Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-05-13
MOTHERS CIRCLE
HONORS FRANCE

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It is safe to say that we owe our
INDEPENDENCE more to France than all
other agencies combined. We can
hardly now at this late day appreciate
the great scrifce they made to reach
our shores and help a handful OF back
woodsmen fight for liberty
When Lafayette, then boy OF TWEEN
tv. of noble family and of great wealth.
told his uncle of his desire to come 10
America he met with a fiat REFUSAL
His uncle saving, mo, you cannot go.
I saw your uncle killed in battle III
Italv and your father was killed at
the battle of Minden and our FANNY
has had enough of war, out thls
heroic boy braved the injunction OF
the head of his family and the pro-
hibition of his country TO embark IN
slow sailing, vessel TO fight with US,
and thousands of his countrymen IN
derstood the same perils to help US
in the fight and now we have an OPP
portunity 10 repay this debt and SEND
TO France one million of the braYest
and best soldiers of our country lot
every thousand who came from
France to aid us.
Rut. O France We do not come
merely to help you in your hour OF
need. but share with you and our al
lies the honor and glory OF the pat
tie for human liberty, to be with you
when the final death blow is given
to the last scourage of God, and to DO
our part for humanity and mankind.
We are with you TO the last dollar OF
the wealthiest nation upon the earth,
to the last man and woman, one hun
dred and twenty million strong.
So France. Great and Glorious
France. we send you greeting. In the
United States of America, near the
Atlantic Seaboard, a band of liberty
loving men and women have assembled
at the tombs of some of your soldiers
and sailors who fought and died for
US. at the request of our Mothers Cir
Gle. to decorate their graves with
flowers, and France, at this time
nearly every ship leaving our ports
is loaded with our soldiers coming to
help you win this war.
In the battles for freedom upon
your soil, yet to be fought many OF
them must die, we charge you men
and women of France, guard and
mark we'll their graves; for when lib
erty is won and the battle flags of
nations have been furled and war is
no more, then the wealth of all the
earth will pour into your Golfers free
gift offerings from the peoples who
love liberty, from every Republic OF
the Western Hemisphere, from Can
Ga, Australia, far off India and the Is
lands of the seas, together with the
allied nations of Europe, and on your
beautiful hills where the last crest of
the Hun invasion dashed itself to
death against the iron shores of lib
erty. we will build a tomb in beauty
and grandeur, outrivalling all the
glories of the works of man, a tomb
beyond description of tongue or pen
and upon its walls of pureset marble
shall be engraved in letters that never
fade the names of every man and wo-
man who died for liberty upon land
and sea, and on its topmost tower
We VIII GltCl d CatGl anu AlOl0 SAO7
rious Goddess of Liberty with hands
extended neither to the North or
South, nor East or West, but to you,
o, France
Year after year mothers and fathers
and liberty pilgrims from all the earth
will come to visit its sacred precincts
and to walk upon your blood-soaked
soil They will come not in sorrow
and neds to weep at the tombs of
loved ones, but in pride with grateful
hearts to place a wreat upon the spot
where their heroes died and to learn
of your people how well they fought
an dto share with you the glory and
granduer of France, the Mother of
Liberty. the most heroic nation of all
time
Mrs. Thomas J. Linthicum in a few
fitting words placed at the base of the
monument a wreath of laurel and
palms. with white iris, the flower of
France, and white carnations, the
flower of Americas Mothers Day:
A buglar from the Naval Academy
band sounded Taps" and the impos-
ing ceremonies closed with the Naval
Academy band PLAYING THE Star