And State Papers 397 



endeavor to accept each duty as the duty comes, 

 and to rest ill-content until that duty is done. I ask 

 that we meet the many problems with which we are 

 confronted from without and from within, not in 

 the spirit that seeks to purchase present peace by 

 the certainty of future disaster, but with a wise, a 

 fearless, and a resolute desire to make of this Nation 

 in the end, as the centuries go by, the example for 

 all the nations of the earth, to make of it a nation in 

 which we shall see the spirit of peace and of justice 

 incarnate, but in which also we shall see incarnate 

 the spirit of courage, of hardihood, the spirit which 

 while refusing to wrong the weak is incapable of 

 flinching from the strong. 



AT THE CEREMONIES INCIDENT TO THE 

 BREAKING OF SOD FOR THE ERECTION OF 

 A MONUMENT IN MEMORY OF THE LATE 

 PRESIDENT McKINLEY, SAN FRANCISCO, 

 CAL., MAY 13, 1903 



Friends and Fellow- Americans: 



It is a befitting thing that the first sod turned to 

 prepare for the monument to commemorate Presi 

 dent McKinley should be turned in the presence of 

 his old comrades of the great war, and in the pres 

 ence of the men who in a lesser war strove to show 

 that they were not wholly unworthy of those who in 

 the dark years from '61 to '65 proved their truth by 

 their endeavor, and with their blood cemented the 

 foundation of the American Republic. It is a 

 solemn thing to speak in memory of a man who 



