Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-03-08
THE PRESIDENTS INAUGURAL.


William McKinlcy's face is turned
toward the morning.
His inaugural is the doctrine OF
optimism. High of heart and reso-
lutte of will. he looks to the future
with an abiding faith in the American
people to solve the difficult and un-
tried problems as their fathers did.
In opening he indulges in fe-
licitations comparing. the present
satisfactory business and financial
conditions with those of four years
ago. when We faced treasury deficits,
insecure currency and business de
preston. He advises liberal recipro-
cal trade arrangements to enlarge
our foreign markets and suggests
that our great prosperity should not
lead 10 reckless ventures in business
or prohigacy in public expenditures.
The cooperation of wise and pa
triotic men of all parties, he says en-
couraGes him in. '~r great task he
undertakes. and his appeal to the pa.
triot.c sentiment of the people con
tains such striking paragraphs as
these:
"Sootionaiism has vanished Exist.
ing problems demand the thought and
quicken the conscience of the coun-
Try, and the responsibility for their
presence as we'll as for their right.
eous settlement rests upon all, no
more upon me than upon you. There
are some national questions, in the
solution OF which patriotism should
exclude partisanship.'
He rebukes the prophets Of disas.
ter in these words. Dark pictures
and gloomy forebodings are worse
than useless. These only becloud.
they do not help to point the way of
safety and honor The prophets of
evil were not the builders of the Re
public. nor in its crisis have they
saved or served it. They are oh.
structionists who would despair. and
who would destroy confidence in the
ability of our people to solve wisely
and for civilization the mighty prob
l'lns resting upon them.
He expresses plainly his policy in
regard to Cuba and the Philippines.
He states that the declaration in the
Teller resolution must be made good
Our enfranchisement of the Cuban
people will not be completed until
tree Cuba shall be a reality. not
name; a perfect entity, not a hasty
experiment bearing within itself the
elements OF failure
With regard to the Philippines, he
says that he shall continue the efforts
already begun until order shall be re-
stored throughout the islands, and.
as fast as condition permits will es-
tablish local governments, in the
formation of which the full co-opera-
ton of the people has been already
invited and when established, will
encourage the people to administer
them.
We are not making war against the
inhabitants of the Philippine islands,
he says. A portion of them are
making war against the United
States. BY far the greater part of
the inhabitants recognize the Ameri-
can sovereignty and welcome it as
a guaranty of order and security for
life, property, liberty, freedom of
conscience and the pursuit of happi-
ness. Force will not be needed or
used when those who make war
against us shall make it no more.
May it end without further bloodshed
and there be ushered in the reign of
peace to be made permanent by a gov
eminent of liberty under law
The words of President Mckinley are
not the words of a tyrant, a usurper,
or of a man who has lost his moral
sense. Rather are they the words
OF brave, resolute, reverent and God
fearing man, who holds in clear Wis
ion a high ideal to whose fulfilment
he would lead the American people.
We believe it is in the leading and
development of the spirit thus shown
by the President at the beginning of
his second term that the solution of
our grave national, problems lies, and
not in the harsh criticism and cen
serious denunciat n which his oppo-
nents indulga i'm freely