Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-09


vested will be withheld, when their ex'
ercise is deemed necessary to maintain
our national credit or avert financial
disaster.
Closely related to the exaggerated con-
fidence In our country's greatness, which
tends to disregard of the rules of
national safety, another danger confronts
us not less serious. | refer to the prev
alence OF a popular disposition to ex-
pect from the operation of the govern
ment especial and direct individual ad-
vantages. Paternalsm is the bane OF
Republican institutions and the constant
peril of our government by the people.
1t degrades to the purposes OF willy craft
the plan of rule our fathers established
and bequeathed to us as an object OF our
love and generation; it perverts the
patriotic sentiment of our countrymen
and tempts them to pitiful calculation
Of the sordid gain to be derived from
their governments maintenance. The
people should cheerfully and patriotical-
~ support the government. The accept
ance of this principle leads to It challeng,
Of wild and reckless pension expenditure.
which overleaps the bounds of grateful
+, cognition of patriotic service and
prcStitutes to vicious uses the peoples
prompt and generous impulse to aid those
disabled in their country's defense. Un-
der our scheme of government the waste
of public money is crime against the
citizen, and the contempt of our people
for economy and frugality in their per-
sonal affairs deplorably saps the strength
and sturdiness of our national character.
Ii is a plain dictate of honesty and good
government that public expenditures
should be limited by public necessity,
and that this should De measured by the
rules of strict economy and it is equally
clear that frugality among the people is
the best guaranty of contented and
strong support of free institutions.
One mode of the misrepresentation of
public funds is avoided when appoint
ments to office, instead of being the re-
ward Of partisan activity, are awarded
to those whose efficiency promises fair
return of wori for the compensation paid
to them. To secure the fitness and COM
potency of appointees to office, and TO re-
move from political action the demoraliz-
ing NADINE SIS for spoils, civil service re-
form has found a place in our public
policy and law.
The existence of immense aggrPg cations
of kindred enterprises and combinations
of business interests, formed for the pur-
pose of limiting production and fixing
prices, is inconsistent with the fair field
which ought to be open to every indie
pendent activity. To the extent that
they can be reached and restrained by
federal power, the general government
should relieve our citizens from their in
reference and eXactons,
Loyalty to the principles upon which
our government rests positively demands
hat the equality before the law which
it guarantees TO Every citiz n should be
Justly and in good faith conceded in all
parts of the land, The enjoyment of
this right follows the badge of citizen
hip wherever found, and unimpaired by
ace or color, it appeals for recognition
80 American manliness and fairness.
Our relations with the indians located
within our borders impose upon US re-
sponsibilties we caunoJescape. Human
ity and consistency require US to treat
hem with forbearance, and In our deal
ings with them to honestly and consider
ately regard their rights aud Interests.
The people of the United States have
iecreed that on this day the control of
their government in their legislative and
executive branches shall be given to a
political party pl dyed in the most posi-
tive terms TO tariff refofms 1ney have
thus determined in favor of more just
and equitable system of federal taX4tlon.
The agents they have chosen to carry out
their purposes are bound by their prom
ises not less than by the command OF
heir masters to devote themselves unre-
mi tingly TO this rvce. While there
should be no surrender of principle oul
| task must be undertaken wisely and
without vindictiveDess. Our mission is
not punishment, but the rectification OF
wrongs. When we tear aside the delu.
siOns and misconceptions which have
| blinded our coUntrymen to their cOndi.
ton under vicious tariff laws, we but
show them how far they have been LED
away from the paths of contentment anG
prosperity. When we proclaim that the
necessity for +, venue to support the gov
eminent furnishes the only justifica
| ton for taxing the people, we announce
a truth SO plain that It's denial woulC
seem to indicate the extent to which
Judgment may be Influenced Jy familiar
lty with perversions of the taxing pow.
er; and when we seek to reinstate the
self confidence and business and enter
prise of our citizens by discrediting al
| sbject dependence upon governmental
favor we strive to stimulate those ele
ments of American character which sup
port flie hope of American achievement
Anxiety for the redemption of the pledg
es which my party has made and solici
tude for the complete justification of tn,
trust the people have reposed in us con
strains me to remind those with whom
am to cooperate that we can succeed il
doing the work which has been especial
ly set before us only by the most sincere
harmonious and disnterested effort.
The oath | now take to preserve, pro
tect and defend the constitution OF tn,
United States not only impressively de
fines the great responsibility l ASSUME
but suggests obedience to constitutions
commands as the rule by which my off
cial conduct must be guided. | shall, t
the best of my ability and within m
sphere of duty, preserve the constitution
by loyalty protect every grant o
, federal power it contains, by defendin
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