Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-31
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EFFORT consistent With rhe na1r0naT 6560r
10 orlng about an amicable settlement of
came evident that these efforts were use
less, that peace could not be honorabiy
as possible. Suffice II to say that sye rarely
reaching III the Importance OF its outcome
been achieved with such ease. There fol-
lowed low ia a harder harder task ask AS result Of the
Porto Rico and the Philippines. In zach
island saS the he conditions were such that we
national experience, and. moreover. IN
each each Island Island or group Of Islands the prob
eented in the others. In Porto Rico the
task was simple. 1t became in ali essen
In Cuba where we were pledged r. S,,,.
kept not merely, in letter. but in spirit
of 70 hand Se esdens mcRhPsy sss
OF agents, selected in General LeonarS
wood the man of all others best ft to
SerSd Se9s t6e its
and the result OF his wisdom was shown
when last May the island became IN
name and In fact a free republic, for It
der more favorable conditions than had
ever previously been the case with any
Finally, in the Philippines. the problem
was one OF great complexity. There was
] en- insurrec ionary party claiming to res
ting forth their claim with a certain spe-
eiousness which deceived no small mum
which afforded to yet others a chance to
arouse a factious party spirit against the
president: OF course. looking back e is
both absurd and wicked to abandon the
Philippine Archipelago and let the scores
a welter of bloody savagery, with the alb
solute certainty that some strong power
son to ss9 In and ks
than President Mckinley would have
shruEk from task very difficult in itself.
and certain to furnish occasion for at
tack and Misrepresentation no less than
for honest misunderstanding. But Presi-
dent Mckinley never ninched- He refused
to consider the thought OF abandoning our
DUTY In our new possessions. Again his
policy was most amply indicated. Peace
has come - the islands. together with a
greater measure OF individual liberty and
self government than they have ever be-
President McKinley's second campaign
was fought mainly on the issue OF ap-
mlnistration. and specifically what he had
oone as regards these problems spfinging
wa. Su, 81 bn, me wnn MIN p SPAN; me ne result
before.
No other president In our history has
seen high and honorable effort crowned
with more conspicuous personal success.
No other president entered upon his sec
and peaceful satisfaction. Then, by "A
stroke Of horror, so stranse in its fan
tastic iniquity as to stand unique In the
black annals OF crime. he was struck
down. The brave. strong, gentle heart
TO the woman who wept that she was to
walk thenceforth alone in the shadow.
the nsto 10 ,n yI,b 1 sne & Seed S
thus struck at was in a. peculiar sense
the champion of the plain people, in a
exponent OF those ideals which, II we
live up to them, will make. as they have
uge for eli who strive to do right and
20 live their lives simply and we'll as
light is given them. The nation was
sense of bitter bereavement because they
had lost a man whose heart beat for them
We did right to mourn. for the loss was
ours, not his. He died in the golden
ious in that highest % Of all KINDS @ Of strife strife
generous national life. For him the lau-
behind; woe to the nation that lost him,
and woe TO mankind that there should
should strike at SO noble a life.
We are gathered together tonight to
resn his sb ot to pay pay ,e6 tri6See of
down while his eyes were bright with
We e can ann honor 1@ him inns best @ % by the Way se we
show in actual deed that we have taken
TO nedTl the lessons OF MS lie. we must
strive. to achieve. each in the measure
which made President MCKINLEY a leader
of men. a mighty power for good-his
strength. his courage, his courtesy and
dignity. his sense of Justice. his eyer
present kindliness and regard for Che
rights OF others. He won greatness by
meeting and solving the issues as they
arose-Rpt by shirking them-meetins q
them With wisdom. with the exercise OF
the most skillful and cautious Judgment.
but with fearless resolution when the
time OF crisis came. He met each crisis
on Its own merits; ne never sought ex-
cuse for shirking a task in the fact that
II was different from the one he had ex-
pected to face. The long public career,
which opened when as boy he carried
a musket in the prime of his intellectual
strength he stood among the worlds chief
statesmen, came to what IL was because
he treated each triumph as opening ths
road to fresh effort, not IN excuse for
ceasing from effort. He undertook Nigh
ty tasks. Some Of them he finished COM
pletely; others we must finish, and there
remain yet others which he did not have
to face, but which. IL we are worthy to
be the inheritora OF his principles. We
will In turn face with the same resolution
the same sanity. the same unfalteying be-
lief in the greatness of this country, and
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