SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS MONUMENT AT CLEVE

LAND, OHIO.

HE Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, at the dedication of which July 4th, 1894, Wm. McKinley was orator of the day, was designed by Levi T. Schofield and erected by the county

at public expense. The view here given is from the northeast.

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WILLIAM MCKINLEY

(1843-)

HE address, 'American Patriotism,' delivered by Mr. McKinley at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1894, has been greatly admired. With his address at the dedication of the Grant monument in 1897, it ranks among the most earnest and eloquent expressions of the feeling which inspired the volunteers who fought for the Union from 1861 to 1865.

Mr. McKinley was born at Niles, Ohio, January 29th, 1843. Though only a little over eighteen years old when the Civil War began, he enlisted and rose to the rank of Major. After serving from 1869 to 1871 as Attorney of Stark County, Ohio, he was elected to Congress, where he served in the House of Representatives from 1877 to 1891. From 1889 to 1891, he was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which reported the McKinley Tariff Bill. Failing of election to Congress as a result of the general Republican losses of 1890, he was nominated by the Republicans of Ohio for Governor of the State in 1891 and elected. In 1893 he was re-elected by a plurality of about eighty-one thousand, and his election to the Presidency followed in 1896.

AMERICAN PATRIOTISM

(Delivered at the Dedication of the Cuyahoga County Soldiers and Sailors Monument at Cleveland, Ohio, July 4th, 1894. By Permission from the 'History of the Cuyahoga County Soldiers and Sailors Monument.' Copyright by William J. Gleason)

Soldiers and Sailors of Cuyahoga County, My Comrades, and FellowCitizens:

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WISH the whole world might have witnessed the sight we have just seen and have heard the song we have just listened to from the school children of the city of Cleveland. With pa

triotism in our hearts and with the flag of our country in our hands, there is no danger of anarchy and there is no danger to the American Union.