The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-03-06
President Taft inaugurated.

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of the United States, respectively, on
the 4th instant, and the occasion az
tracted to Washington an UMPIRE.
cedented number of people from al
parts Of the nation. Notwithstanding
the preva lence of a blizzard of IN
usual severity, which necessitated the
holding of the inaugural ceremony and
the delivery of President Taft's ad.
dress in the senate chamber instead oi
the east front OF the Capitol, the great
parade of military and civic organi-
cations took place in the afternoon as
contemplated, constituting one of the
| greatest displays of its kind the coun.
try has ever Witnessed. The inaugura,
ball in the big auditorium of the Pen.
sion building, is said to have eclipsed
all it's predecessors in brillianee, and
an imposing exhibition OF fireworks
lnear the Washington Monument added
6clat to the nights festivities.
Chief Justice White Of the United
States supreme court administered the
oath of Office to Mr.. Taft, who deliv,
cred an inaugural address which com
handed the wrapt attention and en-.
thusiastic approval OF the distin,
guished assembly that filed every
available foot of space in the senate
chamber and included representatives
of all the civilized nations of the
earth.
We borrow from the New Orleans
Picayune the following sspithy points
in Taft's inaugural address" as in
dicating the tendency and substance OF
the important utteranee and outlining
the policy to be pursued by the new
administr alton:
"The steps which my predecessor took
and the legislation passed on his recon-
mendations have accomplished much,
have caused a general halt in the Wei
Gus policies which created popular
alarm, and have brought about in the
business affected much higher re-
gard for existing law.
1t is imperatively necessary that a
tariff bill be drawn in good faith in
accordance with promises made before
the election by the party in power, and
as promptly passed as due considera,
ton will permit.
''The putting into force of laws which
shall secure the conserv alton of our
resources, SO far as they may be within
the Jurisdiction of the federal govern
ment, including the most important
work of saving and restoring our
forests, and the great improvement OF
waterways, are all proper government
functions which must involve large
ex expenditures if properly performed.
I'VE should have an army so or
ganized and so Offered as TO be capa-
bic in time of emergency, in co.opera-
ton with the national militia and IN
der the provisions of a proper national
volunteer law, rapidly to expand into
a force sufficient TO resist all probable
invasion from abroad and TO furnish
a respectable evolutionary force, If
necessary, in the maintenance of our
traditional American policy which
bears the name of President Monroe.
zone of the reforms to be carried
out during the incoming administra-
tion is a change of our monetary and
banking laws, so as to secure greater
elasticity in the forms Of currency
available for trade, and to prevent the
limitations of law from operating to
increase the embarrassment of finan-
cial panic.
"The Panama Canal will have a
most important bearing upon the trade
between the eastern and the far west
ern section of our country, and will
greatly increase the facilities for trans
portation between the eastern and
western seaboard, and may possibly
revolutionize the transeontinental
rates with respect to bulky merchan.
disc.
Il look forward with hope to in
creasing the already good feeling be.
tween the south and the other sections
of the country.
1t may we'll admit of doubt whether,
in the case of any race, an appoint-
ment of one of their number to local
Office In community in which the race
feeling is SO widespread and acute as
to interfere with the ease and facility
with which the local government busi-
ness can be done by the appointee, is
of sufficient benefit by way of en-.
eouragement to the race to outweigh
the recurrence and increase of race
feeling which such an appointment is
likely to engender. Therefore, the
executive, in recognizing the negro
race by appointments, must exercise a
careful discretion not thereby to do IL
more harm than good. On the other
hand. we must be careful not to en-
courage the mere pretense of race feel
ing manufactured in the interest of in.
dividual political ambition. =
Excursion to New Orleans.
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