. Life and times of Conrad Weiser : the first representative man of Berks County . 760 PENN STREET, thp: cheapest PLACE IN THE ;^-^ iramSchitler&Son. LIVERY, SALEand EXCHANGE STABLGS Court and Poplar Streets, Reading, Pa. Cabs and Carriages, day or night. Careful drivers furnishedwhen desired. Charges reasonable. m WEISER LECTURE. 36 with monuments. Why have we not done so for ConradWeiser ? What are our schools and churches, ourgovernment and enterprise, our relations of all kinds tous if they educate succeeding generations only to torgetthe actions and services of such a man ? Let us
. Life and times of Conrad Weiser : the first representative man of Berks County . 760 PENN STREET, thp: cheapest PLACE IN THE ;^-^ iramSchitler&Son. LIVERY, SALEand EXCHANGE STABLGS Court and Poplar Streets, Reading, Pa. Cabs and Carriages, day or night. Careful drivers furnishedwhen desired. Charges reasonable. m WEISER LECTURE. 36 with monuments. Why have we not done so for ConradWeiser ? What are our schools and churches, ourgovernment and enterprise, our relations of all kinds tous if they educate succeeding generations only to torgetthe actions and services of such a man ? Let us sig-nalize them in a manner that becomes our wealth, andfreedom, and greatness. Let us make of him a typewhereby we can symbolize the individuality of ourGerman ancestry and through it show to mankind ourappreciation of the principles that have made and pre-served us until now a free and prosperous people. Letus erect here, at Reading, a monument out of BerksCounty granite, so that we can point to it with prideand say :— CONRAD WEISER, A GERMAN EMIGRANT FROM THE PALATINATE WHO, BY PATIENT PERSEVERANCE IN WELL-DOING BECAME A MAN FOR THE PEOPLE, WHOS
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