Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19

| ton to principle. Issues come and go,
| but the essence of wise craftsmanship
never changes. The one right way of
| dealing with public questions is the way
that was exemplifled by Lincoln in war
and in peace"
Studying the evidence OF the martyr
| Presidents own time, the Topeka Daily
| Capital offers the comment on the po-
sition that he held: with all allow
ances made for his defects, Lincoln to-
day remains hero and worthy of his
| place in the hero worship in which peo-
pie commonly delight. Stanton's often
quoted tribute in the solemn hour of
, Lincoln's death, Now he belongs to the
ages stands as the judicious estimate
of a man of high ability and character
with exceptional opportunities for meas
uring Lincoln's greatness. who had been
not many years earlier one Of his most
contemptuous detractors."
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Quoting former President Coolidge's
statement as to Washington, Il see the
Monument still stands" the Pasadena
| Star-News concludeS so one might
| look at that noble Memorial to Abra-
ham Lincoln over there on the banks
of the Potomac and eXclaim. I see the
Lincoln Memorial still standS' And SO
! it will stand and will be national
shrine-a retreat for generating this il
lustrious American long after Edgar Lee
Masters is forgotten"
Gould petty politician, mere pet
tifogging lawyer" asks the GAINESVILLE
Gazette, have made the Cooper Union
speech that brought to Lincoln's sup
port the cultured minds of the East?
! Could he have written that first inau-
gural address or the Gettysburg speech?
| The grafton of that Gettysburg day, de-
livered by one of the most profound
orators of the times, Edward Everett.
has long ago been forgotten, but that
mastery piece of English language, de-
| livered by a tired and haraSsed Presi-
dent, will live as long as this language
is spoken"
"He has become a symbol of the average
mans hopes for day when all will
be we'll with the world" holds the Lit
tie Rock Arkansas Democrat, while the
Passaic Herald asserts that "he rose, as
few men might have risen, to meet re-
sponsibility," and the South Bend
Tribune sees "his enshrinement in the
American heart" The Cincinnati Times
Star thinks "he won his place in his
tory and in the affections of mankind
by his keen understanding, his clear
vision, his inexhaustible patience, his
tenderness, his gift of laughter and
tears, his humanity and his humility"
eff he never did anything but utter
the Gettysburg speech" argues the
Chattanooga News, Ibis life would not
have been in vain. Masters admits that
he did compose the Gettysburg speech
POLITICALLY. although claiming that the
ideas were borrowed. 1t will do Lincoln
good to have his clay feet exposed. That
there were clay feet is undeniable. But
it is important that 1t also be remem-
bered that there was more to Lincoln
than clay feet. There was real ability
to keep the Union safe"
I'VE should be glad" suggests the
Dayton Daily News, ito be brought back
to the ground with the great Lincoln
that really was. not a superman to
whom everything comes easy. but man
| like the rest of us, weak and erring. but
possessed of a sense of truth and a
persistency of courage which led him
| to the goal which proved his greatness.
There is more inspiration in the, strug-
Cling, laundering. persevering Lincoln
of reality than In the most monumental
Lincoln Of our myths"