Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13

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ling and Blaine.
1T is eminentIy fitting that we
should recall the chivalric career OF ou1
martyred president and renew our sol
emn VOWS to be faithful to the lofty
principles of true character and pure
government for which he stood while
he lived. and which were baptized
with his blood in his death.
From the days of Abel until now
those who have offered a more accept
able sacrifice have aroused the mur-
derous instincts of depravity
"All the partings of the ways of his
tory have been saturated with blood
Noble men have been the piVots upon
which epochs have turned. Without
the sacrament of blood there would
have been no Savior of the world, no
great triumphs of trust. Men in every
age have gallantly responded even unto
agony and death
Toiling up new Calvaries ever
with the cross that turns not back.
ITO this royal brotherhood has been
added the name of a prineely son of
liberty-William Mckinley.
"William Mckinley was the embodi-
ment of the spirit of his age. He was
the ideal American. He absorbed in
his own great nature the traditions and
doctrines of the past and became an
incarnation in his public and personal
life of the noblest aspirations of a lib
erty loving people. In his career the
labor of many brave hearts and many
long years of sacrificing toll culminat-
ed.
True Men Are Great
"All true men are great men, but
those men are more widely known in
their greatness in whose lives the cli-
makes of the years take place. In
architecture the dazzling pinnacle
crowned with gold, though conspicu-
granite block which, all unseen, sup
ports the massive structure. Every
go%l man from the beginning of our
republics history who has struggled
and suffered for freedom has contribut-
ed to and has a part in the eventful
career of William Mckinley.
in his public life he was a states
man with convictions, and courge, and
conscience, and character; and these
made him a seer. A statesman is a
politician with a heavenly vision. He
espoused a principle of government
and made it the subject of his studies
and his speeches, ready to rise or fall
with his favorite theme. AS citizen, con-
gresham, governor and president, he
stood four square to every wind which
blew, so that in all his public life there
was never occasion for a breath of sus-
picion or scandal.
He possessed undertaking fidelity.
twice peremptorily declining the nomi-
nation for the presidency because he
had promised his support to other men.
He believed in America for Americans.
and his eagle eye was ever alert for
the approach of an inimical force, or for
a weak place in the citidel of freedom.
He sought to secure to the classes their
rights, and to accord to the masses the
full proportion of a nations prosperity.
He was entertained by the rich and
had the love and confidence of the poor.
Every man, of whatever station in life,
who knew him personally, claims him
as familiar friend.
An Apostle Of Peace
He was an apostle of peace. All
great soldiers have preferred peace to
war. The concluding utterance of his
last public address will live until peace,
conquers every wrong.
We will remember how his clarion
tones rang out in the crystal air of that
perfect September day as he said; Let
us ever remember that our interest is
in concord, not conflict, and that our
real eminence rests in the victories of
peace not in those of war; McKinley's
public life is a vindication of a govern
ment of the people, for the people, by
the people; and of his own Christian
character.
I'm his private life William McKin-
lev was a persistent rebuke to corrup-
ton in any form. He maintained,
without wavering, his Christian integ
rity. In his younger days he registered
vow similar to that of Lord Nelson
on the deck of a vessel in the Mediter
ranean sea, God helping me, I will be
a mani! The manliness in McKinley's
life is a most distinguishing factor. He
was chaste in thought and conversa-
tion, and had no inclination to unsavory
language, either in story or repartee.
His boyhood days were spent in sight
of a rolling mill where his father was
employed, whose pillar of cloud by day
and pillar of fire by night came to be
to him the symbol of the nations ma
terial prosperity.
A Home Defender
Mckinley was a home-maker, a
home-lover, a home-defender AS son
brother husband and father, he was
dutiful, affectionate and gallant. He
was the product of a happy home and
his knightly sword was always un-
sheathed in defense of the fireside and
all it's divine associations. And when,
at his Inauguration. he stopped and
kissed his proud and happy mother, he
only gave back to her the token of
knighthood which she had first given
to him. A mothers kiss! o holy acco-
lade! We do not forget the lonely
heart and the fragile life, and the love-
ships strewed in wreckage along the
shore.
His is another sacrifice for liberty.
His name will be enrolled with Bruno
and Calico and John Ball, with Lin
coin and Garfield and John Brown. Our
theory of government Is not false, it is
ideal. We are free by the grace of
God, but we are changing our theory
into demonstration by the sacrament of
blood. Liberty is a divine ideal, tho
forces of evil resist it to the death.
"This consecrated Samson's achieve
ment was greatest even in his death.
He died a hero and, in his death, in
terpreted true twentieth century hero
ism.
Not any man of noisy war,
Nor noisome man with praiseful pen
No, no, the nero OF the strife.
Is he who deals not death, but life
I'm the death of William Mckinley,
the pulses of a new heroism are throb-
bing in the hearts of our countrymen.
This was expressed by man in the
suburbs of Buffalo, who said: William
Mckinley died more like Jesus Christ
than any man in history and he forth
with, for the first time, forsook his un-
belief, and adopted the faith of McKin-