The Washington herald., 1922-05-31
NATION UVITES
TO CONSECRATE
LINCOLN, SHRINE
President Harding and
Chief Justice Taft
Extol Martyr.
VETERANS ATTEND
References to Blue and Gray
Bring Rounds of
Cheering.
VETERANS ATTEND
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heavily on the arm of two friends,
and was escorted up, the broad
steps of the Memorial erected to his
father. To him was given the seat
Of honor. After the ceremony. Mr..
Lincoln held an impromptu recep-
tion In the rotunda Of the Memorial.
while battery OF newspaper
cameras snapped him. sitting before
the great statue OF his father.
Notable Guests Arrive.
Sir Auckland Geddes. British Am
bassador. accompanied by Admiral
Sir William Pakenham and his stsff.
from His Majesty's ship. the
Raleigh. at the navy yard, brought
fresh outburst of chers. which
started In the Congressional sec
ton. Britans. were cordially re-
ceived on the honor tier by Presi-
dent Harding. Chief Justice Taft
and other notables present.
Diplomat after diplomat, CabI-
net officer after Cabinet officer
passed into the Memorial followed
Nv the "hnH-s - the crowd but the
greatest reception of them all. sec
ond only to that of President Hard
ing and Chief Justice Taft, was
for Secretary Of State Hughes. who
was accorded an ovation as he
passed up the steps, Secretary OF
Commerce Hoover also drew q
great round Of applause as he
entered.
Taft Opens Service.
After a pause OF a few minutes
during which II was determined
that former President Woodrow
Wilson had found II Impossible to
be present. Chief Justice Taft
/ opened the cermonies by announc-
ing Rev. wallace Radcliffe. d. D..
who offered a prayer. At the. con
clusion. the vast assemblage Joined
In the Lords Prayer.
Chief Justice Taft then prese.ted
Gen. Lewis s. Pitcher. commander
in-chief of the Grand Army OF the
Republic. The American colnrs
| We're presented to the memorial.
after which Gen. Pitcher delivered
the dedication address OF the Grand
Army.
DR.. Motion was next called to de-
liver the tribute Of the negroes Of
America. His address was pune
tuated by apulause throughout as he
recounted the part played in the
building NJ the new America by the
black man. He told Of the stir
rings in the heart of the former
slave and his descendants when
ever the name OF the emancipator
is mentioned.
Taft Presents Memorial.
'HThe nao.I>
waited fifty-seven years for a ma
tional memorial to Abraham Lin
| coin. Those years have faded the
figures Of his contemporaries. and
he stands grandly alone" said Chief
Justice Taft. chairman Of the Lin
coin Memorial Commission, In pre-
senting the edifce to President
Harding for the nation.
The harmony of his message
with every popular aspiration for
freedom proves his univerSaiity. 1t
was this which Stanton was in
spired to predict as Lincoln Law
| dead. He said. He now belongs to
the ages
Not with the lowly only. but
with all. rich or poor. ignorant or
| learned. weak or powerful. un-
tutored or of literary genius has
this. aura about Lincoln's head at
| his death grown into halo of
living light.
Extols Lincoln.
Here on the banks of the To-
tomac. the boundary between the
| two sections. whose conflict made
the burden. passion and triumph Of
his life. IT Is peculiarly appropriate
| that IL should stand. Visible In its
! distant beauty from the Capitol.
whose great dome typifies the union
which he saved. seen in all its
gra andeur from Arlington where lie
| the nations honored dead who fell
in the conflict. Union and Confed-
crate alike. il marks the restora-
ton of the brotherly love nf the
two sections in this memorial Of
ore who Is as dear to the arts
| Of the South as to those Of TIE
North. The southerne- knows tlat
the greatest misfortune in all the
trials Of that seHsion was, the death
Of Lincoln Rancor and re-
sentiment were no mart Of his ma
ture. In all the bitterness of that
conflict no word fell from his lips.
tried as ne was. which tofS Of
malice or unforgiving soul. Here
ship. Here an altar Upon which
the supreme sacrifice was made in
the cause Of liberty. Here a sacred
religious refuge in which those who
love country end love God car fnG
| insn'ration and repose.
Mr.. President in the name Of
the commission have the honor
| to deliver this Lincoln Memorial
| into your keeping"
Harding Accepts.
With an eloquent gesture. the
| former President delivered the
temple of tribute to the President
of the nation. who declared that
no official duty could be more
welcome. no official function more
pleasing" than to- accept on be-
half of the government this superb
monument to the savior of the re-
| public"
Those who know best Mr.. Hard
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