Show Deep Impress Lincoln Left Not Equaled The centenary of A Abraham raham Lincoln's birth was celebrated on February I 1 IDro with an nn e even esen en deeper Interest than such e events usually arou arouse e In Q a nation Since then the else Lincoln I legend end has hns grown Memorials to the Great Emancipator have hare multiplied rach succeeding annh anniversary of his births birth has been marked marLed by what has hns come cometo cometo cometo to be tho the usual Impre Impressive and nation nallon nationwide nationwide wide observance Abraham Lincoln his has been een des del 1 1 for nearly sL t three year year- Few Cow who ho remember him remain alive flue issues Is Issues Issues sues he raised have hn long since passed In many ways the thought and aid the lie very cry feelings of the nation hl have e chan changed ed and yet 3 et no figure In Its his history history tory has lias ever so completely captured and held its as ns Ins has this hits sorrowful son of the frontier Here was a n man mon who bo c cime inse of a wandering and Illiterate sometimes and ond always ah shifting and foot footloose footloose footloose loose stock knew little of books lie had little schooling It was a n family faintly of ot pore folks fols In a n new ne and p pore re country In that half balf faced camp In the Indiana woods hi his mother taught him his letters from the old blue bad blue speller of tradition Pv the firelight he spelled out sentences from the statutes of Indiana Lincoln s Library Somehow In that new ne raw country the theral ral ian I 2 come came Into hIs hands He lIe read the Sl care cire esop s I 1 ables and ond III I grim grim s I regress s lie knew new the life I Ife of Washington t ty y old eld I on nr-on W lIe Ile dipped a quill pen made Horn hom the turkey tu t ards s wing Ing er In a ahome ahome home made Ink led of roots of tI tie I e a L briar ind coi col hems peras Ito He wrote with the tip of or a burnt stick or a dead coil from the fireplace on 00 ona onn a fresh split cl chi clib I be b n andOne and rd One look had a prof Influence upon him and i uT uon on political 1 h Lincoln f were He lIe rend read In ht hi his bey beyt too t oo l I The Speed Speech es os of Henry II Cl I i stiff with wills the strong and pungent Whig doctrines de of a n century ago Clay became to I the lie helu heau Ideal of ot n a statesman stateS When hen I entered Illinois i In 1832 I e o was wasa IS a W Whig The torch of Clay CIny had hind ell ed a n greater name hams In the ally Salley but Cliv Clas dJ Ing In 18 lS 2 with Ith hi his life work ork of ot compromise doomed doome to n ruin did not 11 the live e to see the y yot ot of this tills new fire Ire Great by Instinct Out of tI tie Ile e taw lOW rough and ready reldy school of I and low In somehow L rought nought the Po power er and e needed for the nation nations s gre t emergency nd ind as the fie years revelled re he brought some some- something something thing II Fl e a word ord humanity falls fails to de describe crl e It IL It Included u deep ling n a great Ireat genelO Hi nn I 1 nn utter uller nl sit ence ot of malice resentment nt amid l vindictiveness ness mess Somewhere here I Ie e found i n tract t no trained diplomat und mind no fJ horn to the purple ever l excelled lie He 0 owned n a tested strength ta tiled led as os by y fire and ni as bure euro ns os steel There was ns In him bins nis tR nl u I n 11 strange and almost to In describable able instinct for fir fl r the right When hen he conquered It was wis IS IJ bT be the power of truth That may cony be wh hJ no nother I ther statesman has lins left so deep deell nn on Impress upon the thought and tho ho Imagination of the world There Thero Is no more romantic figure In the an annals pals of statecraft than this tall and strangely sorrowful sometimes hu ha humorous humorous and always burdened child of tI e a clearings and the prairies Dignity and honesty strength and generosity charity and understand understandIng lag IlIg were the hammers under which he welded a broken nation Such qualities are al alaJ always aJ s needed In public life The man who ho has lias them Is a state statesman lacking I them hens he cnn can ne Cr rise to greatness I I Ledger Leder |