Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1913 — AMONG PLAIN PEOPLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AMONG PLAIN PEOPLE

London’s Tribute to Abraham Lincoln in Appropriate Spot Tower Erected by American and English Admirers of the Great Emancipator Not as Well Known as It Might Be. Among the American visitors who throng “London each summer there are few who know that in South London there is a memorial to Abraham Lincoln. It Is a graceful tower and spire attached to Christ Church, an independent non-conformist church, in Southwark, - -U~~ Over the entrance are the words, “Lincoln Tower.” A large stone tab-

let inside records, among other things, that the tower “waß built in commemoration of the abolition of slavery effected by President Lincoln, and as a token of international brotherhood.” One of the two large rooms in the tower' 1b named Washington. When first erected, and before the smoke of London had blended all in uniform blackness, there could be seen on the spire of the

tower stars and stripes in red and white stone. The Lincoln Tower was inaugurated July 4, 1876. The newspapers of the time were crowded with accounts of the great centennial celebration, so that it is not strange that the ceremony of opening the tower was overlooked. The idea of the memorial originated with the Hon. William E. Dodge of New York;- who at the time was visiting the Rev. Newman Hall, widely known as “the dissenter’s bishop,” one of the most popular English preachers of the day. Except for the first thousand dollars, the whole cost of the tower, which amounted to thirty-five thousand dollars, was contributed, half in English sixpences and half in American dimes, entirely through the efforts of Mr. Hall, who counted the work all joy for the love that he bore to Lincoln. Southwark is a district of modest homes,—its inhabitants ate people, of small means, if not actually poor,— just .the kind of plain people whom Lincoln especially loved and trusted. It would please the great president that his memorial should v stand among such surroundings, rather than in a more conspicuous situation or a more fashionable neighborhood. Youth’s Companion.

/ F I were to try to read, much leas answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. Ido the very best I know how —the oery best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me wont amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, teq angels swearing I was right would make no difference. Spteehu and Presidential aJJnaet by Abraham Lincoln