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Volune 9 February 10, LYdil. Number 6 
Abraham Lincoln’s name will ev- 
er be cherished by the nation. Hach 
year that goes by only adds to the 
elory of that great name. The spon- 
taneity with which men gather and 
pay tribute to his great lite work 
testifies to his real greatness. No 
ceneration can pass judgement on 
any man of it own day. Greatness 
can only be determined by _ time. 
‘Time proves the names to endure. 
Abraham Lincoln is one of the few 
really great men our age has known. 
Ile was the centre of the great 
strife which preserved the union. 
That war settled a great problem 
once and for all time. Peace fol- 
lowed. War is only justifiable 
when it is unavoidable and when it 
settles great national problems. Lin- 
‘oln and his great. army settled the 
proble m of unvoluntary servitude in 
America. By it the National Unity 
was preserved. It is a mere quib- 
bling of words to say that war was 
fought to save the Union. Slavery 
had everything to do with threaten- 
ing the Union. While all quickly 
that the fundamental prob- 
lem was the maintenance of the Un- 
ion it is clearly evident that it was 
slavery which jeopardized the Un- 
lon. This is evident .when we real- 
ize that the Confederate States 
lopted our national constitution 
agree 
with only one change and that one 
on the question of slavery. Abra- 
ham Lineoln was right. The house 
aceine itself cannot stand. 
division was Jedi pede ste 
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G. E. WILLMONTON ... 
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Abraham Lincoln sueceeded. No 
road of triumph, no eloquent ora- 
tion, no monument in bronze or 
stone can immortalize him. His 
memorial is the perpetuity of our 
great nation on the principles © of 
freedom justice and integrity. Long 
live the name Abraham Lincoln! 
The responsibilities of government 
in America rests upon the individ- 
ual citizen. There is at patriotism 
of peace that demands courage. In 
a patriarchate responsibility rests up- 
on the patriarch; in a monarchy up- 
on the king; but in a democracy. it 
rests with the people. Our com- 
munity needs men,—men of charac- 
ter and leading, who are willing to 
make sacrifices to care for the ¢om- 
munity’s best interest. It is as pat- 
riotic to serve the town in its offi- 
cial positions, poorly paid as some 
may be, as it is to take up arms and 
fight in defense of the country. 
When Lincoln was approached 
during the great conflict by a slave 
holder to have two slaves returned 
to him Lincoln told the ‘‘exquisite’’ 
story of the boat passing over the 
rapids requiring great skill in the 
navigator. At the most critical 
point in the stream a lad called to 
the captain to stop the boat so he 
could pick up his apple. 
Men forget the great issues in their 
interests in the lesser issues. Our 
town campaigns for office should be 
conducted on a high plane to devel- 
op great efficiency of the whole 
business of the town. Stop quarel- 
ling about apples and stand by the 
ship! Boost Manchester! The in- 
terests of a whole community are of 
more moment than any petty effort 
of reform, or justifiable or unjusti- 
fiable criticism of a less important 
part of the town work. Manchester 
and her best interests call for ser- 
vice from her citizens. Too many 
of our elections hang on small, un- 
important, trivial ‘‘issues’’, Think 
of it,—Manchester, the best know 
summer resort in the country, the 
center of the nation for four months 
of the year, the summer home of the 
representatives to this country of 
the leading powers of the world,— 
think of it—Manchester electing 
the officers to administer its affairs, 
to manage this sixteen million dol- 
lar corporation, on such trivial ‘‘is- 
sues’? as who is to be our next 
sewer. Willmonton’ n’s Agency 
chief of police, who is to be our 
next superintendent of streets, who 
is to superintend our water plant, 
will you permit rum to be sold with- 
out license at the hotel. What 
damned rot! How long are the 
people of Manchester going to al- 
low the affairs of this beautiful 
town of ours to be run along such 
lines as these? We predict unpre- 
cedented success to the man who 
can rise above small issues and com- 
mit himself to the larger work of 
the town. 
At the Baptist Social Union (Bos- 
ton) on Monday Rev. Frank C. 
Briggs of Japan, and formerly of 
Manchester, made an earnest and 
affective address upon Japan. He 
is no ‘‘jingo’’. He scored Mr. Hob- 
son severly, and perhaps justly. He 
says ‘‘the hellishness of these re- 
ports with war between Japan and 
Ameriea is that they may create the 
very conditions they are talking 
about by their continued shouting’’ 
Mr. Briggs has been a_ successful 
missionary in Japan and has served 
his denomination well. We ean con- 
gratulate him on his fearless mes- 
sage and on the recognition he has 
received as speaker at the Baptist 
Social Union. 
Beverly Farms property interests 
require more adequate fire protec- 
tion. The bill for a new steamer is 
in the line of progress. Mr. Loring 
can be counted upon to do his share 
of work for it. It will remain to be © 
seen whether Ward 6 has gained or 
lost power by the new charter. 
Ward 6 has but one representative 
under the new city charter, where 
it has had four. One man must do 
all of the fighting. The matter of 
new fire engine has been referred 
to the committee on finanee. Strong 
letters from interested property 
owners will help. 
The facility with which Mr. Foss 
passes to the question of the forti- 
fication of the Panama Canal in his 
message to memorialize congress in 
behalf of reciprocity is interesting. 
He also calls reciprocity the domin- 
ant issue of the last election. <A 
month ago the dominant issue, the 
same authority claimed, was Lodge. 
The memorial is a good scheme, but 
it is not an opportunity to read a 
lecture to legislature on the Panama 
Canal. 
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