Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-08-03
TELEPHONE NUMBER NINE
ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND PRESENT
DAY PROBLEMS

Many OF the words of wisdom given us by Abraham
Lincoln three quarters OF a century ago are applicable
to present day problems, according to DIR. John Wesley
fll VINO writes convincingly on the subject in the cur
rent issue of the National Republic under the caption
Abraham Lincoln of Today" In part DIR. Hill saws:
"a few years ago while spending a day in Washing
ton, | met that quaint, striking, almost g~rotesque figure
IN American politics, Hon. Joseph G. Cannon. 1t was
the night before his retirement from official life.
In the course of our conversation, | said, Uncle Joe.
you and | have discussed many of the problems of the
day, but we seem to have neglected the question of relig-
ION. DO you object to telling me just what your religion.
IS" jerking his stogy from his lips, and exuding a COL
umn of smoke from his mouth, he exclaimed, Not at all. +
am proud OF my religion. 1t is simply this. | believe that
when God Almighty organized this big corporation
known as humanity, He issued its capital stock, and is
responsible for the maintenance of its parity, and I'll be
hanged if | will part with my holdings in a panic
THAT was the gospel of st. Joseph. It was likewise
the gospel of Father Abraham, who in his early manhood
confronted with a crisis which jeopardized his health and
peace OF mind, took up his pen and wrote a letter to his
friend Joshua Speed in which he said: MY text lust now
is stand still and see the salvation of Sod
1T was faith in the eternal which steadied Abraham
Lincoln IN the midst Of the storm through which he was
passing and made him patient, expectant and serene.
IF he were here today he would transcribe the inscrip-
ton on our coin to the economic sky and write it there
IN letters of living fire: In God We Trust God and
country were the anchors which held him. What is good
in the sight Of God?' What is good before the law?' he
asked and answered because of his kinship with the truth,
his faith in the right, his repose in the great spiritual
realities.
His ideals and principles are our most sacred, en-
riching patrimony.
"f we neglect this inheritance it will fall into alien
hands. The representatives of agitation and revolution
are attempting to appropriate it. There are over three
hundred revolutionary publications in this country which
are continually invoking the words of Lincoln in %iustifi-
cation of their pernicious cause.
"Lincoln himself anticipated this distortion of his
memory, when he said upon one occasion, IF l should be
found dead tomorrow, nothing but my obscurity would
prevent a speech being made upon my authority before
the end of the week.
"That prophecy is fulfilled today in shameful misuses
of Lincoln's name, in fragmentary and mutilated QUOTA
tons of his words, in misapplication of his principles, in
grotesque limitations of his democracy, in d~emagogic
s~trutting in his livery, and in shocking caricatures of his
character.
''The hour is opportune, therefore, for a Lincoln Rem
aissance, a revival of his letters, a return to the principles
for which he lived and died, Government of the people,
for the people and by the people, the divine right of
liberty in man, the integrity of the Constitution, the maj
esty of the law, equality before the law, religious toler-
ance, racial amity, the substitution of the Golden Rule
for the rule of gold, "A just and lasting peace among our
selves and all nations and the solution of every problem
with malice toward none and charity for all and with
firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right"
A $4,000 building to house All Beverly Ann Driscon of Ashland,
club bows and girls will he erected Wis, high school has been neither