The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-08
INDICTED INTO OFFICE
WILLIAM M'KINLEY A SECOND
TIME TAKES THE PRESI-
DENTAL OATH.
THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS

A Summing Up of the Last -Four
| Years Work and a Forecast of the
Future-Domestic Affairs Touched
Upon-The Spanish-American War
and Its Results-Cuba's Future Gov
Observation-Disclosures Affairs.
Washington, March 4.-William Nc
Kinley of Ohio was indicted into the
| presidential Office at noon, being the
eighth in the illustrious line of presi
dents of the United States thus hon
ored by the American people with a
| second and consecutive term. Stimuli
taneously Theodore Roosevelt of New
| York became vice president of the
! United States.
| The ceremony that marked the Sec
ond assumption by President McKin'
| ley of the cares of state was most i'm
pressive and full of suggestions of the
| administration of the republic during
the past four years.
| The president arrived at the Capitol
1t II a. M, escorted by the various
| organizations of Civil war veterans.
This special guard of honor was dis.
missed after performing this escort
| duty. At II o'clock President McKin-
ley, accompanied by Chief Justice
| Fuller, the inaugural committee and
| other dignitaries, stepped out upon
| the platform built at the east front
/ IF tho Tonito1 i,,ct Cd
ministered the oath of Office and the
| president then delivered his inaugural
address.
The parade that escorted the presi-
dent back to the executive mansion
! was marked by the predominance of
the White House the marchers passed
In review before the president.
| President McKinleys inaugural ad-
dress was as follows:
My Fellow Citizens: When we as
| sembled here on the 4th of March,
| 1897, there was great anxiety with
| regard to our currency and credit.
None exists now. Then our treasury
receipts were inadequate to meet the
| current obligations of the govern
| ment. Now they are sufficient for all
| public needs and we have a surplus in
stead Of a deficit. Then l felt con-
| strained to convene the congress in
extraordinary session to devise reve-
nues to pay the ordinary expenses of
| the government. Now / have the sat
tsfaction to announce that the con-
gress just closed has reduced taxation
| in the sum of SAL 100000. Then there
| was deep solicitude because of the
long depression in our manufacturing,
| mining, agricultural and mercantile
industries and the consequent distress
of our laboring population. Now every
avenue of production Is crowded with
activity, labor is we'll employed and
American products find
| Good Markets at Home and Abroad.
Our diversified productions, how
ever, are increasing in such unprece-
denied volume as to admonish us of
| the necessity of still further charging
| our foreign markets by broader COM
mercial relations. For this purpose
! reciprocal trade arrangements with
other nations should in liberal spirit
be carefully cultivated and promoted.
| The national verdict of 1896 has for
the most part been executed. What
| ever remains unfulfilled is a continu-
| ing obligation resting with undimin-
ished force upon the executive and
| the congress. But fortunate as our
| condition is, it's permanence can only
/ be assured by sound business meth
| DDS and strict economy in national
administration. We should not per-
| nit our great prosperity to lead us to
reckless ventures in business or profit
| gacy in public expenditures. While
| the congress determines the objects
and the sum of appropriations, the
| officials of the executive departments
are responsible for honest and faith
| ful disbursement and it should be
their constant care to avoid waste
and extravaganza.
| Honesty, capacity and industry are
nowhere more indispensable than in
| public employment. These should be
| fundamental requisites to original ap,
| pointment and the surest guarantees
against removal.
The War With Spain.
| -Four years ago we stood on the
brink of war without the people know.
ing it and without any preparation or
effort at preparation for the impend.
ing peril. did all that in honor could
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avail. 1t became inevitable; and the
! congress at its first regular session
without party division, provided money
| in anticipation of the crisis and in
preparation to meet it. 1t came. The
result was signally favorable to Amer
lean arms and in the highest degree
honorable to the government 1t i'm
posed upon us obligations from which
we cannot escape and from which il
| would be dishonorable to seek to es
cape. We are now at peace with the
world and it is my fervent prayer
| that if differences arise between us
| and other powers they may be settled
| by peaceful arbitration and that here
after we may be spared the horrors
| of war.
My fellow citizens, public events OIL
the last few years have gone to his
| tory. They are too near to justify re
cital Some of them were foreseen
many of them momentous and fan
reaching in their consequences to our
selves and our relations to the rest OF
,ne world. The part which we have
borne in the thrilling scenes in China