The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-11

The great Memorial Monument to Lincoln has
Just been completed. 1t is monument as Ban
croft said it would be- to the dead and not a
monument of victory. In no way does it even
suggest anything but love for the vanqushed. The
South has gladly helped to pay for it and the
men and women in that section Of the country
have watched it rise with increasing pride. One
may we'll say that its completion marks the final
union of the North and the South-erases the
last remnants of hate mistrust that had
tinued to find abiding place.
r 1t reflects the thought that through the
second inaugural address of Lincoln and was
summed up in the peroration of that address:
+ "With malice toward none; with charity for
all with frmness in the right God gives us to
see the right, let us strive to finish the work
we are in, to bind up the nations wounds, to
care for him who shall have borne the battle, and
for his widow and his Orphan-to do all which
may achieve and cherish just and lasting peace
among ourselves and with all nations"
The nation will dedicate sthis monument when
the cherry trees in the park surrounding 1t are
blooming. The date has not been fixed, but it
will be in early spring. 1t will undoubtedly be
one of the notable events in the history of the
nations capital.
Plan Of Memorial
Henry Bacon, architect of New York city, who
designed the memorial, says that from the be-
ginning of his study of what memorial to Lin
composed of four events statue of the man.
memorial of his Gettysburg speech, a memorial
of his second inaugural address, and the symbol
of the union Of the United States, which Lincoln
said It was his paramount object to save-and
which he did save. This idea has been strictly
carried out. Each feature is related to the
other by means of its design and position, and
each is so arranged that it becomes an integral
part Of the whole In order to attain unity and
simplicity in the appearance of the monument
Each feature impresses the beholder with its
greatest force and by means of isolation this is
accomplished though this isolation was not
planned to the extent of impairing the relation
of each feature to the others.
The most important object is the statue of
Lincoln, which is placed in the center Of the
memorial This position of the memorial where
the statue is placed is not occupied by any other
object that might detract from its effectiveness,
and the visitor finds himself alone with the
statue.
Each of the smaller halls opening off of the
center space contains memorial-one Of the
second inaugural address, and the other of the
Gettysburg address. These speeches are
shown in incised letters on monumental
tablet and adjacent low reefs, or decorations
relate In allegory Lincolns great qualities evident
in those speeches. While these memorials can
be seen from any part of the hall they are par
TALLY screened from the central portion where
the statue is placed by means of row of Ionic
columns giving certain isolation to the space
they occupy and augmenting thereby their i'm
portance. Architect Bacon believes that these
two great speeches made by Lincoln viii always
have far greater meaning to the citizens of the
United States and visitors from other countries
than portrayal of periods of events by means
of decoration In this connection, however. he
carried out the view that some reliefs and deco