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Show ii tin III SPECIAL SEMI House and Senate of Legislature, Legis-lature, in Joint Assembly, Listen to Address Delivered De-livered by W. W. Ray TIE entire legislative branch of the state of Utah today paid homage and honor to the memory of the immortal Lincoln. The house ami senate of the state legislature convened at noon In Joint session to observe appropriate ceremonies In honor of the martyred president. William W. May. former Vnlted States district attorney of 1'tah. and rune of the most eloquent orator of the state, reviewed the life and achievements of Abraham Lincoln In a stirring address before the joint assembly. A band comprised of boys from the stato Industrial school at Ogden furnished aeveral appropriate musical numbers. The ceremony was held today owing to the fact that to- morrow la a legal holiday. The program was arranged by a special joint committee appointed by the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives. LISTEN TO ADDRESS. The Joint assembly was called to order by Speaker Calllster. The gavel wss then turned over to President Presi-dent McKay of the senate, who pre-aided pre-aided during the ceremony. Theddrees ofTMr. Ray, In part, was as follows: "Periodically the American people pause from their dally routine to do honor to the memory of the men who I have laid and maid available for Iua the basis of free government. This is well worth while, for many reasons. It helps to appreciate the aualltlea of individual merit and. If we do It seriously. seri-ously. Impress upon ua the purposes and limitations of government. The history of this Important periods of world progress Is told In the biographies biog-raphies of a comparatively few men who, during the periods of stress, have dictated and guided the destiny of their fellow men. In the history of world progress few men at and -out and commend com-mend themselves to the favorable consideration con-sideration and gratitude of mankind bo distinctively aa Lincoln. IS LIMITLESS. "Hla life Is an unanswerable sermon that neither ancestry nor surroundings limit the heights an American boy may attain. Born of a shlftlesa, wandering Improvident father, without a mother, after P years of age, with total schooling of iss than one year, confined con-fined to the subjecta of reading, writing writ-ing and arithmetic, a woodsman, legl-rlaior. a county lawyer, at -1 he, kat, farmhand, clerk, soldier, a by sheer force of hla character, personality, per-sonality, had been made president of the United States, In the most critical period of Its existence. In many respect re-spect his task was more difficult than that of even the immortal Washington, Washing-ton, flreat men seldom come etngle. The stress and danger accompanying great, events Is usually accompanied by aj series of strong men. Whether the periods produce the men or the men the periods Is unimportant. My thought in this respect la Illustrated by the revolutionary period, with, its Wftj$h-ington, Wftj$h-ington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Franklin. Sam Adams, John Adams and a score of others, who, as Individuals, stand out as great men, each seemingly essential es-sential to the situation. In his struggle and contributing to the success of t he situation which immortalised . Washington, all thpe men yielded Important Im-portant service. What Washington lacked, these men could and did most generously supply. HIS QUALIFICATIONS. "As a scho'ar Lincoln was no Franklin. As a statesman, trained In states-craft, states-craft, he wss no Jefferson or Hamilton Hamil-ton or Maddison. As a financier, he was no Morse or Hamilton or Oalleler. As a lawyer he waa no Marshall or Pinckney. As an orator he waa not a Webster nor an Adams. As a general he was no Washington or (Jreen. I'ntll disaster forced the situation, sit-uation, he was no Orant, He had been president but -a month 'when the cataclysm came. With a courage born of a conviction of the righteousness of his cause and that no sacrifice, hut could be repaid by the I preservation of the union, he squared himself to the situation, assumed the; burden of leadership and with all thej (suffering and sacrifice the task en-! 'tailed, left to prosperity a better an' 'a stronger union than he found. j IJ I Its greatnefs does not lie in the victory the North attained. There were twent y-one million Nort herners, in I possession of the navy, the treasury! and the government of the t'nited States, pitted aganist 5.000.000 Soutn- jeners, whose 4 000.000 slaves had been-' rendered, by the war. largely useless.. Supported by ihe right the North must win. His greatness does not lie-in the( feet that the South waa forced to re- ( bniuisii its slaves. Kven to Lincoln ! this was not a condition to the pres- ', 'ervation of the union. His greatness lies In, his big soul, his almost divine concept of the equality of men and ? the value of human liberty. j DEVOTION SUBLIME. "In his sublime devotion to. and rev-( erance for the nation which gave him birth, naturally, he is sainted. j In the campaign of 1S4 for reelection reelec-tion he was eo maligned, and scan- tlujued notwithstanding all his sac -4 (Continued on page 10.) ! HONOR LINCOLN j (Continued from page 1.) B rifle that a weaker man would have I revolted auch Ingratitude and retired I to peace among bia friends. So strong ; I waa thla vituperation that his, as- Q aaain. no doubt. believed in his H diseased mind that he was removing 1 1 a national enemy. . j n It Is difficult to put a finger upon ' th greatness of Lincoln. j H It la almost spiritual, but whatever I Its source, bis life Is an Inspiration toil all mankind. He waa not. technically. a great scholar, statesman or aoldier. I but I bad rther be crowned with the B Laurels of a Lincoln than all th Alex- jl antlers. Ceasars. Napoleons that his- ' I aarv aas roduas4. J Jj |