Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04

are the best friends of the man of
property, we show ouselves the
staunchest upholders of the rights of
property, when we set our faces like
flint against those offenders who do
wrong in order to acquire great
wealth or who use this wealth as a
help to wrongdoing
Wrongdoing is confined to no class.
Good and evil are to be found among
both rich and poor, and in drawing the
line among our fellows we must draw
it on conduct and not on worldly pos
sessions. In the abstract most of us
will admit this. In the concrete we
can act upon such doctrine only if we
really have knowledge of and sym
pathy with one another. If both the
wage-worker and the capitalist 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 attributes that exist
in himself. 1t was President McKin-
ley's peculiar glory that in actual
to but few men to realize it; that his
broad and deep sympathies made him
feel a genuine sense of oneness with
all his fellow-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 to the memory of
the dead president whose services in
life we this day commemorate.
The program concluded with the
singing of America" and a benedic-
ton by Bishop Horstmann.
At the close of the services at the
tomb of Mckinley the president in
spected the interior. Immediately af
ter this he was taken to the special
train and left Canton for the west.
After the president passed through
the tomb the general public was ad
mitted, and thousands streamed
through before the doors were closed.
Four states have contributed a
share of the material used in the
building of the monument. The gran
ite used in the approaches and the
mausoleum proper are from the quar-
ries of Milford, Mass. Tennessee fur
nished the gray marble for the in
terror of the tomb, while the sarcoph-
agi which holds the bronze caskets
in which lie the bodies of President
and Mrs. Mckinley are of dark green
granite from Windsor, VT. The base
upon which the sarcophagi rests is
black granite from Berlin Wis.
From the first step of the approach
to the monument to the top of the
structure is 163 feet 6 inches, the
mausoleum itself being SO feet 6
inches above the summit of the
mound. The top of the dome has an
oculus Is feet in diameter through
which comes a softened light which
adds greatly to the beauty of the in
terror.
The mausoleum is rs feet inches
in diameter. Huge Doric columns are
placed around the interior in such a
manner as to appear half buried in the
sides of the building. The floor is of
mosaic, marble having been brought
from many states for the purpose.
Half way down from the top of the
125 granite steps that lead up to the
main entrance on the south side of the
mausoleum stands an heroic bronze
figure of President Mckinley, repre-
senting him in the attitude usually as
sumed when speaking-his left hand
holding roll of manuscript and the
left hand in the trousers pocket Be
hind the figure is a bronze chair en-
circled with wreath. and draped with
! the flag of United States