Show n 1 fa q 1 I Ui 1 I w i w s S S'S S 'S I 1 T t o By ey ELMO SCOTT WATSON N JANUARY 29 carnations will adorn udoro the buttonholes of thousands of Americans iN who will thus be carrying on a unique tradition In InA A A. d 1 honoring the memory of aH a n H 14 4 President resident of the United States February I 12 and February 22 Ire are set aside In our patriotic calendar for reverent tribute to the names of Lincoln and Washington October 27 Roos Roosevelt's birthday Is often observed ot ob served us as Navy y du day thus recalling ble part In building up 1111 our first line of defense nut But January 20 U Is n a date for tor or remembering not so 80 much those elements of statesmanship which twice made him lh Chief II f Executive of bps country as ns It la Is for remembering the simple kindly soul that was WUl theman the nan man named William McKinley Therefore There fore this simple tribute of wearing his favorite loner flower on his birthday Is appropriate So 10 swiftly has hiss the world d moved In III Inthe the last hist quarter century that to the present generation at ul least th the name of the twenty fourth President Is comparatively com eom ely unknown Ills fume fame Is really greatly overshadowed o by the dominating ing lag personality of his tits Immediate successor suc sur cessor nr the strenuous American and by a II still later strong personality of quite another sort whose fortune it II was niu ft to lead us In the greatest war this wintry has ever e known Hut But to thin there t of a previous pre generation the name of has bas u a ver very definite meaning It Its mention recalls recall to them that September day In 1001 1901 when the word wu ea wui unshed flashed nil 1111 over the country country- that thata as ao a anarchist had hud shot the President ai be he stood Moud In Music hall at nt the Pan Ian American exposition In Buffalo N N. N y Y greeting the long bong line him of his fellow fellow- citizens who filed past him to shake hohe bis hand They remember too ton how for far the HIP next week the whole tuition nation watched I hi Ills his valiant fight for life how bow he accepted the Inevitable with tie historic words Thy will not ours bo bl done dune and und how when the end came cunie on un September 14 H. H his favorite hymn bynm Nearer My Iy God to Thee fhe I was the Hie requiem of sorrow of thousand thou thou- ABU sand who oho ho mourned the loss of WH I plum Hum McKinley the President but hilI butmore butmore I more morl lie itie passing of William 1 1 ley I lie IIII man whose perfect de to his hI invalid wife had hud ex excited wr admiration So fin o America added a third name to tomake make II Us its trinity of martyred Presidents am gad as IIi It II did lId so little realized that It II was ae U definitely writing Fin hints Finis I to an on anens rn Iru In III American history Little won won- df der that Hint the present generation has tins almost forgotten n him und his times I 1 IFor IFor For III In at I least one Important respect tl the day Ilay of William McKinley Inley Is as remote from the tile present a ns as I is I the day dllY of f Abraham Lincoln or even I of ot An Andrew Andrew drew Jackson The year 1000 was wasI I wore we than the turn of ot the century f for r the IIII United Stul States For 1 II years ars America had b been ln concerned with Its own Internal affairs with the problems lens lems of forming a union out nut of a 0 group nf of I jealous and wrangling wran rollies rol- rol 01 f lies nl lately freed from l European of conquering n a wilder wilder- n ness hail expanding westward until the land lounger hunger of Its people was nat Hat d. d f nt of 1 wen pi-wen preserving Ing the nation notion from disunion mid Hurl the wounds of h 1 H nU nut But when on the 2 th of April 11 g 9 con congress cress DaIlS passel u II r reap reo o uw S Nearer My God Cod to Thee Nearer my Cod God to Thee The Nearer Ner to Theft Eo Een though It be a cr crow cross That me met mal Still all 11 m my song 1001 b. b be Nearer my God Cod to The Nearer Near my Cod God to Thee The Nearer to Theft Thet I Though lik like the wanderer The Th tun lun un ron gone one down Darkness bf be over me m. me My reit rt a s tone stone tone Yet In my dreams dm Id I'd be I Nearer ra my God Cod to Thee The Nearer my God Cod to Thee The Nearer to Thee Theet I There Ther let It the th w. w way appear Steps Slept unto heaven At AU that Thou to me meIn meIn In mercy given Angela Angel to beckon me m. Nearer Ner ra my God Cod to The Th Neater Nearer m my God Cod to Thee The Nearer to 10 Thee I IThen Then with my waking thought Bright with Thy pr Out ol of m my Iton stony grief Bethel Ill I'll raise So b by my woes woe to be b. Neater Nearer m my Cod God to The Nearer m my God to The N Nearer to Thee The t tI Or U on em Joyful win wing I Cleaving the sky kJ Sun moon and t tar flare forgot Upwards I fly ny S Stilt Still till all m my IOn tong song shall ahall be Neater Nearer m my Cod God to Thee Nearer r m my God Cod to Thee The Nearer Neater to Thee ThI I MRS SARAH F. F ADAMS t W lutton declaring war between the United States Stales of America and the Kingdom of Spain It marked the end of Americas America's splendid Isolation the beginning of Its concern with external affairs and Its assumption of a place of Importance In the congress of na on- So Ho the historical Importance of VII Wil William lIum liam McKinley Is that he was a guiding guldIng guld guid ing force In turning the American nn ship of state from the sometimes troubled troubled troubled trou trou- bled waters of nationalism Into lato the turbulent ever waters of i Ism ism In which It seems destined to toto I R t a tt Hn to t t 1 s to r is sail henceforth ium sous no a m un ow background of or the man cast rost for this role and his preparation for tor his task Not NOI In the least the kind that thata u a prophet would have called appropriate appropriate for tor the result to be attained Hut But It was apparently the kind that only a democracy such as os ours could produce For or the man whom Fate had selected to be lender leader of the notion nation at this turning point it In II the relation of the United States to the outside world was wab an on Ohio school teacher and lawyer who had hind served ed faithfully faithful faithful- In Inthe Inthe inthe ly Iy but with no especial brilliance the Civil war nr and who had risen by bythe bythe bythe the successive steps of prosecuting at attorney attorney at at- torney congressman and governor to the Presidency not a alender lender writes Carl Russell Hussell Fish In his Ills volume The Path of Empire Press' Press Chronicles Chron In the Yale Vale University Ides of America America- and continues ed In his unsurpassed lie 11 was however howe opinion and do day da daas as I ii 11 reader of public function llon to be he that of Il fe believed ed his Ills fun Interpreting the national mind Nor In grudgIng grudging did he hI yield his opinion a n he the ing manner He lie broadly consequences of each new V position which the public assumed and I a he he be was B R master of securing operation co-operation for a desired enl end Of him lain another biographer has hu written President ys y's course during dering dur du In ing the tile many exciting events of his administration was marked by a degree de- de degree de do- gree of tact tat prudence and foresight which surprised even his friends He III surrounded himself with able advisers maintained cordial relations with congress congress con con- gress and steadily grew in popularity with the country at large He tIe possessed possessed pos pOll to an unusual degree the faculty fac fao- of forecasting public sentiment In the light of these estimates It would appear that McKnley even though he be did not have e that training In statecraft which might be considered consid consid- considered ered erld essential to a situation Involving International relations was apparently apparent ly Iy an Ideal leader lender for tor a people once th they entered upon n R a war which n n was to be so momentous In their his his- tory It was a war which he was opposed opposed opposed op op- posed to and during all the negotiations negotiations with Spain that preceded the actual outbreak of war he repeatedly counseled patience an and restraint Even after atter the destruction of the Maine when the country was In a white heat of Indignation against Spain he held beld fast to his purpose of ot securing a peaceful settlement of the dispute between the two countries over the Cuban problem Finally convinced that Spain would not accept accept accept ac ac- Americas America's proposals and assured of the seated deep-seated conviction of the American people regarding their duty to the Cubans the President reluctantly reluctantly reluctantly took the decisive step Not ot only did the Spanish-American Spanish war the highlight of McKinley's administration administration ad ad- ministration result in Americas America's comIng coming coming com com- ing Into possession of colonies In the Far lar I Hast East ast which brought the country Into the tile realm of International politics poll poli tics ties but during that administration were tol taken en also the other steps which aided In furthering her Interests In world wide affairs It was McKin leys ley's secretary of state John tiny Hay whose whoso open door policy In regard to China made the United States nn on I active factor In IIi the future of the the Orient and It ft was McKinley himself whose proposal ol In 1899 1399 for a Pan Pan- American congress who made mode the overtures for fora a better understanding among the American republics North and und South Houth It was to popularize the American Pan Idea that the exposition exposition exposi tion where the President received ell his tilt death wound was was' arranged and It was Just after otter he had tied set forth his views le on the tile ties tieR which should bind the two Iwo continents that he be was shot Today a magnificent memorial stands stand In to Ids his home city of Canton Ohio as ns the tribute of that state and the nation notion II ns as well to a beloved belo leader lendlr lead lend er lr Historians of the future may point to his administration as the most significant turning point In all Amerl American un history and ns as time gives u better perspective for evaluation e of his Ills Importance President William Mc Kinley may loom larger and larger In the gallery of American notables lint for the American n people whom Presidents have he understood as os few the best hest tribute that they can ran pay him Bias ii Ls Is the simple tribute on January 29 I of each foch year of honoring his tilt memory favorite with a n simple thing his flower I |