The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-02-13

for a burden the destinies of his peo-
pie His great and tender heart
shrank from giving pain, and the
task allotted him was to pour out
like water the life blood of the young
men and 10 feel in his every fiber the
sorrow of the women. Disaster
saddened but never dlsmayed him.
AS the red years of war went by they
found him ever doing his duty in the
present. ever facing the future with
fearless front. high of heart, and
dauntless of soul. Unbroken by
hatred, unshaken by seorn. he work
ed and suffered for the people.
Triumph was his at the last; and
barely had he tasted IL before mur-
der found him, and the kindly.
patient. fearless eyes were closed
forever
Is 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 differed in ex-
ternals. the Virginia landed gentle
man aud the Kentucky baekwoods
man. they were alike In essentials,
they were alike in the great qualities
which rendered each able TO render
service 10 his nation and TO all man
kind such as no other man of his
generation oouia or did render.
Each had lofty ideals, but each in
striving TO attain these lofty ideals
was guided by the soundnest common
sense. Each possessed infexible
courage In adversely. and soul
wholly unspoiled by prosperity.
Each possessed all The gentler
virtues commonly exhibited by good
men who lack rugged strength of
character Each possessed also all
the strong qualities commonly ex-
hibited by those towering masters
OF mankind who have too often
shown themselves devoid of so much
as the understanding of the words
by which we signify the qualities of
duty, or mercy. of devotion to the
right. OF lofty disinterestedness in
batting for the good of others.
There have been other men as great
and other men as good; but in
all the history of mankind there
are no other two great men as good
as these. no other two good men as
great Widely through the problems
OF today differ from the problems
set for solution to Washington when
he founded this nation, to Lincoln
when he saved 1t and freed the
slave. yet the qualities they showed
in meeting these problems are eX-
hx ac fhaGa w chnulA
show In doing our work today.
Lincoln saw into the future with
the prophetic imagination usually
youehsafed only to the poet and the
seer He had in him all the lift
toward greatness of the visionary
without any of the visionarys fam
aticism or egotism without any of
the visonary's narrow jealousy of the
practical man and inability to strive
in practical fashion for the realiza-
ton of an ideal He had the practi-
cal mans hard common sense and
willingness To adapt means to ends;
but there was in him none OF that
morbid growth of mind and soul
which blinds so many practical men
TO the higher things of life. No more
practical man ever lived than this
homely backwoods idealist; but he
had nothing in common with those
practical men whose consciences are
warped until they fail to distinguish
between good and evil. fail to un-
derstand that strength, ability,
shreWdness. whether IN the world of
business or of politics, only serve
TO make their possessor a more
noxious, a more evil member of the
community. If they are not guided
aud controlled by a fine and high
moral sense.
We of this day try 10 solve many
social and industrial problems, re-
quiring to an especial degree the
combination of indomitable resolu-
ton which with cool headed sanity.
We can profit by the way in which
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