Arizona republican., 1922-05-31
Nationality Supreme
Chapter in American
History, Says Harding

'.No leader was ever more unspar-
/ ingly criticized or more bitterly as
| sailed. He was lashed by angry
| tongues and ridiculed in press and
| speech until he drank from as bit
| ter a cup as was ever put to human
| lips, but his faith was unshaken and
| his position never exhausted. Some
one sent me recently an illumined
and framed quotation which fell from
his lips when the storm OF criticism
was at its height:
If / were trying to ID" he
said much less answer all the at
tacks made on me, this shop might
as well be closed for any other busi-
ness. do best l know how, the best,
very best / can, and / mean on keep
ing to the end, if the end brings me
out all right, what is said against me
will not amount to anything. If the
end brings me out all wrong, ten
angels swearing I was right would
make no difference
Realized Success
"He knew Of course, before the as
sassin robbed him of fuller realiza-
ton, that the end was bringing him
out all right. He knew when swords
were sheathed and guns laid down,
that the union he saved was riveted
anew and made forever indissoluble.
He knew he had freed race of
bondmen and had given to the world
the costly proof of the perpetuity of
the American union. But I cannot
restrain the wish that he might
somehow know of the monuments to
his memory throughout the world,
and that we are dedicating today on
behalf of a grateful nation this
matehless memorial. whose forty
eight columns, representing forty
eight states in the concord of union,
testify that the end brought him out
all right
"Reflecting now on the lampooning
and needless attack and unjustifiable
abuse which bruised his heart and
tested his patience, we may accept
its expression as one of the abused
privileges under popular government,
when passion sways and bitterness
inspires but for which there is COM
pensation 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. .
Tile rose to colossal stature in
day of imperilled union. He first ap-
pealed, and then commanded. and left
the union secure and the nation su-
preme. His was a leadership for a
great crisis, made loftier because Of
the inherent righteousness of his
cause and the sublimity of his own
faith. Washington inspired belief in
the republic in its heroic beginning;
Lincoln proved it's quality in the
heroic preservation. The old world
had wondered about the new world
experiment and was quite ready to
proclaim it's futility when the Civil
war was threatening; but Lincoln
left the union unchallenged for all
succeeding time. Not only was our
nation given new birth of freedom,
but democracy was given new sane
tion by that hand of divinity itself
which has written the rights of hui
man kind and pointed the way to
their enjoyment.
abraham Lincoln was no super
man. Like the great Washington,
whose monumental shaft towers
nearby as a fit companion to the
memorial we dedicate today, the two
testifying the grateful love Of all
Americans to founder and savior
like Washington, Lincoln was a very
natural human being. with the