The Dolores star., 1923-02-09

Lincoln, who to Massachusetts from Eng
land in 1887. And the Lincolns were Il sturdy fam
lily. There was Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln C733-
1870. who received Lord Corvallis sword In
surrender at Yorktown. Enoch Lincoln Q7SS-
1929 was governor of Maine, 1929. Levi Lin.
coin Q7491S2O) was United States attorney gen.
eral 1sO1-5. Another Levi Lincoln Q7S2-1S6s) was
governor of Massachusetts 1S25-34 and member of
congress 1854.
Abraham Lincoln's Immediate ancestors chose
to go pioneering New England was too settled
for them. They were of the type of American pio-
neer who moved on as soon he neighbors
smoke or heard his dog bark. In the depths of the
wilderness, ever working westward, they Became
what the world calls poor and obscure. II should
be remembered, however. that poverty and OBJ
scurity are one thing in the city and entirely
different thing in the wilderness pioneer with
rifle and AK. roof over his head and crop in
the ground is neither poor nor obscure.
Lincoln cathedral is of the finest in Eng
land. 1t was in process of erection from 1915 to
1901. 1t is of early English architecture and is
524 by 50 feet. with matchless central tower 271
feet high. The cathedras famous bell Great
Tom of Lincoln weighs about 5h tons. The north
gate of Lindum Coonia still stands and is the only
Roman gate in Britain still in use. Not far away
is Boston. the mother of our Boston.
What Lincoln and Lincolns birthday mean to
the English-speakng nations of earth cannot be
better said than was said by Elihu Root at the
presentation of the Saint-Gaudens statue Of Lin.
coin, the gift of America to the British people He
said, among other things:
PUT aside superficial difference accidental md
unimportant and Abraham Lincoln appears In the
simple greatness Of his lIfe his character and his
service to mankind, n representative of the deep
and underlying qualities of his race-the qualities
that great emergencies reveal. unchanglngly the
same In every continent; the qualities to which
Britain owed her life in the terrible wears of tbe
last decade; the qualities that have made both
Britain and America great. He was of English
blood, and he has brought enduring honor to the
name. Every child of English sires should learn
the story and think with pride, of such stuff as
this English made
"He was imbued with the conceptions of Justice
and liberty that the people of Britain had been
working out in struggle and sacrifice since before
and Burke and Franklin and Washington stood TO.
gether. a century and n half ago when the bntt,o
for British liberty was fought and won for Britain
well as for America on the other side of the
Atlantic. These conceptions of justice and liberty
have been the formative that has brought all
America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific to order
its life according to the course of the common
law, to assert Its popular sovereignty through ron
resentative government-Brtan's great pift IN the
political science of the world-and to establish tho
relation of individual citizenship to the state nm
the basis of inaenabe rights which governments
established to secure 1t Is the Identity of thasa
fundamental conceptions in both countries which
makes it impossible that in any great world
emergency Britain and America can be on onnos
ing sides These conceptions of justice and libertv
are the breath Of life for BOTH