The Dolores star., 1921-02-04

ASHINGTON-Fifty-fv years ago
NEvT the 10Th of February George
VRA/ 4 Bancroft, the historian, before
/ " 4 joint session of the two houses of
congress and in the presence of one
of the distinguished assembly
(N 81 "a of visitors that came together
NSP MN In the house Of representatives de-
\QIpIW1W lvered eulogy on Abraham Lin
MEH4TJ coin. who had been assassinated in
llEWM1 April of the previous year, ip which
WIKNM he said two things that have lived:
'UF - THAT God rules in the affairs or
men is certain any truth OF
physical science On the great moving power
which Is from the beginning hangs the world
of results and the result of thought and action.
Eternal wisdom marshas the great procession OF
the nations, working in patient continuity through
the ages, never halting and never abrupt. encom-
passing all events in its oversight, and ever effect
ing It's will though nations may sumber In apathy
oppose with Madness.
1--WE build monuments to the dead but no monu-
ments of victory
Preserved in the Congressional Library with
these quotations is the verse from an old hymn
which Lincoln often quoted
Supreme in wisdom and in power
The Rock of Ages stands:
And trace eis'd the NV WORKING of HIS hand hands,"
The great Memorial Monument to Lincoln has
just been completed. 1t is a monument. Ban
croft said il would be- to the dead and not
monument OF victory. In no way does II even
suggest anything but love for the vanquished. The
South has gladly helped pay for it and the
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 Soutii-erases the
last remnants of hate mistrust that had con-
tinued TO find abiding place.
II reflects the thought that through the
second inaugural address of Lincoln and was
summed up in the peroraton of that address:
with malice toward none; with charity for
all; with firmness in the right as God gives us to
see the right let us strive to finish the work
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 this monument when
the cherry trees in the park surrounding 1t
blooming. The date has not been fixed but 1t
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
coin should be he believed that 1t should be
composed of four events: a statue of the man, a
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 1t 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 arranged that 1t becomes an integral
part OF the whole, In order to attain unity and
simplicity In the appearance of the monument
Each feature mpresses the behoder 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 OF of the
second inaugural address, and the other of Ehe
shown in incised letters on monumental
tablet. and adjacent low reliefs, decorations
relate In allegory Lncoln's great qualities evident
in those speeches. While these memorials can
be from any part of the hall tht par
TALLY screened from the central portion where
the statue is placed by means Of row of Ionic
columns giving a 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 will always
have q far greater meaning to the citizens the
United States and visitors from other cousries
than q portrayal Of periods Of events by means
Of decoration. In this connection. however, he
carried out the view that some reiiefs and deeo-