Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-06
MARSHALL THINKS OURS GOLDEN RULE.
 OF GOVERNMENT
Willing to Die if God De. crees That Government
 May Not Perish.

Washington, March .;.-Vice Presi- dent Marshall made lis second in- augural address before the senate to- day-a statement of his creed of gov- ernment for which, he said. "I ought to be willing to live or to die, as God decreed, that t may not perish off the earth through treachery within or through assault from without" The address follows:
 Custom calls for the utterance of few words upon this occasion, other wise I would gladly remain silent. It may not be inappropriate to express my gratitude for those little nameless
 unnumbered and oft-tinaes unremem- bered acts of gratitude and charity shown to me by the members of this body during the last four years; Q express my regrets over the vanish ing faces of those who are leaving and to welcome those who. in a few moments, are to become our cowork- CTS in the case of constitutional free dom.
 Everywhere in America are clam l mant and strident voices proclaim 1 ing the essential elements of patrio- tism. He who seeks out of them all ] to select one clear note of love for | country may fail. I conceive it to
 be far more important to examine | myself than to cross-examine another. l May I make bold to insert in the rec 1 ord some elements of the creed which
 have adopted in this period of re- trospection and introspection? 1t | 1+ holds part of what I believe. l "I have faith that this government ] of ours was divinely ordained to dis
 close whether men are by nature fit-
 ted or can by education be made fit ] for self4governmenty 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
 under all circumstances; to reveal
 that service is the highest reward of
 life 1 cannot believe otherwise when
 I remember the words and recall the sacrifices of the fathers. If ours is
 not the Golden Rule of government,
 then Washington wrought and Lin
 coin died in vain.
 l q believe that the world, now ad
 vancing and now retreating, is never theless moving forward to a far-off divine event wherein the tongues of
 Babel again will be blended in the
 language Of a common brotherhood {;
 and I believe that l can reach the
 highest ideal of my tradition and my lineage as an American--as a man, as citizen and as a public official l when l judge my fellow men with
 out malice and with clarity, when I worry more about my own motives
 and conduct and less about the mo- lives and conduct of others. The time I am liable to 1b be wholly wrong is
 when l know that I am absolutely
 right. In an individu alistic republic am the unit of patriotism and if keep myself keyed in unison with the music of the union. my fellow men will catch the note and fall into
 time and step.
 T "I believe there is no finer form
 of government than the one under j which we live and that I ought to be willing to live or to die, as God de-
 crees, that it may not perish from off
 the earth, through treachery within or through assault from without; and II 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 patriot and to follow in the wilderness of words that , clear call which bids me guard and defend the ark. of our national cove } nant."