The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-03-12

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| from this hour we cheerfully and honestly
abandon all sectional prejudice and distrust
| and determine, with manly confidence in one
achievements of our national destiny, we
shall deserve to realize all the benefits which
On this auspioious occasion we may well
| renew the pledge of our devotion to the Con
stitution which, launched by the founders OF
prayers and patriotic devotion, has, for al.
most century, borne the hopes and aspira.
tons Of great people through prosperity
It IS the duty of those serving the people in
public place to closely limit public expendi.
economically administered, because this
bounds the right of the government to exact
tribute from the earnings of labor or the
extravagance begets extravagance among
the people We should never be ashamed of
shs h;os simplicity mp hy and and prudential economies
eombatable with the mission of
are selected for limited time to manage
public affairs are still of the people and may
do much by their example to encourage CON.
functions that plain way Of life which among
their fellow citizens aids integrity and pro-
notes thrift and prosperity. The genius of
their home life and the attention which is de-
manded for the settlement and development
OF the resources of our vast territory, die
departure from that foreign policy
commended by tho history, the tradition
policy Of Independence, favored BY our ia DO.
sition and defended by our known love of
Justice and by our power. 1t is the policy
policy of neutrality, rejecting any share in
foreign broils and through the shock of for
eign fo conflicts ont and the gerils Of domestic
country our Constitution was commended
for adoption as ''the result of a spirit of amity
In that same spirit it should be admins
tered, in order to provote the lasting welfare
OF the country and to secure the full meas
ure of its priceless benefits to us and to those
who will succeed to the blessings of our Ma
tional life. The large variety of diverse and
troll persistently seeking the recognition of
their claims need give us no fear that the
greatest good to the greatest number" will
national legislation that spirit of amity and
mutual concession shall prevail in which the
Constitution had its birth. If this involves
the surrender or postponment of private in
terests and the abandonment of local advan-
tagcs, compensation will be found in the as
surance that thus the common interest is
subserved and the general welfare advanced.
In the discharge of my official duty shall
endeaVor to be guided by just and un-
careful observance of the distinction be-
tween the powers granted the Federal Gov
TO the people, and by cautions appreciation
OF those functions which by the Constitu ton
and laws have been especially assigned to
the Executive branch of the Government
serve, protect and defend the Constitution of
the United States, only assumes the solemn
the farm, in the work shop, in the busy marts
OF trade and everywhere should share with
him. The Constitution which prescribes his
oath, my countrymen, is yours; the govern
ment you have chosen him to administer for
a time. is yours; the suffrage which executes
the will Of freemen, is yours; the laws of the
aTnn of ri ivi1 Ir111a frnr ha
National Capitol, is yours.
Your every voter, as surely as your Chief
Magistrate, under the same high sanction,
public trust Nor is this ali: Every citizen
close scrutiny of its public servants and a
fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity
pressed upon the whole framework of our
civil policy-municipal, State and federal
and this is the price of our liberty and the
It is the policy of Monroe and Washington
sriendshlp With al Nations, entsnsins ans ALLAN:
A due regard for the interests and prosper
fty of all people demands that our finances
shall be established upon such sound and
sensible basis as shall secure the safety
and confidence of business interests, and
make the wage of labor sure and
shall be SO adjusted as to relieve the people
from unnecessary taxation, having a due re-
gard to the interests Of capital invested and.
workingmen employed in American indus
tries, and preventing the accumulation of
surplus in the Treasury to tempt extrava-
gance and waste. Care for the property of
the Nation and for the needs of future set
tiers requires that the public domain should
be protected from purloining schemes and
people demands that the Indians without our
boundaries shall be fairly and honestly
treated as wards of the government, and
with view to their ultimate citizenship, and
that polygamy in the Territories, destructive
of the family relation and offensive to the
moral sense of the civilized world, shall be
repressed.
The laws should be rigidly enforced which
compete with American labor, with no inten-
ton of acquiring citizenship and bringing
with them and the retaining habits and Gus
toms repugnant to our civilization.
The people demand reform in the admins
tration of the Government and the applica-
tion of business principles to public affairs.
should be in good faith enforced. Our citi-
zens have the right to protection from the
ihnS,SSmpetency hN,S of public employees who
ward of their partisan service, and
from the. corruptive influence of those
who promise and the vicious methods of
those who expect such rewards, and those
who worthily seek public employmen have
thought to insist that merit and competency
serviency the surrender of honest politi-
cal belief in the administration of a govern
ment pledged TO do equal and exact justice
to all men. There should be no preteXt fer
anxiety touching the protection of the freed
men in their rights or their security in the
employment of their privileges under the
constitution and its amendments. All dis
cussiOn as to their fitness for the places ac-
corded to them as American citizens is idle
and Improbable, except as it suggests the
necessity for their Improvement. The fact
that they are citizens entities them to all the
rights due to the relation and charges them
with all its duties, obligations and respon.
sibilities. These topics and the constant and
ever varying wants of an active and enter
prising population may well receive the at
tention and the patriotic endeayor of all who
make and execute the federal law. Our du-
ties are practical and call for Industrious ap-
plication, an intelligent perception of the
claims of public Office, and above all a firm de-
termination. by united action, to secure to
all the people of the land the full benefits of
the best form of Government ever vouch-
safed to man, and let us not trust to human
effort alone, but humbly acknowledge the
power and goodness of Almighty God, who
presides over the destiny of nations and who
has at all times been revealed in our coun-
try's history. Let US invoke His aid and His
blessing upon our labors.
The ceremonies over, the President and
Vice President were escorted to their carri-
ages and driven toward the White House,
which is to be his abode for the next four
years.
The Procession.