Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-04
HEAR FAREWELL
II Of MARSHALL
Says He Has Tried to Keep
the Faith Given Him, in
Speech on Retirement.

WASHINGTON, March 4-Fol-
lowing is the text in part Of the ad-
dress of Vice President Marshall on
his retirement:
VERY shortly I shall have ended
my official life as the constitutional
presiding officer of this body. That
moment, when it arrives, will not
mark my demotion into the ranks
of the average American citizen for
never above them.
Il may have failed but I have
tried TO keep the faith. I have
never doubted that so far as the
principles of civil government are
concerned, the pillars of Hercules
rest upon the declaration of indie
pendence and the constitution of
there is no beyond. The forms un-
der which the principles of the re-
public are admitted. may need
changes to meet changing condi-
tons, but the underlying idea does
not. for truth is unchanging and
eternal. What was so when the
morning stars sang together will be
so when the angel of the apocalypse
appears.
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 pursuits
OF happiness a find perfect ac-
complishments in representatives
strong and brave enough to rise
above ambitions, passions and pref
udicies of individuals and groups.
Representative government was in
tended to guarantee these inaliena-
BILE rights of men through enact
ment and enforcement of laws. cal
culated to preserve and promote
equal and exact justice to all men.
II freely grant the rights of this
people to change our form of gov
eminent and to adopt other basic
principles, 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 jobs asking of it is it
well with thee my brother?'
while the old order endures let
representatives represent the old
ideals; let it be understood that they
are not merely bell boys subject to
calls for legislative cracked ice
every time the victims of a debauch
of great gambling or improvident
feel the fever of frenzied greed.
The rehabilitation of America is
of vast moment; but the rehabilita-
tion of the ancient faith which up
held ragged continentals merged in
pristine glories from the throes of
civil war, and hurled its smiling
and undaunted face against the
fields of France, is a far greater
work. 1t is not enough-perhaps
too much-who am ] to suggest
Nth shaem faxed comfy anything
10 you. For eight long years crowd
I'd with events which have forever
changed the current of the worlds
history, | have been with you. 1
come to the end of them with a feel
Ing of heartfelt gratitude to you all
Tor Those little unremembered acts
OF kindness and charity which have
marked your friendship and good
will. You have been good to me.
The odor of your friendship will
sv eeten any air that / breathe. Not
any one of you a wish for himself
a kindlier fate that 1 would give
you If / was omnipotent.
II go but you remain. l leave
with the same i~narticulate cry in my
soul with which I came to you: My
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cry for the American. but It has, l
fear, myriad concepts. To some it
means broad acres of fertile fields;
to many opportunity for personal
preferment; 10 a thoughtless few the
TO utter every vagrant word
which finds Judgment in a mind
diseased; to the half-educated that
democracy should be governed as
by the infants cry as by the
prophets warning. but to me it is
but the composite voice OF all the
good and wise and self-sacriicins
souls who trod or tired its soil. call
ing for that liberty which is law-en-
crowned. teaching that doctrine
which seeks, not assumes, but the
common good, above all warning us
by the memory Of the dead and hope
OF unborn to close our ears to the
mouthings of every peripatetic re-
former, who tells us that the way 10
sanctify the republic is to remove
every landmark which has hitherto
marked the boundaries of national
n individual life"