The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-02-14

The memory or Lincoln serves more than anything else to remind America how fortunate was this country in having man like him as a critical moment of it's history.
 During that time American insti tutions and American men were pu: to one of the severest tests that 1t is possible that nations should ex- pericnce, and that the country sur viyed the ordeal so well was doubt less due in no smell way to Lin coin's greatness.
 That it would have survived the ordeal whether such as he existed or not is very certain. With abund ant resources and determined men and woman, tho result could not be doubted. That all the best did sur- viye may we'll be quesiioncd; that so much of it did was due in great way to Lincoln. But after all what does the survival of the fittest signify but that those that did so were best fitted to D 'olong existence 10th as men and as things To con cludc therefore that survival is Q test of value, or ci real efficiency is nonsense We lose much that is invaluable which historical circum- stances destroy, and which is inc vitable even in the journey towards better things.
 Conditions working slowly in the process of evolution eliminate many things which can ill be spared, and from time to time it has been a historical fact that many splendid institutions and many uncXcelied ideas had to fall by the wayside because upsuited to the times and for that reason unable to prolong an ephemoral existence.
 But no man can teil what might have been the result had the bitter question involved in the struggle betweon tho northern and southern states been amicably or peaceably SOlVeO. we uo hoI Nho" o'Sh u they could have been pcaccably solved. Men and great men tried to solve the questions peacefully ana they lost both name and fame in do ing so
 Withal we can safely s2y thct tho loss of SO many strong and active
 cn mont 1IV alert and go perfectly adapted to the rcDrcduction of strong Ti@oic1j and intelligent posterity is joss that not nation can endure withou' somewhat dire consequences, anu we can further feel satisfied thai even the ide9, which they leave be hind to cheer men of later ages iA their struggles, to emboldcn them n their efforts, is no compensation for the extinction of that human factor in a nations story that has perish d upon the battlefield.
 The abolition of chattel slavery and the increased power of the fed
  tinct fesults above all others which the Civil War has left behind. About the former there Is an almost un animous opinion, but about the lat ter there is still considerable dispute even if mostly of an academic na ture.
 The real struggle for abolition oi chattel slavery began long before the Civil War. In fact tho Civi War was merely tho admission by history that it had become inevit ablo.
 It began when the ecrly aboli tionists were the voices of the few and who insisted that they bs heard
 It began, the very reality of tn. struggle, the uphill and toilsomt and thankless struggle, when thu early abilitionists were mobbcd II Boston and lynched in Illinois; whe. the north was as bitterly opposed t those agitators as was the south and the churches in every section denounced them es seditious dis turbcrs of the public peace. treason abic agitators against tho public SC curity. It began when the abolition ist was scoffed at and hated b, every one, regarded as menta pariah and one to Do suppressed a < all costs much as the members Q