The Newtown bee., 1902-09-19

We did not know how we all loved and venerated him. We did not know how dependent we all are upon the AL mighty God; and what we have gained is worth the terrible price that was paid. By his death the North and South were bound together by an in- dissoluble tie, that never can be broken. Thousands of men who wore grey would have marched in the solemn funeral cortege had there been room. In his Antietam speech, which surely ranks next to that supreme speech of Lincoln at Gettysburg, great, patrio- tic, healing speech, he forever put the Civil War behind him and stretched out the hand of an American Presi- dent to the whole American people; a patriot big enough to say to the whole people that thirty odd years ago there was an issue here in America, which constituted as human nature is. could be settled only by the sword; and that it was settled by the sword in the hands of men North and South who were equally conscientious, equally confident that they were right. And. friends, no man who digs out of the grave of an almost forgotten past it's animosities and seeks to put them in young human hearts here in America ought ever to look into the pictured face of William Mckinley.
 Our President was an American of the finest type, he was a lawyer of the highest rank, he was Congressman of commanding influence, he was Presi- dent unapproached save by only two; but first and above all things else, he was Christian. There are some men to-day who go into law fully believing that one cannot practice law success Jesus Christ; Mckinley never gained point to gain which he caused his in- tegrity to bend an inch from the line. There are those who believe and fol- low out their belief consistently with their life that politics is game in which the man who can play the sharp est tricks has the score; Mckinley won his way by his fair dealing, his delicate consideration of his political foes outwitted them. There are those who think religion makes neat gar ment for Sunday dress, but think when Monday comes the clothing is to soiled and worn; you could not be five minutes in the presence of William Nc Kinley without knowing that in trying to be Christian he meant business all the time. When you got inside the door in the humble home at Canton, you at once knew you were inside a Christian home. Mckinley was a lawyer. statesman, President; but
 more than all else, he was Christian
 lawyer, a Christian statesman, Chris
 tian President. only put the empha
 sis there because Mckinley put il
 there. This, then, is the great lessor
 which comes from the Presidents life
 Be Christian whatever else
 you do; be a Christian first, last
 and all the time, or else have no
 thing to do with it at all; be
 a Christian, if you start out t(
 do anything in that line, or else let the
 whole thing severely alone.
 Well, what shall we do that repe
 tition of this awful crime may ne vel
 again come? Pass some laws. Get il
 on the statute book that anarchy is ;
 crime, that juntas of fire-eaters ant
 spreaders of disturbing doctrines can
 not be held. Make president killin,
 decidedly unpopular thing from thu
 legal point of view. Our legal wit are at that business now, and there ar stringent laws already. Shut down th gates little tighter. Keep pauper , and insane people, incompetents o , every description out. Yes, that w have right to do and have done
 Surround our presidents whenever the step abroad with more secret servic , agents, with larger body-guards. An , Mckinley was struck down in the mids of his body-guard. Educate, educate l Czolgosz could read and write an l cipher, and had thought more in hi ) foolish, unconnected way about tn top and the bottom, the relation c l the classes to the masses than you an t I have done. Make all our citizen 6 truly American. Imbue them wit - the spirit of our free institutions an