Word: bolivar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Chairman, Jacob Hugh Jackson 1G.B., of Indianola, Ia.; secretary, Fletcher Quillian 3L, of Los Angeles, Cal.; members of the executive committee, Frederick Sayford Bacon, 3G, of Newton, Bartholow Vincent Crawford, 4G, of Mount Vernon, Ia., Bolivar Lang Falconer, 3G, of Marlin, Tex., Robert Franklin Field, 3G, of Providence R. I., Roy Leon French, Sp., of Attica, N. Y., David Arnold Keys, 2G, of Toronto, Ont., Allen Connable Klinger, 1G, of Indianola, Ia., Francis Scott Mackenzie, Jr., Dv., of Montreal, Can., Cloyd Heck Marvin, 2G, of Los Angeles, Cal., Jacob Meyer, 1G, of Sterling, O., Howard Scott Noble...
That the Latin-American peoples are lovers of liberty their history shows. Bolivar, not content with liberating his own Venezuela, likewise liberated Colombia, Bolivia, Equador and Peru. More than one Porto Rican died in the Cuban "manigua" fighting for the liberties of the sister isle. And it is this very love of liberty, I honestly believe, that has caused friction and misunderstanding between the great republic of the North and the peoples south of the Rio Grande. They believe that the rights of Colombia, Santo Domingo, or Porto Rico, are every bit as sacred as the rights of Argentina...