The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-04
Vice President Marshall De-
Iivers Address.
Has Keen Appreciation of His
Duties.
HONOR is NATIONS BULWARK
Wrongs of the Past Must Be
Corrected.
Future Of Republic Rests on
Adhesion to Principle.

washington. March 4.-Vice President
Marshalrs inaugural address was as
follows:
The proprieties of this occasion
probably require a few words from one
VINO IS grateful to the American peo-
PIE Tor the honor heretofore done him
ana TINS day contaminated
No senator has I trust A keener
appreciation of the necessities in the
way OF tact and courtesy now devolving
upon me then I myself [ offer no
surety ass to my discharge of duties
other than personal pledge that l will
seek to familiarize myself with them
ana VIII endeavor always to exercise
that complaisance and forbearance
"hlcn are essential to him who ably
presides over great debates upon great
public questions by great men
Your action has not always met
with universal approval but UP to this
good hour no wOrka BILE substitute for
the exercise of the functions of this
pody has been proposed. 1t is not need
ful for me here and now to accept a
brief in your defense. This body will
continue to stand not because of its
presiding officer but because of the
patriotism and intelligence of its con-
stltuent members and their devotion to
our system of government.
ITO my mind, government is the har-
ness with which a people draws it's
load of civilization. If the harness be
properly adjusted the load, though
heavy, will be drawn with ease and no
part of the people will be CALLED The
senate Is the binders, intended to keep
the people from shying at imaginary
dangers and topping into the ditch our
system of government. So long as the
binders serve this purpose they are a
most valuable part of the. harness, but
if they be drawn so closely to the eyes
as to prevent the seeing of real dam
gers. then they ahould either be spread
or done away with entirely.
Unfortunately there is no fixed
standard of honor outside the diction-
ary The gambler may hold it to con-
sist in paying his gaming debts; the
member of the smart set, in divorcing
his neighbours wife before taking her
unto himself; the senator. in elimi-
mating personalities. But when we en-
ter the chancelleries of the world and
submit to their judgments not only our
right to be but our right to be
respected we can hope to be
measured in but one way; and we reust
be able to show that the solemn treaty
obligations of this Republic will be
kept with the same scrupuIous honesty,
both of spirit and letter. whether made
with the humblest people of this con-
tinent struggling for self-goVernment
or with the mightiest monarch of the
old world. This high sense of honor
constitutes the panoply of the Amer
lean people. Armies and battleships
furnish no substitute for it. These are
valuable, but the people never intended
that authority should use them as ac-
cessories to a burglars kit
IF any one in the name of the Amer
lean people, either in violation of treaty
obligations or the manifest purpose of
the Monroe doctrine. has taken aught
while this body was celebrating, it is
your duty to ascertain all facts there
to. And if wrong or injustice has been
done. even to the humblest republic
let this people be brave enough and
sufficiently honest to make reparation.
The real greatness of this republic
rests upon its unsullied honor and it is
the duty of this body to search down
rumors of bad faith and dishonesty and
rectify wrong wherever wrong is dis
covered.
Here in this most sacred spot
where war has been made and peace
declared here in the presence of the
distinguished representatives of the
governments of the civilized world
here. within the hearing of the beauty.
culture and ripened statecraft of his
own land. may one humble American
express the hope before he enters upon
n four years silence that all our
diplomacy may spell peace with all
people, justice for all governments and
righteousness the world around"