Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1889-03-07
THE INAUGURATION.
President Harrison Takes the
Oath of Office.
a fIGH7Y cRoTD IN aTrENDASc1
The Inaugural Address a Document of
Hope and Patriotism.
The ProcessfOn Marches ia Beating Rain
In the Senate Chamber.

dinafe branches OF the government, and sur
rounded by representatives of all the great
nations on the face of the globe, Benjamin
Harrison was TO day inducted into the high
est Office within the gift Of the American peo
pie.
Never was such crowd in Washington be-
fore. It is estimated that half a million
strangers camped in the city last night, filing
every inch of hotel and boarding house ac-
commodation, and drawing to the full limit on
private hospitality. Even then many were
forced to sleep on floors, and some on billiard
tables. Even the welcome recess OF an occa
sional bathtub was not despised.
IN A BEATING RAIN.
THE MARCH ERoM THE WHITE HOUSE TO
THE CAPITOL.
WASHINGTON, March Mr.. Harrison,
accompanied by the Inauguration committee.
was taken in close carriage, drawn by four
horses, to the White House, about half past
10 o'clock. Rain was pouring down in tor
rents and drove mary off the streets, and
made sorry wosk of the decorations
Arriving at the White House, Harrison
was received by Cleveland and his cabinet in
the blue parlor, where they were soon joined
by Morton. At IL o'clock. Cleveland, Har.
ison and Morton took carriages for the capitol.
The first carriage, an open landau, contained
Cleveland, Harrison, Hoar and Cockrell; the
second, Morton and Cullom. Mrs. Cleveland
witnessed the departure from the window
THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
At I2:45 the president elect reached the
platform, and after taking the oath of office,
read his inaugural address, as follows:
There is no constitutional or legal require
ment that the president shall take the oath of
office in the presence Of the people. But
there is SO manifest an appropriateness in the
public induction into office of the chief execu-
| tive officer of the nation, that from the begin.
ming of the government the people to whose
service the official oath consecrates the officer,
have been called to witness the solemn cere-
monial. The oath taken in the presence Of
the people becomes mutual covenant.
PRESENT CONDITION OF THE NATION.
Our growth has not been limited TO terri
tory, population and aggregate wealth, mar
velous as it has leen in each of these direc
tons. The masses of our people are better
fed, clothed and housed than their fathers
were. The facilities for popular education
have been vastly enlarged and more generally
diffused. The virtues of courage and patriotism
have given recent proof of their continued
presence and increasing power in the hearts
and over the lives Of our people. The influ-
ences of religion have been multiplied and
strengthened The sweet offices Of charity
have greatly increased, and the virtue of tenn
perancc is held in higher estimation. We
| have not attained an ideal condition; not all
of our people are happy and prosperous, not
all of them virtuous and law abiding; but, on
the whole, the opportunities offered to the
industrious to secure the comforts Of life are
better than elsewhere and largely better than
they were 100 years ago. The surrender of a
large measure of the sovereignty to the gen.
eral government affected by the adoption Of
the constitution was not accomplished until
the suggestions of reason were strongly rein
forced by the more imperative voice of exper-
fence.
CORPORATIONS CAUSE MOB VIOLENCE.
If our great corporations would more scru-
pulously observe their legal Limitations and
duties they would have less cause TO complain
Of unlawful limitations Of their rights for vlo
lent interference with their operations A
community that by concert, open or secret
among its citizens, denies to portion Of its
members their rights under the law has sew
cred the only safe bond of social order and
prosperity.
NATURALIZATION LAWS.
Our naturalization laws should be 81
, amended as TO make the inquiry into the
character and good dispositions of persons ap
plying for citizenship more careful and search
ing. Our existing laws have been in thei
telligible in form. We accept a man as
citizen without any knowledge of his fitness
r and he ssumes the duties of citizen withou
, any knowledge as to what they are.
4 THF CIVIL SERVICE.
The duty devolved by law upon the presi
dent to nominate, and by and with the advic
and consent Of the senate to appoint, all pub
lie officers whose appointment is not other
wise provided for in the constitution, or b
! act of congress, has become very burdensome
and Its wise and efficient discharge full of diff
/ Guilty The civil service is SO large that pei
a sonal knowledge of any large number of az
plicants is impossible. The president mus
rely upon the representation of others, an
these are often made inconsiderately and with
out any just sense of responsibility. have
right, think, to insist that those who yolur
teer, or areinvIted to give advice as to- al
pointments shall exercise consideration an
fidelity. A high sense of duty and an amb
ton to improve the service should characterii
all public officers.
THE SURPLUS.
While the treasury surplus is not the grea
est evil, it is serious evil. Our revenl
. should be ample to meet the ordinary annu
- demands upon our treasury, with sufficie
- margin for those extraordinary but scarce
;. less imperative demands which arise now ar
= then. Expenditure should always be mac
= with economy and only upon Public necessit