The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-03-07

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init 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
full disbursement and It should be
their constant care to avoid waste
and extravagance.
Honesty, capacity and industry are
nowhere more indispensable than in
public employment. These should be
fundamental requisites to original ap-
pofntment 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. I did all that in honor could
be done to avert the war, but without
avail It became inevitable; and the
congress at it's first regular session,
without party division, provided money
in anticipation Of the crisis and in
preparation to meet it. It 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 it
would be dishonorable to seek to es.
capes We are now at peace with the
world and it is my fervent prayer
that Aif 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
Entrusted by the people for second
time with the Office of president, en-
ter upon it's administration appreciat
ing the great responsibilities which at
tach to this renewed honor and COM
mission, promising unreserved devo-
cnarga ana reverentIy invoking for
my gaItance the direction and favor
of Almighty God. I should shrink
from the duties this day assumed if
1 did not feel that in their performance
I should have the cooperation of the
wise Ind
Patriotic Men of All Parties.
It endourages me for the great task
which, I now undertake to believe
that those who voluntarily commit
ted to- me the trust imposed upon the
chief executive of the republic will
give To- me generous support in my
dutiessto preserve, protect and de-
fend the constftutfon Of the United
States and to "care that the laws be
faithfully executed" The national
purpose is indicated through ma
tionaI election. It is the constitutional
method of ascertaining the public
will. When once it is registered it
is a law to US all, and faithful OBJ
servance should follow it's DEGREES.
Strong hearts and helpful hands are
needed, and, fortunately, we have
them in every part of our beloved
country. We are reunited. Section
alism has disappeared. 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 de-
mand the thought and quicken the
conscience of the country, and the
responsibility for their presence, as
well as for their righteous settlement,
rests upon us all-no more upon me
than upon you.
There are some national questions
in the solution of which patriotism
should exclude partisanship. Magni-
flying their difficulties will not take
them of our hands nor facilitate their
Distrust of the capacity,
and high purposes of the
American people will not be an in
spring theme for future political con-
tests. Dark pictures and gloomy fore
bodings 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
6uItoCTS VI Tic nCHdSHSt
nor in it's crisis since have they saved
or served it. The faith of the fathers
was a mighty force in it's creation,
and the faith of their descendants has
wrought it's progress and furnished
it's defenders. They are obstruction
lists who despair and who would de-
stroy confidence in the ability of our
people to solve wisely and for civiliza-
ton the mighty problems resting upon
them. The American people, en-
trenched in freedom 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 foundations of liberty to
others. Our institutions will not de-
teriorate by extension, and our sense
of Justice will not abate under tropic
suns in distant seas. As heretofore,
so hereafter, will the nation demon
strate 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"
IL there are. those among US who
would make our way more difficult we
must not be disheartened, but the
more earnestly dedicate ourselves to