Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-21
COUSINS, TRIBUTE 1o M,kINLEY.

AT the memorial exercises at Cedar
Rapids Thursday in memory of McKin-
| ley, Robert G. Cousins was one of the
speakers. His subject was ''McKinley's
Public Career" 1t was subject with
which Mr.. Cousins was entirely famil
lar, as he was personal friend of the
dead president. Cousins address con-
tanned some beautiful gems of thought
and orat9ry, part of which are repro
duced here:
when the noise of worldly things IL
hushed! when all the nations Of the
earth display their enslgns at half
mast; when inammon locks his doors
of trade; when commerce calls a halt;
when rushing engines of great railway
systems stop to hold their fiery breath;
when belts are taken from their wheels
and factories are silent as the grave;
when Labor lets his hammer fall Or
leaves the pillow half thru the furrowed
field, and altogether come with solemn
tread and fearful eyes into the sanctu-
aries of the world, how vain and help.
less then is human speech. The spec
tacle itself Is more impressive far than
any utterance of man.
There are emotions that mankind
have never learned to tell. The best
there is in feeling and in truth-in heart
and intellect and conscience-is forever
inarticulate. And yet, however broken
and Imperfect. expression must be
made today to satisfy or relieve in part
at least the overburdened hearts that
swell almost to. bursting in the solemn
contemplation OF so loved and great a
character.
For the third time within the short
period OF my own life and memory, the
people of America are brought to mourn
the loss of a righteous president by
reason of assassination. Within thirty
five years we have elected seven differ
jent presidents, three Of whom were
murdered. This is appalling, unbeliev-
able, unspeaka Bile, but true. We are
here today to face the truth and pay
our reverent respects and homage to the
last of our three distinguished martyrs.
Lincoln, GARFIELD, Mckinley. Let no
lips repeat the names of their assasslns
in this holy hour; let no outline define
\
deserves no registration. Let them be
beholden only to the abyss.
When the creator of the universe
launched our world of good and evil in
| to infinite space, Satan was projected as
L the incarnation of all evil. His attrib-
utes are variously described, ranging
| from deceit to murder and including all
| the carnal sins. But nowhere is 1T at
| tributed to his Satanic majesty that he
inspires murder from principle. 1t was
reserved for the ingenuity and depravi-
| ty of anarchy alone to stand undaunted
| In the midst of modern civilization and
with calm and pallid face declare: II
lkill from principle. 1t is the chief tenet
OF our creed" 1t would seem almost
| that in constituting Satan, Omnipotence
Iforgot the most shocking and criminal
attribute, and the trainers of our con-
| stitution forgot to make the greatest
crime against society treason. A hor-
ror may be 80 monstrous. so impossible
/ that until 1t appears, 1t is beyond con-
1 temptation.
at is said of Richard III. that he
mounted the throne of England on a
score of dead bodies; that he murdered
many and sweat with horror But the
4 anarchist is worse, even at his starting
point, than Richard at llis ending. He
ilhas not even the motive of a throne
4 He is a murderer the moment that he
exists. 1t is his profession and he Meth
err sweats nor bushes Whoever shall
hereafter draw the portrait of murder
If he will show 1t as 1t has been ex-
Inhibited where such examples wac last
to have been looked for, let him not
4 give 1t the grim visage of Moloch, the
1 brow knitted by revenge. the face black
4 with settled hate. Let him draw rather
I. "a decorous, smooth-faced, bloodless de-
I mon; not so much an example of human
i nature in its depravity and in its par.
oxysms of crime, as an Internal being, 9
! fiend In the ordinary display and devel.
] opment OF his character
"A birthplace may or may not be OF
], great Importance in determining or in
!. fiuencing a career. OF the best and
strongest ancestry, scotch-Irish, Will
Z lam Mckinley was born. January 80
1913, at Niles. T., in an environment tina,