Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-07

It shall be my highest aim t0 justify the con tdence the people have reposed in me by dis
 charging my duties in such manner as to tighten your labors, secure your appreciation of
 my honest effort to administer your rules with
 an eye single to the public good and promote
 the pleasant and efficient transaction of the public business.
 l trust that official and personal relations
 may be alike agreeable; that the friendship we
 may form here may be genuine and lasting and
 that the work of the senate may rebound to the
 peace and honor of the country and the prosper
 ity and happiness of all the people.
 President Mckinley sworn In.
 This ceremony completed, both houses of con-
 gress and many of the more-priyileged specta-
 tors adjourned to the eastern pertico. There in
 the presence of an immense throng Chief-Jus-
 tice Fuller administered to President Mckinley
 the brief obligation prescribed to maintain the
 constitution and enforce the laws of the United
 States, and President Mckinley delivered his
 inaugural address,
 President Mekinley's Inaugural Address.
 FELLow-CIrfzENs:s In obedience to the will
 of the people, and on their presence by the au-
 thority vested in me by this oath, assume the
 arduous and responsible duties of president of
 the United States relying on the support of my
 countrymen and invoking the guidance of AL
 mighty God Our faith teaches chat there is no
 safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers,
 who has so Singularly favored the American
 people in every national trial, and who will not
 forsake us so long as we obey His command
 ments and walk humbly in lis footsteps.
 The responsibility of the high trust to which l have been called-alWays of grave importance are augmented by the prevailing business con-
 ditions, entailing idleness upon willing labor and loss to useful enterprises. The country is suffering from industrial disturbances from which speedy relief must be had. Our financial system needs some revision; our money Is all good now, but it's value must not further be threatened. 1t should all be put on an endur- ing basis, not subject to easy attack, nor it's stability open to doubt or dispute. Our cur rency should continue under the supervision of the government. The several forms Of our pa per money oHer, Tn my judgment, a constant embarrassment to the government and safe balance in the treasury. Therefore, believe it necessary to devise system which, without diminishing the circulating medium or offering premium for it's contraction will pre- sent a remedy for those arrangements which, temporary in their nature might well in the years of our prosperity have been displaced by wiser provisions. With adequate revenue se- cured, but not until then, we can enter upon such changes in our hscal laws as Will, while ensuring safety and volume to our money, no longer impose upon the government the necessi- ty of maintaining so large gold reserve with it's attendant and inevitable temptations to speculation Most of our financial laws are'the outgrowth of experience and trial, and should
 not be amended without investigation and demonstrations of the wisdom of the proposed changes We must
 be both Sure we are right ana it's wisdom shall deem 1t expsdient to creat commission to take under carly consideration the revision of our coinage, banking and cur r6ncy laws, ana give tueIl CalT6- ful and dispassionate examination that their importance demands shall cordially concur in i such action. If such power is vested in the l president 1t is my purpose to appoint eomrnis- sion of prominent, well-informed citizens of i different parties, who will command public con- l fdence both on account of their ability and spe- l cial fitness for the work Business experience l and public training may thus be combined, and ] the patriotic zeal of t'e friends of the country i be so directed that such a report will be made as to receive the support of all parties and our 1 finances cease to be the subjeeC Of mere partisan i contention The experiment. is, at all events,
 worth trial. and in my opinion it can but prove 1 beneficial to the entire country
 I The question of international bimetallism 1 will have early and earnest attention. It will
 be my constant endeaYor to secure it by CO.,
 operation with the other great commercial
 powers of the world Until that condition IS realized-when the parity between our gold and