Show r abraham lincoln JM yi f in a little hut in the midst of a forest clearing near ho hodgen ville ky one hundred and ana two years ago sunday february abraham lincoln began under the most unpromising of auspices that marvelous career which the bullet of the assassin J wilkes 6 booth ended so tragically in fords theatre on the of iry april 1865 f born to the lowest er estate tate to which mangindin mank man indin heir condemn 4 ed to a life in which there was apparently neither hope bope or sunshine 4 by the pinching struggle of his hie parents for existence in a 1 hostile country overrun with the savage red man hamade he made more 7 aft off his cis scant heritage than is is given ia men and became the most majestic jestic figure in modern his history tory saddest and most unhappy Q of f all 0 j the men who have been called by f ir follow fellow countrymen to shape ane destinies of the nation nati orl he A preserved unimpaired in the highest office within the gift of f the people the simplicity of manner and rugged honesty of purpose that marker the 1 humble rail 11 1 1 splitter in overalls of thirty clr 1 years 1 yea before upon whom was imposed the task of freeing the slaves and preserving the union averse to war he aspired to see his country grow in peaceful ul eminence and take its rank among the most moist influential nations of the world an ambition he was not destined dop fined however how everto to live to see fulfilled fulfill d how that pathetic sad looking face upon which the heartbroken widows the orphans and the mo mothers mother therb fc of the nation engraved their teats tears would light up ip with emotion if lie he could to daysee day see the starry emblem he gave up his life in the saving over prosperous dependencies beyond the borders of the country who whose go territorial integrity lie he strove so hard to tb keep intact where less than thirty million gave up the last full measure of devotion to maintain it without bl blemish ernish more than one hundred million now own allegiance legi ance to it from frozen alaska to 4 the sun caressed shores of porto rico hawaii guam and the Archip archipelago eligo since lie he passed aw away ay his country has had o one oae ae successful war and acted as intermediary Y for forB russia and sapan in settling the most disastrous international struggle in all history it has turned ane the indian f from rom intermittent strife into peaceful pursuits led the nations of the world in tile the establishment lish ment of a permanent peace tribunal at the hague for the adjustment of of grievances freed cuba from the oppressive yoke of spain and undertaken the construction of the panama canal the most stupendous engineering gi feat beat of the ages its inventive genius has enriched the world with alexander graham bells bella telephone Edi sons incandescent electric light de lanys 1000 words a minute automatic telegraph system houses marvelous mechanical inventions the trolley the automobile the typesetting machine the cylinder press and a thousand and one other wonders which have relieved mankind of its former drudgery it has has established a hundred industries which dominate the markets of the world and raised a thousand millionaires whose rapidly accumulating reV revenues eDues are being disbursed in the creation of the greatest scientific and research universities and that the world has ever it feeds the ae world with its surplus grain clothes it with its cotton and keeps its mills and factories humming u with its machinery with a clear conse conscience jence and an open heart it looks with lincoln upon all its neighbors with malice toward none with charity coall to all 1 and it lives and acts as closely as a nation can tile the philosophy of the tha dead president contained jn i n his couper union speech let us hav faith that right makes right and in that faith let us to the en 4 dare to do our duty as we understand it |