The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-20
PRES. HADLEY'S TRIBUTE.
M'KINLEY KNEW AND IOVED ALL
 THE PEOPLE.

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 selfish tn His Ambfttons-s a
 Center Church Yesterday Afternoon
 pr. Munger, pr. Philips and Judg
 Baldwin Also Mako Addresses.
 There were 2,000 people in Center
 church on the green when the memoria
 service opened at o'clock yesterday | afternoon, and there were as many
 more who could not get within the l doors. The aisles were full and hun l dreds stood during the service
 Rev. Dr. Munger. pastor of the church
 otficiated. The dead presidents favor l ite hymns were sung, Lead, Kindly Light" and Nearer My God to Thee, | and the choir rendered My Peace Give Unto You" Many people in the church were weeping The pulpit was
 draped with two American flags, in the l tied with crepe ribbon.
 ] The address of the afternoon was de- | livered by President Hadley of Yale
 university, who paid the following trib-
 ute to the dead statesman:
 "As we lay President Mckinley S body to rest to-day, We do not think of him as one apart from ourselves, but
 rather as one who, in life and in death | Identified himself with the American | people. His was not career of self centered isolation. In his ambition and | in his work he was man among men l living for others as he understood their | needs, and reaching his best results through that cooperation from others which he so well knew how to secure. Tt is a noteworthy fact in American history that the men who have attain ed the chief office in the land have not been those with whom brilliancy was the chief characteristic. The prize did
 not fall to the lot of men like Calhoun,
 or Clay, or Webster. or Seward, or
 Blaine. It came rather to those men of plainer purpose whom the people felt to be more truly representative of
 themselves.
 Such man was Abraham Lincoln. With all his acuteness of intellect, his strength nevertheless lay in the fact
 that he was not working for himself
 but for others. It was because the peo-
 pie felt this that they trusted him to
 be their representative in the greatest
 crisis through which this country has
 passed.
 That loyalty of his friends which
 once, at least, seemed to have cost Will
 liam Mckinley the chance to place
 himself in the presidential chair, be- came the means of securing him the honor at time In the country's his
 tory second in importance only to that of Lincoln, and it enabled him to con- mand, as perhaps no other president has done, the support of the best and most efficient men in carrying out his administrative policy.
 "The work which man does with and through others Is apt to be strong CT and stand better than that which he trusts his own unaided power to accom- plish. It detracts not one whit from the glory of McKinley's admlnistra ton that men like Hay, and Root and Long, and others with whom he knew how to surround himself, contributed so large part to it's success For the work of single individual, be he as brilliant as Napoleon, is apt to stand apart from the life of the people and the world, as compared with of him WAc NiioNo ilpW to PDlSuC uiiiiS III NiiiSll his country has it's full share, and to enlist the help of that country in car- rying them to completion.
 Tt was as a representative of the American people that he met his death. It is a singular thing that those of our presidents who have fallen by the as- sassin's hand have not been men who aroused personal antagonism, but men who were singled out by the enemies of the law as representatives of that law, just because the whole people was unit ed behind them. And yet this selfsame erason which makes us mourn their de- parture most severely gives us also the strongest assurance that their work will be carried on.
 "The man who seeks to impose his will or his logic upon distrustful peo- pie holds his power by a precarious tenure. He, on the other hand, who l makes himself the representative of | that people makes his work imperish- l lble. Be his departure swift or slow, l sudden as that of Lincoln, or quiet as | hat of Washington he knows that | here are men behind him who will l dose up the ranks and march no less 1 steadily toward the goal which he has Jet, even though the voice of their l eader be. heard no more"
 The other addresses of the service were made briefly by Rev. Dr. Munger, Rev. Dr. Phillips and Judge Baldwin. They dwelt upon the lesson of the as- ;assin's crime and remedies which mould be adopted to prevent it's repe- ition. pr. Munger said that the presi- lents of the United States have been rood men. but all of them, from Washington down, have been villifed IS bad men; that the best men in the and, the highest educators and fore- most citizens, should combined to heck this tendency on the part of to misrepresent the na- ions chief executive, and that the manners, If not the opinions, of certain must be reformed. Liberty md free speech must not be stretched o include lawlessness and crime; the anctity, majesty and value of the law nust be recognized. The seed of the hurch is the blood of martyrs, and with the nation also Mckinley was a martyr and he shed his blood for the ation. The memory of our lamented resident will live though he be dead. is character that tells. Rev. Dr. Phillips said that the presi- ont u-ae Pollc1 by T mailman trained "