The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 10, 1916, Page 16

THE NONPARTISAN LEADER e : ; ®o e Ko Ko Re He Ko Re R Ko Abraham Lincoln Grasps the Hand of the Farmer for Better Government. “Farmers’ Interest is Most Worthy to be Cherished and Cultivated.”---Lincoln. Next Saturday is the birthday anniversary of Abraham Lincoln, perhaps the greatest President and- Patriot this country has ever had. Above all others he understood the fundamental problems which made for or against the “right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” and if he were alive and active today he weould be with the North Dakota farmers in their effort to better their conditions, as he encouraged such movements among farmers and work- ing men during his life time. The Leader cannot refer the members of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan League to a better character in -American history-and we urge them to follow his principles and conduct. : A Ina speeéh delivered at Milwaukee, September 30, 1859, (complete works, vol. 1, p. 577) Abe Lincoln said: “Farmers being the most numerous class, it follows that their interest is the largest interest. It glso follows that that interest is most worthy of all to be cherished and cultivated—that if there be inevitable conflict between that interest and any other, that other should yield.” : In a speech at-Cincinnati, September 17, 1859, (Howells, p. 148) Mr. Lincoln said: “Our government was not established that cne man might do with himself as he pleases, and with another man, teo- I held that if there is any one thing that can be proved to be the will of Heaven: by external nature around us, without reference to revelatien, it is the proposition that whatever any: one man earns with his hands and by the sweat of his brew, he shall enjoy in peace. I say that whercas God Almighty has given every man one mouth to be fed, and one pair of hands adapted to furnish food for that mouth, if anything can be proved to be the wiil of Heaven, it is proved by the fact that that mouth is to be fad by those hands, without being interfered with by any other man, who has also his mouth to feed and his hands to labor with. I hold, if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, He would have made them with mouths only and no hands; and if He had ever made anether class that He intended should do all the work, and none of the eating, He would have made them without mouths and with all hands, But inssmuch :as 'He has not chosen to make man in that way, if anything is-proved it is that those hands and mouths are to be cooperative through life and not to be in- terfered with. That they are to go forth and improve their condition, as I have been trying to illustrate, is: the in-- herent right given to mankind directly by the Makor.” 2 L e : < e Re K@ '\ *fi%’fi’é@%W%M&M%fi%&@%“%fl%@%fi%*@%@*@%@%*@G@G@*@&@&@%@%K@%@’G@&i’%%@*GE'*éi'?éi')Gi'&i'*%@>€€'>€€=&@K@)éé)€€')(i')G@ié@léifléi'%@%)éi"%@*@%’%@’%@%*fi%@*fi*@%%@%@%i'fii’*%i'*%@%@*é%%@%@&@&@K@%@K@%&@&e%{@ e T T P T T vy