The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-11
Senator Pays Beautiful Tribute to
the Character Of Former
Secretary of
State
MEMORIAL LIBRARY DEDICATED
SAYS Credit is Due to Country That
Can Appreciate Such Man as Hay
and Place True Value Upon
His Great Service.

Providence, II. l., Nov. 1.-The ded-
ication of the John Hay Memorial Ii
brary at Brown University today at
tracted a great company of distin-
guished men and women from various
parts of the country. President F'aunce
of the university presided and the
principal addresses were delivered by
Emeritus President James Il. Angel
of the University of Michigan and
Senator Elihu Root of New York.
The library is to stand as memorial
of the late John Hay, who was Secre-
dent Roosevelt at the time of his death
I'm 1905. Mr.. Hay was graduate of
Brown University in the class of 1858.
The library was erected at cost OF
100000 from contributions made by
Andrew Carnegie and others. The
structure and it's equipment are of the
most modern type with Accommodations
for 100000 volumes.
Senator Roots Address.
The life and influences of the late
Secretary of State in the fields of dip
lomacy were eulogized in the address
by United States Senator Elihu Root,
Of New York. Senator Root said
High credit is due to country that
can appreciate such man as John
Hay; that has Justly estimated his
merit, has valued his service and hon
ors his memory. A people capable Of
this have something about them too
fine to permit them to be given over
10 the worship OF merely material
things. 1t would be difficult to con-
ceive of a sharper contrast than that
between the character OF Mr.. Hay and
the confident thick skinned, self-as-
serting, pushing. hustling character
ordinarily associated with success in
the practical affairs Of this hurly- bur
ly world. The note in his daily life
which most challenged the attention
of an observer was that of extreme
refnment, sensitiveness. and reserve.
He was unassuming, retiring. self-ef-
facing. He was thoroughly democrat
ic in his sympathies and convictions.
fIe took men at their character value,
without regard to place or power or
wealth.
lie was different to popularity, while
he was keenly alive to the approval of
all those whose Judgment he respected
and whose friendship he valued. His
life was his own and he shared ii only
with those he loved. He never put in
evidence at the bar of public opinion
or entered 1t In competition for the
prizes of public life. The pi I'd mod
esty of his self-respect lie IL i'm
possible for him to testify i'm his own
behalf or to ailege his own merits. He
left others to judge what he was and
what he accomplished, without even
aid from him, while his generous and
loyal nature was never weary of Civ
ing credit and praise and honor to his
associates and contemporaries to the
extreme limit of their deserts.
sensitive TO 6eauty.
He was sensitive to beauty in all
its forms-beauty i'm nature. In art,
In form of literary expression, I'm
thought, i'm human character. The
principles of Christian ethics controlled
his judgments and his practice. A fine
ana correct taste determined the at
traction and repulsion of his life. but
ne was not narrow of finical. He had
the enthusiasm of humanity. He had
breadth of view and kindness of judg-
ment He had the saving grace of
humor to very high degree, and his
humOr was exquisite delicate and sub
tie His estimates of men and their
hVes cut through all appearances to
inc realities, were independent Of
clothes and houses and the accident OF
manners, and seized upon whatever
was true and human, whether IL was
IN the miners hut or the farmers
ranch or the millionaire's palace. The
scope of his human sympathy was un-
Nersal. He could write both the
rike County Ballads and the Castilian
Lays Quality appeared TO him. whota-
er IN an earl or a longshoreman. He
RAD fine sense of proportion and OF
uhe illness of things. He had imagin-
auon' without which no man can be
great In business or science or govern
ment any more than In literature and
art
His nature had It's penalties. He
snrank from rude personal contact. As
'nihgs fine and noble gave him plea
sure things brutal and sordid caused
"'in pain. He could fight for cause
VT friend, but he shrank from fight