The Washington herald., 1917-03-06
PATRIOTISM FIRST,
PLEA OF MARSHALL
Vice President. 10 Inaugural Address
Calls U. s. Government
.... Firmest of All.

With even more solemnity than that
which accompanied the Inauguration OF
President Wilson. Vice President Thomas
Riley Marshall took the oath Of once
for q second term at the hands Of Chief
Justice White IN the Senate Chamber
yesterday.
Facing an audisncs Of diplomats, Cab
net ofhcers. Supreme Court justices, the
entire msmbership of Congress, and the
President himself, the Vice President
made his second inaugural address.
The Vice Preddsnt said:
Custom calls for the uttsranos OF q
few words upon this occasion. otherwise
would gladly remain silent. Il may
not be inappropriate to express my srat-
itnde for the little. nameless, unnum.
bered 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 regret
over the vanishing faces Of those who
are leaving and to welcome those who
In q few moments are to become our
co-workers In the cause OF constitutional
freedom.
Everywhere in America are CLAIMANT
and strident 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
10 examine myself than to cross exam
Inc another. May make bold to insert
in the Record some elements OF the creed
which have adopted in this period
Of retrospection and introspection. II
does not embrace what I know. but
holds part OF what believe.
Divinely Ordained.
Il have faith that this government OF
ours was divinely ordained to disclose
whether men are by nature fitted or can
by education be made ft for self.govern-
| ment; to teach Jew and Greek, bond
man and free. alike, the essential equal
ity Of all men before the law and to be
| tender and true to humanity everywhere
under all circumstances: to reveal that
service is the highest reward of life I
cannot believe otherwise when l read the
words and recall the sacrifices of the
! fathers. II ours is not the golden rule
of government. then Washington wrought
| and Lincoln died In vain.
Il believe that the world, now advanc-
ing and now retreating. is nevertheless
moving forward to a far-ofr divine event
wherein the tongues OF Babel will again
| be blended in the language Of a common
brotherhood: and l believe that l can
reach the highest ideal OF my tradition
| and my lineage as an American-as a
man. as q citizen and as public Off
clal-when I Judge my fellowmen with
out malice and with charity. when
worry more about my own motives and
conduct and less about the motives and
! conduct of others.
THE time l am liable to be wholly
| wrong is when I know that / am ab-
| solutely right. In an individualistic re-
public. I am the unit of patriotism and
| IL keep myself keyed in unison with the
! music of the union. my felIowmen will
i catch the note and fall into time and
| step.
Il 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 1t MAJ y
not perish from OF the earth through
| treachery within or through assault from
| without: and believe that though my
first right Is to be a partisan. that my
| nrst duty. when the only principles on
which free government can rest are being
strained. is to be a patriot and . follow
in wilderness Of words that clear call
which bids me guard and defend the ark
| OF our national government"