Western Kansas world., 1889-03-09

snd proceeded to the senate chsmhs,
,, The president and his cabinet. the nreei
dent elect and vice president elect enter
| ed the chamber shortly before noon: th,
senate adjourned sine die at 100
p. m. (the clock having beel
set back) Vice President Morto,
then took the oath of Office and tS,f
swearing in of the new senator's beran
After this was over the procession formei
and proceeded to the outside nIatform
where the president at 12:45 BEGAN ia,
delivery of bis inaugural address.
Before beginning the address the oatl
OF Office was administered to Genera
Harrison and the president then deliv
cred the following address:
HARR1soN's INAUGURAL.
that the president shall take the oath Of office IL
the presence of the people, but there is 90 mani
fest an appropriateness In the public induction
once t Of ne c9aeI t OF the ns
the people to whose service the official oath. con
socrates the officer have been called to witness
the colemn ceremonial. The oath taken in the
presence of the people becomes a mutual cove
nant. The officer covenants to serve the whole
ton Of the laws so that they s mss
those who respect and observe them and that
neither wealth, station nor the power Of combi-
nations shall be able TO evade their just penal
ties or to wrest them from benefcient public
purpose to serve the ends of cruelty or selfish
ness. My promise is spoken; yours unspoken,
but not the less real and solemn.
sentative. Surely do not misinterprst this oc-
cakion when assume that the whole body of the
people covenant with me and with each other to-
DAY to support and defend ,de the co1sttuti99
willing obedience to all the laws and each to
every other citizen his equal civil and political
rights, entering thus solemnly into covenant with
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 love of 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-
ton. The first inangurati9n Of President Wash
was then sitting, on the 3oth day of April, 1859.
Having been deferred by reason of delays at
tending the organization of congress and the
already worthily observed the centennials of the
declaration of independence, of the battle Of
Yorktown, adoption of the constitution and will
the second, great department. Of our
constitutional scheme Of, government, When
the centennial of the institution Of
the sSs by the
served, as trust it 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
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-
puldancQ
example of Washington and his great associate
and hope and courage in the contrast whicl
thirty popuious and prosperous states offer to
courage and the love of liberty, that then fringed
our Atlantic seabord. The territory of Dakota
has now q population greater than any of the
original states Except Virginis) and greater than
the aggregate of five of the smaller states in 1880.
The center of population when our National cap
ital was located was east of Baltimore and it was
would move eastward rather than westward.
near Cincinnati, and the new. census
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 to terri
IN s
masses of our people are better fed clothed and
housed than their fathers were. The facilities for
popular education have been vastly enlarged and
courage and patriotism have given
recent proof of their continued presence
and increasing power, in the hearts and
religion have multiplied and strengthened. The
sweet offices of charity have greatly increased.
The virtue of temperance IS held in high estima-
Not all of onr people are happy and prosperous;
not all OF them are virtuous and law-abiding.
But on the whole. the opportunities offered the
and
than they were one hundred years ago.
Of the sasTSadsr to % Se federal large
was not accomplished until the suggestions of
parative voice Of experience. The divergent
more perfect union.a The merchant. the
shipmaste and the manufacturer discovered
and disclosed to our statesmen and to the people
the political freedom which had been SO bravely
won. The commercial policy of the mother
country had not relaxed any of Its hard and op-
pressive features. To hold in check the develop
retard the establishment and growth of manu-
factures in states and SO to secure the American
market for their ships and the carrying trade for
and was pursued with the most selfish vigor.
Petitions poured in upon congress urging the
imposition Of discriminating duties that should
home. The patriotism of the people which NO
longer found q field of exercise in war was
energetlcally directed to the duty of
eQuinping the yeung republic for the de-
fense of its Independence by making its people
self dependent. Societies for the promotion of
home manufactures and for encouraging tae use
of domestics in the dress of the people were or
ganized in many of the states. Many of the re-
yivals at the end of the century Of the patriotic
interest in the development Of domestic indus
tries and the defense of the working people
against injurious foreign competition is an Incl
dent worthy of attention. 1t is not q departure
but return that we have witnessed. The pro-
tective policy had then its opponents. The argu-
ment was made, as now. that its benefits Injured
to particular classes or sections. If the Ques-
tion became in any sense or at anytime sec
tiocal, it was only because slavery existed in
some of the states. But for this there was no
reason why the ton 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 Pennsylvania the mineral
treasures of the great southeastern and central
mountain ranges should have been SO tardy in
bringing to the smelling furnace, to the mill the
coal and iron, from the opposing hillsides and
mill fires were lighted at the funeral pile of ala
very. The emancipation proclamation was
heard in the depths of the earth as well as in the
sky. Men were made free and material things
became our better servants. The sectional ele-
ment has happily been eliminated from tariff dis
cussion. We have no longer states that are neo-
ecessarily only planting states. None are ex-