Connecticut western news., 1907-10-03
ROOSEVELT IN OHIO,
Speaks at Mckinley MausoIeum
 Dedication In Canton.
HE DENOUNCES DISHONESTY.

President Gives Credit to Wealth Hon. esty Acquired, Scores chicanery and Finds In Predecessors Life Lessons For Rich and Poor Alike.
 Canton, O., Oct 2.-President Roose- welt received a great welcome when he arrived here to participate in the ex- ercises connected with the dedication of the Mckinley mausoleum. A fea- ture of the exercises was the address of MT. Roosevelt, who said in part:
 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 coun- try have ever won. He was of singular uprightness and purity of character, alike fin public and private life. A citizen who loved peace, he 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 statesmen, reaching position which would satisfy the keenest ambition, but he never lost that simple and thoughtful kindness to- ward every human being, great or small, lofty or humble, with whom he was brought in contact, which so endeared him to our people. He had to grapple with more serious and complex problems than any president since Lincoln, and yet, while meeting every demand of statesmanship, he continued to live a beautiful and touching family life, life very healthy for this nation to see in its foremost citizen, and now the woman who walked in the shadow ever after his death, the wife to whom his loss was a calamity more crushing than 1t could be to any other human being, lies beside him here in the same sepulcher.
 MekinIey's Epitaph. & There is a singular appropriateness in the inscription on his monument. MT. Cortelyou, whose relations with him were of such close intimacy, gives me the fol- lowing information about it. On the presidents trip to the Pacific slope in the spring of 1901 President Wheeler of the University of California conferred the degree of IL. D. upon him in words so well chosen that they struck the fastidi- ous taste of John Hay, then secretary of state, who wrote and asked for copy of them from President Wheeler. On the receipt of this copy he sent the following letter to President Mckinley, a letter which now seems filled with strange and unconscious prescience:
 Dear Mr. President-President Wheeler sent me the inclosed at my request. You will have the words in more 1permanent 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,
 "Off1ce of the President
 By authority vested in me by the re-
 
 confer the degree of doctor of laws upon William Mckinley, president of the United States, a statesman singularly gifted to unite the discordant forces of the government and mold the diverse pur- poses of men toward progressive and salutary action; a magistrate whose poise of Judgment has been tested and vindi- cated in a succession of national emer- gencies; good citizen, brave soldier wise executive, 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 15, 1901" ..
 A Great and Good Citizen.
 It would be hard to imagine an epitaph which a good citizen would be more anx- ious to deserve or one which would more happily describe the qualities of that great and good citizen whose life we here commemorate. He possessed to a very
 
 discordant forces and securing from them a harmonious action which told for good government. From purposes not merely diverse, but bitterly conflicting, he was able to secure healthful action for the good of the state. In both poise and Judgment he rose level to the several emergencies he had to meet as leader of the nation, and, like all men with the root of true greatness In them, he grew to steadily larger stature under the stress
 
 citizen and brave soldier, chief exec utive whose wisdom entitled him to the trust which he received throughout the nation.
 He was not only a leader of men, but pre-eminently a helper of men, for one of his most marked traits was the intensely human quality of his wide and deep sym pathy. Finally, he not merely preached; i; he was that most valuable of all citi- zens in democracy like ours, a man who in the highest place served as an uncon- scious example to his people of the vir- tues that build and conserve alike our public life and the foundation of all pub lie life, the intimate life of the home.
 Many lessons are taught us by Nis ca- reer, but none more valuable than the lesson of broad human sympathy for and among all of our citizens of all classes and creeds. No other president has ever more deserved to have his life work char acterized in Lincoln's words as being car
 
 charity toward all" As a boy he worked hard with his hands. He entered the army as a private soldier, he knew poverty he earned his own livelihood and by his own exertions he finally rose to the position of a man of moderate means. Not merely was he in personal touch with farmer and town dweller, with capitalist and wageworker, but he felt an intimate understanding of each and therefore intimate sympathy with each, and his consistent effort was to try to judge all by the same standard and to treat all with the same justice. Arrogance toward the weak and envious hatred of those we'll off were equally ab- horrent to his just and gentle soul.
 MckinIey's Lesson to Us.
 Surely this attitude of his should be the attitude of all our people today It would be cruel disaster to this country to permit ourselves to adopt attitude of hatred ard envy toward success worth fly won, toward wealth honestly acquired. Let us in this respect profit by the ex- ample of the republics of this western hemisphere to the south of us. Some of these republics have prospered greatly, From the standpoint of our material prOsDeritv there iS only one other thing