Evening star., 1924-04-15

The text of President Coolidge's
| speech last night before the D. A. r
4 Convention here follows in full:
You have come to Washington for
the yearly replenishment of the pa
triotism which the Capital of our
country suggests. The womanhood
| of the land has always made large
contributions to that sentiment. You
are the descendants of those fathers
and mothers of the republic to whom
was revealed the promise of the great
place which America was to hold in
the world. You are the inheritors of
their genius, their daring and their
initiative, which. in seeking out new
ways and untried paths, laid the foun-
dation for all that our country has
come to mean. They were at once the
defenders of the true faith and the
pioneers of progress. Our duty is
ever to maintain their faith and cher
ish their spirit of progress.
l greet you as the Daughters of
the American Revolution. But it oc-
murs to me that you arc entitled to
have a broader definition given to the
proud name of your illuStriouS or
ganization. The Daughters of the
American Revolution, yes But YOU
are more, you are Daughters of the
Revolution; of all the revolutions that
have meant the broadening of under
standing, the expanding of intelli-
Sence, the strengthening of the
mighty purpose to make this a better
world for all the people to inhabit and
possess.
Heir OF All Ages.
You are each the heir OF all the
ages the daughter of every reyolu-
tion that has aimed to broaden the
rights and secure the liberties of the
human race. For 1000 years or more
the lovers of liberty everywhe have
done honor to that Roman matron
who was the mother of the Gracchi,
because she put mothe rhood above the
richest jewels, and 1000 years hence
the children of liberty everyw here
! will still be doing honor to the gen
erationS of American women, the
mothers wives, sisters and daughters
of those American men who in every
! hour of supreme peril have stood to-
gether ready to make the nece ssary
sacrifice to save civilization from
overwhelming catastrophe.
But the women of America are more
than the daughters of the mothers of
the revolutions that through the CEN
turtles Of the past have marked the
advance of humanity. For you women
who are gathered here tonight are
also reDre sentative of another revo-
luton, of your very own and in your
own time. 1 mean. of course. that
tremendous upheaval in political in
StitutionS which, within a few years,
has brought to women well nigh
everyw here the privilege and the
duty of full partnership in the pub
lie affairs of the world We have
not yet been able TO frame very
definite judgment of the changes that
will be wrought in our public life, or
markable development. 1t has come
| so suddenly upon the world. chiefly
within this first quarter of the TWEEN
tieth century, that we have not had
time to apDraiSe its full meaning.
The institutions of democracy have
suddenly extended themselves to re-
gions where only a few years ago
we could hardly imagine them taking
strong and permanent hold.
Meaning of Revolution.
''The meaning of the American revo-
luton is now clear to us in it's dou-
BILE aspect. On the one hand, it was
conservative. 1t had as it's purpose
the preservation of the ancient rights
of English freemen, which were not
new even when they were set out in
the great charter of the day of King
John On the other hand, it repre-
Sented an extension of the right of
the people to govern themselves. For
the first time there was put into prac-
tice the principle of governments
deriving their just powers
I from the consent of the govern ed"
THAT principle, there declared and es-
tablished, has been expanding in it's in