The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-03-04

great wealth in industrial centers. Up
on the success Of our experiment nue.
depends; not only as regards our own
welfare, but as regards the welfare y
mankind. If we fail, the cause OF iIs re
self government throughout the Moflu
+ will rock to its foundations; and theie'
fore our responsibility Is heavy, 70
ourselves, to the world as It IS TO-DAY,
and to the generations yet unborn.
There is no good reason why we shoula
/ fear the future, but there is every rea-
son why we should face II seriously
neither hiding from ourselves the grafl.
ty Of the problems before US nor lear
ing to approach these problems with
the unbending, unflinching purpose e
solve them Alright.
Yet, after all, though the problems
are new, though the tasks set before Us
differ from the tasks set before our
fathers who founded and preserved tins
Republic, the spirit in which lhese
tasks must be undertaken and these
problems faced If our duty Is 20 pc
wen done, remains essentially unehang
Cd. We know that self-goyernment =
difficult. We know that no people
needs such high traits Of character e.
that people which seeks TO govern us
affairs Alright through the freely ex-
pressed will OF the ffeemen who COM
pose it. But we have faith that We
shall not prove false to the memories
of the men of the mighty past. ihey
did their work, they left US the spien-
did heritage we now enjoy. We II our
turn have an assured confidence that
we shall be able to leave this heritage
unwasted and enlarged to our children
and our children's children. 10 do 50
we must show, not merely IN great en-.
ses, but in the every day affairs q life,
the qualities Of practical intelligence,
of courage, of hardihood and endurance
and above all the power Of devotion to
lofty ideal, which made great the men
who founded this Republic in the days
of Washington, which made great the
men who preserved this Republic IN the
days of Abraham Lincoln.
The conclusion Of the address was
the signal for another ovation, during
which Mr.. Roosevelt shook hands with
most of the notables who pressed about
the tribune. Then he was escorted back
TO the rotunda Of the Capitol and thence
TO the Executive Chamber, where he
held brief reception before leaving fer
the White House.
Meanwhile the parade was starting.
Vice President Fairbanks.
Senator Charles Warren Fairbanks Of
Indiana became Vice President q the
United States shortly after the marble
faced clocks Of the Senate chamber reg
! istered noon today. He reached the
/ north side Of the Capitol few minutes
after II o'clock and went to the Vice
Presidents room, which he will occupy
for the coming four years as presiding
officer of the Senate. President Roose
welt had arrived q little before, and was
IN his own room receiving the leaders
of the Senate and House between
scratches of his pen as he signed bills
passed during the expiring hours OF
the Fifty Eighth Congress.
AT noon Senator Frye, President pro.
tenn, hammered the marble desk, and
announced in set formula that the SEN
ate Of the Fifty-eighth Congress had
adjourned sine die; then he Immediately
called the extraordinary session Of the
Fifty ninth Congress to order.
Mr.. Fairbanks was forthwith ushered
into the chamber, the Senate members
| of the inaugural committee acting as
his escort. He proceeded to the ros-
trum, where Senator Frye administered
the usual oath. The new Vice Presi-
dents first official duty was To call
upon the senate's chaplain, the Rev
DIR. Edward Everett Hale, to pray.
Mr.. Fairbanks then delivered his IN
augural address, and, at its conclusion.
he instructed the Secretary to read the
Presidents proclamation converting the
extraordinary session Of the Senate
Next the new Senators were called to
the Seeretary's desk and took the oath
This somewhat tedious business finished.
the Vice President announced:
The sergeant-at-Arm will execute
the order for the Inauguration eere.
monies.
The Parade.
With standards waving, glidons whip.
ping in the breeze, and regimantal eolors
Haunting, infantry, cayarly and artillery
tramped, pranced and rumbled this al.
ternoon through historic Pennsylvania
avenue.
The somewhat mediocre buildings
which for the most part line this broad.
est thoroughfare in the country. we're
hidden by tri.eolored bunting that fiut
tered and beloved from roof to pave
ment all the way from the Peace Aonn-
ment To Seventeenth street Sidewalks
were iammed. Every window Oh tbe
avenue, many rented for the dav Al
prices ranging from $40 to sl0O apiece.
framed eager faces. Balconies held per.
llously crowded parties, and from end
to end Of the route Of march the roofs
competed with the payements in ae-
combating men and women Willing u