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

tie have reduced the rasin of the beau
tiful spring to a mud-puddle: wanda ]
| hands have carried off the humble cab
| in wherein a giant soul was born, and
utter neglect surrounds the first home
or the great American Man of Sor-
rows
Realizing this neglect and that this
farm birthplace was to he treated with
still greater indignity, by the exploita
tions of spectators, for vulgar show
and unwholesome popularity, the asso-
citation secured the farm under the auc-
I tioneer's hammer and now holds it in
trust for the nation. 1t simply saw the
| opportunity which no one else seemed
DESTROYS of taking. TO protect this shrine
from further vandalism, and it desires
to turn it over to the people of the
United State, TO be held forever by
them as a garden spot in the nations
history, trysting-place whence north
and south, east and west may find the
inspiration of national unity and a pa
triOtic righteousness, a growing witness
that the dark and bloody ground" is
no longer, and that the border" state
has become the central state As a
patriotic park the Lincoln farm will
differ widely from our great national
parks, such as Gettysburg, Chicka-
manga. Missionary Ridge Vicksburg.
our national unity rather than preserve
the memory of our lamentable differ
enceS- It Will continue to be a birth
place of citizenship and patriotism.
1t is the sole purpose of the associa-
tiOn to help the American people to
! their eWn: to cooperate with them in
making of this Kentucky farm a wor-
thy companion of Mount Vernon in the
affections OF the American people and
q n oirof of ha Ii ic4 ~.
purpose of the association to cooperate
with the lovers of Lincoln. old and
young, and as need be help rather than
dictate or direct their patriotic generOs-
ity.
The historic ground will be owned
and cared for by the Lincoln Farm as
sociation's self-perpetuating committee
of patriotic citizens. To them will be en-
trusted the expenditure of the subsidy
which the members of the Lincoln Farm
association shall raise. Lying, as this
farm does, almost at the center of our
population, it viii ever be the most &C
cessible, and in many ways will be the
most attractive, of all our historic
parks. 1t will be the most significant
and the most useful as a common
ground, typifying the large industrial
Development growing ont Of the pOl1ll-
cal harmony of $4,000 00 of people q
Sltdt HdliOiAGl 1CttOti Ol peace, CIV 1S
Righteousness, and unity, a museum Of
national loyalty, where all luminosity
will forever be buried, and where ncrtH
and south Will find common ground
of pride.
The officers and board IF trustees of
the Lincoln Farm association are as fol-
lows:
Joseph W. Folk. governor of Mis-
souri,. president; Joseph H. Choate, ex-
ambassador to England; Henry Wat
terSOn, editor Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal; Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop of
Baltimore; Edward NJ. Shepard, lawyer
and author; August Belmont director
OF Louisville & Nashville railroad.
Horace Porter. exam bassadOr To
France; William Travers Jerome. dis
trict attorney of New York county;
Jenl1in Lloyd Jones, director Lincoln
Centre, Chicago; Charles A Towne, con-
gresham from New York; William H.
Taft, secretary of war; Lyman J. Gage,
ex-secTetary of the treasury: Norman
Hapgood of Golfers; Ida NJ Tarbeil
biCgrapher of Lincoln: Samuel l.
Clemens Mark Twain); Augustus
Saint-Gaudens, sculptor; Albert Shaw,
editor OF Review of Reviews: Thomas
Hastings, architect; Robert J. Collier of
Golfers; Clarence II. Mackay presi-
dent Postal Telegraph & Cable Co.
treasurer; Richard Lloyd Jones' secre-
tary.
The office of the association is at "a
Broadway, New York.