. : [booklet]. EOPLE To a great and glorious army of her sonsthere was given, as to Abraham Lincoln,the great honor to die for our country;but to none of them was it also given tolove and labor for it so effectively as must not in his goodness losesight of his greatness. Like many others,he was a man of the people, but to anunusual degree he was the peoples man :he understood them, he sympathized withthem, he thought of them, he consultedwith them, and it was always his highestsatisfaction to know and do their will. this same compass, soon to mislay it, butLincoln used it to the end
. : [booklet]. EOPLE To a great and glorious army of her sonsthere was given, as to Abraham Lincoln,the great honor to die for our country;but to none of them was it also given tolove and labor for it so effectively as must not in his goodness losesight of his greatness. Like many others,he was a man of the people, but to anunusual degree he was the peoples man :he understood them, he sympathized withthem, he thought of them, he consultedwith them, and it was always his highestsatisfaction to know and do their will. this same compass, soon to mislay it, butLincoln used it to the end. The people !the people ! this was the keynote of hisservice, the foundation of his statesman-ship. An unfailing faith in the commonpeople and the common righteousness ofthe plain people, as he called them, wasthe compass by which he ever steered hisdifficult course. This compass broughthim to his great goal, and made him ever-more the answer of Democracy whenchallenged by the nations of the world,Show us your THE EARLIEST PORTRAIT OF ABRAHAM Life of Lincoln, published by Doubleday, Page & Co. From the original daguerreotype owned by the Hon. Robert T. thought to be 1848, when Lincoln was 39. He declared: The one great living prin-ciple of all democratic government is thatthe representative is bound to carry outthe known will of his constituents. Atthe very beginning of his public servicehe said: While acting as their repre-sentative I shall be governed by their willon all subjects on which I have the meansof knowing what their will is; and uponall others I will do what my own judgmentteaches me will advance their officeholders have started out with A GROWING FAME Every year sinceLincolns death hascarried his name andfame higher in the es-timation of are at least fivehundred Lincoln col-lections and a grow-ing Lincoln litera-ture. There are saidto be three thousandbooks and pamphletson Lincoln, not in-cluding periodi
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