The Washington times., 1917-03-05
Makes Powerful Appeal to Pa
triotiSm in His Inaugural
Address.
PRAISE FOR GOVERNMENT
Says He Should Be Willing to
Live or Die to Keep
1t Intact.

Vice President MarshalPs inaugural
address was short but powerful as
an appeal and inspiration to indIvid.
ual patriotism
Il am the unit of patriotism" he
said, land IL 1 keep myself keyed in
unison with the muisc of the Union,
my fellowmen will catch the note
and fall into time and step"
At the conclusion of his address he
said:
II believe there is no finer form of
government than the one under which
we live and that I ought to be,will-
ing to live or die, as God DEGREES, that
1t may not perish from of the earth
through treachery within or through
assault from without"
Text of Address.
Following is Vice President Mar
shalPs inaugural address in full:
Custom calls for the utterance of
few words upon this occasion;
otherwise, 1 would gladly remain ST.
lent. 1t may not be inappropriate to
express my gratitude fer the lIttie
nameless, unnumbered and oft-times
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
few moments are to become our CO.
workers in the cause of constitutional
freedom.
Everywhere in America are
CLAIMANT and strident voices proclaim
ing the essential elements of patriot
ism. He who seeks out of them all to
select one clear note of love for coun-
try may fail. 1 conceive 1t to be far
more important to examine myself
than to cross-examine another. May
1 make bold to insert in the Record
some elements of the creed which 1
have adopted in this period of retro
spection and introspection. 1t does
not embrace what I know, but holds
part OF what believe.
DivineIy Ordained.
II have faith that this Government
OF ours was divinely ordained to dis
close 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 be-
fore the law and to be tender and
true to humanity everywhere and un-
der all circumstances; to reveal that
service is the highest reward of life.
l cannot believe otherwise when /
read the words and recall the sacri-
fees of the fathers. II ours is not
the golden rule of government, then
Washington wrought and lincoln died
in vain.
81 believe that the world, now ad-
vancing and now retreating, is new
ertheless 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 / can reach the
highest ideal of my tradition and my
lineage as an America, as a man, as
a citizen and as a public official,
when 1 Judge my fellow-men without
malice and with charity, when 1
worry more about my own motives
and conduct and less about the mo-
tives and conduct of others.
Unit of Patriotism.
"The time 1 am liable to be wholly
wrong is when 1 know that I am ab-
solutely right. In an individualistic
republic 1 am the unit of patriotism,
and If l keep myself keyed in unison
with the music OF the Union my fell
low-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 I ought to be will
ing to live or to die, as God DEGREES,
that 1t may not perish from off the
earth through treachery within or
through assault from without; and 1
believe that though my first right is
to be a partisan that my first duty,
when the only principles on which
free government can rest are being
strained, Is to be a patriot and to
follow in a wilderness of words that
clear call which bids me guard and
defend the ark of our national cove
nant"