MONUMENT AND TOMB AT CANTON McKinley Mausoleum Tribute of Many Citizens to Late President Dedicated ADDRESS BY ROOSEVELT FIFTY THOUSAND PEOPLE IN AT ATTENDANCE ATTENDANCE ATTENDANCE Monument Hill lIlII Canton Ohio Sept SO aG aGThe The McKinley mausoleum the tribute and gift gUt of a nation to the memory of ot the martyred president was dedicated this afternoon In the tho presence of hun of distinguished men men from all parts parta of the United States and representatives of ot foreign countries and a crowd of ap proximately people A feature of the dedication was teas as the tho presence of ot the president of the United States Vice President Fairbanks mem mom bers of the presidents cabinet United States senators and governors of sev several several several eral states Addresses were delivered by President Roosevelt Justice William R it Day Mc Ic K secretary of state and nd Governor Harris of Ohio who acted as aa president l of the day The program ended with the singing of America and benediction by b Bishop Hortsman of Cleveland President Roosevelt and party then visited the Interior of the tomb The In Invited Invited Invited guests and the general public did likewise Thousands passed through the tomb The tomb built at a cost of over Is the donation of over a million Americans Ameri Amerl Americans cans to the memory of ot William McKin ley Opening Address Justice Day called the assemblage to order and Introduced Governor Harris president of the day Governor Harris Introduced Rev Dr Bristol of Washing ton whose church hurch President McKinley attended when in Washington Dr Bris tol offered pt I prayer Ocr Governor Harris then delivered the opening address of the cere ceremony ceremony mony mon saying In part All who knew our McKinley loved and admired him He was worthy of their fullest confidence and equal to any emer emergency emergency gency genty In either public or private life McKinley had been a pupil of Grant Hayes Garfield and Harrison In war and In peace and he added fresh tresh laurels to the crowns of his elder eider comrades It Is therefore eminently fitting that the great defender of popular rights who took up the work when McKinley was stopped by the hand of the assassin should hould be the one on this sacred occasion to speak of the life lICe and services of the tho martyred president Justice Day Da was greeted with silent re respect respect when he arose to tell teIl the story and history of ot tho building of the magnificent magnificent cent mausoleum Justice Days Speech Justice Day when mentioning the names of Magonigal the architect of the monument and of the sculptor asked these artists to arise which they did and they the were greeted with applause At the close of Justice Days speech Governor Harris Harrill asked the audience to torise torise rise tiRe while Miss Helen McKinley only sis ter of the late president drew aside the flag disclosing the bronze figure of Mc Kinley in the attitude of ot delivering his last Jast speech on the day da of ot his tion at September 6 1901 The flag was removed slowly and Im This was followed by b the th threading reading of the poem entitled William McKinley by b James Whitcomb Riley Presidents Oration President Harris Harrig then Introduced the president of the United States who de livered a short oration on Appreciation of or William Wiiliam McKinley We e have gathered together today toda to topa pay pa our meed of respect and affection to the memory m mor of William McKinley who oho as president won a place In the hearts of the American people such sueh as but three or tour lour our of all the presidents of It this country countr have ever eer won He was Of If singular uprightness and purity of character alike in public pU and In private life lite a citizen who loved peace he did lilts duty dut faithfully and well for four years yearn ars of war when the honor of tho the nation called him to arms anns As congress congressman congressman man as ns governor of his state and fin finally finally ally nl as president he rose to the foremost fore tore foremost most place among our statesmen reach ing a position which would satisfy the keenest ambition but he never lost the simple and thoughtful kindness toward every ev ry human being great or small lofty loft or humble with whom he was brought In contact which so endeared him to our people He had to grapple with more serious and complex problems than any president since Lincoln and yet while meeting every even demand of statesmanship he continued to live a beautiful and I touching family a life lire very healthy health for this nation to see In Its It foremost citi citizen citizen zen zen and now the woman who walked In the shadow shadon ever after his death the If to whom his loss was nos a calamity more crushing than It could be to any other human being lies beside him here In the same sepulchre Inscription Appropriate Is There Is a singular appropriateness In the Inscription on his monument Mr Ir Cortelyou whose relations with him were of such close Intimacy gives me the fol lowing information about It On th the presidents trip to the Pacific slope elope m to the tha spring of 1901 1001 President Wheeler heeler of the University of ot California conferred the degree of or upon him In words so 80 sowell sowell well chosen that they struck the fas taste of John Hay Ha then secre tary of state who wrote and asked for tor fora a 1 copy CP of them from President Wheeler On the receipt of this copy he sent the following letter to President McKinley a letter which row now seems filled with a strange and unconscious prescience Dear Mr Ir President President Wheeler sent me the enclosed at my re request request request quest You will have the words In more permanent penn anent shape They seem to me re remarkably remarkably well weH chosen and stately and dignified enough to serve long hence please God Godas as your our epitaph Yours Tours faithfully alth tu II JOHN JOH HAY HAT I By B authority vested In me by b the regents of the University of California I confer conter the degree of ot Doctor of Laws upon William McKinley president of ot the United States a statesman singularly gifted to unite the discordant forces of i the government and mold the diverse pur purposes poses of men toward progressive arld salutary action a magistrate whose poise of judgment has been tested and vindi vindicated vindicated in succession of national emergencies emergencies emergencies cies good citizen brave soldier wise ex executive executive executive helper and leader of ot men exemplar ex exemplar exemplar to his people of the virtues that build and conserve the state society and the home Epitaph Is Fitting It would be hard to imagine an epi epitaph epitaph epitaph which a good citizen would be more m re anxious to deserve or one which would more happily describe the qualities of that great and good citizen whose life we here He pos possessed posses possessed ses ed to a very er extraordinary degree the gift girt of uniting discor dant forces and securing from them thema a harmonious action which told for good government From purposes not merely merel diverse but bitterly he was able to secure seure healthful action for tor the good of the state In both poise and judgment he rose level to the several emergencies he had to meet as leader Jeader of the nation and like all men with the root of true greatness In them he grew to steadily larger stature under the stress of heavy responsibilities He was a good citizen and a brave brae soldier a chief executive executive executive tive whose wisdom entitled him to the tho trust which he received throughout the nation He was not only a leader of men but preeminently a helper of men men for forone forone forone one of his most marked traits was Ras the In Intensely Intense intensely tensely tense human quality of ot his wide and deep sympathy Finally he not merely merel preached he was that th t most valuable of all citizens In a democracy like ours a aman aman man who In the highest placed served as asan asan asan an unconscious example to his hiss people of the virtues that build and alike our public life lire and the foundation of all aU public life the Intimate life of ot the home Lessons In Career Many lessons are taught us by b his ca career career Career reer but none more valuable than the les lesson lesson lesson son of broad human sympathy for and among all of our citizens of all classes and creeds No other president has ever evermore evermore evermore more deserved to have his life lire work char characterized characterized characterized In words as being carried on with malice toward none with charity toward all As a boy bo he worked hard with his hands ho he entered the army ann as a private soldier he knew poverty he earned his own livelihood and by b his own exertions he finally rose roseto roseto roseto to the position of ot a man of moderate means Not merely was he in personal touch with farmer and town dweller with capitalist and but hut he felt an intimate understanding of or each and therefore an Intimate sympathy with each and his consistent effort erfort was to try to judge all by b the same standard and to treat Teat all with the same justice Arro Arrogance Arrogance Arrogance gance toward the weak and envious hat hatred hatred hatred red of ot those well off otto were equally abhor abhorrent abhorrent abhorrent rent to his just and gentle soul Surely Surel this attitude of or his should be bethe bethe bethe the attitude of ot all our people today toda It would be a cruel disaster to this country to permit ourselves to adopt an attitude of hatred and envy en toward success worthily won toward wealth honestly acquired Let us in this respect profit by tho the example ex example example ample of or the republics of this western hemisphere to the south of us Some of these republics have prospered greatly great but there are certain ones that have lagged far behind that still continue In Ina Ina ina a condition of ot material poverty of so social social social cial and political unrest t and confusion Without exception the republics of the former fonner class are those In which honest in industry industry has been assured of ot reward and protection those where a cordial welcome has been extended to the kind of or enter enterprise enterprise enterprise prise which benefits the whole country while Incidentally as Is right and proper giving substantial rewards to those who ho manifest It On the other hand the poor and backward republics the republics in which the lot of the average citizen Is least desirable and the lot of the labor laborIng laborIng laboring Ing man worst of all are precisely those republics in which Industry has been killed because wealth exposed Its owner to spoliation To these communities for foreign foreign eign capital now rarely comes because It i ihas has been found that as soon as capital i is employed BO eo as to give ghe substantial remuneration to those supplying it It ex excites excites excites cites ignorant envy and hostility which result In such oppressive action within or without the law as sooner or later to too work a virtual confiscation Every man manifestation manIfestation of feeling of ot this kind in our civilization should be bo crushed at the out outset outset outset set by the weight of a sensible public opinion From the standpoint of our material prosperity there Is only one other thing as important as the discouragement of a spirit of or envy em and hostility host lilt toward honest business men toward honest men of means this Is the discouragement of dis dishonest dishonest dishonest honest business men the war upon the tIle chicanery and wrongdoing which are peculiarly pe peculiarly peculiarly repulsive peculiarly noxious when exhibited by men who have no ex excuse excuse excuse cuse of want of poverty of Ignorance for their crimes Men of at means and above all men of great wealth can exist In safe safety safety safety ty under the peaceful protection of the state only in orderly societies where lib liberty liberty erty manifests itself through and under the law It Is these men who more than any an others should In the Interests of the class to which they belong In the In Interests Interests interests of their children and their chil childrens childrens childrens drens children seek in every way but especially in the conduct of their lives to insist upon and to build up respect for forthe forthe forthe the law It may ma not be true truo from the standpoint of ot some particular Individual of this class but In the long run It is pre preeminently preeminently preeminently eminently true from the standpoint of ot the class as a whole no less than of the country as a whole that It Is a veritable calamity to achieve a R temporary triumph by violation or evasion of the law and we are the best friends of the man of property we show ourselves the staunch staunchest est eat upholders of or the rights of property when we set our ur faces like flint against those offenders who do wrong In order to acquire great Ireat wealth or who use this wealth as ns a II help to wrongdoing Right and Wrong Wrongdoing is confined to no class Good and evil are to be found among both rich and poor and nd in drawing the line among our fellows we must draw It on conduct and not on worldly world possessions In the tho abstract most of us will admit this In the concrete we Ie can act upon such doctrine only if it we really reaIl have h ve knowledge of and sympathy with one another If It both the and the capitalist are able to enter each into the others life to meet him so as a to get Into gen genuine genuine genuine sympathy with him most of the tho mis misunderstanding misunderstanding misunderstanding understanding between them will disappear disappear pear and Its place will be taken by a judgment broader Juster Duster more kindly and more generous for tor each will find In Inthe Inthe Inthe the other the same essential human at attributes attributes attributes tributes that exist In Ia himself It was President peculiar glory that in actual practice he realized this as a it is ill given gIen to but few men to realize It lt that Ills IMs broad and desp dep de sympathies made him feel feela a genuine sense gene of oneness with all his whatever their station or work life do so o that to his soul they the were all joined with him In a great broth brotherly brotherly erly democracy demo racy of the spirit It Is la not given to many of us In our lives actually to realize this attitude to the extent that he did but we can at least have it before us as the goal of our endeavor and by so doing we shall pay honor better than thanIn thanIn thanin In any other way to the memory of the dead president whoso whose services In life we this day commemorate The Monument The mausoleum stands on an eminence to which has been given the name namo of f Monument hill hm about two miles due west of the McKinley home In the city of Canton It Is not an ornate affair but its simplicity Is relieved by sufficient artistic embellishment to tomake make It an ob object object of beauty as well wen as one of mas massive massive massive sive proportions and breadth of de design design design sign Four states have contributed g s share of ot the material which has been used in inthe inthe inthe the building of the monument The rhe gran gran its ite used in the approaches and the thee mausoleum proper are from the quarries of Milford Mass Jass Tennessee has fur tur furnished fished the gray marble for the Interior of ot the tomb while the sarcophagi which now hold the bronze caskets in which He lie the bodies of ot President and Mrs Mc Me Kinley are of dark green granite from r Windsor Vt The base upon which the sarcophagi rest is black granite from Berlin If From the first step of the approach to the monument to the actual top of the structure is feet teet 6 Inches the