Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-02-12 | Page 4 | Most Famous Tributes to Lincoln

P I M MOST ST FAMOUS TRIBUTES TO LINCOLN I In him was vindicated tho the greatness greatness great great- ness of or real goodness and tho the goodness good good- ness of or real greatness Thero There Thero aro are men menas menas as good as he btu blu they do bad things There are men as ag Intelligent as ns ho but they do foolish things In him goodness and Intelligence combined and made their best result of ot wisdom Phillips Brooks In Lincoln there thero was always some somo I quality that fastened him to the people peo pee pie am and and- taught them to keep time Ume to I Ithe the music of ot his heart David hearL-David David Swing Amid the political Idiocy of or tho the times Umes the corruption In high places the dilettante culture the of or wild and helpless theorists in this swamp of ot political quagmire O a Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- coln coin it Is refreshing to think of or three lL H. H. H A. A Delano He lIe was waa the sum of or puritan and cavalier for tor in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of or both and In tho the depths of or his great soul the tho faults of at both were lost lo t. t He Ho was greater than puritan greater cavalier in that he lie was American and that In his homely form were first gathered the vast and thrilling forces of ot this thiH Ideal government govern govern- ment meat Henry Henry W. W Grady A power was his beyond tho tim touch of ot art artOr artOr artOr Or armed strength strength his his pure and anda a mighty heart hear t lder I Yo Ye people behold a martyr whoso whose blood as so many articulate words pleads for tor fidelity for tor law for lib erty Beecher Ambition did not warp power corrupt corrupt cor cor- rupt nor glory dazzle him W. V W. W H. H Cudworth A word ord explains whole lifo lt it wan waD Duty Edouard Edouard Laboulaye Tho The man whose homely face faco ico you look upon Was one of or Natures Nature's masterful great men Stoddard He built the tho rail pile pUe as he built tho the state Pouring his splendid strength through every blow The conscience of or him testing every stroke To make mako his deed the tho measure of or a man Markham Lincoln was the tho greatest figure of ot the fiercest civil war Ho lie is 18 the gentlest gentlest gen gen- memory of our world It was hi his deep heart of pity and love which carried him far beyond the reaches or of stat statesmanship or oratory oratory ora era tory and gave his words that finality final ity fly of oC expression which marks the noblest art Mabie liable What but lifetime school schooling Db n. n I appointment what but the pioneers pioneer's self reliance and ami freedom from prejudice dice lice what but the Ule patient faith the clear perceptions of oC natural right the sympathy and charity of or this Ulis man with spirit so humble and soul so great could have haTo carried him through the labors ho lie wrought to tho the victory he ho attained attained- John G. G NIcoley Nicolay Great captains with their guns suns and antI drums Disturb our judgment for the hour bour But at last silence comes These are aro all gone and standing like a tower Our children shall behold his fame famo The kindly earnest bravo brave foreseeing man S Sagacious patient dreading praise not blame New birth of or our new soil soU tho the first American Lowell Ills most conspicuous virtue was i the absence of or a spirit of or resentment or oppression toward tho the enemy Sen Senator ator tor John ohn T. T Morgan r