The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-30
HOUSE APPROVES
TEMPLE in MALL
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tional vocational school for trades and
agricultural occupations. Gen. Sherwood.
of Ohio, wanted highway to Gettys-
| burg, with a memorial temple at the
| other end.
Representatives Mccall Of Massachu-
sets, Pickett of Iowa. and James, Sen
stor-elect from Kentucky, made the prin-
cipal speeches in behalf of the memorial
| temple idea.
Ollie James Eloquent.
| Standardized Ollie James OF Kentucky.
| famous as a sweet-toned singer OF the
praises of Democracy. surprised the
1 House by rising to the defense of the
lIincoln Memorial project as recommend
cd by the commission. Mr.. James has
not been a frequent contributor to the
Congressional Record since his election
TO the Senate. out his contribution Of
Yesterday made up for what other issues
| have lost.
After asserting that the Borland reso-
| luton would injure rather than aid the
| good roads movement IL carried through
Congress- Mr.. James continued:
Lincoln was born IN kentucky. lie
| went TO the State of Illinois Kentucky
gave him TO Illinois. and Illinois gave
him to the republic, and the republic
gave him to the world. II a road were
| to be built; IL. in earnest. you desire to
pc rpetuate his memory, and to pay trib-
Ute to his character. / submit that the
road ought not to go to that sea Of car
mage and flood OF sorrow, the battlefield
of Gettysburg. but It ought to be built,
II the road is what you want, from
Springfield, Ill, where he lived and lies
buried, back to his old Kentucky home,
where he first saw the light.
But hack home We love the memory
of Abraham Lincoln too well to want to
frla fnr thn nf
throwing upon the government the main
tenance OF. and assistance in, building
public highways.
WHY, the arguments made here. Mr..
Speaker, this morning, that Washington's
monument was cold and clumsy looking;
that some of the statues here to Lin
coin were not beautiful; the arguments
that a people want to pay tribute 10
one whom they love, and who made
fer the good of their republic. they
should do something that would be use
ful-that argument would tear down
every temple; it would uproot every
shrine, il would even pull the flag from
the sky because it might be made, more
useful than by simply swishing it up
there.
Monuments, memorials. and statues
are not intended to lie useful They are
erected to men who have been useful and
who have served their country well. l
believe this House will not do its duty in
the memory Of this great man. the great
American, this great patriot. II you allow
yourselves TO be diverted from your SOL
emn purpose to erect memorial to him
to start a public road movement or trtfie
with il in any such way as that.
Let us perpetuate his memory as BELTS
his life and his deeds; but let me say that
though some would trifle with it and use
il as a public roads propaganda, yet IN
til the future dares forget the past his
fate and fame shall be an echo and a light
until eternity
Shcrwood's Opposition.
Representative Sherwood found the idea
Of erecting "a 100000 fantastic Greek
temple to commemorate the greatest
American of his epoch. who never learned
the Greek alphabet" extremely distaste-
full to one of his simple ideas" Besides.
he did not like the idea of staggering
ito learn wisdom from a pagan
age which knew neither charity nor chas-
tity." .--.
Declaring that he had "a higher concep-
ton of memorial than a highway
which would be utilized by all the JOY
riders Of the East" Representative Pick
EFT opposed the road to Gettysburg idea
in a notable speech. Commenting on the
interior plan of the structure, in which
tablets will bear Lincoln's two greatest
speeches, the Gettysburg and second in
augural address, Mr.. Pickett referred
to the beauty Of the latter.
Mr.. Speaker, one sentence in the Sec
ond inaugural address. With malice
toward none, with charity to ALL has no
in literature. except in the
words of the dying Master: Father. for
give them, for they know not what they