ure from custom would
be better than the loss on the old blankets and the increased
expenditure for the new blankets.

The reason for mentioning such incidents is that there are so
many more of which the public never hears. Their combined
educative effect would be great, but it is wasted without
publicity. Since the public is not unanimous against public
ownership and operation, there must be a considerable number
of persons who are proof against anything but a catastrophe
greater than the prostration of the railway and utility
industries. That is an expansive way of education, but
perhaps Dr. Cooley, Dean of the University of Michigan, is
right in his view that the method is necessary to prevent a
greater calamity by persistence in the error.

_New York Times_, July 21, 1919

2. Fourscore and seven years ago our Fathers brought forth on
this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that
nation or any nation so conceived or so dedicated, can long
endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We
have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final
resting place for those who here gave their lives that that
nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that
we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate--we cannot
consecrate--we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men,
living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far
above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little
note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never
forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather,
to be here dedicated to the unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for
us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before
us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion
to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of
devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall
not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall
have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the
people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from
the earth.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: _Gettysburg Address_, 1865

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