East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-12
LINCOLN DAY
At ACADEMY
ELOQUENT ADDRESS BY
JUDGE $. A. LOWELL
No Glasses This Afternoon and STU
dents and Faculty VIII Attend To-
nights Exercises In Body-Life
of Martyred President Held up as
Model.

Lincoln's centennial anniversary
was appropriately observed at the
Pendleton Academy today. At 11:45
the students and friends listened to
an address by Judge Lowell while all
class work for the afternoon was dis
pensed with. This evening the MEM
bers of the student body and faculty
will attend the exercises at the Meth
odist church in n body.
The following is resume of the
eloquent address by Judge Lowell:
There is no character i'm the secular
history of the world which stands the
test of waxing years lige that of
Abraham Lincoln. Most of the heroes
and saints of earth die utterly to
memory with the lapse of a century.
Some of them remain upon our an
nails as names only to be uncovered
and re-burnshed upon occasions. A
few gleam as far-off stars in our fir
mament, and are remembered for the
brilliancy of personality or the i'm
portance of achievement
Lincoln Looms Ever Larger.
Lincoln today, upon the centennial
of his birth and more than a gener-
alton from his death, looms larger
than at any period before. He has
become the idol of mature manhood
and the ideal of youth of all the ma
tions of christendom This morning
paeons are sung to him In many
tongues and upon every continent,
while the story of his life impresses
the ages.
The reason of all this is not diff
cult of analysis. and it is worthy the
attention of the young people of this
gradual downfall of thrones and the
assertion of the rights of man, Lin
coin typifies the possibilities of the
plain people His lowly birth. his
early struggles. his majestic advocacy
of the principles of human freedom
and the equality of man, his broad
for the masses and con-
tempt for classes, his inspired utter
ances which are the bible of popular
coupled with the cath
ollc charity which impressed his car
eer, and the tragic drama of his death
have sanonized the men.
20 Lessons Of Life TO Youth.
The lessons of this exalted life to
youth are many and impressive be-
cause he typifies the life of the aver
age man. He was born to poverty
and labor; he mastered the same diff
ficulties which confront us all; he
possessed none of the advantages OF
wealth or social position; he climbed
the ladder unaided and alone, as
NOSE men must climb If they rise at
ALL
He dedicated his life to a great
and no man yet has become
great who has not done
this. He trained his intellect by the
mastery of few books, and with
artist in the use of language both
spoken and written. His Cooper I'm
on speech charmed the polite soci-
city of New York as did his debates
With Douglass the pioneers of Illinois.
His inaugural addresses are speci-
mems of clear thought and perfect
english, while his Gettysburg speech
S the finest gem i'm our tongue.
\ Man of the People.
His humanity, his charity and his
olerance sprung from full know
edge of the frailities and thought
rend of the plain people. He never
ost the touch with them gained in
he hard school of his boyhood. and
le never failed in confidence in the
of their motives or their lof-
V patriotism. He knew as does every
tudent of popular government that
n the long run the masses will de-
ermine questions right. They may
.rr temporarily. but in the end they
viii solve public problems with JUS
ice to all. Aristocracy is always |
wrong because always selfish. The
ommon people established this gov
saved it, and If it continues
heV will DerDetrate IT,