The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-02-13

happiness. save that which springs
Ir0.h doing well painful and "A vital
TASK Power was his. but not pleasure.
Ihe burrows deepencd on his brow,
but has eyes were undimmed by either
hate o. fear. Ills gauut shoulders were
bowed, but has steel thews never fall
tered as no bore Tor burden the dee
TIMES OF his people his great ana
tender hear. snrank from giving pain,
and Tho task allotted him was. TO pour
out like water tho life blood OF the
voUng men. ana 20 feel in his every
nb"i ID" SORROW Of the women Dis
aster saddDued but never dismaycd
him. rs dhr rod Years OF war went
10y they found llm -Nr"i doing his duty
ia thu present Iu,r' fotinE the futufe
WitD/lrnf ,Css /fro6t Nigh or heart and
ottIitsss 80 sonl. Inbroken hy ha-
tired mistaken b' scorn, he worked
and suffered iug the people. Triumph
was his al re last. ana barely had he
tasted = l' fng" murder found him, AMI
the kindo. patient, fearless eyes were
Two Grea, Wen
A. - peopl" We are indeed beyond
measure fortunate In the characters
" the two greatest ~ our public men
though theN differed 20 eXt"rnals. tn,
virginia landed gent man aud the
Kentucky Lakewood AN, they were
alike la essentials go y were alike in
the great qualities " ich rendered each
BILE To render services 10 hts nation
and TO all mankind such as no other
render. Eeach had lofty ideals but each
IN striving to attain these lofty ideals
was guided by the soundest common
sense. Each possessed innexible cour-
age in adversity. and a soul wholly un-
spoiled bv prosperity. Each possessed
all the gentler virtues commonly ex-
hibited BY good men who lack rugged
strength of character. each Possessed
also an the strong qualities commonly
exhibited nv those towering masters of
mankind who hnv" too often shown
themselves devoid OF 80 much as the
understanding az the words by which
we SiRnify the qualities ~ duty. OF
mercy OF devotion 10 tho right. OF
lefty d's'nterestcdnr.s ~ battling for
tho good of others Widel~ through the
nrohlems ~ today differ from the prob
lens set for solution TO Washington
when 10 founded this nation. 10 Lin
coin whom no saved IL and freed tho
slave. vct the qialtiies they showed IN
meeting these problems aro sNactlv tho
same ms those we should show in doing
oi'r wo~k today
Lincoln cav into the future with the
r~nrhetic mssination usually vouch-
50 fed on'v "a he poet and the seer. lie
had lu hin al the Mt toward great
ness ~ the visionary without anv Of
tie visionarv'S fanaticism or egotism
without a0v % the wsionary's narrow
iea lnusv OF the practical man end In
ohilitv 30 strive In rracticsI fashion
Tor The realization OF an ideal. He
had the practical msn's had common
sense an Willingness - adapt means
=
tbaf Wo~hid growth ~ mind and soul
which blinds e. many practical men 10
IT," higher things 81 life No more
nracti"al n.au ove~ lived then this
howelv backwoods ideel'~-' hut he had
nothing VA common With those prac-
tical mon hosc "onsciencos are
warned untn thcv fail 20 Distinguish
hetwoen good md ov'l fatl 10 under
stand thpt STRENGTH. ability shrawd-
ness whether ~ tho world OF business
or ~ pollttcS. Only serve To make thei-
nossessor more noxious. more evil
member or the community, II they are
not guided and controlled by a fine and
high moral sense.
Lincoln az Example
We or this day must try to solve
many social and Industrial problems
requirinS TO ar especial degree the
combination OF indomltahle resolution
with cool-head4d sanity We can profit
those traits as he strove for reform.
We can learn much OF value from the
very attacks which following that
course brought upon his head. attacks
alike nv the extremists OF revolution
and ~ tho extremists OF reaction. He
mover wavered IN devotion to his prin-
cipleS N his love for the union and
in his adherence ot slavery. Timid
and lukeWarn people were always de-
nouncinC him because he was too ex-
trcme but aT matter OF fact he never
went to extremes, he worked step by
step, and because OF this the eYtrem-
lsts hated and denounced him with
rHrNor WilCn now seems 10 us ran
tastic IN IFS dedication 81 the unreal
and the impossible. At the very timo
when one side was holding him UP as
tho apostle OF social revolution because
ne was against slavery. the leading
aholitionist denounced him as the
slave hound ot Illinois" When he
was the second time candidate for
president. the majority OF his oppo-
nerts attacked him because of what
th"v termed his extreme radicalism.
while n minority threatened TO. bolt
LIS nomination because he was not
radical enough. He had continually 10
check those who wished TO go forward
too fast. At the very time that he over
rode the opposition OF those who
wished not 10 go forward at all The
goal was never dim before his vision:
hut he picked his way cautiously. with
out either halt or hurry. as he strobe
toward It. through such morass OF
difficulty that no man Of less courage
would have attempted 10. while II would
surely have overwhelmed any man OF
Judgment less serene
Yet perhaps tho most wonderful
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