The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-09-30
TRIBUTE PAID
TO N 'K|NLEY
Roosevelt DediCates MOnu.
ment 10 Late President

! CAN'T sept. oU-Nltn dH do
dress by President Roosevelt, in which
he paid a glowing tribute to late Pres
! ident Mckinley, the Mckinley mon
| ument was dedicated here today. The
president arrived at 1918 and was i'm
mediately driven to the school house.
He was then taken in front of the mon
ument Four thousand people wit
messed the unveiling. Fully 100000
people are in the city to hear the ad-
/ dress Two thousand of the regular
army troops and 1000 police protected
the president, and kept the crowd In
order. President Roosevelt spoke in
part as follows:
We have gathered together today to
pay our need of respect and affection
to the memory of William Mckinley,
who as president won a place in the
hearts of the American people such as
but three or four of all the presidents
of this country have ever won. He
was of singular uprighteousness and
purity of character, alike in public and
in private life; a citizen who loved
peace, ne did his duty faithfully and
we'll for four years of war when the
honor of the nation called him to
arms.
AS congressman, as governor Of his
state. and finally as president, he rose
to the foremost place among our
statesman. reaching position which
would satisfy the keenest ambition:
but he never lost that simple and
thoughtful kindness toward every hu-
man being, great or small, lofty or
! humble with whom he was brought in
people. He had to grapple with more
serious and complex problems than
any president since Lincoln, and yet,
while meeting every demand of
| craftsmanship, he continued to live q
beautiful and touching family life, a
| life very healthy for this nation to
see in it's foremost citizen; and now
| the woman who walked in the shadow
:
his loss was a calamity more crushing
! than it could be to any other huma II
being, lies beside him here in the
same sepulcher.
Deserving Epftaph.
! There is a singular appropriateness
in the inscription on his monument.
Mr. CortelyOu. whose relations with
him We're of such close intimacy. gives
me the following information about it:
on he presidents trip to the Pacific
! slope in the spring of 1901 President
| Wheeler, of the University of Califor-
MIA conferred the degree of LID. upon
/ him in words so well chosen that they
struck the fastidious taste of John
Hay then secretary of state, who
wrote and asked for a copy of them
from President Wheeler. On he re-
ceipt of this copy he sent the following
! letter to President Mckinley. a letter
which now seems filled with a strange
and unconscious preseience:
Dear Mr.. President:
| President Wheeler sent me the in
! closed at my request. You will have
the words in more permanent shape
They seem to me remarkably we'll
chosen, and stately and dignified
enough to serve-long hence, please
| God-as your epitaph.
Yours, faithfully,
JOHN HAY.
| UNIVERSITY. OF CALIFORNIA,
:. "Office of the President.
"By authority vested in my by the
regents of the University fCalifornia.
I confer the degree of Doctor of Laws
upon William Mckinley, President Of
the United States, a statesman singu-
larly gifted to unite the discordant
| forces of the government and mold
the diverse purposes of men toward
progressive and salutary action, a
magistrate whose poise of judgment
has been tested and vindicated in a
succession of national emerger cies;
good citizen brave soldier, wise exc
cu.ive. helper and leader of men. ex-
emplar to his people of the virtues that
build and conserve the state, society,
! and the home.
Berkeley, May Is 1901"
! 1t would be hard to imagine an cpl
taph which a good citizen would be
more anxious to deserve or one which
would more happily describe the quail
/ ties of that great and good citizen
whose life we here commemorate He
possessed to very extraordinary de-
gree the gift of uniting discordanr
! forces and securing from them a har-
monious action which told for good
government.
Grew Under Responsibility.
/ From purposes not merely diverse.
but bitterly conflicting, he was able
to secure healthful action for the good