The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-10-05
Held UP AS PATTERN
PRESIDENT PRAISES LIFE and
CHARACTER OF M'KINLEY.
Occasion the Dedication of the
MAGNIFICENT Mausoleum Built
By Popular Contributions at
the Martyred Presidents Old
Home at Canton.

Canton, Ohio, Sept. 3O.-Another
shrine has arisen in Ohio to which the
reverent generations to come may jour-
ney, for this day, on the brow of the
hill overlooking Nimishilling creek,
was dedicated the mausoleum to Will
lam Mckinley, president and martyr.
The dedication was BETTING the mag
nif1cent marble monument. It was at
once BETTING and impressive. Fifty
Thousand people from afar assembled
within the gates Of this city to assist
in this work of love, and the hills
about the great pile were black with
their numbers ae the service began.
Ten thousand Threats joined in the
mighty chorus that raised the national
anthem as the swathing banners fell
away in graceful foldings and revealed
the martyr in bronze standing as he
stood that direful day in Buffalo be-
meath the shadow of the wing of doom.
The rolling chords, reverberating the
little valley below, we're caught up and
reechoed by the throng standing afar.
Speakers Seem Inspired
Leading the singing with uncovered
head and uplifted arm was the presi-
dent of the United States. Infected
with the spirit of the hour, he seemed
like one touched with the Pentecostal
fire. So it was with all the others who
spoke. The gifted DR.. Bristol, Nc
Kinley's neighbor and lifelong friend /;
the eloquent James Whitcomb Riley,
poet and philosopher both, and the
sanity Bishop Ignatius F. Horstman
of the diocese of Cleveland. admirer
and supporter of the martyr, each
seemed commissioned to preach with
tongue touched by flame, calling on
the multitude to initiate the example
of their ruler, friend and neighbor,
and practice without ceasing the car
dinal virtues which he SO faithfully
observed.
Strenuously foremost in the exhor-
tations was President Roosevelt, whose
theme. as upon other great occasions,
was obedience to the law by all, rich
and poor alike, lowly and great.
The text upon which his sermon
like grafton was based was the great
sympathy which Mckinley felt for all
classes, sympathy which was effect
i've because it was founded on a COM
plete understanding Of the inner feel
ings of those classes. His voice was
lifted up against the envy Of those
who have become successful.
Protest Against Envy
every manifestation of this kind
in our civilization should be crushed
at the outset by the weight of sensi-
BILE public opinion" he cried.
Whom the approving multitude gave
its nod of sanction, he thanked it.
Then to make it clearer that no ret
repression from his fixed policy was
meant, he demanded applause for the
sentiment:
From the standpoint of our mater
ial prosperity there is only one other
thing as important as the discourage
ment of spirit of envy and hostility
toward honest men of means. This is
the encouragement of dishonest bust
ness men, the war upon chicanery and
wrongdoing which are peculiarly re-
pulsive and peculiarly noxious when
exhibited by men who have no excuse
of want, of poverty, of ignorance Of
their crimes"
Eulogizing the late President Nc
Kinley, Mr.. Roosevelt said:
''He was good citizen and brave
soldier, a chief executive whose wis
dom entitled him to the trust which
he received throughout the nation.
He was not only leader Of men, but
preeminently a helper of men; for one
Of his most marked traits was the in
tensely human quality of hiswide and
deep sympathy: Finally. he not
merely pre- ached. be was that most
valuable of all citizens in democTa cy
like ours, a man who in the highest
place served as an unconscious exam
pie to his people Of the virtues that
build and conserve alike our public
life, and the foundation of all public
life, the intimate life of the home.