Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-31
ramous Address Made at Get
tysburg Now Part OF Pub
lie Llbrary's Property.
JUDGE GooDWN's ADDRESS.
president Who Spoke for Charity to
All and Malice Towards None IS
Landed in Grafton.

Memorial day. 1907, VIII go perina-
u.,tlv on record az the day on which
tho great Lincoln speech which shaped
,,s policies OF reconstruction after the
.ri,,u war. was set up in the Salt Lake
.,,blc library for all the city's children
=, reas and remember The Lincoln
memorial tablet, In white marble with
bronze lettering. was dedicated yester-
dav afternoon at $3.50 o'clock
The ceremonies while they were for
r,si we're still full OF deep feeling. and
rcaard for the martyred president
HSom the people had met to honor.
An grafton by Judge G. G. Goodwin
ioid again, with their twentieth century
sirnIficance. the events that brought
forth the great lincoln speech. Rev.
r [. Goshen accepted the tablet for the
citv after a speech OF presentation by
H. Strevell, and Col. George B.
So,,ires described the famous battlefield
.,.bera tho speech was delivered. Music
al numbers were furnished by the q. Z;
maxwell post quartet, composed OF
Pbliip Neder. j. ~ Dillingham; f. D.
Shepherd and II. S. Kinsman,
In narratiug the great events OF the
,par Judge Goodwin spoke as follows:
This tablet, the outcome OF patri-
otto thought and bestowed with rcver-
enca and in love, adds one more loving
duty 70 Memorial day. thought AZ
frst. I still think, that one OF you old
yetersns should have been selected III
my Mace today, for the words spoken
IN dedicating this tablet should be like
bandclasps between the heroes here
and the immortal one in the beyond. In
memory Of whom this tablet Is in
tended
II once knew an old soldier whose be-
Nef was that ON Memorial day, the splr-
Nhp have hHGn trans
lated draw near to earth to catch the
incense Of the flowers with which low
ing hands dress their graves; that save
for our duled senses. we migt hear, in
the ether above. the low call of golden
bugles and the soft roll OF muftled
drums. as under spectral banners. the
shining ranks stand at salute. II that
were true, how near would be their sta-
ton today, as the veterans stand here,
before this tablet that symbols all the
pomp all the glory. all the majesty, all
tho sacrifice. all the sorrow that filled
our country In those four tremendous
wears. out of the labor, the fa!ntness
ana the fear of which came to our ma
tive land its second birth.
LIFE OF LINCOLN.
Amid the storm Of a mighty war
one patient man stood In it's very Vor-
tex What hurricanes of wrath raved
and roared around: what waves OF
hate beat upou his devoted head, But
he never faltered. The people looked
TO him and learned to take courage
from his devotion. Soldiers overcome
in battle called lovingly his name and
smiled and, smiling. died Finally, as
a eliminating sacrifice, through the
blow of an assassin. his spirit went
TO Join the spirits OF the others, who
had died that our nation might live.
Nothing more sad, nothing more pathe-
tie noting moro splendid than his life
and death. can be found in all he rec
ords 81 the ages
Born almost without name, his
childhood passed in squalor. denied
alkc the Eraces Of person and the
gyacos of the schools and tried In the
consuming ores of the mightiest Of
mo1elp wars sim almost his last public
words were
With malice toward none;
with charity tor all, with FIRM
ness In the right as God gives
us to see ihe right--let MS
strive on TO finish the work We are
ir. to bind NO tho nations wounds;
ran for him who shall have borne
ne battle, and for his widow and his
"lphan. to 10 all which may achieve
ana cherish lasting peace among
ourselves and all nations
through all his years OF struggle
by The opposition OF sonlo wo should
nave helped to hold MP his tired arms
IN" was followed By secret sneers,
ms motives We're impeached by vicious
tongues. he vas Caricatured on both
flaes OF the Atlantic as an ape or
monster
BATTLEFIELD CEMETERY.
Bur there came day when the
eIe tt'sl Of modern battle fields was to
o., dedicated as d national cemetery.
Standing on that ground where 50
many hroIc men had died. heroic
americans from the north and the
sou'9' ne spoke in dedication the
words mat are inscribed on this tab
itt Then the cartoons disappeared,
Inc pens of detraction ceased to write;
we voices Of calumny were hushed.
ana an men saw why, when the cy-
'ne of Il fearful civil war was about
tc Sinite the land, Almighty God had
uecreed that Abraham Lincoln should
elected president; because they saw
,'"l ~ Was a speech by itself that
SsUyI" nad never been one like ii be-
N'', mat there would never again be
ono ilke II; sd lofty and solemn in die
VI D, so lender and touching IN tone,
ihpugh patriotism with mercy and
Eln love were beseeching eternal
Ju'loe 10 place the deaths Of 100
wv noroes and the letters broken
rom the wrists Of 100000 slaves IN
~ aWu scales 10 balance the sins
W." nation ana bring TO IT peace.
=. We have met To- dedicate this tab
~ 20 thank the Ionors and 10 Wish
tn11' every town in the nation might
."IoW tho example OF MI Strcvcll
a.uI illesc old veterans. and place a
W. plol IKE this AT the entrance ~ ;hoir
IaIIes, that as children come for
m.,EN they may stop and look nt H.
uuul as they read and re-rcad the
pr take in their fun sIenlhcnnco,
Low thcy were the words of u nan
Io mad been a pool American boy
Nt2 never had the advantages of
'''oIF or libraries or the real COM
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