The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-05
MARSHALL PAYS
HIGH TRIBUTE
TO Government
Vice. President in His Inaugural
Address Gives His Own Ma
\ tional Greed
ASSOCIATED Press.)

Washington, March 5.-Vice Presi-
dent Marshall made his second in
augural address before the senate to.
day-a statement of his creed OF citi.
zenship under government for
which, he said, Il ought to be willing
to live or to die, as God decreed, that
it 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 would gladly remain silent. It
may not be inappropriate to express
my gratitude fot the little nameless,
unnumbered and oftimes unremem.
bered 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 vanish
ing faces Of those who are leaving
and to welcome those who in few
moments are to become our co.work.
ers in the cause of constitutional free.
dom.
Faith in Government.
"Everywhere in America are claim
ant and strident voices proclaiming
the essential elements OF patriotism.
He who seeks out of them all to Sc
leot, one clear note of love for coun.
try; may fail. l conceive 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
have adopted in this period of retro
spection and introspection? 1t does
not embrace what l know, but holds
parts of what / believe.
II have faith 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 self.government; to teach Jew
and Greek, bondman and free, alike,
the essential quality of all men before
the law and to be tender and true
to humanity everywhere and under
all circumstances; to reveal that SER
vice is the highest reward of life. /
cannot believe otherwise when l read
the words and recall the sacrifices Of
the Fathers. If ours is not the Gold.
en- Rule of government, then Wash
ington wrought, and Lincoln died, in
vain.
.- World Advancing.
II beliece that the world, now ad-
vancing and now retreating, is never.
theless moving forward to the far.
off divine event wherein the tongues
of Babel will again be blended in the
language of common brotherhood;
and l believe that can reach the
highest ideal of my tradition and my
lineage as an American-as man,
and citizen and public official
when l Judge my fellow-man without
malice and with charity when wor-
ry 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
I know that l am absolutely right
In an individualistic republic, I am
the unit of patriotism and if I keep
myself keyed in unison with the mu-
sic of the Union, my fellow-man 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 to die, as God DEGREES, that
it may not perish from OH the earth
through treachery within or through
assault from without; and / believe
that though my first right is to be
partisan, that my first duty, when the
only principles on which free govern.
ment can rest are being strained, 10
TO be . patriot and to follow in q
wilderness Of words that clear call
which bids ne guard and defend the
neae ~ Ams naAi0mnl G6xnnaaA