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you, Admiral Watson, and of the army like you, 

 General Breckenridge. I am glad that we as Amer 

 icans have cause to be proud of the army and the 

 navy of the United States of the men who in the 

 past have upheld the honor of the flag, and of their 

 successors, the soldiers and sailors of the present 

 day, who during the last three years have done such 

 splendid work in the inconceivably dangerous and 

 harassing warfare of the eastern tropics. 



AT THE LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE OF 

 THE McKINLEY MEMORIAL OHIO COLLEGE 

 OF GOVERNMENT OF THE AMERICAN UNI 

 VERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 14, 1902 



Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I am to say but one word. Nothing more need 

 be said than has been said already by those who have 

 addressed you this afternoon the statesmen who 

 worked with McKinley and the pastor under whose 

 ministrations he sat. 



It is indeed appropriate that the Methodists of 

 America the men belonging to that religious or 

 ganization which furnished the pioneers in carving 

 out of the West what is now the heart of the great 

 American Republic should found this great uni 

 versity in the city of Washington and should build 

 the college that is to teach the science of govern 

 ment in the name of the great exponent of good and 

 strong government who died last fall, who died as 

 truly for this country as Abraham Lincoln himself. 



