The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-03-04
TAFT |NAUGUR-
ATED TODAY
CONTINUED from First PaEe.)

Ing THESE WOTuS SLOWLY and distinctly
after the chief justice:
II do solemnly swear that / will
faithfully execute the Office of presi-
dent Of the United States and will,
to the best of my ability, preserve,
protect and defend the Constitution
of the United States"
a second later the crowd saw Mr..
Taft press his lips to the Holy Book.
A signal was flashed from the dome
of the Capitol to the Navy Yard, a
mile away, and was answered by the
booming of ten-inch gun, and then
by other cannon and a chorus of
steam whistles. Long before the ma
val guns deep voice had finished
it's twenty-one syllabled message all
the people of Washington and all
the thousands Of visitors who could
not get near the scene knew that an
other administration had begun.
When the throng on the plaza had
finished shouting, which it did not
do until multitudinous threats were
good and raw and weary from the ex-
ercise, President Taft stepped to the
front of the stand and began the de-
livery of his inaugural address, which
in part is as follows:
inaugural Address
My Fellow Citizens: Anyone who
takes the oath / have just taken
must feel a heavy weight of response
bility. If not, he has no conception
of the powers and duties of the Office
upon which he is about to enter, or
he is lacking in proper sense of the
obligation which the oath imposes.
The office of an inaugural address
| is to give a summary outline of the
main policies of the new administra-
ton, so far as they can be anticipat-
ed. I have had the honor to be one
of the advisers of my distinguished
predecessor, and, as such, to hold up
his hands in the reforms he has ini-
tiated. l should be untrue to myself
and to my promises and to the dec
larations of the party platform upon
which I was elected to Office, if
did not make the maintenance and
enforcement of those reforms a most
| important feature of my administra-
ton. They were directed to the sup
preston of the lawlessness and abuse
of power of the great combinations
of capital invested in railroads and in
industrial enterprises carrying on in
terstate commerce The steps which
my predecessor took and the legisla-
ton passed on his recommendation
have accomplished much, have
caused a general halt in the vicious
policies which created popular alarm,
and have brought about, in the bust
ness affected, a much higher regard
for existing law.
To render reforms lasting, how
ever, and to secure at the same time
freedom from alarm on the part of
those pursuing proper and progress
i've business methods, further legisla-
tive and executive action are needed.
Relief of the railroads from certain
restrictions of the antitrust law have
been urged by my predecessor and
will be urged by me. On the other
hand, the administration is pledged
to legislation looking to a proper
federal supervision and restriction to
prevent excessive issue of bonds and
stocks by companies owning and OPP
Grating interstate commerce rail-
roads
The admission of Asiatic immi-
grants who can not be amalgamated
with our population has been made
the subject either of prohibitOry
clauses in our treaties and statutes,
or of strict administrative regula-
ton secured by diplomatic negotia-
ton. | sincerely hope that we may
continue to minimize the evils likely
to arise from such immigration with
out unnecessary friction and by mu-
tual concessions between self-respect-
ing governments. Meantime, we
must take every precaution to pre-
vent, or, failing that, to punish out
bursts of race feeling among our
people against foreigners of what
ever nationality who have by our
grant treaty right to pursue law
full business here ana to be protected
against lawless assault or injury. In
the department of agriculture, the
use of scientific experiments on a
large scale, and the spread of infor-
nation derived from them for the i'm
provement of general agriculture,
must go on.
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