Vintage photogravure of President Benjamin Harrison - Official White House Gallery print, 10x12 on 16x20 paper

OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE GALLERY VINTAGE PHOTOGRAVURE OF PRESIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON

WITH WRITTEN DEDICATION TO PRESIDENT HARRISON BY PERRY S. HEATH, Secy Republican National Committee

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Full Text of Dedication

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Harrison

IT is easy to write of a friend. The reader willingly makes generous allowance for the partialities of personal friendship. But to write discriminatingly of a living public man, correctly estimating and fairly presenting his character, attainments and achievements, is a delicate and difficult task.

Somebody has well said that there is nothing more

inspiring than the story of a triumphant life. Men never tire of it and it cannot be too often told. There are grades in greatness.

Some

men are born great; upon their shoulders God has dropped the mantle of genius, giving them moral worth and intellectual power, and unfolding to their keen conceptions, the wonderfal mysteries of life.

There are other men less richly endowed by nature's partial hands,

who by will and work, animated and guided by noble purposes and lofty virtues, have climbed to the highest peaks of power and fame, and calmly trod the dizzy heights, admired and honored by all the world

Benjamin Harrison is a self-made and a well-made man. Though coming from a distinguished ancestry, he was in youth poor and comparatively obscure.

Yet by the power of

his intellect and the nobility of his character, he rose to the highest rank among the rulers of the world, the Presidency of the United States of America.

As a man and citizen Benjamin Harrison presents a model of our best manhood and citizenship industrious, frugal, sincere and unpretending.

As a public official he has been

able, painstaking and courageous.

Few men have had a life more remarkable or attained

dignity and honor more striking.

He has won his illustrious way by his great abilities, his

splendid accomplishments and the heroic virtue and manliness of his character.

The higher he

rose, the more strikingly were displayed his remarkable abilities and sterling virtues.

He put

brains and conscience into all his work, and the more prodigious the tasks that confronted him,

temptations.

is fall of struggles

stit is as long head worn

beset with

It takes keen eyes, steady nerves and fearless feet to safely find the way.

Benjamin Harrison trod this dangerous road in hope, honor and bravery. stumbled.

He rarely faltered or

He moved upward with the sturdy tread of conscious strength and honesty. He

made politics statesmanship, and showed that the successful office-seeker may be the dignified and Christian gentleman.

It may be safely said that no man who ever occupied the Presidential chair was more familiar with all the details of Government than was President Harrison.

He knew the

functions and was informed as to the duties of every department and bureau.

He could have

taken any cabinet portfolio or any bureau or commissionership and discharged the duties of the positions without hesitation.

His accurate knowledge as to departmental matters was a constant

surorse to those who had occasion to nsult him with reference to any branch ot the public service.

He not only knew all about the business of the Government, but he insisted that it be

transacted with intelligence and fidelity. He had little toleration for carelessness or incapacity in public officials and employes. He conscientiously believed in the motto that,

" public office is

a public trust.

He often in private and public utterances emphasized the fact that stronger and

better men were needed in the public service.

He believed that in the affairs of Government as

in private business, that the rule of the survival of the fittest should hold absolute and inexorable

He was eminently practical in directing the administration of public affairs.

that acts and nof theories mast be the moving torces in Government that in the logic orevents

there is the highest wisdom.

Benjamin Harrison was not only able, intelligent and practical in the discharge of his duties as a local and State official, and United States Senator and President, but was thoroughly conscientious and always showed the courage of his convictions. He never hesitated to say or do what he thought ought to be said or done.

He is a deeply religious man and believes that

relicion is for everyday use in all the duties of life.

In his private life and in his public acts and

utterances he exhibited the virtues of the Christian as conspicuously as he displayed those of the statesmthe peoplt of the United, States honor and respect Beniamin Harrison.

They believe in

They admire his great talents and sterling virtues.

They know he is honest, wise and

brave.

His Administration will go into history as one of the wisest and best that the country has ever enjoyed.

Benjamin Harrison as a citizen, a solder and the Nation's Highest Official, has filled the measure of his duty full.

American history can turnish few parallels to his useful and exalted

record. As has been well said of another illustrious American--the immortal Lincoln: "None but himself can be his parallel."

Arace A. Jakes