South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05
MARSHALL SOUNDS
PATRIOTIC CALL
Vice President Says This is
Time For People to Sup
port the President.

I NAShINGlON, Mdrcn On ms
/ inaugural address before the senate
today Vice Pres't Thomas Riley
Marshall sounded a call to patriot
ism. He said:
Custom calls for the utterance Of
a few words upon this occasion.
otherwise l would gladly remain 81
+ lent II may not be Inappropriate 10
7 express my gratitude for the little,
nameless. unnumbered and ofttimes
unremem bered acts OF courtesy and
charity shown 10 me by the mem
bers of this body during the last four
I years, TO express my regret over the
vanishing faces of those who are
leaving. and 10 welcome those who
in. few moments are 70 become our
co-workers in the cause of constitu-
tional freedom.
Everywhere i'm America are
claimant and strident voices pro-
claiming the essential elements OF
patriotism He who seeks out of
them all 10 select one clear note of
love for country may fail. 1 con-
ceive il to be far more important TO
examine myself than TO cross exam
inc another May / make so bold 20
insert in the record some elements
OF the creed which / have adopted
in this period of retrospection and
introspection 1t does not embrace
what know, but holds part of what
] believe
Il have faith that this govern
ment Of ours was divinely ordained
to disclose whether men are by ma
ture fitted or can by education be
made fit for self government. 10
teach Jew and Greek, bondman and
free. alike. the essential equality OF
all men before the law. and TO be
tender and true to humanity every
where and under all circumstances.
70 reveal that service is the highest
reward o f life. l cannot believe
otherwise when ] read the words
and recall the sacrifices of our
fathers. If ours is not the golden
rule of government. then Washing
ton wrought and Lincoln died in
vain
"I believe that the world. now ad-
vancing and now retreating, is
nevertheless moving forward TO a
far-off divine event wherein the
tongues of Babel will again be
blended in the language OF a COM
mon brotherhood. and be
lieve that l can reach the highest
ideal of my tradition and my
lineage as an American, as a man,
as a citizen. and as a public official,
when / judge my fellow men without
malice and with charity, when /
worry more about my own motives
and conduct and less about the mo-
tiVes and conduct of others.
The time L am able 10 be wholly
wrong is when / know that L am
absolutely right. In an Individuals
tic republic. 1 am the unit OF patri-
otism and if I keep myself keyed in
unison with the music OF the Union,
my fellow men will catch the note
and fall into time and step.
Il believe there is no finer form
Of government than the one under
which we live, and that ! ought TO
be willing 70 live or TO die as God
DEGREES. that il may not perish from
off the earth through treachery
within or through assault from with
out. and 1 believe that though my
first right is 10 be a partisan, that
my first duty when the only prin-
ciples on which free government can
rest are being strained. is 10 be
patriot and TO follow in a wilder
ress of words that clear call which
bids me guard and defend the ark
of our national government"