Show biar BABY abe Dra drawing 6 the veil from the statue stable of ofle emancipator 1 I 1 the bronze figure recalls the presence of THE GREAT LINCOLN 1 1 I 1 who clyl io Is honored Wh ereM tho tile slate shall groan I 1 OU THE POOR SHALL SIGH L per something botter thin they HIT have Known pitting honor to a ort great mi lna noble mm man special correspondence MORNING I 1 ABRAHAM LINCOLN N CO LN of the bronze status it at lincoln paric park chiew CHICAGO oct 22 A general statue of abraham lincoln wae was unveiled this afternoon in lincoln park in presence bof of a large assemblage shortly before 3 the booming of cannons startled the crowd and as the echoes died away over ever the waters of lake michigan little abe lincoln a son pon of kobert robert lincoln stepped up to the baso base of the flag covered bronze figure of his grandfather and pulled a rope which held the covering the folds folda slowly unloosened and dropped down nt the base we as the tall erect figure of abraham lincoln phone brightly in the tile eun sun which struggled through the cloud at that moment A tremendous uil shout went wen up from the five thousand people assembled which A oil was wag joined a moment later by a renewed roar from the cannon a sir mr thomas F withrow one of the tile trustees of the bates fund out of N which tile cost coit of the tile statute ita bt tute was as def defrayed raved formally presented it to lincoln lincol 11 ill park rk board and mr W C goudy replied the oration was delivered by lion leonard swett whose whoso intimate political li social and domestic re relations lations with the great president have made t aimone of tho the boat beat Inform informed edmon mon now living on lincoln life aa As a condensed biography of lincoln Lina oln it lias has not been beeh axce lied mr swell said in part the character of abraham lincoln sprang up on american soil and was of american growth it would not have been possible iwa eible for any other than america or any other civilization than our own to have produced him he lie wae was emphatically a child of the tile republic and a product of our oar institutions he ile was of the people and was tho tile people the roost most marked characteristic act of mr ir lincoln wae was bia his personal peculiarity xo no one who knew him ever know another man like him lie ile stands out from the whole world of his ills timo time isolated and alone his ilia char SO act C t or was that of greatness and ex aremo simplicity clothing to him was mado made for cove covering r and warmth to tho the body and ind not for orna ornain mout out lie ila never nover in his hi life goethe got the better bette ref of his fellow man in ft a trade and never loaned money on interest I 1 never knew him but once to borrow money or give his note mr swett afien then briefly of the well known events which led lea up 0 to o the election of mr Iino lincoln oln pg fl president and continued 1 I believe lie desired it second noll illation because that involved an ap ill provat by the common iu ople cholm ho he always loved and confide dIn of tho the courso ho he had taken often in great doubt during the firby administration yet lie would do nothing and would allow no friend to do anything to get it he ile looked with in over the machinations against him hire IA 10 hia his cabinet with in d of ference over the tile senate und and mom lera lers of Cong reap t tho notion of 0 the peoples aa expressed in allair preliminary and resolutions of state b as inet ill near tho the people a as though un an electrical coborn of sympathy extended from him to them the sublime und and crowning characteristic tic of mr lincoln however as hi his suit self reliance during the tile eleven beare that I 1 was with willi him at the batot this elate state I 1 ninver knew him to ask advil of A friend about anything divine four of hia his administration I 1 never know and never hearal of 0 hii his doing doila thia anever I 1 never knew him in tile ot of a tri trail at or the tile perplexity of it ui in court to turn hie associate and ask after 91 speaking aking at some length about mr habit 0 of inquiring into everything overy tor for knowledge and hia his studied in middle age mr swett continued and herein may I 1 be permitted tn mention another very and I 1 tricky trick of his ills character it was that im tai w aich is di dia en farb td ut at nothing not liing and arid diver taI a I from i the pathway palli way it li it ks 19 a o 0 by nothing althou although b prying oa the war wa r from a a ot bilty and not ilot froll aftin 4 ma in its to yot yet he ile kept right on and wai nal neither da 1 dy decaster di caster nr eltten elt teil tel by 4 lie ile soe inel toc to the ot of tile contest in which he wae was engaged more thoroughly thoro than anny ono e elso else in abort he wai was the strong man of 0 the contest and ana the great grea men at learned to gain renewed courage from 1 I 1 4 I 1 his 1 dimness calmness to lean upon tits great arm for support in conc conclusion lusi on mr swett aft ott aid said we see colim lim in hi his image alinas ot of bronze above ue us and nd recall his real presence all it wo we adow I 1 ia flaat in all time hereafter wherever the lave shall groan mider under tho the lash iasi orthe poor shall sigh for something better than they have know here his ills name will be honored and ilia example exal uple imitated st |