Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-03-13
Will Be True to His Trust.

bitration, and that hereafter we may be
spared the horrors of war.
Will Be True to His Trust.
Entrusted by the people for second
time with the office of president, I enter
upon its administration approaching the
great responsibilities which attach to this
renewed honor and commission, promising
a catre< devotion on my part to their
faithful discharge, and reverently invok-
ing for my guidance the direction and the
favor of Almighty God. I should shrink
from the duties this day assumed If die
not feel that in their performance should
have the cooperation of the wise and patri-
otto men of all parties. It encourages me
Tor the great task which now undertake
to believe that those who voluntarily COM
mltted to me the trust imposed upon the
chief executive of the republic will give
to me generous support in my duties to
preserve, protect and defend the consti-
tuition of the United States and to care
that the laws be faithfully executed The
national purpose is indicated through a
national election. It is the constitutional
method of ascertaining the public WILL
When once it is registered it is law to
US all, and faithful observance should fol-
low its DEGREES.
Strong hearts and helpful hands are
needed, and, fortunately, we have them in
every part of our beloved country. We
are reunited. Sectionalism has disap-
peared. Division on public questions can
no longer be traced by the war maps of
1861. These old differences less and less
disturb the judgment. Existing problems
demand the thought and quicken the con-
science of the country, and the RESPONSE
bllity for their presence as we'll as for their
righteous settlement rests upon US all-no
more upon me than upon you.
Patriotism Excludes Partisanship.
There are some national questions in
the solution of which patriotism should
exclude partisanship. Magnifying their
difficulties will not take them off our hands
nor facilitate their adjustment. Distrust
of the capacity, integrity and high pur-
poses of the American people will not be
an inspiring theme for future political con-
tests. Dark pictures and gloomy forebod-
ings are worse than useless. These only
becloud, they do not help to point the
way of safety and honor. Hope maketh
not ashamed The prophets of evil were
not the builders of the republic, nor in it's
crisis since have they saved or served It.
The faith of the fathers was mighty
force in it's creation, and the faith Of their
descendants has wrought it's progress and
furnished its defenders. There are OBJ
structionists who despair and who would
destroy confidence in the ability of our
people to solve wisely and for civilization
the mighty problems resting upon them.
The American people, intrenched in free
dom at home, take their love for it with
them wherever they go, and they reject as
mistaken and unworthy the doctrine that
we lose our own liberties by securing the
enduring founda tons of liberty to Others
Our institutions will not deteriorate by ex-
tension, and our sense of justice will not
abate under tropic suns in distant seas
LAS heretofore, so hereafter will the ma
ton demonstrate its fitness to administer
any new estate which events devolve upon
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by the hand and make the bounds of free
dom wider yet If there are those among
us who would make our way more difficult
| we must not be disheartened. but the more
earnestly dedicate ourselves to the task
which we have rightly entered. The path
of progress is seldom smooth. New
things are often found hard to do. Our
fathers found them so. We find them so.
They are inconvenient. They cost US
something. But are we not made better
for the effort and sacrifice, and are not
those We serve lifted up and blessed?
1--WE Will be consoled. too, with the fact
that opposition has confronted every on
ward movement of the republic from its
| opening hour until now. but without sue
cess. The republic has marched on and
on, and it's every step has exalted freedom
and humanity. We are undergoing the
same ordeal as did our predecessors nearly
a century ago. We are following thu
eu.
VIII their successors falter and plead or
ganic impotency in the nation? Surely
after 125 years Of achievement for man.
kind we will not now surrender our equal
lty with other powers on matters funda-
mental and essential to nationality. With
no such purpose was the nation created.
In no such spirit has 1t developed its full
and independent sovereignty. We adhere
to the principle of equality among our
selves, and by no act of ours will we assign
to ourselves subordinate rank in the
family of nations.
my fellow citizens, the public events
of the past four years have gone into his
tory. They are too near to justify recital
Some of them were unforeseen; many of
them momentous and far-reaching in their
consequences to ourselves and our rela-
tions with the rest of the world. The part
which the United States bore so honorably
in the thrilling scenes in China, while new
with Its true spirit and best traditions, and
IN dealing with the results its policy will
be that of moderation and fairness.
Relations with Cuba.
1--WE face at this moment a most i'm
portant question-that of the future rela-
lions of the United States and Cuba. With
our near neighbors We must remain close
friends. The declaration of the purposes
of this government in the resolution of
since the evacuation of the island by the
army of Spain the executive with all prac-
ticable speed has been assisting it's peo-
pie in the successive steps necessary to
the establishment Of free and independ-
ent government prepared to assume and
perform the obligations of international
law which now rest upon the United States
under the treaty of Paris. The convention
elected by the people to frame a consti-
tuition is approaching the completion of it's
labors. The transfer OF American control
to the new government is Of such great i'm
portance. involving an obligation resulting
from our Intervention and the treaty Of
peace, that am glad to be advised by the
recent act Of congress of the policy which
the legislative branch of the government
deems essential to the best interests Of
Cuba and the United States. The prtnci-
Piles which led to our intervention REQUIRE
that the fundamental law upon which the
new government rests should be ADAPTED
to secure government capable Of per-
forming the duties and dischareinR the
functions Of q separate nation. Of observinr
its international obligations Of protecting
life and property. insuring order. safety
and liberty. and conforming to the estab-
ltshed and historical policy OF the United
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