The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-03-10
THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY DOES NOT
REFER TO HAWAII.
Still Believes in Reciprocity Though
Country-Points of the Address.

In his inaugural address President
Mckinley did not refer to the Hawaii
an question. He took occasion to de-
fine his situation indirectly on the is
sue by advocating the reciprocity
treaty.
The address was quite exhaustive,
filling up five columns of space. In
touching upon the financial question
he says: "NVe must be both sure we
are right and make haste slowly" He
urges economy in every branch of the
Government at all times, and especial
ly during the present period of bust
ness depression and distress among
the people.
Here are other extracts from the
address:
"The Government should not be per-
mitted to run behind or increase it's
debts in times like the present. The
best way for the Government to main
tain the credit is to pay as it goes .
not resorting to loans, but by keeping
out of debt-through an adequate in
come secured by a system of taxation,
external or internal, or both"
"Lynchings must not be tolerated
and the courts must execute the pen
alties of the law"
Immunity should be granted TO
none who violate the laws, whether
individuals, corporations or commune
ties, and as the Constitution imposes
upon the President the duty of both
its own execution and the statutes en-
acted in pursuance of it's provisions,
| shall endeavor to carry them into
effect. The declaration of the party
past opposed to all combination of
capital organized in trusts or other
wise to control arbitrarily the condi-
ton of trade among our citizens. and
it hes supported such Legislation as
well as to prevent the execution Of all
schemes to oppress the people by nu-
due charges on their supplies or by
unjust rates for the transportation uf
their products to make it. This pun
pose will steadily he pursued, both by
| the enforcement of the law now in
force and the recommendation and
support of such new statutes as may
be necessary to carry it into effece."
THE question of international BIZ
metallism will have early and earnest
deavor to secure it by cooperation
with the other great commercial pow
ers of the world"
'In the revision of the tariff especial
attention should be given to the re-en-
actment and extension of the reciproc-
ity principle of the law of 1890, under
which great stimulus was given to our
foreign trade in new and advantageous
markets for our surplus agricultural
and manufactured products. The brief
trial given this legislation amply justi.
fies a further experiment and addi-
tional discretionary power in the max.
ing of commercial treaties, the end in
view always to be the opening up OF
new markets for the products of oul
country by granting concessions to the
products of other lands that we need
and cannot produce ourselves, and
which do not involve the loss of labor
to our own people, but the end to in.
crease their employment"
Congress should give prompt atten.
tion to the restoration of our Ameri-
can merchant marine, once the pride
of the seas in all the great ocean high.
ways of commerce. To my mind few
more important subjects so impera.
lively demand its intelligent considera
ton. The United States has progressed
with marvellous rapidity in every field
of enterprise and endeayor until we
have become the foremost in nearly
all the great lines of inland trade, com