Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-03
Greek Tenpleas
Lincoln Tribute
Is Best, He Says
Congressman Points Out Con-
gruity of coIonnade to Mar
tryed Presidents Dignity,
Beauty, Strength, Simplicity.

The Congressional Record of Jan
uary IS reports this speech by Rep
resentative Mccall on the proposed
Lincoln memorial
'orhe notion of mere efficiency would
cover this world of ours with con-
crete structures, built with the most
nicely calculated strains, and would
fiji them up with human automatons,
each devoted to his own narrow
specially, perhaps Of making a boot
heel, and chased by fast flying ma
chinery all through the day. We
might produce more under such sys-
tenn, but the individual would be
shrunk; it would make of us race
of dwarfs, and our ores and coal, Z
believe, might better be permitted to
remain in the earth's untouched
bosom.
II would not have our country,
when the final reckoning is to be
made between her and other nations,
have nothing TO present but an alb
normally developed efficiency, and
have that put aside the painting,
the sculpture, the literature, the
music, the architecture and those
other consummate flowers of civil
cation which other nations would
bring. I do not underestimate
highly developed Industrial system, if
only there should be the more de-
yeloped also those higher and more
artistic expressions of the aspira-
lions of our race which should be the
choicest possession of every one of its
children.
Greek Temple Most Fitting.
CAS- to the fitness of this work, it is
said that you are going to erect IN
memory of Abraham Lincoln Greek
temple. But what would you have?
Would we have an Egyptian obelisk'
would we have a Turkish mosque, or
a Gothic or Romanesque chapel, or
would we have an American sky
scraper? We must have some type,
and by common consent there has
been no type better fitted for this
purpose than that shown in the mar
velous conception of the Greek.
I'm whatever relates to artistic ex-
preston, whether in poetry, IN elo-
auence, in sculpture or in arcnitec-
ture, who is there in the world VINO
can surpass the Greek? What more
speaking marbles were ever carved
than those of Phidias? What strains
of poetry have ever broken with
sweeter music on the human ear tnan
those of Homer and OF Plpuar
Where else has eloquence reached the
chiseled beauty of Denosthenes? And
although but few remnants or the
architecture of the Greeks have sur
yived the hand Of the barbarian ana
the tooth of time, yet when we come
in view of some fragments of them
TODAY, broken though they may be.
ana twenty centuries after their time,
we stand before them enthralled IN
wonder.
Column, Architectnre's Acme.
There is nothing more beautiful IN
architecture than the column OF the
Greek. Would we speak scornfully OF
this capitol in which we now are as
a Greek temple? What building in
the world is more decorated with the
Creek style of architecture than this?
The Greek column speaks 1t Illus
trates dignity, beauty, simplicity ana
strength. However, the soul OF Aora-
ham Lincoln might have been cnisei-
led in its making, as he came finally
To be every one of those elements
were represented in his character.
80. Mr.. Speaker, am in favor OF
this memorial, which has been de-
signed by the greatest artists and
architects whose advice we could
procure. | am in favor of it because
of it's site upon the banks OF the
Potomac. 1t will be upon spot over
which the eyes, Of Lincoln used to
look longingly and yearningly toward
that part of the Union which he was
irving to keep as part of our COM
mon country.
at will have across the way the
home of the great Confederate chief
tain. which now is the cemetery OF
thousands OF heroes who wore both
the blue and the gray. It will be
memorial in keeping with the majesty
and the beauty of his character. In
the fitness of its location, in the no.
bility of it's character and in the
UNIQUE fame which 1t shall forever
commemorate generations distant
will be the day when it shall be
paralleled by any other memorial
reared to any one of the children Of
men"
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