| Show P PRESIDENT E DENT WILSON WILSO FOR JUSTICE ONLY his inaugural address calls on all honest men to aid in his task WILL RESTORE HOT NOT DESTROY new now chief executive says change of government mean means the nation la is using democratic party for large and definite purpose washington march 4 looking upon tho the victory of the democratic party as tho the mandate of tho the nation to cor correct t the he ovile that havo have been allowed to grow up in our national life president wilson in ble his inaugural el nd ad dress today called on nil all doneit men to assist him in carrying out tho will of tho the people following Is a address there has been a change of goi government ern it began two years ago V ahon hen the house of representatives became democratic by a decisive majority it has now been completed tho the senate about to assem assembly blu will also bo be democratic Democrat io the offices 5 of president and vice president have wen put into the bands hands of democrats what does change moan mean that la Is the qu question esthe that it Is uppermost in our minis minde today T that h at Is the question I 1 am go ing to try to ansbe in order it I 1 may to interpret the occasion it means much more than tho the mero mere success of a party the success of a party means little except when tho the nation Is using that party for a large and definite no ono one can mistake tho the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the democratic party it seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view some old things with which we had grown familiar and which hod had begun to creep into the very habit of our thought and of our lives have altered their aspect as we have latterly looked critic critically all y upon them with fresh awakened eyes have their disguises and shown themselves alien allen and sinister some new things as we look frankly upon them willing to comprehend their real character have come to assume the aspect of things long believed in and familiar stuff of our own convictions we have been refreshed by a new now insight irto our own life we see that in many nany things that life Is very great it Is As incomparably great in its material aspects in its body of wealth in the diversity and sweep of its energy in the industries which have been conceived and built up by the genius of individual men and the limitless enterprise of groups of men it Is great also very great n its moral force but the evil has come ome with witta the good and much fine gold has been corroded with riches has co come me inexcusable waste we have squandered a great part of what we MI mishi have used and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of nature without which our galus tor for en terpsie ter prie prize would have been beer morth worthless less and impotent scorning to tz be careful shamefully prodigal gaj ss 3 1 w ell as admirably efficient wo we have been proud of our industrial achievements but we havo have sot not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost the cost of lives snuffed out of energies overtaxed and broken the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women nomen and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly OtI lessly the years through tho groans and agony of it all had not nt yet our ears the solemn movia moving undertone of our life I 1 com coming ing up ou out of the minus mines and fac lories and out of every homo home where struggle glo had its intimate and familiar seat with the great government went ment many deep secret things thing a which we ne too long delayed to look into and scrutinize with candid fearless eyes tho great government wo we loed has too often been ben made use of for private and selfish purposes and those hose who used it had forgotten the people at last a vision has been vouchsafed us of our life as a v hole wo we bee the bad with the good tho the debased b ased and decadent with ith tho the sound and vital with this vision wo ap new affairs our duty is to cleanse to reconsider to restore to correct the evil without impairing the good to purity and humanize every process of our common lifo without weakening or sentimentalizing it there has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our baste haste to succeed and bo be great our thought baa has been let every man look out tor for him elf self let every generation look out for itself while wo we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that tiny any but those who stood at the leven lovers of control should have a chanco chance to lok out for we had not tor for gotten our morale morals w well enough abat tb at we remt ke 4 ils ehu policy which set ins rl eart 1 l humblest a aa vei well to 1 I tul with w t as the atou an ri fu en eyt at ah itt tagi r d s 0 t ju stice and fill 0 to tha it aprile r diat MIN very vo heedless but and wo have come A hurry to be second thought now lo 10 the ioa the have fallen taller scale acl ot of b frota wo we havo have madeu fita pou every ds ato to oge pr process oress of I 1 our ou again with stand ta lh darr ly 1 set U up P at the bes beginning ards ve so tent always carried at atou our 1411 work is a nork ork of 0 restora rel heartt c LOIL wo we havo have seri vilt h of particularity the things AT some de to bo be altered and hers here are u tho chief items A ott 0 tarl 10 it wal ue US ott off from rom 0 ur proper commerce of the world ut in ta just principles of taxa taxation uc and tile government a facie mate the hands of private interests elm ing ng and currency oystie 81 baw b S 4 tho the necessity of o 0 gove govern tr rr sell Us its bonds fifty fedt k y ago r factly darted to tc mccon con and restricting credits an in system bacil take I 1 t on it t financial as will as adamk holds capital la in leadin leading sarins strings 4 JC pa tho the liberties and limit 11 the port unities of labor and wll 0 out renewing or conserving ta one ural of the country a boa u e SC ot agricultural activities lestr je C 70 given the efficiency of great hsk undertakings or served as it sho uli be acty through the instrumentality of saleam tail taken directly to tho the farm or tho the facilities of credit best gutted aue tt arta C its practical needs water courso a kv developed dov eloped waste places b forests untended fast dist without plan or prospect of renews rene LC waste heaps at every wo we have studied as perhaps no othet r V nation has the most mew ni e of production but vi 0 have not studied cost or economy as we should either ei as organizers of industry as states gfa men or as individuals nor havo have vo vie studied and gerfe the means by which government taky bo be put at the service of humanity b safeguarding the health of the na tho the health of its men and its comei vo lite and its children as well as their ri 7 in the struggle for existence th thih no sentimental duty the firm bu I 1 of government Is justice lu stice not div these are matters of justice them can be no equality or opportunity de first essential of Iti justice stice in the body 1 politic if men and women in and d a dren be not shielded in their hut 1 their very vitality from the corl of great industrial anil and si processes ases which they cannot alte control or singly cope with sodo soi must see to it that it does not itsel 1 crush or weaken or damage its an constituent parts the first duty dot d law Is to beep keep sound the so sode clety k serves these are aro some of the tile things we ought to do and not leave the olbers ol 01 undone the old fashioned beert to neglected fundamental safeguard bt of property and of individual t this Is the high enterprise of the new day to lift everything that con our life as a nation to the light t shines from the hearth bearth fire of e roans mans conscience and vision of tat right it is inconceivable that 10 should do this as partisans it 1 conceivable we should do it in ll 11 ance of the facts as chev arc are s blind haste we shall restore not no dt stroy we shall deal with oar our W amic system as it 11 Is and ai u it mv be rn modified odi fled not as it might be if 1 ta had a clean sheet of pape laperto pa r to irb upon uron and step by step we shail mike it ft what nhat it should be in the dpn t their heir own w those who question and seek counsel and la iove shallow self satisfaction or of the cadt ment of excursions whither mey they ake not tell justice and only jus shall always be our motto and yet it will avill be no cool pr bec ot mere the nation nas has by a stirred stirred deeply of passion stirred by the enod wrong 0 of f ideals lost 01 of r govern and made a a too often debauched rumont strument st ment of evil th the 3 feell feeling ritt oi of which we face this new now age out across sa and opportunity sweep out air 1 heartstrings heart strings like some where justice gods own presence jadv and the mercy are reconciled mow and the brother are one je t k of lF be no mere our task to acl shall bea but a task which ther through through and and aa time able to understand our be whether bethere need of our people and anali deed their spokesmen bare h the pure whether we and the tho rec comprehend to of actual ac to our high cour course it Is h day of triumph ariu vt this is net a muster a day of d dedication C fit ca tion but here the mu force of party 1 I the forcel apoll humanity mens hearts watt b banc alan c e in the fa mens lives bang hang bilat Us to tow say a t call upon hopes to t live UP p shall will do who fall fa to dares great trust who all honest men I 1 summon all all men to to tb will not god helping mea I 1 1 vad dc sul to bounel if they will but mal |
