the heart of Russia, Tolstoi who has never been outside of the confines of his own country for more than fifty years, Tolstoi clad in the garb of the peasant, and living the life of the peasant and preaching out to all the world the philosophy that rests upon the doctrine, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and thy neighbor as thyself," Tolstoi read the letter of Dumas and gave it his endorsement.

We see signs of it in this country and everywhere, and with that great doctrine of liberty we shall find the nations knit more closely together. We shall find our own people working more harmoniously together, and we shall find people asking, not "What can we do?" but "What ought we to do?" and giving to ethics a paramount place in the calculations of individuals and nations.

My friends, Lincoln was a representative of the latest development of the art of government, for Lincoln rested his hope and built his faith upon the hearts of men.

I am glad that we live in this latter day when the might of the brute is disappearing, when the cunning of the brain is no longer commanding the highest praise, when the characteristics of the heart are demanding a consideration that they have never demanded before; and on this occasion, when we meet to speak the name of Lincoln, it is a fitting time to raise our hearts in gratitude, that he was one of the first and one of the greatest of those artists in the "Royal Art of Government" to recognize the heart's place in shaping the destiny of man and the history of a nation.

JUDGE HUMPHREY

Introducing Senator Dolliver

A score of years ago a new star appeared in the firmament of the Mississippi valley. The people of Iowa saw this man adorning the public forum and the sanctuaries of justice and they bade him go and grace somewhat the rougher walks of political life. They found him worthy to be the colleague of the late Senator Allison. Since that time his star has been ever in the ascendant and the nation recognizes the added strength and wisdom which he brings to that great deliberative body, the Senate of the United States. Always a welcome visitor to Illinois, where his voice on other occasions has been frequently heard, we give him special welcome tonight as one worthy to voice an estimate of the greatest American the country has ever produced. I have pleasure in presenting the distinguished orator and statesman, the Honorable, aye, the Honorable Jonathan P. Dolliver, senator from Iowa.

SENATOR DOLLIVER

Our Heroic Age

I find a very great pleasure in sitting down with you at these tables, spread with the luxuries and the necessities of life. I thank my friend, the toastmaster, for the very kind expression with which he has introduced me, although I am bound to say that I have a distinct impression that, without intending it, he has given me an advertisement that is likely to do me more harm than good, for I make no pretense whatever either as an orator or as a statesman. I am a plain country politician, of a kind very numerous here in Illinois, although I think I agree with you in believing that there is mighty little difference between a politician and a statesman.

I have had a little trouble to find out what I am expected to speak about in order to beguile the midnight dispositions of the patriots who remain around these banquet tables. While I have had a little difficulty to find out what I am expected to talk about, I have had several intimations that there are some subjects that might be irritating if I introduced them on an occasion like this. It has been delicately suggested to me that the campaign in Illinois, (I do not mean the primary campaign, but the ordinary political campaign) is over, and that these tables are dedicated to an atmosphere of pure patriotism without any partisan bias; and I am mighty glad of it, because I have lived in the atmosphere of party politics so long, I have been compelled to talk politics so much myself, and what is even worse I have been compelled to listen to so many other people talking, that I have reached, so far as those matters are concerned, a point of saturation, resembling somewhat the case of the young lady who had spent the summer at Narragansett Pier. She said that she had eaten so many clams that she rose and fell with the tide.

It is not that I have anything against it, but simply that, like everybody else, I have had enough of it for the time being.

I have listened with an unalloyed pleasure to the magnificent speeches with which this banquet has been made famous and memorable in Illinois and, I believe, throughout the United States. I was