The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-01-06
ROOSE\ELT'S PLEDGE.

ka Theodore Roosevelt was inaucnratrd A.
: Governor of New York Monday. In spite
of extreme cold weather the ceremony VA
witnessed by great crowd of people
! assembled in the assembly chamber AT The
capitol. Preceding the Inauguration there
was parade Of civic AMI military bodies
Bishop Doane, of the Protestant Epi>-
copal Diocese of Albany, offered PRAYER,
and Secretary of State MrD"nuu%h
administered the oath of office Ia the
| Governor-rlrct. after which Coy +. :.
Black welcomed his successor.
i Governor Roosevelt said in reply:
"A very heavy responsibility rests un"n
the Governor of New York State, 4 State
of seven millions of Inhabitants of "rea,
wealth, of widely varied industries and
with population singulary diversified,
not merely in occupation, but in race
| origin, in habits of life and in ways of
| thought. 1t is not an easy task so to
! frame our laws that Justice may b" done
to all alike in such population, so many
of whom have interests that seem entirely
antagonistic. But upon the great and
| fundamental issues of good government
there must always be unity of interest
among all persons who wish well to the
Commonwealth.
There is much less need of genius or
of any special brilliancy in the adminslra-
| ton of our government than there is need
q
| common sense, honesty and courage.
| There are very man" difficult problems
| to face, some Of which are as Old rs GOV
eminent is itself, while others have sprung
into being in consequence of the grow
ing complexity and steady increasing
| tension of our social life for the last two
| generations
1T is not given to any man, or to any
| set of men, to see with absolutely clear
vision into the future. All that can he
| done is to face the facts rs we find them,
| to meet each difficulty in practical fash
| ion and to strive steadily for the better
| ment both of our civic and our social CON
| ditions.
1--WE must realize, on the one hand, that
| we can do little if we do not set ourselves
| high ideal, and on the other, that we
will fall in accomplishing even this little
| if we do not work through practical
methods and with readiness to face life
as it is and not as we think it ought to be.
Under no form of government it is so
necessary thus to combine efficiency and
morality, high principle and rough com
mon sense, justice and the sturdiest rhySi-
cal and moral courage as in Il republic.
1T is absolutely impossible for repub-
lie long to endure if it becomes either cor
rupt or cowardly; if its public men
no less than its private men lose the
indispensable virtue of honesty; if its
leaders of thought became visionary
| doctrinaires, or if it shows a lack of
courage in dealing with the many grave
problems which it must surely face both
at home and abroad as it strives to work
out the destiny meet for a mighty nation.
| only through the party system Is 1t
| that fee governments are now success
fully carried on, and yet we must keep
ever wildly before us that the usefulness
of party is strictly limited by its useful
ness to the State and that in the long run,
he serves his party best who most helps to
make it instantly responsive to needs Of
the people and the highest demands OF
that spirit which tends to drive us onward
and upward.
1T shall be my purpose, SO far as | am
given strength to administer my office
with IN eye single to the welfare Of all
the people of this great Commonwealth