Weekly journal-miner., 1911-02-22
RIGHT MAKES RIGHT.

III q llltIt nut III the ulIuSI OI forest clearing near Hodgenville. Ky, one hundred and two years ago Sun day, (February 12th), Abraham Lin coin began under the most unprOm- ising of auspices that marvellous ear eer which the bullet of assassin J. Wilkes Booth ended so tragically in Ford's theater, on the l4th of April, 1865.
 Born to the lowest estate to which mankind is heir, condemned to q fife in. which there was apparently neither hope or sunshine, by the pinehing struggle of his parents for existence in a hostile country overrun vita the savage Redman, he made more of his scant heritage than is given to most men and became the nest majestic. figure in modern history. Saddest and most unhappy of all the men who have been called by :heir fellow eountrymen to shape the dcs- tinies of the nation, he preserved unimpaired in the highest office within the gift of the people, the simplicity of manner and rugged honesty of purpose that marked the humble rail splitter in overalls of thirty years before, upon whor was imposed the task of freeing the slave and preserving the Union. AvIrsc to war he aspired to see his coun- try grow in peaceful eminenee and take it's rank among the most in fluential nations of the world, an am bition ne was not destined, however, to live to see fulfilled.
 How that pathetic, sad looking face, upon which the heart broken widows. the orphans and the mothers of the nation engraved their tears, would light up with emotion if he could today see that starry emblem he gave up his life in the saving, floating over prosperous depend eReies beyond the borders of the country. whose territorial integrity he strove so hard to keep intact. Where less than thirty million gave up the last full measure of devo- tion to maintain it without a blem- ish more than one hundred million how owe allegiance to it, from frozen Alaska to the sun earessed shores of Porto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, and the Philippine Archipelago.
 Since he passed away his country has had one successful war, and acted as intermediary for Russia and Japan in settling the most disastrous international struggle in all history. It has turned the Indian from i'm termittent strife into peaceful pur suits. lead the nations of the world in the establishment of a permanent peace tribunal at The Hague for the adjustment of grievances, freed Cuba from the oppressive yoke of Spain, and undertaken the construction of the Panama Canal. the most stu pendous engineering feat of the ages. Its inventive genius has en- riched the world with Alexander Gra- ham Bells telephone, Edison's in- candeseent electric lights, Delany's LOGO words a minute, Westinghouse marvellous mechanical inventions, the trolley, the automobile, the typeset- ting machine. the cylinder press and 3 thousand and one other wonders which have relieved mankind of its former drudgery.
 It has established a hundred in dustries which dominate the markets of the world and raised a thousand milliOnaires whose rapidly aeeumu- lating revenues are being disbursed in the creation of the greatest seien- tific and research universitie. and philanthropies that the world has ever known. It feeds the world with its surplus grain, clothes it with its cotton, and keeps its mills and fac tories humming with it's machinery. With a clear conscience and an open