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lioni and decent wage and brought In a great mass pi
ignorant foreign labor. Lol the deacendanta ol this
exploited group arc the strikers of the present, ami the
polk) of Prick is the policy of Judge Gary today. How
i.ir have we progressed in industrial policies since 1892?
Are we not rather going round in a vicious circle?
We ead much today of the need ot the early
teaching of history, but little pi the necessity for that
history to be broad and impartial, to omit prejudice and
sectional hatred from its pages; and it is only through
the teaching of such history that true knowled.ee of the
world'! eventi can come. All will admit that there
are unfair laws, that the right of one day may become
the wrong of another; but if youthful thought is to be
commandeered and shackled, if present law is to be
mad supreme for all time, how can thought grow and
evolve better laws? How futile it is to demand "respect
and obedience to the President" ! Any teacher knows
that the only way to obtain respect and obedience
from the young is to de
serve mat rcspcti uiu
obedience. A mere out
ward demand brings lip
service only, and that is
not the service that we
wish from the future citi
zens of our country. ln
d r the proper laws and
with the proper judgment
ot our adult citizenship,
the Presidentl of our
country will be deserving
of respect in the future as
they have been in the past.
Our Washingtons, Jeffer
son, Lincolns, our Cleve
land!, McKinleys, Roose
velt! and Wilson! have all
been deserving of respect
and loyalty and are there
fore enshrined in the
hearts of our youth. If
our future meaurcs up to
our past, our children will
nnt have to be coerced into
respect and obedience of
our chief magistrates
We should turn to
fighting the menace of a
restricted and kept educa
tion, as it were, such as is
represented by so many of
our corporation schools
throughout the country.
Exuberance and creative
enthusiasm .should be the
soul f true labor, and
such can c 0 m e o n 1 y
through freedom and self
respect, through the jeal
ous watchfulness of the
laborer fr his personal
rights and justice. Such
laborers can come only
through proper education.
It must be the kind of
education that Walt Whit
man pleaded for "an
education for life, im
mense in passion, pulse
and power. Cheerful, for
freest action formed un
der laws divine." It must
be an education that passe!
beyond the fragile reason
of men's minds to their
passioi . their passion for
truth, fur justice, for hu
manity. It must be the
suit of education that
Anat li France pleads for
"The Awakening of the
universal conscience of
mankind." It is in this
ethical and emotional edu
cation, an education that
arouses the heart and soul,
that our future hope lies.
Such an education is the
most glorious tak of man
kind and it is the only
hope that keeps us from
despair for tin- future of
humanity. It was such an
ed Sti n that Abraham
Lin i tin had Abraham
Lincoln who so often sad
ly declared that he had
had no education. But in
the poverty of his child
h od he learned sympathy
: i r the po r. In the great
teachings of his mother
and in his sutYering over
her death, when but a lad
of t n. he learned that true
greatness came not from
material wealth, but from
the soul. In his early
manhood-love for Ann
RutledgC he learned the
' lUty of purity and the
immortality of all good.
Women had a great in
flu nee upon his life. "All
that I am r eve r hope to
be. I owe to my angel
mother," he once stat d.
When a man of fiftv.
borm d wfl by tin- w ight
of a nation'! war trouble,
he declared to a friend
that his love for Ann
RutledgC and her ideals
had been on of tin
..i,t11, imvii'is o! his hte
i mi1. i snoken oi
And though much ot
his wiu. Mar)
know that often
Lincoln. w
viser am
t had some of the
man.
he
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the Bible, Hunyati
kh s, .ill oi them
cimcs.
through literature- -the literature ot tn
"Pilgrim's Progrc!S,M and Aesop 8 Ka
great
art and great
idealism iccm! to
it mi tli.it todav. when
1 haw received it! death blow. Lincoln, the great idea
lit. is ct before us in the apotheosis Ol at
him in poetry, itatuary am
rf t hi- u ar. acm
drama.
I anclsa
e nave
In the ver) pe-
" Abraham l-in-
KlUIlIIMC Ol O'v .1'. ...v..v .
coin's Walks at Midnight." picturing the great hearted
lV,o.1,M,t :.s naciim un and down the streets before the
ot spirit over me moo m, v
For tiie last two
breathu ss
Illinois capital in agony
th.. ii:ir.tnni vvnr Id. IMIIU' to US
year! London has been watching nightl w
interest the Stages of Abraham Lincoln's great ItrUfl
,,, the Civil War. as depicted m John Drinkwiter.
pa3 And John 1 nnk water's play was Written irom
I ,,,,1 i harnwood'f History of Lincoln which car out
but a tew yean ago.
Strange that to great a delineation of our
Vmerican should have been given by Englishmei i
Strange that all ol London should have ,
an unknown !uburhan theater to its utmost limi
two years to witness the story of another (.
struggle.
Strange that at Mich a moment the statue of
country'! statesman should be unveiled in the gt
manufacturing center of EnglandManchester, .
tli.it statesman's speeches should be quoted so ol
the public utterances ol England! present da) I
V d now John I M ink w ater's "Lincoln" h,,
to America and is being played before c:
houses in Vw Vork and elsewhere.
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test
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ROBERT TODD LINCOLN
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But because he is Lincoln's
son he hi
INCOLN'S son still lives, a link with the past
l i. V i l mnQ C(),ls,si(,y Kept nimselt outside the wide circle of I iff hi
which shines around his father's name. Others have written for us the life of I incoln and
Others have interpreted his spirit. But some have always felt that Robert T I incoln krew
us lather best, because he was a growing boy when his fath.T was an obscure lllinoii
lawyer Lincoln junior was burn in 1843, when Abraham Lincoln was a comparatively vounff
man of 34, and had been ! practicing lawyer only six years, and a married man one year
ihe son was IS years old when his father made the afterward famous "house divided
against itself speech. He was 17 years old when the Cooper Union Speech was made He
followed his fathers footsteps in the law, but by an easier path, going to Harvard I ?m
Scnoot- He left his studies to serve as a captain on th, staff of X (,,-ant and ffei tl
war resumed his law studies, being admitted to the bar two vea.s .ut.r his father wa
assassinated Once he was mentioned for the Presidency but resolutely declined He his
never traded on Ins name or relationship However, he has served several presidential
appointments, once as Secretary of War and oner as Minister to Great Britain ' For thirtv
rears he has been associated with the Pullman Company.
Whether he has prepared his recollections of his father to be published posthuntousb is
not known. Ihe world would welcome a picture of the Great Liberator as he appeared to
his growing son. However t. a request for an interview Mr. Lincoln replied, "I appreciate
the kindness of the request, but vou will exCUSC BSC from breaking aw.iv from niv well
established habit" Mr. Lincoln lives in Washington.
Abraham Lincoln1
drawl near, new
and magazines
w i t h deacriptii i
praise for this n
one tune led the nat
of darkness into p.
is as though his spii
come back to us. i
the threat need o
idealists of the i
The seeming str.r
of John Drinkwatei
and its success, t
of
iurth
vers
filled
a n d
who
n out
' It
' had
d by
the
lent
I ness
1'lay
th in
i i I i .
r.ngiauu aim m . uu rica,
are explained b) fact
that the simile . ? ted
Lincoln is given us imply
and that his id all of
tolerance and fi g
are portrayed as lit htnh
Self lived them. 1 ! is in
deed "the man m
heart who walk rj w ith
God' and, as such, he
comes to us toda) art.
I le brings us h the
hope of true art w hich de
picts in the iin.u
the beauty of th reality
of the future. Lin In in
art today bids us he of
good cheer, for tl tri
umph of the ideal is sure
and impossible oi all de
feat. This is the mes
sage of Barnard's i
and beneticient fi cure
crowning the industrial
city of Manchester, Kng
land. This is the mes
sage of the ma. cent
memorial temple a' Wash
ington, standing there on
the banks of the P t 'tnac,
at nice a lesson an'! in in
spiration for our present
da legislators.
In the words
Drinkw ater's Lin
"We will defeat
SOn. I will meet
e mediation."
And when his
cuts objected t I
ing it a policy o
ness, he replied :
policy of faith,
policy of compassi
do you plague m
these jealousies ?"
In his second ii
address, made just
da s 1, f, re his d
declares what -
our preaent polic;
"With malice
none, with chant
with firmness in t
as God gives us t' 1
right, let us stri
finish the work w i
t bind up the
wounds, to care I
who shall have b
battle and for his
and orphans to
which may aclm i
cherish a just and 1
peace am ng oun
with all nations."
Our pledge todi
the battle grounds i
world should be tl
he made UDOH the
around of GettN-b
That from tins.
ored dead we t.o J"
ised devotion to the
cause for which tin;. Wc
the last full me.is .re ot
here
these
died
John
trea
with ippoa
. call-
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is a
is a
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with
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forty
th, he
I be
ward
r all,
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C in.
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him
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all
and
i sting
. and
upon
: the
Kdge
battk
hon-
we
that
dt otion that
hiffhly resolve
(, n vh;jll not haVl
in vain, that thil nation
(let us say: 'this world;
shall, under God, c J
i. .i. . . tmmAt tin. an
new un ui in nw ...
that governntenl (,t
the
for
the people shall not pens
from the earth.