Show President Wishes Success to j Monument Workers Confederate S Washington Feb C Owing G. Owing to a press of if o n 0 President Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt elt will not bo be able to attend a n lecture for or the wi benefit of ot a n monument for tor the lie Confederate lead dead end at ArUn Arlington ton which Isto is isto isto of Tennessee Ten Ten- to be delivered b by Senator Taylor A committee consisting of oC Former Form Fonn- For For- of oC the time Navy Herbert and anti or fr Secretary Former Senator Faulkner Faulknor of West est Virginia Vir Vir- the Arlington Con representing ginia called caBell caBellon association Monument federate on the President today toda When hen asked attend the lecture the President said to attend If It is not possible for me to I I It I I 1 broke through through 1 my rule in one ono case would mean I would havo h to break breakthrough breakthrough breakthrough I through In iii u-many u others others which 1 I If there lucre were any case In thee could I break through it it would be this for tor I 1 wish to express my my deepest sympathy sym sym- sympathy the most cordial approval of pathy and nd cordal purpose of oC most the tho work which you 01 are aro goIng go- go so-I so Ing In to doThe do The monument to the Confederate dead which you arc going to raise also will vIli wil com corn commemorate 0 by many ninny SCOTCH scores of thousands brother the memory of m my roy mothers mother's halt half antI and my mv mothers mother's whole brother who went i Alabama having ha fired the thelast down in il tho the ln in inthe last lust from her but was picked up gun time the Iun escape and amid heri lived lived I for Cor or many years cr S a afterward have havo I 1 feel fecI that lint among all nU nations naton we e all particularly beyond nl been blessed the tho memory of ot the thealor others because now b the men who wore valor alor shown alike by th tin the aJor blue and the men who wore the gray Kray is a heritage of at honor for Cor the whole country countr which Not Nol far Car from the monument will stand to commemorate the Confederate wi erate dead lend not far Car from tram the many monuments monuments mon mon- who died commemorating those at Arlington now In iii tho Union army stands the monument to the soldiers ot of my regiment who dl died 11 at Santiago and there aro are about among those I should say among the gray wore fathers whose 03 as man many S 5 the tho blue 5 us as whoso whose fathers wore S Sto So in a n sense that little monument to 10 those who died in the little HUle war helps for tor tho the monument menu menu- monument to emphasize th the reason In the great ment to those who died great S' S war I wish you all success |