reunion and fra
ternity was lent to the occasion by th.
presence of Col. Robert f.. Lee. grandson
of the famous Confederate general. who
In sadness turned his back upon his
home at the call of duty TO east his lot
with his own people and fight with them
for what they believed to be right. His
speech was in the nature of a message
from a hero grandsire to the posterity
of the whole United States To safeguard
AS more precious than lives the Union and
government that had cost so much in his
day
One OF the heart-interest features OF
the celebration was the placing of a
beautiful floral tribute by the Confeder-
ate veterans on the plot where sleep the
Union dead.
Mrs. Butler Wins Praise.
Mrs Marion Butler was among those
" hose work for the memorial was given
high commendation by the Daughters
of the Confederacy and their guests.
Mrs Butler has. been vice chairman OF
the Arlington Confederate Monument
Association. She il was VINO as a
delegate persuaded the United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy to come out
of the south and hold their annual con-
vention in Washington. that they might
be present at the laying OF the corner
stone of the Confederate monument. 1t
was through the efforts of Mrs. Butler
that the reception in the Pan-American
building tonight was arranged.
The program OF unveilins the monu-
nent was simple and sincere. Col. Hill
sry A. Herbert. master of ceremonies.
who was Secretary of the Navy under
President Cleveland. as chairman OF the
executive committee of the Arlington
Monument Association form.