Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1909-02-18
ASSURANCE
AGAINST CRAFT
Supt. Burt Defends the Project
Of a Lincoln Farm.
Sponsors

In connection with the SUBSCRIPTIONS
that have been asked for the Lin.
coin Farm Association I wish to
make statement in regard to it.
The assurance given the people
that the funds collected will be used
without graft lies in the character Of
the officers and trustees of this asso-
citation whose names are given be-
low. Nearly all of them are men Of
national reputation. In addition to
this the movement mas been endorsed
by such men as Theodore Roosevelt,
William III. Taft and Grover Cleve-
land and President Roosevelt has
lent his influence still further by
dedicating the Memorial building at
Hodgenville. Kentucky, on the twelfth
of the present month.
Acting on the suggestion Of Gov
ernor Folk Of Missouri, Governor
Burke appointed committee for
North Dakota with Col. John D.
Benton as chairman and through
him Mayor Blewett was asked to ap-
point q local committee. The names
of this committee have been pub
lished before.
Whether it is desirable to preserve
some Of our most prominent histori-
cal places or not is a matter that
each person will have to decide for
himself. Personally have some SEN
timent about it and would deplore
the turning of Mount Vernon into a
COW pasture. In Europe large sums
of money have been spent to preserve
and restore places Of historic interest
and from them the people of the
world get an education that could
not be obtained In any other way.
And also have some pride in this
movement. II a foreigner were to
ask me where Lincoln was born 1
should not like to tell him that the
place was now used for a soap iac.
tory.
Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul ex-
presses himself on the subject as fol-
lows:
''By all means let us have the Lin
coin Farm. The land upon which
Abraham Lincoln was born, and up
on which he spent his early youth,
is too sacred to- be turned over to
vulgar everyday purposes. 1t must
be for all time enc of Americas ven
Grated shrines, over which tho spir-
it Of America shall hold undisputed
sway, and whittier worshippers shall
come from every cline to honor it
and inhale its sublime and purifying
life. Let it be with the f,ee.willed
offering Of the people Of America, the
Hit Of their very souls. Patriotism
allows naught else, by nanaht else
will patriotism be nurtured into best
and sweetest towering
And SO again I call your attention
to the character Of the men 1t the
head of the National Committee
whose names follow:
THE. LINCOLN FARM ASSOCIA-
y tTION.
Joseph W. Folk, president.
Robert J. Collier, chairman Of Ex-
ecutivs Committee; Clarence h.
Mackay, treasurer; Richard Lloyd
Jones, secretary.
Board Of Trustees.
Horace Porter, William II; Jerome,
Jenkins Lloyd Jones, Charles A.
Towne, Edward n. Shepard, William
81. Taft, August Belmont. Samuel
I Z. Clemens, Lyman ]. Gage, Ida NJ.
>Tarbell, Joseph II. Choate, Henry
SWaterson, Cardinal Gibbons, Albert
Shaw, Thomas Hastings, Samuel
Gompers, Charles e. Hughes. Nor
man Hapgood, Augustus d. Wilson,
Oscar s. Straus, John "A. johnson,
William jennings Bryan. Frederick
/ i. Pierce, general manager
4. Burt 81
III Chairman Local Commit tee.
Jamsstown Esbs I4th. 1901 III.