Show I 1 I 1 LIFE AND WORKS D NATIONS MEN OF WORTH IN TRIBUTE TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENT MAKES ADDRESS qualities and deeds of the great president set forth by the chief executive in impressive speech immense concourse gathered to witness exercises in connection with laying of corner comer stone of memorial hall ky the corner stone ot of the splendid memorial to be erected to the demor memory of abraham lincoln was laid by president ident roosevelt the exercises were participated in by many of the nations leading men cardinal gibbons and ex gov r polk ot of missouri being among those who made addresses from all points by train and over roads net particularly smooth at this season beason of tho the year the people gathered to the exercises A A building four times the sze size ot of the tent provided could not have accommodated the the corner stone mono of the Alet memorial norl al hall was waa laid by president roosevelt in an impressive address the chief executive eulogized the ufa life and work of the great statesman lie ho spoke as aa follows we bave met here to celebrate the tins one hundredth anniversary of the tha birth of 0 on one of the two greatest americans americana of 0 an one of tile the two or thren three greatest men ot of tha alio nineteenth century of 0 one of the ar Brent teat men in ill the woolda history hl atory this rail splitter this boy who passed hla his ungainly youth in tile the dire poverty of the poorest of 0 the front frontier ler folk whose rise was wai by weary and painful labor lived to 1 lead 1 ad llin hla people through the burning 11 annies a III e 8 of a struggle glo from which the nation emerged emere purified as an by fire born anew to it loftier life after long lona years ot of iron effort and of failure allure that canio came in inore 0 re often than victory ile he at last rose athe to the leadership of the republic at thoi the moment when that leadership had become ti cronn the stupendous world laak ot at the time lie ha grow to know greatness but beiver ease success erme camo to him but chappin ems save aio that which springs from do doing ingwell well a painful anil and a vital task power WAS hla big but nut not pleasure tit til turow on tits his brow but ill hia eyes were undimmed by titter hate or fear ills ilia gaunt shoulders were bowed but lla hill steel mews never faltered As ho he boro bore for or a burden tho the destinies of his people ilia HN great rat anil and tender heart shrank from riving pain and the laak allotted him wat was J to aa pour out like water the lite ike blood ot of the hie young ajen and to feel eel in his ht every fiber the morrow borrow of 0 tile the women disaster saddened adden enAd fd but bit never dla dim bayed him As aa the rd years yearn of 0 war went by they found him ever eier doing ills hl duty in the present even facing the fu turo tura with fearless arlena fe front high of 0 eilart and dauntless of soul unbroken by hatred unshaken una haken by scorn acorn he worked and uttered suffered tor for the people triumph was his at the last iasi and barely had lie ta sted it before murder found hint him anti and tile the kindly Vad patient lent fi arleas ayea were closed for or ever v washington and lincoln As aa a people wo we are jedeed r bcd beyond measure fortunate in the characters charac tem of 0 the two of our public men and loncoln widely though they mitered in externals nals the landed gentleman Kont loman and tiie ane Xen kentucky tucky bacU backwoodsman woodsman they we deiy ta aulis alike in ea senti entla als lj they were alike in the great which rend rendered tred ench each able to render service to mia nation urd and to all mankind uch such as a no other road mail af pf it bis generation could or did render each had lofty ideals but eduth in gt riving to la atkaln theme lofty ideale was vaa gilded by tho the soundest noun deat common mense ne each possessed courage cour urage aee la in adversity and a sell wholly unspoiled urs polled by proa perty tty possessed essed all the tha gentler virtues common ly IT by rood good men ibo laok lack ails ri wed cil ot of char character eath each pis irta messed ai all the he steves qualities vori got only by tl thom load mae maa tera fit of manit lad who have hava too otten often shown rhems devoid ot of so 0 o as aa the th of the words worda by which lifs 0 we wei tho the tit 3 of duty of 0 srawl ot of i to tha tight right of lotty lofty IVA an n battling tor for the good I 1 it other ih there h hav 46 botn ot other men 1 G I 1 X as AM arat and and other t mn as KOOI but bul in all tile the history of 0 mankind iare no ii oilier her luo great inell as an sooil good as a these no no other two good kooi mn men m n as fl great gral alfe ly though t tho it arb of 0 to dav clay differ front from the ho problems set act for sol ol ulon ullon to when ihen I 1 he 0 founded lod this nation to linco I 1 n w when h en I 1 lie ie paved it and nd freed isic slave vt the they alwy allowed glio ived I 1 in 11 hepting these ibi sa problems tire exactly m those tho s e we nho should aid show in doil doloff 0 our ur W arh toiny to iny olly Lincol ns deep foresight lincoln in saw baw into tite future with ti tha vouchsafe aphetic lit ophe tic 1 nagi nation usually vouch t only to tile lie poet and the per er ho ha had I 1 in him nil all the lift toward greatness Kuli iBa of 0 alin h viso visionary nary without any of hie lie vision arys or gottsc gott sm any 0 of f tho the vinion aryn narrow aenlo jealousy jea louBy u ly of th the e 1 practical rac man tind and inability to to at rive in pr ilc it I 1 foal I 1 on f for or the real I 1 zat I 1 oil of an I 1 deall ell ito ils had tile 0 al mans cotnam 0 it P censa ens c anil and to adapt means meana to ends but there was wag lit in him none of 0 that tant morbid growth of 0 mind anti and soul which blinds so BO many practical men to the higher things ot of life no more practical man ever lived titan than had homely backmo 0 cis idealist but he had n 0 thing in III coln coincon 0 n w with thome practical ethre m men en wh age conan ct e ne ea bra warped until they fall full to distinguish between good anti and evil fail fa to understand that strength ability whether lit in the world ot of business or of politics only serve erva to make their possessor a more mora noxious nox loun a more evil call member of 0 the community it if they are not guided and by a fine and high moral denst lessons from Lincol ns life we of 0 this day must try to sot solve ve many social and industrial aroble pro blenia ing requiring to an especial ep ilal vergree the combination of 0 indomitable rea 0 edtion with coolheaded headed sanity we car can profit by tho the way in which lincoln used both theft t r alts an ag lie strove for reform we can learn much or of value from the very attacks which following that corrito cauna brought upon hlo his lead head attacks alike by t alia extremists or of revolution a and n d by the axe e tre mIsts of reaction ile he never wavered in devotion to his principles tn in his him love tor for the union and abot in its hla abhorrence ot of slave ry timid and lukewarm m PL people mille were always denouncing him because 0 lie ha was extreme but as a matter ot of fact art he h never went to extremes ex lie ha worked step by step tep and because of this tile the extremists hated and denounced him with it a fervor which now seems beema to u uj tan finn tn in its lt deification of the he unreal and the tha impossible at the very time when one side was holding hint him up tip us as the apostle of social boi lal revolution becaas ix cnute a in to was against slavery the leading abo denounced him is ha the slavo hound bound of 1111 when he be wan wag the nee bed ond time candidate for president the majority of his opponents attacked him because of what they termed hla his extreme radicalism raull while a minority threatened to bolt its hla nomination because he was waa not nol radical enough ile he had continually t ta a check those who wished to go TO forward forba rd too fast at the very time that lie he overrode the tha opposition ot of those who wished not to po forward at all the goal was wai never dim bethire beti ire ills vision cislon but he picked tits ills way cautiously without either halt ot 01 hurry as he strode toward it gli such a morass of difficulty that no man ABRAHAM LINCOLN I 1 won I 1 I 1 1 V aill 1 40 1 I 1 k 11 I 1 I 1 V I 1 1 1 I 1 6 14 I 1 r b f I 1 I 1 6 1 I 1 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 i 11 V k A 0 i ill f 1 I i az j tt w 1 it 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 j I 1 I 1 t I 1 I 1 el ll 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 t 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 5 1 1 I 1 A I 1 vb I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i I 1 1 adv I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 0 II 11 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 j F zea I 1 of 0 less lea courage would have at tempted attempted it 1 while it would surely have overwhelmed 1 any man inan of judgment lew less serene booie man of great toleration yet perhaps i the tha most wonderful thing ot of all al I 1 and from the standpoint of the tha american of 0 today to day and of the future the tha most moat vitally important won affa the extraordinary way in which lancola could light valiantly against what lia bg deemed wrong wron ff and yet preserve fadl minli hed hla his love and respect tor for the th brother from roni whom lie he differed strong sense of justice no in days that were great and terrible when brother fought against brother for or what each sincerely deemed to be the right in a content so crim tho the strong raen men who alone can carry carri it through are rarely able abl to do juanice to tho deep convictions or of those with w whom born they grapple in aortal strife at puch timer men nee bed through a alaxa ala dark ly to only the lie rarest and loft leat spirits la is l that clear vision which um dually comes to all evert to the tha laier li ier as the struggle geta fades adea into distance and are forgotten land and ro creeps creep back to the hearts that were nere hurt but lincoln was waa given this supreme vision lie ile did not hate tit the man anan froni from whom he differed weakness Wea knoss was waa ts as foreign ait wicked to his strong gestite gentle nature but lila courage was waa of 0 a quality so no high that it no ho bo of 0 darc dar pas oloti tie ile saw gaw clearly that the tama same high qualities the same courage co and pless tor for self sacrifice anil and devo tion to the tha right am a it wn was riven given them to sea nee the th right belonged be on rod both to the men man of the tha norm nort nand and to the men ot the south A As the apar roll fiby by and as a all ot of us M wherever w we dwell grow to feet eel an einai qua pride lit in tho h valor and sell lt dvo devo tion alike alleta of tho the men who wore the he blue and the mee who wore the gT tyso this whole choto wilt will grow brow to viol wilia tullar sense of u arija in the 1140 les t of 0 tile the tann man who ta iati juthe e mighty days day tho the lover of 0 hla his C cs y and rini 1 A I 0 t a rian mankind kinti the tha man who choai wh oai 1 u A WM bod for or tha the UnIon ot of ills hla e 10 P 1 anifer forthe the oc a ruce abi abraham lincoln f it doea nf take A wonderful nisa to I 1 oc bAme but tedois take to keer from t IL 1 I i taj mn i I 1 i |