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Show INSURANCE INQUISITOR TAKES REINS IN NEW YORK; CONSERVATIVE POLICY ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 1. Charles E. Hughes, "the insurance inquisitor," was inaugurated as Governor of New York with impressive ceremonies today. His inaugural inaugu-ral speech outlined a conservative policy and no sensational sensa-tional references were made. The retiring Governor, FnncU W. Higginj, in welcoming nil iuccesor, s&ia: "Upon the shoulden of the chief executive of this 8ute mast ret heavy burdens, imposed by constitutions and customs. To execute the laws, to recommend wise measures of le(rislation, to exercise power with judgment and discernment, to defend the liberties and enforce the rights of eight million people, peo-ple, these are duties which try the mentaL, moral and physical strength to the utmost. To this high office the peo- ' pie of the State, reposing well-deserved confidence in your independence, patriotism, pa-triotism, ability and integrity, have called you. "I welcome you, and wish you God speed." Hufhea Takes Bains. Gov. Hughes, after a few words of compliment to the administration of Gov. Higgling, addressed himself to hia "fellow citizens,' saying, in part: . "We have reason to congratulate ourselves that coincident with our prosperity there is emphatic assertioa of popular rights snd a keen resent-meat resent-meat of public wrongs. There is no panacea in legislation or legislative action ac-tion for all the ills of society which spring from the frailties and defects of the human nature of ita members. But this furnishes no exeuse for complacent com-placent inactivity and no reason for toleration of wrongs aasde possible by the defective or inadequate legislation or by administrative partiality or inefficiency. inef-ficiency. Ill -Considered Laws. "Whether or not we have laws enough, we certainly have enough of ill-eonaidered legislation, and the question ques-tion .is not ss to the quantity, but ss to the quality of our present and our proposed enactments. "Slowly but surely the people hsve narrowed the opportunities for selfish aggregation, and the demand of this hour and of all hours is' not allegiance to phrases, but svmpathy with every aspiration for the "betterment of conditions condi-tions and a sincere and -patient effort to understand every need and to ascertain ascer-tain in the light of experience the meant best adapted te meet it. It-is the capacity for such close examination examina-tion without heat ' or disqualifying prejudice which distinguishes the .constructive .con-structive effort from vain endeavors to change human nature by changing the forms of goversmsnt. Evils In Laws Themsalvs. "It must freelv be recognised that many of the evils of which we complain com-plain have their source in the law itself, ln privileges carelessly granted i a opportunities op-portunities for private aggrandizement at the expense of the people recklessly crested 'is failure to v safeguard our J ublie interests by providiag mesas for ost rerulatiee ef these enterprises h44jMpead oa4U-t i r-ubl fraO' eafses. Wherever the law gives unjust advantage, wherever it ie-tls-br suitable suit-able prohibition or regulation to protect pro-tect the interest of the people, .wherever .wher-ever the .powir, derived. from the state is turned a ram it the state.- there-is not .only room but urgent necessity for the ssseTtion of the authority of "the state to enforce the common right. Government of Laws. "We are a government of laws and net of men,, wis subordinate individual caprice to defined duty. The essentials of .our liberties are expressed in constitutional consti-tutional enactments removed from the risk of temporsry sgitation. But the security of our government, despite its constitutional guarantees, is found .in the intelligence and public spirit of its citizens snd its ability to call to the work of administration men of single-minded single-minded devotion to the public interests, inter-ests, who mske unselfish service to this Stste a point of knightly honor. "If in administration we make the standard efficiency and not partisan ad vantage, if in executing toe laws we deal impartially, if in making laws there is fair and intelligent action with force to each exigency we' shall, disarm reckless and selfish agitators and take from the enemies of your pesce their vsntage ground of attack. "It is my intention to emplov my constitutional powers to this end. I believe in the sincerity and good sense of 'the people. I believe that thev are intent in having government which recognizes no favored . interests and which is not conducted in anv part for selfish ends. They will nit be and should not be content with less. " |