Arizona republican., 1916-09-05
BIRTHPLACE OF EMAN NC|P PAT|ON |S
 SECURE FOREVER
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 HODGENVILLE, Ky, Sept A. President Wilson came to Kentucky to- day to pay homage to the memory of Lincoln and avoid politics, but great crowd gathered from all parts of the state, cheered him at every appearance and turned his visit into a campaign event
 The president accepted, for the fed eral government, the log cabin in which Lincoln was born in a speech devoted to an eulogy of the Civil War president. Standing on a temporary i platform at the foot of a hill topped | by q magnificent granite memorial ] building housing the Lincoln cabin, 1 he praised Lincoln as the embodiment of democracy
 | We are not worthy to stand here 1 unless we ourselves are in deed and in
 truth real democrats and servants of | mankind. ready to give our very lives for the freedom and justice and spirit . ual eXaltation of the great nation
 which shelters and nurtures us" he 1 said. The non-political character of i the program was emphasized by the | mention of the name of Charles F. | Hughes, the republican nominee by one of the speakers in giving the list
 of directors of the Lincoln Farm Asso-
 citation.
 But as soon as the formal exercises were over, politics came to the fore At the railroad station platform the president stood for nearly an hour
 shaking hands with men and women
 who greeted him as the next presi- dent"
 I
 largest crowds ever gathered in this
 part of Kentucky came to Lincoln
 Farm in special trains and automobiles
 and on foot. The president and his
 party were taken from the station to
 the farm in automobiles accompanied
 by a troop of Louisville police. On the
 way the president stopped and laid a
 wreath on a statue of Lincoln.
 At the farm, he walked up a long
 flight of broad granite stairs lined
 with thousand of cheering persons, to
 the Lincoln memorial at the top. In side he examined silently the one
 room cabin made of rough logs and
 mud and then wrote his name in the register
 1 Former Governor Joseph w. Folk of ' Missouri, president of the Lincoln
 Farm Association, presided at the !
 , A plea that Americans of the present
 day consecrate themselves to maintain
 the Americanism of Lincoln inviolate was made by Former Governor Folk. This country has produced many , men whose names have emblaZoned , | the pages of history but no name is [ dearer than that of the simple and
 sublime Lincoln, who literally sprans
 from this soil to become the mightiest ] of the mighty His birthplace was as lowly as that of the Man of Galilee } whom he resembled so much in the . sorrows he knew. the burdens he bore and the love of humanity he mani fested. This crude cabin preserved ir ! this magnificent marble mausoleum is consecrated by the life of the man who here came into the world No poets fancy. no dream of fiction, can equa
 the emerging from this humble hut oi extreme poverty of one whose step.
 were destined to shake the world anC
 whose mission was to rededicate { |. l united nation to the cause of freedom. , The spirit of Lincoln is more aliv, |, today than when he lived in the flesh Y He founded an Americanism that i
 | not a matter of creed or nationa q descent, but an ideal of the soul ant @ of the mind; an Americanism that i n not merely a union of political en n titles, but of a common aspiration an, - a common destiny; an Americanisn
 so virile that there need be no natio1 T so strong we should fear it, or so pow 1 erful we must cover at it's feet; al | Americanism so just that the Golde 1 Rule may be the supreme law guidin l us in our diplomatic relations wit ] other nations; an Americanism read ] to defend the aggression of all ma tions, but intentionally offending non
 in upholding the principle of the right
 of man throughout the world
 Until recently this place whic
 should be an object lesson to comn ] generations and revered by ever ] American was unnoticed and aban ] doned. Inspired by the idea that a du ! regard for the apostle of human libert
 whose life began on this spot de
 manded the preservation of his birth
 iplace, few patriotic men organize
 the Lincoln Farm Association to puI
 chase the property and to erect upon
 a suitable memorial to the life tha typified above all others the wonder / ful possibilities in the American Re
 public. The movement met with
 ready support from every section of u ht nation. The south as well as the mort nd responded generously. In honoring u 1t. memory of Lincoln there is neith, of north. nor south, nor east, nor wes D. there is one heart in all and that u r. heart of loyal America.
 ce This majestic memorial we toda ,l formally turn over to the Unite nc States government is therefore, n S. only in memory of Lincoln. but it Ia. testimony given in blocks of marb m that the fires of fraternal hatr, us kindled by the fierce conflict of half IT. century ago are dead, and from u we ashes have arisen a pure patriotis of zoo.,-,,, - ~ ms. loohtihueo on rage Nine)