The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-03-14
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This impressive ceremony adds little to sol.
template the duty ! owe to all the people of
the land; nothing can relieve ne from anx-
levy lest by any act of mine their interests
may surfer and nothing is needed to strength
en- my resolution TO engage every faculty and
effort in the promotion Of their welfare.
AND the din of party strife the peoples
cnolce wps madei but its attendant eircum-
etances nave demonstrated new strength
ana the safety of government by the people.
In each succeeding year it more clearly ap-
pears that our democratic principle needs no
apology, and that in its fearless and faithful
application is to be found the surest guaran-
tee of good government.
Sa ne best Ss p e Re opsao St ths
snare largely depend upon the proper limi-
tatlon OF purely partisan zeal and effort and
correct appreciation of the time when the
neat OF the partisan should be: merged into
Ine patriotism of the citizen. To-day, the
executive branch Of the Government is
transferred to new keeping. But this is still
the government of all the people, and it
should be none the less an object Of their af
fectionate solcitude.
AT this hour the animosties Of political
STRIFE, the bitterness of partisan defeat and
exultation, of partisan triumphs, should be
eupplahted by ungrudging acquiescence to
the popular WILL and so by conscientious
concern for the general veal. Moreover, II
from this hour we ehhhtfully, and honestly
abandon all sectional prejudice and astfdst,
and determine, with manly confidence in one
another, to work out tremendously the
achievements of our national destiny, we
snail deserve to realize all the benefits which
our happy form of gov eminent can bestow.
On TINS suspicious occasion we may well
renew the pledge of our devotion to the Con-
stthtioh Which, lahhrhed by Thu foundets Of
the Republic, and consecrated by their
prayers and patriotic devotion, has, for al
most century, borne the hopes and aspira-'
tons of great people through prosperity
and peace. ~ .
1t Is the duty of those serving the people in
public place to,closely limit public expendi-
lures to the actual needs of the Government
economically administered, BECAUSE this
bounds the right of the government to exact
tribute from the earnings OF labor or the
property of its citizens, and because public
extravaganza begets 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
combatable with the mission of
the American people. Those who
are selected for limited time to manage
public affairs are still of the people and may
do much by their example to encourage con.
sistently with the dignity of their official
functions that plain way of life which among
their fellow citizens aids integrity and pro.
notes thrift and prosperity. The genius of
our institutions, the needs of our people in
their home life and the attention which is de-
mahded for the settlement and development
of the resources of our vast territory, die,
tate the scrupulous avoidance of any
commended by the history, the tradition
and the prosperity of our REPUBLIC. 1t Is the
policy of independence, favoled by our pO-
sitipp and defended by our Known love of
Justice and by our power. 1t Is the policy
I1 peace suitable TO our interests. It is the
iGclfcy of Neutrality reiecting any share in
foreign broils and through the shock of for
Ieign conflicts and the -perils of domestic
strife and vicssitude. BY the father or his
country our Constitution was commended
for adoption as 1.-The result of spirit OF amity
and mutual concession"
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
competing interests subiecttO Federal con.
troll persistently seeking the recognition of
their claims need give us no fear that the
greatest good to the greatest number" will
fail to be accomplished it, in the halls of
national legislation that spirit of amty and
mutual concession shall prevail in which the
Constitution had its birth. If this involves
the surrender orpostponment OF private in
tereStS and the abandonment of local adyan-
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
strained construction of the Constitution, a
careful observance of the distinction de-
tween the powers granted the Federal Gov
eminent and those reserved to the States, or
to the people, and by cautions 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 the solemn
obligation which every patriotic citizen on
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
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
Magistrate, under the same high sanction,
though in 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 a
fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity
and usefulness. This 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 the
1t is the policy of Monroe and Washington
and Jefferson, "peace, commerce and honest
friendship with all Nations, ENHANCING allan
ces with none"
A due regard for the interests and prosper.
ity 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
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
workingmen employed in American indus
tries, and preventing the accumulation of a
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
unlawful occupation. The conscience of the
people demands that the Indians without 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 relation and offensive to the
moral sense of the civilized world, shall be
depressed.
The laws should be rigidly enforced which
prohibit the immigration of Servile class to
compete with American labor, with no inten-
ton of acquiring citizenship 6nd 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
ton of 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
incompetency of public employees who
hold their places solely as the re
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 employment have
thought to insist that merit and competency
shall be recognized, instead OF party sub
cal belief in the administration OF govern
ment pledged to do equal and exact justice
to all men. There should be no pretext fCI