Show I Whole Nation Joins in In Doing Him Honor I S K fly Ky Fob Feb 12 Jo 12 Jo- Jo seph n. n Folk former governor of ot Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- was WIK one of the thc pp speakers at nt the Lincoln exercises here her today Ile r said paid The of or every great nation have In III all nil times honored their heroes with memorials memorial In studying the history of other othI W we Judge thorn them h by these tokens of affection for t th the h. h illustrious 8 men nv-n that 1 led ll them In n some somo mighty crisis We Vo preserved d Mount Vernon in memory memo memo- r ry of or ra Washington hlll ron Monticello Is still the tho mecca Icca for or the tollOW followers of or om Jefferson Tho The hermitage I Is s kept as SUI when h Old Hickory lived and worked LI and wrought 8 Save S-n-e 4 for un till occasional monument nt there Is 18 no suitable suit suit- able abl memorial of or Lincoln whose hose fame tame Sro grows s brighter as tho y y ars arll go po b by Here on oui this farm inn loO 10 3 years arll ago today toa to- to day dav a awas was ryas borne borno th the strongest gentlest character th the republic has ha over ever known Ills work was d destined to mare have u 11 more far r reaching Influence than any an that went b before for Mm hint Until rp recently this spot enot which should i hI br hallowed d by hy every ery American was unnoticed ami anal abandoned d. d Inspired by the Idea Mea that due dill r regard gard for the apostle of human liberty who sprang from this ll demanded d th the the pr pre pre- f on of hi hits his birthplace a few pw patriotic patri otic m men n the thc Lincoln Farm association as as- liS- liS to purchase this property proper and to erect upon It n tI memorial to that simple sim- sim j le but sublime life that here herp como camo Into the world ill Sides Join Hands I The Tho ha hat has r responded as all generously generous generous- ly Iy UN us tho pile north In revering rc the tho nn name namo of 1 Lincoln there then Is IB scow now no north nor south Juth nor r cast t nor west There Is but on ono one heart halt III In nil and that the tho heart of patriotic A Aru 1 So the tho memorial to be erected h here rc by hr south as well as nil north will III not only ba In memory of oC Lincoln but hut It will lIP 10 a testimony t that the fires of hatred kindled b by the fierce civil conflict of nearly near near- it- it ly half n n. c century ago aso are Arc deal dead and ond from rein the ashes has arisen the tile red rose e of pa patriotism pa- pa to a common country and loyalty loyal loyal- ty tr to lo a common fla 03 flap The man born hero bero has already con cor this place It Is b for us to be he here hen I dedicated to the tho cr great r at Ol task tak before Us ue that this nation should not be preserved crl rase t merely to fn fall II b before tho enemies of Ir peace IM but hut that It U h ll be bo made fr free c from Crom rein tho the things that dishonor honor and oppress op- op op press The Inspiration of ot hl high h citizenship OP-I OP must ever emanate t from front this snot |