The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-12-03

hourly. They surrounded him with the
best skill in surgery and physic, the
best nurses, but he died. The con.
centrated efforts of mighty nation,
working, hoping, praying In unison
could not save one life. There is
only one Master OF life and death.
LESSONS FROM MCKINLEY.
"And there is yet another lesson
to be learned from his life and death
and that is that the love and respect.
the friendship and esteem of our fell
lowmen is more to be desired than
riches. The unnumbered tears that
wept the death of William Mckinley
were not confined to one city, one
state, one nation. The civilized world
was convulsed with sorrow. and wealth
enough for a kings ransom was ex
pended in floral offerings alone. The
wheels of commerce and industry were
stilled. The shrek of the locomotive
and the click of the telegraph were
hushed from Maine to Oregon. A pro-
found silence attested the great -sor-
row Of great people-such a silencs
knew before.
GROWING MOTTO, "FIDELITY."
"The great heart of humanity was
pierced and thrilled and saddened,
stunned and staggered and world
wept for one man who had been true
to every trust, true to every relation
in life, public and private, fidelity
the crowning motto of our order was
exemplified fully and fairly in his
life and for that reason, more than
any other, men who had opposed him
politically wept his death and mourn
his loss equally with his closest politl
cal friends.
"True, we are not all called to as
broad field of usefulness as he, whose
ashes lie in yonder cemetery; our du-
ties of life are fewer and easier than
were his, our lives are circumscribed
by narrower limits than his, but none
the less we are called upon to be use
full and helpful in every way the op-
portunity offers. Our order urges up
on every one fidelity to every duty
in life may they be great or small and
God nor man expects more of us.
Who does the best his circumstan
ce allows
Does well, acts nobly-Angels could
no more"
"And If we are faithful, though
nation may not mourn our death,
those with whom God has placed us
will testify our worth by their grief
and reflect in their lives something of
our character.
The karma of no life is circum.
scribed by birth and death. Whatever
pf inf ha,J f.,,
and character of men, either by hered-
ity or association, either for good
or forseyfl, they in turn will exercise
over Others and this influence will
broaden and deepen with each sue
cessive age and become a mighty ava
lanche of force, swaying, moving, saw
ing or destroying countless souls yet
to be, souls that realize not the we'll
spring Of their impulses and trace
not backward their origin to us and
knowing not, praise nor blame us
therefor. But there is One who will
know and to Him shall we account,
not alone for what we individually
did or omitted to do but for every
thought, word and deed of others bear
ing the impress of our influences.
BOND OF THE ANTLERED FLOCK.
"The worthy founders Of our splendid
order realized fully the truth of all
this and realizing 1t conceived the plan
of organizing men to assist each other
in exerting proper influences upon their
fellows. OF organizing men into an un-
selfish, unreserved, frank, open-heart-
ed fellowship, charitable to each other;
just to each other; brothers in all that
the word implies.
"It is true that all men should be
the same to each other. Our COM
mon humanity should be sufficient bond
to accomplish all that our order seeks
to accomplish by organization, but
the experience of ages demonstrates
the weakness and the inherent sell
fishness of man, therefore we are Or
ganized to destroy selfishness and be-
get friendship, to point the way to a
perfect life. to influence men with
ever present potent suggestion of duty
and right, in short to direct. encourage
and assist every man to raise from
the mire Of selfishness to the broad
plane of a charitable, Just and help
full life, life that is worth the liv.
ing for its own sake even though II
won no eternal reward.
"The aim is high one and may
never be fully realized. Men will fall
and fall again but our order helps him
rise. and II man will but accept this
help 1t tenders he cannot, in the ma
ture of things. be guilty Of sufficiently
long sustained evil practices to de-
stroy his usefulness or brand the sun
total of his life's influences as bad.
IN DEED. AS IN NAME.
"My brothers. 1t rests with us. witt
each one individually, whether We
will accept the aid our order offers o.
not. When we shall have paid til,
debt of nature our lodge room will b.
draped with the exterior show O
mourning, our names will be added I,
the death roll and men of this and fu
ture ages will meet on the annual re
currence Of this day to do equal hon
or to our memory with the memor,
| of all other Elks who have done wifi