Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-20
BRATTLEBORO's MEMORIAL.
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and ten thousand at thy right hand, but i
shall not come nigh thee
"What were our lives without thee;
What all our lives to save thee?
We reck not what We gave thee;
We Will not dare TO doubt thee,
But ASK whatever else and we will dare"
Gen j j Estey was assigned tc
speaA of Mckinley as man and
opened by quoting the expression Of a
friend on another occasion, There
lies my ideal of man" Mckinley
in bis integrity and honor was, in the
speakers view, an ideal man, and all
his success 10 life csn be attributed
to that one thing-his ideal Of man
kird. In early life he made up bis
mind to devote his life to God and
his fellowmen. Criticised be has
been, as all public men have to be
and perhaps ought to be; but his
critics kne~ little Of his inner life or
the promptings Of his nature; 10 those
who really knew, the character was
one of beauty. Gen Estey closed by
telling the story of the origin Of the
deep friendship between Hanna and
Mckinley, which was the latter's
refusal in bis conception of honor to
make use in q crisis of a Republican
| national convention when the two
were on opposite sides, Of informa
ton Hanna had given him supposirg
him to be another man. Then f II
Miller sarg most effectively Trusting
in The"
Mr. Martins theme was Mckinley
ss a statesman and he opened By
abiding to the strong and able men
that have gone out Of our community
with their Gork unfinished So vita
our beloved President whose work
seems untiDishei. The great Linco In
fell that.the Onion might live and
may it rot be that in this tragedy
thst so dsrEecs the land there is a
purpose OF an Allsise Providence to
secure the Union? For there has |
been growing here aud there, even
in Vermont, this doctrine and spirit
of anarchy, evidenced by the attempt. |
ed assassination of Barre chief of pc.
lice ard by a meeting said to havs been |
held there to make Joy over Cool
gos2's .crime, In 1894 the Senate
passed a bill to stop the immigration
of anarchists, bot it never became
a law. There has been a feeling
that we were wall enough off. tnat
there are not enough anarchists to
do any harm. May it not be that
this grandest man in all the land
has fallen to give US warning that
onr immigration commissions must
be clothed with power to stop the {
coming of this tide of villiany and
that he who speaks, plots or plans to S
STAY the government, or the president :
Or member OF congress should be held
guilty of treason and die the traitors
ieath' The constitution guarantees
freedom of speech ard press, but be
who would Stay because of any
question or notion of government, is
he very one that would defeat the
guaranty. The anar- y
,hist's care is not to preserve the u
lights OF the constitution, but to i,
destroy them, to tear down I'll law. -"
ir Martin said that be had some q
ines thought the way to deal with
hem was to treat them as insane and
eutence them to saw wood for the
est of their lives That would surely
,eep them out; for there is nothing
he anarchist hates mora than 10
york. We must be calm and corsid
rate but we must be determ ineu TO
et rid of their.
This, the speaker ssaid, was TO
lace to introduce questions of party
trife, but IN any measurment them as q
tstesman of the deceased president,
IS source must he found is his
borough belief, whether right or
'rong, in the great causes he had
dvocated. HIs first speech in con-
ress was on the tariff, against the
'ernando Wood BILL and it WAS at
nee recognized to have been one of
be hest speeches ever made frr
rejection. and that later in oppnsi
ion to the Mills bill, full Of learning,
nd statistical Information and moral
eduction of what protection meant
u the American home, inevitably
Isde him his paity's leader. Against
lie storm that arose after the passage
the bill bearing his name he stood
Ike the giant oak of the forest,
ecarss of his confidence that he was
GIT, and later appeal to the people
ould viudicate toe measure. And
is policy 10 the Pbilippires-it is
odeniable that its source was his
,nviction of solemn and sacred duty.
has been severely criticised by
en- whose convictions we're Just as
rnest the other way, and the
saker regretted, that in this hour
bereavement some disposition had
zen ma1ifated, even from pulpits,
charge this criticism with respon-
bility for the assassination. Crit.
SIN Is the right and even the duty
the American people on all matters
men of government, ard 50 long
it is critIcim that seeks only the
o of the ballot to bring about
ange, it is little less than anar-
ism itself to corfound it with