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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-05
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Mr. Harrison Explains the
Covenant Between Peo-
pie and President,
And Then Reviews the Politi-
cal History of the Coun-
try.
A Word for the South Sand
Wiehed Between Two for
the Tariff.
a Mild Rebuke to Corpora
lions That Are Violating
the Nations Laws.
immigrants Who Threaten
Our Institutions Should
Be Excluded.
Americans Abroad Must Be
Protected by a Firm For
eign Policy.
He Warmly Welcomes the Da-
kotas, Montana and Wash
ington as States.
Corruption Condemned--More
Americans Abroad Must Be
Protected by a Firm For
eign Policy.
He Warmly Welcomes the Da-
kotas. Montana and Wash
ington as States.
Corruption Condemned--M More
War Vessels Needed
The Future.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 4.-Mr.
Harrison's inaugural address was, in
full, as follows:
There is no constitutional OF legal
requirement 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 Undue
ton to office of the chief executive
of the nation, that from the beginning
of the government the people, to whose
service the official oath consecrates the
officer, have been called to witness the
solemn ceremonial. The oath taken in
the presence of the people becomes a
unusual covenant-the officer covenants
to serve the whole body of the people
by faithful execution of the laws, SO
that they may be the unfailing defense
and security of those who respect and
observe them, and that neither wealth,
tiouS shall be able to evade their
Just penalties or to WreSt them from a
benefcent public purpose to serve the
ends of cruelty or selfShness. 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 misin.
terpret the spirit of the occasion when
assume that the whole body of the
people covenant with me and with each
other to-day to support and defend the
constitution 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. En-
tering thus solemnly into covenant witt
each other, we may reverently invoke
and confidently expect the favor ano
help of Almighty God-that He will give
me wisdom strength and fidelity, and t.
our people spirit of fraternity and {
love of righteousness and peace.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-05
AS TO THE OFFICES.
A Difficult Task, But He Will Try
to Perform it Properly,

The duty devolved by law upon the
president to nominate, and by and with
the advice and consent of the senate,
appoint all public officers, whose ap-
pointment is not otherwise provided
for in the constitution, or by act of
congress, has become very burdensome,
and its wise and efficient discharge full
of difficulty. The civil list is so large that
a personal knowledge of any large
number of the applicants is impossible.
The president must rely upon the re-
presentations of others. and these are
often made inconsiderately and without
any just sense of responsibility. I have
right, l think, to insist that those who
volunteer or are invited to give
advice as to appointments, shall exer-
else consideration and fidelity. A high
sense of duty and an ambition to i'm
prove the service should characterize
all public officers. There are many
ways in which the convenience and
comfort of those who have business with
our public officers may be promoted by
thoughtful and obliging officer, and I
shall expect those whom l may appoint
to justify their selection by a conspicu-
Gus efficiency in the discharge of their
duties. Honorable party service will
certainly not be esteemed by me dis
qualification for public offices, but it
will in no case be allowed to serve as a
shield of official negligence, incompe-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-05

lives of our people. The influences 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 attained an
ideal condition. Not all of our people
are happy and prosperous; not ali of
them are virtuous and law abiding.
But on the whole, the opportunities
offered to the individual to secure the
comforts of life are better than are
found elsewhere, and largely better
than they were here 100 years ago. The
surrender of large measure of sover-
eighty to the general government, eff
fected by the adoption of the constitu-
ton, was not accomplished until the
suggestions of reason were strongly re-
inforced by the more imperative voice
of experience.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-05

tency or delinquency. 1t is entirely
creditable to seek public office by proper
methods and with proper mo-
tives. and all applicants will be
treated with consideration. But
l shall need, and the heads of depart
ments will need time for inquiry and
deliberation. Persistent opportunity
will not, therefore, be the best support
of an application for Office. Heads Of
departments, bureaus and all other-pub-
lie officers having any duty connected
Herewith, will be expected to enforce
the civil service law fully and without
evasion. Beyond this obvious duty l
hope to do something more to advance
the reform of the civil service. The
ideal, or even my own ideal, shall
probably not attain. Retrospect will be
a safer basis of judgment than prom
lses. We shall not, however. am sure,
be able to put our civil service upon a
nOn-partisan basis until we have Sc
cured an incumbency that fair-minded
men OF the opposition will approve for
impartiality and integrity. AS the num-
Der of such in the civil list is increased,
removals from Office will diminish.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-05
TIE TWENTY-S TERM. :.
A Little History Thrown In for
Good Measure

This occasion derives peculiar inter-
est from the fact that the presidential
term which begins this day is the
twenty-siXth under our constitution.
The first inauguration of President
Washington took place in New York,
where congress was then sitting, on the
30th day of April, 1879, having peen de-
ferred by reason of delays attending
the organization Of the congress and
the canvass of the electoral vote. Our
people have already worthily observed
the centennials of the declaration of
independence, of the battle of York
town and of the adoption of the consti-
In New York the institution of
the second great department of our
constitutional scheme of government.
When the centennial of the institution
of the Judicial department, by the Or
ganiZatiOn of the supreme court, shall
have been suitably observed, as | trust
it will be, our nation will have fully en-
tered its second century. Will not at
tempt to note the marvellous and, in
great part, the happy contrasts between
our country as it steps over the thresh-
hold into its second century of organ
lied 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
Incidents which accompanied the insti-
tuition of government under the consti-
tuition, or to find inspiration and guild
ance in the teachings and example of
Washington and his great associates,
and hope and courage in the contrast
which thirty-eght populous and pros
porous states offer to the thirteen states,
weak in everything except courage and
the love of liberty, that then fringed our
Atlantic seaboard.
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STATE OF MINNESOTA, !
DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE, >
Sr y ALL Eah @ 1850 4
o. L DAII. u I
Insurance Commissioner,
PROPOSALS FOR STOCK AND WORK
Cattle Brood Maras StnllicI,s- AIilol,

PROPOSALS FOR STOCK AND WORK
L Cattle, Brood Mares. Stations. Mich
Cows etc, for the Indian Service-DeDart-
ment of the Interior Office of Indian Affairs.
February D. 1899. Sealed proposals in.
dorsed Proposals for stock cattle, work cat.
tle,. etc." (as the case may beg, and directed
TO the Commissioner of Indian A fairs WASH
ington, D. c.. will be received until one p.
m. of Tuesday, March &C. 1889, for furnish.
ing for the Indian Service, about 100 yoke
of work cattle with yokes and chains, zoo
head OF stock cattle, 200 cows, 200 heifers,
$50 brood mares, Il Percheron stallinns.
900 mich cows, 75> bulls, A mules, Tod
steers, and 20 horses
Regular blanks for bids are not required.
Schedules (Which will be made part of the
proposals) showing the number of stock and
work cattle, brood mares, etc., required at
various Indian Agencies, and conditions to
be observed by bidders, time andplace OF
delivery, terms of c0ntractand payment, and
all other necessary instructions will be fur.
nished upon application TO the Indian Office.
at Washington, or Nos. 65 and 81 Wooster
Street, New York City; the Commissaries Of
Subsistence, .. s. A, at Chicago and st.
I Paui, ana 70 the poStmasters at Sioux City.
BIDS will be opened at the hour and day
above stated. and bidders are invited to be
present at the opening.
The right is reserved to reject any or all
bids or any part of any bid if deemed for the
best interest of the Government: in making
the awards to increase or diminish to any ex.
tent the quantities called for in the schedule,
and to require delivery of twenty five per
cent more or less than the amount specified
in any contract
CERTIFIED CHECKS.
All bids must be accompanied by certified
checks upon some United States Depository,
payable TO the order of the Commissioner q
Indian Affairs. for at least five per cent Of
the amount of the proposal. which check
will be forfeited to the United States in case
any bidder or bidders receiving an award
shall fail to promptly execute a CONTRACTS
with good and sufficient sureties, otherwise
to be retnrned to the bidder.
JOHN II. OBERLY, Commissioner
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"a MORE PERFECT UNION"
How the Baby Republic Was
Made Self. Denendent

The divergent interests of peace
speedily demanded more perfect
union." The merchant. the shipmaster
and the manufacturer discovered and
disclosed to our statesmen and to the
people that commercial emancipation
must be added to the political freedom
which had been so bravely won. The
commercial policy of the mother coun-
try had not relaxed any of its hard and
oppressive features. To hold in check
the development of our commercial ma
rine, to prevent or retard the establish
ment and growth Of manufactures in
the states, and so to secure the Ameri.
can market for their shops and the car
rying trade for their ships was the pol
icy of European statesmen, and was pur-
sued with the most selfish vigor. Petit
tons poured in on congress urging the
imposing of discriminating duties that
should encourage the production of
needed things at home. The patriotism
of the people, which no longer found a
field of exercise in war, was energetic
ally directed to the duty of equipping
the young republic for the defense of
Self-Gependent. Societies for the pro-
encouraging the use of domestics in the
dress of people were organized in many
of the states. The revival at the end of
the century of the same patriotic inter
est in the preservation and develop
| ment of domestic industries, and
the defense of our working peo-
Pile against injurious foreign compe-
tition. is an incident worthy of atten-
ton. 1t is not departure, but re-
turn, that we have witnessed. The pro-
| tective policy had then its opponents.
The argument was made, as now, that
its benefits enured to particular classes
| OF sections. If the question became in
any sense or at any time sectional, it
| was only because slavery existed in
some of the states. BIT for this, there
was no reason why the cotton-prodncing
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 smelt-
| ing furnace and to the mill the coal and
iron from their near opposing hillSideS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-05
THE FUTURE ALL RIGHT.
A Bit of Prophecy as to the Coun'
try'S Outlook.


/ do not mistrust the future. Dan
gers have been IN frequent ambush
along our path, but we have uncovered
and vanquished them all. Passion has
swept some of our communities, but
only to give US a new demonstration
that the great body of our people are
stable, patriotic and law abiding. No
political party can long pursue advan-
tage at the expense of public honor, or
by rude and indecent methods. without
protest and fatal disaffection in its own
body. The peaceful agencies of COM
merce are more fully revealing the
necessary unity of all our communi-
ties, and the increasing intercourse of
our people is promoting mutual respect.
We shall find unaltered pleasure in the
revelation which our next census will
make of the swift development of the
great resources of some of the states.
Each state will bring its generous con-
tribution to the great aggregate OF the
nations increase. And when the har-
vests from the fields, the cattle from the
hills shall have been weighed, counted
and valued, we will learn from them all
to crown with the highest honor the
state that has most promoted education,
virtue, justice and patriotism among it's
people
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-05
THE soUTH's DEVELOPMENT.
| The Sectional Element Eliminated
From Tariff Discussion.


Mill fires were lighted at the funeral
pile of slavery. 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 sec
tional element has happily been elimi-
mated from the tariff discussion. We
have no longer states that are necessa-
| rily only planting states. None are
| excluded from achieving that diverSin-
| cation of pursuit among the people
which brings wealth and contentment.
| The cotton plantation will not be less
| valuable when the product is spun in
the county town by operatives
| whose necessities call for diversified
crops, and create home de-
| mand for garden and agricultural
| products. Every new mine, furnace
and factory is an extension Of the pro-
ductive capacity of the state more real
and valuable than added territory.
Shall the prejudices and paralysis of
| slavery continue to hang upon the
skirts of progress? How long will those
who rejoice that slavery no longer eX-
| lists cherish and tolerate municipalities
it put upon their communities? / look
| hopefully to the continuance of our
| protective system and to the consequent
| development of manufacturing and
mining enterprises in the states hither-
to wholly given to agriculture, as po-
| tent influence in the perfect unifica-
ton of our people. The men who have
invested their capital in these enter
prises, the farmers who have felt the
benefit of their neighborhood, and the
men who work in shop or field, will not
fail to find and to defend community
of interest. Is it not quite possible
that the farmers and the pro-
moters of the great mining and
manufacturing enterprises which have
recently been established in the South
| may yet find that the free ballot of the
| workingman, without distinction of
race, is needed for their defense as well
as for his own? l do not doubt that if
those men in the South who do not &C
cept the tariff views of Clay and the
constitutional eXpositions of Webster
would courageously avow and defend
their real convictions, they would not
find it difficult, by friendly instruction
| and cooperation, to make the black man
| their efficient and safe ally. not only IN
establishing correct principles in our
national administration, but in preServ-
ing for their local communities the ben
efitS of social order and economical and
honest government. At least until the
| good offices of kindness and education
have been fairly tried, the contrary
conclusion cannot be plausiblY urged.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-05
THE TREASURY SURPLUS.
Some Glittering Generalities
Which Have a Pleasing Sound.


While treasury surplus is not the
greatest evil. it is serious evil. Our
revenue should be ample to meet the
ordinary annual demands upon our
treasury with a sufficient margin for
those extraordinary, but scarcely less
imperative, demands which arise now
and then. Expenditure should always
be made with economy and only upon
public necessity. Wastefulness, profit
gacy and favoritism in public eXpendI-
lures is criminal. But there is nothing
III the condition of our country or OF our
people to suggest that anything pres
emily necessary to the public prosperity,
security or honor should he un-
duly postponed. 1t will be the duty of
congress wisely to forecast and estimate
these extraordinary demands, and hay-
ing added them to our ordinary ex-
penditureS to so adjust our revenue
laws that no considerable annual sur
plus will remain. We will fortunately
be able to apply TO the redemption of
the public debt any small or unforeseen
excess of revenue. This is better than
to reduce our income below our neces-
sary expenditures with the resulting
choice between another change Of our
revenue laws and an increase of the
public debt. 1t is quite possible, | am
sure, to effect the necessary reduction
III our revenues without breaking down
our protective tariff or seriously injur-
Ing any domestic industry.
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ism and higher glory to their country
by promoting fraternity and justice. A
party success that is achieved by unfair
methods, or by practices that partake OF
revolution is hurtful and evanescent,
even from a party standpoint. We
should hold our differing opinions in
mutual respect, and, when submitting
them to the arbitrament of the bal
lot. should accept an adverse judgment
with the same respect that we should
have demanded from our opponents had
the battle been in our favor. No other
people have government more worthy
of their repect and love. OF a land so
magnificent in extent, so pleasant to
look upon and so full Of generous sug--
gestion to enterprise and labor. God
has placed upon our head diadem and
and has laid at our feet power and
wealth beyond definition or calculation.
But we must not forget that we take
these gifts upon the condition that jus.
tice and mercy shall hold the reins of
power, and that the upward avenues of
hope shall be free to all the people.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-05
A WORD FOR DAKOTA.
Greater Than Any of the Original
States Except Virginia.

The territory of Dakota has now a
population greater than any of the
original states Except Virginia). and
greater than the aggregate of five of
the smaller states in 1890. The center
of population when orr national capitol
was located was east of Baltimore, and
it was argued by many weIl-lnformed
person 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 stride to the westward.
That which was the body has come to
be only the rich fringe of the nations
ribs. But our growth has not been
limited to territory, population and ag-
gregate 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. The
facilities for popular education have
been vastly enlarged and more gener-
ally diffuSed. The virtues of courage
and patriotism have given recent proof
of their continued presence and increas-
ing power in the hearts and over the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-05
THE NAVY.
Modern War Ships Should Be Con
structed as Rapidly as Possible.

The construction of sufficient num-
Der of modern war ships. and of their
necessary armament, should progress as
rapidly as is consistent with care and
perfection in plans and workmanship.
The spirit, courage and skill of our
naval officers and seamen have many
times in our history given to weak
ships and inefficient guns a rating
greatly beyond that of the naval list.
That they will again do so upon, occa-
sion | do not doubt. but they ought not.
by generalization or neglect, to be left
to the risks and eXigencieS of an I'M
equal combat. We should encourage
the establishment of American steam
ship lines. The eXigencies of COM
merce demand stated, reliable and rapid
means of communication; and, until
these are provided, the development of
our trade with the states lying south of
US is impossible.
Our pension laws should give more
adequate and discriminating relief TO
the Union soldiers and sailors, and to
their widows and orphans. Such occa-
Sions as this should remind us that we
owe everything to their valor and sac
rifice.
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their rights or of violent interference
with their operations. The community
that by concert, open or secret, among
its citizens, denies to portion of its
members their plain rights under the
law, has severed the only safe bond of
social order and prosperity. The evil
works, from bad center, both ways.
1t demoralizes those who practice
it and destroys the faith of those
who suffer by it in the efficiency OF the
law as a safe protector. The man in
whose breast that faith has been dark
ened is naturally the subject OF danger
Gus and uncanny suggestions. Those
who use unlawful methods, if moved by
no higher motive than the selfishness
that prompted them, may well stop and
inquire what is to be the end of this?
An unlawful eXpedient cannot become
a permanent condition of government.
If the educated and influential classes in
communication either practice or con-
nive at the systematic violation of laws
that seem to them to cross their con-
venience. what can they expect when
the lesson that convenience or sup
posed class interest is sufficient cause
for lawlessnesS has been well learned
by the ignorant classes? A community
where law is the rule of conduct, and
where courts, not mobs, execute its pen
alties, is the only attractive field for
business investments and honest labor.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-05
FOREIGN BORN AMERICANS

We Should Cease to Be Careless
as to the Character of Our Inn
migration.
Our naturalization laws should be so
amended as to make the inquiry into
the character and good disposition of
persons applying for citizenship more
careful and searching. Our existing
laws have been in their administration
an unimpressiye and often an unintel-
ligible form. We accept the man as a
citizen without any knowledge of his
fitness, aud he assumes the duties of
citizenship without any knowledge as
to what they are. The privileges OF
American citizenship are SO great, and
its duties so grave, that we may we'll in
sist upon good knowledge of ever
person applying for citizenship and a
good knowledge by him of our institu-
tons. We should not cease to be hos
pitaSle to immigration, but we should
cease to be careless as to the character
of it. There are men of all races, even
the best, whose coming is necessarily a
burden upon our public revenues, or a
threat to social order. These should be
identified and excluded.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-05

Senator Brown struck the key note
the other day in speech in opposition
to raising officers salaries when he said
ssthe public service should not be the
opportunity to acquire an enormous sal
airy in order to get rich." High salaries
are responsible for much of the corrup-
ton which exists In politics to-day, and
their reduction, instead of increase,
would secure more efficient service and
work reform that cannot be secured
by legislation. Olmstead Democrat.