The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-01
TRIBUTE TO MARTYRED
 PRESIDENT IS DEDICATED
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lot of the laboring man worst of all ore precisely those republics in which 1ndustry has been killed because wealth 9xposed ns owner to spoliation. To these communities foreign capital TOW rarely comes, because 1t has been found that as soon as capital is employed SO as to give substantial remuneration c. those supplying 1t it excites ignv. saf envy and hostility, which results ir such opprs ssive action. within or with out the law, as sooner or ialer to V orA n virtual confiscation. Every manifest ation of feeling of this kind shouiu hs crushed at the outset by the weight ,f a sensible public opinion.
 From the standpoint of our material prosperity there is only one other thing as important as the discourage ment of spirit. of envy and hostility toward honest business men toward honest men of means; this is tho dis cnnra 0emArt If dishonest business men. the war upon the chicanery and wrongdoing which are peculiarly re- pulsfve. peculiarly noxious. when ex- hibited 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 in safety under the peaceful protection of . the State, only in orderly societies, where liberty manifests Itself through and under the law. It is these men
 
 the interests of the class to which they belong, in the interests of their chill dren and their children's children. seek in every way, but especially in the conduct of their lives, to insist upon and to build up respect for the law. It may not be true from the standpoint of some particular individual of this class. but in the long run 1t Is pre- eminently true from the standpoint of the class as a whole, no less than of the country as a whole, that 1t is veritable calamity to achieve a tenn porary triumph by violation or evasion of the law; and we are the best friends of the man of property, we show our selves 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 help to wrongdoing.
 wrongdoing is confined to no class. Good and evil are to be found among beth 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 sympa- thy 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 mis- understanding between them will dis appear and its place will be taken by a judgment broader. juster. more kind ly, and more generous; for each will find ih the other the same essential hu- man attributes that exist in himself. It was President McKinley's peculiar glory that in actual practice he real ized this as it is given to but few men to realize 1t; that his broad and deep sympathies made him feel genuine sense of oneness with all his fellow Americana, whatever their station or work in life, so that to his soul they were ell joined with him in great brotherly democracy of the spirit. It 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 1t before us as the goal of our endeayor, and by so doing we shall nay honor better than in any other way to the memory of the dead Presi- dent whose services in life we this day commemorate.
 The program was closed by the sing ing of America and benediction by the Right Rev. Ignatius F. Horstmann, Bishop of Cleveland.
 Immediately upon the close Of the program, President Roosevelt and par