In San Francisco, Virus is Contained but Schools Are Still Closed

[David Lockmiller]

There may be some people who are illogically concerned about President Lincoln becoming a cult figure like the lady from England who wrote repeatedly to Ida Tarbell about these concerns.

To which, Ida Tarbell responded:

"Again, you ask if there is not danger that 'popular adulation and an aura of mythical supermanliness will jeopardize the sober evaluation of Lincoln's true and inestimable worth.' Not to any great extent. The people on the whole, have him about right. His place with us depends upon the conviction of the people that he was a man, and not that he was a superman. It is likeness to themselves, the fact that they understand the words he uses and the arguments-they understand, too, the struggle that he went through, it is like their own."

My concern is about the uninformed and misled people who now consider President Abraham Lincoln to be a historical figure who should be reviled.