Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-05
No Special Executive Policy for Any
 Section of the Land.


 Section of the Land.
 'It Is the Duty of the Executive to Ad-
 minister and Enforce All the Laws En- acted by Congress" - He Thinks the Naturalization Laws Should Be Amend ed-The Foreign Policy-Necessity for the Neutrality of the Panama Canal. The Rights of American Citizens, Wher- ever They May Be, Should Be Protect ed, and the Star Spangled Banner Must Service Laws to Be Enforced-A Good Navy Needed-The Admission of tho New States-Other Matters.
 WASHINGTON, March 4.-The following is President Harrison Is inaugural address in full
 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 to office of the chief executive officer of the nation that, from the beginning of the government the people, to whose service the official oath consecrates the officer, have been called te witness the solemn ceremonial. The oath taken in the presence of the people be- comes mutual covenant-the officer cove nants to serve the whole body of the people by a faithful execution of the laws, so that they may be the unfailing defense and secur- ity of those who respect and observe them and that neither wealth, station nor the power of combinations shall be able to evade their just penalties or to wrest them from beneti- cient public purpose to serve the ends of cruelty CT selfishnesS.
 My promise is spoken; yours unspoken, but not the less real and solemn The people of every state have here their representatives Surely do not misinterpret the spirit of the occasion when assume that the whole body of the people covenant with me and with each other today to support and defend the consti- tuition and the union of the states, to yield willing obedience to all the laws and each to avery other citizen his equal civil and polit- ical rights. Entering thus solemnly into cov enant with each other we may reverently in yoke and confidently expect the favor and help of Almighty God-that he will give to me wisdom, strength and fidelity and to our people a spirit of fraternity and love of righteousness and peace.
 THE TWENTY-SIXTH PRESIDENTIAL TERM
 This occasion derives peculiar interest from the fact that the presidential term, which be- gins this day, is the twentysiXth under our constitution. The first Lnaugura tion of PreSi- dent Washington took place in New York, where congress was then sitting, on the 30th day of April, 17S9, having been deferred by reason of delays attending the organization of the congress and the canvass of the elect oral vote. Our people have already worthily opened the centennials of the declaration of independence, of the battle of Yorktown, and of the adoption of the constitution and will shortly celebrate in New York the insti tuition of the second great department of our consti- tutional scheme of government. When the centennial of the institution of the judicial department, by the organization of the su- preme court, shall have been suitably observed, as trust it will be, our nation will have fully entered its second century.
 will not attempt to note the marvellous and, ill great part, happy contrasts between 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 un- dauntedly down the first century, when all its years stretched out before it.
 Our people will not fail at this time to re- call the incidents which accompanied the in- stitution of government under the constitu- tlon or to find inspiration or guidance in the teachings and example of Washington and his great associates, and hope and courage in the contrast which thirty weight popular and prosperous states offer to the thirteen states. weak in everything except courage and the love of liberty, that then fringed our Allan tic seaboard
 PROGRESS OF THE COUNTRY
 The territory of Dakota has now a popula- ton greater than any of the original states (eXcept Vlrginla), and greater than the az gregate of the five smaller states in 179O
 The center of population, when our ma tlonal capital was located was east of Balti- more, and it was agreed by well informed persons that it would move eastward rather than westward Yet in 1880 it was found to be near Cincinnati, and the new census, about to be taken, will show another strlde to the westward. That which was the body has come to be only the rich fringe of the nations robe
 But our growth has not limited itself to territory population and aggregate wealth. marvellous as It has been in each of those directions. The masses of our people are bet ter fed, clothed ard housed than their fathers were. The facilities for popular education have been vastly enlarged and more generally difused. The virtues of courage and patriot ism have given recent proof of their continued presence and increasing power in the hearts and over the lives of our people, The infiu- ences of religion have been multiplied and strengthened.
 The sweet offices of charity have greatly increased. The virtue of temperance is held in higher estimation. We have not att tained an ideal condition. Not all of our people are happy and prosperous; not all of them are virtuous and law abiding. But, on the whole, the opportunities offered to the in- dividual to secure the comforts of fife are better than are found elsewhere and largely better than they were here one hundred years ago.