The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-09-26
Funeral Of President McKinley Fittingly
Observed IN Oska1oosa'
BUSINESS SUSPENDED AND SERVICES HELD.
The Fun Text Of Tributes Paid to the HonOred Dead
BY Six Local Orators.

mourn won all men to him by an abiding
love for his fellow-men, and commanded the
respect Of all who knew his deeds by the
perfect uprightness and integrity Of his
| personal character. When history shall
correctly write the record of his time.
President Mckinley will live, by his noble
deeds, as immortal in that history as his
soul is immortal in the eternity Of time
1t is not strange that such a man should
be Of the United States. No other Repub-
lie has the environments to produce such
man. OF humble parentage, he was OF the
people, and out of the burdens Of care and
trial and the infrmities OF lie grew one
| OF the strongest, manifest, noblest purest
characters in American history
To swim with the tide is easy to swim
against it encounters more difficulty; but
to swim against the tide, borne down by
greater weight than any In advance have
been able to sustain, Is a mastery Of posi-
tion and the achievement Of him alone who
! maintains its accomplishment. Thus cast
upon the world and thus carried on and
! surrounded by it, 1t became necessary for
! William Mckinley to mark out for himself
a career; to fix for himself standard and
live 10 mis- own ideal OF perfect manhood.
! This standard was perfect integrity. In
tcGrity Il every department OF lifs and
nowhere was the perfect soldier, the states
man, the law maker, the politician, the
| President, surpassed by the pure integrity
| Of his domestic life: and high as his ad.
miraDe qualities may be regarded Yaiu-
| able as his public services have been 20
the nation no less so than the deeds OF
Mckinley, the President, is the life Of Nc
Kinley in his personal character. All In
all, 1t Is the personal integrity of this truly
! great man that has been the measure OF
/ his success in every department Of life he
has been called upon to enter or to fll.
| He is one of the immortal dead who live
| again in lands made better by his presence !:
he lived in pulses stirred to generosity, In
deeds Of daring rectitude, in seorn for mis-
cradle aims that end with self.
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night
i like stars,
And with their mild persistence urge mans
search
Il TO vaster isues
So to I've Is hesyenr
TO make undying music in the world,
Breathing as beauteous order that controls
With growing sway the growing life Of
man"
So we inherit that sweet purity for
which he struggled. His was a worthy
image for the sanctuary, and shaped II
forth before the multitude diyinely human.
He has inspired higher reverence, which,
like his folded eyelids in the human sky,
is gathered like scroll within the tomb,
unread forever
This is life to come,
Which martyred men have made more
glorious
For US who strive to follow. May we
reach
That purest heaven be our souls
The cup of strength in some great agony,
Enkindling generous ardor, feed pure love,
Beget the smiles that have no cruelty
BE the sweet presence of a good diffused,
Ana In diffusion ever more intense.
So shall we Join the choir invisible,
Whose music is the gladness of the world"
You would not bear with me at this time
in view Of his political career The hour
is to brief and prolific Of sorrow to do
| lesson
the dead has, in his personal life. taught to
the living. This lesson is all the more
foreeful in that the President, most beloved
OF all our people, in the utter absence OF
political or sectional strife, in the frsest
Republic on the face Of the earth, should
be assassinated froTn any cause. What food
for thought Is there IN the conditions that
surround us? Is 1t that the nation has be-
come too free and the liberty OF speech and
the liberty Of press INDUCED to feed anar.
ehy and inspire the assassinY Is II that
the flood gates Of immigration are open too
wide, admitting those from other lands un.
known to freedom, inspired with the duty
only to murder and destroy3 The three
most beloved men and Presidents this free
Republic has chosen, have, In little more
than quarter Of a century, been assassin.
ated. Had they all fallen at the hands Of
an Immigrant from a foreign land, the
force Of the lesson would have been obYi-
GUS. But the reflection that a citizen, born
Of our free Institutions, educated In our
free schools, protected by our Tag, foster,
ed and preserved by the administration Of
the laws through the executive they have
slain, makes foreeful, indeed, the lesson the
the study for the statesman. The cry OF
the country, louder and deeper from the
heart than ever before, Is for one who shah
make secure both life and liberty. Can IL
be possible that under our Constitution and
our nag, in the 'land OF the free and the
home Of the brave" we are permitting to
grow the seeds Of eternal Reyolutloni The
alarm has been given. 1t Is idle to say Il
shall not be heard or needed.
4 In the assassination OF President Ne
Kinley there can be no possible reparatlon
Of the wrong there is no adequate punish
ment for the assassin. His execution Il
not punishment to him. 1t is a glorlncn-
tion he invites In the satisfaction that
misguided thousands viii applaud his deed
and revere his memory.
The more candid thinker Of the tlms
will not regard the loss OF President Ne
Klnley, or the execution Of his assassin,
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