The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-30

The Lincoln Farm Association was
organized and Incorporated under the
laws of the state of New York early in
the month of February, 1906, by a group
of patriotic citizens, who believed that
the people of the country should
through affiliation with this organiZa-
ton, develop the farm in Larue county,
Kentucky, on which Abraham Lincoln
was born, into a national park.
The association. prior to its incorpO-
ration. acquired the title to this his
toric farm, consisting of 10 acres. The
association hopes to develop this prop
erty into an attractive park. embel-
lished by historical museums and prop
Ierly mOnumented, so that it may be
\ complete for dedication on the 18th day
'of February, 1909 which will be the
centennial of the birth of the great war
president. The association has already
recovered the cabin in which Lincoln
was born, which was taken from the
property some years ago by specula-
tive Snowman, who put it on exhibition
at several of the prominent fairs
throughout the country.
The Lincoln Farm association believe
that the work of building this farm into
a national memorial should be accom-
plished by the American people, and by
their individual contributions, and not
through any appropriation from con-
gress or through the subsidy of large
private fortunes. 1t should express the
democratic sympathy and loyalty of the
American people for and to this great
president, who has so fittingly been
called the first American"
The Lincoln Farm association is an
organization of American citizens to
which every one shall be entitled to
membership who contributes. through
the general fund for the preservation of
this historic spot. any sum not less than
% cents, nor to exceed S25. Every such
subscriber shall be recorded i'm the
membership card catalogues. which will
ultimately rest in place of honor and
IF public access in one of the historic
buildings to be erected on the farm.
Each subscriber shall receive immedi-
ately upon the receipt of mis- donation
To the work of the association, a hand
sOmely engraved certificate of member
ship in the Lincoln Farm association,
bearing on its face a portrait of Lin
coin, a picture of the cabin in which he
was born, and of the White House at
Washington. 1t viii also bear the mem
ber's name and the autographs of the
officers and trustees of the association
The board of trustees of the Lincoln
Farm association were ae1uated IN THIS
movement because they believed that
the most valuable assets of any nation
are the traditiOne. the sacred assOcia-
tons. and the shrines made holy by the
accumulatory love with which success
sive generations bedeck them. George
Eliot said: mo nation has ever become
great without holidays and professions
dedicated to the noble" The United
States as yet is VIGOROUSLY poor in this
direction. This is not wholly on ac-
count of its youth. but on account also
of the indifference to spiritual welfare
which has characterized a youth enam-
ored of material plenty and drunk with
THE prosperity that comes from the easy
conquest of fertile acres and exhaustless
mines. American youths have turned
longing eyes toward the holy places of
Europe, and visited the birthplaces of
Robert Burns and Schiller, the tombs
of Walter Scott and Victor Hugo. and
the millennial monument of King Al
fred at Winchester. while the birthplace
of cur matchless American-the strong
handed, clear-headed and great-hearted
Lincoln-has been left. after its acres
have been impoverished by careless till
age. TO become a humiliation to the
poet and the historian, and the butt of
ridicule TO the iITeverent. Pigs and cat