The Dolores star., 1919-02-07

statcsmanship and in his fraiItieS. Human In his
love for story telling and rcnXation and Intense
ly ted wi,h the humanity thar will not knowing
ly do an wkind or unjust act.
II Is not that he was perfection in any of the
y5riE$ Of f" in which fate turned his steps. for
There were better lawyers in his time; there were
oven better story tellers than Lincoln surely it
would not he difficult 10 name better military Off
Gers t!En Lincoln was. or more learned men and
greater orators than he. But Lincoln man
ut The people and Americans like that kind of man,
writes Joseph Jackson in the Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
They hoard every scrap Of writing that the
man over wrote. His walking sticks his dlIap
dated Old law books his broken-dowm bookcase
everything that once belonged to him or in which
h. had set his name is treasured.
Not Ioig a-o in New York they sold at auction
q slip ~ lipea on which he showed that. good
politician he thought to be- be poor
i;tud at guessing results of II presidential eIec-
ZION. Yet ;ltrs slip Of paper brought S1,025, and
Lincoln had not even signed it. but it was known
To nave been written by him.
1t might be mentioned here that Lincoln proved
himself tDsbe very poor prophet, and overesti-
mated The strength of General Mcclellan, his po-
liicai opponent in the election of lSG4 Accord
il: to liucun's estimate he felt Sur-. of the New
England states and few Others totang 100
votes ia the electoral college. and ne set down as
The supposed COppprlead vOt"' the states of
New Yors, Pennsylvania. NeTs~IerSey Delaware,
Maryland Missouri. Kentuck. and Illinois, and
their IA votes he believed would be cast for Gen
urail Mcfgcliun. As matter OF fact. however only
New Jersey. Delaware anG Kentucky went against
irn. and lac carried the election by II vote of
10 TO ~.
There we're reGsorS for LincDln's belief that
the states lie had set down as Comprehend"
owould 20 Igunst him The drafts of men had
been resisted in more less energetic form in
Inlny Of these commemorative. notably New York
ana Illinois and the large number of sympatlz-
prs there might easily lead to his conclusion But
what he had not taken into the fullest account
was that She majority of men in the North were
loyal tG the Union regardless politics or their
natural syu,pathies, ana they stood by Lincoln to
ihe end.
Was Real Self-Made Man. ,
If anyone were asked to name the most Illus
trious example of what we have called the self
made in ATerca. there would Instantly occur
fle name of Lincoln. In country of self-made
ncn,he stands in high relief. There is no one to
take place beside him. for not only did he over
every natural difficulty pInced in his way in
his determination to achieve education and
they Serc numerous, but along with IL ALWAYS
went that equally strong determination not ia
achieve success by any unfair means
He admitted that his education was "defective"
and that n weak word for it. Many men
with great deal have been failures. And
Lincoln had every opportunity of becoming fail
urc. but he realized his educational we, knesses
and strorr TO them. That he did remove
them seems to be testified to by many writer's
At one time-probably It is to ne seen there YET
'--'here exhibited in OF the colleges at