for its future. But I want to live in a country where there is law; I want to live in a country where liberty is not license; where plots to murder are recognized as crime and are punished as crime. I do not believe that conspiracies to murder either the humblest citizen or the president of the republic are any part of the liberty for which our country stands.

I have said that President McKinley was a great man. I will not follow that thought further, but I wish to emphasize the thought that President McKinley was a good man, a good man. He honored his mother, that venerable lady that shared in the glory of his first inauguration; that had taught him from the first the principles of the Bible, and he honored her to the end of his life. He was a man who had no idea of gaining anything but in a right way; he was a man who would have scorned a gain or act of selfishness as dishonorable and disgraceful to himself, and it would have been.

Young men, you are going out into life soon, into its activities. Remember there is no path that leads to the highest honor but the path of rectitude; do that which is right; stand up always for the things that are good, pure, and true; do your part in bringing on the reign of righteousness; be something; be a power always for good; know what is right and stand for it every time, and your influence will be felt in the world. How many of the 80,000,000 of our people have such a standard God only can tell; but if the young men of the country will take the path to glory which is not through selfish and dishonorable ways, but is the path followed by, and marked out by the Lord Jesus Christ, there is a glorious future for this country, more glory than is possible for any

other country to attain, for our fathers have established a country of peace and freedom to every one who wishes liberty and justice. What privileges are not yours-there are none whatever. The nation is to-day in its spirit and loyalty to truth as liberal, as just, as beneficent as in the days of the fathers, and as such it will undoubtedly continue to be. A nation that honors the name of our blessed Lincoln is a nation that is going to maintain in their purity the institutions of the fathers. I have no fears for my country, for I believe in the people of the country, and I know that they will preserve what the fathers died to establish. The government goes on. Into MeKinley's place steps a young man forty-three years old and takes the executive chair; the youngest man that has ever been president of the United States; a man eminently worthy to take the place, and eminently able to fill the place that McKinley filled and to carry out the policy laid down by McKinley; a scholar, a college man, a man trained intellectually; a man who, when he had been trained, never forgot that he owed something to his country; who did not join the self-satisfied critics who find fault with the work of others, and do nothing to help; a man who will maintain the same political standard of honor as in the past, and will resolutely maintain law and order; he has proved himself eminently fitted to fill every position to which he has been called, and to meet any responsibility which may be laid upon him.

I deplore with the deepest sorrow the great calamity that has come upon us in the death of our good, grand, and dear President, but I thank God from the bottom of my heart for Theodore Roosevelt; I thank God for his life. He has been my ideal of the scholar

in politics; he has been an inspiration to me; he is destined to be an inspiration to me in the future, and I pray now in this closing moment that the blessings of God may be showered upon him and rest upon him in this sad and trying hour, and in the days to follow that God may guard him from the weapons of the assassin and make him a blessing to the country. God save the republic and make it great, grand, and good, and may the memory of our dear President, whose body to-day is to be laid in its last resting place, abide with us in all future time as an inspiration to a true and manly life in the service of our country.

ACCEPTANCE OF STATUE OF JOHN S. PILLS

BURY FOR THE UNIVERSITY *

Mr. President:

I am sure that for the moment we are all lost in admiration of the beautiful statue that has been unveiled; that you and all this assembly feel as little like listening to anything I have to say, as I do like saying it. I would rather stand and look upon that face and enjoy the first impression and admire the perfect features, the life-like expression, the characteristic attitude, which the sculptor has been so successful in portraying, and rejoice in the fact that this is to stand here for all time-a memorial of the great good-feeling of the alumni towards Governor Pillsbury and the University; a memorial of all that Governor Pillsbury has done for this institution. In behalf of the University I accept this splendid gift with the greatest pleasure and the deepest gratitude.

Years ago in a meeting of the Board of Regents, soon after I first came to Minnesota, General Henry H. Sibley said to the assembled board, "if the state of Minnesota, at some time, does not erect a statue of Governor Pillsbury on the campus of the University it will fail in its duty, and be grossly ungrateful for the services he has rendered the state." I have no

*Remarks at the unveiling of the statue of Honorable John S. Pillsbury, September 12th, 1900.

doubt whatever, if this matter had been left for the coming years, generous Minnesota would have seen that a statue was erected, and would have done all that could be expected of her in honor of Governor Pillsbury; but I am glad that the alumni of the University, and the special friends of the institution, have taken up this matter in advance, and have anticipated any action on the part of the state, and especially while Governor Pillsbury is still with us. The erection of this statue rightly belongs to the University and its special friends. It is not for me, in accepting this gift to enlarge at any great length upon the magnificent service Governor Pillsbury has rendered to the state of Minnesota. As governor of the state, as senator in the legislature, as a leading business man of the state, as an enterprising promoter of industries, in a hundred ways he has been most serviceable to the state. But no work that he has done will be remembered longer, and no part of his life will bring him greater honor than the years that he has so patiently and unselfishly devoted to the interests of this institution. A man may give liberally of his money and well deserve the thanks of the University, but when a man like J. S. Pillsbury, strong, vigorous, and enterprising, with patient care and devoted interest gives his days and nights, he is giving his very life that you and your children may receive an inestimable blessing in the years to come. There never has been an hour, no, not an hour, since I have been associated with him in this work, that his ear was not ever ready to hear, and his tongue willing to utter, the counsel that was needed. Ten thousand times more valuable than all the money he has given, is the time he has so freely bestowed