Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-14

4 Ali worthy of consideration; and me-
seems 'twoud be fine innovation for
American Professionalism to adopt from
the Catholic church this beautiful Gus
/ tom, and commemorate with special
I:.'All Saints Day" the lives of our Amer
lican immortas
1 Among these names, some of which
|have already been inscribed on Column
bia 9 hall of fame, we select for brief
consideration that of Lincoln. 1t is
stimulating to contemplate for a brief
moment that strenuous life which, be-
/ ginning in the poverty and obscurity of
| a log cabin. literally worked out it's own
| salvation and climbed the rugged path
way to inmortality.
/ Thirty-five years since the civil war.
| and Lincolnseione of all the men OF that
period is steadily growing into the uni
4 versal love and homage of the American
heart. Still too near in time to enable
| us to see with clear vision the sublimity
l;of hisicharacter. But when we pass
\ from out the shadows of the dawn that
obscure his greatness when the reced-
ing smoke of battle shall have cleared
away, and the last vestige of sectional
! feeling shall have died out-then we
shall see his full grandeur.
"A man hat matched the mountains
4 and compelled
The stars TO look this way and honor
us
I Misunderstood, mistrusted and ma
lligned yesterday, as have been all the
worlds prophets and saviors, he is to-
tsday enthroned In the hearts of an unit
ed people-our ideal man. the highest
| type of American citizenship. the no.
/ blest example of patriotism. All parties
liappeal TO him, all creeds honor him,
! and well they may, for tho a member of
no church, he yet belongs to the church
1 universal.
sThr Great Commoner born of the
lpeopic. was one Of them II { understood
and synpathized With tho people, suf-
Ifercd and rejoiced with them, loved and
lSdied for them
The phrase on his lips govern
,nent OF the people, for the people and
| by the people, was no political clap
trap 70 gain influence. but the sincere
expire sion of a great heart that throb-
bed With love for his country and his
kind
| The gettysburg address. With NAL
ice toward none and charity for ALI
l5lt Ia - UecIl td!itI the TtI1uDllclS ser
mon on the mount viii live--an
American elas,ic-as long as our repub-
lie shall endure
How gladly would have exchanged
my hundred pages for your one. Yet
our humble president regarded his own
speech as q failure, remarking to his
jfriend Isamon. IAought 10 have pre-
pared ii With greater care and, says
Ibis biographer. he went to his grave
With that opinion"
His was a soul rarely developed in
lmany directions, but what We most ad-
|lnire perhaps is that rarest thing in the
political world today--hia rugged hon-
lesty that infleNible conscience control
ling every speech and act lhruout his
leniire life
';He built the rail-pile as he built the
state
Pouring his splendid strength thru
every blow
The conscience OF him testing every
stroke
To make his deed the measure Of a
man.
When his nomination was pending In
Chicago. his. friends telegraphed him
THAT the nomination was sure II the
leaders Of ctain delegations could
have the promise Of good appointments.
/ He teiegraphed back. II authorize no
and viii be bound by none.
I Again. when the preachers hescught
him 10 ask the Lord = co-operation he