Evening star., 1901-09-19
.FORAKER'S ] TRIBUTE
Eloquent Address IF the Ohio SEN
atofs
h'KlNLEY's ckR$R REVIEWED
Always Measured Up to the situa-
ton at Hand.
HIS PERSONAL CHARACTER

| At the memorial meeting held in the
| Music Hall In Cincinnati today Senator ].
| B. Foraker delivered the following address
| Mr. Chairman land fellow citizens: I'm
| the midst of life we are in death"
Never was the truth of these words more
strikingly exemplified than by the tragedy
| that brings us here,
| In the vigor Of robust manhood; at the
| very height of his powers; in the posses
| sion OF all his faculties; In the midst Of q
great work of worldwide Importance; in
the endowment of the admiration, love and
affection of all classes of our people to a
degree never before permitted to any other
man; at time of profound peace, when
| nothing was occurring to excite the pas
slons of men; when We were engaged In a
celebration of the triumphs of art. science,
literature, commerce, civilization and all
that goes to make up the greatest pros
perity, advancement and happiness the
| world has ever known; surrounded by thou
sands of his countrymen. who were vying
with each other in demonstrations of
friendship and good will, the President of
the United States, without a moment 8
warning, was stricken down by an assassin,
who, while greeting him with one hand,
shot him to death with the other.
History has no precedent for such treach-
cry and wickedness since Joab, stroking his
beard as though to kiss him, inqulring,
art thou In health. my brother, smote
unsuspecting Amasa in the fifth rib and
| .shed out his bowels to the ground"
Imagination cannot picture situation OF
greater apparent security than that by
which the President was surrounded.
But what was all life and health and
happiness one moment was turned to dis
| may, horror and death the next. Verify,
Like a swift-feeting meteor, a fast-fiying
cloud
A flash of the lightning. break Of the
Man passeth from life to his rest in the
grave"
The Whole World Shocked.
The whole world is shocked, and Ameri-
cans everywhere are Inundated, daZed and
plunged into unspeakable grief and sor-
row.
| We can scarce realize that such a crime
was possible, much less that it has been
actually committed. and our sorrow is yet
| too fresh our grief too poignant and our
| Indignation too acute. for us to contem-
| plate it dispassiohately or discuss 1t con-
siderately. II
| But while we cannotbnow speak becom-
| ingly of the murderer and his awful crime
| we can fittingly employ this hour to COM
| memorate the virtues OF his victim, and to
recount in part atilease his great services
| to his country. ii 9
The allotted age, Of man is three score
years and ten. but William Mckinley was
In these short years ~he did a wondrous
| work. In it's accomplishment he was un-
| aided by fortuitous circumstances. He was
| of humble origin, and,r without influential
| friends except as he made them
| His public service commenced In 1861.
when he enlisted, as a private soldier in
the 23d Ohio Regiment,
| Among the officers of that command
L her nf
| and high character, who afterward attain
| ed great public distinction. u a.: 4,
Rutherford b. Hayes, afterwards Presi-
dent of the United States, was one Of them.
| and Stanley Matthews afterwards an asso-
| ciate justice of the Supreme Court Of the
United States. was another
! These men were quick to note the bright,
frank genial and jealous young boy who
| had placed his services, and If need be.
| his life, at the command Of his country.
and it was not long until they promoted
| him to a sergeantcy.
With responsibility, he developed and
showed competency for something higher
| One promotion followed another, all earned
by efficiency and gallantry, until, at the
close of the war; he was mustered out with
| the rank Of major.
| In due time he was admitted to the bar
and elected prosecuting attorney Of his
| county. His professional successes were OF
| the most promising character, but just
| when he had begun to feel assured of dis
/
again called into the public service and sent
to Congress, where he served fourteen
years with constantly increasing distinc-
| tion influence and usefulness.
| He represented manufacturing district
and on this account, as well as from nat
| ural taste and disposition. he gave partic-
| ular attention to economic questions
| He was a thorough protectionist Of the
| Henry Clay school, and soon became the
| leading advocate of that policy.
| During all the years of his service In
Congress the demands of our home mar
| kets were far greater than our manu-
| facturers could supply. There was con-
slant importation from abroad to meet
| this deficiency.
McKinley's Contention.
| 1t was his contention that our resources
| were practically unlimited; that the en-
| plcyment Of our labor should be diversified
| as much as possible; that wages should be
| higher in this country than in any other.
because our standard Of citizenship must
be higher. and that, therefore, it should
| be our aim so to legislate as to secure the
development of our resources, the multi
plication of our industries, and the ever
increasing employment of wage earners
| who would make a home market for the
products OF the farm, to the end that We
| might, as quickly as possible, supply all
| our wants and thus make ourselves inde-
| pendent Of all other countries.
he contended, as did Garfield and all 9TH
| er orthodox tariff men, that the only way
to ever reach free trade, or tariff for reve-
| nue. only, as to articles Of our own pro-
duction, without injury to the country, was
through the operation of the policy of pro-
lection, whereby we would, in time, reach
the point where, fully supplying our own
demands. we could go into the, markets of
the world to dispose OF whateser surplus
We might have. =
AS chairman off, the ways and means
committee of thHb House of Representa-
tives, he embodfHd these views In bill
to revise the tariffIIand eddapt it more per-
fectiy to the conditions then existing,
which was reported andf passed, under his
leadership. in .618a0u after a protracted de-
bate In which hergained' great prestige by
MS successful championship Of the meas
ure. sfr 10
The act was known ais the Mckinley law.
| It went into operatiosU just prior to the
elections OF that Feasyat which time the
country had not yetafeh its effects.
1t was bitterly assail6d and denounced as
increasing the burdens of taxation, and one
provision In particularS-that which, for the
first time, made Impossible to manufacture
TIN plate In this scouutry-was both de-
nounced and derided. Iss
Taxation is always odious. It is easy to
excite prejudice against any measure that
Is charged with itso unnecessary increase.
1t requires argumenon and practical re-
sss.1a Nd IN hi IN,