The Pilgrims and their monument . atWashington. REMARKS OF JONKHEER H. M. VAN WEEDE Mr. President, Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gen-tlemen : I consider it a very great privilege to havethe opportunity of attending the dedication of thismonument which commemorates such an importantevent in the history of America. The relations offriendship which existed between the Pilgrim Fatherswho landed on this cape in 1620 and the Dutch peo-ple, and the many interests and aspirations whichthey had in common with them, make it for me, aHollander, the more valuable to be able to pay on thisday a sincere homage t
The Pilgrims and their monument . atWashington. REMARKS OF JONKHEER H. M. VAN WEEDE Mr. President, Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gen-tlemen : I consider it a very great privilege to havethe opportunity of attending the dedication of thismonument which commemorates such an importantevent in the history of America. The relations offriendship which existed between the Pilgrim Fatherswho landed on this cape in 1620 and the Dutch peo-ple, and the many interests and aspirations whichthey had in common with them, make it for me, aHollander, the more valuable to be able to pay on thisday a sincere homage to the memory of those PilgrimFathers. For more than ten years the members of theScrooby colony, on its pilgrimage to this continent,lived with us, and it is out of fragments of the archivesin Amsterdam and in Leyden that American andDutch historians have set together the noble and im-perishable maxims of those Pilgrims. By the loveand respect with which the members of that Colonyinspired my countrymen, they forged one of the 206. Copyright by Harris & Ewing JONKHEER H. M. VAN WEEDE, SECRETARYTHE NETHERLANDS LEGATION. OF THE DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT strongest links between the history of America andof Holland. The ideas of freedom, of reKgion, andof public life, both of Pilgrims and Hollanders, hadmany resemblances. The persecutions for religionwhich they both had to endure in those days, and thecommon fighting for freedom and for existence, havedeveloped the intuitive racial sympathy into the spir-itual bond which exists between them for three cen-turies. The Mayflower transplanted perhaps more of thespirit of Dutch institutions to America than even oursixty years occupation of New Netherlands of hberty, of unfettered development in everyline of thought, was brought over to this soil by Hol-landers, and especially by Englishmen who had foundin Holland a refuge from religious persecution. ThePilgrim Fathers did it, who had familiarized them-selves with the idea Hollan
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