Show howe L lowe about lincoln cause of humiliations genius C bell syndicate WW service by ED HOWE BRAHAM N was president aduron A during a critical time and wor ried a good deal he ile once said it if to be the head of h 1 Is as hard as what I 1 have bad to undergo I 1 could find it in my heart to pity satan him self still lincoln ft vas as far better off than millions of his fellow citizens during the civil war think of the thousands of good union men starved in libby and Anderso Anderson nv alle prisons of the bun deeds of thousands who were targets for enemy bullets of the millions who suffered war privations lincoln was wag at leaba occupy occupying ing a public office pay ing a year and lived in a palace provided at public expense whether his judgment was vas good or bad his salary went on and all the time he NN is as accumulating great fame the war hopelessly ruined many mil I 1 ons but made linloln rich and famous we ive have hane heard of the poverty of his widow I 1 read the other day she wis was a rich woman R when hen she died and how litt leshe deserved deserve dl I 1 have no sympathy for the woes of statesmen on the public payroll from to 1864 mill ons ong of americans had bad luch luck tl it at abraham lincoln might have hake their share of good luck during his four years in the white house lincoln should hive haie dally daily thanked tt ti e gods instead ot of complain ing I 1 had an uncle george with a oung young wife and baby at home who had hard luck at pittsburgh landing that abraham lincoln migi t get oa 00 0 a year and endless fame let any man think of the greatest degradations and humiliations through out his life and I 1 believe he must decide sex was at the bottom of most of them it Is the one thing we should endeavor to subdue and regulate yet it Is the thin thing we regulate least and let run wild wilo our social system our literature encourage wildness in sex rather than regulation the man bull Is forever permitted to bellow his lust instead of locking him up until his services are needed and instead of trying to keep him quiet the ob ejects of his bellowing aggravate him all they can an envious dull man once said genius la Is insanity and other dull men I 1 ave made the saying famous it was never true tor for genius has always meant special ability there are mil lions of geniuses thousands climbing to distinction hundreds to great dis lon I 1 have known several prom ising candidates in small towns where I 1 have lived among cats dogs cattle and the lower animals generally a scrub never Ns won on a blue ribbon but if it Is 18 characteristic in the human family that scrubs oftener achieve great dis unction netlon ti than thoroughbreds ably this comes about because there Is no stud bool among men goethe bad had fourteen mistresses and no great progeny mozart attracted attention all over europe as a musician when six years old before he died at thirty five he had written symphonies and operas now performed somewhere every week in the year he never sat down to display his genius that he was not disturbed by a bill collector by the screaming of a woman in labor a row with relatives or some other incident of love affairs had he been as free to devote his time to music as reigh count was to devote his time to winning races there Is no telling what heights mozart might have easily reached many pam race horses have won a quarter of a million dollars in two years mozart received less than a thou sand dollars from figaro don giovanni Glov annl and the requiem and when he died was so poor his big funeral cost under five dollars except in the case of the late thorn thom as A edison I 1 do not at the moment recall another american who became widely popular and really deserved it mr edison was quiet well behaved and a great m worker what little he said was proper for both young and old to remember but somehow he at the popular fancy it Is a very rare case millions of other popular men hive have been unworthy of popularity as they have acted badly and taught bad lessons look at jean jacques busseau rousseau he ile was scarcely a respectable man yet his popularity I 1 Is growing a long time after bis his death millions of people in all parts of the world regard him as almost a saint and his teaching as very important rousseau was once kept by a woman when she threw him over he took tool up bp with a kitchen wench and sent their children to orphan asylums he never later saw one of them all my life I 1 have hane heard men clam orin for more r gats it has always seemed to me I 1 exercise more rights than are good for me I 1 have the right to eat three enormous meals a day ind too frequently exercise it to my detriment I 1 am at liberty to do a I 1 undred things I 1 should not do I 1 have always been too much of a free man my greatest mistake has been I 1 have not been more of a slave to duties that followed with reasonable reas onalle effectiveness would have made me a more useful successful 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