The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-05
Believes United States Gov
eminent Was Divinely Or
dained to Test Democracy
is NO FINER FORM
OF GOVERNMENT
Men Ought to Be Willing to
Live or Die That 1t
May Not Perish

Washington, D. c., March 5.--Vice
President Marshall made his second inau
gural address before the Senate to-day
a statement of his creed of citizenship
under government for which, he said
81 ought to be willing to live or to die
as God DEGREES, that it may not perish
of the earth through treachery within
or through assault from without The
address follows:
Custom calls for the utterance of a
few words upon this occasion; other
wise, ] would gladly remain silent 1t
may not be inappropriate to express my
gratitude for the little nameless, I'M
numbered and ofttimes unremembered
acts of courtesy and charity shown to
me by the members of this body during
the last four years; to express my re-
greet over the vanishing faces of those
who are leaving and to welcome those
who in few moments are to become our
co-workers in the cause of constitutional
freedom.
Everywhere in America are claimant
and strideHt voices proclaiming the es-
sential elements of patriotism. He who
seeks out OF them all to select one clear
note of love for country may fail.
conceive ii to be far more important to
examine myself than to cross-examine
another. May make bold to insert in the
record some elements of the creed which
| have adopted in this period of retro
specfion and introspectiong 1t does not
embrace what / know but holds part of
what | believe
II have faith that this government of
our was diyinely ordained to disclose
whether men are by nature fitted or
can by education be made fit for self
government; to teach jew and Greek,
bondman and free, alike, the essential
equality of all men before the law and
to. be tender and true to humanity ev-
erywhere and under all circumstances to
reveal that service is the highest reward
of life | cannot believe otherwise when
read the words and recall the sacrifices
of the fathers. If ours is not the golden
rule government, the Washington
wrought and Lincoln died, in vain.
81 believe that the world, now adj
vancing and now retreating, is neverthe
leSc ulONiHB On W u lar w uihllt event
wherein the tongues of Babel will again
be blended in the language of a common
brotherhood; and | believe that | can
reach the highest ideal of my tradition
and my lineage as an Americans a |
man. as a citizen and as public official |
when | judge my fellow men without |
malice and with charity, when | worry |
more about my own motives and con- |
duct and less about the motives and con-
duct of Others. The time | am liable to |
be wholly wrong is when | know that / |
am absolutely right. In an individualistic
/ am the unit of patriotism I
and if / keep myself keyed in unison +
with the music of the union, my fellow I
men will catch the note and fall into
time and step.
81 believe there is no finer form of
government than the one under which we
live and that | ought to be willing to
live or to die, as God DEGREES, that it may
not perish from off the earth through
treachery within or through assault from
and ! believe that though my
first right is to be partisan, that my
first duty, when the only principles on
which free government can rest are be-
ing instrained, is to be patriotic and to fol-
low in wilderness of words that clear
all which bids me guard and defend the
ark of our national covenant"