Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-13
Pay Fit Tribute to the Mem.
ory of Abraham Lincoln
at a Banquet Held
Last Evening.
Local Followers of the "Grand Old Party
Hold Well Attended Banquet at
Mizpah Hotel Grill.

property rights under the law, and
was author of a draft of resolu-
ton appropriating $4O0,000,000. toI
purchase the freedom of the slaves.
Lawyer that he was, loyal 10 vested
rights, he even went so far as to
say to Alexander Stevens, Let me
write Union at the top of sheet
of paper and | care not what You
write below it,
"If he were alive today, when
complex and unprecedented prob
lens confuse us, | believe that
he would, in his attitude toward the
rights of the rich and the poor,
the capitalist and the laborer, main
tain that equity and equilibrium
which the letter and spirit of our
laws contemplate. That he would
| demonstrate that our political in
stitutions, in the main, are inher-
emily adequate to all our national
necessities. That the burden of his
| y
would be, not that we need new
systems, new laws, new instrument
talities of government, but that we
simply need more tolerance, more
love of country. and more respect
for the plain letter of the law as it
stands on the statute books, and
particularly a common acceptance
and daily practice of the laws con-
ception of corporate duty and re-
sponsibility; that the chiefs of cor
porate enterprise and finance will
conduct their affairs within the let
ter and spirit of the law, and for
the benefit of every man, woman
and child who owns a share OF
stock.
"He said: "A house divided
against itself cannot stand. This
nation cannot endure permanently
half slave and half free 1t was
J true fifty years ago in our politica
world Paraphrased, it is true to-
r day in our commercial world-'Ou'
5 industry cannot permanently pros
per, part within the law and par
t without
eve most need the spirit O.
Lincoln today in our commercial
4 ethics.
S "The Simon Legrees of today arr
r not the type of crook-nosed brute
4 woh sunk the Kissing lash int
f quivering black flesh; but they ar
Y men of gracious exterior, stron'
Y men muddled by the lust of power
D whose whip cracks defiantly in tn
e teeth of the law, breeding discon
e tent and decentralization in the bod
: polite.
e "No Lincoln, single handed, coul
( put down such traffic. 1t is tn
it spirit of Lincoln in the hearts c
If his countrymen who must enforc
= the mandates of the law and kee
IS our commerce free and unshackle.
y s'His life was un-hurried. |
W these hectic days when America
life is bounding along under feve
l. ish pressure, his career teaches l
i the value of repose. Not the r,
J. pose of the idle, but the calm {
j. the unturbulent river, swinging p;
lie tiently and resistlessly toward tt
IN sea, gathering volume at every tul
to of the banks, until upon the boso
Id of its sweep it bears the burdel
Ii of an empire.
to ''It was so with LincOln's lif
az In it's onward movement there we
no upheavals. An Indian wa
er. frontier politics, the circuit of t
a. courts, a term in congress, mel
ch orable and spectacular debate
es- these were the principal chapte
in period of 80 years of prepar
he ton for the presidency. He gre
a gradually to the proportions
lot the office and he entered it equ
-ar ped, not according to the standar