The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-01
President Roosevelt Delivers An
Eloquent EuIOsy Over Ashes Of
Martyred Leader.
NOBLEsT TYPE OF AMERICAN
Pleads for Better Understanding
Between All
Glasses.

soleum in which the bodies of Presi-
dent William Mckinley and his wife
rest here, was formally dedicated to-
day, President Roosevelt delivering
the dedicatory address.
The scene was an inspiring one,
bodies of national and state troops
being massed about the mausoleum,
and members of the cabinet, men,
bers of foreign embassies and diplo-
mats and Representatives of many ma
tions listened with the greatest at
tention to the services.
President Rooseve.t said, in part:
I'VE are gathered together today
to pay our need of respect and af-
fection 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
uprightness and purity of character,
alike in public and in private life.
He had to grapple with more serious
and complex problems than any pres
ident since Lincoln, and yet, whiie
meeting every demand of statesman
ship, he continued to live beautiful
and touching family life; and now
the woman who walked in the shad-
ow ever after his death, the wife to
whom his loss was calamity more
crushing than it could be to any
other human being, lies beside him
here in the same sepulcher.
"There is a singular appropriate
ness in the inscription on his monu-
ment. On the presidents trip to the
Pacific slope in the spring of 1901
President Wheeler, of the University
of California, conferred the degree of
LII. d. upon him in words SO well
chosen that they struck the fastidi-
Gus taste of John Hay, then secretary
of state, who wrote and asked for a
copy of them from President Wheel
er. On the receipt Of this copy he
sent the following letter to President
Mckinley, letter which now seems
filled with a strange and unconscious
prescience:
Dear Mr.. President:
President Wheeler sent me the
inclosed 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.
i''' "'JoHN HAY.
University of California,
''Office of the President.
by authority vested in me by
the regents of the University of Cal
ifornia, 1 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 govern
ment and mold the diverse purposes
of men toward progressive and salu-
tary action, a magistrate whose polse
of judgment has been tested and vim
dicated in a succession of national
emergencies; good citizen, brave sol
der, wise executive, helper and
leader of men, exemplar to his peo'
pie of the virtues that build and con,
serve the state, society, and the
home.
Berkeley, May Is, 1901
ut would be hard to imagine an
epitaph which a good citizen would
be more anxious to deserve or one
which would more happily describe
the qualities of that great and good
citizen whose life we here commem
crate.
''He was not only leader of mer
but prominently helper of men
Finally, he not merely preached, he
was, that most valuable of all citi
zens in a democracy like ours, man
who in the highest place served as
an unconscious example to his people
of the virtues that build and con
serve alike our public life, and the
foundation of all public life, the init
mate life of the home.
Many lessons are taught us by
his career, but none more valuable
than the lesson of broad human sym
pathy for and among all of our citi
zens of all classes and creeds.
mot merely was he in persona
touch with farmer and town dweller
with capitalist and wageworker, bu
he felt an intimate understanding O
each, and therefore an intimate sym
pathy with each; and his consisten
effort was to try to judge all by tht
same standard and to treat all will
the same justice. Arrogance towart
the weak, and envious hatred of thos'
we'll off, were equally abhorrent tt
his just and gentle SOUL
Surely this attitude of his shoult
be the attitude of all our people to
day. 1t would De Il cruel QlSaSte
to this country to permit ourselve
to adopt an attitude of hatred ant
envy toward success worthily won
toward wealth honestly acquired.
From the standpoint of our ma
terial prosperity there is on y on
other thing as important as the dis
couragement of spirit of envy ant
hostility toward honest business men
toward honest men of means; this |
the discouragement of dishones
business men, the war upon tn
chicanery and wrongdoing which ar
peculiarly repulsive, peculiarly nox
ious, when exhibited by men VIII
have no excuse of want, of poverty
of ignorance, for their crimes. Me
of means, and above all men of grea
wealth, can exist in safety under tn