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Source: Typewriter and Phonographic World Source type: magazine Document type: editorial Document title: none Author(s): anonymous Date of publication: October 1901 Volume number: 18 Issue number: 2 Pagination: 111 |
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| [untitled]. Typewriter and Phonographic World Oct. 1901 v18n2: p. 111. |
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| William McKinley (death: personal response); William McKinley (mourning). |
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| William McKinley. |
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A mighty man has fallen, mourned by the whole
world, not only as the Chief Magistrate of a mighty nation, but as a man. As
the editor sits at his desk he can see from his office windows hundreds of men
and women who stand upon the street corners, with bared heads and eyes glistening
with unchecked tears, listening to the tolling of the bells telling that all
that was mortal of William McKinley is being lowered into the open grave at
Canton. The spectacle is an unwonted one—causing reflections which no pen can
portray. The world moves. Other Presidents will come and go. The duties and
the cares of life will engross the living. But throughout the lives of all that
breathe the air of American Liberty will now and again come thoughts and memories
of the magnificent homage so justly paid today over this broad land to him who
sleeps his last sleep in the heart of the Republic.
All that is resplendent in private virtue; all
that is dignified in public trust; all that is beautiful in the sanctity of
simple home life, were represented in him. In the History of Nations it shall
be written:
“A W.”
The bright star of his example shall never grow
dim. Well will it be with all of us if, in times of dread and despondency, of
sorrow and of care, we can say with him, “It is God’s Way—His Will be Done.”
New York, Sept. 19, 1901.