, 1908-02-13
MEMORY
OF LINCOLN
NATIONAL MOVEMENT TO MORE
FULLY RECOGNIZE WORTH
OF THIS GREAT MAN.
Farm in Geographical Center OF
Kentucky, Upon Which Stands a
Log Cabin in Which Great Rail,
Splitter Was Born, To Be Made
National Historic Museum.
BY r, E. Fitch.

by n 6 FlhCH.
AS the local representative of the
Department of Colorado and Wyoming,
G. A. R., in patriotic instruction, it
behooyes me to say a few words on
this anniversary occasion about Lin.
coln and the popular movement to
commemorate the life of this good
and great man in a concrete form.
Unlike many who achieved fame and
renown, Lincoln, like Washington, was
rever a doer of great deeds for his
.cwn ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; the keynote of
his career was disinterested devotion
TO the welfare OF the whole country,
his only reward the chance to render
service to his fellow men.
Our worthy president, Theodore
Roosevelt, to whom we can safely
grant the ability of gauging men, has
recently said of Lincoln:
Stands Out in History.
Excepting only Washington, Lin,
coins figure stands foremost in all our
history. With a rugged and healthy
quality of mind, it was as impossible
for him to be inefficient as to be false
to his ideals. Lincoln saved the I'm
ion, and yet at the same time lifted
higher than ever before the cause of
liberty. No more blessed thing could
have happened TO a great democratic
republic like ours than to have had
this man of the plain people, this rail
splitter, this country lawyer, develop
into its hero and savior; for every fea-
ture of his career "a be studied as a
lesson by each of us, whatever his sta
ton, as we lead our several lives. The
heroes of each side in the great strug-
gle OF the four dark years are now the
heroes of the whole nation, and so the
whole nation can fittingly join in cele.
brating the hundI edith birthday of the
ran to whom, more than to any other,
owe it that we are a nation at all"
Will Dedicate National Shrine.
Out from the heritage of time there
have been singled three notably great
souls, worthy the homage of all men
Columbus, Washington and Lincoln.
To the memory of the first two of
these much has been done in a com.
memorative way. Now the people are
engaging in a great movement to more
adequately ~perpetuate the memory of
Lincoln. The moving body in this EN-
terprise is called the Lincoln Farm as,
ISOLATION, n they propose to dedi-
cate his humble birthplace as a nation
al shrine on the one hundredth ami
versary of his birth, viz: February u,
1909.
Cabin Where He Mas Born.
This little farm is in the geographic
center of the state of Kentucky, and
there will be constructed a memorial
museum, which will inclose the little
log cabin in which Lincoln was born.
On this farm of Ito uneven acres will
all, old and young. lay their tribute, in
the form of a broad, green plaza, with
the memorial hall at one end and a sim
pie shaft at the other, to perpetually
mark the place where stood the first
rome of him whose memory is the
strongest, tenderest tie that binds all
hearts together now, and holds all
states beneath the nations flag.
Half a Million to Cooperate.
1t is expected that at least half d
million American patriots will become
members of this association. Large
subscriptions from moneyed men are
not only not solicited, but they are not
accepted when offered, the manage
ment preferring a small Offering, sc
that practically every American CIR.
and boy, as well as men and women
who desires can become a share-hold
er, with name inscribed on the roll oi
members of the association.
"Homely? That's it. A perfect homli
ness.
Homely as home itself that counte
nance
Benign, immortal sweet, his very soul
The %steadfast, common, great Ameri
can"