Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 54, 13 January 1913 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM VXD ST73T-TKKEGIIA3I, MONDAY", JAXTTATIT 13, 1913.

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SBALSTON DELIVERS INAUGURALADDRESS New Governor Touches on the Numerous Issues of the Day.

SERVANT OF PEOPLE fcefers to Address of T. A. Hendricks. New Constitution Needed. Indianapolis, Jan. 13. Upon taking the oath of office today, Governor Samuel M. Ralston said: Senators, Representatives and Fellow Citizens: The oath I have just taken binds me most solemnly to the faithful discharge f high official duties. Itv pledges me to loyalty to the constitution of my state and to the constitution of my country, and imposes upon me duties to the GOVERNOR RALSTON. citizenship under both. The sincerity with which I have taken this obligation cannot now be known to those whom I am pledged to serve. By my official conduct their confidence in me will either be strengthened or destroyed. I intend it shall be strengthened. On the 13th day of January, 1873 forty years ago this day one of Indiana's most cultured gentlemen and ablest statesmen, Thomas A. Hendricks, .was inaugurated governor of Indiana. In his inaugural address he said: "It is not expected of me upon this occasion to consider, with any degree of paticularity, the subjects of legislation that may occupy your attention at the present session. That duty has been discharged by my predecessor. But I cannot avoid a reference to some subjects of special interest and importance." As in the case of the predecessor of Governor Hendricks, my distinguished predecessor, Governor Marshall, has complied with the provision of the constitution requiring the governor to communicate with the general assembly, and this renders it unnecessary that I should address a formal message to the legislature at this time. The reference I shall now make to any particular subject of legislation will be made not so much with a view of indicating the character of any law that should be enacted as with a view of showing the direction I am now facing and shall continue to face during my administration. Party' Platform Declaration. 1 assume that the Democratic majority of the present legislature will abide "by and promptly proceed to carry out the last platform declarations made by its party in this state. This will Include an efficient primary election law and a general revision of the road laws. Not to carry out this platform would be a betrayal of the people's confidence. Numerous and serious questions frequently arise between public utilities companies and their patrons or customers, involving in many Instances to a greater or less extent the public. These questions sometimes take the form of real controversies growing out of the methods pursued rpoatlno' and nrocurina; franchises: No More Constipation It's Me for Olive Tablets! That Is the Joyful cry of thousands since Dr. Edwards produced Olive Tablets, the substitute for calomel. Dr. Edwards, a practicing physician for 17 years and Calomel's old-time enemy, discovered the formula for Olive Tablets while treating patients for chronic constipation and torpid livers. Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets do not tcontain calomel, but a healing, soothing laxative. No griping is the "keynote" of these little sugar-coated tablets. They cause the bowels and liver to ct normal. They never force them to unnatural action. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are so asy to take that children do not regard them as ' medicine" at all. If you have a "dark brown mouth" now and then a bad breath a dull, tired feeling sick headache torpid liver and constipated, you'll find quick, sure and only pleasant results irom one or two little Olive Tablets at bed time, i sy're perfectly harmless. Thou s take one every night Just tepCj N right. Try thsm. "EV'JW :, Y dive Tablet has a nov . it own." 10c and 25c TbSjJllve Tablet Co.. Columbus, O.

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the rates cnargea tor service ana tne kind of service rendered. Out of this condition has grown quite a general demand in different sections of the state for a public utilities commission. Such a commission as Is well known would be vested with authority over telephone companies, gas companies, electric light companies, water companies, power companies, street car companies, interurban traction companies and kindred utilities companies, and I recommend the creation, of the same. The many properties and the vast amount of capital that would come under the jurisdiction of a utilities commission indicate the ability and care required in drafting a utilities law absolutely fair to both the public and those having their money invested in such properitles. A utilities law should empower the Commission to make physical valuation and to ascertain the amount Inrested and the amount necessary f teep up repairs and pay operating expenses. These things are essential to be known as a basiB for arriving at proper charges for service. It is important that the law should contain a provision against watered stock and overbonding and against abuses in granting franchises, and it should require a system of uniform accounting. The People are Alert. I hope the legislature will make a zealous effort to enact a satisfactory law on this subject. While the people are alert on questions of this character and are demanding proper service by utilities companies at reasonable rates, they do not wish to work oppression upon them. They desire only what is right between man and man, and to my personal knowledge there are utilities companies in this state that share this view with the people. The majority of American citizens are neither rich nor poor. The man of limited means, therefore, who honors his country in times of peace and defends her institutions in times of war is entitled to have wealth bear its share of public expenses. To this end I hope the legislature will enact an Inheritance tax law. Corporations are creatures of the state. They have no authority to issue stocks and bonds or securities in any form except as the state vests them with power to issue the same. There should be a law against the Issuance and sale of watered securities, unless on the face thereof the amount of per cent, of water therein Is accurately stated. We should have In this state a workingman's compensation law. Whether such a law can be made compulsory under the Indiana constitution is a question. If a law on this subject is enacted containing a compulsory provision and it otherwise meets my approval I shall let the supreme court say whether it Is constitutional. In my opening campaign speech last fall, I stated that while I personally favored a constitutional convention, I had no authority to commit my party to such a movement, but that without regard to my individual views, I would, in the event of my election, mike such recommendations as to the advisability of calling a convention as I believed fairly represented the views of the people. What then are the views of the people on this subject? The Democratic legislature in 1911 believed that the present constitution of Indiana did not meet the requirements of the people, and so holding it prepared for submission to the voters of Indiana a new constitution. People Need New Constitution. The Progressive and the Republican parties in their respective platforms of 1912 declared in favor of a constitutional convention. So unless the Democratic legislature of 1911 and the Progressive and the Republican parties were all mistaken the people of Indiana are in need of and want a new constitution. Is it strange that they should desire an up-to-date organic law? Their present constitution was adopted more than sixty years ago. Since then the development of our state has been marvelous. Its population has greatly increased and its intellectual social and material progress have multiplied many fold. New questions have arisen that cannot be solved under the present instrument and new conditions make It necessary for the people to assert rights they can not exercise thereunder. What is a government for if it is not to serve the purpose of the people? Thomas Jefferson believed so strongly that this was the object of government that he maintained that a constitution should contain a provision for its revision every twenty years. They have been but few, if any, men in this state who excelled the late Governor Isaac P. Gray in ability accurately to interpret public sentiment. In his message to the legislature more than thirty years ago he strongly advocated the calling of a constitutional convention. I have thus briefly stated the facts that I believe show the people want a new constitution, and personally, I favor a constitutional convention. Servant of All the People. While I was nominated for governor as a party man and elected as such, and am with pride still a Democrat without apology, I do not fail to recognize In the hour of triumph that the noise and prejudice of campaign have been succeeded by the calm essential to good neighborhood and the public welfare. I am admonished by the character of my oath of office that I am not now the representative of a political party, except in a limited sense, but that I am the servant of all the people, without regard to creed or party and without regard to the manner born. By the first line of our state constitution the people of Indiana dedicated themselves to the sublime doctrine of the equality of man. This id a or principle of government existed in the remote past in sentiment only. Senaca, the pagan philosopher, was perhaps the first to recgnize it as a controlling principle in society and government, when be declared in his contemplation of death that "Tfce chief part of equity is equality." As the surest means of vitalizing

this principle In the affairs of Men,

afe'eacb fimaea Into tnree distinct divisions with separate functions and without any power on the part of any one to exercise the functions of either of the others. Whether we look to the federal or state government the fact appears that the people have not only defined with great accuracy the duties of each division of their government, but they have furnished the world the unprecedented example of voluntarily surrendering a part of their unlimited power. They deprived themselves of all legislative, executive and judicial authority and before they can perform any of these functions of government they must revest themselves with the necessary power therefore by constitutional methods they themselves have devised. A Solemn Admonition. The thought I want to leave with you at this point is this; if the people, the source of all power, refuse to exercise power they have delegated until they can in a formal and orderly way revest themselves with authority to act, their conduct In this respect should afford a solemn admonition against the usurpation of authority by any branch of the government. Impressed by the example thus set by the people, and revering constitutional provisions, I shall conscientiously strive to confine my official acts to the executive sphere prescribed by the constitution, and. steadfastly refrain from attempting coercive methods respecting the other branches of government. Those called to official positions of grave responsibility cannot nope rightfully to respond to the demands of the public, if they close their eyes to the constitution of society and the spirit of the times. Indifferently, indeed, has he lived who does not understand that the people know their government is slipping away from them, and that they are pleading for honest public servants. The newspaper and the magazine are abroad in the land. The Isaiahs of national progress are crying unto the people to reclaim the government of their own making, and with hearts that shall not fail and with a courage that shall endure, they will ultimately have their Runnymede. We should not forget, however, that wild declamation disorganizes and frustrates the plans of those working for the general good. Recognizing this truth, the people are coming more and more to lay their heads together ,on matters of public concern, with the view of being able to give helpful service to those in authority over them. Hence the official entreaty to the populace should be, "Come, let us reason together." This was the conception of law making the philosophical Burke had In mind when he declared that "In all forms of government the people Is the true legislator." Necessity for Law and Order. In national, as in state affairs, they have solved intelligently every question they have had to consider. I sometimes think that men in public station do not always correctly estimate the wisdom and the character of American citizenship. While our citizens are aggressive, and at times seem to act hastily, they are, nevertheless, given to serious thought. This is true because the average American is capable of a high order of friendship and has the ability to acquire property. Love for man and a desire for property suggests the necessity for law and order, and so it is that the average American citizen stands for obedience to law. Unless the law is enforced, constitutional guarantees become but the dreams of our fathers and the most sacred rights of citizenship have nothing secure upon which to rest. Before the law, the rich and the poor, the capitalist and the laborer must stand upup an equality. As governor I shall have no favorites in the execution of the law, and let it now be understood that I shall hold that the mind which devises a scheme that Is In violation of law is guiltier than the dependent hands that execute the offense In obedience to orders. A free government, resting upon the consent and having the love and support of all the people, should not be chargeable with class legislation. This sort of legislation is the trail of the beast through the pople's law making body, and is the rankest sort of injustice to the masses. A Public-Serving Administration. I make no attack upon property. Property rights are shielded by constitutional guarantees and must be respected. Nor am I hostile to corporations. On the contrary, I recognize their worth. The business of the country could not be carried on without them. But I insist that when they dominate legislature and control the people's government in their own Interest, they violate the law of their creation, become wrong doers against the public, and should be dealt with accordingly. But corporations, like individuals, when they are assigned for wrong doing, either before the bar of public opinion, or at the bar of justice, must be tried according to the rules of Justice. It may, therefore, be appropriately observed in this connection that the loudest denunciation does not necessarily indicate the surest way to the reform the people want, and that catch phrases often lead in the opposite direction to real progress. Senators and representatives, I hope that when your legislative duties are concluded, you will have the satisfaction of knowing you have, as law makers, met the reasonable expectation of the people. To be conscious of having served your state to a noble purpose will strengthen you in your future work and comfort you when the shadows fall about you. Those representing the co-ordinate branches of government should sustain a relation of trust and confidence with one another, and I ask all with whom I shall be assciated in an official way to aid me in giving the people a money-saving and a public-serving ad-:aimstratioc.

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Known as a Flower to Which God Has Granted Wings. Our continent has a monopoly of humming birds, the gems of the feathered creation. Of these there are said to be aa many as 400 species, most of which confine themselves to the tropical regions. Only eighteen varieties live farther north than Mexico. It Is generally thought that bumming birds live upon honey. This, however, is a mistake. They do devour some honey, it is true, but most of their food consists of the small insects which inhabit certain flowers. Tbe little bird is therefore useful 89 well as beautiful and bas been called a flower to which God bas granted wings. Humming birds are so small that when they are captured for commercial purposes it Is impossible to use even the smallest shot for fear of injuring their skins. They are therefore stunned with a drop of water from a blowgun or syringe and fall into a net. when they are quickly poisoned. Humming birds vary in size from those half as large as a sparrow to those about the size of a bee. Their flight is so swift that they can be well seen only when poised on a flower. Ave Maria. The Train Robbers. "Yes," Bald the distinguished foreigner traveling In this country and being interviewed by tbe busy reporters "yes. I've gone about quite a bit in this bally big hinterland, y see. And J cawn't help wonderln' why your bloomln government doesn't catch the train robbers and lock them up, by Jove." "Train robbers?" said the American. "Why, have you met up with train robbers already?" "Tubby Shaw! Tubby SbawT "Who's that?" "I meanter say, yes, I have. These bandits biack their faces, y'know, and then they come in very politely and take me money." The American thought it over, and then It began to dawn upon him that ; this was only another story about Pullman porters. Cleveland Plain Dealer, i Hsr Mistake. j "While in Kansas City last week 1 ! had occasion to dictate some notes to a hotel stenographer in regard to a coming convention," said a Chicago man. "I began oue paragraph with this statement: " 'On Wednesday evening tbe visitors will be the guests of the various fraternal organizations having clubhouses in the city.' "This particular paragraph came ; back typewritten thus: " 'On Wednesday evening the visitors will be the crests of the various freight terminal organizations having clubhouses in the city.' "Chicago Post The Moon's Offspring. Looking out of the window one evening, little Marie saw the bright full moon in the eastern sky and ap parently only a few inches from it the beautiful Jupiter, shining almost as brightly as the moon Itself. Marie gazed intently at the spectacle for a moment and then, turning to her mother, exclaimed: "Oh, mother, look! The moon has laid an egg!" New York Prees. The pleasure of pure, choice tobacco has brought fame to TURKISH BLEND CIGARETTES Thismild, delightf ulTurkishblend has the biggest sale of any cigarette in the U. S. t "Distinctively individual" The Best Way TO BEGIN The New Year I Sit down and sum up your bills, putting those of the butcher, grocer, rent man, insurance agent, etc., etc., all in one amount, then come and see us and give us an opportunity to explain our plan for relieving your financial pains." We loan on furniture, pianos, teams, etc., giving you weekly, monthly or quarterly payments, in which way you do not miss the money. If in need of money, fill out Hits blank and mail to us. Phone 1545. Your Name Address Richmond Loan Co. Colonial Building, Room & Richmond, Ind.

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more than $30,000 apiece to their credit. One balance was written in six figures $907,900. The total at the bottom of tbe long list was $39.24S.S75This amount was very largely made up of unclaimed dividends on govern ment stock. For seven years the bankers keep the accounts open, prepared to pay over the balance to any who can prove title to it. This term expired, they regard, the forgotten gold as their own. Five million dollars of such ownerless money went to build Loudon's splendid law courts. The city, it Is said, has more than one magnificent bank building reared from the same handy material. The Bank of England, one learns, provides pensions for clerks' widows out of such a fund. But, whatever becomes of It, these millions of "mystery gold" are always growing, fed by man's carelessness or forgetting, their secrets hidden away in thousands of musty bank ledgers. London Tit-Bits. The Putrid Sea. There is a body of water called Sivash or Putrid sea. It is really a lagoon on the east coast of the, Crimea, separated from the sea of Aiov by a narrow sand bar called the tongue of Arabnt- The lagoon is sixty-eight miles long, varying in width from two to fourteen miles. The water Is very shallow, stagnant and exceedingly salt. aggravate catarrhal colds and bronchial disorders, and if neglected often lead to pneumonia or consumption. SCOTTS EMULSION diion out cold and comers bronchial trouble: h soothes and heals the affected membranes. It makes healthy flesh, rich blood and strengthens weak lungs. Nothing is so good as Scott's Emulsion for. stubborn coughs and colds. , INSIST on SCOTTS. v Scott & Bowne. Bloom field. N. J. 12-75 MURRAY . TODAYALL NEW ALL GOOD THE FOUR FLYING CRONELLS A OTHER GREAT ACTS Phone for Seats Now

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