Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-12

Representative Chiperheld OF limos
spoke in the House of Lincoln the
Humane" saying, in part:
"Others may speak of Lincoln the
leader. the statesman, the President,
but l speak this day of Lincon the
humane. of Lincoln the man. and the
life that has endeared him to all lib
ertyloving citizens of the world
''At this day we cannot understand
he rose, or the bleak barrenness of his
life, which he describes as the short
and simple annals of the poor IN
after wears he could not bear to Speak X
of those days. and so far as his words
are concerned they are sealed book.
I'm all the length and breadth of the
land today there is not poverty such as
he knew. 1t is not accurate for men
to say that his life was the common
lot of the sturdy pioneer of those days,
for this is not correct.
why, I cannot tell, but so it is that
when a great work in the affairs of
nations is to be accomplished and a
great man required the early scenes of
his life are almost invariably laid
amid the humblest surroundings. and
in homes where love must supply the
greater part of the needs of childhood
days. 1t was so with Gideon. David,
Luther Garfield, Webster. Grant. Edi-
son and many others, and so 1t was,
although to much greater degree,
with Lincoln.
,"Reared in cabin that was inferior
to the shelter Of the animals on the
farm housed in a structure that was
for a long time without windows. doors
or a floor and that was not even In
closed on all four of It's sides. here his
early years We're spent. Ihe iurnlsh-
ings meager and cruelty crude. were
hardly worthy of the name; his resting
place was bed of leaves laid upon a
rude support of poles. Here dwelt and
developed the indomitable spirit OF the
lad, who. while his heart was ofttimes
saddened though not embittered by the
privations he experienced and the hard
ships he endured, suffered not his cour-
age to fail.
Here it was that he learned the vast
his fellow man that a mansion OF a
palace does not seem to favor or
create"
Lincoln's Birth and Life.
Representative Dill of Washington in
a brief speech pointed out some OF the
condolences which underlay the cir
cumstances of Lincoln's birth and life.
He said:
"I would point out that God caused
him to choose for his life profession
the law-the law. that broad but steep
and dangerous pathway over which so
many men have passed to ruin or to
fame. would point out that to aid his
DEVELOPMENT God chose from among
New Englands brilliant boys the most
brilliant of them all. Stephen A.
Douglas. and took him out to Illinois
to act as a pacemaker for this pioneer.
| would show how these two men went
through life together, Yet opposed.
During early life both lived in ad-
joining counties and practiced law in
the same courts. Both wooed the same
girl, and Lincoln won her. Both
served in the same state legislature
together. Both served in the national
Congress, Lincoln i'll the House and
Douglas in the Senate, at the same
time. Both ran for the Senate in Illi-
nois in 1856. and Douglas won, making
almost certain Lincoln's election to the
as ii crowning close to all their struS
giles, almost the last public act of
Douglas life was to hold Lincolns hat
while he took the oath of Office as
President Lastly I would show that
when the awful war was done and Lin
coin stood on the highest heights of
fame, haloed by the homage and ado
ration of a world, this Divine Being
took him as the nations last and most
precious sacrifice of all that war-took
him away before envy and jealousy
could heap abuse and calumny upon
his memory and his name.
Thus would l show how an all-wise
God had SO planned this mans life. so
shaped his surroundings and SO ar
ranged his associations that by means
of him He had kept us one nation. SOW
ereign, grand and free"