and explored and made habitable by Dutch industry and Dutch thrift, there is no Dutch monument to which we may proudly point as we pass by.  There ought to be a statue of that great Dutchman, William the Silent, on Riverside Drive. [Great applause.] Do you ever think of him?  Do you ever think of his career, that of the prototype of our own Washington?  At fifteen years of age the companion of an emperor; at twenty-one years of age, the commander of a great army, and later giving up wealth and pomp and power, preferring to be among the people of God, than to dwell at ease in the tents of wickedness; giving up everything for a life of tedious struggle in the cold marshes of the Netherlands, finally to die at the hand of an assassin with a prayer for his country upon his lips as he passed away.  He was the first human being on the face of this earth, who fairly and fully understood the principles of religious and civic freedom.  This great city, the exemplifier of those principles to which it owes so much for its prosperity and magnificence, has not yet commemorated that man.  How long shall it be, sons of Hollanders, before William the Silent shall be there looking out upon the Hudson and lifted on high as an example for all time?  I hope our eyes will see the day! [Great applause.]

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

THE HOLLANDER AS AN AMERICAN

[Speech of Theodore Roosevelt at the eleventh annual dinner of the Holland Society of New York, January 15, 1896.  The President, Dr. D. B. St. John Roosa, said:  “The next regular toast is:  ’The Hollander as an American,’ and I shall have the pleasure of introducing a gentleman who is a member of this Society, and, therefore, descended on the male line [laughter] from some one who came here before 1675, is it not? [A voice—­“That is right; 1675.”] One of the first Roosevelts came very near outstripping Robert Fulton and inventing the steamboat.  He did invent a steamboat, and you know the Roosevelts have had something of a steamboat in them ever since.  Now there is another thing I want you Dutchmen to teach the Yankees to do—­pronounce his name Rosavelt and not Rusevelt.  And, by the way, mine is pronounced Rosa too.  Now Mr. Roosevelt is a man, evidently, who has the courage of his convictions [A Voice—­“That is right.”  Applause], and it will be a cold day for the party to which he belongs if they undertake to turn him down.  I hoped that you all thought so.  There was an old darky that used to say about the Commandments:  ’Yes, preacher, they are all right, but in this here neighborhood the eighth Commandment ought to be taught with some discreetions.’ [Great laughter.] [A Voice:  “Which is the eighth Commandment?”] ‘Thou shalt not steal.’  Now in New York there are some people who think there are some commandments that ought to be taught with some ‘discreetions.’  But they had better alter their law if they don’t like