Tributes to Abraham Lincoln

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Tributes to

Abraham Lincoln

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16th President of the United States

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David Lloyd George

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LLOYD GEORGE'S
WORDTO AMERICA
ON LINCOLN DAY

"Battle We've Been Fighting

the Same You Fought Over

50 Years Ago," He Says.

EUROPE,TOO,FACES SLAVERY

Militarism " Has Been Crushing

Out Freedom of the People

Under Its Control."

MUST BE WAR TO A FINISH

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Now, as in Our Civil War, No Com-
promise Is Possible — Allies In-
spired by Lincoln's Example.

By CHARLES H. GRASTY.

Special Cable to The New York Times.

LONDON, Feb. 10. -David Lloyd
George has given me for publication
a Lincoln Day message.

The absorption of the British Prime
Minister in absolutely the greatest
task ever laid upon a human being
is so deep that he was unable to at-
tend the opening of the House of
Commons this week, and literally evrry
minute of his long working day is
taken up with the vital matters of the
war. But the Lincoln anniversary
made such an appeal to him that he
gave It his time and thought, and now
«ends this historic message to Amer-
ica:

A LINCOLN DAY MESSAGE

I am very glad to respond to your
request for a message for publica-
tion on Lincoln Day. I am glad be-
cause to my mind Abraham Lincoln
has always been one of the very first
of the world's statesmen, because I
believe that the battle which we have
been fighting is at bottom the same
battle which your countrymen fought
under Lincoln's leadership more than
fifty years ago, and most of all, per-
haps, because I desire to say how
much I welcome the proof which the
last few days have afforded that the
American people are coming to real-
ize this, too.

Lincoln's life was devoted to the
cause of human freedom. Prom the

day when he first recognized what
alavery meant he bent all his energies
to its eradication from American soil.
Yet after years of patient effort he
was driven to realize that It was not
a mere question of abolishing slavery
in the Southern States, but that
bound up with it was a larger issue:
That unless the Union abolished slav-
ery, slavery would break up the
Union.

Faced by this alternative, he did not
Bhrink, after every other method had
failed, from vindicating both Union
and freedom by the terrible instrument
of war. Nor after the die for war had
been cast did he hesitate to call upon
liis countrymen to make sacrifice upon
sacrifice, to submit to limitation upon
limitation of their personal freedom,
until, in his own words, there was a
new birth of freedom in your land.
Like the Present Conflict.

Is there not a strange similarity be-
tween this battle, which we are fight-
ing here in Europe, and that which
Lincoln fought? Has there not grown
up in this continent a new form of
slavery, a militarist slavery, which
has not only been crushing out the
freedom of the people under its control,
but which in recent years has also been
moving toward crushing out freedom
and fraternity In all Europe as well?

Is it not true that it is to the mili-
tarist system of Government which
centres in Berlin that every open-
minded man who is familiar with past ;
history would point as being the ultl- j
mate source of all the expansion of
armaments, of all the international un-
rest, and of the failure of all move-
ments toward co-operation and har-
mony among nations during the last
twenty years?

We were reluctant, and many of us
refused to believe that any sane rulers
would deliberately drench Europe In
its own blood, so we did not face the
facts until it was almost too late. It
was not until August, 1914, that it
became clear to us, as it became clear
to Lincoln in 1861, that the issue was
not to be settled by pacific means, and
that either the machine which con-
trolled the destinies of Germany would
destroy the liberty of Europe or the
people of Europe must defeat its pur-
pose and its prestige by the supreme
sacrifice of war. It was the ultimatum
to Serbia and the ruthless attack upon
Belgium and France which followed
because tha nations of Europe would
not tolerate the obliteration of the in-
dependence of a free people without
conference and by the sword, which
revealed to us all the Implacable na-
ture of the struggle which lay before
us.

It has been difficult for a nation
separated from Europe by 3,000 miles
of 8ea and without political connec-

/\s with its peoples, to appreciate
^ZDy what was at stake in the war.
In your civil war many of our ances-
tors were blind. Lord Russell hinted
at an early peace. Even Gladstone
declared " we have no faith In the
propogation of free institutions at the
point of the sword." It was left for
John Bright, that man of all others
who most loved peace and hated war,
to testify that when our statesmen
| " were hostile or coldly neutral the
British people clung to freedom with
an unfaltering trust." But I think
that America now sees that it is
human unity and freedom which are
again being fought for in this war.

The American people under Lincoln
fought not a war of conquest, but a
J war of liberation. We today are fight-
' Ing not a war of conquest, but a war
! of liberation — a liberation not of our^-
selves alone, but of all the world, from
that body of barbarous doctrine and
inhuman practice, which has estranged
nations, has held back the unity and
progress of the world, and which has
stood revealed in all its deadly iniquity
in the course of this war.

In such wars for liberty there can be
no compromise. They are either won
or lost. In your case it was freedom
and unity or slavery and separation,
in our case military power, tyran-
nously used, will have succeeded In
tearing up treaties and trampling on
the rights of others, or liberty and
public right will have prevailed. There-
fore, we believe that the war must be

fought out to a finish, for on such an
issue there can be no such thing as a
drawn war.

Inspired by Lincoln's Example.

In holding this conviction, we have
been inspired and strengthened beyond
I measure by the example and the words
of your great President. Once the
conflict had been Joined, he did not
shrink from bloodshed. I have often
been struck at the growth of both
tenderness and stern determination In
the face of Lincoln, as shown in his
j photographs, as the war went on.
I Despite his abhorence of all that
I war entailed, he persisted in it be-
I cause he knew that he was sparing
I life by losing it, that if he agreed to
j compromise, the blood that had been
shed on a hundred fields would have
been shed in vain, i that the task of
| creating a united nation of free men
! would only have to be undertaken at
even greater cost at some later day.
It would, indeed, be Impossible to
state our faith more clearly than Lin-
coln stated It himself at the end of
1864.

On careful consideration [he said] of
all the evidence It seems to me that
no attempt at negotiation with the
insurgent leader could result in any
good. He would accept nothing short

of severance of the Union, precisely
what we will not and cannot give.
His declarations to this effect are ex-
plicit and oft repeated. He does not
deceive us. He affords us no excuse
to deceive ourselves; * * • between
him and us the issue is distinct, sim-
ple and Inflexible. It is an issue
which can only be tried by war and
| decided by victory.

That was the judgment of the
j greatest statesman of the nineteenth
century during the last great war for
human liberty. It is the judgment of
this nation and of its fellow-nations
overseas today.

" Our armies," said Lincoln, " are
ministers of good, not evil." So we do
believe. And through all the carnage
and suffering and conflicting motives
of the civil war, Lincoln held stead-
fastly to the belief that it was the free-
dom of the people to govern themselves
jwhjch was the fundamental issue at
I stake. So do we today. For when the
j people of Central Europe accept the
j peace which Is offered them by the
Allies, not only will the allied peoples
be free, as they have never been free
before, but the German people, too,
will find that In losing their dream of
an empire over others, they have found
self-government for themselves.

D. LLOYD GEORGE.

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LLOYD GEORGE ON LINCOLN.
The English have: made WASHINGTON
one of their national heroes, and they
arc in the course of doing the same
thing with Lincoln. In their mentions
of neither is there any foreign accent-
no more, at any rate, than in our men-
tions of Shaxespeabe. ir they praise
PETE8 (he Great or Garibaldi of any
other national hero, it is In the tone of
admiring strangers, not as part pos-
sessors; hut they have appropriated
Washington, and are fast taking the
same way with LINCOLN.

•Tt was a pleasant and gratifying
thing to find the British Premier send-
ing to this country his tribute to Lin-
coln as a part of the Lincoln Day
celebration. The tribute was not
i mere praise, but intelligent dis- |
cussion. Some of the things be saidi
about Lincoln in the message he sent
through The Times are not enough re-
membered. Our own praise of Lin-
coln tends to dwarf him sometimes by
being one-sided. We hear so much of
his tenderness, his gentleness, his
kindness, and his sadness, that there
Is some danger of forgetting his stur-
dihess, his iron strength, his indomita-
bllity, and of erecting a mushy Idol in
place of the downright and unflinching
man. " I have often been struck,"
says Mr. Llotd George, " at the
" growth of both tenderness and stern
" determination in the face of Lincoln,
" as shown in his photographs, as the
" war went on."

Concerning this tendency to make
great men over by one-sided though
well-meaning idolatry, the late Robert
G. Ingersoll once complained:

Washington is now only a steel en-
graving • * * Hundreds of people
are now engaged In smoothing out the
lines on Lincoln's face.

The lines on Lincoln's face were not
all lines graven by love and pity; they
were the lines in a. face that grew both
in " tenderness and stern determina-
tion." He did not. spend all his time
breathing benedictions and pardoning
deserters; he was a resolute man.
whose sword was Grant, "the Ham-
merer," and he did not shrink or wa-
ver, nor was he ever in doubt about his
aim or how to win it. It is of this less
emphasized side of him that the Brit-
ish' statesman, now bearing the bur-
dens of a great war, is reminded on his
birthday, and serves us well by re-
minding us. .

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Lloyd George's Tribute to Lincoln.

In the exercises of {he unveiling of the
statue of Abraham Lincoln alongside West-
minster Abbey a few days ago Lloyd
George in eloquent words uttered a senti-
ment expressive of appreciation of the
Emancipator that robs not us of our
heritage in having had Abraham Lincoln
as an example, yet claims him for the whole
world. As a part of his tribute in words
well worth preserving the British Premier
said :

I doubt whether any statesman who ever
lived sank so deeply into the hearts of the
people of many lands as Abraham Lincoln
did. I am not sure that you in America
realize the extent to which he is also our
possession and our pride. His courage, forti-
tude, patience, humanity, clemency, Ms trust
in the people, his belief in democracy, and,
may I add, some of the phrases in which he
gave expression to those attributes, will stand
out forever as beacons to guide troubled na-
tions and their perplexed leaders. Resolute
in war, he was moderate in victory. Mis-
represented, misunderstood, underestimated,
he was patient to the last. But the people
believed in him all the time, and they still
believe in him. Tn his life he was a' great
American. He is an American no longer.
He is one of those giant figures, of whom
there are very few in history, who lose their
nationality in death. They are no longer
Greek or Hebrew or English or American—
they belong to mankind. X wonder whether
T will be forgiven for saying that Gkorge
Washington- was a great American, but
Abraham Lincoln- belongs to the common
people of every land. They love that hag-
gard face with the sad and tender eyes.
There is a worship in their regard. There
is a faith and a hope in that worship.

t When it is recalled thai the ruling classes
of Great Britain regarded Lincoln as a
rude backwoodsman when he was perform-
ing his great work of saving the Union we
can well underhand that a marvellous
change in sentiment has taken place when
!iis stptue occupies a place near where Eng-
land's highly honored dead are buried and
'when the bead of the British government
points him out as one of the giant figures
of history, a character for whom England
with her thousand years of histoid can offer
no parallel.

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DOUBT whether any statesman who ever lived sank
so deeply into the hearts of the people of many lands
as Abraham Lincoln did. I am not sure that you in
America realize the extent to which he is also our pos-
session and our pride. His courage, fortitude, patience,
humanity, clemency, his trust in the people, his belief
in democracy, and, may I add, some of the phrases in
which he gave expression to the attributes, will stand
out forever as beacons to quite troubled nations and
their perplexed leaders. Resolute in war, he was mod-
erate in victory. Misrepresented, misunderstood, un-
derestimated, he was patient to the last. But the
people believed in him all the time, and they still
believe in him.

In his life he was a great American. He is an Ameri-
can no longer. He is one of those giant figures, of whom
there are very few in history, who lose their nationality
in death. They are no longer Greek or Hebrew or
English or American — they belong to mankind. I
wonder whether 1 will be forgiven for saying that George
Washington was a great American, but Abraham
Lincoln belongs to the common people of every land.
— Lloyd George.

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L~)e>Yt> Ge0A<z*t P>*\ii4>

" With Malice Toward None, with Charity for All"

"The preservation of the American Union, the emancipation of the slaves, are notable events
in the world's history. But reading the story I feel that the personality of Abraham Lincoln and
his statesmanship are in some respects even greater than those colossal events.

"Resolute in war, he was moderate in victory. Misrepresented, misunderstood, underesti-
mated, he was patient to the last. There were those who thought he ought to have shown
his abhorrence of war by waging it half-heartedly; there were those who thought he ought to
have displayed his appreciation of victory by using it hard-heartedly. He disdained both these
counsels, and he was often reviled by those counselors. But the people believed in him and
they still believe in him.

"In life he was a great American. He is American no longer. He is one of those giant fig-
ures, of whom there are very few in history, who lose their nationality in death. They are no
longer Greek or Hebrew or English or American — they belong to mankind.

"Abraham Lincoln belongs to the common people of every land. He is of their race, of their
kind, of their blood, of their nation, the race of the common people. They love that haggard
face with the sad and tender eyes. There is a worship in their regard. There is a faith and a
hope in that worship.

"May I respectfully, earnestly, say one word from this platform to the great people of
America? This torn and bleeding earth is calling to-day for the help of the America of
Abraham Lincoln."

—From the speech of David Lloyd-George, prime minister of England, at the unveiling of the Saint-G
Statue of Lincoln opposite H'estuunsler .Ibb'e'y, July so. 1920.

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HOYKEORGESEES
LINCOLN LOG CABIN

Braves Bad Road to Visit Birth-
* place of His Ideal.

TRUDGES OVER KENTUCKY FARM

Ex-Premier Leaves Louisville for
Indianapolis To-day.

Lotnsvii.LE, Oct. 21 (Associated
Press). — The birthplace of Abraham
Lincoln at Hodgenvlllf, in western Ken-
tucky, was visited to-day by David
Lloyd George. Evidencing the greatest
Interest in the Jog cabin in which Lin-
coln was born and all landmurka on
the old farm, which is now a national
park, tho distinguished visitor trudged
about the place and a-sked a running
fire of questions concerning the early
life of the man wtto Its his Ideal.

Lloyd George last week visited the
tomb of the martyred President at
Springfield, 111., and eagerly arranged to
visit the birthplace during his week end
stay here aa the guest of Judge Robert
W. Bingham, publisher of the Louisville
Times and Courier -Journal. Although at
first intending to go by automobile, the
former Premier made the sixty mile run
on a special train furnished by Judge
Bingham. Members of the official party
and several residents of Louisville ac-
companied him on the trip.

At Hodgenville Lloyd George was met
by several hundred Kentuckians, all of I
characteristic pre-rovolutionary Ameri-
can stock, who still live In a sparsely
settled region and who habitually refer
in conversation to the great President
as "Abe."

Proceeding to the public square, the
former Premier stopped In front of the
old courthouse to inspect the monument
of Lincoln by A. A. Weinman and was
received by citizens and achool children,
the latter singing "God Savo the King"
as the distinguished visitor stood be-
fore them bare headed.

Over a rough country road, Lloyd

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to the farm with its old log fence
surrounding it and with several hun-
dred residents from the vicinity about
him, entered the granite memorial build-
ing to inspect the log house within,
Carefully examining the small structure
of logs and clay, built without the
aid of nails, he peered through chinks j
In the wall, stood at. the open doorway ,
to be photographed and then signed the |
visitors' register.

Prom there he desconded the eleva-
tion on which the memorial building
stands to the spring, which, half hidden
in a rock cave, supplied water to the
Lincoln family more than 100 years ago.
He walked about the farm, examining
all objects of interest, even the old tree
under which thd boy Abraham is said
to have played until 8 years of age,
when his father moved to another
section.

Returning by tho special train to
Louisville, Lloyd George remained at
tho home of Judge Bingham and will
leave here early to-morrow and go to
Indianapolis, where he will speak to-
morrow night. From Indianapolis he
will go to Marlon, Ohio, to pay homage
at the tomb of President Harding and
to call upon Mrs. Harding, and thence
to Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Washing-
ton. From the capital he will go to j
Richmond, Va., and Philadelphia and |
possibly to Scranton for a few hours
on October 31 before going to N«w York
city for his final address of his Ameri-
can visit-

Former British Premier Recalls

Trials of President With

Enemies Like His Own.

ALSO HAD WAR TROUBLES.

Wreath Placed on Sarcophagus
Near Coolidge Offering.

SPRINGFIELD, 111., Oct. 18 (Asso-
ciated Press). — David Lloyd Seorge
came here from Chicago to-day and
paid homage to the memory of Abra-
ham Lincoln.

With bared head, heedless of a cold
driving rain, he approached the mon-
ument and entered tho tomb of the
martyred President, where he placed
on the sarcophagus a WTeath with his
card bearing the words:

"A humble and reverent homage to
the memory of one of the world's

Recalls Lincoln's Troubles.

Standing with head slightly bowed
below the sarcophagus, and for a
moment in deep reverie, he said, as if
speaking to himself rather than to
those aboxit him:

"He is the greatest man grown
upon the American Continent. He is
growing, too! Oh, yes, he grows.

"I've just been reading about the
time (he had. I read of the most
recent ones, about two years ago. It
was rather an account of the troubles
he had in the war with Generals and
politicians. They were worse than
mine."

Wreath Near Coolidsre's.

The wreath was placed on the top
side of the sarcophagus, just above
one standing In front and placed
there several months ago by Mr.
Coolidge, then Vico President.

Before going to the tomb, Mr. Lloyd
George visited the Lincoln home, near
the centre of the city. Showing the
greatest interest in all matters con-
cerning the great President whom he
has regarded as an ideal since boy-
hood, the former Premier went through
the different rooms and examined all
articles with minute attention to de-
tails.

Mr. Uoyd George attended a pnb-
llo dinner to-night and later de-
parted for St. Louis.

Lloyd Georjre Will Rest on Ills
Visit to Loni«ville.

LOUISVILLE, Oct 18.— Former
Prime Minister Lloyd George will nr.t
make any public appearances here
upon his arrival Saturday to spon3
the week-end, according to a tele-
gram received to-day from Sir Alfred
Cope, his personal representative.
The telegram said that on account of
Lloyd George's health he must have
complete rest.

A public luncheon and a parade
has been cancelled and it was an-
nounced Lloyd George, Dame Marga-
ret and Miss Megan would spend the
week-end hero at the homo of Julsra
Robert Bingham.

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LINCOLN

The American view of Lincoln is
pretty generally understood because
it is much the same. The estimate
placed upon him by a foreign states-
man of world-wide reputation is
therefore interesting. Mr. Lloyd
George, famous premier of England,
said of Lincoln:

"I doubt whether any statesman
who ever lived sank so deeply into
the hearts of the people of many
lands as Abraham Lincoln did. I
am not sure that you in America
realize the extent to which he is also
our possession and our pride. His
courage, fortitude, patience, human-
ity, clemency, his trust in the people
his belief in democracy, and may I
add, some of the phrases in which he
gave expression to the atributes, will
stand out forever as beacons to quiet
troubled nations and their perplexed
leaders. Resolute in war, he was
moderate in victory. Misrepresented,
misunderstood, underestimated, he
was patient to the last. But the
people believed in him all the time,
and they still believe in him.

In his life he was a great American.
He is an American no longer. He
s one of those giant figures, of whom
there are very few in history, who
lose their nationality in death. 1 hey
are no longer Greek or Hebrew or
English or American they belong to
mankind. I wonder whether I will
be forgiven for saying that George
Washington was a great American,
but Abraham Lincoln belongs to the
common people of every land.
— Lloyd George.

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Tribute Is Paid
Abraham Lincoln
By Lloyd George

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SPRINGFIELD, 111., Oct. 19.— {By
Universal) — David Lloyd George,
leader of Briton's forces In the
world's greatest war, was a worship-
per yesterday at the shrine of Abra-
ham Lincoln, who safely led his na-
tion through the greatest civil war
the world has ever known. '

Arriving in Springfield, the site of
Lincoln's early struggles, at 3 p. m.
yesterday, Lloyd Goorgb and his
party from abroad visited the home
In which Lincoln resided at the time
of his election to the presidency, and
later the stately tomb in Oak Ridge
cemetery where he was entombed.

Both the visit to the home and to
the tomb were in a spirit of deepest
reverence for Lloyd George thorough-
ly knows the story of Lincoln and
has the highest regard for his great
services to the cause of humanity
and democracy.

His appreciation of Lincoln was i
expressed in the tribute he wrote
on a. card as he sat at Lincoln's own '
desk in the old home. It was this:

"A humble and reverent homage
to one of the world's freatest men."

This card was written at the re-
quest of Miss Mary Edwards Brown,
curator of the home, a distant rela- >
tlve of the Lincoln family. It was !
later transferred to the wreath
which Lloyd George lad on the Lin- j
coin tomb.

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'Slings and Arrows'
From Lloyd George
Speeches Combined

Reviewed by John Locke.

"Slings ind Anows- by Dtvid Lloya
uV"' M" P' Harper * B,oth«".

The self-styled "Champion of the
Under-Dog in Britain" speaks. He
is a world figure, well-known to
Americans. Idolized by many, ana-
thematized by many, Lloyd George
remains active and respected aft-
er 40 years of public life.

"Slings and Arrows" is a very
proper title for this offering. It
consists of aphorisms and excerpts
[from his numerous public utter-
ances. Some of them are quite
lengthy, while others are only a
sentence. All are terse and to the
.point, whether one can agree with
the opinion stated or not.
Tradition Broken.
In the preface Mr. Lloyd George
(comments very illuminatingly on
the change in political oratory in
his generation. There was a tradi-
tion in British politics that no par-
liamentarian made over three
speeches a year. These addresses
were carefully prepared and fin- 1
ished off with weeks of polishing.
Gladstone broke the tradition, and
nowadays several speeches a week
are often delivered by prominent
men concerning national affairs.

"Public speeches are now," he
says, "as a matter of course, largely
improvisations. Some orators will
suffer from this cause, others will
undoubtedly gain. To audiences the 1
change is an undoubted advantage;
for in 99 cases out of 100 the
lengthy prepared oration was bor-
ng, dreary, and wholly ineffective.
Fresh and Startling.
The war premier is certainly one
of the orators who has gained by
the change. His picturesque and
dynamic self is well-adapted to the
'ntensity and spontaneity demanded
by present day campaigning. The
new style is one also well suited to
his humanitarian plea.

On subjects l'ke patriotism. Mr.
Lloyd George is commonplace
"Patriotism is a powerful incentive
to unselfish action." "It is not what
a nation gains, it is what a nation
gives that make it great." Yet he
sounds fresh and startling, like the
prophets of old, in his stubborn
statements of economic fact. "What
want in this country is more
right and less so-called charity."
'The angels of light that speed at
jvery dawn from the heavens car-
lying their radiant message of
laoaling and hope to countless mil-
lions of homes are bricked out of
the mean streets."

Tired and Tories.

His sagacity jg well illustrated
in the observations of the psychoo-
logical make-up of the so-called
public. "A tired nation is a Tory
nation." "A peace which keeps a
nation in servitude for years to re-
deem even a just debt can never ^
a real peace." He offers an acu ^
analysis of the rise of dictatorshii
ifter the war. It is unquestionably
his political shrewdness that ac-
ounts for his opportunism, a wil-
lingness to unite with parties not
entirely in accord with his own
iews, to stave off complete defeat.
He knows the foibles of his people
iHe cannot always have his own
way, or the way he thinks best.
This is the explanation of his con-
duct at Versailles.

There are some sections of
"Slings and Arrows" that are not
immediately intelligible to American
readers; the passages on the budget
and the land problem. And there
are questions to which only the
scantiest reference is made. His
strong declaration against social-
ism, for instance, is followed by
only meagre hints at the basis for
his antipathy.

International Plea Made.
"Non-conformity" will interest
preachers; "Free-trade" will hold
the attention of farmers, business
men, and consumers. "Reconstruc-
tion" is worthy of deliberation by
everyone. The industrial crisis in
England has advanced one stage be-
yond our own, and therefore com-
ments on it by this brilliant states-
an are timely and instructive. Ex-

spoken word is even more than a
mere Selbst-portrat, or a bare re-
cord of causes advocated and ac- 1
counts duly rendered." It is his-
tory. Of course, this volume of
words is not a complete biography.
In the case of the famous Welsh-
man, as with all mortals, laying
has not always meant doing. Fur-
thermore, the quotation in part robs
us of a complete picture. We get a
very inadequate idea of the struc-
ture of Mr. LloydN George's ad-
dresses, and often his meaning is
ambiguous by the detachment of
the remarks.

Admirer of Lincoln.

Reading a volume like "Slings and
Arrows" has almost universally one
effect, regardless of others. It im-
presses the peruser with the fact
that national boundaries are tran-
scended in many ways. This is
not merely because Lloyd George is
a great admirer of Iincoln. not yet
merely because he has delievered
speeches in Illinois. But in rehears-
ing the controversial dicta, the dls-
cerpts from his American speeches jcerning man sees that British peo-
present his plea for international pie have pretty generally the same

responsibility, a plea that has not
been altogether forgotten on this
side of the pond.

As Mr. Guedalla,. the editor, re-
^rks, "For some careers the

problems of life that we have: And
furthermore, when -we, as nations,
come into conflict, there are
Britons and Americans and French-
men that will be found on one side,
and there are Britons and Amer-
icans and Frenchmen that will be
found on the other side.

"The path to peace, justice and
prosperity is by no means well-
marked, and disagreements are
inevitable. They are due to the
absence of infallible judgment in
man. Read "Slings and Airj
with that truth, ia ooiad,,

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BY "ABE'S" SON

Cheers Speed Ex-Premier
on Journey to Canada.

Montreal, Oct. 6.— Lloyd George,
wartime premier of Great Britain
received a tumultuous reception or.
his arrival in Montreal at 9:15
o'clock tonight for a visit of .two
days.

Accompanied by his wife and the
smiling Megan, Lloyd George wa
greeted on the platform by Mayor
Martin, Lord Shaughnessy, W. J
Roberts, president of the St. David'
Wel<m society, and a host of other
dignitaries. The band of the Gren
adier guards played Welsh airs.

The statesman was conductee3
through cheering crowds and be
tween rows of mounted police tc
the Mount Royal hotel, where aftei
a few minutes' rest he gave a re-
ception to a number of citizens.

Burlington, Vt., Oct. 6. — [Special.] —
On board the Lloyd George Special
en Route to Montreal. — In every ad-
dress he has delivered so far before
an American audience Lloyd George,
Great Britain's war premier, has held
on high the image of Abraham Lincoln
as that of the man, among all men in
history, whose life and ideals had done
most to determine his own course.

Today, while en route for Canada
on his special train, the British states-
man was afforded an opportunity to
meet Bobert T. Lincoln, son of the
great emancipator.

The meeting occurred after the Lloyd
George special had pulled into Man-
chester. Vt. Mr. Lincoln, now a sep-
tuagenarian, has been spending the
summer in the vicinity of Manchester
At one time during stay here he was
I so ill that his life was despaired of.
' Rut he had expressed a desire to meet
the man to whom the history of his
! father had meant so much. So ho was
on hand when the train reached the
, station.

Stand With Clasped Hands.

1 n"'tf«£.- gpectlns nim'

hands met and for fully four minutes

stood ther
a sriini] group

Like LI
he brunt of tl 'dens im-

posed by a gnat war, Lincoln had
ived through five years of similar
tragedy and overwhelming anxieties
The ex-premier of Great Britain asked
hl3 visitor what he remembered of the
civil war.

" It is not much, except that I saw
my father grow older and sadder as
the struggle went on." he continued.
" I was little more than a boy and
at the time was at school or college."
Speak of Assassination.

The assassination of Lincoln came
up in the course of the conversation.
Mr. Lincoln told the statesman that
when first informed that his father
had been shot he was told the bullet
had lodged in his father's arm, and
that at the time he had lightly re-
marked, " O, father will get over that
all right."

The British visitor stood bareheaded
on the station platform while he talked
with Mr. Lincoln, who wore a heavy
overcoat and was muffled up to his
chin. He had been warned by his phy-
sicians against exposing himself to the
chill mountain air, but had insisted
upon coming. Shortly before the start
was made, Dame Margaret Lloyd
George and Miss Megan, the former
premier's daughter, emerged and
joined him. Both were presented to
Mr. Lincoln.

" This is Abraham Lincoln's son,"
said Lloyd George simply. "You two
know I worship his father."

A Treasured Memory.

After the train got under way again
Mr. Lloyd George received the news-
paper correspondents accompanying
him on his tour. He was full of his
talk with Mr. Lincoln and said that
the meeting would be one of the most
treasured memories he would take
home from his visit to the country of
Abraham Lincoln.

" I am thrilled with meeting the son
of Abraham Lincoln," he said. " There
is no man in all the history of the
world that I place higher than Lin-
coln."

" We compared notes," he added.
"Abraham Lincoln had to endure the
burdens of a civil war for something
like five years. The late war lasted
about that long. But Lincoln's lot
was immeasurably harder than was
that of the statesmen intrusted with
the conduct of the world war. That
was a war wiin foreign nations. A
civil war is much more wearing. You
.ire killing your own people. As I lock
at the pictures of Lincoln, t can
glimpse the deepening shadows of sor-
row Imprinted on his wonderful face
as the g£e lengthened Into

years."

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LLOYD GEORGE PAYS

Places Wreath on Sarcophagus

of Martyred President's Tomb

Despite Driving Rain

Springfield, Ills., Oct. is. David
Lloyd George came here today and paid
homage to the memory of Abraham

Lincoln.

With bared head, heedless of a cold
driving rain, the war-time premier of
Great Britain approached the monu-
ment and entered the tomb of the mar-
tyred President; where he played on
the sarcophagus, a wreath with his
card bearing the words:

"A humble and reverent homage to
the memory of one of the world's great-
est men." ^r

Accompanying him were Dame Mat*
car.-t, and Miss Megan Lloyd 'George as
well as members of the official Recep-
tion Committee.

Standing with head slightly bowed
below the sarcophagus and for a mo-
ment in deep reverie, the man who also
has known the pressure of greatest re- j
sponsibilities in time of war said audi-
My, as if speaking to himself rather
than those about him :

"fie is the greatest man grown upon
the American • continent. He is grow-
ing too— oh, yes, he grows.

"I've lust, been reading about tne
time he bad. I reaJ of the most recent
oies about two years ago. It was
rather an account of the troubles he
had in the war with generals and poll-
tici-irs They weiv worse than nunc.

The wreath was placed on the topi
side of the sarcophagus just above one
standing in front and placed there sev-
eral months ago by President Ooohdge,
when he was Vice President.

Before going to the tomb, Mr. Lloyd
George visited the Lincoln home, near
the center of the city. Evidencing the
Neatest interest in all matters concern-
fug the great President, whom he has
retarded as an ideal since boyhood,
he former Premier went, through the
different rooms and examined all art -
SeTwith minute attention , to all de-
tails In the room where Mr. Lincoln
^as notified of his election as Presi-
dent the distinguished visitor paused
n remarked to Dame Margaret and
othersT "This is the room where he

Prow -i Vve at-grandniece of Mrs. Lm-
cllnH6 signed3 tlie register before en-

tei&rn?ng°t; his, hotel, Mr Lloyd

Ge vge prepared to attend a pub be d» -
, n^r tonight and later to depart for St.

Louis.

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Springfield, 111.. Oct. 18.— [Special.]
—David Lloyd George, war premier of
Britain, bowed, in homage today at
America's shrine— the tomb of Abra
ham Lincoln.

The little Welshman, who himself
" came up from the people" to the high-
est position of statesmanship in the
United Kingdom, was visibly im-
pressed by his visit to Lincoln's home
town today.

Citizens of Springfield who often
have welcomed world notables said |
none of the long list of distinguished
visitors have manifested more genuine
interest or expressed more noble trib-
ute to the martyred President than |
the impetuous British statesman did i
today. Certainly no visitor ever re-
ceived a more demonstrative reception.
Speech Eulogizes Lincoln.
The climax of the former British pre-
mier's visit came in a speech at the
Leland hotel, where he confined his
"i marks to a stirring eulogy of Lin-
n.

At the hotel banquet Mr. Lloyd
George was formally welcomed by Gov
Small, who said in introducing him
lhat "his has been a courageous life
of service to his country and to his
fellow men, as was that of our mar-
tyred President."

In his speech at the banquet Mr.
Lloyd George said:

" I have come here today with one |
purpose — to pay my humble and rev- I
erent tribute to the memory of one of |
the great men of the world. It is dif-
ficult to express the feelings with '
which I visited the home and the last
csting place of one of the noblest fig-
ires in the history of mankind.
Lincoln's Influence Grows.
"There have been great men whose
lives constitute part of the history of
I he world; there are a few whose lives
have become part of the legends of
humanity. These are the greatest, and
' -incoln's name will ever remain con
iPicuous amongst these. His fame is
I der today than it was at the date of
as death and it is still widening. His
I fiuence is deeper and it is still deep-
ning .
1 " Even if this were the occasion I
'lo not feel competent to pronounce
any judgment on the qualities that
jmade him great and on the deeds or
words that will make his name endure
or ever more. Least of .all would I
presume to do so in the city where
here are still living men who knew
!<m.
" He was one of those rare men
horn you do not associate with any
irticular creed, p.irty or even coun-
y. He belongs to the human race
n every clime, land and age.
Man for the Ages.
" There are the great men of a party,
or of a creed. There are great men
of their time, and there are great men
of all time for their own native land,
but Lincoln was a great man of all
time for all parties and lor all lands.
He was the choice and champion of a
party, but his lofty soul could see
over and beyond party walls, the un-
limited terrain beyond. His motto was:
' Stand with anybody who stands
right. Stand with him when he is
right, and part with him when he
goes wrong.' No pure partisan would
■ver assent to so disintegrating a prop-
osition.

" His life in many ways is one of
the saddest gf human stories, and even

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Lloyd George Lays Wreath
on Tomb of Lincoln.

the tragic end comes as a relief. He
once said:

" ' I have not willingly planted a
thorn in any man's bosom,' ^nd yet
as soon as he reached the height of
ambition this man, who shunned hurt
and scattered kindness along his path,
was doomed to send millions of his
own fellow countrymen through the
torturing experiences of a prolonged
and fierce war against their own kin.

" This, the tenderest soul which ever
ruled over a land, was driven for five
years by an inexorable fate to pierce
the gentle hearts of mothers with an-
guish that death alone can assuage.
And in this, the greatest and most
poignant task of his life, he wris wor-
ried, harassed, incumbered, lassoed at
every turn by the vanities, the jeal-
ousies, the factiousness, and the wiles
of swarms of little 'men; he was mis-
represented, misunderstood, maligned,
derided, thwarted in every good im-
pulse, thought, or deed. No wonder
his photographs become sadder and
sadder and more and more tragic year
by year up to the tragic end.

Wisdom a Heritage.

" His example and his wise sayings
are the inheritance of mankind and
will be quoted and used to save it
from its follies to the end of ages.

"The lessons of his statesmanship
are as applicable today as they were
sixty years ago. They will he as ap-
plicable a thousand years hence as
they are today. Being dead, he still
speaks his message of moment for this
present hour.

" The first is: ' Trust the common
people.'' That trust is weakening in
the continent of Europe and country
after country is abandoning its faith
in democracy. It is the time to pro-
claim Lincoln's indomitable confidence
in the ultimate justice and good sense
of the common people.

Charity for Vanquished.

"What is his next message? 'Clem-
ency in the hour of triumph.' The
doctrine of tin: pagan world was woe
to the conquered. Lincoln's doctrine
was • reconcile the vanquished.'

" It is a time for remembering that

vengance is the lustlce of the savage

and that conciliation is the triumph
of civilization over barbarism.

" Lincoln is the finest product in the
realm of statemanship of the Christian
civilization, and the wise counsel he]
gave to his own people in L.
this triumph he also gives today to
the people of Europe in the hour of
their victory pver the forces that men-
aced their liberties.

"A time is coming when the princi-
ples of Abraham Lincoln will have to
be fought for again;"
elusion. "And the flags of. Great Brit-
ain and of the United States standing
together, ratlylng about them the m*-n
taught the principle i ol Abraham Lin-
coln, will yet save the world for lib-
erty, for peace, tor good will amongst
men."

Views Lincoln Relics.

At the Lincoln home Mr. Lloyd
George came in contact with mrnifr.-
toes of the most intimate til
great emancipator.

From the Lincoln home. Mr. Lloyd
George went to the tomb on the out-
skirts of the city, where the most Im-
pressive pari of his v. •sit occurred.
Sere he laid a sri.v,; wreath of ever-
green on the catafalque.

"Humble and reverent tribute to one
of the world's greatest men " was writ-
ten on the card attached to the wreath.
They were the same words that Mr.
Lloyd George had written in the reg-
ister at the Lincoln home.

Crowds packed the hotel loi>i.;. a for
a glimpse of the British statesman
when ho left to eater his oar for tin-
trip to St. Louis tonight.

HAPPY OVER VISIT HERE

With the applause of 12.000 Cbl-
cago&ns s 111 ringing In bis ears and
happy o\ the result of hi.- CI
visit. David Lloyd <'••■ •:
yesterday for Springfield to n.
visit tc Abraham Lincoln's tomb. L
had long been a desire of England's

war promier to visit the burial place
of Ametica's gn -man, he

said, before his train left.
•• i did enjoy my visit to Chicago,"

he declared.

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LINCOLN.
[Council Bluffs Nonpareil.]
Lloyd-George quotes Abraham
Lincoln occasionally in his speeches.
This doubtless explains why he is
effective with the common people.
Lincoln gripped fundamentals. He
was always sane in his methods, s;mc
in his conclusions and invincible in
logic. Lincoln's letters, speeches and
arguments are as pertinent to condi-
tions today as they were when their
author lived. lie was never an oppor-
tunist, l fj^

Lloyd George

TREADING UPON SACRED SOIL: LLOYD GEORGE

at the Door of the Log Cabin Inside the Lincoln Memorial

at Hodgeville. Ky., Erected on the Spot Where Stood

the Original Cabin in Which Lincoln Was Born.

(Times Wide

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One of the Greatest

Men in the World's

History"

On the one hundreth anniver-
sary of Abraham Lincoln's
birth, Theodore Roosevelt, then
President, said that Lincoln was
"one of the two greatest Amer-
icans; one of the two or three
greatest men of the nineteenth
century; one of the greatest
men in the world's history . . . He lived to lead
his people through the burning flames of strug-
gle from which the nation emerged, purified as
by fire, born anew to a loftier life . . . Ever doing
his duty, ever facing the future with fearless
front, high of heart and dauntless of soul. Un-
broken by hatred, unshaken by scorn, he worked
and suffered for the people."

Mr. Lloyd George, who visited Lincoln's
grave some years ago, in his speech there said:
"There are only a few whose names have become
a legend among men. Among them is conspicu-
ously stamped the name of Abraham Lincoln.
His fame is wider today than at the time of his
death, and it is widening every year. He belongs
to mankind, in every race, in every clime, in
every age — a great man of all time, for all par-
ties, for all lands, and for all races of men."

Of books about Lincoln there is no end. One
of the latest in our Book Store is an interesting
human biography by Dr. Barton; another is a
"Psycho-Biography" by L. Pierce Clark. But
psycho-analyze him as they may — there remains
the noble character, the sympathetic heart, the
great soul that goes marching on. The great
men of all nations regard Lincoln with profound
veneration. "He belongs to the ages."

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Lloyd George (Prime Minister of Great Britain)

THE WORLD Lloyd George

IN REVIEW on l.in.oln

By MAJOR GENERAL DAVID PRESCOTT BARROWS

Miiitarr Authority and Former Pretidtnt of th. Univenitj of California

IN THE summer of 1920 the
British government accepted

and unveiled a bronze

of Lincoln that was the gift of

a group of American citizens.

It is a replica of the figure of
Lincoln created by the American
sculptor, Augustus St. Gaudens.

Lincoln is represented as hav-
ing risen from his seat and
standing at the full height of his
great frame. The hands clutctt
the lapels of his coat. The head
is slightly bowed. The features
reveal the sad composure, the
benignity and the strength of
the famous face.

In accepting (his replica of
perhaps the greatest statue cre-
ated in America, the British gov-
ernment chose to locate it in
Parliament Square where, on the
one side Westminster Abbey and
on the other the Houses of
Parliament look down upon it.
Here it stands where, in the
words of Elihu Root, "the living
tides of London ebb and flow
about it."

In that famed company Lincoln
is the only one who was never a
subject of the British King. Yet
in the view of scholars and
statesmen, he belongs there be-
cause he was the consummation
of the long, common struggle of
England and America for human
freedom.

I was privileged to be present
in Westminster Hall at the
ceremonies- preceding the unveil-
ing of this statue.

' Lord James Bryce presided. J'
was the last time that I ever saw
him. I remember him that daj
for the beauty and sweetness of
his personality. The address of
presentation was made by Elihu
| Root.

The speech of acceptance was,
jmade by the Prime Mini
IGreat Britain, David Lloyd,
George. He spoke without manu-
scripl or notes. As he proceeded:
tears flowed also from his eyes.
I What he said was brief, but it
lis applicable now, as we emerge
lagain from another world war
infinitely more terrible in its loss
and ruin and in the resentments
which it will leave. Also because,
so far as I know, this speech has
never been published in America,
it seems timely to print it as it
appeared the next day in the
,London TimesL

The Prime Minister said:
"In a few moments we shall
see unveiled before our eyes a
| presentment in bronze of the
1 best known historical face in
the Anglo-Saxon world. I doubt
whether any statesman who
ever lived sank so deeply into
the hearts of the people of |
many lands as Abraham Lin-
coln did.

"1 am not sure that you in
America realize the extent to
which he is also our possession j
and our pride. His courage,
fortitude, patience, humanity, ,
clemency, his trust in the peo- i
pie, his belief in democracy,
will stand out forever as bea-

cons to jjuide troubled nations

and their perplexed leader**
Resolute in war, he «a» mod*
erate in victory.

"In his life he »a> a great

American. He is an American

no longer. Jj(! j., one of those
giant figures, of whom there
are \er\ Jew in histoiw, who
lose their nationalit\ in death.
They are no longer <ireek or
Hebrew, or English or Ameri-
can— they belong to mankind.
"I WOndet whether I Will be

forgiven for saying that Georgia
Washington was a great Ameri-
can, but Abraham Lincoln be-
longs to the common people of
everj land. They love that hag-
gard face with its sail ami ten-
der eyes. There is a worship
in their regard. There is a
faith and a hope in that wor-
ship.

"Tile great people who can
produce men like Lincoln and
Lee for their emergencies, are
sound to the core.

"The qualities that enable
the American nation to bring
forth, to discern, to appreciate,
and to follow as leaders such
men, are needed now more than
ever in the settlement of the
world.

"May 1 respectfully, but earn-
estly, say one word from this
platform to the great people
of America:

"This torn and bleeding earth
is calling today for the help
of the America of Abraham
Lincoln.''

visited this statue in Parliament Square, between Westminster
Abbey and the Houses of Parliament in 1925; hear^ Big Ben strike
12:00 NCONi There is another similar statue in Callow Hill Ceme^
tery in Edinbourgh, Scotland. I well remember visiting that one,
too. I think these two statues are the only two in Europe.

You will probably appreciate the speech of the Prime Minister
David Lloyd George, because of his death so recently, this for
your collection.

Sinerely,

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Lloyd George, British Premier

Lincoln a World Hero

WHEN Stanton, the Iskcfi lary of war,
closed Lincoln's eyes and drew the she< I
over his face, tic uttered in a low voice ii"
prophetic words, "He belongs to the ages."
He is nol simply one of the greal men ol the
nineteenth century, lie has already becomi
a beacon-light <>f the centuries. He is a
fixed .star in the firmament <>f history. To
him men in all ages will turn to mark their
course ami direct Hie destiny of the people
of liberty.

But Lincoln not only belongs to tin ig< -
he belongs to the world. lie has become a

world hero. In Russia to-day they are long-
ing and praying for a Lincoln to lead them
out of the swamp in which the\ are flounder-
ing; Rizal, the Filipino patriot and martyr
under the Spanish rule, was inspired bj the
life and words of Washington and Lincoln.
During the great war, which the world felt
was a struggle to make the world safe for
democracy, no man's word- wen- quoted
oftener, nor to greater effect than those of
the great emancipator. Europe, or the- best
of it at least, has come to claim him as its own

Lloyd George, the ISi M i I. pn mier, ipeaU-
ing at the unveiling of St. Gaudens' statue of
Lincoln in Parliament Square, London, said

"I doubt whether any statesman who ever
lived sank so deeply into the hearts of bh<
people of many lands as Abraham Lincoln
did. 1 am not sure thai sou in America
realize the extent to which he is also our
possession and our pride. His courage, forti-
tude, patience, humanity, clemency, his trust
in the people, his belief in democracy, and,
may 1 add, some of the phrases in which he
gave expression to those attributes, will stand
out forever as beacons to guide troubled na-
tions and their perplexed leaders. Resolute
in war, he was moderate in victory. Misrep-
resented, misunderstood, underestimated, be
was patient to the last. Hut the people be-
lieved in him all the time, and lhe\ >lill be-
lieve in him.

"In his life he was a ureal \inencan. He
is an American no longer. II. i» one of those
giant figures, of whom there are very few in
history, who lose their nationality in death
Thej are no longer Greek or Hebrew or Eng-
lish or American they belong to mankind
I wonder whether I will be forgiven foi say-
ing that George Washington was a great
American, but Abraham Lincoln belongs to
the common people of every land