Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — AMERICAN MOTHERHOOD. [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN MOTHERHOOD.

It was very fitting that a monument be erected and dedicated to the woman —the mother of the greatest American. The dedication of the Mary Washington monument was an event that all our liberty loving and patriotic people would have liked to witners; this was impossible, and while a few assembled to worship at a sa cred national shrine, the greater bulk of American men and women were present in sympathy, President Cleveland principal address. Among other things he said; “I believe that he who thinks it b”ave and manly to outgrow his can and devotion of his mother is, more than he vho has no music in himself, fit for treason, stratagems and spoils, and should not be trusted. Let us recall to-day as conclusive proof of the close relation to American greatness and a lasting love and reverence for our mothers, the proud declaration

of George Washington ‘all I am I owe to my mother;” and let us not forget that when his glorv was -reate«t an 1 when the j laudits of his countrymen were loud st, he valued more than these the blessing and approval cf his aged mother. “While these exercises cannot fail to ins: ire anew with reverence for American motherhood we will remember tha* we are here to do honor to the wotnau who gave to our natio.. the greatest and best citizen, and that the privilege of participating in the dedi* cation of a monument erected by the women of our land m loving and enduring testimony to the virtues of the mo her of Washington. Let us be proud that the nobility of this woman exacted from a distinguished foreigner the admission ‘lf such are the matrons of America she may well boast of her illustrious sons.’”