New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
PRESIDENT AT CANTON.
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a beautiful and touching family life, life very
healthy for this nation to see in its foremost citi
zen; and the woman who walked in the
shadow ever after his death, the wife TO whom
his loss was 4 calamity more crushing than IL
could be to any other human being lies Deslue
him here in the same sepuchre.
APPROPRIATENESS IN INSCRIPTION.
There is a singular appropriateness in them
scription his monument Mr.. Cortelyou
whose relations with him We're of such close t,se
intimacy, gives me the following information
about it, on the Presidents trip to the Paclnc
Slope in the spring of 1901 President Wheeler
OF the University of California conferred tliT
degree of LII. d upon him in words so wei
chosen that they struck the fastidious taste OF
John Hay, then Secretary of State, who wrote
Wheeler On the receipt of this copy ne sent
the following letter to President Mckinney,
letter which now seems filed with strange
and unconscious presCience
Dear Mr. President: President Wheeler sent me
yords in more permanent shape They seem
remaTkabiy wei chosen and stately and dignihed
enough 10 serve.long hence, please G3d-a5 your
ep''aP'' iO4II UnfTersty si9 yS oSf california. ,,
once of the President;
University of California. | confeC the degrGe "t
of the United states. statesman singuarly gifted
to unite the discordant forces OF the &oNeLai@mrl @
noise of Judgment has been tested and yndicated in
brave soldier wise executive helper and leader Of
bn an eSfaf TS the s at society and the nome
Berkeley, May =, 1901
1t would he hard to imagine eptaph which
a good citizen would be more anxious TO deserve
or one which would more happily Describe 'He
qualities of that great and good citizen whose
life here commemorate He possessed 70 q
very extraordinary degree the gift of uniting
discordant forces and securing from them mar
monious action which told for good government
From purposes not merely diverse but hltterly
conflicting ne able to secure healthtul ac-
tion for the good of the state. In both poise ana
Judgment he rose level to the several emergen-
Cies he had to meet leader of the nation, ana
like all men with the root Of true greatness IN
them he grew to steadily larger stature under
the stress of neaVy responsibilities. He was good
citizen and brave soldier, a Chief Executive
whose wisdom entitled him to the trust which
he received throughout the nation. He was not
only a leader Of men but pre-einlnently
helper of men: for one of his most marked traits
was the intensely human quality Of his wide and
preached he was that most valuable of all citi-
zens in a democracy like ours man who in
the highest place served an unconscious ex-
ample to his people OF the virtues that build and
conserve alike our public life and the founda-
tion Of all public life, the intimate life of the
home.
LESSON TAUGHT BY CAREER
Many lessons are taught US by his career, but
none more valuable than the lesson of broad
human sympathy for and among all of our citi-
zens of all classes and creeds. No other Presi-
dent has ever more deserved to have his life
work characterized in Lncoln's words as being
carried on with malice toward none, with
charity toward all" As a boy he worked hard
with his hands: he entered the army as a pri-
vate soldier: he knew poverty; he earned his
own livelihood; and by his own exertions he
finally to the position of man Of mod
crate means. Not merely he IN personal
touch with farmer and town dweller. with capt.
talist and wageworker, but he felt an intimate
understanding of each. and therefore an init
mate sympathy with each: and his consistent
effort to try 10 judge all by the same
standard and to treat all with the same justice.
Arrogance toward the weak and envious hatred
of those well off were equally ahhorrent to his
just and gentle soul.
titude of all people to-day. It would
be a cruel disaster to this country to per-
nit ourselves TO adopt attitude of hatred
and envy toward success worthiy Won
toward wealth honestly acquired. Let us
in this respect profit by the example OF
the republics of this Western Hemisphere TO the
south Of us. Some of these republics have pros
pered greatly; but there are certain ones that
have Jagged far behind that still continue in a
condition of material poverty. Of social and po-
ltical unrest and confusion. Without exception
the republics of the former class are those in
which honest industry has been assured OF re-
ward and protection; those where cordial well
come has been extended to the kind of enter
prise which benefits the whole country, while
incidentally, as Is right and proper, giving sub
stantial rewards to those who manifest IT, On
the other hand, the poor and backward re-
average citizen is least desirable. and the lot Of
the aborng man worst of all, precisely
those republics in which industry has been
killed because wealth exposed its owner to
spoHaton. To these communities foreign CAPT
tai now rarely comes. because 1t has been found
that capital is employed so AS TO
give substantial remuneration to those supply
ing it it exCites ignorant envy and hostility.
when result in such oppressive action, within
without the law. sooner or later to work
a virtual confsCation. Every manifestation OF
feeling of this kind in civilization should be
crushed at the outset by the weight or a sensible
public opinion.
From the standpoint Of our material prosper
ity there is only one other thing as important
s the disCOuTagement of a spirit of envy and
hostility toward honest business men. toward
honest men of means: this is the discourage
the chicanery and wrongdoins which are pc
culiarly repulsve, peculiarly nOxious when eX-
hibted 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,
exist in safety under the peaceful prOtec-
tion Of the state only in orderly societies, where
liberty manfests itself through and under the
law. 1t is these men who more than any others,
should, in the interests Of the class to which
they belong in the interests of their children
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.
II may not be true from the standpoint of some
particular individual of this class, but in the
long run it is pre-eminenty true from the
standpoint Of the class whole no less than
Of the country as whole, that ii is a vertabe
calamity to achieve a temporary triumph by
violation evasion OF the law; and we are the
best friends of the of property, we show
ourselves the stanchest upholders of the rights
of property, when set faces like flint
against those offenders who do wrong in order
10 acquire great wealth who use this wealth
as help to wrongdoing
ONE WITH HIS FELLOW MEN
Wronedoing is confined IN no case GOOD