The Washington times., 1901-09-20
4 NOBLE LIPE'S INFLUENCE
Touching Tributes Paid by Carroll
ID. Wright and Secretary Long.
The Late Prcsiicnt's Worthy MIL
tnry md Political Record Re
viewed-Grnndness of His Personal
Character Held Up for Emulation.

viewcd-tsrnnd a ness of His Personal
Character Held Up for Emulation.
The services at An Souls Unitarian
| Church. Fourteenth and L Streets north
west. yesterday were well attended The
| pulpit was decorated with orchids. palms
and ferns, and the altar was draned with
a crepe-bordered American flag The
Rev. DIR. U. G. b. Pierce, pastor of the
| church, conducted the exercises and the
choir and the congregation joined in the
| singing of Nearer. My God. to Thee"
| Carroll d. Wright, the United States
! Commissioner of Labor, delivered the
| principal address, and was followed by
John ID. Long. the Secretary of the Navy.
| who spoke with emotion of the nation S
martyred chief.
| Mr.. Wright said in part:
I'm the grand economy of God a noble
! soul has been called to it's giver. We all
| know heroic men who have struggled
| manfully with the obstacles of life, with
| the greatest fortitude as well as with the
sub!imest faith. Daily men die whose
| lives have been as sublime as the life of
! him we mourn today. 1t cannot be, then,
merely the death of the man that shrouds
| the country. There was a time when the
| decease of william Mckinley would sim
! ply have called out eulogistic editorials
| from the press, and his funeral would
| have been local. Why is it, then. that to-
| day the homes and the marts of the coun-
| try are draped in the sad emblems OF
mourning, that in passing over all the
! States of the Union not hamlet can De
/ found that does not in some way express
| the grief of the people; that party has
| been completely sunk out of sight; that
+ all the bitter work of political campaigns
| has been turned to the expression of SYM
| pathy and of heartfelt consideration OF
the virtues of one of the chief characters
! in political activity? Why are these things,
! l. Afalx hn
| nearly eighty millions of people which
| make up our nation? Do we learn from
! the circumstances of the death of the
| mortality taught by all deaths?
.',These questions may find an answer
| when we consider the life. character. ser
| vices, and death of President Mckinley.
| The speaker reviewed the late PreSt-
| dents life bearing tender witness to the
| scorn the latter felt of all things base
| and to his uncompromislng devotion 10
| the right in trying situations that would
! have. caused the downfall of a man less
high in purpose and less strong in moral
| fibre. He spoke of Mr. Mckinleys boy
| hood of his youthful service in his coun-
| try's time of need. of his political strug-
! giles and triumphs and of the calm. pure
| Influence of his domestic life on the
! homes of the nation. He concluded as
| follows:
| To-day the nation returns to its native
| dust. amid the tears of loved ones and OF
| patriots, all that remains of the image OF
| William Mckinley. Let his death De sane
| titled to the good of the whole Let us
| feel that the real Mckinley lives ana rep
resents all the best that Is In the lInme-
| date past and in this memory let the
| thousands of choirs that today send up
| solemn anthems to stir the souls of men
| carry the thanks of our people to the
| throne of God that he gave us Mchln-
| ley to lose. Rich We were in the posses
| sion richer we, are in the depth of our
| grief by the very memories his name VIII
| arouse, and by the glad knowledge that
he will live to the nation with Washns-
| ton and with Lincoln.
..Out of the nations Gethsemane the
people will come purified by the holy in
| cense which arises from their own affairs
heightened by the fires of their own pa
| triotism. and which they shall keep burn
| ing in the true spirit of religion and OF
devotion to the principle OF the nations Oh
the earth
! of the late Presidents official family, he
desired to express for himself and ms
fellow officials of the Cabinet some part
of the appreciation and reverence felt Tor
Mr. McKiney's life. He said in part:
"Our mourning is great. but our grief
for his death Should be less than our
gratitude for his life; Is ntting tnat aa ail
in the recognition of his virtues and the
examples of his life. His was a life OF
modesty and virtue, typical of the pest
that is in American manhood.
Mr. Wright has spoken of Mckinney
bright-eyed boyhood: of the sweet home
influence of his mother and father. whose
teachings were never forgotten; of his
eager SCHOOL, boy days; of his career as
soldier-a soldier distinguished by his
readiness to risk his life in carrying sue
cor to his comrades; of his legal and po-
liticaI triumphs; of his service in Con
gress and of his career as President. His
was an administration more signlncant
than any since the time of Lincoln, with
whom he ranks.
But amid all the strenuous strife and
turmoil of the last war it is as a man of
oeace that we think OF Mckinley. The
residents of Washington will mourn less
the death of the statesman than the pass
ing away of the fellow-citizen. 1t Is for
his MANY traits of personal kindness that
he was dearly loved. The lawyer, the
statesman, the President are revered and
appreciated. but his simple human quail
ties cause Mckinley TO be loved most
His greatest impulse was always to do all
in his power to make his feliow-men bet
tor and ha pDier' -