. Book of the Royal blue . her virtues of statesmanship called him a cleverpolitician. And so he was. But was it only clever politicsthat was able to hold the government well in hand andkeep it out of a premature declaration of war until themoral basis of that war should be clearly laid and thepeople be thoroughly united ? Was it only clever politicsto pilot the ship of state through the breakers which suc-ceed all wars, and to bring her back into port intact andwith so little strain that thus far we can scarce see anysign of danger, or even of stress of weather? What maybetide, what may be hi
. Book of the Royal blue . her virtues of statesmanship called him a cleverpolitician. And so he was. But was it only clever politicsthat was able to hold the government well in hand andkeep it out of a premature declaration of war until themoral basis of that war should be clearly laid and thepeople be thoroughly united ? Was it only clever politicsto pilot the ship of state through the breakers which suc-ceed all wars, and to bring her back into port intact andwith so little strain that thus far we can scarce see anysign of danger, or even of stress of weather? What maybetide, what may be hid in the womb of the future, weknow not. We can only judge the sailing as far as wehave gone. The elements may thicken and grow skies may be overspread. Perils may gather on everyhand. But the sailing has been too smooth over seas thatwere so strange for anybody to deny the actual statesman-ship, however he may dispute the doctrinal statesmanship,of William McKinley. Good-by, all: good-by. — Composite Olilliam IttcKinUg Know ye not that a Prince and a Great Man has fallen this day in israel ? Thirty-six years ago our Nation stood over the prostrateform of Abraham Lincohi; a whole people stricken with amighty sadness, tossed with contending passions of grief andfright and vengeance. Then rose a man majestic as aprophet. His voice sounded across the continent: Godreigns, and the government at Washington still lives. Sixteen years later, James A. Garfield was himself tofall by the hand of the assassin. Then by his bier the Nationheard again the great text. His lips did not move, buttheir silence articulated the saying in the popular memory,where it ever lingers. The mantle of Lincoln and Garfield, blood-stained butradiant, has fallen on William McKinley. In the last mo-ment, when deaths dart, so mysteriously and cruelly started,has silenced the brave heart, he gave this the last messageto the country, It is Gods way. His will, not ours, bedone. As when Joshu
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