The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-02-21

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that Of Abraham Lincoln 1t is with a
feeling Of regret that / realize that
lack the capabilities of Demosthenes
which | should possess in order to pay
a proper mead Of tribute. realize
and feel how unequal l am to perform
the great task, for can / by words or
phrases in any measure create a word
picture of the beauty Of the morning
sun, whose benefcent rays revivify
and purify this earth of ours. The sun
that causes the flowers, mute messen-
gers Of Heaven, to spring forth in all
their beauty to delight mans sense
and growing bearded grain, teeming
with natures life to sustain man and
to give to living, virile beings, strength
and impetus to perform their duties in
life, or to picture by mere words the
moon, queen of the night, that covers
this wonderful land of ours with its
silvery sheen, adding lustre and beauty
to the waters, the mountains, the val
leys, the hills and the dales, or de-
scribe the artistry of the sculptor,
who, from the broad slab of marble
delicately reproduces the outlines Of
beautiful manhood and womanhood, or
the cunning and genius Of the artist
who, upon the bare canvas with color
and brush, reproduces all that delights
our sense in nature, than to in any
measure picture or reproduce in the
minds Of you, my hearers, the wonder
full thought, the wonderful character,
the broad individuality, the reproduc-
ton Of Gods thought and the wonder
full results Of the acts and doings
Of the great emancipation Of Gods
children. A man of the people, that
sprang from the people, a man who
had experience with pain and vicissi-
tude, hardship and disappointment,
that spoke to the world at large with
the authority of one, who himself had
sacrificed and suffered. Need / picture
to you this boy, part of the pioneers
and advance guard Of a nations great
ness? Need picture to you that boy,
reared in log cabin, his training OBJ
tanned in the hardest Of schools, bat
ting and fighting with poverty and
adversely, striving with every effort to
obtain a knowledge of the people
around him and Of the actual world
itself?
OF the early life Of Lincoln much
has been said. OF his early struggles
we have knowledge, but the greatest
thought and analyzation Of interest Of
the moment are the results of the
duties he performed SO we'll. That
duty to God, to country and to hui
manity No tribute to Lincoln could
possibly be finished or complete did
it not contain some allusion and some
thought as to the progress, the present
position and the future Of the people
that he sacrificed even life itself in
their behalf. And what greater record
can man leave behind to posterity than
he gave his life for the benefit Of his
brother?
A few years ago as we reckon time
in this broad land of ours, under a
rule Of government called its Constitu-
ton, that was instituted to secure the
blessings Of liberty to the humankind,
there existed under that Constitution
which gave the lie to their provisions
and belied the promise that the Con-
sritution made, and / picture 4 people
that by the rule Of the stronger were
forcibly taken possession Of, dragged
from their country, their land, their
homes, their wives and children, and
all that was near and dear to them,
and placed in land without their con-
sent, that was foreign to their ideas,
to force them to toll and labor for the
benefit Of the superior power, and that
power not treating them as servants,
but merely a. chattelss on a par and
on a level with the animal. AT this
time, that is over silky years ago, a
mere moment in the progress Of time
Of today, there appeared a man il
some measure believed that the gov
eminent Of this nation should keep