Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-04-03

euCe IOr SOOu UPON IutuEo SeuoI-
atoms as is private life we'll and
honorably lived, Life isamade sup;
not Of great sacrifices or duties, but
of little things in which smiles, kind
ness and small obligations given ha-
bitually are what preserve the heart
and secure comfort" -, l.
The political life of President Nc
Kinley. is one that challenges the
admiration of every citizen IN the
land. His fortitude, his wisdom, his
zeal and his patience give special
luster to his political actions. But
after all. that element of his scharac-
ter which will live longest and sink
deepest into the hearts Of the Ameri.
can people is the grandeur of his
private life, its fidelity, its sympathy
and tenderness, and the serenity of
It's; close when forgotten we're the
duties of state, and his whole lifs's
work found expression in his last
words, Nearer My God to Thee"
President Lincoln faced a mightier
public calamity and was confronted
by greater and more complex politi-
cal problems than have ever, been
faced by any other. American Official.
He met them all with a wisdom and
skill, and with courage and faith
unsurpassed and unequaled in the
worlds long history But that
which will make the life of Abraham
Lincoln Immortal, not only in the
history of his own country, but
throughout all countries, are his
homely virtues, his great heart, his
sympathy and tenderness, his mercy
and forgiveness.
The armament of the worlds his.
tory is already studded with stars Of
the first magnitude, each with a
brilliancy rejecting its own special
virtues; each with it's ray touching
into activity some noble emotion or
ambition; each portraying our ideal
of the soldier, the statesman, the
philanthropist, the poet, the scien-
tist, the inventor, or the great or
good of all ages. Their numbers are
sufficient to fill the world with in
spiration and engender laudable am
bition in every heart susceptible to
their influence. But the influence of
a mighty name of some past age is
slight when compared with that of
the living presence, the comradeship
of the great and wise and good of
our own day. Each distant star may
be a SUN that warns a hundreds
worlds, but it is the fire of our own
hearths whose glow must ever warm
into being those nobler impulses that
shall give strength and character to
each succeeding generation.
To have made the life of one fam
lily a joy and comfort, to have raised
family Of boys and girls upon
whose character he has left the i'm
press of his own integrity, courage
and honor and lofty purposes-qual-
tiles that die not with the man but
are transmitted through generation
after generation-surely this is the
apex of all true greatness.
Measured by that standard, the
private life of Senator Johnson
eclipses even the fair record of his
public services. His home life was
ideal. He was husband, father, in
structor and companion. Those who
knew him we'll tell me that no mat
ter how dark the clouds might gath
er around him he brought nothing
but sunshine into his own home sur
roundings. His heart was ever kind
and generous, neither rudeness nor
ungraciousness ever found a place in
his nature.
Conscious of the uprightness of his
motives, his mind was ever serenity
itself. In political defeat or private
misfortune he was ever in a happy
frame of mind Bright and quick in
repartee, his wit was that (which
loved to play not wound" He had
few enemies because he would be no
mans enemy. He forgave without
the asking. His heart was big
enough to house the world in its
good will, but in it was no room to
harbor the memory of a wrong.
AS an advocate of a principle his
addresses were always clear and log
ical. He talked to the people and
with them. In all his debates no one
ever heard a word of bitterness
against an opponent.
Senator johnson was member OF
the Methodist Episcopal church, not
an idle, but al active, living mem