The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-14

, spirit 1t should be admins tered IN order tC
formulate the lasting welfare of the country
and to secure the full measure of its price
less benefits to Us and to those who will sue
coed to the blessings Of our national life
The large variety of diverse and competing
interests subject to Federal control, per
sistsntly seeking the recognition of their
claims, need give rs no fear that ''the great
est good to the greatest number will fail to
be accomplished. If, in the halls of ma
tional legislation, that spirit of amity and
mutual concession shall prevail in which
the constitution had its birth, even if this
involves the surrender or postponement of
private interests and the abandonment of
local advantages, compensation will be
found in the assurance that thus the com
mon interest is subserved and the general
welfare advanced.
In the discharge of my official duty shall
endeavor to be guided by the just and I'M
strained construction of the constitution,
careful observance of distinction between
powers granted to the Federal Government
and those reserved to the States or to the
people, and by cautious appreciation of
those functions which, by the constitution
and laws, have been especially assigned to
the executive branch of the Government.
But he who takes the oath to-day to pre-
| serve, protect and defend the constitution
| of the United States, only assumes a solemn
obligation which every patriotic citizen on
the farm, il the workshop, in the busy marts
of trade, and everywhere, should share with
him. The constitution which prescribes his
oath, my cOuntrymen, is yours. The Gov
eminent you have chosen him to administer
for time is yours. The suffrage which
executes the will of freemeR is yours. The
laws and the entire scheme of our civil rule
from the town meeting to the State Capitols
and the National Capitol is yours. Your
every voter, as surely as your Chief Magis-
trate, under the same high sanction, though
in different sphere, exercises a public
trust.
Nor is this all. Every citizen owes to his
country vigilant watch and close scrutiny
of its public servants, and a fair and
reasonable estimate of their fidelity aad
usefulness. Thus is the peoples will i'm
pressed upon the whole framework of our
civil policy, municipal, State and Federal,
inspiration of your faith i'll the Republic.
1t is the duty of those serving people in a
public place to closely limit the public ex-
penditures to the actual needs of the Gov
eminent, economically administered, be-
cause this bounds the right of the Govern
ment to exact tribute from the earnings of
labor or the property of citizens, and be-
cause public extravaganza wrongs the
people. We should never be ashamed of
simplicity and prudential economies, which
are best suited to the operation of a repub-
ican form of government, and most COM
patible with the mission of the American
people. Those who are selected for a
limited time TO manage public affairs are
still of the people, and may do much by
their example to encourage, consistently
with the dignity of their official functions,
that plain way of life which, among their
felIow-citizens, aids integrity and promotes
thrift and prosperity.
The genius of our institutions, the needs
of people in their home life, and the
attention which is demanded for the settle
ment and development of the resources of !
our vast territory, dictate the scrupulous
avoidance of any departure from that |
foreign policy commended by history, ira !
dition and the prosperity of our Republic. |
1t is the policy of independence, favored by |
our position and defended by our known |
love Of justice and by our power it is the |
policy of peace, suitable to our interests
it s the policy of neutrality, rejecting any
share in foreign broils and ambitions upon
other continents and repelling their intru-
sion here it is the policy of Monroe, and |
Washington, and Jefferson-peace, com
merce and honest friendship with all ma
tons, entangling alliances with none.
a due regard for the in interests and pros
perity of all the people demand that our
finances shall be established upon such a
sound and sensible basis as shall secure the
safety and the confidence of business in
terests, and make the wages of labor sure
and steady, and that our system of revenue
shall be so adjusted as to relieve the people
from unnecessary taxation, having due re-
gard to the interests of capital invested and
the workingmen employed in American in
dustries, and preventing the accumulation
of a surplus in the Treasury, and to that
extent, extravaganza and waste.
Care for the property of the nation and
for the needs of future settlers require that
the public domain should be protected from
purloining schemes and unlawful occupa-
ton.
The conscience of the people demands
that the Indians within our boundaries
shall be fairly and honestly treated as wards
Of the Government, and their education and
civilization promoted, with view to their
ultimate citizenship, and that polygamy in
the Territories, destructive of the family re-
igiOn, and offensive to the moral sense of
the civilized world, shall be repressed.
The laws should be rigidly enforced which
prohibit the immigration of servile classes
TO compete with American labor with no
intention of acquiring citizenship, and
bringing with them and retaining habits
and customs repugnant to our civilization.
The people demand reform in the admin
stration of the Government; the application
IF business principles to public affairs. As
means to this end civil service reform
should be in good faith enforced. Our citi-
zens have the right to protection from the
of public employees who hold
their places solely as reward for partisan