Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-19
THE INAUGURAL.
A SYNOPSIS OF PRESIDENT HARRI-
RISCN'S ADDRESS.
A Brief Outline of the Policy to Be Pur
sued by the New Administration
Peace and Prosperity His
Aim and Ambition.

WIN SlIilplt, sOitiilH CeItlhohSt IA WAY
presence OF all the wisdom and authority
embodied in the coordinate branches OF
the government, and surrounded by rep
resentatives of all the great nations OF
the earth, Benjamin Harrison was last
Monday indicted into the highest office
within the gift of the American people.
At II 80 President pro tenn Ingalls, closed
the Fitch Congress. Vice-Presdent
Morton, after having been sworn into OF
flee, called the Senate OF the f1fty-iirst
Congress to order in special session.
After swearing in the new members
the Senate and House proceeded in
body to the east front OF the capitol, to
witness and participate in the ceremo-
MES OF inaugurating the President-elect.
The following is a synopsis OF General
Harrison's inaugural address:
THE FIRST INAUGURATION.
This occasion derives peculiar interest
from the fact that the Presidential term
which begins to-day is the twenty-sixth
under our constitution. The first inaug-
uration OF President Washington took
place in New York, where Congress was
then sitting, on the 30th day of April,
1879, having been deferred by reason OF
delays attending the organization OF Con-
gress and the canvass of the electoral
vote. Our people have already worthily
observed the centennials OF the Declara--
ton of Independence, of the battle OF
Yorktown, and of the adoption Of the
constitution, and will shortly celebrate
| in New York the institution of the
second great department OF our constltu-
tional scheme of government. When
the centennial of the constitution OF the
judicial department and of the organlza-
ton of the supreme court shall have been
suitably observed, our nation will have
fully entered upon its second century.
THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE NATION.
Our growth has not been limited to
territory, population and aggregate wealth,
marvellous as it has been in each of these
directions. The masses OF our people
are better fed, clothed and Housed than
their fathers were. The facilities for pop
ular education have been vastly en-
larged and more generally diilused. The
| virtues of courage and patriotism have
given recent proof OF their continued
presence and increasing power in the
heart and over the lives Of our people
The sweet offices of charity have greatly
increased, and the virtue of temperance
is held in higher estimation. We have
not attained an ideal condition; not all Of
our people are happy and prosperous
not ali OF them virtuous and law-abiding
but, on the whole, the opportunities Of
fered to the industrious to secure the
comforts of life are better than elsewhere
and largely better than they were hun
bred years ago.
THE SECTIONAL ELEMENT.
The sectional element has happily
been eliminated from tariff discussion
We have no longer states that are neces
sarily only planting states. None are ex
Guided from achieving that diversificatioI
of pursuit among people which bring
wealth and contentment. A cotton plan
tation will be no less valuable wheI
the product is spun in the country tow
by operatives whose necessaries call 70
diversified crops and create a home de
mand for garden and agriculture products
Every new mine, furnace and factory i
an extension OF the productive capacit,
of the state more real and valuable thai
added territory.
1t is not quite possible the farmers an,
promoters of the great mining and manu-
featuring enterprises which recently hav
been established in the South may we
find that free ballot OF the workingman
without distinction of race. is needed 10
their defense as well as for his own?
} do not doubt ii those men in the Soutl
who now accept the tariff views OF Cha
and the constitutional exposition OF Wei
} ster, would courageously ayow and dc
,, fcnd their real convictions, they woul
] not find it difficult, by friendly instrut
} ton and cooperation, to make the blacl
y man their efficient and safe attorney, nc
only in establishing correct principles il
J our national administration, but in pre-
; serving for their local communities tn
! benefits of social order and economics
, and honest government.
The evil example OF permitting ind
! viduals, corporations or communities t
D nulify laws because they cross som
! selfish or local interests or prejudices
) full OF danger, not only to the nation q
B large but much more to those who us
D this pernicious expedient to escape thei
Just obligations, or to obtain unjust &C
. vantage over others. They will pres
' entity themselves be compelled to appe;
D to the law for protection, and those VIII
0 would use the law as a defense must ne
Y deny that use of it to others,
0 CORPORATIONS CAUSE mon VIOLENCE.
Ii our great corporations would nor
scrupulously observe their legal limit,
tons and duties they would have les
cause to complain OF unlawful limitation
OF their rights or violent interference
with their operations. A communit
that by concert, open or secret, among it
citizens, denies TO Il portion OF its men
hers their rights under the law has seN
, cred the only safe bond of social orde
, and prosperity.
Evil works from bad center bot
ways. 1t demoralizes those who pra,
tice it, and destroys the faith of thos
who suffer by it in the efficiency OF tn
law as "A safe protector. Those who us
) unlawful methods unmoved by no highe
motive than the selishness tina
prompted them, may well stop and in
quire what is to be the end of this III
lawful expedient. 1t cannot become
: permanent condition of government.
Z the educated and influential classes in
community either practice or connive q
, systematic violation of laws that seer
10 them to cross their convenience, whg
can they expect when the lesson tina
convenience or supposed class interest
a sufficient cause for lawlessness, ha
been well learned by the ignorar
classesp
A community where law is the rule {
onduct, and where courts, not MODS
! execute its penalties, is the only attrac
i've field for business Investments an
onest labor.
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