The Washington herald., 1907-10-01
NATIONS TRIBUTE IS PAID Mckinley

/ among all Of our citizens Of all classes
| and Creeds. No other President has ever
/ more deserved 20 have his life work
| characterized i'm LinCelns words as being
/ carried on with malice toward none.
with charity toward all" As boy he
worked hard with his hands. he entered
/ the army as private soldier, he knew
/ poverty; he earned his own livelihood.
and by his own exertions ne finally rose
] 20 the position Of Iaan OF moderate
means.
Not merely was he in personal touch
with farmer and town dWeller with capi-
tallst and wageworker but he felt an
/ intimate understanding of each and
/ therefore an intimate sympathy with
each, and his consistent effort was 10
/ try TO judge all by the same standard and
20 treat all with the same justice Ar
] rogance toward the weak. and enviOus
/ hatred ~ those well off, were equally alb
i horrent To his just and gentle soul
/ Surely this attitude OF his should be
I the attitude OF all our people to-day. IL
would be "a cruel disaster 10 this conn
\ Try 20 permit ourselves 10 adopt an at
titude OF hatred and envy toward success
worthily won. toward wealth honestly ac-
I quired Let us IN this respect profit by
the example Of the REPUBLICS of tbts
/ Western Hemisphere 10 the south Of us
Some OF these republics have prospered
greatly, but there are certain ones that
/ have Jagged far behind that still con-
/ tinuc In a condition OF material poverty
] OF social and political unrest and con
4 fusion.
Thoughtful Of Weaker States.
Without exception the republics Of the
/ former class are those in which honest
/ industry has been assured OF reward and
protection: those where a cordial vel
come has been extended to the kind OF
.E..f-
/ Try. while incidentally. as IS right and
/ proper giving substantial rewards 20
I those who manifest it. On the other
hand, the poor and backward republics.
/ the republics In which the lot OF the
average citizen is least desirable and the
7 lot Of the labOTing man worst Of all, are
/ try has been killed because wealth ex-
precisely those republics In which indus
posed It's owner 10 spoliation.
To these communities foreign capital
now rarely comes, because II has been
found that as soon as capital IS EN-
ployed so as 10 give substantial re-
muueratiOn 20 those supplying il. il eX-
cites ignorant envy and hostility. which
Result IN such oppressive action. within
or without the law, as sooner or later 70
work a virtual cOnfiscation. Every mani
feStatiCu Of feeling Of this kind in our
civilization should be crushed at the out
set by the weight OF a sensible republic
opinion
From the standpoint Of our material pros
peTlty there is only one other thing as i'm
portant as the discouragement Of a spirit
of envy and hostility toward honest bust
ness men, toward honest men of means;
this IS the encouragement OF dishonest
business men, the war upon the ChiCanery
and WrOngdoing which are peculiarly re-
pulSive, peculiarly nCXiOus, when eXhib-
tied by men who have no excuse Of want.
of poverty, of ignorance, for their crimes. /
Respect for Law Needed.
Men Of means and above all, men of
great wealth. can exist IN safety under
the peaceful protection of the state, only
in orderly societies, where liberty mani
tests itself through end under the law.
II is these men who, more than any
others should, in the interests OF the
class TO which they belong. in the in
terests Of their children and their chill
dren's children, seek in every way, but
especially In the conduct of their lives,
to insist upon and TO build UP respect for
the law. It may not be true from the
standpoint Of some particular individual /
of this class. but in the long run it is
pTe-eminenuy true from the standpoint
.Of the class Is whole no less than Of 1
the country as a whole, that IL is
veritable calamity 20 achieve a temporary
triumph by violation or evasion of the
law: and We are the best friends of the
man Of property, We show ourselves the
StanCheSt uphOiderS Of the rights of |
property when We set our faces Ike flint
against those offenders who do wrong in
order TO acquire great wealth or who use
this wealth as a help 20 wrongdOing.
WTOngdOing Is confined TO 10 class. !
Good and evil are TO be found among
both rich and poor, anC in drawing the
line among our fellows we must draw il
on conduct and not on worldly posses
siOns. In the abstract most of US will
admit this In the concrete we can act
upon such doctrine only II we really
have knowledge of and sympathy with
one another
Felt Kindly Toward All.
II both the wage-worker and the capi-
talist are able to enter each into the
others life. to meet him so as to get
into genuine sympathy with him, most OF !
the misunderstanding between them will
disappear. and its place will be taken by
a judgment broader, juster, more kindly. !
and more generous; for each will find in
the other the same essential human at |
tributes that exist in himself.
Il was President McKinleys peculiar !
glory that in actual practice he realized |
this as it is given to but few men 10 /
realize it; that his broad and deep SYM
pathies made him feel a genuine sense |
of oneness with all his feilow-Americans |
whatever their station or work IN life, so !
that TO his soul they were all Joined with |
him in a great, brotherly democracy OF |
the spirit.
1t IS not given to many of US in our
lives actually to realize this attitude TO |
the extent that he did; but we can at |
least have It before US as the goal Of our /
endeavOr, and by so doing We shall pay |
honor better than in any other way 10 |
the memory OF the dead President whose |
services in life we this day Ieommem- |
crate.