The Mankato free press., 1921-03-11
ADDRESS BY MARSHALL
RETIRING VICE PRESIDENT
SPOKE TO SENATORS
Spirit of Patriotism Permeated
The Utterance; Talks
FeeIingIy
IAssnciated Press Dispatch.]

Washington, March 4.-Following Is the
text of the address Of Vice President
Marshall on his retirement from onice:
Every shortly / shall have ended my
official life as the constitutional presid
ing officer of this body. That moment
when it arrives, will not mark my demo
ton into the ranks Of the average Ameri-
can citizen, for / never arose above
them.
Il sprang from the loins of men who
helped to lay the foundation OF the re,
public. At my birth my father placed
upon my baby brow the coronal of a free
born American citizen. In my youth
was taught that if ] wore it worthily. ms
prince nor potentate, nor elector coulo
add or detract from the honor OF that
royal coronal.
II may have failed but have tried to
keep the faith. 1 have never doupteo
that so far as the peoples of civil gov
Hercules rest upon the Declaration OF
Independence and the constitution OF the
United States to my mind there Is NO
beyond The forms under which o principles i,
need changes to meet the changing con-
ditions but the underlying idea Is not.
for truth Is unchanging and eternal.
What was so when the morning star sans
Apocalypse appears.
Republics Rise Above Ambitions.
Il venture to express this much of that
idea: A government dedicated to the
inalienable rights of man to, life. to
liberty and to the pursuit of happiness
can find it's perfect accomplishment only
in republics brave and strong enough to
rise. above the ambitions, passions and
prejudices of individuals and groups.
Representative government was m
tended to guarantee this 1nallenabie
enforcement of laws calculated to pre-
serve and promote equal and exact justice
to all men.
Religions die because priests humble
Governments go to wreck because their
statesmen shout aloud their shibboleths.
but let q friendly enemy. pass the ford.
II freely grant the right of this people
to adopt other basic principals, but If it
is to be done let it be done decently and
directly SO that all of us may know it
The old faith has already too many sleek
and smiling Jacobs asking of it, is 1t
well with thee my brother?
while the old order endures let rep
resentatives represent the old ideals; let
it be understood that they are not mere
cracked ice every time the victims OF
a debauch of greed, gambling or impro-
vidence feel the fever of rrenzied need.
Clothes Do Not Make The Gentlemen.
body more than raiment. 1t is of minor
importance who holds the wealth of the
nation If the hearts of all its people beat
with true historic American throb. The
clothes may mark but the clothes can
not make the gentlemen. The economic
habitauon of America is of vast moment
but the rehabilitation of. the faith which
upheld the ragged continentals emerged
in pristine glory from the throes of the
Civil war. and hurled it's smiling and un-
daunted face against the grim engines of
tyranny upon the fields of France. is q
far greater work.
ut is enough-perhaps too much. Who
am 1 to suggest, even with shame-faced
timidity anything to you. For eight long
years. crowded with events which have
worlds history l have been with you.
come to the end of them with a fleeing
Of heartfelt gratitude to you all for
of kindness and charity which have
marked your friendship and good will
You have been good to me. The odor OF
your friendship will sweeten any air tha,
for himself kindlier fate than 1 would
give you il l were omnipotent.
Speaks For His Country.
II go. but you remain: l leave with the
is no new nor unusual cry for the
American, but it has, fear, myriad con-
cepts. To some it means broad acres
few, the right to utter every vagrant
word which finds Judgement in a mind
to 5hs half
the infants cry as by the prophets
warning. But to me it is but the COM
posite voice of all the. good and wise and
self sacrificing soul who, trod or tread its
soil, calling for that liberty which is
law -encrowned, preaching that doctrine
which seeks not its own but the common
god and, above all, warning us by the
memory of the dead and the hope of the
unborn to close our ears TO the mouthines
of every peripathetic reformer who tells
us that the way to sanctify the repuhic
is to remove every landmark which has
hit her to marked the boundaries of ma.
tional and individual life. ...r
at is no new religion we need! Our
creed should be: One lord. one faith.
one baptism-the lord justice who was
with Washington at Valley Forge, Grant
and Lee at Appomatox, Pershing on the
fields of France: the faith that under a
republican form of government alone
democracy. permanently gan endure, the
baptism of that spirit win not be content
until no man is above the penalties ano
no man beyond the protection of our laws.
Let him who goes and him who stays
remember that he who saves his life al
the loss of his country's honor. loses it,
and he who loses his life for the sane I,
his country's honor, saves It."