The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-28
Eulogizing Mckinney.

President Roosevelt pronounced a noble
eulogy upon the late President Mckinley
at the banquet given by the Canton Re-
publican league last evening, on the &C.
casion Of the birthday anniversary of the
martyred president.
He exaggerated not when, extollrg the
fearless acceptance by Mckinley Of the
solution Of problems more difficult to deal
with, perhaps, than those which Washing
ton and Lincoln, faced. he said: "He shall
stand in the eyes of history, not merely as
the first mar of his generation, but as
among the greatest figures Of our national
life, coming second only to the men Of the
two great crisis in which the union was
founded and preserved" Mckinley, in
deed was one Of those great men, heroes
we may call them, upon whom, as Carlyle
says, we cannot look or contemplate with
out gaining something by them. McKin-
leys characteristics stand more strongly
and we recede from the vision of sudden
death which stunned the nation in Sep
TENDER, 1901. No characteristic more
strongly reveals his greatness than his
readiness to modify or abandon a policy
which he perceived was not really promo
as it had been carried out by his own
party and as he himself had approved it,
President Roosevelt said in his eulogy:
He undertook mighty tasks. Some of
them he finished completely: others we
must finish.'' One of these undertakings
left unfinished was the adoption of "a
broad and enlightened policy for the
maintenance and amplification of the
commercial and Industrial interests Of the
country, which Mckinley declared could
not be subserved>> by any marrow and
sordid policy He declared that what
sumption must have a. vent abroad In
that same Buffalo speech, the last he de-
livered in person, he championeG in
strongest terms the remuneration Of trade
exclusiveness and the adoption Of policy
of good will and friendly trade relations
to prevent reprisals, and counselled an
American policy of trade reciprocity, part
ing even with the tariff duties in excess
of those needed for protection of a legiti-
mate kind and for revenue.
This policy announced by Mckinley was
received with enthusiasm by the public.
Of the republican party, a majority of the
party, who expressed their approval Of it
at the congressional election in November
last. The extreme protectionists, who had
formerly followed McKinley's lead, have
endeavored to show that he did not mean
indulging in the exuberant rhetoric of his
overwrought imagination. The American
nation could not be induced to take this
view, and. to- day, the proposition so nobly
voiced by the rnartyfed president, is re-
garded as a part of that unfinished bust
ness left by him for the r.ation to take up
and to which President Roosevelt referred
in his fine eulogy last evening at Canton.
Carlyle says 1.-THE history. of what man
has accomplished in the world is at bot
tom the history of the great men who
have worked here The unfinished bust
ness Of Mckinley will be taken up and
carried to its triumphant finish by the
nation just as WashiDgton's and Lin
coins undertakings for the nation are
carried on to perfection as the objective,
to-day The advocates OF a marrow and
exclusive policy. as TO The business and
Industries of the nation must give place
to a policy lin harmony with the spirit of
the times" as Mckinley said. That policy
is good will and friendly trade cations