The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-09-26

ligions, and what is more far-reaehing than
all else, the home life.
His earnest work in the community, his
honesty in the political arena, his intense
religious life, and the impress he had upon
the society around him, all are immortal.
And as we follow him from the narrow
circle Of the town in which he lived out
into the larger field Of craftsmanship,
whore he becomes prominent factor In
governmental affairs, we find the same &C
tive, Vigilant, wen poised man that he was
at home.
His wisdom grew with his experience
His success kept pace with his opportunl-
ties There is no man to say that he did
not fiji the measure Of his duty in any Of
occupy.
l would not draw aside the curtain that
hides the privacy Of home that is too sac
red for aught save two souls to enter. But
Mrs. Mckinley has placed on record tes-
tlmonial Of the Presidents faithfulness and
tenderness that / may well quote here.
On their late trip to the Pacific coast, go
ing to witness the launching Of the great
war vessel, she, you will remember, was
very III. 1t called for the most careful
attention TO save her and get her home to
Washington. Some one remarked upon his
devotion, when she replied, 'You can never
know Major Mckinley as know him. For
twenty-five years of our married life there
has been scarcely an hour that have not
needed him and been constant drain up
on his time and patience, and not an i'm
patient word has ever escaped his lips"
A testimonial worthy to be written on
parchment and hung in every home on
earth.
Perhaps In no single act of our lamented
Presidents career did he exhibit more wis
dom or more good than In the mastery
way and manner In which he brought into
sineerest harmony the north and the south,
Up to his elevation to the chief office in
the nations gift, sectional bitterness still
prevailed and was too often manifested by
US all. Memory called up the past too fire.
quently and kept US enemies when We
should have been friends. Sorrows born
Of war had gone down deep into our hearts
and it took a mighty effort to fully eradi-
cate the bitterness remaining.
The pelican and the rattlesnake still con-
tinued emblematic Of disappointed hopes
and defeated ambition In the sunny South.
anu lueEe sun EhHkleu III our uehElS the
memory of the tragedy. The country was
not united, harmony was conspicuous by its
absence. But William Mckinley solved the
problem. Reaching from the high station
he then occupied, he took every man north
and south by the hand and called him
eoulrade. lie spUhe the words that TOOK
from the hearts Of the people all the bit
terness OF sectional strife. From his lips
dropped those timely, friendly words that
sealed the victory the elimination of
Grants immortal motto:
TIT rs HAVE PEACE"
To the men who wore the blue, to the
men who wore the gray that was a difficult
lesson to learn. But today, at this very
hour as they surround his bier and march
slowly SzG so.5i:sz'y - Us s-STc,
"The man who wore the blue,
The man who wore the gray,
Mingle their tears"
could not pay him a higher tribute:
''The tear that we shed, though in silence
1t rolls,
Shall long keep his memory green in our
souls"