The Portland daily press., 1900-02-13

His rebukes 10 MS euoofutnntes Wnen
necessary were gentle and fatheriy and
eiways rparked by an endesvor 10 lessen
the weight of the punishmeut; be spoke
always In sorrow mo re than anger.
But AZ last appeersd the rift In the
clouds The national arms were victorious
and the gentle mantle OF resoe returned
to the land. How che rfuiiy and warmly
be welcomed 70; quickly ne tonens 70
render less enormous the burden 20 the
de'ea.ed. He was flled with piars nr
welcoming back the arring and defeated
tr)tht r. and seaching them that ne In
deed had malice toward more. but cherity
for all. Had be remained who Will aouos
that we would have been spared the pio.
erlngs and trials of reosnstruotionf bis
mast, riy Leadership would soon have
brought orisr out OF chaos and sodeu
additional iaurels to his splendid reputa.
ton TOR statesm anship. The greatest OF
war leaders, he would have been the
srestest OF peace Presidents.
lint it was not 10 be-. A cowerdly as
a. ssln was to strike him down from be-
bind, to murder him who looked every
man sauareIy In the face and wrouged 10
one. friend or foe. In the fulness OF bis
rreu tai powers he left Us to take up the
work as best we could. A great CRY OF
bitter anguish went up from the whole
land. Even the southern people, 80 lately
accustomed to consider him the cause Of
ali their {, ouble, realized that In his
death they hnd Lost their best friend. but
sorrow ann faneDtation could not undo
the wrong. Lincoln exchanged the rulers
sceptre for the martyrs crown and pass
from earth 70 take his seat with the great
immortals. a..
or what value to us IL this mans life
and chpracters We dwell upon 10 with
love and tenderness, with pride and I'D
miratIop, with awe and wonderment. As
we review our national history and seek
for the typical American, we think OF
Lincoln; do we look for the natohiess
man reours to us. His personality seems
10 measure up to all our standards, to
realize cur highest ideals He exemplihes
what our Republican civilization can 40
com plish and TO what extent IL can be
trr sled. kxercising powers OF disttator-
ship incident to times Of war, he never
lost sight OF the fact that hs was the ser
want Of the people, the trustse bound and
determi ued to render just and true 40
count of his stewardship.
such men are few In the worlds his
tory. Caesar thrice refused the kinRly
GROWN, bur fell at last and his life paid
the penalty Of his supposed tresohsry !;
Napoleon, drank with power welso.neo
IN ptation and disguised his usurpation
with the thinnest veneer OF national ns-
o. ssIty, Linoolc was never even tempted,
his rnwer and Its possibility was only az
prrent 20 him when II Q terrible rtsponsi-
bllity came home with renewed force az
ter some great battle o. state oslem.
That government OF the psople, ~ the
people. for the pepoIe, shall not perish
from the ca, tn" Twas his only care,
his insistert purpose. Ee laid down his
ljfe-s burden and sank to his grave amid
the univei ssl lamentations Of his be-
resved country men only when such gov
eminent had been preserved forever
through his Efforts and his eevotsd
words, Let us today, Americans, conscious
OF our strength aud our opportunities,
preserved TO us by him, dedicate ourselves
60 continue his noble exaDJls and here
highly resolve that his III, was not lived
In vain.
This last speaker Of the evening was
Hon. II. NJ. Heath of Augusta. whom
everybody wanted /. TO hear and who has
b. en- the last speaker at the Lincoln club
bar usts for many years. In introducing
him Mr.. Morrill, said that several years
ago MIR. Heath had spoken at a banquet
Of the Lincoln club when there were
present two candidates for the mnyoraity
nomins ton, and where both made their
est speeches. Mr.. Heath had character
lied the banquet a. comp stitive exami-
nation for mayer. This year be cannot so
refer to Mayor Robinson, who has no
ooY p.t.t,r (spp,ause) and who Is bound
to be eiectsd. (Appiause.) But when
Hsrtert Heath ipsaks some one Ia sure to
get bit, for he never fp,aks without
making q hit. MIR. Heath's reos p ton was
q most fiatter.ng one, and as was ex-
psotsd his address was eloquent and sp-
DIT pirate to the oocs on.
He began by referring to the fact that
the Chief Justice had said that Heath al
wsys poke. but there had been times
when It was hard to make the honorable
Justice listen. Tonight the speaker
thought he had the Chief Justice at n
disadvantage When 1 heard that the
Lincoln club was to give banquet !
feared that 1 might not get an Invitation,
club had sent Invitations to President
Mckinley and Isaiah Stetson felt safe.
{ l aughter.) This afternoon when my
wife was packing the only dIessshirt
own, she said she thought would feal
ashamed to come here to fp.ak again, but
l told her / would not be half as tired
when GO; through talking as you would
be. MIR. Heath went on to say that wher
he tegan fp,aking to the Lincoln club
nine years ago he poke In a garnet, and
had been hers every year since excepting
enc, when he got showed Up. II have
met distinguished associates at these
banqusts. many of whom have turned
out Lad. Several Of them, honest men,
have become mayors Of your city, several
Of them are nothing but governors and
ons lawyer, whom know 10 now nothing
but chief justice of the state. I rsmeu
Der ar other who has sp oxen at these ban
quets with me in the past who may wind
Up his disting uished career by going 70
(o,gress when Portland wakes up aud
becomes ANNEXED to the first district. -
(App'aus,)
MIR. Heath then vent on TO say that II
Is the duty Of every business and profss'
sionai N an to be a politician and then be
said:
"Sitting here and viewing the noble
a. ~ xvhnla annl