The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-04
THE ADMINISTRATIVE THAT COMES

| cheering crowds in Washington today.
With hopes the highest for peace ant
prosperity, and confidence unexamplod il
the lofty purpose and ability of President
William Mckinley, his immediate adviser,
and.the Fifty-ffth Congress of the United
States to secure for all its people tho
blessings of such peace and prosperity,
the nation welcomes tho new administra.
tion.
That welcome has an unique signih-
cancc. From Olympiad TO Olympiad il
has been the fortune of but few of our
Presidents TO be able to take up the duties
as they were laid down by their predeccs-
sors and proceed with their performance
on lines already we'll begun. More of
them have, with the taking of the oath
OF office, come into an inheritance of
heavy burdens, TO relieve the nation of
which was their selection due. But from
the time of Grant to the Inauguration Of
Cleveland, our Presidents, being of com
mon political faith and representing
policies that while their proportions were
subject to change, were in the main CON
sistcnt and formed an unbroken line.
have taken Office sworn only TO
the further development Of approved
issues and plans and unembaTasscd by the
acts of their predecessors. 1t remained for
the immediate predecessor of President
Mckinley to overturn in many important
respects the practices and traditions of
nearly generation and institute now
order of things and to remedy the disas-
trous results that ensued, the American
people look To the administration of the
United States today inaugurated. Thus
heavy and peculiar are the burdens that
fall to the administration that comes i'm.
Imposing, indeed, are the duties that
the Mckinley administration is called
upon to perform. That the tasks are en-
tered upon with full understanding of
their magnitude but with no lack of en-
thusiastic purpose and conviction of their
ultimately successful accomplishment is
to be believed. The policies and plans that
are TO control are not new. They have
already been justified by trial. Their
value is in the record of actual accomplish
ment. Their efficacy does not wait upon
demonstration, is not subject TO experi
ment, is unembarrasscd by heresies or
notional factors and fads of whatever
nature. The high hopes of their renewal
are based upon conviction as TO their sue
cess with the added element of faith i'm
them that springs from an exhaustive and
cxhausting trial with something else.
No legislation or administrative policy.
no act of Congress or executive message.
can make resources But these may be |
vastly important factors II, making much |
or making little of resources. Pcrhaps |
never i'm the history of the country has an |
entered upon its duties
more closely in touch with the needs and
desires of so great proportion of all the
people as does that which is inauguratcd
this day. And that it knows how best to
respond to them seems as well assured ms
hat the whole country awaits, with conf
ience, the outcome of efforts to pro-
note its interests and so manage its
'ffairs within tho scope of governmental
influence that the highest results may be
secured. To the application of its princi-
oles and policies the administration un-
luestionably will bring to bear a lofty and
iisinterested purpose and, speaking gcner-
lily, 1t may be said that IL will have the
rood wishes, the cordial support of the
ountry at large in greater measure than
cry many of its predecessors have been
lble to command.
Success 70 the President Success to the
Success to the country
Four years of prosperity and of peace in
III our relations, a renewed era of all
hings. good to all the people and of ad.
anced prestige to the nation, such is the
iope such indeed, the confident expccta-
ion of the seventy millions of people of
he Republic, so large responsibility for
whose fortunes and destinios President
William Mckinley this day assumes.
That is an interesting and informing
eport that the legislative committee of