Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-03-09

vice-president IN the senate chamber.
The oath was administered to the new
chief magistrate by Chief Justice Full
Ter. Immediately after taking the oath
Mr.. Cleveland read his inaugural adj
dress. He occupied a small stand h
was built out from the portico, and on
the stand with him were Mr.. Harrison,
Chief Justice Fuller and 4. n. Nalen-
tine. sergeant-at-arms of the senate.
After taking the oath of Office, Mr..
Cleveland delivered the following ad-
dress:
My FELLOW CITIZENS: In obedience
to the mandate O. my countrymen, l
am about to dedicate myself to the
services under the sanction of a solemn
oath. Deeply moved by the expression
of confidence and personal attachment,
which has called me to this service, i
am sure my gratitude can make no bet
| ter return han the pledge now give
before God and these witnesses of un-
reserved and complete devotion to the
interests and welfare of these who AVE
honored me.
/ deem it fitting, on this occasion,
while indicating the opinions hold
concerning public questions of present
importance, TO also briefly refer to h
existence of certain conditions and
tendencies among our people which
seem to menace the integrity and use
| fulness of their government.
While every American citizen must
contemplate with the utmost pride and
enthusiasm the growth and expansion
of our country, the sufficiency of our
institutions e stand against the rudest
/ shocks of violence, the wonderful
thrift and enterprise of our people and
the demonstrated superiority of our
free government, it behooves us to con-
stantly watch for every symptom of in
sidious infrInity that threatens our
national vigor.
The strong man who in the conf
dence of sturdy health courts the
sternest activities of life and rejoices
in the hardihood of constant labor may
still have lurking near his vitals the
unheeded disease hat dooms him to
sudden collapse.
1t cannot be doubted that our stu
pendous achievements as q people and
our country's robust strength have
given rise to a heedlessness of those
laws governing our national health,
which we can no more evade than
human life can escape the laws of God
and atu Manifestly nothing is
more vital to our supremacy as a ma
ton and to the national purposes of
our government than a sound and
stable currency. It's exposure to de-
graduation should at once arouse to act
ivity the most enlightened statesman
ship and the danger of depreciation in
the purchasing power of the wages
paid to toll should furnish the strongest
incentive to prompt and conservative
precaution.
LAWS OF FINANCE y TRADE.
In dealing with our present embar-
RAISING situation as related to this sub
iect, W. will be wise if we temper our
confidence and faith in our national
strength and with the frank
concession that even these will not per-
NIT us to defy with impunity the mex
orable laws of finance and trade. At
the same time, in Il efforts TO adjust
differences of opinion, we shopid be
free from intolerance or passion and
our judgments should he snmoved by
alluring phrases and invoked by self
ish interests. i IN, confident that such
an approach to the subject will result
in prudent end effective remedial legis-
lation, IN the meantime, SO far as the
executive branctl Of the government
can intervene, none of the powers with
which it is invested win be withheld,
when their exercise is deemed neces-
sary, to maintain our national credit or
avert financial disaster.
Closely related to the exaggerated
confidence in our country's greatness,
which tends to a disregard of the rules
of national safety, another danger con
fronts us not less serious. ! refer to
the prevalence of a popular disposition
to expect from the government especial
and direct individual advantages. The
verdict of our voters, which condemned
the injury of maintaining for protec-
ton for projections sake, enjoins upon
the peoples servants the duty of ex-
posing and destroying the brood OF
kindred evils, which are the unwhole-
some progeny of pa~ternalism. This is
the bane of republican institutions and
the constant peril Of our government
by the people. 1t degrades to the pur-
poses of willy craft the plan of rule our
fathers established and ~bequeathed to
us as an object of our love and venera.
ton.
sELF-RELIAScE UNDERMINED.
It perverts the patriotic sentiment of out
countrymen and tennis them to a pitiful
calculation of the sordid gain to be derived
from their governments maintenance. II
undermines the elf-reliance Of our people
and substitutes in its place dependence uD-
on governmental favoritism. 1t stiles the
spirit of true Americanism and stupefles
every ennobling trait Of American citizen.
ship. The lessons of paternalism ought to
be unlearned and the better lesson taught
that while the people should periodically
and cheerfu.ly support their government
its functions do not include the support OF
the people.
The acceptance of this principle leads to
a refusal of bountles and subsidies which
burden the labor and thrift of a portion Of
our citizens to aid ill-advised or languish-
ing enter rises in which they nave no con-
Germ. II leads also to a challenge of wild
and reckless pension expenditure, which
overleaps the bounds of grateful recogni-
ton Of patriotic service aud prostitutes to
vicious uses the peoples PROMPT and gen.
erous impulse 10 aid those disabled 10 their
country's defense.
Every thoughtful American must realize
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