The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-08

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but he disregarded their kindly admonitions
and labored on until he fell at his post of
duty, virtual sacrifice to his country and
his countrymen. No soldier ever died upon
the field of glory more surely for others
than did he
MIR. BEvERIDGE'S TRIBUTE.
Senator Beveridge, in the course of an
eloquent tribute to Mr.. Hanna. said: THE
things he did were real things. He was
the very spirit of the practical. Yet the
practical did not kill or even impair the
human in him. He never lost the gift of
loveableness His sense of human touch
and fellowship was not dulled, but made
more delicate by scofing time and the
cynic world. The years made him wiser,
but they made him melower, too. And so
he won the peoples affection as we'll as
their applause. And affection is worth
more than applause. There is greater
glory than this-to make a nation your
friend Senator Hanna did that. For, when
the angel of peace, which men call death,
took our brother to his well-earned rest, the
people knew that a friend had left them.
And the people We're sad that he had
This human quality in him made all he
did a living thing, all he said a living
word. He was the man of affairs in states
manship; yet his personality made propo-
sitionS of national business as warm and
vital as principles. He was the personif-
building, planting, reaping; of ships on
ocean and on land, steel highways and the
rolling wheels of trade; of that movement
of the times which knits together with
oTething more than verbal ties all the
children of men. weaves tangible civiliza-
ton around the globe and will in time
make of all peoples neighbors, brothers,
friends.
THUS he was, unwittingly no doubt, one
of the agents of Gods great purpose of the
unification of the race. We are all such
agents, small great If this is
| If we are not ignorantly perhaps and
blindly but still surely spinning our lives
into the Masters design, whose pattern He
alone can COMPREHENSIVE we and all things
are not working together for good-if life
is but a breath exhaled and then forever
lost, our work means less and is worth less
than that of coral insects which, from
the depths, build ever toward the light until
Islands stand above the waves, permanent
monuments of an intelligent architecture
Work with real things-real earth, real
ocean, real mountains, real men-made him
conservative. And his conservatism was
real. Much that is accepted as conserva-
tism is spurious, mere make-believe. Con-
servatism does not mean doubt or indie
cision. 1t does not mean wise looks. mask
ing vacuity, nor pompouS phrase, as
meaningless as il is solemn. Conservati sm
means clear common sense, which equally
rejects the fanaticism of precedent and the
| fanaticism of change. 1t would not have
| midnight last just because ii exists, and
| yet knows that dawn comes not in flash.
but acknowledgements with a grand and
is the real statesman. He brings things TO
pass in a way that lasts and does good.
Senator Hanna was the perfection of con-
servatism
HE is gone from usLgone before us
Strength and frailty, kindness and wrath,
wisdom and folly, laughter and frown, all
the elements of life and his living of 1t have
| ceased their visible play and action.
! Where said despairing Wilton, where are
the SHOWS of yesterday Vanished he
would have us believe. Yes, but vanished
only in form. The SHOWS of Yesterday
in stream, in cloud and rain in sap
! of tree and bloom of flower, in heart and
| brain of talent and beauty. Nothing is lost
even here on our ancient and kindly earth
| So the energies of our friend and those Of
| all men. have touched into activity forces
that, influencing still others, will move on
! forever
| 'As to the other life, we know not fully
what 1t is; but, that il is, we know Know
! ing this. We who are left behind go on about
our daily tasks, assured that in another
| established, weakness cast aside as a cloak
when winter has passed. vision clear as
| when at dawn we wake from dreams
| heart happy as when, a victory won, we
| cease from effort and from care-for him
| the night is done and joy cometh in the
! morning"
MIR. FORAKER'S ADDRESS
| Mr.. Foraker's address was a candid re-
| view of the public career and frank
| analysis of the character of his late COL
| league and was read from manuscript He
| said that Mr.. Hanna's relation to President
Mckinley had naturally rendered him
dominant in Ohio politics" These matters
| of the past. said the senator, were brought
| up only for the purpose of illustrating the
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