The Forrest City times., 1897-03-12

It shall be my highest aim to justify the con-
 ndence 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 FN
 trust that ou- 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 re-privileged specta-
 tors adjourned to the eastern portico. There in
 the presence of an immense throng Chef-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 McKinley's Inaugural Address. FELLowCIrIzENs: In obedience to the will
 of the people, and on their presence by the au- thority vested in me by this oath 1 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 that there Is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers, who has 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 His footsteps.
 The responsibility Of the high trust to which
 have been called-always of grave importance are augmented by the prevailing business con- oitions, entailing likeness 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 its value must not further be threatened. It 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 offer, in my judgment constant embarrassment to the government and n safe
 balance in the treasury. Therefore, l believe 1t necessary to devise a system which, without diminishing the circulating medium, or offering premium for its 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 fiscal laws as VIII, 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" and its wisdom shall deem 1t expedient to creat a commission to take under early consideration the revision Of our coinage, banking and cur rency laws, and give them that exnauStlVe, care full and dspassionate examination that their importance demands shall cordially concur in i such action. If such power is vested In the | president, 1t is my purpose to appoint commis- | sion of prominent, well-informed citizens of | different parties, who will command public con-
 hdence both on account of their ability and spe-
 oial fitness for the work Business experience
 and public training may thus be combined, and
 the patriotic zeal of tse friends of the country
 be 30 directed that such report will be made | as to receive the support of all parties and our finances cease to be the subject of mere partisan
 contention The experiment. Is. at all events.
 worth a trial, and in my opinion 1t can but prove
 beneficial to the entire country
 The question of International bime.allism will have early and earnest attention. IL will be my constant endeavor to secure 1t by CO., operation with the other great commercial
 powers of the world. Gntil that condition IS reslized-whcn the parity between our gold and