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Show EMMETT MONUMENT FORMALLY DEDICATED SAN FRANCISCO, July HO. "You have unveiled a monument of lilerty here today as great as that famous monument in 1 he harbor of New York." Eamonn de Valera. "president of the Irish republic," paid in addressing a crowd estimated at (10,000 at the dedication of a statue of Robert Emmet t in Golden Gate park to-d-ry. "It may be the happy destiny of the American nation to write the epitaph that Fmmett said should bo written over him when Ireland is free," de Valera said. Those who signed the Irish declaration of independence were characterized as "young Emmetts" by de Valera. |