Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-03-07

and proceeded to the SENATE ch8mbe
The president and his cabinet, the presi
dent elect and vice president elect, enter
ed the chamber shortly before noon; th
senate adjourned sine die at 1872
p. m. (the clock having bee
set back) Vice President Morto
then took the oath of office and tn,
swearing in of the new senators began
After this was over the procession forme'
and proceeded to the outside platform
where the president at 12:45 began tn
delivery Of bis inaugural address.
Before beginning the address the osti
OF Office was administered to Genera
Harrison and the president then deliv
cred the following address:
| HARRIsoN's INAUGURAL.
There is no constitutional or legal Requirement
| that the president shall take the oath of Office il
the presence of the people. but there is so mani
fest an appropriateness in the public induction
ton that from the beginning of th- governmen
the people to whose service the official GA; h.
| Socrates the officer have teen called to witness
tbs colemn ceremonial The oath taken in tn.
nant. The officer covenants to serve the whole
body Of the people By q faithful execu
ton Of the laws SO that they ma,
| those who respect and observe them and thai
neither wealth. station nor the power of combi
| nations shall be able 10 evade their Just penal
ties or to wrest them from benefcient public
| purpose to serve the ends of cruelty selfish
| ness. My promise Is spoken: yours unspoken
but not the less real and solemn.
The people of every state have here the repre-
| sentative Surely do not misinterpret this oc-
| ca, ion when assume that the whole body of the
people covenant with me and with each other to-
| and the union of the states, to yield
| willing obedience to all the laws and each to
every other citizen his equal civil and political
rights, entering thus solemnly into covenant with
! each other may reverently invoke and conf
| IDENTIFY expect the favor and help of almighty
| God, that he will give TO me wisdom. strength
and fidelity ana TO our people spirit OF fratern-
| ity and a love of a Righteousness and peace.
| This occasion deserves peculiar interests from
| the fact that the presidential term, which begins
this day. is the twenty-sixth under our constitu-
| ington took pla in New York, where congress
was then sitting on the goth day Of April, 1883.
| Having 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 centennias of the
declaration of Independence, of the battle of
shortly celebrate in New York the institution of
the second great department of our
| constitutional scheme of government. When
| the centennial of the institution of
| the supreme court shall have been suitably OBJ
served, as trust II will be. Our nation will
| have fully entered its second century. will not
attempt to note the marvellous and in great
part the happy contrasts of our country as it
steps over the threshold into its second century
| OF organized existence under the constitution
| and that weak but wisely ordered young nation
that looked undauntedly down the first century
| when all its years stretched out before it. Our
people will not fail at this time to recall the incl
dents which accompanied the institution of the
government under institution or to find inspira-
| ton and guidance in the teachings and the
example Of Washington and his great associates
and hope and courage in the contrast which
thirty populous and prosperous states offer to
the thirteen states, weak in everything except
courage and the love of liberty, that then fringed
our Atlantic seabord. The territory of Dakota
original states Except Virginia. and greater than
the aggregate of five of the smaller states in $780,
ital was located was east of Baltimore. and it was
argued by many well informed persons that it
would move eastward rather than westward.
Net n 1 .nS found to be
about to be taken will show another stride to the
westward; that which was the body has come to
be only the rich foliage of the nations robe.
But our growth has not been limited Ia terri
tory, population and great wealth, marvellous as
il has been In each of these directions. The
masses of our people are better fed. clothed and
popular education have been vastly eniargedand
are generally diffused: The virtues of
courage and patriotism have given
and increasing power. in the hearts and
over the lives of our people. The influences of
religion have multiplied and strengthened. The
sweet offices of charity have greatly increased.
The virtue of temperance held in high estima-
ton. We have not attained an ideal condition.
Not all OF orr people are happy and prosperous;
not all of them are virtuous and law-Hbiding
But on the whole, the opportunities offered the
individual to secure the comforts Of life bet
ter than are found elsewhere and largely better
than they were one hundred years ago.
The surrender OF a, large measure
of snyereignity to the federal government
effected by the adoption of the constitution
was not accomplished until the suggestions of
reason were strongly reinforced by the more i'm
psrative voice of experience. The divergent
interests OF peace speedily demanded
more perfect union" The merchant. the
and disclosed to our statesmen and to the people
that commercial emancipation must be added to
the political freedom which bad been SO bravely
won Inc commercial policy of the mother
country had not relaxed any of lis hard and OPP
presslve features, 10 hold in check the develop
ment of our commercial marine, TO prevent or
retard the establishment and growth OF manu-
features in states ard so TO secure the American
market for their ships and the carrying trade for
their ships was the policy of European statesmen
and was pursued with the most selfish vigor
Petitions poured In upon congress urging the
imposition of discriminating duties that should
encourage the production of things needed at
home. The patriotism of the people which no
longer found field of exercise in war was
theoretically directed to the duty of
equipping the young republic for the de-
people
self dependent. Societies for the promotion of
home manufactures and for encouraging the use
of dcmeetics in the dress of the people were or
ganized in many OF the states. Many, OF the re-
vivais at the end of the century of the patriotic
interest IN the development OF domestic indus
tries and the defense of tho working people
against injurious foreign competition is an Incl
dent worthy OF attention. 1t is not departure
but a return that we have witnessed. The pro-
tective policy had then its opponents. The arsu-
ment was made, as now. that its benefits Injured
fks..
ton became in any sense or at any time sec
tioral, it was only because slavery existed in
some OF the states. But for this there was no
reason why the tton producing states should
not have led or walked abreast with the New
England states in the production of cotton
fabrics; There was this reason only why the
states that divide with Pennsyl, ania the mineral
treasures OF the great southeastern and central
mountain ranges should have been go tartiy in
bringing to the smelling furnace, tot the mill. the
mill fres were lighted at The funeral pile of sla-
very. The emancipation proclamation was
heard IN the depths of the earth well in the
became our better servants. The sectional ele-
ment has happily been eliminated from tariff dis
cussion. We have no longer states that are nee |
cluded from achieving that diversifcation of the
purple among the people which brings wealth |
and cnntentment. The cotton plantation will |
not be less valuable when the product is spun in
necessities call for diversified crops and |
create a home demand for garden and agri- |
cultural products. Every new mine. furnace and |
factory is an extension of productive capacity |
of state more real and valuable than added ter
ritory. Shall the preiudices and paralysis and \
slavery continue to hang upon the skirts of pro-
gress! Hew long will those who rejoice that |
slavery no longer exists, cherish and tolerate the
incapacities II put upon their communities. !
look hopefully to the continuance of our |
protective system and the consequent develop |
ments OF manufacturing and mining interests |
in states hitherto wholly given to agriculture |
as patent influence in the perfect unifcation of
our people. The men who have invested their |
capital in these enterprises: the farmers. who |
have felt bereft of their neighborhocd. and the |
men who work in shops or in the field, will not |
fail TO find and to defend community of in |
terests
Is it not quite possible that farmers and pro-
motors of the great mining and manufacturing |
enterprises in the south may yet find that the |
free ballot of the workingman without distinc- |
tion of race is needed for his defense as well rs
for his own. do not doubt that If these men |
of the soath who now accept the tariff views of |
Gay and the constitutional expositions of Web /
ster. would coursseously vowto defend their real |
convictions they would not find it difficult by |
friendly instruction and cooperation to make |
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