The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-05
MCKJYIEY,s INAUGURAL.

| lCKINEEY'S INAUGURAL.
Plain, manly, patriotic and straight
I forward are the sentiments and sug-
gestions in President McKinley's in
augural address. His words have the
true ring Of loyalty to duty, of earnest
and lofty patriotism. He speaks in no
uncertain tones as to the Importance
of the responsibilities assumed and the
need of the guidance of Him who, as
our faith teaches us, has watched over
| this nation and favored it with it's
wonderful development and prosperity.
He stands squarely for sound money
and wise financial policy; calls for a
commission to revise our coinage, bank
| ing and currency laws; favors an inter
national bimetallic conference; urges a
wise but rigid economy in every and all
branches Of the government, especially
so at this time when it is so much
needed; urges that the governments
| income should be sufficient to pay its
way, and that to this end the needed
| increase of funds should come from adj
ditional revenue, and not by increasing
/ the national debt. The President then
discriminating protective measures,
| adding: ''It u.s. therefore, earnestly
hoped and expected that Congress will,
at the earliest practicable moment,
enact revenue legislation that shall be
| fair, reasonable, conservative, and just,
and which, while supplying sufficient
revenue for public purposes, will still be
generally beneficial and helpful to every
section and every enterprise of the peo-
pie, To this policy, we are all, of what
| ever party, firmly bound by the voice
| of the people--a power vastly more
potential than the expression Of any
political platform"
| He further recommends the re-enact-
ment and judicous extension of the
| reciprocity principle of the law of 1890
which gave our foreign trade new and
| advantageous markets for our surplus
| agricultural and manufactured pro-
ducts; adding that the brief trial given
this legislation was most satisfactory
and very helpful to the country, pro-
noting it's prosperity and involving no
loss of labor to our people, but rather
tending to give them additional en-
| ployment. For the speedy and needed
return of business prosperity, prompt,
energetic and intelligent action by Con-
gress is recommended as one of the
most potent factors for it's accomplish
ment The President adds wise and
firm words in behalf of the maintenance
OF law and order, the integrity of our
courts, and the orderly administration
of justice as conditions essential for
the continuance forever of the rock of
safety upon which our government Sc
curely rests" Combinations of capital
that arbitrarily control the condition of
trade are condemned; an Improvement
Of our naturalization and immigration
laws in order to secure the promotion
of "a safer, better, and a higher citi-
zenship'' is advocated; civil service re-
form is commended and an appeal is
made in behalf of the restoration of our
American merchant marine to its for
mer glories. The peaceful policy of this
nation consistent with honor is up
held and the arbitration treaty is recog-
nized in it's benefcence and far reach
ing influences as a vast step forward in
the history of mankind. The President
calls for an extra session of Congress
and recognizes the need of the same
and likewise the need of a change in the
law by which Congress does not meet
in regular session until more than a
year after it has been chosen" too Of
ten thereby depriving Congress of the
inspiration of the popular will and the
country of the corresponding benefits. "
In conclusion the President congratu-
lates the nation upon the increasing
spirit Of unity prevailing and the les
SEEMING of sectionalism in this country
of ours. The address is one which COM
mends itself to every patriotic and God
fearing American irrespective of party.
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