Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-03-16
Growers INAUGURAL.
The Tariff Laws Form the Feature
of the Presidents
Address.
Talks Of Sound and Stable Ctrrency and
the Promotion Of Civil
Service.


taking the oath of Office Mr.. Cleveland
delivered the following address:
My Fellow Citizens: In obedience to
the mandate of my cDuntrymen, l am
about to dedicate my self to their servi-
ces under the sanction of a solemn
oath. Deeply moved by the express
sion of confidence and personal at
tachment, which has called me to this
service, ! am sure my gratitude can
make no better return than the pledge
| now gI.s before God and these wit
nesses OF unreserved and complete de-
votion to the interests and welfare of
those who have honored me.
/ deem it fitting OH this occasion,
while indicating the opinions 1 hold
concerning public questions OF present
Importance, to also briefly refer to
the existence and tendencies among
our people which seem to menace the
integrity and usefulness of their gov
ernment.
While every American citizen must
contemplate with the utmost pride
and enthusiasm the growth and ex
pansion of os.r country, the sufficiency
OF our institutions to stand against
the rudest shocks of violence, the won
derful thrift and enterprise of our
people and the demonstrated superb
ority OF our free government, it be-
hooves us to constantly watch for
every symptom of insidious infirmity
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 that dooms him
to sudden collapse.
1t cannot be doubted that our stu
pendous achievements as a 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 nature. 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-
gredation should at once arouse to
activity the most enlightened states
manshil and the danger OF deprecia-
ton in the purchasing power of the
wages paid to toll should furnish the
strongest incentive to prompt and
conservative precaution.
LAWS OF FINANCE AND TRADE.
In dealing with our present embar-
RAISING situation as related to this
subject, we will be wise if we temper
our confidence and faith in our ma
tional strength and resources with the
frank concession that even these will
not permit us to defy with impunity
the inexorable laws of finance and
trade. At the same time, in our
efforts to adjust differences of opinion,
we should be free from intolerance or
passion and our judgments should be
unmoved by alluring phrases and un-
vexed by selfish interests. / am con-
fident that such an approach to the
subject will result in prudent and
effective remedial legislation. In
I the meantime, so far as the executive
branch OF the government can inter-
vene, none of the powers with which it
is invested will be withheld, when
their exercise is deemed necessary, to
maintain our national credit or avert
financial disaster.
| Closely related to the exaggerated
confidence in our country's greatness,
which tends to disregard of the rules
OF national safety, another danger
confronts us not less serious. l refer
to the prevalence of a popular dispo-
sition to expect from the operation oi
the government especial and direct in
dividual advantages. The verdict oi
our voters, which condemned the in
Jury of maintaining protection for
projections sake, enjoins upon the
peoples servants the duty of expos,
ing and destroying the brood oi
kindred evils, which are the unwhol,
some progeny of paternaiism. This is
the bane of republican institutions
and the constant peril of our govern
ment by the people. 1t degrades to
the PURPOSES of willy craft the plan o
rule our fathers established and be
lqueathed to us as an object of oul
love an veneration.
| sELF-RELANCE UNDERMINED.
1t perverts the patriotic sentiment
of our countrymen and tempts then
to a pitiful calculation of the sordit
gain to be derived from their govern
ment's maintenance. 1t undermine
the self-reliance of our people and sub
stitutes in it's place dependence upoI
governmental favoritism. 1t stifie
the spirit of true AmeTicanism ant
stupefies every ennobling trait O
, American citizenship. The..lessons o
paternalism ought to be .unlearne'
and the better lesson taught tina
while the people should patrioticall.
and cheerfully support their govern
ment it's functions do not include tn
support of the people.
The acceptance of this principle lead
to q refusal of bounties and subsidie
which burden the labor and thrift of
portion OF our citizens, to aid IL
advisedand dlanguishing enterprises !
which the people have no concern. !
Ii leads also to wild and reckles
pension expenditure, which Overleap
the bounds of grateful recognition {
patriotic service and prostitutes t
vicious uses the peoples prompt an
lgenerous impulse to aid those disable
in their country's defense.
Every thoughtful American mus
realize the Importance of checking 9
its beginning any tendency in publ
n or private station to regard frugalit
and economy as virtues which we ma
safely outgrow. The toleration OF tn
idea results in the waste OF the people
money by their chosen servants an
u encourages prodigality and extravi
gance in the home lite of our countr.
men. Under our scheme of gover
ment waste of public money is a erin
against the citizen; and the contemI
of our people for economy and frugs
ity in their personal affairs deplorab
g saps the strength and sturdiness
our national character.
PUBLIC EXPENDITURES.
1t is a plain dictate of honesty ar
~ good government that the public e
10 penditures should be measured by Il
Il, rules of strict economy, and 1t
VI equally clear that frugality amongtl
people is the best guaranty OF CO