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about those ideals. We can not afford to do less 

 than justice to any man. We can not afford to 

 shrink from seeing that the right obtains; nor, on 

 the other hand, to rebuke any effort to stir up those 

 dark and evil forces which lurk in each man's breast, 

 and which need to be kept down, not excited. 



The Commander-in-Chief spoke of the great and 

 good President of President McKinley who died 

 for the people exactly as Abraham Lincoln died. 

 You who wore the blue in the early sixties warred 

 against that spirit of disunion which, if successful, 

 would have meant widespread governmental an 

 archy throughout this land. You warred for or 

 derly liberty. So now it behooves each of us so 

 to conduct his civil life, so to do his duty as a citizen, 

 that we shall in the most effective way war against 

 the spirit of anarchy in all its forms. You did 

 mighty deeds, and you leave us more than mighty 

 deeds, for you leave us the memory of how you did 

 them. You leave us not only the victory, but the 

 spirit that lay behind it and shone through it. You 

 leave us not only the triumph, but the memory of 

 the patient resolution, of the suffering, of the dogged 

 endurance and heroic daring through which that 

 triumph came to pass. You in your youth and early 

 manhood took up the greatest task which fell to 

 the lot of any generation of our people to perform. 

 You did it well. We have lesser tasks, and yet 

 tasks of great and vital importance. Woe to us if 

 we do not show ourselves worthy to be your suc 

 cessors, by doing our lesser tasks with the same 



