Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
VICE PRESIDENT
STATES HIS CREED
Willing to Live or Die that
Government Of o. s. May
Not Perish Off Earth.
TEXT OF HIS. INAUGURAL

Washington, March 5.-Vice Presi-
dent Marshall made his second inau-
gural address before the senate to-
day, a statement of his creed of citi-
zenship under a government for
which, he said, Il ought to be willing
to live or to die, as God DEGREES, that
it may not perish off the earth through
treachery within or through assault
from without" The address follows,
Customs calls for the utterance of
few words upon this occasion;
otherwise, would gladly remain ST.
lent. 1t may not be inappropriate to
express my gratitude for the little
nameless, unnumbered and ofttimes
aforementioned acts of courtesy and
charity shown to me by the members
OF this body during the last four
years; to express my regret over the
vanishing faces of those who are leav-
ing and to welcome those who in
few moments are to become our CO.
workers in the cause of constitutional
freedom. y 5.-'
Greed of Vice President.
Everywhere in America are claim
ant and strident voices proclaiming
the essential elements of patriotism.
He who seeks out Of them all to Sc
lest one clear note of love for country
may fail. | conceive it to be far
more important to examine myself
than 10 eross-examine another. May
/ make bold to insert in the record
l.soge clements. offthe creed which |
Have adopted in this period of ret
rospecbon and introspection' It
does not : embrace, what | know, but
holds part Of What l believe. T.
Il have faith that this government
llof ours. was divinely ordained to dis
aose whether men are by nature
;kfted, or can by education be made
iHt 5 Tor seHgoverhment; to teach Jew
and Geek, bondman and free alike,
[ifte essential equality of all meh be-
Isffbne sflfe law and to be tender and
litaie 70 humanity everywhere and un-
Der aA circumstances; to reveal that
.safyae lis fthe highest reward of life.'
q !. cafnot believe otherwise when I
Tread tAf Words and recall the sacri-
Hoes 81 the fathers. If ours is not
the Golden Rule Of government, then
Washington wrought and 7 Lincoln.
died in vain.
Common Brotherhood Coming.
Il believe th.t the world, now adj
uaneing and now retreating, is never
theless moving forward to a~far-off
| divine event wherein the tongues. of
Babel will again be blended in the
language of common brotherhood;
and ! believe that / can reach the
highest ideal of my tradition and my
lineage as an American--as a man,
as citizen and as public official
when judge my fellow men without
malice and with charity; when l worry
more about my own motives and con-
duct and less about the motives and
conduct of others. The time l am
liable to be wholly wrong is, when /
know that | am absolutely right. In
an ipdividualistic republic | am the
unit Of patriotism, and if | keep my
self keyed in unison with the music
of the union, my fellow men will
catch the, note and fall into time and
step. fs s.....,.
| Our Government Best. -
II 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 CD de-
crees, that it may not perish from off
the earth through treachery within