Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-12
L1NcoLN's BIRTHDAY.

Today all over the civilized world, in . greater or lesser degree, the one hun dredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln is being celebrated in song and speech and in universal words of praise.
 Born in 1909 of illiterate and impov- srished parents, and withtut any ad- vantages whatsoever, Abraham Lincoln through life was maste. and leader sf men. Biographers haze been baf- fed in their attempts to discover from whence came the truly wonderful power to control and lead men possessed by this son of poor whites, who was born in . rude log cabin In tie then wilds of Kentucky.
 Al youth, Abrsaam Lincoln's alert ness, ss<.n ::-=.a strength easily made him recognized leader among his rough companions in their amusements and contests. When company was raised in his county for the Black Hawk war. Lincoln, then about twenty three years of age. was unanimously selected by his scions to be their captain. At the Illinois bar he was early recognized, by his integrity and ready wit. as the superior of his duller associates. As q political debater. Lincoln defeated enc of the ablest speakers of the United States senate, and but a brief period passed as president before the most gifted statesmen of his cabinet unhesi- tatingiy recognized him as their master. Grant praised Lincoln as being in mill tary matters superior to many of his prominent generals, and Sherman said that the president was among the ablest strategists of the war. The beau sa- breur Sheridan was of the same opinion as his two seniors.
 Abraham Lincoln was not only one of the wisest men, but the English speaking world is now aware that he was also among it's greatest orators. There was an absence of the flowers of rhetoric, but words more fit to express the broad philosophy and the exquisite paths of the Gettysburg address of No vember. 1863. Portions of Lincoln s second inaugural have been compared to the lofty lines of the ancient Hebrew prophets, and as being as sublime as Milton s immemorial theme.
 President-elect Taft. writing in the Cosmopolitan, pays this tribute to the memory of the dead president:
 "Mr. Lincoln's biographer and part ner, Judge Herndon, raises a question as to whether love made up part of Lincoln s nature. He suggests that his consideration and charity resulted rath- CT from his sense of justice don t know that such discussion is profit able. Ctrtain it is that we have never had in public life man whose sense of duty was stronger, whose bearing toward those with whom he came in contact, whether his friends or political opponents, was characterized by a
 
 greater sense of fairness. And we have nsver had in public life man who to,k upon himself uncomplaining. ly the woes of the nation and suffered in his s,ul from the weight of them as he did nor in all our history man who dad such a mixture of common sense, of high sense of duty, of power, of inexorable logic, and of confidence | m the goodness of God in working out | righteous result, as had this great product of the soil of the country.
 "One cannot read of Abraham Lin ;oln without loving him. One cannot think of his struggles, of his life and it's 'ragic end, without weeping. One can not study his efforts, his conscience, his