The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-28
THE MONUMENT TO MCKINLEY.

THE MONUMENT IO Mchif'
 Grief at the loss of the president has set various minds in different parts or the Union at work on the problem Of a monument. A foundation for public usefulness has been suggested, but the monument that appears to have found most favor is triumph arch. There IS talk of raising a fund for that purpose in Chicago, while a committee IS re- ported from Canton O., which is al ready soliciting subscriptions for an arch to decorate McKinley's home.
 It is well that funds should De col lected at once, but not at present TOT specific monument in stated locahty' People who are genuinely eager to non or McKinley's memory should give TOT A monument to be erected wherever IL will seem best to competent judges ac- ceptable to the various committees wno collect the funds, not for the side pur- pose of ornamenting Canton or addlng to the few good pieces of sculpture Tn New York or Chicago. In Canton triunpfiaal arch would be about as ap- nropriate as a museum In the Mohave desert Mckinley had no relations with Chicago or Boston or Philadelphia or New York, cities which have the necessary population to warrant trlum- nhal arches but no fair claim on a. monument to President Mckinley none at least to a national monument Of the scope suggested. There is only one city in the Union where such an arch would be fitting, and that Is Washington. Washington, rather than Canton, has been the home of Mckinley owing to his long service in congress prior to his election to the presidency It is the scene of his triumphs as of his labors, SO that his monument should be there bv virtue of historical necessity, while Canton may well be content with some modest memorial setting forth that 1t can claim him as her most illustrlous son. The case of Grant was different, because New York was his choice, ex- pressed in unmistakable terms There Is little doubt that if such a question had been put to Mckinley he would have indicated Washington as the place | for any grand memorial the country might wish to erect after his death, | Indeed, it may be safely prophes1ed | that the country at large will not re- spond to appeals for contributions If the monument is tofbe buried amid the rustic charms of Canton.
 At Washington there are several places not i'll adapted to meWorial arch. One is the proposed monumental bridge across the Potomac, which will furnish three or four chances for the erection of triumphal arches as parts of the whole. Among the designs made for that bridge were classic sug- eestions into which such arches would fit One of them might be popular expression of the feeling of the nation for the third president who has fallen at his post while performing his part in the government of the country to the best of his ability with malice toward
 none" Washington, Lincoln, Garfield and Mckinley might be commemorated bv four arches in as many chief piers of the bridge, those in honor or three presidents remaining as testimony and 8 warning that the people whlch chooses its chief magistrate cannot be frightened by the threats of fanatics 1 into anarchy on the one hand or into tyranny on the other.
 | Honors on this scale are the least that we can offer to our presidents, ex- roead as they are by reason of their | temporary eminence to the perils of as- sassination at the hands of half-crazy creatu like Booth, Guiteau and
 Czolgosz. It will be something for 1 them to feel, while exercising their high office. that if they fall they will be remembered in stately fashion as men who deserved well of the republic l No1v yorlx Tip1ac