Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-03-11
THOMAS R. MARSHALL
GIVES VALED|CT0RY
In Felicitous Address Bids
Farewell AS President
of u. s. Senate
ENDS HIS OFFICIAL LIFE
Is Not Denoted to Ranks Of COM
mon People Whom He Never
Rose Above.

WASHINGTON, March 5.(Unitcd
Press THE text OF Thomas r. Mar
shall's valedictory as vice-president
of the United States follows:
Very shortly I shall have ended
my official life as the constitutional
PRESIDENT of this body That moment
when it arrives. will not mark my
demotiOn into the ranks of the aver
age American citizen for l never
rose above them.
Father Places COronaI
II sprang from the loins of men
who. helped to lay the foundations
of the republic. At my birth my
father placed upon my baby brow
the coronal of free born American
citizen. n my youth l was taugh;
that If l wore 1t wOrthily, no prince
nor potentate nor electorate could
add to or detract from the honor>of
that royal coronal.
Il may have failed but have tried
to keep the faith. have never
doubted that, so far as the principles
of civil government are concerned,
the pillars of 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 the principles of
the republic are administered may
ned changes to meet changing con-
ditiOns, but the underlying ideas
Co hn - Il.
and eternal. What was so when the
morning stars sang together will be
so when the Angels of the Apoca-
Types appear.
II venture to express this much of
that idea: A government dedicated
to the inalienable rights of man to
life, to liberty and to the pursuits
of happiness san find its perfect &C
complishment only in representatives
brave and strong enough to rise
above the ambitious, passions and
prejudices Of individuals and groups.
Representative government was in
tended to guarantee those inalienable
rights of men through the enactment
and in the form of laws calculated
to preserve an equal and exact jus-
tice to all men. Religions die be-
cause priests humble their creeds,
but have no faith in their gods. Gov.
ernments go to wreck because their
statesmen shout aloud their shiD5o-
leths but let friendly enemy pass
the ford.
Ewou<S D1rh< -, CI,u--~
II freely grant the right of this
people to change our form of govern
ment and to adopt other basic princi-
pies but, II 1t is to be done, let 1t
be done decently and directly SO
that all of us may know it. The old
faith has already too many sleek
and smiling Joabs asking of it is
1T well with thee, my brother?'
while the old order endures let
representatives represent the old
ideals; let 1t be understood that they
are not mere Dellboys, subject to
call for legislative cracked ice every
time the victims of a debauch OF
greed, gambling, or improvidence feel
the fevers of frenzied need.
Life is More Than Meat.
"The life is more than meat and
the body more than raiment. It is
OF minor Importance who holds the
wealth of the nation II the hearts
OF all its people beat with true his
toric American throb. The clothes
may mark but the clothes cannot
make the man. The economic re-
Mobilization of America is of vast
moment but the reha Utilization of the
ancient faith which upheld the ragg-
ed continentals, emerged in pristine
glory fom the throes of civil war
and hurled its smiling and undaunt-
ed face against the grim faces of
tyranny upon the fields of France, is
a far greater work.
1T is enough-perhaps too much.
Who am I to suggest, even with
shamefaced timidty, anything to
you? For eight long years, crowded