Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-13

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 facing the future with fearless front.
 high of heart and dauntless of soul. Unbroken by hatred, unslIaken by seorl, he worked and suffered for t1e people. Triumph was his at the last; and barely had he tasted it before
 murder found him, and the kindly, | patient, fearless eyes were closed for ever.
 Lincoln & Washington.
 1 As a people we are indeed beyond measure fortunate in the characters
 of the two greatest of our public men. Washington and Lincoln. Widely though they differ in externals. the l Virginia landed gentleman and the Kentucky baclzwOodsman, they were alike in essentials, they were alike | in the great qualities which render cd each able to render service to his nation and to all mankind such as no other man of his generation could or | did render. Each had lofty ideals, but each in striving 10 attain these
 lofty ideals was guided by the sound est common sense. Each possessed infiexiblc courage in adversity, and a soul wholly unspoiled by prosperity. l Each possessed all the gentle vir- tues commonly exhibited by good men
 who lack rugged strength of charac- ' ter. Each possessed also all the strong qualities commonly exhibit | ed by those towering masters of man
 kind who have too often showed them selves devoid of as much as the under standing of the words by which we signify the qualities of duty, Of mercy, of devotion to the right, of lofty dis ! inteFestedness in battling for the other men as great and other men as 1 good: but in all the history of mar ! kind there are no other two great men as good as these, no other two
 men as great. Widely though the \ problems of today differ from the prcblems set for solution 10 Washing ton when he founded this nation, to Lincoln when he saved + and frcco
 the slave, yet the qualities they show
 cd in meeting these problems are cE- actly the same as those We should
 show in doing our work today.
 Lincoln saw into the future with the prophetic imagination usually
 youchsafed only to the poet and the lseer. He had in him all the lift to- l ward greatness of the visionary, with. lout any of the yisionary's fanaticism
 or egotism, without any of the vision, Iary's narrow jealousy of the practical man and inability to strive in practi cal fashion for tho realization Of an
 ideal. He had the practical mans lhard common scnsd and willingness to lGdapt means to ends: but there was in Him none Of that morbid growth oi
 mind and soul which blinds SO many
 practical men to the higher things oI
 life. No more practical man cyel
 lived than this homely baekwoods
 lideaiist; but he had nothing in com mon with those practical men WhOsS lCousCiencoS are warped until they Q fail to distinguish between good ana
 evil, fai tU understand that strength ] ability, shrcwdness, whether in tht . world Of business or Of politics. oniy
 serve to make their pOsscssoF a nor,
 inuxiOus. a more evil member of th,
 community, if they are not ruidet land controlled by 8 fine and mora
 isense.
 We of this day must try to solv,
 lmany social and industrial problems requiring to an especial degree tn, . icombinatiou of indOmitablC resolution
 with cOol-headed sanity. We cal
 'p-Oft by Inc way in which I.incolI uscd both these traits as he struv, l for reform. We caB learn much o [ the value from fic very attacks whicl l following tCat coUTso brought upol p his heaI, attacks alike by the e1 D 1 treMisjs Ct revolution and hy to | i cEtrgIais,s Of reaction He neve ? Navercd iu CcvC ton 70 his principles . [ in hiz love for tEc union. and in hi
 aIaogrcncC of slavery. Timid an
 | lukcv arm people were always dC
 iEcUEeing him tecaUse he was too e1 F creme: but as @ matter O. fact h 2 tD-rCr went to extremes, he yyorket b istcp Jv aieg. and bCcause of this th ? ic&trcmisJs hated aEd denounced hin , luilh @ fcrvOr whici. now seems L - as fantastic In ils deiGcation of th
 unreal ard the iE.Tossible. At tn l very time when one side was hOldin hin: up as the apcsJie Of soc -i rcvC b lutiOn because he was against slavery
 the leading abolitionist denOunce
 lhim as the slave hound Of Illinois ! When he was the second time cand . date for president, the majority of bf
 opponents attacked him because O , what they termed his extreme radi ] calism, while a minority threatene
 to bolt his nomination because he wa
 not radical enough. He had continual,
 Co cheek those who wished to go for
 ,Eard too fast, at the very time h' b oyerrode the opposition of those wha b wished not Co 20 forward at all. Th' ! goal was never dim before his vision . but he picked his way cautiously iTithout either halt or hurry. as h. lstrcde toward it, through sncll, a no
 'rass of difficulty that no man of les