Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-12
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Tributes to,s,Mlemory Of Amos
]. Cummings.
PUBLIC MEETING HELD
REPREsENTATIvEs OF LABOR
AND THE PROFESSIONS UNITE.
Memorial Services Under the Auspices
Of Columbia typographical
Union Of This City.

Labor and profession combined yesterday
within the auditorium Of Chase's Grand
Opera House to do honor to the late Amos
| J. Cummings. Members of Congress sat
beside men who had stuck type in the
old days. before modern mechanism sup
planted the case" and in the days when
the man In whose memory they gathered to
| honor was laying the foundation for his
broader work In after life.
Editors, newspaper writer's, printers sat
with bowed heads and listened to words Of
laudatton Tor the man who was their friend
and one for whom they honestly mourned.
The exercises lasted more than two hours.
All the speakers had kind words to say of
their dead friend. Partisanship was for
gotten and republicans Joined in declaring
that Amos Cummings was entitled to their
respect although no one could question
his fealty to his party or his honesty. The
theater was nearly filed and there were
many women in the assemblage
Mr.. e. A. M. Lawson president of Column
bia Typographical Union No. 101. under
| ed the meeting to order. He told why the
meeting was held and then introduced the
Rev. n. N. Couden, chaplain Of the House
Of Representatives, who offered q fervent
prayer.
Representative Robinson's Tribute.
A quarrel composed Of Mrs. Arthur G.
Dunn, Mrs. Margaret Koontz Holland, Mr..
Thomas L. Jones and Mr.. Dana c. Holland.
sang Zone Sweetly Solemn Thought" after
which Representative ]. M. Robinson of
Indiana spoke Of his departed colleague.
1.-THE problems Of life, the mystery Of
DEATH" he said, ARE shrouded in doubt
but to live in the hearts we leave behind
Is not to die. He who SO lived as to be
mourned by Borrowing friends after death,
erects for himself a monument more endur-
ing than shaft Of marble or tablet Of
brass. So lived Amos ]. Cummings.
+ ut Is becoming on this bright Sabbath
| day. that We should gather here to speak
loving words in memory Of Amos J. Cum
mings. The instinct Of people under a
popular government inspires their soldiers
to noble service without hope or expecta-
| lions Of reward other than that which
| comes to every man who does his duty.
But the people love to honor man like
Amos ]. Cummipgs-a true American citi-
zen, a typical American soldier. Those who
| cneered the flag at home must remember
the men, who marched under its folds to
| sustain its prestige. Mr.. Cummings was
| one Of these. He was representative
American stateman. He exempiifed in an
eminent degree the possibilities Of the re-
| public rising as he did from humble origin
to distinguished Office He was both a la
boring man and. a thinker. The craft in
honoring him honors itself.
amos J. Cummings performed his duty
| well. He never felt nor spoke in any but
| the most kindly ways Of any person he
knew. He spoke and wrote kindly of more
| living or dead IN the history of the United
States. His life is an Inspiration to the
young. Show me a successful life, life
that has given Itself and its power for the
benefit Of mankind, and I will show you
an unvarying duty OF performance"
Never Forgot BE Was Workingman.
Mr. J. c. Keller, president of the Nation
aofo Foil nrra1
Mr. Robinson. He spoke particularly Of
feature Of Amos Cummings life-one that
endeared him to the toilers in the ranks
that he never forgot that he had been a
workingman himself. This made him al
ways ready to lend a helping hand to de-
serving labortng men, which he did many
times.
of Paradise" after which Representative
Joseph " Graft Of Illinois was called upon.
You who I see before me-" he said, have
not come to pay difference to living man
from whom you hope to get favor. You
have not come In response to a pressing
call or because some one else wanted you
to come. You are here out Of the fullness
of your hearts You are here because your
hearts bid you come.
Man Of Lovab1e Disposition.
Mr. Graft said that Amos Cummings was
a man of unique character and lovable dis
position. He was a man who was attract
i've in his personality. His exceptional ex-i
perience his broad culture and his keen in
sight into human nature were points in his
life that endeared him to his feIlowmen.
mo man liveth to himself alone" Mr..
Graft continued. EVERY man has re-
sponsibilities resting on him for the moral
sentiments of the community in which he
lives. and Mr.. Cummings recognized these
responsibilities probably more than the ma
jority Of men. He loved his kind. There
was nothing unusual in his rising from OBJ
security and poverty to distinction above
his fellowmen. Every man of distinction
in this country. with hardly an exception,
has so attained distinction, and the reason
is that in the early life the difficulties
strengthen, Universities ennoble. AS a re-
publican am proud to pay tribute to this
democrat, Amos J. Cummings In him we
have an example of patriotic public men
of the United States"
Mr. Roland H Rodrick sang ha ritone