Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-09-26
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ing country, filled the Court House
to overfowing and hundreds turn
ed away, unable to get into the
room, that they might do reverence
to the dead President. Ex-Bur-
CESS w. ii. Howard, at the request
of Burgess E. o. Bardwell. called
the meeting to order. The servi-
ces opened with prayer by Rev.
Rob't McCaslin, pastor OF Presby-
terian church, followed by singing
"Nearer My God to Thee" After
the hymn, Rev. f. W. McCIelland,
of the Free Methodist church. read
from the Scripture.
Hon. j. G. Johnson was then
introduced and delivered the fol-
lowing able address:
HON. J. C. JOHNSON.
Ladies' and Gentlemen:-
The work of an assassin is done.
The President is dead. Our people
have mournfully witnessed the passage
of the funeral train, and to-day, at this
very hour his body is being laid in its
final resting place in his home city,
little distance from the western border
of our own state.
We assemble to pay tribute of re-
spect to the memory of our dead Presi-
dent, William Mckinley.
Our whole people mourn with hearts
bowed down and the sympathies of all
civilized nations are shown on this
occasion.
This was unlike the assassination of
either Lincoln or Garfield. This stoke
came out of clear sky. 1t is attribut-
able solely to the horrible doctrines of
anarchism, and was confessedly an act
inspired by the lectures of one promi-
nent Anarchist
We are therefore confronted with a
serious and most difficult problem.
What can be done to suppress anar-
chism in this country? Can we rid the
country of the unholy band, or must
we for the sake of free speech and q
free press submit to have the very
foundations of our government up
rooted and done.
Public sentiment demands the sup
preston of the order of anarchists and
it must and will be destroyed?
But we turn from thoughts of the
unholy wretch to contemplate the
virtues of his victim, with sorrowful
hearts.
What are the legacies of Mckinley ?
When Mark Antony sought to win the
love OF the populace for dead Caesar
he brought forth the Will of Caesar
and read that he had remembered each
roman citizen with a comfortable leg
acy.
May we not now bring forth the life
ofMcKinley and find that our love and
respect is due to his memory because
he has left to each and every citizen
an invaluable legacy in the example of
his grand and noble life. | do most
confidently assume in this presence
that there is no occasion for me to
dwell upon the facts. You know
them. His early life was of the ordin-
ary kind. In early life his limitations
in estate and health were marked. His
early enlistment and his brave career
as soldier of the war of the rebellion
were first indications OF his great per-
sonal worth, and his strong love for
and unselish devotion to the cause of
his country.
His return to private life; his mar
riage; his entry upon professional life;
and his entry into politics, were only
the ordinary events of the ordinary
man of his time, accomplished in the
usual and ordinary way.
Once embarked however, supreme
tests We're bound to come. First bust
ness failure tested his personal integ-
rity. He surrendered all his property
to pay debts. He was an honest man.
Next great political honors were tend
cred him in national convention but
he promptly declined them, because to
accept would raise question about his
good faith and his pledges and his
honor.
His integrity in both private and
political life was thus tested and not
found wanting.
His ability developed at every stage
of promotion, and his progress was as
sured steady, and uninterrupted. From
congressman to governor and then to
president and finally to reelection,
was a succession of natural triumphs
He was master of the great political
problems of his day, the tariff and
finance He successfully vindicated
his theories His progressive and
broad-minded craftsmanship was ap.
parent in his every public act and ad-
dress. You will long remember the
address delivered the day before he
was shot In this he said: "The per-
iod of exclusiveness is past. The ex-
pansion of our trade and commerce is
the pressing problem. Commercial
wars are improbable. A policy of
good will and friendly trade relations
will prevent reprisas Reciprocity
treaties are in harmony with the spirit
of the times;measures liberalization are
not" Here is foreshadowed a policy
to promote our markets abroad. A
policy necessary for the protection of
American labor. A policy calculated
to stimulate the growth OF our indus
tries, and expand our commerce.
Another view OF his character The
noble spirit of this great man ard his
christian character and sentiment is
grandiy shown by another extract
from the same address 1t sounds
now like a valedictory. He said IN
this: 'Let us ever remember that on,
interest is in concord not conflict and