The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-05
Hts FIRST EFFORT.
President Harrison Makes a
Fourth of July Grafton.
FAR SHORT OF HIS PREDECESSOR.
There is Nothing Strong, Nothing Direct,
Nothing Which is Worthy of a Salesman
in the Whole Address.

WASHINGTON, D. c. March 4.-The fol
lowing is President Harrisons Inaugural
address,
There is no constitution or legal require
ment that the president shall take the oatl
of Office in the presence of the people, bu
there is so manifest an Appropriateness il
public induction to Office Of the chief execu
tive officer of the nation that from the be
ginning of the government, the people. Il
whose service the Official oath consecrate!
the officer, have been called to witness the
solemn ceremonial oath taken in the pres
ence of the people, that it becomes a mutua
covenant. The officer covenants to serve
the whole body of the people by faithful
execution Of laws, so that they may be al
unhAing defense and security of those who
respect and observe them, and that neither
wealth, station nor power of combinations
shall be able to evade their just penalties
or wrest them from beuefcient public pur-
pose to serve the epds of cruelty or selfish
ness.
SOLEMN COVENANT
My promise is spoken, yours unspoken,
but not the less real and solemn. The
people Of every state have here their rep
resentatives. Surely do not misinterpret
the spirit Of the occasion when assume
that the whole body of the people covenant
with ne and with each other today to sup
port and defend the constitution and the
union Of states, to yield willing obedience
to all laws and to each and every other citi-
zen his equal civil and political rights.
Entering thus solemnly into covenant with
each other we may reverently invoke and
confidently expect favor and help from
Almighty God, that He will give to me wis
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the spirit of fraternity and love Of right
eousnesssand peace
This occasion derives peculiar interest
from the fact that the presidential term
which begins this day is the twenty-sixth
under our constitution. The first inaugu-
ration OF President Washington took place
IN New York, where Congress was then
sitting, on the 30th day Of April, 1883, hay
ing been deferred by reason of delays at
tending the organization of Congress and
the canvass of the electoral vote. Our
people have already wOrthily observed the
centennial of the declaration of independ-
ence, of the battle of Yorktown and of the
adoption of the constitution, and viii
shortly celebrate in New York the institu-
ton of second great department of our
constitutional scheme of government. And
when the centennial Of the constitution of
the judicial department by the Organiza-
ton of the supreme court shall have been
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nation will have fully entered its second
celtary.
THE PAST CONSIDERED.
l viii not attempt to note the marvellous,
and in a great part, happy contrasts
between our country rs il steps over the
thr6&hOlG into its second century of Organi-
ZatiSn, its existence under the constitution,
md that weak but wisely ordered young
nation that looked undauntedly down the
first century, when all its years stretched
out before IL.
Our people will not fail at this time to re-
call incidents which accompanied the insti-
tuition Of our government under the consti-
tuition, or to md inspiration and guidance
in the teachings and example of Wash
ington and his great associates, and hope
and courage in contrast, which thirty
eight pOpulous and prosperous states offer
70 the Thirteen states, weak in everything
except courage and love of liberty, that
then fringed our Atlantic seaboard.
OUR GROWTH.
The territory of Dakota has now popu-
latiOn greater than any of the original
states, except Virginia, and greater than
the aggregate of five Of the smaller states
n 1890. The centre of population, when
our national capital was located, was east
Of Baltimore, and it was argued by many
well-informed persons that the world would
u.
N 1880 1t was found to be near Cincinnati,
and the new census about to be taken will
show another stride to the westward.
That which was the body has come to be
only rich fringe of the nations robe, but
our growth has not been limited to terri
tory, population and aggregate wealth,
marvellous as it has been in each of those
directions. The masses of our people are
better fed, clothed and housed than their
fathers were. Facilities for popular edu-
cation have been vastly enlarged and more
generally diffused.
GRAND PRINCIPLES.
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 in
duences of religion has been multiplied and
strengthened. Sweet offices of charity j
have greatly increased. the virtue of TEN
perance held in higher estimation.
We have not attained an ideal condition;
not all of our people are happy and pros
porous: not all of them. virtuous and law
abiding but on the whole, the opportunities
offered to the individual to secure the com
FORKS Ct life are better than found else
where and largely better than they were
ere 100 years ago.
The surrender of a large measure of SOW
creignty to the general government, eff
.ected by the adoption of the constitution,
was not accomplished until suggestions of
reason were strongly reinforced by the
more imperative voice of experience.
THE DEMANDS OF PEACE. 49,
The divergent interests Of peace speedily
demanded more urgent union. The mer
chant. shipmaster and manufacturer dis
covered and disclosed to our statesmen and
70 the people that commercial emancipation
must be added to political freedom, which
had been so bravely won.
The commercial policy of the mother
country had not relaxed any of its hard and
oppressive features. To hold in check the
DEVELOPMENT of our commercial marine, to
prevent or retard the establishment and
yroy,(tl of manufactures in the states, and
70 secure an American market for their
shops. and corrupting trade for their ship
nents, was thepolicy. of European states
men, and was pursued with most-seltish
Vigor.
Petitions poured in upon congress urging
the imposition of discriminating duties
that should encourage production of needed
things at home. The patriotism of the
people. which no longer found field of ex-
ercise in war, was energetically directed to
Jhe duty of equipping the young republic
for the defense of its independence by
making its people self-depeadent.
Societies for the promotion of home
manufactures and for encouraging the use
of domestics in the dress of the people were !
organized in many states and a revival at
the end of the century of the same patriotic
interest in preservation and development
of domestic industries and the defense of |
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