Show LIFE AND au GOP iDEO NATIONS MEN OF WOR WORTH TH IN TRIBUTE TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENT MAKES ADDRESS qualities and deeds odthe of the great president set forth by the chief executive in impressive speech immense I 1 C concourse concourse on course gathered t to 0 witness exercises in connection with laying of corner stone of memorial hall ky the corner stone of the splendid momo motti orial ilal to bo be erected created to the memory of abraham Abra liam lincoln was laid by president roosevelt tho the exercises wore were participated in by many of tho the nations leading men cardinal and ox gov folk of missouri being among who made addresses from all points by train and over roads loads not particularly smooth at this 8 season cason of thy the year the people gathered to 0 the exercises A building four times tho alib size of tho tent provided could not have hava accommodated tile the crowd the corner stone none of tho the memorial hall was wag laid by president roosevelt in an all impressive address tho the chief executive ell eulogized the alie life and work ot 0 tho the great statesman lie ile spoke as follows wo we have met tide here to cerebrate cete ct brate the one hundredth anniversary iry of the birth of one one ne of the two greatest americans of one of the two to or greatest men of the nineteenth century of one of the greatest men in tile worlds history this rall rail splitter this boy who passed assed his un gainly youth in the dire poverty of the poorest ot of it the e f frontier folk whose rise was by weary wenry a and nd painful labor lived to lead tits his people through the burning names flames of a struggle from which the na ti alon 0 n emerged omer geil purified as by fire born anew aner to a loft loftier life after long years of iron effort and of failure that came more often than victory ho he at last rose to the leadership of tile republic at the moment when that leadership had become the stupendous world task of the time lie ile grew brew to know greatness but never ease case success came to him but never happiness save that which springs from doing well a painful and a vital task power was ills but not pleasure tile furrows deepened on ills his brow but his eyes were undimmed by either cither hate or fear ills gaunt shoulders were wera bowed but tits his steel never faltered as lie he bore for a burden the destinies of ills his people ills his great and tender heart shrank from giving pain anil and the task allotted him was to pour out like water the lifeblood life blood of tin young men and to feel lit in tits his every fiber the sorrow of tile the women Dis disaster asler saddened but never dismayed him As the he rod red years bt bf war went by they found him ever doing his duty in the present even facing the future with fearless front high of heart and dauntless of soul unbroken by hatred unshaken by scorn hf he worked and suffered for the people triumph ana his at tile the last and barely luid ho be tasted it at before murder found him and the alie kindly y patient fearless eyes eye s were closed forever washington and lincoln As a people we are indeed beyond measure fortunate in the characters of the two greatest of our public men washington and lincoln widely though they differed in externals the virginia landed gentleman and tile the backwoodsman the they were allie alike in essentials senti als they were alike in tho the treat qualities rendered each able to in render service to tits lila nation and to nil all Inan mankind kind such as aa no lie other man mail of hla his generation cou could id or did render vach ibach hart had lofty ideals bu but t each in striving to attain these lofty ideals deals was guided by I 1 tha he soundest common sanse rise each possessed inflexible index ible cournyn in adversity and a soul wholly tl by prosperity each possessed all the gentler virtues commonly by bood men who lack rugged strength of character each possessed also nil all the strong qualities commonly exhibited by those towering masters t 0 rs of mankind who have bave too often s shown hown themselves devold devoid of HO he much n tile ho understanding of tile tho worda by which wo we signify siglief tie tic qualities of duty of 0 I 1 mercy of devotion to the right of lofty in battling for the rood good of others there have been other men as treat great and other inen as good but in all the history of mankind there are no belier two great men as good as these no other good men as aa great widely 0 though the problems Aenis of io oday o day das diffor from the alie problems set get tor for solution to t washington when lie founded tills this nation to lincoln when lie ho saved it and freed the hie slavo ot lie qualities they showed in meeting cheso problems are exactly tho the same as those mow w we should show in doing our work today to day clay lessons le sans from Lincol ns life we of this day must try to solve solva many social and industrial problems requiring to tin especial degree tile tho combination of indomitable resolution with coolheaded cool headed sanity ty we cari can t iby by the way in which lincoln used both bot I 1 these traits as lie strove for reform re forin wa NV lean can learn much of value from the very attacks which following that course brought brou glit upon tipon ills hin head attacks alike by tile extremists of revolution and by the tha of reaction on lie he never wavered in devotion to fo ws his principles la in lila ills love for the union and ln jn tits ills abhorrence of slavery timid anti and lukewarm people were always denouncing him because lie was extreme but as ametter of fact ho he never went wen to extremes he worked step by step and because willis of alila the extremists hated and denounced lilia with will a f fervor arvor which nw now 9 seems to us ua tan fan in Us its deification of ti alio 1 a unreal and the impossible at tile very time when one alde was holding him up as tile tha apostle of social revolution because he ha was against slavery tile the leading abolitionist lit denounced him as the slave lavo hound of illinois when lie he was the second time candidate for president the majority of his opponents attacked him because of what they termed lit his extreme radical radicalism lAili while a minority threatened to bolt tits his nomination because lie was not radical enough lie ile had continually to check those who wished to go fo forward rivard too fast at the very time that lie ho overrode the opposition of those who wished not to go forward at all the goal was ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN f I 1 X never dim before ills ilia vision but he picked his way cautiously without either cither halt or hurry as lie he strode toward it through such a morass of difficulty that no man of less courage would have attempted it while it would surely have overwhelmed any man of judgment less serene strong sense of justice ile he lived in days daya that were areah and tew terrible when brother fought against brother for what each sincerely deemed to be the right in a contest so grim the strong men who alone can carry it through are rarely able to do justice to the deep convictions of those with whom they grapple in mortal strife at such times men see through a glass darkly to only the rarest and littlest loftiest loft lott iest lest spirits la Is vouchsafed that clear vision which gradually cornea comes to all even to the lesser as the struggle fades into distance and wounds are forgotten and peace creeps creep back to the hearts that were hurt but lincoln was given this supreme vision lie did not liate hate the man from whom h he differed weakness was ns no foreign as 03 wicked to tits hla strong gentle nature but his courage was of a quality so high that it needed no bolstering of dark passion lie ile sem aw clearly that the alie same high qualities the same courage arid and willingness for self sacrifice and devotion to the right as aa it was given them to see tho the right belonged both to the men of the north and men of the south As the years roll by and as all of us wherever we dwell grow to feel eel an equal pride in the valor and self devo tion alike of tho the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the tha gray so this whole nation will grow to feel a peculiar sense of pride in the mightiest of the mighty men who ma mastered sered the mighty days daya the lover over of ills his country and of all mankind the man whose blood was shed for the union of tits ills people peopled and for the freedom of a race Ahra abraham harn lincoln |