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Lincoln Memorial News Items, Excerpts From Newspapers and Other SourcesBut we Kentuckians love the memory of Abraham Lincoln too well to desire to use that as a vehicle for the purpose of throwing upon the Government the maintenance of and assist ance in building public highways. [applause] Why, the argu ments made here this morning, Mr. Speaker, that Washington s Monument was cold and clumsy looking, that some of the statues here to Lincoln are not beautiful, the argument that when men want to pay tribute to one whom they love and who made for the good of their Republic they should do something that would be useful - that argument would tear down every temple, it would uproot every shrine, it would even pull the flag from the sky because it might be made more useful than by simply swishing there. [applause.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.