Show IMS WILSONS PLEA FOR A UNITED AMERICA t PRESIDE ENT SOLEMNLY RENEWS I 1 HIS IN URAL ADDRESS deep wrong wrongs inflicted upon united slate pictured and hint given that country may be forced into war washington Wehl neton president wilcous in lanu augural gural address woe was ai as follow follows my bly fellow citizens the four years which have elapsed bince wince lait last I 1 rood in this place have been crowded with counsel and action of the most vital Int interest erast and perhaps no equal period in our ill h atory has been go 0 o fruit ful of important reforms reform i in our econ and industrial life or ao so fuhr of changes in the spirit and of our political action we hare ought sought very tory thoughtfully to set et our house hi tn order correct the gros grog eer ser error and abuses of our ladus trial life liberate and quicken tha th pro ceased of our national genius and en an orgy and lift our politics to a broader view of the people peoples essential interest interests it Is a record of singular ein cular yar lety lely and singular distinction oat but I 1 ahall shall not attempt to review it it speaks for ithak and will be of increasing influence aa the years go by thia this Is no not he be time ume for retrospect it Is time r mthr to speak our thoughts and purposes concerning nIng ho the present find and the immediate future new now problems confronting world although Althou ih we have centered end action with such unusual concert and success dpn the treat great problem problems of domestic legislation to which wo we addressed ourselves four years ago age othor other matters have cuore and dd more forbid theme upon tipon our attention matters lying outside our own life as a nation and over which we NO 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 ban ha been impossible to avoid them they have affected the life of the wl olo world they have shaken men everywhere with a passion and an all apprehension they never know knew be fore it ia linn been hard bard to preserve calm cou counsel ea while the thought of our ur own people swayed thie this way and that under their we are a composite and cosmopolitan people 1 we 17 are of the blood of all the nations that are at war the currents of oer thoughts aa as well wall as the currents of our trade run quick at all season seasons back baek and forth between us and them the war inevitably act its it inara from the tu first aliki lupon our minds our in dustrich dust rles our commerce our politics poll tice and our social action to be ent to it or independent of it was out of the question injuries become intolerable and yet all the while we have haye been conscious that we were not part pait of 0 it in that consciousness despite many divisions we have drawn closer together toce lher ale e have been deeply wronged upon the seas bu but we hav not wished to wrong or injury in re tum turn have retained throughout the consciousness of landing standing in n some sort apart intent upon an interest that transcended the immediate issues of tho the war itself aa an some of the in turice done lie us ave become intolerable we have still been clear that wo we wished for ourselves ourse hes that thal wo we were not ready to demand tor for all man kind fair dealing justice the tree don to live and be at ase case against or kanizer wrong it Is la fit this spirit and with this thought that we haro have grown mora more and more aware more and more certain that the part we wished to play was the part of those who mean to tin vin dacate and fortify peace we have been obliged to am arn ourselves to make good our claim if t in a certain minimum of right and bf of freedom of action we cistand firm arm in armed neutrality tince it 11 seems that in no other way wo we can demonstrate what it ie Is we insist upon and cannot forego wi IV may even be drawn on by tot by our own purpose or desire to a snore more active assertion of our rights as wo we see them and a more immell ate association with ith the treat great struggle itself dut but nothing will alter our thought or our purpose they are too clear to be obscured they nd no to tow deeply cooled la in the principle principles of our national life to bo be altered we de do alre ire neither conquest con nor advantage adran we with wish nothing that can ba had only at t the coet wat of another people we a have always 1 pro tessiA pur pose aad and we covet the opportunity to prove that our professions are in re united states att no longer provincial there are many things till still to do ot t home to clarify our own polities politics and nd sive new now vitality Tita llly to the industrial of our own life and we ha il do them as a time and opportunity zae 4 but wp wo realize that the great things that remain to be done must LA ua done dope with the whole wools world for stace and in to co with the wide and universal 11 forces of mankind end we aro are making our spirits tady ready for thone those thing things they will fallow in the immediate wake of the war it silt f and wilt will set et civilization up again we are no loner longer the grafi events of the thirty month months oc at vital turmoil through which we T have juit it pasted passed have made ui us old hi ens n of the world there can be no turning back our own fortune fortunes as a a nation I n are whether we 1 would hare have it so 10 or not and yeb we aro are cot not the ler less americans on that account we ahall shall be the more amer lean it we but remain true to the prin cleles in which we VO hare have been bred they ther are re not the principles ot of a X brov inco inca or of or s single continent we hare have known and boasted all along that hat they were the principles of a liberated mankind things this nation stands for these therefore are the things we hall shall stand for whether in war or in peace that all nation nations are equally inter later ested in the peace of the world and in tho tile political stability of free peoples and equally responsible for their maintenance that the essential principle of 0 peace pasco Is the mutual equality et of nn eions in all mattera matters of right or eriv 1 allege that peace cannot securely or luet just ly IY reit rest upon an art armed balance of power that governments derive 1 all their lut just powers froni the consent of the governed and ond that no other powers power be supported by the common thought purpose or power of the family of nation nations that the seas belts should be equally free and safe rate for the use of all peoples under rules set up by common agreement and consent and that so me far as pi act leable they should be ao tessible ces sible to all upon equal terras terms that national armaments should be limited to mhd necessities of national order and domestic dome stio safety that the community of interest Inte reit and of power upon which peace mut must henceforth depend imposes upon each nation the duty of seeing to it that nil influences proceeding from its own citizens meant to encourage or revolution in other states should be sternly and effectually suppressed and prevented I 1 need not argue these principles to you my fellow follow countrymen they are your own part and andl parcel of your own thinking and your own motive in affaire they thai spring up native amongst us upon hla this platform of 0 and of action we can stand together people must stand together and it Is imperative that we should stand together ve Vs aro are being forged into a new unter ardiet the ferek that now blaze blata throughout the world in their cordent heat we shall in gods providence let lot us hope be purged of faction and division purified of tho the errant humors of party and of vate Inte interest rost and shall stand forth in the days to come with a new dignity Y of national pride and spirit let each man see to it that the dedication Is in his own heart the high purpose of tho the nation in his own mind ruler of hie his own will and deabre I 1 stand here and have taken the high and solemn oath to which you have been auf audience flence because the people of the tile united states have choden me for this august delegation of pow er and have by their gracious gra cloua clous judg ment named TOO me their leader ai at fairs I 1 know now what the task means I 1 realize to the full the re which it involves I 1 pray god clod I 1 ray riar be b given the windom wisdom and the prudence to do my duty in the true spirit of this great people I 1 ism their servant and can succeed only as they sustain and guide me by their confidence and their counsel tho the thing I 1 shall count upon the thing without which neither counsel nor action will arall Is the unity of ot amelea an america united in feel feet ing inc in ili purpose and in vision of duty of opportunity and of service we wd ar a to boware ware of all men who would turn the taska and the necessities of the nation to their own private profit or ue use them for the dl cp rip of private power beware at no faction or disloyal intrigue break tho harmony or embarrass tho the spirit of at cur nur people beware that our govern ment be kept pure and incorrupt in nil hi its palts united alike in tae de con certion cep tion of our duty daty and bad in the high resolve to perform itla it lil the face of all men itt let us u dedicate ourselves to the artent task to which we roust must set our baud for tor myself I 1 urge your tolerance a nee your countenance and your unit ol 01 aid the shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be die dis relied rolled and end we rhall walk with the light all about us it we be but amb to ours elveto ourselves AS we have wished to be known in the counsels counsel 9 of tho the world and in the thought of all thone those who love liberty and justice and the this right exalted |