Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-03-14
THE PRESIDENTS SECOND INAU-
GURAl.
Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press
The country has advanced with great
strides and bounds under four years o.
Mckinley, and in his second inaugural adj
dress the President, with just pride, con
trasts the situation of four years ago anC
now. 1t has been four years of prosperity
development and achievement.
The situation forr years ago had it
difficulties and its an1ieties, but the coun
try was hopeful, public expectation haC
been aroused to a high pitch, and the
tone of President McKinley's first inau
gural is that of confidence. Yesterday be
was able to point to expectations justified
and hopes fully realized, to national cur
rency and credit strengthened, to a sur
plus instead of deficit, to labor fully en-
ployed and an enormous production which
has outgrown home necessities aud il
clamoring for a wider distribution among
the markets of the world. Prosperity has
its temptations and the President finds ii
necessary to Issue warning against ''reck'
less ventures in business or protigacy in
public expenditures.
The keynote of the entire address is
lofty patriotism. 1t would be impossible
for a stranger to determine from it the
Presidents party affiliations. There is an
entire absence from it of party spirit or ex-
elusive party doctrine. The President
refers to party divisions only to rejoice
that they can no longer be traced by the
war of 1861, that sectionalism has dieap'
peared and that in the performance of his
high duties the President "can depend on
the cooperation of the wise and patriotic
lnen of all parties" The Democratic OPP
position broke down in the last campaign
for the same reason that the people in un-
precedented numbers from all parts of the
country packed the streets Of the national
capital at the second Inauguration of Viii.
liam Mckinley. .
Our President is loved and trusted by
the people as but two, or three at the
most, of bis predecessors were trusted
while in Office. The people recognized bis
sincerity, bis lofty purpose and absorbing
desire to promote only and always the
country's highest good. They have faith
in his judgment. 1t has proved sound
and true in every relation in which it has
been tested, and they have perfect conf
dence that Pilot Mckinley will steer the
ship of State safely through and over the
shoals and rocks that still lie athwart ito
course.
The President rebukes the gloomy pessi-
mists who are crying woe and prophecy
ing the ruin of the Republic because the
successful issue Of just war has unexpect-
edly placed upon this Government some
unfamiliar responsibilities. He reminds
the people in pregnant language that 1.-The
prophets of evil were not the builders OF
the Republic, nor in its crises since have
they saved or served it," Gas heretofore
80 hereafter will the nation demonstrate
its fitness to administer any new estate
which events devolve upon 1t, and in the
fear of God will take occasion by the
hand and make the bounds of freedom
wider yet =" The whole Of the Presidents
inaugural dealing with the new RESPONSE
bilities and problems with the late war has
thrust upon the American people is char
acterized by lofty and impressive elo-
quence. Read as it will be by every intel
ligent American citizen it can not help
but inspire even doubters with some por-
ton Of the faith and hopefulness which
the President so confidently expresses,
and in which great majority of the
American people fully share.