THE M'KINLEY MONUMENT AT CANTON.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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