MR. GAGE ANNOUNCES DEATH.
HEAD OF TREASURY PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE LATE PRESIDENT MCKINLEY.
Secretary Gage issued the following announcement of the death of
President McKinley:
It has been thought proper to make sad but official announcement in this
issue of Treasury Decisions of the tragic death of William McKinley,
twenty-fifth President of the United States, and to give some expression
of that tribute which his character and deeds compel.
It needed not the shadows of death to make the figure of the late
President loom large in the estimate of mankind.
The republic he loved he lived to broaden and unify as no previous
President had done. Under his prudent and far-seeing statesmanship it
took exalted place in the community of nations.
From his place as private citizen, on through many and increasing
honors to his final post as ruler of his people, he remained true to
the highest ideals.
By the people of the nation at large and by the world he was known and
will live in grateful annals as a gentleman of noble heart, an
affectionate husband, a sturdy friend, and a faithful and illustrious
President.
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