Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-01
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THE MKINLEY MAUSOLEUM.

M hlNLEl M fin public and private life. A citizen who loved, peace, he did his duty faithfully and well 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 a 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 calamity more crushing than it could be to any other human being. lies beside him here in the same sepulcher.
 Mckinley'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 a copy of them from President Wheeler. On the 70 k,a la FoIio letter to President Mckinley. a letter which now seems filled with a strange and unconscious prescience:
 Dear MT. 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. Yours faithfully.
 JOHN HAY"
 University of California,
 "Office of the President.
 By authority vested in me by the re- gents of the University of California I 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 boise 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 IS. 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 extraordinary degree the gift of uniting 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 of heavy responsibilities. He was a good citizen and a brave soldier. chief exec utfve whose wisdom entitled him to the trust which he received throughout the nation.
 He vas 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; he was that most valuable of all citi- zens in democracy ike ours. man who in the highest place serFN as an uncon- scfo1s example to his people of the vir- tues that build and conserve alike our public life and the foundation of all pub lfc life, the intimate life Of the home Many lessons are taught us by his ca reer. but none more valuable than the EeEs1z of broad human sympathT for sne B-ong all of cur citizens of all cisss-- and ereeds No ether prss5denI has ever more deserved to have his Mfs work char screrized in IEncoln-s words ss being car ned ca with malice tcEsrd none. with charity toward zIL-
 As a bsy he worked hard with his hz-1s- He entered the army as private so31lsr. h= knew poverty. ks earned his own HvelIhsod and bT bis cwn exsrtions ks f-zTly rose to the rositto7 of nan cf D01erzts rezrs Net EerslT vas hS k 1s-so-al t0uch yin fszusE and tsEr