TRIBUTE TO M KINLEY President Roosevelt Pays Homage to the Martyr at Canton. Classes Illm as One of the tireat Men of History Wus Well Quallfled to lVrforiu the Tasks That Fell to 111 in. The following is the address of Pres ident Roosevelt delivered at Canton on the occasion of the celebration of President McKiulcy's birth: Mr. Toast master, and Gentlemen: Throughout our history, and indeed throughout history generally, it lias been given to only a very few thrice favored men to take so marked a lead in the crises faced by their several generations that thereafter each stands as the embodiment of the tri umphant effort of his generation. President McKinley was one of these men. If during the lifetime of a genera tion no crisis occurs sufficient to call out in marked manner the energies of the strongest leader, then of course the world does not and cannot know of the existence of such a leader; and in consequence there are long periods in the history of every nation during which no man appears who leaves an indelible mark in history. If, on the other hand, the crisis is one so many sided as to call for the development and exercise of many distinct attrib utes, it may be that more than one man will appear in order that the re quirements shall be fully met. In the revolution and in the period of con structive statesmanship immediately following it, for our good fortune it befell us that the highest military and the highest civic attributes were em bodied in Washington, and so in him we have one of the undying men of history—a great soldier, if possible an even greater statesman, and above all a public servant whose lofty and dis interested patriotism rendered his power and ability—alike on fought fields and in council chambers —of the most far-reaching service to the re public. In the civil war the two func tions were divided, and Lincoln and Grant will stand forevermore with their names inscribed 011 the honor roll of those who liave deserved well of mankind by saving to humanity a precious heritage. In similar fashion Thomas .Tefferson and Andrew Jack son each stands as the foremost rep resentative of the great movement of liis generation, and their names sym bolize to us their times and the hopes and aspirations of their times. Fared Momentoim Problems. 7t was given to President McKinley to take the foremost place in our polit ical life at a time when our country was brought face to face with prob lems more momentous than any whose solution we have ever attempt ed, save only in the revolution and in the civil war; and it was under his leadership that the nation solved these mighty problems aright. There fore he shall stand in the eyes of his tory not merely as the first man of his generation, but as among the greatest figures in our national life, coming second only to the men of the two great crises in which the union was founded and preserved. No man could carry through success fully such a task 11s President McKin ley undertook, unless trained by long years of effort for its performance. Knowledge of liis fellow-citizens, abil ity to understand them, keen sympa thy with even their innermost feel ings, and yet power to lead them, to gether with far-sighted sagacity and resolute belief both in the people and in their future—all these were needed in the man who headed the march of our people during the eventful years from IS!IP> to 1901. These were the qualities possessed by McKinley and developed by him throughout his whole history previous to assuming the presidency. As a lad he had the inestimable privilege of serving, first in the ranks, and then as a commis sioned officer, in the great war for na tional union, righteousness, and grandeur; he was one of those whom a kindly providence permitted to fake 4 part in a struggle which ennobled every man who fought therein. He who when little more than a boy had seen the grim steadfastness which after four years of giant struggle re stored the union and freed the slave was not thereafter to be daunted bv danger or frightened out of his belief in the great destiny of our people. Ills Klse to Leadership. Some years after the war closed Mc- Kinley came to congress, and rose, during a succession of terms, to lead ership in his party in the lower house, lie also became governor of his native state, Ohio. During this varied service he received practical training of the kind most valuable to him when he be came chief executive of the nation. To the high faith of his early years was added the capacity to realize his ideals, to work with his fellow-men at the same time that he led them. President McKinley's rise to great ness had in it nothing of the sudden, nothing of the unexpected or seem ingly aecidf ntal. Throughout his long term of service in congress there was a steady increase alike in his pow er of leadership and in the recogni tion of that power both by his asso ciates in public life and by the pub lic itself. Session after session his in fluence in the house grew great( r; his party antagonists grew to look upon him with constantly increasing re spect; his party friends with constant ly increasing failh and admiration. Kif?ht years before he was nominated for president he was already consid ered a presidential possibility. Four years before he was nominated only his own high s» use of honor prevented his being made 11 formidable com petitor of the chief upon whom the choice of the convention then actifally j fell. In 1596 lie was chosen because the great mass of his party knew him and believed in him and regarded him | as symbolizing their ideals, as repre- j senting their aspirations. Inestimat- | ing the forces which brought about his ; nomination and election 1 do not un dervalue that devoted personal friend ship which he had the faculty to in spire in so marked a degree among the ablest, and most influential leaders; this leadership was of immense conse quence in bringing about the result; j but, after all, the prime factor was i the trust in and devotion to him felt i by the great mass of men who had : come to accept him as their recognized j spokesnuyi. In his nomination the s national convention of a great party j carried into effect in good faith the deliberate judgment of that party as to who its candidate should he. Represented Alt Classes. Hut even as a candidate President McKinley was far more than the can didate of a party, and as president he was in the broadest and fullest sense the president of all the people of all sections of the country. His first nomination came to liim lo calise of the qualities he had shown in healthy anil open political leadership, the leadership which by word and deed j impresses itself as a virile force for j good upon the people at large and J which has nothing in common with j mere intrigue or manipulation, lint ; in ISOG the issue was fairly joined, I chiefly upon a question which as a | party question was entirely new, so that the old lines of political cleav age were in large part abandoned, j All other issues sank in importance j when compared with the vital need of i keeping our financial system on tlie j high and honorable plane imperative- | ly demanded by our position as a j great civilized power. As the cham- j pion of such a principle President Mc- \ Kinley received the support not only j of his own party but. of hundreds of j thousands of those to whom he had been politically opposed. He tri umphed. and he made good with ecru- | pulous fidelity the promises upon which j the campaign was won. We were at the time in a period of great industrial j ■depression and it was promised for j and on behalf of McKinley that if he j were elected our financial system : should not only be preserved un harmed but improved and our econom ic system shaped in accordance with those theories which have always marked our periods of greatest pros perity. The promises were kept, and following their keeping came the pros perity which we now enjoy. All that was foretold concerning the well being which would follow the election of McKinley has been justified by the event. I'rohlcMiiH of tbe War. But as so often happens in our his tory, the president was forced to face questions other than tnose at issue at the time of his election. Within a year the situation in Cuba had be come literally intolerable. I'resident McKinley had fought too well in his youth, he knew too well at first hand what war really was, lightly to en ter into a struggle. He sought by every honorable means to preserve j peace, to avert war. He made every effort consistent with the national honor to bring about an amicable settlement of the Cuban difficulty. Then, when it became evident that these efforts were useless, that peace could not be honorably entertained, he devoted his strength to making the war as short and as decisive as possible. It is needless to tell the result 111 detail. Suffice it to say that rarely indeed in history lias a contest so far-reaching in the impor tance of its outcome been achieved ■ with such ease. There followed a | harder t?«ok. As a result of the war we came into possession of Cuba, J l'orfo Rico and the Philippines. In j each island the conditions were such | that we had to face problems en tirely new to our national experi ence, and, moreover, in each island, or group of islands, tlie problems diffen d radically from those present ed in the others. In Porto Rico the task was simple. The island could ! not be independent. It became in all j essentials a part of the union. It lias been given all the benefits of our ! economic and financial system. Its ! inhabitants have been given the high est individual liberty, while yet their j government has been kept under the supervision of officials so well chosen that the island can be appealed to as affording a model for all such ex periments in the future; and this re sult was mainly owing to the ad mirable choice of instruments by President McKinley when he selected the governing officials. In Cuba, where we were pledged to give the island independence, the pledge was kept, not merely in let ter, but in spirit. It would have been a betrayal of our duty to have given < fclia independence out of band. President McKinley, with liis usual singular sagacity in the choice of agents, selected in (Sen. Leonard Wood the man of all others best fit to bring the island through its un certain period of preparation for in dependence, and the result of his wisdom was shown when last May the island became in name anil in fact a free republic, for it started with a better equipment and under more favorable conditions than had ever previously been tin* case with any Spanish-American common wealth-. , Finally, in the Philippines. the probb in was one of great complex ity. There was an insurrectionary party claiming to represent the peo-| pie of the islands and | >111 1 i■ iforth their claim with :i certain spceious llPSS which deceived no in :i 11 num ber of excellent men here at home, and which afforded to yet others a chance to arouse a factious party j spirit against the president. Of i CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5 1903 ' course, looking back, It is cow easj I to see that it would have been both absurd and wicked to abandon the | Philippine archipelago and let the j scores of different tribes—Christian, | Mohammedan and pagan, in every ; stage of semi-Asiatic barbarism —turn | the islands into a welterof bloody sav agery with the absolutecertainty that some strong power would have to J step in and take possession. lint I though now it is easy enough to see that our duty was to stay in the is lands, to put down the insurrection j by force of arms, and then to es | tablish freedom-giving civil govern ! ment, it needed genuine statesman j ship to see this and to act aecord j ingly at the time of the first revolt, i A weaker and less far-sighted man than President McKinley would have shrunk from a task very difficult in itself, and certain to furnish oeca sion for attack and misrepresenta j tion no less than for honest mis- S understanding. But President Mc* ! Kinlcy never flinched. lie refused to | consider the thought of abandoning I our duty in our new possessions, j While sedulously endeavoring to act with the utmost humanity toward j the insurrectionists, he never fal j tered in the determination to put j them down by force of arms, alike I for the sake of our own interests and j honor, and for the sake of the in ! terest of the islanders, and particu larly of the great numbers of friend ly natives, including those most high- I ly civilized, for whom abandonment jby us would have meant ruin and | death. Again his policy was most i amply vindicated. Peace has come t.» i the islands, together with a greater i measure of individual liberty and ! self-government than they have ever j before known. All the tasks set us j as a result of the war with Spain j have so far been well and honorably ! accomplished, and as a result this | nation stands higher than ever be | fore among the nations of mankind. President MeKinley's second cam paign was fought mainly, on the is- I sue of approving what he had done | in his first administration, and spe j eifically what he had done as re gards these problems springing out |of the war with Spain. The result j was that the popular verdict in his | favor was more overwhelming than it had been before. The Tragedy Ht UnfTulo. Xo other president in our history has seen high and honorable effort crowned with more conspicuous per sonal success. No other president en tered upon his second term feelinsf such a right to profound and peace | ful satisfaction. Then, by a stroke of horror, so strange in its fantas tic iniquity as to stand unique in the black annals of crime, he was struck down. The brave, strong, gen tle heart was stilled forever, and word was brought to the woman who wept that she was to walk thence forth alone in the shadow. The hid eous infamy of the deed shocked the | nation to its depths, for the man thus struck at was in a peculiar sense j the champion of the plain people, in j a peculiar sense the representative | and the exponent of those ideals j which, if we live up to them, will j make, as they have largely made, our ! country a blessed refuge, for all who strive to do right and to live their lives simply and well as light is given them. The nation was stunned, and the people mourned with a sense of bitter bereavement because they had lost a man whose heart beat for them : as the heart of Lincoln once had I beaten. We did right to mourn; for the loss was ours, not his. He died Jin the golden fullness of his tri ' umph. He died victorious in that | highest of all kinds of strife—tlie ! strife for an ampler, juster and more ! generous national life. For him the j laurel; but woe for those whom he | left behind; woe to the nation that lost him. II is Legacy to IIi» Country men. We are gathered together to-night to recall his memory, to pay our trib ute of respect to the great chief and leader who fell in the harness, who i was stricken down while his eyes I were bright with "the light that { tells of triumph tasted." We can i honor him best by the way we show I in actual deed that we have taken j to heart the lessons of his life. We j must strive to achieve, each in the i measure that he can, something of the qualities which made President | McKinley a leader of men, a mighty j power for good, his strength, his courage, his courtesy and dig nity, his sense of justice, his ever present kindliness and regard for the I rights of others. He won greatness by meeting and solving the issues as they arose—not by shirking tlierfi— meeting them with wisdom, with the exercise of the most skillful and cau tious judgment, but with fearless res olution when the time of crisis came. I He met each crisis on its own mer its; he never sought excuse for shirk j ing a task in the fact that it was I different from the one lie had ex pected to face. The long public | career, which opened when as a boy | he carried the musket in the ranks and closed when as a man in the i prime of his intellectual strength he ! stood among the world's chief states- I men. came to what it wa- because lie treated each triumph as opening the road to fresh effort, not as an excuse for ceasing from effort, lie under took mighty tasks. Some of them h-» , finished completely; others we must finish; and there remain yet cithers I which he did not have to face, but I which if we are worthy to be the ! inheritors of his principles we will ! in our turn face with the same reso lution. the same sanity, the same , unfaltering l belief in the greatness of j this country, anil unfaltering cham pionship of the rights of each and all | of our people, whieli marked his high [ and splendid career. CAUGHT BY THE CRIP. RELEASED BY PE-RU-NA. Congressman Ceo. H. White's Case. A Noted Sculptress Cured. | M fid i n j LA GRIPPE is epidemic catarrh. It spares no class or nationality. The cultured and the ignorant, the aris tocrat and the pauper, the masses and the classes are alike subject to la grippe. None are exempt—all are li able. Have you the grip? Or, rather, has the grip got you? Grip is well named. The original French term, la grippe, has been shortened by the busy Amer ican to read "grip." Without intending to do so a new word has been coined that exactly describes the case. As if Ask your c One Hole at Lenat. ITicks—l bought some oil stock nearly a year ago, and the fellow who sold it to me declared the company was already in operation. I'll bet they haven't sunk a •ingle hole yet. \> icks—Oh! I wouldn't say that. They must have at least the hole in which they're going to leave the stockholders.—Catholic Standard and Times. Ilcttl'Mi Ilefore Wealth. 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