The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-02-14
BUSINESS MEN PATRIOTIC
More Than Hundred Leadere Of the
City's Life and Thought Attend
Annual Lincoln Day BAN
quet at Y. M. c. A..
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the business men of Kenosha held at
the x. M. G. A. building Tuesday
night The polished and eloquent
address Of Dean Shepardson was the
feature of the most successful gather
ing ever held among the business men
of the city for the speaker addressed
a company of hundred and twenty
| five men entirely representative Of
the best thought and action of the
city.
The banquet vas a noteworthy
gathering IL the history of the x. M.
G. A. and the promoters of it are TO
/ be congratulated on it's unqualified
success. In honor Of the occasion
the banquet room was charmingly
decorated with flags and banners
while IN the center of the room inst
above the speakers table hung pic
ture Of Lincoln. The dinner, which
was of the usual high standard of the
Y. M. C. A.. was served by the ladies
auxiliary of the association.
After dinner had been served, Presi-
dent G. I'll. Curtis of the Association
made few remarks in regard to the
Association work after which he in
trodnced James Cavanagh as the
toastmaster for the evening. Mr..
Cavanagh introduced Dean Shepard
son, who spoke on the subject, "Two
American Types"
The address by Dean Shepardson
was a masterful production, dealing
with Washington and Lincoln and
drawingGSa contrast between the
characters of the two men who had
done most for the upbuilding and the
preservation of the American Re-
public. He held that Washington
was indeed first in war, first in peace
and first in the hearts of his country
men, but that Abraham Lincoln had
the right to the distinction 1.-THE first
American" He spoke of the simplic-
ity Of the lives of Washington and
Lincoln as compared with the busy
lives of the statesmen of today and
declared that notwithstanding this
fact the two names stood out on the
rolls off history as century ahead Of
their times.
He spoke OF. aWashington as the
great representative of the ar;stoc-
racy which England had sent to
America, and contrasted with him the
greatness of Lincoln, the boy who had
sprung from the ''poor white trash
and had hammered out his career on
the anvil of experience and life.
Washington, he declared, was the true
type Of the settled society of the East,
while Lincoln was the greatest rep
resentative of the restless and pictur-
esque pioneer life of the West. Yet
in the two men he found many similar
traits, and he referred especially to
their strength, their tenderness and
their deep religious earnestess. He
declaredsthat Washington had been a
king in strength, and that Lincoln
had barred his shoulders to receive the
greatest burden ever laid upon the
shoulders of man or president. He
spoke of the love of mother which
had been SO pronounced in both men,
and referred to the religious fervor
Forge, and cortrastedsit with the fare
well address off Lincoln to his friends
at Springfield. Both men had shown
their deep religious feeling at these
times.
Dean Shepardson showed that
Washington in every act and deed
had shown himself to be the product
of the civilization of an old world, but
that he had triumphed in war and in
peace as IAN aristocrat. Abraham
Lincoln, he declared, was master of
men who had brought the centra1iza-
ton of the government and the tri-
umpn of the individual. Linco1n's
life, he declared, was the triumph of
individ1alisrn, and that since the time
of Lincoln the power of the individual
in the making Of government had
gone steadily forward, until today it
was the controlling element in the
nation. In closing, Dean Shepardson
paid great tribute to the personal
characteristics of Lincoln, finding in
him the Btrue American, the best
friend of Ithe defeated South, though
murdered by fanatic as its enemy,
the greatest of Americans and one of
of the best of men.
After the address by the guest of
honor short talk was made byZ. G.
Simmons, who told of the first NOM
nation of Lincoln and of the great
aCmirationRwhich he had always held
for Mr.. Lincoln as man and as a
president. Later in the evening short
talks we're made by other members of
the association.
The musical features Of the enter
tainme mt were of the highest type.
Mrs. Vaughn Lee Award, of Chi
|cago, gave three solos in very
charming manner, all of them being
highly appreciated by the large COM
|pany. During the dinner Miss Kess-