Show ANOTHER DAY it Wednes Wednesday morning rig Postmaster Thomas came caine down street with a carnation carnation car car- i. i nation In his Ills buttonhole and met a iii friend at tho corner of Third South SouthE E r and Main Iain As they passe passed 1 tho postmaster post t master looked rather sharply at the lapel Japel of oC his friend frien 1 and antl then le led 1 him up p to the flower stand 1 and bought one ono JI Of r f th the McKinley flowers r Its uns McKinley day dar he saI said I like ike to see his friends wear a carnation carna tion on on McKinley day dare And you OU were h his lis s friend It recalls a character that looms large arge in American history Our people people peo peo- pie scarcely had a chance to measure M McKinley until the fatal blo blow fell I al and d his work on earth was wa over O B But Butone t one who has stU studied ie him rather carefully carefully care care- care care- I fully fully finds much of or Interest in the proY processes processes pro pro- Y IJ through which I William Mc Mc- r brought about abut Ills his great work worl nt American lute ll e. e v f g Forty lort years In the the wilderness ness p-ness was no cur curse curee e upon the Children or of Israel It was the preparation of them for national life It was their training While ile William McKinley was in the field as a soldier while he was working work work- lug ing at the very beginning of practice at his profession in Canton after 7 peace was declared he was cr ing his doctrine for the benefit of his naU nation n. n Ho thought it all out and bet became becar be be- l t car came convinced that a protective e tariff tar tar- iff would be a blessing to his countr country A And d t toward making malting that hat policy a fixed I condition of t the United States Slates he addressed addressed ad ad- I J dressed himself He lie was successful and probably dei deserves de de- i serves nerves more credit than an any other one man Inan for the prosperity which came to this country through the decades that t L followed the war ar and that thal still sUll exists His life Ilie work seemed incomplete And yet et the measure of or his achievement achievement achieve achieve- I ment Is full fuU When Then hen he lIe died the i wheels o of oE in industry stopped for a minute min mm- ute while his body was lowered to its rest And Antl now once a year men t wear ear carnations carnations and and lovingly 10 remember remember remember re re- re- re member him |