Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-11-11

Address of Judge Burlington
at independence Hall at noon
Wednesday, October rs, 1893.
1t was meet and right. Ma
dame Hurban - and I might
almost add your bounden du-
ty = that in the face of the
great sorrow of your country,
you should come to this Shrine
OF Liberty for comforting
words of brotherly sympathy.
In that shrine you have a right
full share, for this historic place
was not only the birthplace of
our liberty based on constitu-
tlonal government, but it was
here that Masaryk twenty
years ago came to found a
country's government that was
to embody and symbolic to
the European world in out
ward and visible form. the in
ward and spiritual ideals of IL
berty which were here given
to humanity a century and
half ago.
Nor was this the only link
between your Country and
mine. From one of your own
states, Moravia, it's people, at
the invitation of William Penn
came and helped found this
Commonwealth, and Emaus
and Nazareth and Bethlehem,
even to this day, evidence your
part in our Country's fonuda-
ton and growth. It was to this
spot Washington came to
pledge his possessions and his
life to the new gospel of liber-
ty, it was on this spot that Lin
coin, on Washington's birth
day, 1860, left this first Capt.
tai of the Nation to take on his
shoulders the mighty task of
saving the Union, and it was
to this spot his martyred body
was brought when his sacrifi-
clal life was over. And YOU
know and we know that on the
walls of your schools and your
homes the pictures of these
two great apostles of liberty,
Washington and Lincoln, ap-
pear in greater number than
in any country on earth save
our own, and that the statue of
Woodrow Wilson, who had so
much to do with the founding
of your Country stands in your
Capital. Yes, you were right
in coming here to this birth
place of your and my Country.
But you come now in the
shadow of great sorrow. This
is neither the time nor the
place to discuss the momen-
tous events of the last few
weeks - as to whether the
peace was wise or otherwise.
But this is the time and this is
the place to assure you in the
brotherly spirit of a coming
democracy that We sympathize
with you and we here record
the great sacrifice you have
made to secure the worlds
peace. Never in the history of
the world has such a volume of
world wide prayers of human
ity for peace assembled to the
ramparts of Heaven. God has
answered that prayer, but your
beloved Country has furnished
the sacrifice, (The price of
peace was paid by you and by
yau alone.) God grant that
the peace was worth the sacri-
flee. Whether it was, the test
of time will show, but test
there must be, for always, as
of old, rings true the age old
Spanish proverb: "Take what
you want, says God, "and pay
for it,. Your borders have
been narrowed, but your spirit
has broadened and enlisted
the sympathy of the Liberty
loving world.
Sometimes when a great
sorrow overwhelms one, there
is a world of comfort when a
neighbor comes and sits down
beside you and takes your
hand in his and presses it. He
says no word, but his hand
grasp, his understanding SYM
pathy, bring a comfort and
peace that passeth mans un--
derstanding. The path before
your Country is clouded, but
you face it with a calm courage
builded on the solid founda-