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 government. From purposes not merely diverse, but bitterly conflicting, he was able to secure healthful action for the good of the state. In both boise and Judgment he rose level to the several emergencies he had to meet as leader ot the nation, and like all men with the root of true greatness in them he grew to steadily larger stature under the stress of heavy responsibilities. He was good citizen and a brave soldier chief eX- ecutiye whose wisdom entitled him to the trust which he received throughout the nation. He was not only a leader or men, but pre-eminently a helper of men; for one of his most marked traits was the intensely human quality of his wide and deep sympathy. Finally, he not mere Iy preached, he was, that most valuasle of all citizens in a democracy like ours, d man who in the highest place served as an unconscious example to his people of the virtues that build and conserve alike our public life, and the foundation of all public life, the intimate life of the home.
 Lessons Taught.
 Many lessons are taught us by his ca- reer but none more valuable than the lesson of broad human sympathy Tor and among all of our citizens of all classes and creeds No other President has ever 
 characterized in Lincoln's words as be- inf- carried on with malice toward none, with charity toward all." As a boy he worked hard with his hands; he entered the army as a private soldier; he knew poyerty: he earned his own lfVelfhood anl by his own exertions he finally rose to the position of man of moderate means Not merely was he in personal touch with farmer and town dweller, taIfc nd waQaWOrl<er. felt an intimate understanding of each, and therefore an intimate sympathy with each:- and his consistent effort was to try to judge all by the same stand ard and to treat all with the same Jus- tice. Arrogance toward the weak, and envious hatred of those well off, were equally abhorrent to his just and gentle soul
 Profit of Example.
 Surely this attitude of his should be the attitude of all our people today. It would be a cruel disaster to this coun- try to permit ourselves to adopt an attitude of hatred and envy toward suc- cess worthily won, toward wealth hon. estly acquired Let us in this respect profit by the example of the republics of this western hemisphere to the south of us Some of these republics have orospered greatly; but there are certain ones that have Jagged far behind, that still continue in condition of material noyerty. Of social and political unrest and confusion Without exception the re- nublics of the former class gre those in which honest industry has been as- slred of reward and protection; those where a cordial welcome has been ex- tended to the kind of enterprise which benefits the whole country, giving sub stantial rewards to those who manifest ,t On the other hand, the poor and backward republics, the republics in which the lot of the average citizen is least desirable. and the lot of the laboring man worst of all. are precisely those re- nuhIjcs in which industry has been killed because wealth exposed its owner to spoli- atIop. TO these communities foreign cspital now rarely comes. because it has heen found that as soon as capital Is emnloved so as to give. substantial re- ,ouneration to those supplying 1t. 1t ex- ssstes ignorant envy and hostility, which hn*,s in such oppressive action, within oIT Tthout the law. as sooner or later
 tork virtual confscation. Every