Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Archbishop Ireland’s EULOGY OF A NOBLE LIFE ‘william McKiNLEY is dead, but his memory will live a'down the ages as that of one of the most worthy to have been the President of the Republic of the United States.
I knew him closely; I esteemed him; I loved him. He was the true man ? honest, pure of morals, generous-minded, conscientious, religious. He was the noble citizen, proud of being a son of the people, brave on the battle-field amid his country’s peril, jealous of its glory, unswervingly loyal to its honor and its interests. He was the typical President of the republic, large- minded In his vision of the questions bearing upon the country’s fortune, resolute in using the authority for what seemed to him its best weal, ready, as the leader of a self-governing people, to hearken to the popular voice, and, so far as principle and conscience permitted, to obey its behests, even to the sacrifice of his personal view. Political opponents differed from him in matters of public policy; they did not, they could not, mistrust his sincerity or his spirit of justice and patriotism. chapter{Section 4Life-work of William McKinley CHAPTER I A NATION’S GRIEF When the news was flashed over the land President McKinley is dead, the pulse of the nation stood still. Every breeze from every point of the compass was laden with a sigh of sorrow. In every city, town and hamlet throughout this great republic there were manifestations of a profound and universal sense of bereavement. The national heart was touched, the people were desolate. Every true American, whether rich or poor, black or white, old or young, was weighed down with a sense of personal affliction. And from the nations beyond the seas, Christian and pagan alike, came messages of sympathizing sorrow. Th…
