, 1896-09-26

it in McClure's magazine. in those g
cCllcnt articles of Miss Tarbell's. That
boy.-O. We can hardly think of it
without tears,-as he laid his long,
lank form down by the fire place.-they
couldn't even afford candles.-he would
lay down there where lie could get
light from the fire. and figure with a
piece of charcoal on an Old wooden
shovel. his sums in arithmetic. And
just like all boys with their first book.
he wrote in his bOok.-and they now
have IA photograph copy of it in Nc
Cures.
Abraham Lincoln; his hand and pen.
He will be good. but God knows when"
He was so anxious and thirsting 70,
knowledge. that he went to a %ncighbor
and borrowed the life of Washington.
and he deyourcd it night and day. It
opened up Il new world to him. He put
it by the bed in a chink Of the logs
where he could get at it in the night.
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and damaged the book. lie tool it
back with fear and trembling. and the
owner said that he would let him off
at the price he paid for the book,-siX
bits. Seventy-tivo cents How in the
world would he ever get hold of that
much money. If some of these people
who want silver had that much they
wouldn't think of it, but to him it look
ed as big as a cart wheel. Well, says
Young Lincoln. | haven't got the mon
ey.-and the %neighbor said he could
pull. fodder three days and pay him
that way. Those We're the good old
democratic days when wages were
high,-twcnty-ive cents a day. OLaugh-
tcr.) They thought so much Of the
much indeed hat when they asked for
bread they gave them IA stone. Gap
p~lause.) That's our aristocratiC Abe
Lincoln.-the man who stood for pro-
lection and good wages when he was
nominated by the wings for the lcgis-
lature. and we preach the same doc
trinc tonight. You will remember
what he said on hat occasion,-the
first speech he ever made as a public
a He got up and said:
Ladies and Gentlemen: | suppose
you all know who | am. | am just
humble Abraham Lincoln. My friends
of the Wing party have seen fit to nom
mate me for the legislature. If | am
elected. | shall be very thankful. but if
| am not, it will be all the same" Now
n Lincoln,-O, We know him
among l0,000-"My platform is short
and sweet. like an old woman's dance.
| believe in a high protective tariff
loud applause), and a system of in
ternai improvements. Ladies' and
Gentlemen. that's where we stand to-
day. Gpplause.) Are we going to
give way az this stage of progress? Can
we fall down and worship some other
god than the one of the grand Old
republican party. which has stood for
Il oSltllbN Slt We SulHS W utStIl
this principle and take up a new and
untried one, which has in it the element
Of disaster? When Lincoln ran against
Peter Cartwright for the house. he said
"My friends. l may not live to see the
day; but I'll tell you if this country
has a high protective tariff it will be
the greatest country in the world"
When he went to Washington. he
went on a platform which, though de-
voted to the anti-slavery sentiment. did
not overlook the M principle. and he
devoted a great deal of his time and
attention to the anti-slavery sentiment:
yet he did not forget to plant himself
firmly on the doctrine of protection to
American labor and American indus
try. He said, even when the muttcr-
ings of the ominous storm were heard
in the south. and even when Sumpter
had fallen, They have left republican
principles by seeding from the union.
now | thank God that we can have a
tariff at last" (A%pplause.) Tariff, tar