Evening star., 1921-04-20


ship so naturally inspire.
Compared to Washington.
| Having sacrificed in arms to estab-
I liSh the human Inheritance belonging
| to free men, the American republics
may well touch elbows to prove their
| unSelfShneSS. and show to mankind
! that righteous achievement does not
! mean anybody's destruction. individ-
ually or nationally. but that real vic
| tory lies in that human progress
wherein every contender. individual or
national, may share as it is sought to
merit it.
/ 1T is an interesting thing to COM
pare the careers of the two great
fathers of American liberty. Bolivar
! and Washington. Each wrought an
| empire of freedom. and builded more
! vastly than he dreamed. Their con-
cept of liberty was not inspired in in
! dividual unrest. Each was wealthy,
| each rated among the personally for
tunate, but peoples freedom was i'm
pellng.
1T is not too much to say that out
of the liberations wrought by Washing
ton and Bolivar grew the republican
constitutional system which is America s
gift to mankind. Our constitutions are
the models after which are fashioned the
fundamental laws of world won to
democracy. Whether they looked to the
north or south, or whether the beacon
burned the great torch to light the
way to constitutional freedom, and hope
was assured by outstanding example.
Not Wrought in Destruction.
''These things are said with due def
erence to the older civilizat tions and the
longer-established systems from which
all America came, and to which we may
trace back the inspiration which gave
conception to the institutions of freedom
to which we are dedicated. 1t is fine
to be able to say that neW-world tenn
pies of liberty were not wrought in de-
struction of the old We speak histori-
callY of revolution, when in reality we
mean severance and freedom for evolu-
ton. The world isn't calling today for
destruction, it needs reconstruction,
where the test of justice is applied to
the things which sHere as well as the
things which are to be.
perhaps the miracle was in the di-
vine plan, and the new-World marvel
was an inevitable part in the supreme
scheme for developing civilization. But
we were, when Washington and Bolivar
uttered American aspirations and bat
locked with the old world from which
our founders came, that independence
does not make for aloofness, but the
developments of civilization have
brought US more closely together.
Where ours has been the greater for
tune. ours has become a greater respon-
sibilty. anN-the endurance of our in
stitutions is no less important than their
creation.
Liberty without security would be
barren boast, and inspiration without
stabilization would challenge every
claim of democracy. Nothing the
Americas can do, nothing pan-America
may aspire to do, will surpass the con-
tribution of our youth and resources
and our steadfast allegiance to our
newer institutions to help steady the
world and prove the right of present.
day civilization to go on.
THE struggles for independence in
North and South America had differing
backgrounds. The colonies north OF the
Rio Grande had developed under liberal
institutions. North American colonies
revolted against the exasperating as
sumption of a reactionary king: South
America, against the tyrannies of a
vicious, despotic, perpetual and self
perpetuating system. Union and inde-
pendent greatness were possible follow
ing the northern revolt. Geographical
conditions and the longtime isolation of
the southern colonies from one another
made it wellnigh impossible to effect
union among them.
Experience Not All on One Side.
I'VE would make a grave mistake,
think, if we concluded too readily
that our North American experience
had all the advantage on it's side.
While we Of the northern continent
have been demonstrating one great
truth about ths> democratic form of
government-that through represent
ative institutions it can be expanded
successfully to include vast i'm
perial dominion and indefinitely in