Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1919 — ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL. [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL.

New York,. Oct. 18.—William Boyce Thompson, president of the Roosevelt Memorial association, today gave out the following statement from Charles E. Hughes, former governor of New York and exassociate justice of the supreme court of the United States, who is an honorary member of the association : “I have a great desire that in all that is done memorializing Colonel Roosevelt, that there should be constantly impressed upon the succeeding generations of America the habit of thought and the ideals of that man as he actually was and walked among us. If there is anything that has rescued Washington from the mists of an impossible legendary character, and brought him to us and enabled us in some way to reconst ru et his life r it-is -M ount Vernon and the picture of the conditions amid which he actually lived. And in a future day, I have no doubt there will be pilgrimages to Sagamore Hill in equal number with those that are made to Mount Vernon, and in that community there may be gathered various articles which will illustrate his activities, and there will be continued the atmosphere of his home, and the places where he lived among his neighbors, and in his hours of retirement after his public services. “But after all, we have this to consider. You can never perpetuate memory by monuments; those whose memory will ever abide, need no monuments. Nothing can be done in the way of tributes to the great; they abide because they are great, they abide because there is something in their influence which humanity needs. . ............ “There is an instinct in-humanity which goes out after the food of the soul, just as there is an instinct in the animal to go out after its natural food, and those who have really served, those who have enlarged our conception of what the human mind is capable of, those Who have really touched the hearts of the masses and made the people feel that here is a great man, kin r 0 a ii—those can never die; and I believe that Theodore Roosevelt is one of those abiding personalities. “The invested capital of American democracy consists in Se! memory of her great leaders and servants, and among those we put in the foremost rank our old, friend, Theodore Roosevelt.”