Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1923, Page 20

Hamilton Was Master Builder Of Republic, Says President 1,000 Cheer Mr. Harding’s Eulogy of | Patriot at Unveiling of Bronze Statue at Treasury Building. Describing Alexander Hamilton as the “master buflder” of the American republic and as a statesman and sol- dier of matchless genuls, President Harding invoked his conception of finanoial integrity and the sanctity of obligation as a remedy for the present world ills, in an address yes- terday afternoon at the unvelling of the bronze statue of the first Secre- tary of the Treasury on the south terrace of the Treasury building. The executive spoke feelingly and eloquently as he eulogized Hamil- ton and told of some of his most cénspicious services. More than one thousand persons were gathered about the handsome bronze memorial and frequently during his tribute he was loudly applauded. His address served also as the formal acceptance of the: statue. Brief eulogies also were of- | fered by Secretary of the Treasury Mellen, who presided during the cere- | monies; Justice J. A. Van Orsdel of | the Court of Appeals of the District | of Columbia, who, as president of the, Alexander Hamiiton Memorlal As soclatton and a member of the Alex-| ander Hamilton Memorial Commis- sion, made the presentation. i System Stands Today. Secretary Mellon sald the financial | structure of this nation has been continued on practically the same lines prescribed by Hamilton and that for valuable services rendered the young republic he was probably second to only George Washington. In lauding the honesty and patri- otism of Hamilton Orsdel declared that th nate situation tod es strongly a tendency on the | part of certain citizens and factions to drift away from the ideals of Hamilton. Mrs. Harding Present. Besides these participants there were many other distinguished men and women attending the exercises among them being Mrs. Harding. | Secretary of State Hughes, Secre- tary of Intericr Work, Secretary of Navy Denby, Col. George H. Harvey. Tnited States ambassador to 'Great Pritain; Senator F. B. Brandegee of Connecticut, a member of the Alex- ander Hamilton Memorial Commis- gion and former Secretarles of the ‘Treasury George Cortelyou and Wil- liam G. McAdoo. Three lineal descendants of the first Treasury head occupied con- spicuous positions on the platform and participated in the exercises. | They were Rev. Edgar A. Hamilton of Baltimore, Md., a great-grandson, who pronounced the invocation; Rev. Edgar L. Hamilton of Indiana, a great-grandson. who pronounced the benediction, and Miss Eleanor E. Hamilton of this city, great-great- granddaughter, who pulled the cord unveiling the &tatue. John E. Fraser of New York, sculptor of the statue, was introduced to the assembly. The President said: “It is a most becoming thing to erect, and to me a very gratifying thing to participate in unveiling, this memorial to one of the outstanding founders of the republic. In the ap- praisal of constructive contribution to the making of our America, Alexander Hamilton stands foremost, and merits our reverent tribute for all succeeding time. “Hamilton was the inspiring and insistent advocate of union, and the creative genius in the making of the Constitution. More, he was the prace tical politician who brought about its necessary adoption. “To pay him this tribute of out- standing eminence means no_dispar- TAX{S & AUTOS ower Rates Main 431 No. 2 Business Property Large four-story building on 14th St. near U, “containing a store and three apartments. Monthly rentals, $350.00. An exceptionally good investment at $35,000. W. C. & A. N. 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Washington riveted. the confidence of the new possessors of independence, Jefterson was the foremost advocate of demacracy, Franklin was the philosopher ' in the making of the Constitution, but Hamilton had the conception of a federal government, upon which plan the American people have builded to their own satisfac- tion and to no small degree of world astonishment. When this plan was adopted he became the master build- er, and the integrity of the nation's financial honor is his monument for the ages. “To the closer students of American history, notably the history of the republic in the making, it must be most gratifying to note the erection of this befitting memorial in this ap- propriate setting at the south front or sweetheart. THE EVENING STAR, of the Treasury. It was in the Tre: ury that Secretary Hamilton made matchless contribution to the stable republic. Here he put the seal of sanc- tity upon- financial honor and led the young republic from the depths of seeming hopelessness to the very heights of confidence and the supreme consciousness of honored obligations and their honest discharge. Chaos of Victory. “The task of the founders was no trivial one, and the piloting of the new ship of state demanded the attri- butes of heroic leadership. “Here was the very chaos of vic- tory. The triumphant colonists were spent and wearled, financlally ex- hausted, and without plans for the future. They had little thought of the natlon. Nationality was not the inapiration of the war for independ- ence, but nationality was revealed as the necessary means of self-preserva- tion when independence was won. “There were conflicting ideas, even more pronounced than today—there were varying conditions throughout the colonies, now turned to states. There were opposing ambitions, less understood than now, because of slow ommunication and less intimacy of 58 . There were pronounced nvies and threatening jealousies; aye, there were disturbing suspicions and the menace of destroying pas- sions. Hamilton combated them all, with that boundless faith which is born of constructive genius, and made a supreme contribution to the forma- tion and inauguration of the new re- public which he belleved to be des- the exponent and exemplar mtative democracy. ‘Wanted Strong Nation. “Many proclaimed him a monarchist and thevf:a of liberty. Others thought him an imperialist and the enemy of democracy. Bue he was none of those. It was from Hamilton’s lips that ¢ame the finest utterance ever made con- cerning human liberty: ‘The sacred rights of mankind are written as with @ sunbeam, by the hand of divinity itself, never to be erased or obscured by mortal power.’ In all the criti- cism of him—and there was intensity of criticism and maddening bittern of “controversy in those days—his sincerity was never 1:“'“0’“". 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