Pueblo chieftain., 1921-05-19
K. LANE
FORMER SECT. DIES
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and thwarting and frustration on the
! whole, than he did pain.
| But here was a path to the end OF
which could not see. ] was not COM
PEELED to take it. My very latest doc
tor advised me against taking 1t. I
could live without taking IL. 1t as a
bet on the high card ith chance TO
win and took it,
At this point occurs details regard
| ing the preparations for the operation
| with note of the fact that a general
| anaesthetic could not be applied on
account of the patients heart which
| had been cutting up some didos.'
| Tho statement continues:
| For two days l had knowledge that
| this operation was to take place at this
time and my nerves had not been just
| as good as they should have been.
Those who sleep twelve hours perfect
ly before being electrocuted have evil
| IDENTIFY led moro tranquil lives than l
| have or have less concern as to the
future. An. now was to know the
great secret For forty years l had
been wondering, wondering. Often
had said to myself, that should sum-
mon to my mind when this moment
came some words that would be some
what n synthesis of my philosophy.
| Socrates said to those who stood by
after he had drunk the hemlock no
evil can Aefall a good man whether he
| he alive or dead | don't know how
far from that we have gone in these
240o years.
The apothegm. however. was not
apposite to me because it involved a
declaration that l Was gooo man and
| l don't know any one who has the
| right to so appreciate himself And I
had come to the conclusion that per-
| haps the best statement of my creed
1 al - ,zt- Il
cept which to me means that II in tho
law of nature my individual spirit was
TO 60 back Into the great ocean OF
spirits, my one duty was TO conform.
Lead kindly light was all the gospel
had. 7 accepted"
It was often said of Franklin X.
Lane that IL he had been horn in the
United States instead of Canada, he
| would have been presidential timber.
| After serving seven years in President
| Wilson'S cabinet an Secretary of the
| Interior. he resigned his Si2,0oo-a-year
| post in expensive Washington early In
1920 'in justice to his family" to be-
como vice president and legal adviser
of the Mexican petroleum companies
controlled by Edward L. Doheny.
Born near Charlottctown, Prince
/ Edward Island. July Is, 1864. the son
| of a Canadian doctor who removed TO
California during the boys childhood,
| young Lane was educated at tho Uni
| versity of California from which he
was graduated in 1855. BY reason OF
| his scholastic achievements the hon
| oeary degrees OF LID. was conferred
Upon him some years later by his alma
| mater and by New York and Brown
universities and the University OF
| North Carolina
Upon lcaing college he engaged in
newspaper work, becoming part owner
IL.
| News In 1889 he was admitted to the
bar OF California and from 1897 until
| 1902 served as Corporation counsel OF
| San Francisco. In the latter year he
| was the Democratic candidate for
governor OF California but was not
/ elected. Hc received the party vote of
the state Legislature in 1908 for United
States senator. Appointed member
Of the Interstate Commerce commits
! sion by President Roosevelt la
ter becoming chairman. Mr.. Lane
! was serving in that capacity when he
| was made Secretary OF tho Interior.
During his service on the Interstate
| Commerce commission he earned the
| reputation of being a progressive. His
| decisions in the railway cases were
said to have been almost invariably
| pleasing to men of advanced ideas.
He favored for years a National Cor
poration commission similar to the
, interstate Commerce commission with
| power to regulate all business enter
| prlses engaged in Interstate commerce
| as tho most effective remedy for trust
| evils. He also advocated n commission
for OF government for Alaska He was
elected a member OF the permanent In
| ternational Railway commission, or
| sanizcd in 1910 at the international
| Railway congress IN Bcrne, Swltzer-
land.
In 1916 Mr.. Lane headed tho Amcri-
can delegates at joint conference
with High Commissioners from Mex
fco, as a result OF which "A protocol was
signed at Atlantic city and United
States troops were Withdrawn from
that country.
When the United States entered tho
war in 1917. Secretary Lane in mum.
hcr OF public speeches outlined the
country's purposes and urged business
men to show sacrifices as worthy as
those OF tho men on their way to tho
trenches" In numerous addresses in
behalf Of tho Liberty loans he declared
the defeat Of the United States was
"unthinkablc' and that tho govern
mcnt was determined to so tho war
fought to n finish. When peace came
he devised plans for tho employment
Of returning troops. urged Congress 10
fcderalizc tho Awo-icanization OF tho
foreign born. aided in tho rcconstruc-
| tion OF France and other war-torn ma
tions and advocated Immediate passage
of a bill to give farms to soldiers. He
was also active in the Council for Ma
tional Defense and the American Rcd
Cross