The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-07

tween the two, said the speaker, and
lie described the dress of the times Of
washington, and contrasted it with
hat of Lincoln when he was IS
years old. The latter stood upon the
face of a cliff, with his rail ,splftter's
axe N the hand, wore a pair Of deer
skin trousers which shrunk every
time it rained and grew small when it
was dry from the rapid growth of the
youth who wore them. He wore
coons4in vest and a coonskin cap. He
was the American of the pioneer
days, in spirit and achievement.
Washington upon the other hand was
European in his way, his dress, ana
his thought And both were of the
same line Of descent.
Going still furthe- in his compare
son of the two men he described Lin
coin as the Alpha and Omega of the
| Americanism which produced him,
angular in looks and in character
with the marks of genius sticking out
over him; Washington was symmetri-
cal, rounded, polished. Lincoln rose
to genius: Washington was always in
the light Of his fellow countrymen
from the. time he came to church
after the defeat Of Braddock and was
congratulated upon his escape from
that disaster. Washington had his
whole life to achieve his fame and
Lincoln but four years.
lamlnaHy NOT lnclu0e0.
DR.. Cadman demonstrated that
both men were the product. of the
laws which govern all things, even to
the development of cabbages, he said
This law. however, does not apply to
Tammany board of aldermen for
such a board has never cen accused
of thinking although it has been as
serted that cabbage heads do think.
The three epochs of the life of the
Ts1lAH 1ou
the sword and failed. although there
are still representatives. of 1t with US,
and In the house Of representatives at
Washington one who still wishes to
dye the western ocean with the blood
to save this nation. But this method
cannot succeed, and the speaker
pointed to the failure of the ancient
empires Of Egypt and the East. The
second period was that of assimila-
ton, as exemplified by Greece and
Socrates. and no greater minds ever
existed said the speaker, even before
the great silence fell upon Oyster
Bay. But Notwithstanding the great
intellect, the great culture Of these
empires, they fell because their Gull
ture, any more than the RUE Of the
sword, could not vftalize. The third
period is what is known as the Teu-
tonic civilization, and of which Wash
ington, Lincoln, the great men of
England and America are products.
And it has succeeded where the 9TH
ers failed because it is vitalized by
the teachings of Christianity. This
has iberalized the ideas. The men Of
today are no drawer now than the
first man who defended his hut with
a club from the fangs of a tiger. They
are no Drawer than the Greeks, and
the men who charged up San Juan
Hill are not Drawer than the men who
defended Thermopylae. But the ideas
have been broadened, it has been rec
ognized that power must come from
the bottom instead of the top that
the people are able to do their own
stead of delegating the power, and we
are marching towards the day of
God. And Lincoln represented all of
this. ax *ses
Need Strong Men at Home.
He was a man who resembled the
young men of SO years ago to be
found in every Massachusetts, farm
house, two of them in nearly every
house. and either could go to the
legislature and pass an honest Law or
stay at home and pillow an honest
furrow. 1--WE do not need the strong
speaker, "but we need the strong man
in our own house, and when the day
comes that the wfshbone is replaced
with the backbone We can life up the
rule of the. people TO Tnat ideal Wntcn
at present it does. not always express.
It is only sheep who need shepherd
If we stand for ourselves we may yet
produce another Lincoln
Dr. Cadnlan reviewed the parent
age of Lincoln, the heritage which
came to him, his. personal character,
his uncouth appearance, and said the
speaker, ga pretty woman is a neces-
sity Of society burt a pretty man ID =
nuisance Lincoln as DR.. Cadman
described was not a pretty man but
a man of Homeric appearance, the
of man of power.
Fell In Love at 16.
AT is Lincoln fell in love, with
whom history does not say. and his
turned his atten-
ton to the acquiring of knowledge
Lincoln knew the Bible from cover
to cover, and was really Hebrew
prophet using the American constatu-
ton and the American spirit Tor his
Much has been said of his unpre-
paredness for the office Of the prest-
dency, but said the speaker, his whole
life was a preparation for It. When (
he was a rail. SPLITTER he split more
rails than any one Ia the eounUt
when he became a lawyer. he wa1 ~
honest one; and 1t secured him the
OF the people OF his nea9As
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