Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 12, 1909, Page 1

TH. VOLUME 6. NUMBER 254 LINCOLN DAY OBSERVED AT MARTYR’S BIRTHPLACE Kentucky Farm Scene of Celebration Today.—President Roosevelt Delivered Address Extolling Career of Great Liberator, at Laying of Corner Stone. Hodgenville, Ky., Feb. 12, to the The Daily Pioneer Amer- led’s Bethlehem, near this town, where her savior was born 100 years ago, the nation paid tribute todar to the mem- xy of Abraham Lincoln. Eloquent ipeakers extolled his fame, and on the spot where stands the cabin in which he first saw the light the cornerstone of the Lincoln memorial was laid. The principal figure at the laying of the cornerstone was President Roosevelt, who delivered the main address. The services at the Lincoln farm were held under the auspices of the Lincoln Farm association, which has labored long and assiduously in the effort, now crowned with success, to mark worthily the scene of Lincoln's birth. The association was represent- ed by its president, former Governor Joseph W. Folk of Missouri; its inde- fatigable secretary, Richard Lloyd Jones, who had active charge of the arrangements for today’s ceremonies, and other officers and members. Man Who Saved Cabin Present. A prominent figure in the crowd of distinguished men at the ceremonies was Robert J. Collier of New York, to whom the country owes the preserva- tion of the cabin in which the great liberator was born. In 1860 the cabin was removed from its original site to another a mile and a half distant, near Davenport. There it served as a spring house until the early eighties, when it was bought by an enterprising show- man and carted around the country to serve as an attraction at world’s fairs and elsewhere. From this ignominious fate it was rescued by Mr. Collier. The outgrowth of his efforts to preserve it as a perpetual memorial for the nation was the Lincoln Farm association, whose labors will take concrete form in the marble memorial which will be built around and over the shack in which Lincoln was born. Acting as escort for President Roose- velt and lending a very picturesque touch to the occasion were the mem- bers of the Loulsville post of the Grand Army of the Republic and the mem- bers of the Louisville camp of the United Confederate Veterans. The mingling of the blue and the gray on this occasion elicited from President Roosevelt many expressions of delight. The Men Who Spoke. The exercises at the Lincoln farm 1809—ABRAHAM LINCOLN—1909 | Special | fegan at noon. The opening address was delivered by ex-Governor Folk, who spoke on “The Lincoln Farm As- sociation.” He was followed by Gov: ernnr Willson, whose ¥ieme was “Lin- coln’s Mother State.” Then came Pres- ident Roosevelt, whose “Lincoln Cen- tennial Address” was received with earnest attention and at its close with great applause. The president’s sue- cessor as orator was Secretary Wright, who spoke for “The Confederate Vet- eran.” Laston the list of speakers was General James Grant Wilson, the well known writer and orator, Who spoke for “The Iederal Veteran.” The lay- Ing of the cornerstone followed the ad- dresses. President Roosevelt spoke as follows: ‘We have met here to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the two greatest Americans; of one of the two or three greatest men of the nineteenth century; of one of the greatest men in the world’s history. This rail splitter, this boy who passed his ungainly youth in the dire poverty of the poorest of the frontier fclk, .whose rise was by weary and painful labor, lived to lead his people thi i the burning flames of a sir le from which the nation emerged, purifed as by fre, born anew to a loft life. After long rears of iron effert and of faflure that came more often than victory, he at last rose to the leadership of the re- public at the moment when that leader- ship had become the stupendous world task of the time. He grew to know but never ecase. Success 1, but never happiness, save that which s gs from doing well a painful and a 1 task. Power was his, but not pleasure. The furrows deepened on his brow, but his eyes were undimmed Ly either bate or fear. His gaunt shoulders were bowed, but his steel (hews never faltered as he bore for a hurden the destinies of his people. His t and tender heart shrank from giving pain, and the task allotted him was to pour out like wa- ter the lifeblood of the young men and to feel in his every fiber the sor- row of the women. Disaster saddened but never dismayed him. Triumnh was THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL. his at the last, Lud barely bad he tast- ed it before murder found him, and the the kindly, patient, fearless eyes were closed forever. Lincoln and Washington. As a people we are indeed beyond measure fortunate in the characters of the two greatest of our public men, BEMIDJ1I DAILY PIONEER. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1909. m. Friday, Feb.10. - Thief River Falls. Henry Rhines (Rep.), Mora. —_— Washington and Lincoln. They were alike in essentials—they were alike in the great qualities which rendered each able to render service to his nation and to all mankind such as no other man of his generation could or did render. There have been other men as great and other men as good, but in all the history of mankind there are Do other two great men as good as these, no other two good men as great. ‘Widely though the problems of today differ from the problems set for solu- tion to Washington when he founded this nation, to Lincoln when he saved it and freed the slave, yet the qualities they showed in meeting these prob- lems are exactly the same as those we should show in doing our work today. Lincoln saw into the future with the prophetic imagination usually vouch- safed only to the poet and the seer: He had in him-all the lift toward greatness of the vislonary, without any of the vislonary’s fanaticism or egotism, without any of the vision- ary’s narrow jealousy of the practical man and inability to strive in prac- teal fashion for. the realization of “an “eal . J more prackiCal wan ever liv- ed than this homely backwoods ideal- Ist, but he had nothing in common with those practical men whose consciences are warped until they fail to distin- guish between good and evil, fail to understand that strength, ability, shrewdness, whether in the world of business or of politics, only serve to make their possessor a more noxious; a more evil member of the communi- ty, if they are not guided and con- trolled by a fine and high moral sense. Lincoln’s Qualities Needed Now. We of this day must try to solve many social and industrial problems requiring to an especial degree the combination of indomitable resolution with cool headed sanity. We can profit by the way in which Lincoln used both these traits as he strove for reform. We can learn much of value from the very attacks which following that course brought upon his head, attacks allke by the extremists of revolution and by the extremists of reaction. He never wavered in devotion to his prin- ciples, in his love for the Union and in his abhorrence of slavery. Timid ard mukewarm people were always denounc- Ing him because he was too extreme; but, as a matter of fact, he never went to extremes, Yet perhaps the most wonderful thing of all and, from the standpoint of the America of today and of the future, the most vitally important was the extraordinary way in which Lin- coln could fight vallantly ‘against what he deemed wrong and yet pre- serve undiminished his love and re- spect for the brother from whom he differed. In' the hour of a triumph that would bave turned any weaker man’s head, in the heat of a struggle which spurred many a good man to dreadful vindictiveness, he said truth- fully that so long as he had been in his office he-had never willingly plant- ed a thorn in any man’s bosom and besought his supporters to study the incidents of the trial through which they were passing as philosophy from which to learn wisdom and not as wrongs to be avenged, ending with the solemn exhortation that, as the strife was over, all should reunite in a common effort to save their common country. “Mightiest of Americans.” He lived in days that were great and terrible, when brother fought against brother for what each sincere- ly deemed to be the right, in a con- test so grim the strong men who alone can carry it through are rarely able to do justice to the deep convictions of those with whom they grapple in mor- tal strife. At such times men see through a glass darkly. To only the rarest and loftlest spirits is vouch- safed that clear vision which gradually comes to all, even to the lesser, as the struggle fades into distance and wounds are forgotten and peace creeps back to the hearts that were hurt. But to Lincoln was given this supreme vi- sfon. He did not hate the man from whom he differed. Weakness was as foreign as wickedness to his strong, gentle nature. But his courage was of a quality so high that it needed no bolstering of dark passion. He saw clearly that the same high qualities, the same courage and willingness for self sacrifice and devotion to the right as it was given them to see the right, belonged both to the men_of the north F. E. Gartside (Rep.), Winona, Chairman. Hans Jorgenson (Dem.), Mankato. J. A. A. Burnquist (Rep.), St. Paul. : C. L. Sawyer (Rep.), Minneapolis. : iof the whole city in' extending a j a0d to the men of the south. “As the Itinerary of Normal School Committees. Via C. N. Rallway. Leave St. Paul 11:10 p. m., Thursday night, Feb. 11th; arrive at Duluth 6:30 a. Leave Duluth 8:45 a. m. Friday; arrive Cass Lake 2:45 p. m. Remain in Cass Lake Friday night. Leave Cass Lake 7 a. m., Saturday ¥eb. 13th, going to Park Rapids. Leave Park Rapids 6:45 p. m., returning to Bemidji. Arrive in Bemidji 8:15 p. m,, Saturday, Feb. 12th. Remain in Bemidji until Sunday;”Feb. 18th, when depart at 3:30 p. m., for The Joint: Committee. TO CITIZENS OF BEMIDJI. Every citizen of Bemidii is ex— pected to be at the Markham Hotel Saturday evening at 8:30 o’clock to act asan individual committee of one in assisting the commitee rousing welcome to the members of the legislative normal school committee. Itis to be regretted that the banquet hall is not large enough to accommodate all those who would like to attend the banquet. It is simply im) seats to all. Every citize!¢Whv has a rig-is requested t0 e _on the stréets- of the city Sundayfrom 10:30'a. m. until the drive with the commit- tee is finished. —Entertainment Committee. years roll by and as all of us, wher- | ever we dwell,.grow to feel an equal: pride in the valor and self devotion,. alike of the men who wore the blue’ and the men who wore the gray, so this whole nation will grow to feel a: peculiar gense of pride in the mightiest’ of the mighty men who mastered the mighty days, the lover of his country and of all mankind, the man whose blood was shed for the union of his people and for the freedom of a race, Abraham Lincoln. MRS. JOSEPH M'TAGGART DIED YESTERDAY P. M. Had Been Il for the Past Four Waeks. " —Funeral Will Be Held To- morrow. After an illness which extended over a month past, Mrs. Joseph McTaggart died, at her home i this city, yesterday afternoon, at 5 o’clock, death being the result of an attack of pneumonia and other com- plicatioans. The funeral services will be held at the McTaggart home, 519 Third street, tomorrow zfternoon, at 2:30 o,clock, and Rev. McKee will have charge. Mrs. McTaggart has been ill for four weeks past and little hope has been entertained that she would recover. The deceased is survived by her husband and two children, one child being 9 years of age, the other 4 two sisters (Mrs. May Pemrock of Toronto, Can., and Mrs. Jennie Lemon of Seattle, Wash.,) a brother William Hillaby of Days Land, Al- berta, all of whom have been - here for several days; a niece, Mrs. Archer of Park River, N. D., and a newhew, John Hillaby of this city. John Hillaby is here and Mrs. Archer is expected here this evening. In the death of Mrs. McTaggart, the community loses a most estim- able lady—one:who was beloved by all who knew her. Mrs. McTaggart was a kind and loving wife and mother, a loyal friend and a true woman in every respect. Her demise is sincerely regretted and W. A. Hinton™ (Rep.), Truman, Chairman. 8. D. Works (Dem.), Mankato. i George D, French (Rep.), St. Charles. John C. Hardy (Dem.), St. Paul. 7 5 Senate. G. W. STANTON HAS BEEN REAPPOINTED AS JUDGE Said that Governor Johnson Named Mr. Stanton Yesterday-—Hot Fight Is Ended. It is a matter of common rur;lor about the city that C. W. Stanton, ex judge of the Fifteenth Judicial district, has been appointed associate judge of the district, to occupy the position of third judge, which was created by law which has passed both houses of the legislature. The rumor is to.the effect that the appointment was made by Gover- nor johnson yesterday, to take emect at once. : It has been understood for some time that Judge Stanton would be appointed judge, should the law be FORTY CENTS PER MONTH BEMIDJI HAS PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE GREATNESS Has Unequaled Railroad Facilities, Is Admirably Located from Geographical Standpoint, and Her Citizens are’ Possessed of Indomitable Push and Pluck. In the booklet recently issued by the Bemidji Townsite & Improve. ment company, prophecy is made of a splendid future for the city of Bemidji. Under the heading of “The Fu- ture,” the booklet says: “It requires no especial spirit of score, for in all the years of drought and hard times that have gone down in history, Minnesota has never known a crop failure, “Summed up, these are the at- tractions which Bemidji has for the investor and home-seeker: “To the young man, it offers the opportunities peculiar to a new optimism to forecast a great fu(ure'country with potential wealth and CARSON’S TRADINC POST---1891. Only ‘“Stopping Place’’ at Lake Bemidji at That Time. for Bemidji. It is the natural com- mercial center for about one-third of the~ state, and that portion of the state inmam an the eve of a marvel- ous development. - €man towns are springing up throughout this area, all of which look' to Bemidji asa wholesale and jobbing center, a posi- tion given it by its excellent railroad facilities. Owing to the dearth of openings for leadership in every branch of activity. p “To the man of faminy, it offers not only a home where he can e tor his children the advantages of good schools and healthy, whole- some sutroundings, but work ina country not already "crowded with professional, business or laboring men. C.W.STANTON. passed creating a third judge, and his appointment comes asno sur- prise. C. W. Stanton made a good judge and he will continue to preside in the same impartial manner as hereto- fore; and those local people who be- came unduly exercised over his possi- ble attainment to the office of judge have gained nothing by their un- wonted activity in the matter. These persons will do well to show a little public spirit and get their shoulders to the wheel and assist others who have labored diligently in an effort to get the proposed sixth state normal school located in Bemidji. If they are spoiling for a fight, there is a common. enemy in our neighboring town of Cass Lake, and they have ample opportunity to HOTEL MARKHAM, Which Now Cares for a Large Number of ‘‘Wayfarers” in City of Bemidji. AATET b of railroads in Northern Minnesota in years past, the great continental lines have been carrying home-seek- ers tothe great plains of the West. Practically all of the best gzrade of lands towards the Pacific have thus been settled. The tide is now turn- ing to the country near at hand, “Aside from the large tracts which are now available in the territory tributary to Bemidji, there is a large tract still held by the Indians which will eventually be opened to settlement. There are also several thousand acres of state “school lands,” all of which ~must, when occupied, coniribute a share to the business interests '@f the city. “At present,” agricultural land about Bemidji can be purchased at from $2.50 to $12 an acre, the price varying with. the amount of stump- age and proximity“to town. The opportunity H}fis open to land-seek- demonstrate their “scrapping” ability in a manner in which there is unan- imity of sentiment—the normal fight. New Bank Clerk. C. A. Roman of Monticello has accepted a position with the First National Bank of this .city and entered upon his new duties yester- day. Mr. Roman was formerly a member of the First National Bank force at Braham, in the southern part of the state, and comes to this city well recommended and as a the strongest sympathy is extended to the' bereaved relatives. young man of sterling qualities amjl undoubted ability. ers in bringing in settlers by the “For the manufacturer, it has ready and adequate power for in- dustrial purposes, in close proximity to a timber supply, a’_large and growing market and easy transpor- tation of his products in all direc- tions. B “To the investor, it affords an opportunity to pick up, for only a small sum, property which offers ex- ceptional advantages in the way of sure returns. “To the seeker of pleasure, it affords a ‘lake resort, which for the beauty of surroundings, for vatiety and quality of fish and game, for its boating and bathing and eguable summer temperature, is unsurpassed. *“To the seeker of health, it gives fresh dry air, uncontaminated by dust and malaria; heavy with ozone of the forest. It furnishes pure drinking water and a climate which supplies the natural antitoxins to disease.” Mrs: Freeman Buried. Funeral services were held over the remains of Mrs. Frank Freeman, who died Wednesday morning with tuberculosis, yesterday afternoon at the Freeman home, 1201 Mississippi avenue, and the body was laid to rest in Greenwood cemetery. Reverend S. E. P. White, of the local Presbyterian church, conducted the services at the home, which were attended by the Roosevelt Lodge, No. 1523, M. B. of A, in a body, the lodge ceremonies™ being observed at the grave, Mrs.. Hannah G. Freeman was born in Norway, 1878. She came to Tower, Minn., with her parents at the age of seven. A few years later the family moved to Eagle Bend in Todd county where she was married to Frank Freeman when fif- teea years old. Three years ago the family moved to Bemidji on account of the health of Mrs, Freeman. After a lingering illness she passed quietly away Wednesday morning, leaving a husband and three children, the oldest of whom is'14 years and the youngest nine years old. | MINNESOTA " 3 HISTCRICAL] SOCIETY. f |