The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-10-01
UNVEIL MONUMENT 70 WILLIAM M'lzlNLEY
President Roosevelt Delivers Glowing Eulogy to Marted
President Before ConCOurse Of People Representatives
OF All States and Nations Pay Tribute TO- Memory

former class are those in which hon
est industry has been assured Of re-
ward and protection; those where a
cordial welcome has been extended
to the kind Of enterprise which bene
fits the whole country, while Incl
dentally, as IS right and proper, giving
substantial rewards to those who man
ifest 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 lot OF
the laboring man worst Of all, are
precisely those republics in which in
dustry has been killed because wealth
exposed its owner to- spoilation. To
these communities foreign capital now
rarely comes, because 1t has been
found that as soon as capital is en-
plOyed so as to give substantial re-
muneration to those supplying it, it ex-
cites ignorant envy and hostility,
which result in such oppressive ac-
ton, within or without the law, as
sooner or laterto work virtual confis-
cation. Every manifestation of feel
ing of this kind In our civilization
should be crushed at the outset by
the weight of a sensible public opin-
ion
From the standpoint Of our material
prosperity there is only one other
thing as important as the discourage
ment of a spirit of envy and hostility
toward honest business men, toward
honest men of means; this is the dis
couragement Of dishonest business
men, the war upon the chicanery and
wrongd doing which are peculiarly repul-
sive, peculiarly noxious, when exhi-
bited BY men who have no excuse OF
want, Of poverty, Of ignorance, for
their crimes. Men of means and above
all men Of great wealth, can exist
III safety under the peaceful protec-
tion Of the state only in orderly So
cieties, where liberty nanifests 1T
self. through and under the law. 1T is
these men who, more than any others,
should, in the interests of the class
to which they belong, in the interests
of their children and their children's
children, seek in every way, but es-
pecially in the conduct of their lives,
to insist upon and to build up respect
for te law 1t may not be true from
the standpoint Of some particular indi-
vidual of this class, but in the long
run it is preeminently true from the
standpoint of the class as whole, no
! less than of the country as a whole.
| tnat it is a veritable calamity to
achieve temporary triumph by vio-
lation or exasion of the law; and we
are the best friends of the man OF
property, we show ourselves the
stanchest 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
i 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 IL We
really have knowledge of and sympa
4 thy with one another. If both the
i wage-worker and the capitalist are
able to enter each into the others
Il life, to meet him SO as to get intt
1 genuine sympathy with him, most q
the misunderstanding between then
4 will disappear and it's place will be
taken by a. Judgment broader, juster
more kindly and more generous; fol
each will find in the other the same
A essential human attributes that exis1
in himself. It was President McKin
ley's peculiar glory that in actua
practice he realized this as it is givel
i to few men to realize it; that hi:
Iibroad and deep sympathies made hin
feel genuine sense of oneness witt
!; all his fellow-Americans, Whateve1
their station or work in life, so tina
to his soul they were all joined wipl
j him in a great brotherly democrac.
OF the spirit. It is not given 70 man!
os us in our lives actually to realiz'
this attitude to the extent that b
/ did; but we can at least have it befor
us as the goal of our endeayor, an
j by so doing we shall pay honor bel
1 ter than in any other way to the mem
/ ory Of the dead president whose SCI
i lvices in life we this day mmemorate
. Description Of Monument.
. The mausoleum stands on an EN-
, nence to which has been given th
: name of Monument Hill, about tw
9 miles due west of the Mckinley hom
r in the city of Canton. It is not a
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