The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-05
MARSHALL TAKES
OATH OF OFFICE
His Greed Of Citizenship Outlined in
His Speech Before the Members
of the Senate.
(By Associated Press)

washington, March b-Vice Prasi
dent Marshall made his second inauq
ural address. before the Senate toda,
"a statement of his creed Of citizen
ship under government for which
he said, II ought to be willing to liv,
or to die, as God decrees, that it ma,
!. not perish off the earth through
treachery within or through assault
from without"
| He took the oath of Office at 12:Of
o'clock. Hiss address follows:
Custom calls for the utterance Of
few words upon this occasion: 9th,
erwise, would gladly remain silent.
1t may not be inappropriate to ex-
press my gratitude for the little
nameless, unnumbered and oft-times
unremembered acts Of courtesy and
Charity shown to me by the member,
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 a
few moments are to become our CO.
workers in the cause Of constitutional
freedom.
Everywhere in America are clam
ant and strident voices proclaiminr,
the essential elements of patriotism.
He who seeks out Of them all to Sc
lect one clear note of love for country
may fail. l conceive it to be more
important to examine myself than to
cross-exanine another. May l make
bold to insert in the Record sems ele-
ments, of the creed which I have
adopted in this period of retrospection
and introspection? 1t does not en-
brace what l know but holds part of
what I believe.
Il have faith that this Government
Of ours was divinely ordained to dis
close whether men are to nature fit
ed or can by education be made fit for
sef-government; to teach Jew and
Greek ,bondman and free, alike, the
essential equality Of all men before
he law and to be tender and true to
humanity everywhere and under all
circumstances; to reveal that service
s the highest reward of life. can
lot believe otherwise when read the
words and recall the sacrifices of the
'athers. If ours is not the Golden
lule Of Government, then Washing |
on wrought, and Lincoln died, in
ain.
II believe that the world now ad-
ancing and now retreating, is nev-
rtheless moving forward to a far-off ,
ivine event wherein the tongues of
label will again be blended in the ,
anguage of q common brotherhood; .
nd l believe that ! can reach the
ighest ideal of my tradition and my /;
neage as an American--as man, !.
J citizen and as a public official H. =
hen l judge my fellow-men without !
alice and with charity, when worry !.
ore about my own motives and con- !
lct and less about the motives and Il
nduct Of others. The time l am !,
able to be wholly wrong is when :,
low that l am absolutely right. In
individualistic Republic, am the !.
lit Of patriotism and if keep my p
If keyed in unison with the music of .,
9 Union, my fellow-men will catch N
e note and fall into time and step. :,
II believe there is no finer form of e,
vernment than the one under which
, live and that ought to be willing t,
live or to die, as God DEGREES, that c,
may not perish from of the earth u
rough treachery within or through nj
sault from without; and believe nj
1t though my first right is to be a nj
rtisan, that my first duty, when the m
ly principles on which free govern o,
IN can rest are being strained, Is ia
be a patriot and to follow In q hi
lderness Of words that clear call q,
lich bids me guard and defend the I'll
X Of ou, National cevsaent" tr