The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-01-26
JOS. N. BROWN
IS |NAUGURATED
AS GOVERNOR
A3E TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE
YESTERDAY MORNING
IN CAPITOL.
Delivered Short Address Before the
Legislature and Others Who Were
Present-Shat New Executive Had
10 Say.

Atlanta, Jan 25.-Hon. Joseph M
Brown is again governor of Georgia
He was inaugurated at noon today
The whole ceremony, barring the in
augural address, took less than ten
minutes.
The brief hut weighty oath was
administered by Chief Justice w. H
Fish of the supreme court. The great
seal was brought in by Secretary OF
State Phil Cook, who handed it to
Governor Slaton, who handed it to
Governor Brown, who received it and
then turned it over again to the sec
Tetary of state for safekeeping.
inaugural address, which was as fol
aows:
Called second time by the SOW
ereign people Of Georgia, to discharge
the duties of their executive office,
appear before you to take the oath
(which binds me to their service.
in that it embodies the execution of
abe laws, laws which are based on
justice, builded of homer and crowned
with right; laws which hold within
themselves the inspiration of a Cod
fearing citizenry whose ideals are
high and whose moyant force is truth
Happy are we that our abode is in
a republic, with no royalty save the
royalty of character, no sovereign
power save that which rests in the
brains and hearts of its people. And
such people! justly jealous of their
liberties, devoted to the principles of
Integrity, condemning shams, discern
ing in the framing of their laws and
positive in their demands that they
shall be enforced, they, withal, exem-
plify the axiom, That people is the
best governed which is the least sUg-
erned.'
Gentlemen, let US not deceive
ourselves: we are hereby the grace of
the people but under the orders of
the people. And it is not ours to
wary those orders or to construe them
as we choose. Each of us, whether
in the legislative, the judicial or the
executive department, finds fixed
bounds within which his powers are
limited and his duties made obliga-
tory. Neither can trench upon the
others except at the expense of the
general safety, but all, when work
ing in harmonious accord, prove the
wisdom of the wise man, of the Scrip
lures, A threefold cord is not quickly
Broken
"'Let us then, within the bounds
prescribed by the constitution, per-
form our functions fully, ,rmly, fear
Dessly, but conscientiousIy
4'Yet, with all that I have stated,
we have the anomaly that those cnars-
ed with the execution of the laws in
ahis state as in others, have too Of
ten permitted technicalities and mis-
guided sympathy to hamper or even
defeat the laws which the people de-
cree shall be enforced Hence, the
vital need of the present day is the
spirit of inflexible justice. there
you of the general assembly that you
so legislate that the laws of Georgia
be not the shield of fraud, to you OF
the judiciary that the right be so
clearly defined that there be no ex-
cuse for wrong. And for myself 1
promise that the pardoning power
shall not be used to defeat the laws,
and that whatever function of the ex-
ecutive office / perform it shall be
with an eye single to the impartial
and complete protection of person and
property which our constitution says
Is the paramount duty of government.
"It is a cause for congratulation
that for a period of about three years
our people have had rest from agi-
iation; that there has been practical
1y no attempt to array class against
class. We should discountenance agi-
tation which, experience shows, brings
favors to but few, and should hold in
mind that prosperity comes not to use
over the path of agitation; that there
can be no abiding prosperity unless
capital and labor under the restraint
but protection of Just laws, jointly
thrive; that capital, like flowing wa
Ter. moves in the channel Of least
resistance, and that, as has been well
z&s5, &c capital viii not work, labor