Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-02-11

.vcid of SO much as the understanding
of the words by which we signify the
qualities Of duty, of mercy, of devo-
ton to the right, of lofty disinterested-
ness in battling 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. Wide
fer from the problems set for solution
to Washington when be founded this
nation, to Lincoln when he saved it
and freed the slave, yet the qualities
they showed in meeting these prob.
lens are exactly the same as those
we should show in doing our work to-
Gay.
LincoIn's Deep Foresight.
Lincoln saw into the future with
the prophetic imagination usually
vouchsafed only to the poet and the
seer. He had in him all the lift to-
ward greatness of the visionary, with
out any of the visionary's fanaticism
or egotism, without any of the vision
ary's narrow jealousy of the practi,
cal man and inability to strive in prac-
tical fashion for the realization of an
ideal. He had the practical 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 conscien-
ces are warped until they fail to dis
tinguish between good and evil, fail
to understand that strength, ability,
shrewdness, whether in the world of
business or of politics, only serve to
make their possessor more noxious
Il more evil member of the community,
if they are not guided and controlled
by fine and high moral sense.
Lessons from LincoIn's Life.
1--WE of this day must try to solve
many social and industrial problems,
requiring to an especial degree the
combination of indomitable resolution
with cool-headed sanity. We can profit
by the way in which Lincoln used
both these traits as he strove for re-
form. We can learn much of value
from the very attacks which following
hat course brought upon his head, at
lacks alike by the extremists of revo-
luton and by the extremists of reaction
He never wavered in devotion to his
principles, in his love for the union,
and in his adherence of slavery Tim
id and lukewarm people were always
denouncing him because he was ex-
IRENE; but as a matter of fact he
never went to extremes, he worked
step by step; and because of this the
extremists hated and denounced him
With a fervor which now seems to us
fantastic in it's dedication of the un-
real and the impossible. At the very
time when one side was holding him
Up as the apostle of social revolution
because he was against slavery, the
leading abolitionist denounced him as
he slave hound of Illinois" When
ne was the second time candidate for
president, the majority Of his oppo
nents attacked him because of what
they termed his extreme radicalism
while a minority threatened to bolt
his nomination because he was not
adical enough. He had continually to
check those who wished to go forward
too fast. at the very time that he over
rode the opposition of those who
Wished not to go forward at ALL The
~oal was never dim before his vision;
but he picked his way cautiously, with
out either halt or hurry, as he strobe
toward it, through such a morass of
difficulty that no man of less courage
would have attempted it, while it
would surely have overwhelmed any
man of judgment less serene
Man of Great federation.
Yet perhaps the most wonderful
thing of all, and, from the standpoint
of the American of to-day and of the
future, the most vitality important, was
the extraordinary way in which Lin.
COlu COulu uSuL VdudAIly dSdluSI Wudl
he deemed wrong and yet preserve I'm.
diminished his love and respect for
the brother from whom he differed.
IN the hour of a triumph that would
have turned any weaker mans head,
in the heat of a struggle which spurred
4any good man to Dire adful vim
dictiveness, he said truthful:y that SO
Ong as he had been in his Office he
iad never willingly planted a thorn
n any mans bosom, and besou sht
lis supporters to study the incidents
Of the trial through which they were
% ssing as philosophy from which to
learn wisdom and not as wrongs to
y avenged; ending with the solemn
.Xhortation that. as the strife was
err. all should reuaite in common
effort to save their common country.
Strong Sense Of Justice.
He lived in days that we're great
and terrible. when brother fought
against brother for what each sincere