The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-09-14
SENATOR FAIRBANKS LAUDS THE
MARTYR PRESIDENT ON ANNl-
vERSARY OF DEATH.
HIS PLACE IN HISTORY
Is BESIDE A. LINCOLN
Even at This Near View, World Has
Been Able to Estimate His Great
Services Not Only to America
but to Entire World.

Toledo. Ohio. Sept. ia.-Toledo is en-
ie.e today over the unveilng of the Nc
hiniey statue, the first memorial to the
tate president erected in Ohio. After n
naval parade on the river, which included
the United States gunboat Michigan and
the training ships Yantic and Hawk and
a procession led by battalion of United
states infantry, the statue, which stands
fronting the courthouse, was unveiled by
Miss Dorothy Bonner
Col. J. L. Bonner, president OF the
Memorial association. in brief address.
presented the monument TO the county.
and Henry Conrad, president of the board
OF county commissioners, accepted the
trust for the county.
Senator NJ. A. Hanna was then intro
duced as honorary president of the day
and made brief extemporaneous ad-
dress.
Fairbanks Address.
dedicatory poem by Theodore Nc
Manus was read by the author and the
orator OF the day, Senator Charles w
Fairbanks OF Indiana, was introduced
The senator said:
The place Of William Mckinley in his
tory is secure. We are not too near the
events Of which he was a part correctly
to measure his proportions nor do we look
with too partial eyes upon what he did.
We know the great share he bore in the
significant events through which we
passed and we have faith to believe that
the judgment Of his contemporaries will
be confirmed by history, when with i'm
partial hand she shall record the deeds
OF men.
you honor yourselves in honoring him.
You make the future your debtor by erect
ing this statue in commemoraion of his
life and services, for, like his immortal
prototype, Abraham Lincoln, he belongs
to the ages Hither the lovers Of Amcri-
can institutions will come in the unnum-
bered years before us and derive new hope.
and new inspiration.
Similar monuments will rise in other
lands to which peoples not of our race will
pay their homage. The people of Cuba,
whose liberty was secured through his
genius and craftsmanship. will erect monu-
ments i'll his honor. So, too, the people Of
Porto Rico and the far of Philippines will
raise enduring memorials to perpetua,c to
the fnrthest ages the memory OF the presi-
dent who carried TO them the blessings of
republican government.
When at the Zenith.
at seems but yesterday that William
mckinley stood among us at the very
zenith of his power. lie possessed in full
degree the affections and confidence Of his
countrymcn and his name was n benefccnt
influence throughout the world Without
warning the cruel bolt fell. We stood
speechess in the midst of uncommon sor-
row. Our great and beloved leader, by
some mysterious providence, fell in the
plentitude OF his strength. Upon the day
of his deatl, rulers and peoples in many
foreign lands united in impressive memo
rial services and the flags OF all nations
were in mourning.
'lhroughout our great republic trade
stood still, commerce was quiet and by
some impulse steamships and railroad
trains stood and the people uncovered in
the streets, or knelt in the sanctuary. Who
knows but that the Divine Master, through
this unspeakablc tragedy, sought to i'm
print forever upon the hearts Of man how
brave men can live and how beautifully
they can die. Against the dark background
OF two years ago stand in sharper outlines
than were otherwise possible the high and
noble achievements and the majestic per-
sonality OF one OF the greatest Of Amer
icanso