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DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OKBGON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1900.
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GREAT TRIBUTE
TO LINCOLN
OF WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN HE SAID,
"NO OTHER TWO GREAT MEN AS
GOOD AS THESE, NO OTHER TO GOOD
MEN AS GREAT"
United 1'rni Lcaiul Wire.
Hodgonvlllo, ICy., Fob. 12. Novor
nluco Appotomux lmvo the Uliio and
tlio Gray boon drawn ho cIoho to
gother In thu IioihIh of brotherhood
and ro-unlted patriotism uh tlioy woro
today whon President UoohqvoK,
standing on llio Hpot that 100 years
ago gavo to tho world ono of Its
greatest inon, dollvorod tho most re
markable nildroHH of IiIh career In
tho (iroHonco of a groat concourse of
iooilo. TIiIh ontliUHlMHtlo crowd rep
roiiontod ovory phiiHO of Amorlca'H
greatest struggle, forinor slaves to
Kothor with men who woro onco nlavo
holdorn, gathered to pay tribute to
tho memory of Abraham Lincoln.
Luko K. Wright, Hocrotary of wnr,
a Domocrat In a Itupubllcan cabinot,
a fortnor confodurato artillery man at
tho birthplace of tho loadur who di
rected tho campaigns that crushed
tho catiHo for which ho foiiKlit, Joined
In tho trlbuto to Lincoln') greatness
and appreciation of tho Kreat mirvlco
ho did humanity. Tho wordH of no
other Hioalur woro more sincere or
moro eloquent than thin forinoiiwnr
rlor of the Hoiithland who linn taken
mi prominent a poNltlon In the main
tenance of the Union.
Prominent In the crowd were 20
nogro oltlxeiiH, appointed by (lover
no r Wlllnou to nutriment their race
at tho proceeding. The Dumoeratla
and tho Ilopttblluau commtttooM oame
down from i.oiiIhvIUo together. to
uommlnglod that It watt Impossible to
huo any hIkiih of n division of any
kind In their ranks.
A chiiviih covorliiK had buun ar
nuiKod about the marblo momnrlnl,
wliluh viiuIohoh tho log onblu wbyro
Nanoy UankH brought the child of
dotitliiy Into tho world. Thuro woro
uconmmndutlons for 0000 parsons
but many moro than this numbor
woro on tho scono at day hrouk this
morning.
Oouorul Itogtir Williams of l.xinu
ton wiih tho chief iuuihul of tho day
and wan In uhaiga of th arrange
nieutM.
The tiroHlilautliU party was Moortgd
to tho wun nii)td unthutdaHtlu dinars.
ItuoHovult'H greatest reooplhm dur
ing a pollllool campaign wan lucking
in .prtwtiloii of iUp fettling wlinn
aummrd to bin unlvnl wr today.
Tho old ft rm with Km many fm
oiiH landmark Huomud to Iikvv ruind
M Itww erop of Amrlcn flNR. wliluh
wore In profusion virywhtr. Tha
Lincoln spring, nowr thw ewbln. whb
tliH (Miitttr of mueli Httonttou and It
wb diiHted Utmntifully in Hit uh
lluiml colors.
Joseph Wlngnhi Folk. Dniiiourtttlu
governor of Mltuuiurl, n president of
tho National Lincoln Farm Annota
tion, opoued tho coromonloB. lie was
followed by Governor Augustui B.
WUUon. Republican governor or Ken
tucky. Nttth paid high tribute to
Lincoln and WUUon. spunking for the
Htatu, said:
"He in claimed by tho world; Ken
tucky Is proud to have produced
him."
Thou Secretary of War Wright
voiced the sentiment of tho Krent,
broad-minded element of tho new
uouth and wan followed by President
Roosevelt, whoso, wonderful nddreus.
Nvhh tho crowning went of a most re
markable day thnt will take a high
liJaco iu history.'
llUhop Oallowpy. of Ml&altuilppl, do
llvored h bviiutlQil benediction. HU
rettonate voice, oejho offered tho fer
Vont prnyor for ho prtjaorvatlon of
tlto union Lincoln loved, held the
ftst crowd epoll bound, . Tho rtj
Bolemnlly of tho occaulon, tho high
ciharaotor of tho uj-oetHsdinK l tho
fur reauhlnu alRUlfleunco of tho
Kathcrlng, woro tnado moro npparont
In each mind. Tho fnmoiiB blohop'H
bonodlctlon at tho uatno time Rank
Into tho licartn of IiIh honrom. It
was n aobor-mindod, thankful, Htipro
inoly Jovial crown that Joined In tho
Keneral amen.
Tho permanent tribute of the
country to tho President who Iiiih tak
en IiIh po'oltlon bonlde that of tho
Kathor of tho Country, iih Kb deliv
erer had been dedicated fittingly and
with Hitch ceremony an Lincoln him
xolf liilKht havo cIioboii.
Tho l'n-whlent'H tipeccli.
Wo have mot horo to colebrnte
tho 100th annlvonary of tho birth
of ono of tho two greatest Amort
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leans; of one of tho two or three
greatest, men ui inu nuiuiceiiin cai-
ury; of ono of tho greatest men In
tho history of tho world. This rail
Hplittcr, this boy who passed his
ungainly youth In tho dire poverty
of tho poorest of tho frontier foik
who roso by weary and painful labor
lived to load Ills peopto through th;
burning flames of a struggle from
which tho nation emerged, purlflel
as by flro, born anew to a loftier Ufa
Aftor long years of iron effort, and
of failure that came moro often than
victory, ho at last torn to tho leader
ship of tho republic, nt tho momcU
whon tho leadership had become tho
ntupendous -vrorld-tastt of tho time.
Ho grow tp know greatness, but ne
or case, success come to hint, but
novor happlnc8, savo that which
springs from doing well n pahiiul
and a vital task. Power was hi), but
not pleasure. Tho furrowB doepc.iud
on his brow, but his eyes worj un
dl in mod by either hato or fen.'. 1 Its
gaunt shouldorn wore bowed, but Ins
stool thowa novor falt'.red as ho bore
for a burden tho destinies of hU peo
ple, IIIh great and tender heart
Hhrank from giving pain; nndtho tiulc
allotted him wnB to pour cut like
wator tho life-blood of tho young
men, and to fool in his ovcry libro
tho sorrow of tho women. Olsaitor
saddened but never iMsmaycd him.
Ab tho rod years of war wont by they
found him ever doing hip duty In tho
present, over facing the future with
foarlosH front, high of heart, and
dnuntlesB of soul, Unbroken by hut
red, unshaken by scorn, ho worked
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and suffored for tho people. Triumph
was his at laBt; nnd Inroly had he
tasted It before murdet found hitn,
nnd tho kindly, patient, fearless eyea
were closed forever.
Two of Uvo World's Greatest Men.
As a peoplo we aro Indeed bo
yond measure fortunate in tho chai-nctors-
of tho two greatest of our pub
lic men, Washington nnd Lincoln.
Widely though they differed In ex
ternals, tho Virginia landed gentle
men and the Kentucky backwooM-
man. they wore alike in essentials,
thoy wore alllco in tho great qualities' without any' of tho visionary's fanaf
whlch rendered each able to rondor'lclsrn or egotlsia, wlthdut any of the
service to his nation and to all miln-
kind, such as no other man of his'
generation could or did render. Each i
had lofty Ideals, but each In striving
to nttaln theso lofty Idenls was guid
ed by tho soundest common snnso
Each pos&CDsed Inflexible courage In
adversity, and a soul wWolly ur
spollcdby prosperity. Each posso9.eJ
all tho gontle virtues commonly x
hlbttcd by good men who lack rug
ged strongth of character. Each pos
sessed also nil tho strong quallfla.-
tlons commonly exhibited by Hi kc
towering masters of mankind who
havo too ofton shown themselves de
void of so much us th. understand
ing, of the wordB by which wo signify
tho niinllttos of duty, of mere, f
devotion to tho right, of lofty dlaln
torodnoss In battling for tho good of
others. Thoro have been othor men
as great, and othor mon ns good; but
In nil tho history of mankind thoio
nro no other two grcnt mon as good
as these, no other two good mon ns
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great. Widely though tho problentB
of today differ from the problems HPt
or solution to Washington when he
founded this nation, to Lincoln when
ho saved It and freed tho slave, yet
tho qualities they showed In mooting
those probldmo arc exactly the finite
aa thoso wo nhould show la doing
our work today. ,
Lincoln saw into tho future vltn
the prophetic lmngiha'tlo'hJ faunflv
vouchsafed .'only to tho poet and trie
seer. Ho had in him nil tho lift to-.
ward greatness of.' i tho , visionary,
visionary's narrow Jealousyof tho
practical man nnd Inability to strive
In practical fashion for the realzatfan
of an Ideal. He had tho practical
man's hard common sensp nnd will-
lno?s to adapt means, to ends; br.t
thoro was in him nono of that morbid
growth of mind nod soul which bltti'Is
so many practical mon to tho higher
things of life. No moro practical
man over lived than this hoineiy
backwoods Idealist; but ho had noth
ing In common with those prnctlcol
mon whose consciences nro warpnd
until they fall to distinguish between
good nnd ovll, fnll to undomund
that strongth, ability, shrcwdncao
whether in the world of business or
of politic), only serve to make their
possessor a moro noxious, a more evil
mombcr of the community, If thoy
aro not guided nnd controlcd by n
fine and high moral sense.
Must Follow IIIh KootMeps.
We of this day must try to sol'-e
ninny coclal and industrial problems
requiring to an especial degree- tho
combination of Indomitable revolu
tion with cool-headed sanity. We
enn profit by tho way in which Lin
coln used both these traits nB ho
strove for reform. , Wo, can learn
much of valuo from the very, nttneks
which following that course brought
upon his head, jit tacks alike, by the
extremists of rovoliutlpn andfby ilm
extremists of, reaction. Ho novr
wnvorcd in devotion to his principles,
In his love for tho Union, nnd In his
abhorrence or slavery. Timid ni.d
lukewnrm peoplo woro alwnyn de
nouncing him becnuse ho was too ex
treme; but ns n matter of fact he
novor went to oxtromes, ho worked
step by step; and becnuse of this tho
oxtromlstB tinted and donounccd hi in
with a forvor which now Hooms to tit
fnntnstlc in Ita dolllcntlon of tho u.i
roal and tho impossible. At tho votv
time when ono sldo was holding him
up ni tho npostlo of social revolution
bocnuBo ho was ngaintt slavery, the
loading abolitionists donouncod him
nn tho "slave hound of Illinois."
When he wns tho socond tlmo candi
date for Prosldont, tho mnjorltv of
his opponents attacked him bccinuo
of what they tormod his extromo rnd
Icallini, whllo a minority thro..onoj
to bolt his nomination bocauso he was
not radical enough. Ho had cou'li
ually to cheek thoso who wlshol to
go forward too fast, at tho vory
time that ho ovorrode tho opposition
of thos who wished not to go Vjr
ward nt all. Tho goal was novor dim
before hl vision; bit he picked hut
way cautiously, without olthor hau
or hurry, a, he strode toward Ii.
through a mornae of dlttloulty tfit
no man of logs oourago would hate
nttomptcd It, while it would uroly
have ovorwhelmod any man of judg
ment loss serene.
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High Grade Teas
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His Inllnlte CTinrlty.
Yet perhaps tho most wonderful
thng of all, and, from the standpoint
of tho America of today and of the
future, the most vitally Important,
wns tho oxtraordinnry way in which
Lincoln could fight valiantly ngvJpat
what hedecmed wrong and yet pro
served undiminished his love and re- "
sped for the brother from whom ho
differed. In tho hour of a triumphs
that would have turned any weakrr
man's licacT, In tho heat of a struggle
which Spurred many a good'maiT'ft0
dreadful vindlctivcncBS, ho said
truthfully that so long ns Ho liatt been "
in his office he had1 never willingly
plantod a thorn in, any man's bosom,
and besought his supporters to qtudy
tho Incidents of tho trlnl through
which they were passing as philoso
phy from which to lenrn wisdom, and
not ns wrongs to bo avenged; ending
with tho solemn exhortation that, hi
tho strlfo wns over, all should re
unite In a common effort to snvo
their common country.
Ho lived In dnys that were great
and terrible, whon hrothor fought
ngnlnst brother for whnt each sln
corely deemed to bo tho right. In a
contest so grim tho strong men who
alone can carry It through nro rarely
able to do Jfustlco to tho deep convic
tions of those with whom thoy grap
ple In mortal strlfo. At such times
men see through a glass darkly; to
only the rarest nnd loftiest spirits Is
couchsnfed that clear vision which
grndunlly comes to nil, cv;n to tho
lesser, ns tho struggle fndes Into dis
tance,, nnd woundB nre forgotton, nnd
pence creeps back to the hearts that
were hurt. Hut to Lincoln wns glvon
thlB supreme vision. Ho did not hatn
thc man from whom he differed.
Weakness was ns forolgn ns wicked
ness to his strong, gcntlo nntu.ro; nut
h's courage was of a quality so high
thnt It needed no bolstering of dark
paslon. Hcj ww clqaly that the
same hlgli qiialltlestho snmo cour
age, and?wi)llhgncB8 for self-sacrifice
and devotion to the right ns 't wis
given them to seo the right, belonged
both to tho mon of tho North and to
tho men of tho South. As tho years
roll by, and as all of us, wherever wa
dwell, grow to feel nn equal prldo In
the valor and solf-dovotlon, nliko or
the mon who woro tho bluo and the
mon who wore the grny, so this whole
nation will grow to feel n peculiar
sonso of pride In a mnn whoso blood
was shed for his UnloNi, his people
nn dfor tho freedom of the race; the
lover of his country nnd nil mankind
nnd the mightiest of mighty "men
who mastered tho mighty days
Abrnhnm Llncol ,n
Do Witt's Littlo E.rly RIsorB, gen
tie, .rnfy, plenNtnt, littlo llvor pills
Sold by nil r'n-gglsti.
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Mrs. A. Doty wont to Newport Inst
night to tnke n two-weeks outing.
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For thnt Terrible Itching.
Eozema. tettor and wit rhoura keap
their victims in perpetual tc-rmen. An
application of Chamberlain's Salvo '
will Instantly allay this itching, and
many cases have been cured by ita
uso. For twlo by Dr. Stone'a Drug
8toro.
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