El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-04
SPEECH OF THE
VICE PRESIDENT
Marshall Says Senate Is the Peoples
Guardfnn-VV OuId Investigate the
Way Panama Was Created


washington. d. C. March 4-Vice
president Marshalrs inaugural address
today was as follows;
The prophecies Of this occasion
probably require few words from one
who is grateful to the American people
for the honor heretofore done him and
this day contaminated
NO senator has. trust, a keener ap-
probation Of the necessities in the way
of tact and courtesy now deVOlving up
on me than myself. I offer no surety
as to my discharge Of duties other
than a personal pledge thar VIII
seek to familiarize myself with them
and will endeavOr always to exercise
that complaisance and forebearance
which are essential to him who ably
presides over great debates upon public
questions by great men
Divergent views relative 10 InlS
body would be less divergent If the
American people would come to realize
that on all sides Of real questions much
may truthfully be said such an at
titude of the public mind would elm
tinctIy deliberate and not thoroughly
1''- Charges Of Bad Faith
Charges Of bad faith based upon an
attitude Of mind upon conduct should
never be made until 1t IS clearly es-
eablished that the resultant action IS
the outcome Of personal interest or i'm
proper and dishonorable business or
social relations.
your action has not always met
with universal approval but up TO this
good hour no workable substitute for
the exercise Of the functions of this
body has been proposed. 1t is. not need
ful for me here and now to accept a
brief in your defense. This body VIII
continue 10 stand not because OF It's
presiding officer. but because Of the
patriotism and intelligence Of its con-
stituent members and their devotion to
our system Of government
ITO my mind, government IS the har-
ness with which a people draws its
load Of civilization If the harness De
properly adjusted the load, though
heavy. viii be drawn with ease ana no
part Of the people viii be CALLED The
senate is the binders, intended to keep
the people from shying at imaginary
dangers and topping into the often
our systems OF government
so long as the binders serve TINS
purpose they are a most valuable part
of the harness, but If they be drawn
so closely 10 the eyes as to prevent
the seeing OF real dangers, then they
should either be spread or done away
with entirely am one OF those VINO
think that we can so adjust our blind
ers as to meet new conditions ana
render US sanely responsive to every
reasonable demand Of the people with
out disturbing any Of the checks ana
balances Of our system OF government
and preserving with loyalty and fidelity
the ancient ideals of the Republic
Senate Peoples Guardian
with neither right nor desire to
infringe upon the prerOgatives of the
president so soon to be, I beg the eX-
preston Of the opinion that whatever
diverse views may be held relative to
the work Of this body all persons are
agreed that under the constitution the
senate of the United States is slngu-
larIy the guardian Of the peoples honor;
that more and more, as righteousness
is exalted among this people, the idea
is becoming more firmly fixed thaI II
is not vast territory, great wealth nor
large learning which mark the real
status Of America; tha- America IS to
be measured by the golden meteWand
of honor; and, as the idea Of her forma-
zion was the inherent right OF men TO
rule themselves, that now she can III
afford to announce this doctrine in her
own land and renounce It for an IN
strument of oppression in other lands
No Fixed Honor Standard
Unfortunately there IS no IXed
standard of honor outside OF the die
tionarv. The gambler may hold II to
consist in paying his gaming debts; the
member Of the smart set In dlVorclng
his neighbors wife before taking her
unto himself; the senator, in eliminat-
ing personalities. But when We enter
the chancelleries OF the world and sub
nit to their judgments not only our
right to be but our right to be re-