The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-02-08
TRIBUTE TO M'KINLEY
BY SENATOR CALLAHAN
LEGISLATURE HoNoRs MEMORY
OF MARTYRED PRESIDENT
ON BIRTHDAY

on January 20 the two houses OF
the Idaho legislature held special ser
vices in honor of the birth Of William
Mckinley The main feature of the
occasion was an address by Senator
Donald A. Callahan. OF Shoshone
county, which follows:
Republic Must Not Forget.
ITO honor the memory of great and
good men is always an inspiration A
republic must never forget those who
served it unselhshly and whose pub
lie work has made IL better for their
having lived. When we cast aside our
reverence for the name and memory
of Washington; when we blot from
our minds the work of Lincoln; when
the eloquence of Webster ceases to
stir us; when the grim determination
of Grant fails to inspire us; when the
love of jefferson for human liberty no
longer awakens in us a feeling OF
gratitude that he lived to write the
Declaration; when the rugged courage
OF a jackson is forgotten, then may
we feel that our nation has run its
course and must take It's place with
the democracies that served their day
and left only a history to warn sue
ceeding generations.
And among the memories of Amer
lea must ever live William Mckinley.
No resident of this republic, save
alone the father of our country, was
ever loved as he was loved by all the
people His clean life, his genial man
ner. his consideration of all, be they
friend or foe. left no room for malice
toward him His military career en-
deared him to those who like him had
fought for his country; his states
manship always sane and always
sound inspired those in the ordered
ways of peace. When he died a ma
ton wept, because patriotic Ameri-
can. a brave soldier who loved peace
more than war; a husband devoted to
the wife whose frail life was his con-
slant care; statesman. who believed
in America had passed to the great
beyond a martyr to the Institutions
which he had fought for and which he
loved to serve
All Violence Is Treason.
when on the day of his funeral
whole nation stood silent from ocean
to ocean while his body was laid to
rest, a great lesson came home to a
sobered people We knew that the
bullet of Czolgosz did not seek VIII
liam Mckinley, the man. but William
Mckinley. the president of the repub-
lie We knew that the hand of the
assassin was only the mechanical in
strument which was guided by the
disordered mind of one half crazed by
the reckless utterances of those who
hated all government CzolgOsz paid
the penalty but the real assassins who
had fired his mind with hatred lived
on. And we resolved on that day that
their kind must cease to teach VOL
ence in land of peace A sorrowful
people who had gathered about the
tomb Of Mckinley, the martyr, went
back to their daily tasks with a new
understanding of the real duties of
the true American.
"The plain lesson we had learned
twas that in a democracy all violence
is treason The central fact of this
republic is agreement with law We
made that law; and we must obey
that Jaw. If the law is wrong we can
change it. but only by the ballot and |
whatsoever resorts to violence, whose
ever breaches any other method con-
spires against this government We /
of this republic have made compact (
one with another that we shall only I
change our laws in peace He who /
shoots the president. he who throws a
stone at a workman, he who takes the
punishment of lawbreaker in his
own hands is an enemy of the repub-
lie.
Enemies of the Government.
More than twenty years have pass
ed since that lesson was written upon
our hearts and it is time we We're re
dedicated to the high resolves Of that
September day. Treason is now in
many hearts Those who hate all
government are abroad amongst us
The breeder of discomfort breaches
his gospel and many pause in the
streets to listen to his voice. Loose
language is flung about as it was in
the meetings of Emma Goldman
where the murderer of Mckinley was
driven mad with hate. Men who have
been given high place in the nation do
not pick or choose their words or
weigh well their effect upon the weak
in intellect
Law is violated in every community 4,
and those charged with its enforce
ment turn aside lest they be called :
upon to uphold it Deeds of violence
occur in Illinois and no man is pun
ished. A masked band rides in Louis
lana and crnalLias which ..-r.nc- tha