Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-31

him out all right"
Rejecting now on the lampooning
and needless attack and unjustifiable
abuse which bruised his heart and test
ed his patience, we may accept its ex-
preston as one of the abused privi-
leges under popular government when
passion sways and bitterness inspires,
but for which there is compensation in
the assurance that when men have
their feet firmly planted in the right.
and do the very best they can and
keep on doing it, they come out all
right in the end. and all the storm
does not amount to anything.
HE rose to colossal stature in a
day of imperilled union. He first ap-
pealed and then commanded and left
the Union secure and the nation sup
RENE His was q leadership, for q
great crisis. made loftier because of
the inherent righteousness of his cause
and the subiimity of his own faith.
Washington inspired belief in the re
public in it's heroic beginning: Lincoln
proved its quality in the heroic preser-
walton. The old world had wondered
about the new world experiment and
was quite ready to proclaim its futility
when the civil war was threatening;
but Lincoln left the Union unchalleng-
ed for all succeeding time. Not only
was our nation given a new birth of
freedom, but democracy was given a
new sanction by that hand of divinity
itself which has written the rights of
human kind and pointed the way to
their enjoyment.
Says Not S%upreman.
abraham Lincoln was no superman.
Like the great Washington whose
monumental shaft towers nearby as q
fit companion to the memorial we de-
dicate today, the two testifying the
grateful love of all Americans to
founder and saviour-like Washington,
Lincoln was a very natural human be
ing. with the frailties mixed with the
of humanity. There are neither
superman nor demi-gods in the gov
eminent of kingdoms, empires or re-
1t will be better for our con-
of government and its insti-
if we will understand this fact.
1t is vastly greater than finding the
superman il we Justify the confidence
that our institutions are capable OF
into authority in time of stress
nending enough and strong enough to
meet all demands.
washington and Lincoln offered
outstanding proof that a representative
government constitutionally
can find its way to salvation
accomplishment. In the very be-
u American people turned to
Washington, the %aristocrat, for leader
ship in revolution and the great task
# founding permanent institutions.
The wisdom of Washington and JEFF
'erson and Hamilton and Franklin was
,roven when Lincoln, the child of
,rivation, of hardship, of barren en-
vironment and meager opportunity,
'ose to unquestioned leadership when
Iisunion threatened.
OF Simple Percentage
Lincoln came almost as humbly as
child of Bethlehem. His parents
rere uhlettered, his home was devoid
f every element of culture and re-
inement. He was no infant prodigy,
o luxury affected or privilege hasten
d his development. but he had a God
intellect. a love for work, a will
ngness to labor and a purpose to sue
eed.
photographers differ about his ambi-
ion, but Hernzon, who knew him as
i'd no other, says he was greatly
/ can believe that. Ambition
q c~ommendable attribute. without
'hich no man succeeds. Only incon-
ambition perils.
Lincoln was modest but he was
ure of himself and always greatly
Therein was his appeal to the
onfidence of his country. When he be-
eyed he was right. a nation believed
i'm to be right, and offered all in
is support.
Greatest Of Presidents
His work was so colossal in the face
such encouragement, that none will
spute that he was incomparably the
,eatest of our presidents. He came to
lthority when the republic was beset
foes at home and abroad, and re-
union and security. He made |