before the National Capitol, unfinished but majestic in superb incompleteness and soon to be crowned by the dome not unworthy to rise among the stars-not since the four armies marched up Pennsylvania avenue, on their left the unfinished monument of Washington, now the loftiest white shaft memorial of a great life that stands on the globe, has a grander army marched than that at the grand 1900 review.

Behold the march continuing by the then unfinished Treasury Department to salute before the White House the President of the United States -not, alas, Abraham Lincoln, whose work was done-dead since the triumphant return across the Potomac of the Grand Army of the Republic -a shining river of steel flowing back from the tremendous scenes of cementing the Union with the blood of the brave-the vast columns North and West, homeward bound to work of peace-the valiant Confederates who had fought against the course of the constellations across the sky, included, too, in the general triumph-all countrymen again, since Grant and Lee met "near Appomattox with its famous apple tree" and made the treaty written by Grant himself to be followed by the benediction of the hero, "let us have peace"-never has been a pageant reviving such riches of memory, representative of splendid achievement and prophetic of the greater hereafter of our country as well as of the magnificent present or one that was so replete with the pathos that tells the sad story of glory and kindles the pride of Americans into a flame, that consumes the Belittlers of the common inheritance that is of the people and for them-the heroes of war came home to be heroes of peace, and welcomed those they had confronted on fields where there were two lines of fire to the House of the Fathers of the Republic, to stay under the stately roof and be at home forever, for Father Abraham kept sacred in his heart and hand the Constitution, and preserved it for all the nation. When he was dead those who praised him not knew him not.

The armies that marched through stately Washington when the war was over, redeemed with the plow and the seed that brought golden harvest the fields that had been fallow, and North and South a million homes were made happy by the returning brave.

Long may the veterans of the Grand Army have their reunions and remember with full hearts those who fell on both sides on the memorable fields, where the volleyed thunders scattered in the opposing ranks Death and Immortality! Long live the Grand Army of the Republic and green and flowery be the graves of the dead, and forget not the story the name

THE MARTYRED LINCOLN AND HIS WAR CABINET READING THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.

of the Grand Army tells-that it carries the flag and keeps step to the music of the Union, that grows grander and more thrilling as the years roll away.

And now we have another martyred President-a war President and a President of peace-"peace with honor," and peace with the prosperity of the people. The first words that were uttered by the lips of millions when they heard of the murder of McKinley were, "My God, how could they shoot him down!" How could even the anarchists murder that man, with his gentleness, his good will for all men, with the wonders he has so mightily wrought for the country and all the people thereof, and so broadcast the blessings that some of the seeds of kindness scattered brightened millions of humble homes! Why did not the most depraved and deplorable of men spare this man? The dying martyr said, "It is God's way," and McKinley and Lincoln will be the chosen figures in our history upon whose examples will be fashioned generations of Americans into unchangeable patriots and invincible heroes.

Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, in taking the gavel as chairman of the Philadelphia Convention that nominated McKinley for a second term, said the four years of McKinley as President were memorable and "show a record of promises kept and work done," and the Senator gave the story of the Spanish War in a paragraph:

"We fought the war with Spain. The result is history known of all men. We have the perspective now of only a short two years and yet how clear and bright the great facts stand out, like mountain peaks, against the sky, while the gathering darkness of a just oblivion is creeping fast over the low grounds where lie forgotten the trivial and unimportant things, the criticisms and the fault findings which seemed so huge when we still lingered among them. Here they are, these great facts: A war of a hundred days, with many victories and no defeats, with no prisoners taken from us and no advance stayed, with a triumphant outcome startling in its completeness and in its world-wide meaning. Was ever a war more justly entered upon, more quickly fought, more fully won, more thorough in its results? Cuba is free. Spain has been driven from the Western hemisphere. Fresh glory has come to our arms and crowned our flag. It was the work of the American people, but the Republican party was their instrument. Have we not the right to say, that here, too, even as in the days of Abraham Lincoln, we have fought a good fight, we have kept the faith, we have finished the work?"

The supporters of the first administration of McKinley, who nominated him for a second term, said of his work done, claimed "Prosperity more general and more abundant than we have ever known," and gave a specification as an illustration "that while during the whole period of one hundred and seven years, from 1790 to 1897, there was an excess of exports over imports of only $383,028,497, there has been in the short three years of the present Republican administration an excess of exports over imports in the enormous sum of $1,483,537,094.

"No thought of national aggrandizement tarnished the high purpose with which American standards were unfurled. It was a war unsought and patiently resisted, but when it came the American Government was ready. Its fleets were cleared for action. Its armies were in the field, and there was quick and signal triumph of its forces on land and sea.

"President McKinley has conducted the foreign affairs of the United States with distinguished credit to the American people. In releasing us from the vexatious conditions of a European alliance for the government of Samoa his course is especially to be commended. By securing to our undivided control the most important island of the Samoan group and the best harbor in the Southern Pacific, every American interest has been safeguarded."

In accepting by the Treaty of Paris the just responsibility of our victories in the Spanish War the President and the Senate won the undoubted approval of the American people. No other course was possible than to destroy Spain's sovereignty throughout the West Indies and in the Philippine Islands. That course created our responsibility before the world, and with the unorganized population whom our intervention had freed from Spain, to provide for the maintenance of law and order, and for the establishment of good government and for the performance of international obligations. Our authority could not be less than our responsibility, and wherever sovereign rights were extended it became the high duty of the Government to maintain its authority, to put down armed insurrection and to confer the blessings of liberty and civilization upon all the rescued peoples. The largest measure of self-government consistent with their welfare and our duties shall be secured to them by law.

To Cuba independence and self-government were assured in the same voice by which war was declared, and to the letter this pledge shall be performed.