The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-03-08
VICE PRESIDENT TH0S.
R. MARSHALL PRESENTS HIS /
CREED OF CITIZENSHIP

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u resident Marshall in his second in
aupural address said:
4 ought TO be willing 70 live or
10 de. as God DEGREES, that i; may
TO, perish OF the earth through
treachery within or through assault
without The address follows:
Custom calls for the utterarce of
Jew words upon this occasion. 9TH
erwise | would gladly remain silent.
II may not be inappropriate TO ex-
press my gratitude for the little
nalneless. unnumbered and Oft times
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
! leaving and to welcome these who in
a few moments are to become our
co-workers in the cause CT constitu-
tional freedom.
Everywhere in America are clam
ant and strident voices proclaiming
the essential elements of patriotism.
| lie who seeks out of them all to Sc
loct one clear note of love for coun-
try may fail. | cnceive it 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 I
nave adopted in this period OF retro
Ispection? Ii does not embrace what
| know but holds part of what be-
lieve.
II have faith that this govern
nent Of ours was diyinely ordained
20 disclose whether men are by ma
ture fitted or can by education be
made fit fer lf-government; to
teach Jew and Greek, bondman and
free, alike, the essential equality OF
lali men before the law and TO be
tender and tru to humanity every
where and under all circumstances.
to reveal that service is the highest
reward of life. | cannot believe
tc!nerwise when | read the words and
recall the sacrifices of the Fathers
u ours is not the Golden Rule Of
Government, then Washington
wrought, and Lincoln died in vain.
y believe that the world, now adj
ivancing and now retreating, is new
ertheless moving forward to a far
on divine event wherein the tongues
lof Babel will again be blended in
the language of a common brother
Hood; and | believe that can reach
the highest ideal cf my tradition
land my lineage as an American as
a man, as a citizen and as a public
,cffcial when / Judge my fellow
men without malice and with char
ity, when | worry more about my
own motives and conduct and less
about the motives and conduct of
Others. The time | am liable to be
wholly wrong is when | know that
l am absolutely right. In an indi-
vidualistic Republic, | am the unit
Of patiotism and if l keep myself
keyed in unison with the music of
the Union, my fellow-men will catch
the note and fall into time and step.
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 die, as God de-
lcrees, that it may not perish from off
1.-THE earth through treachery within
or through assault from without;
land l believe that though my first
right is to be a partisan, that my
first duty, when the only principles
Ton 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 AK of our
National Covenant"