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Show WILSON'S PLEA FOR A UNITEDAMERICA PRESIDENT SOLEMNLY RENEWS HIS COVENANT IN INAUGURAL INAUG-URAL ADDRESS. Deep Wrongs Inflicted Upon United States Pictured and Hint Given That Country May be Forced Into War. Washington. President Wilson's Inaugural address was as follows: My fellow citizens: The four years which have elapsed since last I stood in this place have been crowded with counsel and action ac-tion of the most, vital interest and consequences. Perhaps no equal period pe-riod in our history has been so fruitful fruit-ful of important reforms in our economic econ-omic and industrial life or so full of significant changes in the spirit and purpose of our political action. We have sought very , thoughtfully to set our house in order, correct the grosser gros-ser errors and abuses of our industrial indus-trial life, liberate and quicken the processes pro-cesses of our national genius and energy en-ergy and lift our politics to a broader view of the people's essential interests. inter-ests. It is a record of singular variety var-iety and singular distinction. But I shall not attempt to review it. It speaks for itself and will be of increasing in-creasing influence as the. years go by. This is not the time for retrospect. It is time, rather, to speak our thoughts and purposes concerning the present and the immediate future. New Problems Confronting World. Although we have centered counsel and action with such unusual concentration concen-tration and success upon the great problems of domestic legislation to which we addressed ourselves four years ago, other matters have mote and more forced themeslves upon our attention, matters lying outside our own life as a nation and over which we had no control, but which, despite our wish to keep free of them, have drawn us more and more irresistibly into their own current and influence. It has been . impossible to avoid them. They have affected the life of the whole world. They have shaken men everywhere with a passion and an apprehension they never knew before. be-fore. It has been hard to preserve calm counsel while the thought of our own people swayed this way and that under their influence. We are a composite and cosmopolitan people. We are of the blood of all the nations that are at war. The currents of our thoughts as well as the currents of our trade run quick at all seasons back and forth between us and them. The war inevitably set Its mark from the first alike upon our minds, our industries, in-dustries, our commerce, our politics and our social action. To be indifferent indiffer-ent to tt or independent of it was out of tlje question. Injuries Become Intolerable. And yet, all the while we have been conscious that we were not part of it. In that . consciousness, despite many divisions, we have drawn closer together. We have been deeply wronged upon the seas, but we have not wished to wrong or injure in return; re-turn; have retained throughout the consciousness of standing in some sort apart, intent upon an interest that transcended the immediate issues of the war itself. As some of the injuries in-juries done us have become intolerable we have still been clear that we wished nothing for ourselves that we were not ready to demand for all mankind man-kind fair dealing, justice, the freedom free-dom to live and be at ease against organized or-ganized wrong. It is in this spirit and with this thought that we have grown more and more aware, more and more certain that the part we wished to play was the part of those who mean to vindicate vin-dicate and fortify peace. We have been obliged to arm ourselves to make good our claim to a certain minimum of right and of freedom of action. We stand firm in armed neutrality since it seems that in no other way we can demonstrate what it is we insist upon and cannot forego. We may even be drawn on, by circumstances, not by our own purpose or d,esire, to a more active assertion of our rights as we see them and a more immediate immedi-ate association with the great struggle itself. But nothing will ajter our thought or our purpose. They are too clear to be obscured. They are too deeply rooted in the principles of our national life to be altered. We desire de-sire neither conquest nor advantage. We wish nothing that can be had only at the cost of another people. We have always professed unselfish purpose pur-pose and we covet the opportunity to prove that our professions are sincere. sin-cere. United States No Longer Provincial. There are many things still to do at home to clarify our own politics and give new vitality to the industrial processes of our own life and we shall do them as time and opportunity serve; but we realize that the great things that remain to be done must be done with the whole world for stage and in co-operation with the wide and universal forces of mankind and we are making our spirits ready for those things. They will follow in the immediate wake of the war itself it-self and will set civilization up again. We are provincials no longer. The tragical events of the thirty months of vital turmoil through which we Tong War on Coast. San Francisco. Five Chinese were killed outright, two fatally injured and three were wounded in tong wars which were waged almost simultaneously simultane-ously Monday in San Francisco, Oakland, Oak-land, Stockton and San Jose. Women Training for War. New York. The National League for Women's Service has begun classes in wireless telegraphy, motor driving and canteen cooking. Several hundred women in this city have registerc-I for training. have just passed have made us citizens citi-zens of the world. There can be no turning back. Our own fortunes as a nation are involved, whether we would have it so or not. And yet we are not the less Americans on that account. We shall be the more Amer- j ican if we but remain true to the principles prin-ciples in which we have been bred. They are not the principles of a province prov-ince or of a single continent. We have known and boasted all along that they were the principles of a liberated mankind. Things This Nation- Stands For. These, therefore, are the things we shall stand for, whether in war or in peace: That all nations are equally interested inter-ested in the peace of the world and in the political stability of free peoples peo-ples and equally responsible for their maintenance: That the essential principle of peace is the mutual equality of nations na-tions in all matters of right or privilege: priv-ilege: That peace cannot securely or justly just-ly rest upon an armed balance of power: That governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed and that no other powers should be supported by the common thought, purpose or power of the family of nations. ' That the seas should be equally free and safe for the use of all peoples, peo-ples, under rules set up by common agreement and consent and that, so far as practicable, they should be accessible ac-cessible to all upon equal terms; That national armaments should be limited to the necessities of national order and domestic safety; That the community of interest and of power upon which peace must henceforth depena imposes upon each nation the duty of seeing to it that all influences proceeding from-its own citizens meant to encourage or assist revolution in other states should be sternly and effectually suppressed and prevented. I need not argue these principles to you, my fellow countrymen; they are your own, part and parcel of your own thinking and your own motive in affairs. They spring up native amongst us. Upon this platform of purpose and of action we can stand together. People Must Stand Together. And it is imperative that we should stand together. We are being forged into a new unity amdist the fires that now blaze throughout the world. In their ardent heat we shall, in God's providence, let us hope, be purged of faction and division, purified of the errant humors of party and of private pri-vate interest and shall stand forth in the days to come with a new dignity of national pride and spirit. Let each man see to it that the dedication is in his own heart, the high purpose of the nation in his own mind, ruler of his own will and desire. I stand here and have taken the high and solemn oath to which you have been audience because the people peo-ple of the United States have chosen me for this august delegation of power pow-er and have by their gracious judgment judg-ment named me their leader in affairs. af-fairs. I know now what the task means. I realize to the full the responsibility re-sponsibility which it involves. 1 pray God I may be given the wisdom and the prudence to do my duty in the true spirit of this great people. I am their servant and can succeed only as they sustain and guide me by their confidence and their counsel. The thing I shall count upon, the thing without which neither counsel nor action will avail, is the unity of America an America united in feeling, feel-ing, in purpose and in vision of duty, of opportunity and of service. We are to beware of all men who would turn the tasks and the necessities of the nation to their own private profit or use them for the building up of private power; beware that no faction fac-tion or disloyal intrigue break the harmony or embarrass the spirit of our people; beware that our government govern-ment be kept pure and incorrupt in all its parts. United alike in" the conception con-ception of our duty and in the high resolve to perform it in the face of all men, let us dedicate ourselves to the great task to which we must set our hand. For myself I urge your tolerance, toler-ance, your countenance and your united unit-ed aid. The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled dis-pelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we be but true to ourselves to ourselves as we have wished to be known in the counsels of the world and in the thought of all those who love liberty and justice and the right exalted. FIRST DUTY TO BE PATRIOT. Washington, March 5. Vice-President Marshall made his second inaugural inau-gural address before the senate today to-day a. statement of his creed of citizenship cit-izenship under a government for which, he said, "I ought to be willing will-ing to live or to die, as God decrees, that it may not perish off the earth through treachery within or through assault from without" He said in part: "I have faith that this government of ours was divinely ordained to disclose dis-close whether men are by nature fit for self-government, to teach Jew and Greek, bondman and free alike the essential es-sential equality of all men before the law and to be tender and true to hu manity everywhere and under all circumstances; cir-cumstances; to reveal that service is the highest reward of life. I cannot believe otherwise when I read the words and recall the sacrifices of the fathers. If ours is not the golden rule government, then Washington wrought and Lincoln died in vain. Will Adopt Belgian Children. New York. After listening to an address by Theodore Roosevelt the citizens of Oyster Bay at a mass meeting Monday night decided to "adopt" a Belgian village of 2.400 children. Lives Spared by Kaiser. Berlin. Emperor William has commuted com-muted to imprisonment the sentence of death pronounced by a field court-martial court-martial upon Madeleine Dout'orline, a Belgian woman, and her accomplice, Henry Bayne. |