THE M'KINLEY MONUMENT AT CANTON. . '■■ - • ' r^iziii^, : :3t r H t|l BBS■ • :: . • ' ' ■- : •■ V'■' -V '- - To an Honored Statesman, Wise Executive, Brave Soldier and Good Citizen. lILEY IHIEKT AT CANTON DEDICATED President Roosevelt Delivers en Address Eulogistic ot the Man Who Preceded Him in Office. Canton, O. —On Monday the same of William McKinley, "a good citizen, brave soldier, a wise execu tive" and a martyr, was engraved upon the pages of history to endure forever. It was the tribute of a grate ful nation, in both word and deed. A million Americans contributed the $600,000 necessary to perpetuate the memory of a beloved son in the form of a splendid monument, a tomb worthy of the name, in which lies the dust of Canton's illustrious citizen and one of the foremost presidents of the United States. N'oted men from all parts of the country, and many representatives of foreign countries made the pilgrimage here to dedicate the mausoleum, and made the event conspicuous. Chief ; among these was President Roose- j velt. who delivered the main address i of the day, an appreciation of Will- j iam McKinley. A little over ten years ago Canton to the country a president, Will iam McKinley. McKinley gave to the nation his life. Yesterday the nation gave Canton a monument and .McKin ley a last resting place. The monu ment is a magnificent structure, sini tde and imposing. In the sarcophagi are the bronze c iskets containing the bodies of both McKinley and his wife. In niches in the wall of the tomb are two little caskets containing the ashes of their only children, Ida and Mary, both of whom died in infancy. Fully 50,000 persons gathered here to witness the dedication of the monu ment. They sang the songs of hi.s •country and eulogized his memory. The dedication ceremonies proper were preceded by a reception in honor of President Roosevelt, McKin ley's successor. The president arriv (d in Canton in a special train over the Pennsylvania railroad at 10:15 a. m. The president was escorted to the Central high school building, where he and his escort passed in re view before 1,700 school children grouped and dressed to represent the national flag. As the president ap proached the children arose and sang •"America." The president then drove to the re viewing stand, where he witnessed a magnificent military anil civic pa rade which took nearly an hour and a half in passing. The parade was in charge of Sena tor Charles Dick, chief marshal of the day. At the close of the parade the pres ident lunched at the Auditorium and at 1 o'clock was taken to the monu ment on Monument hill. The presidential party arrived at the speakers' stand at 1:47. The party proceeded at once to the chairs reserved for each guest. The arrival of President. Roosevelt upon the stand was greeted with cheers. The audi ence arose. The president was ac companied by Justice Day and Vice President Fairbanks. At 2:24 .lustier- Day called the meeting to order and Introduced Gov. Harris,. president of the day. Gov. 11 a wis said ho would make no remarks and at once proceeded with the program. He introduced Rev. Dr. Bristol, of Washington, whose church President McKinley attended when in Washington. ltuv. Bristol offered prayer. Gov. Harris then delivered the opening address. Justice Day was greeted in silent re spect when he arose to tell the his tory of the building of the magnifi cent mausoleum which arose majestic ally in the background. After the singing of"The Star Spangled Ban ner" by the assemblage, Justice Day spoke. During his speech Justice Day when mentioning the name of H. Van Buren Magonigle, the architect of the monu ment, and of Charles Niehaus, the sculptor, asked those addressed to arise, which they did and were greet ed with applause. At the close of Justice Day's speech Gov. Harris asked the atfdience to rise while Miss Helen McKinley, only sis ter of the late president drew aside the flag disclosing the bronze figure of McKinley in the attitude of deliver ing his last speech on the day of his assassination at Buffalo, September 6, 1901. The flag was removed slowly and impressively. This was followed by the reading of the poem entitled "William McKinley," by James Whit comb Riley. President Harris then introduced the president of the United States. President Roosevelt stepped briskly to the front of the platform and was greeted with applause. The president spoke deliberately and very distinct, lie spoke as follows: We have gathered together to-day to pay our meed of respect and affec tion to the memory of William McKin ley, who as president won a place in the hearts of the American people such as but three or four of all the presidents of this country have ever won. He was of singular uprightness and purity of character, alike in pub lic and in private life; a citizen who loved peace, he did his duty faithfully and well for four years of war when the honor of the nation called him to arms. As congressman, as governor of his state, and finally as president, he rose to the foremost place among our statesmen, reaching a position which would satisfy the keenest ambi tion; but he never lost that simple and thoughtful kindness toward every human being, great or small, lofty or humble, with whom he was brought in contact, which so endeared him to out people. He had to grapple with more serious and eomplex problems than any president since Lincoln, and yet, while meeting every demand of states manship, he continued to live a beau tiful and touching fttmily life, a life very healthy for this nation to see in its foremost citizen; and now the wo man who walked in the shadow ever after his death, the wife to whom his loss was a calamity more crushing than it could be to any other human being, lies beside him here in the same sepulcher. There is a singular appropriateness in the inscription on his monument. Mr. Cortelyou, whose relations with hini were of such close intimacy, gives me the following information about It: On the president's trip to the Pacific slope in the spring of 1901 President Wheeler, of the University of Califor ! nia, conferred the degree of LL. D. upon him in words so well chosen that , they struck the fastidious taste of John Hay, then secretary of state, CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1907. who wrote and asked for a ropy of I them from President Wheeler. On the receipt of this copy lie sent the j following letter to President McKin- j ley, a letter which now seems filled ! with strange and unconscious presci- ! ence: "Dear Mr. President: "President Wheeler sent me the In- I closed at my request. You will have \ the words in more permanent shape. I They seem to me remarkably well j chosen, and stately and dignified j enough to serve—long hence, please God —as your epitaph. Yours faith- ; fully. JOHN HAY." "University of California, "Office of the President. "By authority vested in me by the regents of the University of Califor nia, I confer the degree of Doctor of Laws upon William McKinley, presi dent of the I'nited States, a states man singularly gifted to unite the discordant forces of the government and mold the diverse purposes of men toward progressive and salutary ac tion, a magistrate whose poise of ! judgment has been tested and vindi- j cated in a succession of national emer- j gencies; good citizen, brave soldier, wise executive, helper and leader of 1 men, exemplar to his people of the j virtues that build and conserve the state, society, and the home. "Berkeley. May 15, 1001." It would be hard *.O Imagine an epitaph which a good citizen would be 1 more anxious to deserve or one which | would more happily describe the j qualities of that great and good citi- j zen whose life we here commemorate, j He possessed to a vary extraordinary | degree the gift of uniting discordant forces and securing from them a har monious action which told for good government. From purposes not merely diverse, but bitterly conflict ing, he was able to secure healthful action for the good of the state. In both poise and judgment he rose level to the several emergencies he had to meet as leader of the nation, and like all men with the root of true great ness in them he grew to steadily larger stature under the stress of heavy responsibilities. He was a good citizen and a brave soldier, a chief executive whose wisdom entitled him to the trust which he received throughout the nation. He was not only a leader of men, but pre-eminent ly a helper of men; for one of his most marked traits was the intensely human quality of his wide and deep sympathy. Finally, he not merely preached, he was, that most valuable of all citizens in a democracy like ours, a man who in the highest place served as an unconscious example to his people of the virtues that build and conserve alike our public life, and the foundation of all public life, the intimate life of the home. Many lessons are taught us by his career, but none more valuable than the lesson of broad human sympathy for and among all of our citizens of all classes and creeds. No other president has ever more deserved to have his life work characterized in Lincoln's words as being carried on "with mal ice toward none, with charity toward all." As a boy he worked hard with his hands; he entered the army as a private soldier; he knew poverty; he earned his own livelihood; and by his own exertions he finally rose to the position of a man of moderate means. Not merely was he in personal touch with farmer and town dweller, with capitalist and wageworker, but he felt an intimate understanding of each, and therefore an intimate sympathy with each; and his consistent effort was to try to judge all by the same standard and to treat all with the same justice. Arrogance toward the weak, and envious hatred of t»>se well off, were equally abhorrent to his just and gentle soul. ... STATUE OF PRESIDENT Mc- KINLEY. A bronze masterpiece that is a fea ture of the monument erected to the martyr president at Canton. Surely this attitude of his should be the attitude of all our people to-day. It would be a cruel disaster to this country to permit ourselves to adopt an attitude of hatred and envy toward success worthily won, toward wealth honestly acquired. Let us in this re spect profit by the example of the re publics of this Western Hemisphere to the south of us. Some of these re publics have prospered greatly; but there are certain ones that have lagged far behind, that still continue in a condition of material poverty, of social and political unrest and confu sion. Without exception the republics of the former class are those in which honest industry has been assured of reward and protection; those where a cordial welcome has been extended 1 to the kind of enterprise which bene j tits the whole country, while incident ! ally, as is right and proper, giving sub stantial rewards to those who mani | fest it. On the other hand, the poor I and backward republics, the repub lics in which the lot of the average ; citizen is least desirable, and the lot 1 of the laboring man worst of all, are ! precisely those republics in which In i dustry has been killed because wealth ; exposed its owner to spoliation. To j these communities foreign capital now | rarely comes, because it has been found that as soon as capital is em ! ployed so as to give substantial re numeration to those supplying it, it j excites ignorant euvy and hostility, which result in sucli oppressive ac tion, with or without the law, as sooner or later to work a virtual con fiscation. Kvc ry manifestation of feeling of this kind in our civilization should be crushed at the outset by the weight of a sensible public opinion. Prom the standpoint of our ma terial prosperity there is only one other thins as important as the dis couragement of a spirit of envy and hostility toward honest business men. toward honest men of means; this Is the discouragement of dishonest busi ness men, the war upon the chicanery and wrongdoing which are peculiarly repulsive, peculiarly noxious, when ex hibited by men who have no excuse of want, of poverty, of ignorance, for their crimes. Men of means, aud above all men of great wealth, can exist in safety- under the peaceful pro jection of the state, only in orderly societies, where liberty manifests it self through and under the law. lt is tiles? men who, more than any others, should, in the interest.-, of the class to which they belong, in the interest;, of their children and their children's chil dren, seek in every way, but especi ally in the conduct of their lives, to insist upon and to build up respect for the law. It may not be true from the standpoint of some particular indi vidual of this class, but in the long run it is pre-eminently true from the standpoint of the class as a whole, no less than of the country as a whole, that it is a veritable calamity to achieve a temporary triumph by vio lation or evasion of the law; and we are the best friends of the man of property, we show ouselves the staunchest upholders of the rights of property, when we set our faces like flint against those offenders who do wrong in order to acquire great wealth or who use this wealth as a help to wrongdoing. If I • i: PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. Wrongdoing is confined to no class, (iooil and evil are to be found among both rich and poor, and in drawing the line among our fellows we must draw it on conduct and not on worldly pos sessions. In the abstract most of us will admit this. In the concrete we can act upon such doctrine only if we really have knowledge of and sym pathy with one another. If both the wage-worker and the capitalist are able to enter each into the other's life, to meet him so as to get into genuine sympathy with him, most of the misunderstanding between them will disappear and its place will be taken by a judgment broader, juster, more kindly, and more generous; for each will find in the other the same essential human attributes that exist in himself. It was President McKin ley's peculiar glory that in actual practice he realized this as it is given to but few men to realize it; that his broad and deep sympathies made him feel a genuine sense of oneness with all his fellow-Americans, whatever their station or work In life, so that to his soul they were all joined with him in a great brotherly democracy of the spirit. It is not given to many of us in our lives actually to realize this attitude to the extent that he did; but we cah at least have It before us as the goal of our endeavor, and by so doing we shall pay honor better than in any other way to the memory of the dead president whose services in life we this day commemorate. The program concluded with the singing of"America" and a benedic tion by Bishop Horstmann. At the close of the services at the tomb of McKinley the president in spected the interior. Immediately af ter this he was taken to the special train and left Canton for the west. After the president passed through the tomb the general public was ad mitted, and thousands streamed through before the doors were closed. Four states have contributed a share of the material used in the building of the monument. The gran ite used in the approaches and the mausoleum proper are from the quar ries of Milford, Mass. Tennessee fur nished the gray marble for the in terior of the tomb, while the sarcoph agi which holds the bronze caskets in which lie the bodies of President and Mrs. McKinley are of dark green granite from Windsor, Vt. The base upon which tho sarcophagi rests is black granite from Berlin Wis. From the first step of the approach to the monument to the top of the structure is 103 feet 6 inches, the mausoleum itself being 1)8 feet 6 inches above the summit of the mound. The top of the dome has an oculus 15 feet in diameter through which conies a softened light which adds greatly to the beauty of the in terior. The mausoleum is 78 feet 9 inches in diameter. Huge Doric columns are placed around the interior in such a manner as to appear half buried in the sides of the building. The floor is of | mosaic, marble having been brought S from many states for the purpose. Half way down from the top of the ! 125 granite steps that lead up to the i main entrance on the south side of the i mausoleum stands an heroic bronze | figure of President McKinley, repre ! senting him in the attitude usually as i sumed when speaking—his left hand I holding a roll of manuscript and the i' left hand In tho trousers pocket. Be hind the figure is a bronze chair en circled with a wreath, and draped with the flag of United States. j Balcom & Lloyd. | I WE have the best stocked S general store in the county and if you are looking for re- §| I liable goods at reasonable prices, we are ready to serve you with the best to be found. S | Our reputation for trust- || k worthy goods and fair dealing k is too well known to sell any J j but high grade goods. j| 1 Our stock of Queensware and Chinaware is selected with 3} great care and we have soma of the most handsome dishes 0 ever shown in this section, both in imported and domestic makes. 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