The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-13
Outpouring Of Keokuk People
to Do Honor to Beloved
President Of Civil
War Times.
MEN OF THREE WARS
Good Addresses and Music, an
Auditorium Crowded to
Doors, Witness Appre-
citation Of Keoklk.

Keokuk had a remarkable memorial
to the life and work OF Abraham Lin
coin last evening, with an outpouring
| OF people and an excellent program of
patriotic and ,appreciative analysis OF
| the life and times Of the great eman-
| cipator.
| Cameron's hall was crowded from
| the stage to the doors last night at the
I. Lincoln celebration, given under the
auspices of Terrence post, Grand
Army of the Republic, and the Wom-
lan's Relief Corps.
Captain A. H Evans, past depart
iment commander of iowa, presided
land there were represented on the pro-
gram the veterans of three wars-the
civil war, the Spanish-American and
1.-THE world war. Captain Evans said:
For democratic, peace-loving
people such as we are in America, 1t
lis strange coincident to present
program, on which appears the par
Elephants Of three wars, as we have
tonight"
yhe program opened by singing The
Star Spangled banner led by double
Quartet composed of Miss Martha
Baldwin, Miss Caroline Baldwin, Mrs.
william C. Howell, Mrs. e. M. Han
son, James Young, Howard w. Wood,
DIR. M. c., Van de Venter and C. w.
Dickinson, with Miss Cathryn Reidy
at the piano.
Rev. W. S. D. Lamonte. rector of
ST. Johns Episcopal church. gave the
invocation.
Tho Good In War.
Hazen / Sawyer was the first speak
er of the evening and was introduced
las a revolutionary descendant, son
Of civil war veteran, and one who
would have been Spanish war vet
eran If the examining surgeon had not
been so critical in the matter of near
sightedness. Mr.. Sawyer said in part:
''It is always great pleasure to
speak b1lore the Grand Army Of the
Republic, because they lived through
the scenes which taught lessons we
should all know, lessons of national
unity and national integrity.
GAS a people we are prone to drift
and 1T takes a war 70 bring us back
to our national moorings. trust that
/ 1.-THE present war will do as much for
this generation as the civil war did
] for it's generation.
THE United States was in the be-
: ginning an experimelt in government
Students of history and practical poll.
iticians of the old world said it could
not long survive. But we have proven
, that under proper governmental con
: troll and following the principles laid
tout in our constitution, it is possible
!, for republic to live SO long as it is
= true to democratic ideals.
Y he 1nn OF n
:. for this nation to take up arms in
q I191I as compared with the time taken
: Iby Abraham Lincoln in 1861.
L When Lincoln Called t oArrs.
> Lincoln was inaueurated March 4
:, 1861. and on April ~, following, For'
Sumpter was fired on. In three days
oo.lhe called for 5000 men to put down
. the instruction. On the next July 4
:. The called congress in special session
= and put to them this question:
\ cit presents to the whole family Of
! imam the question whether a constitu
: itional republic, or democracy-a gov
), eminent of the people by the people
can or can not maintain it's territorial
Integrity against it's own domestic
= foes. 1t presents the question wheth
er disconnected individuals, too few II
numbers to control administration &C
cordirlg to organic law in any case. car
: always, upon the pretenses made II
fhis case. or on any other prettNses
or arbitrarily without any pretes-e
= break I'D their government and thus
practically put an end to free govern
ment upon the earth. 1t forces us tt
ask. is there in all republics this in
iherent and fatal weakness? Must {
l. government of necessity be too strons
S for the liberties of its own people o.
S too weak to maintain its own exist
ence|
< History tells how the people re
> sponded to Lincoln's call and how the
u finsurrecion was put down.
6 The Contrast Of Time.
= Contrast that with the condition!
= in the past four years. War really
q broke oft in the United States in 1914
= Factories were blown up, property de
!. stroyed. strikes fomented, the Lusit
: ania sunk with hundreds of innocen
people on board, scores Of other ship;
were sunk and yet we elected a presi
: dent on the platform he kept us on
!, of war
= "For two years and eight months