The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-13

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land. Nothing can relieve me from the
anxiety that lest BY an act Of nine their In
may :Ser and nothing
to engage every faculty and EFFORT in
the promotion Of their Welfare. Amid the
din of party strifes the peoples choice
have demonstrated new strength and
safety of government by the people. In each
succeeding year 1t more clearly appears that
and that in its faithful and fearless applica,
ton is to be found the surest guaranty of
good government. But the best results in
every Citizen has share. largely depend
upon q proper limitation of purely partisan
zeal and effort, and a correct appreciation of
merged into the patriosism pf the ee eifuen
To-day the Executive branch of the Govern.
ment is transferred to new keeping:
the people and II should SGsrn be none t ~,
less the object of their affectionate
solicitude. At this hour the animosities of
feat, and the exultation of partisan triumph,
should be supplanted by ungrudging acquies-
cence to the popular will, and so by con-
scientious concern for the general veal.
Moreover, il from this hour we cheerfully
and honestly abandon all sectional preiu-
dice and distrust, and determine, with manly
confidence In one another, to work out har.
moniously the achievements of our national
destiny, we shall deserve to realize all the
| benefits which our happy form of Govern
ment can bestow.
On this suspicious occasion we may well
| renew the pledge of our devotion to the Con-
| stitution, which, launched by the founders
| of the Republic and consecrated by their
| prayers and patriotic devotion. has for al
| most a century borne the hopes and aspira-
lions of q great people through prosperity
| and peace, and through the shock of foreign
| conflicts and the perils of domestic strife and
vicissitudes. By the father of his country
L nm yuQQ rlrrlan lodi f0r dom
| ton as the result of a spirit of mighty and
mutual concession. In that same spirit
it should be. administered in order
to promote the lasting welfare of
the country and to secure the
| full measure of its priceless benefits
| to US and those who will succeed to the bless
| ings of our National life. The large variety
of diverse and competing interests subject
/ to Federal control persistently seeking the
recognition of their claims need give us no
NUMBER will iii fall to be aceompIisbed f in tbe
halls of National legislation that spirit of
| amity and mutual concession shall prevail,
in which the Constitution had its birth. If
| this involves the surrender or postponement
| of private interests and the abandonment
/ of local advantages, remuneration will be
| found in the thought that the common inter-
| est is subserved and the general welfare ad-
yanced.
In the discharge of my official duty, shall
| endeavor to be guided by a just and un-
| strained construction of the Constitution, a
| careful observation of the distinction be-
| tween the powers granted to the Federal
| Government, and those reserved to the
| States or to the people, and by a cautious ap-
probation 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 preserve, protect and defend the Con-
stitution of the United States only assumes
| the solemn obligation which every patriotic
| citizen, on the farm, in the workshop, the
busy marts of trade and everywhere
should share with him. The constitution
which prescribes his oath, my countrymen,
| is yours. The Government you have chosen
him to administer for a time is yours: the
suffrage which executes the will of freemen
| is yours; the laws and the entire scheme of
or civil rule from the town meeting to the
state capitals and the national capital is
yours; your every voter as surely as every
chief magistrate under the same high sane
| ton, though in a different sphere. exercises
| a public trust Nor is this all Every citizen
| owes to the country vigilant watch and
close scrutiny of its public servants and
fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity
and usefulness. Thus is the peoples will i'm
pressed upon the whole framework of our
civil policy, municipal, State and Federal. and
| this is the price of our liberty and inspira-
ton of our faith in our Republic.
people in public places to closely limit
the public expenditures to the actual
needs of the Government. economl-
the right of the Government to exact tribute
from the earnings of labor or the property of
citizens, and because public extravaganza be-
gets extravaganza among the people We
should never be ashamed of the simplicity
and prudential economies which are best
| suited to the operation of republican form
of Government and most compatible with the
| mission of the American people. Those who
are selected for limited time to manage pub
| lie affairs are still of the people and may do
| much by their example to encourage consist
| emily with the dignity of their official func-
| tions that plain way of life which among their
fellow citizens creates integrity and promotes
thrift and prosperity.
The genius of our institutions, the needs of
our people to their home life and the atten-
| tion which is demanded for the settlement and
development of the resources of our vast
territory dictate the scrupulous avoidance of
any departure from that foreign policy COM
mended by the history, the traditions and the
prosperity of our Republic. 1t is the policy of
independence favored by our position and de-
Tended by our known love of justice and by
our power; IL is the policy of peace suitable
to our interests: it b the policy of neutrality
rejecting any share in foreign broils and am
billions on other contestants and repellng
their intrusion here; it is the policy of Mon
roe and Washington and jefferson. Peace,
| commerce and honest friendship with all ma
lions and entangling alliance with none.
due regard for the interests and pros
perity of all people demand that our finances
| shall be established upon such sound and
confidence of the business interests and make
the wages of labor sure and steady, and that
our system of revenue shall be so adjusted as
10 relfeVc the people from unnecessary TAXI
ton, having due regard to the interests of
| capital invested and workingmen employed,
and the accumulation of a surplus in the
treasury to tempt extravaganza and waste
Care for the property of the nation and for the
needs of future settlers require that the public
land purloining and unlawful occupation
OF public lands be stopped. The conscience
of the people demands that the Indians shall
be fairly and honestly treated as wards of the
Government, and their education and civiliza-
ton promoted with view to their ultimate
hat
ries destructive of the family relation and
offensive to the moral sense of the civilized
world, shall be repressed.
The laws should be rigdly enforced which
prohibit the immigration of a servile class to
compete with American labor with no inten-
ton of acquiring citizenship. and bringing
with them and retaining of habits and GUS
toms repugnant TO our civilization.
The people demand reform in the adj
ministration of the government and the
application of business principles to
end, end civil Service reform should be in
good faith enforced. Our citizens have the
right to protection from the incompetency
of public employees who hold their places
solely as the reward of partisan service and
for the corruptionary influence of those who
promote the vicious methods of those who
expeet, such uch. rewards and those , who
the right to insist that merit and
competency shall be recognized instead
of party subserviency and the surrender of
honest, patriotic belief. In the adminstra-
ton of Government pledged to do equal
and exact justice to all men there should be
no pretcxt for anxiety touching the protec-
ton of the freedmen in their rights or their
privileges under the constitution and its
amendments. All discussion as to their fit
ness for the place accorded them as Ameri-
can citizens is idle and improbable, except
as il suggests the necessity for their i'm
provement. The fact that they are citizens
eI.sitles them to all the rights due to that re-
lation. and charges them with all its duties,
obligations and RESPONSIBILITIES.
These topics and the constant and ever