Show WILDS PLO alel FOB OR UNITED PRESIDENT SOLEMNLY R RENEWS E N E W a HIS IN URAL An adoness oness pee p wrongs infected inal acted upon united states pictured and hint given that country may be forced into war washington president wl inaugural addreal aadree i was na as follows follow st my fellow citizens t the four years which havo have elapsed sineo since last I 1 s in this place have been crowded with crusel and tic ac alon tion of the ill most ost v vital t interest ante ost and consequences perhaps xio tie equal pe had in ili our lias has been so fruit fill of 0 reforms in our economic alid industrial life or so BO full fill ot of significant changes changed lit in the spit it and purpose poso of our political action vae have cotright very thoughtfully to pot out our house in order correct the groa errors anti of our industrial life liberato lili erato and quicken buic ken tit alio pro ceases or of our natio national lial genius fentus n and nd energy and lift our politics to it broader view or of the peoples inter cats it la is a record ot of singular yar var i lety and singular distinction hut but I 1 not attempt to revlow review it t it speaks for itself and will bo be ot at in creasing influence ns as the thal years go BO by this Is not tho ilia time for retrospect it Js Is time rather to speak our thoughts and purposes concerning ilia present and the alio future new Pr problems oblenis confronting world i although wo have centered counsel ond and action with such unusual concentration and success upon tile groat great problems of domestic legislation to which wo we addressed ourselves tour four years ngo ago other matters have more aria moro more corned themos lyes upon our attention matters lying outside our own life ns as a nation and over which belind no control but which despite our eldh to keep free of them havo have drawn us morn more and more irresistibly into their own current and Iq fluence it has been impossible to avoid them they have elected affected tile tho in of at ilia whole world they linyu shaken men everywhere with a pas passion slon and till nn an apprehension they never know bo be foro fore it has been liard hard to pro servo calm counsel while the thought of our own people swayed this way and that under their influence we vo are a composite anti and cosmopolitan people wo we nio anro of the blood of all tile tho nations that tire aro at war tho the currents of our thoughts as well as tile the currents of our trade run quick tit at all seasons back tind find forth between ua and them the war inevitably set its mark from ilia first allak upon our manda out our in 1 our commerce our politics ent cut to it or independent of 1 it was 8 out ot of tho the question injuries become intolerable and yet all the alio while wo we havo ahma been conscious that wo were riot not part of it in ill that coll scion sipes despite many divisions wo we havo have drawn closer together wo we have been deeply wronged upon the seas but we havo have not wished to wrong or injure in return havo have retained throughout tile consciousness of 0 standing in somo some sort apart intent upon tin nn interest that transcended tile tho immediate issues ot of tho ilia war itself As uio the injuries done us its have become intolerable wo we havo still been clear unit that wo wished nothing for ourselves that wo we were not ready to demand tor for nil all mankind fair dealing justice the lie freedom to live and bo be at case against or wrong it la Is in this spirit and with this thought that wo we have grown more mid and more anoro aware aware I 1 more and more certain that I 1 tho lie part t wo we wished to play was waa tile part of at those who mean to vindicate anti and fortify pence peace wo we havo have been obliged to ann ourselves to inako good our claim to a cartain minimum ot at tight right and ol at freedom ot at action wo we stand bland firm in ili armed neutrality since it seems scorns that in no other way wo we can demonstrate what it la Is wo insist upon and cannot forego wo we may even bo be drawn on by circumstances not by our own purpose or desire to a moro more active assertion of our rights na as wo nye seo see them thein and a n more ato ate association with tile great brent struggle itself nut but nothing will alter our thought or our purpose they are too clear to bo be obscured they jire are too deeply rooted in the of our national tiati onal life to bo be altered we desire neither conquest nor advantage ve wish nothing that con can bo be had only at tho the cost of another people wo we hava always professed purpose and wo we covet tho the opportunity to prove that our professions profess slona ioni aro are united states no longer provincial there are many things still to do nt at home borne to clarity our own politics and give now vitality to alif industrial pro cesspit gapa of our own life and we shall do them as time nud and opportunity servo but wo we realize that ilia great things that remain to ila ha dono done knudt le done with the whole world for stage anti and in operation cooperation co with tho the wide and universal forces ot of mankind and wo are making our spirits ready for those things they will follow in tile the immediato wake air 0 the way war it self belt and will set civilization up again wo oro ate provincials no longer tile events of tile the tit thirty airty months ta of vital turmoil through which we have lust just paused passed av anu nanu 1114 u itt fins of ilia world 11 there liere can pe de tin nn turning back our own fortunes torl as al a nati nation onara aro involved whether wo we would have it so BO or not and yet wo we are not ilia leas americans on oil that tie account count wo we shrill shall bo be tho the more amer A mer lean can if 1 wo we but remain true to the ilia principles in which we havo boon been bred they are not tile the principles of a province or of it a sin single 1 contIn continent clit wo we have known and 1 boasted all along that thoy they were the principles ot of a liberated ninni mankind tind things this nation stands for these them therefore tire tile things wo we shall stand for whether in war or in peace that all nations are equally interested Cs ted in tile the peace icaco of tho the world and in tile tho political stability of at free peoples and equally responsible tor for their maintenance that tile ho essential principle ot of peace Is tile the mutual equality of nations in hi nil all matters of right or or that penco peace cannot securely or justly rest upon an armed balance of power that governments dorly derive a all their just powers from the consent of the governor governed tind and that no other oilier powers should bo be supported by the common thought purpose or anwer oscr ot at tho ilia family of nations eliat tile seas should bo be equally free and safe fyr tho ilia uso use of till all poo peo 1 plea les under rules set up tip I 1 common agreement anti and consent and that so far ns nil practicable thoy they should bo be ac cos possible sible to all upon equal terms that national should be limited to the ilia necessities of national 0 order and domestic safety 1 that tile community of interest and of power upon which pence must depend imposes upon each nation ilia duty or of soloing to it that nil all influences proceeding from its own citizens meant to encourage or assist revolution lit in other states should bo be sternly and suppressed find and prevented I 1 need not argue these principles to you my fellow countrymen they aro are your own part and parcel ot of your own and your own motive in affairs they spring up tip native amongst us its upon tills this platform of 0 purpose and of action wo we can stand together people must stand To together Dether and it la 19 Imper atho that wo we should s tand stand wo we are anro being forged into a new unity the ires that now blazo blaze throughout tile tho world to in their ardent lent wo we shall in gods goda providence let us its chopo be purged of faction and division puri flod ot of tho the errant humors of 0 party and of va avato to interest and shall stand forth in tho ilia days daya to come with a benr dignity of national pride and spirit lot let each nan man seo see to it that tile tho dedication la is in n ills hta own heart the ilia high purpose of tile tho nation in ills his own mind ruler of 0 ills hla own will and desire I 1 stand here and bavo tho the high and solemn oath to which you havo have been audience because tile the people of tile united states have abo chosen aen bolor moor this august cle delegation legation ot at row 0 lulb anent named mo me their leader A it affairs I 1 know now what tho the task means I 1 realize to tho the full tho ilia responsibility s pon s ability which it involves I 1 pray god I 1 may bo be given tho ilia wisdom and tile the prudence to do my duty in the ilia truo true spirit of this groat people I 1 am their servant and c can tin succeed only at as they sustain and guide me by their confluence and their counsel the tiling thing I 1 shall count upon 0 the o thing without which neither counsel nor action will avail Is tho ilia unity at 0 america an america united in feeling in purpose and in vision of duty or of opportunity and of service we aro are to bounre of nil men who would turn ilia tasks and tho the necessities ot at thon thiis atlon nation to their own private profit or use UBO them hem for tile tho building up of private power boware beware that ro no or harmony or embarrass the ilia spirit ot at our oui people bogaro that our govern ment bo be kept k pt pure anti and incorrupt ir all it its Is parts 11 tilted alike in tile tho con colima of hiir our duty and in the he higi resolve to perform it in ilia ho face of 0 nl at men inen lot ua its ded dedicate lento ourselves to tin groat great task tak tu tt which wo we must net bet on oil hand for myself I 1 urge your toler loler anco your countenance and your unit ed cd aid tile alip shadows that now ili 11 dark upon our path will soon bo be dla als polled and we shall walk with light nil all its it we lie ile but true to ourselves to ourselves ni we havo have wished to bo be known in the lie couns olp of tile tho world and in tile tho thought of nil all those who lovo liberty and justice and tile right exalted |