The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-13

right Of government. They hay
committed to one of their fellow either
} a supreme and sacred trust, and he her
consecrates himself to their service. Thi
impressive ceremony adds little to til
solemn sense of responsibility with whic
l contemplate the duty owe to all tn
people Of the land. Nothing can reliev
me from anxiety lest by any act of min
their interests may suffer, and nothin,
is needed to strengthen my resolution Il
engage every faculty and effort in tn,
promotion of their welfare. Amids
party strife the peoples choice wa
made. but its attendant circumstance
have demonstrated new strength anC
safety of government by the PEG,
pie. In each succeeding year it more
clearly appears that our democratic peo-
pie need no apology and that in its fear
less and faithful application is to be found
the surest guaranty of good government.
But the best results in the operation OF
the government. wherein every citizen
has share, largely depend upon the
proper limitation of purely partisan zeal
and effort and a correct appreciation
of the time when the heat of the partisan
should be merged in the patriotism of the
citizen. To-day the executive branch of
the government is transferred to a new
keeping: but this is still a government of
all the people and it should be none the
less an object of their affectionate solicit
tude. At this hour the animosities of
political strife, the bitterness of partisan
defeat and exultation of partisan triumph
should be supplanted by ungrudging &C
quiescence in the popular will and sober,
conscientious concern for the general
veal. Moreover, if from this hour we
cheerfully and honestly abandon all sec
tional prejudice and distrust and deter
mine with manly confidence in
one another to work out harmonously
the achievements of our national destiny,
we shall deserve to realize all the bene-
fits which our happy form of government
can bestow. On this suspicious coca
sion we may well renew the pledge of our
devotion to the constitution which,
launched by the founders of the republic
and consecrated by their prayers and
patriotic devotion, has for almost a CEN
tury borne the hopes and aspirations to
those who will succeed to the blessing of
our national life. The large variety of
diverse and competing interests is subject
to federal control, persistently seeking
the recognition of their claims, need give
us no fear that the greatest good to the |
plished. If in the halls of national leg |
islation that spirit of amity and mutual
shall prevail In which the con-
stitution had is birth; if this in
wolves the surrender or postponement
Of private interests and the
Of local advantages, COM
Densation will be found in the assurance
hat thus the common interest is sub
served and the general welfare advanced.
IN the discharge of my official duty l shall
,ndeavor to be guided by a just and I'M
trained construction of the constitution,
careful observance of the distinction
,etween the powers granted to the fed
raj government and those reserved to
he states or to the people, and by eau
ious application of those functions which
" the constitution and laws have been
specially assigned to the executive
ranch of the government. But he who
axes the oath to-day to preserve, pro-
ect and defend the constitution of the
United States, only assumes the
litigation which every patriotic
itizen on the farm, in the work
hop, in the busy marts of
rade and everywhere should share with
i'm. The constitution which prescribes
is oath, my countrymen, is yours; the |.
overnment you have chosen him to adj
Minister for time is yours; the suffrage l
-hich executes the will of the freemen is !
ours; the laws and the entire scheme of {
ur civil rule, from the town meeting to 1
lie state capitol, is yours. Your every
oter, as surely as your chief magistrate, +
nder the same high sanction, though in
different sphere, exercises a public c
ust. Nor is this all; every citizen owes i
the country vigilant watch and close i
rutiny of its public servants and a fair I
Id reasonable estimate of their fidelity L
Id usefulness. Thus is the peoples 81
Ill impressed upon the whole framework II
our civil polity, municipal, state and
deral, and this is the price of our liberty &
I'd the inspiration of our faith in the re-
lblic. 1t is the duty Of those serving C
ople in public place to closely limit u
bic expenditures to the actual needs of II
c government economically admins 81
ed. because this bounds the right of 81
e government, to exact tribute from the 70
rnings of labor or the property of citi- w
rs and because public extravaganza III
gets extravaganza among the people. w
9 should never be ashamed of the sim Ill
city and prudential economics which IN
, best suited to the operation of a re- IL
blican form of government and most 20
npatible with the mission Of the Amer co
n people. Those who are for linn CT
time to manage the public affairs are SIP
! of the people and may do much by at
IT example to encourage consist WI
y the dignity of their II
cial functions in that plain Jul
y of life which, among their fellow lal
zens, aids integrity and promotes TO
lit and prosperity. The genius of our I'M
titutions, the needs of our people in GA
ir home life, and the attention which ag
emanded for the settlement and de- sto
opment of the resources of our vast Gre
'itory, dictate the scrupulous avoid ne
e OF any departure from that foreign 10 TO,
icy, commended by the history. the oil
iition and the prosperity of our re- yer
lie. 1t is the policy of the independ- VIII
favored by our position and de- s
led by our power; it is the policy Of UNI
peace so suitable to our interests; it wn
lie policy of neutrality, regretting anv Wh
re in foreign broils and ambitions MS
other continents, and repelling their ran
lsion here; it is the policy GER
lonroe and Washington and Jeffer- qul
=" Peace, commerce and honest NH
ldship with all nations, entanglIng Dut