Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1901-09-20

GUS murder there was no sympathy with
the echoes and from it came only the re-
sponse OF tiendish glee. This echo, I
presage, will continue on until the gates
OF Castle Garden shall be forever closed
to the enemies Of government and order
and opened only to him who can distin-
guish between liberty and license and
entertains an appreciation Of the price
less value Of American citizenship; until
the broods Of anarchy are weeded out Of
our cities and destroyed; until freedom
of speech and press shall no longer be
abused. Then only may this echo die.
"Our country is one vast funeral today,
cast in the gloom Of sorrow and grief for
the passing of our new martyred presi-
dent. Our people are III distress, sore
trouble and dismay over the attack upon
our government and her institutions;
apprehension and uncertainty cloud
our political sky. But every night has
its morning, every cloud its silver lin
ing. Already the east is aglow with a
glorious dawn. Theodore Roosevelt as
sumes the reins Of government with the
promise to pursue unbroken his illus
trious predecessors policy, and the press
Of the country, regardless Of political
complexion, vies in it's expressions Of
confidence in the wisdom and patriotism
Of our new chief executive.
William Mckinley, our president and
our friend, has gone. When time shall
have lent perspective to the events Of
his administration and the various acts
Of his long continued craftsmanship,
and history shall give to him his proper
niche in the temple of fame, his venerat-
ing countrymen then reviewing all the
noble dead, pausing before the statue Of
William Mckinley, will say, And this
was the noblest Roman Of them ALL
And the student Of biography, reading
Of the tender, constant care bestowed on
an invalid wife, Of tho faithful pythian
devotion to friend, Of painstaking labor
and conscientious honesty IN the perfor-
nance Of duty, Of the strength, dignity
and scope Of character, will say, .Ihere
was, there is, no gentler, stronger, man
lier man. >,
Rev Father Curran Of ST. Agnes
Catholic church spoke at considerable
length and indulged in howery flights Of
rhetoric in his eulogium. twas an impas-
stoned address, well delivered. He assert
ed that Mckinley had won a triple crown
glory, honor and righteousness. If the
imperishable fame Of a mighty conqueror
endures than the name Of William
Mckinley will live forever, enshrinod in
the hearts Of the people Of the world.
The red hand Of anarchy has wrought a
terrible calamity and the Infamous band
Of anarchists, declared the speaker,
must 60 down to the dust from which
they sprang, "unwept, unhonored and
unsung."
The quartet then rendered a sacred
selection and D. q. O'Shea, resident
manager Of the Rocky Fork Coal com
pany, delivered the final address. The
American people Of all shades of politi
cal belief have a common impulse in
these memorial services said the speaker.
They have met to express borrow and
sorrow at the death Of the president and
detestation of the vile assassin. Prcsi-
dent Mckinley represented all the peo=
pie and was the soul of honor. I'm
swerving in loyalty and pure in patriot
ism, his life is an inspiration and his
death national calamity 1t is the
duty of every man to frown down every
form Of lawlesness. The dastard's S hand
that struck the president down was up
lifted against the nation and the miser-
able assassin thought to crush this
mighty American republic by his impo-
dent. senseless, cruel blow.
Attorney Sydney Fox, chairman on
the committee on resolutions, then read
the following:
Whereas, With the most profound
Lodge received the intelligence of the
dastafdly act Wnlcn culmlnaLed III lIle
death Of our honored president, and with
the feeling in our hearts that mankind,
the United States. the State of Montana,
and more especially each Individual
citizen, has lost true friend and an up
right representative of just govern
ment, We deem it proper and expedient
at this time to express ourselves; there
fore be it
Resolved, That in the death of Will
liam Mckinley the nation, the state and
the individual has sustained loss the
magnitude of which it is impossible to
conceive.
As citizen, soldier, statesmen and
chief executive he ever acted with hon
esty and integrity of purpose, and in the
belief that he did what he did for the
welfare of the nation. In his persona