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Show HUMS TOJpill Inaugural Address Delivered by the New President SEES WORK OF RESTORATION Task f Victorious Democracy la to qusr Every Process of Nstlonal Life With Standarde Sat Up at the Beginning. Washington, Msrch 4. President Wilson's Inaugural address, remarkable remark-able for Ita brevity, waa llstsned to with the greatest Interest by the vast throng which was gathered In front of the capltol's east portico, and at ita close there waa beard nothing but praise for Ita eloquence and high moral tone. The address In full waa , aa follows: There haa been a change of govern- ( ment It began two yeara ago, when , the bouse of representatives became ; Democratic by a decisive majority. tt haa now been completed. Tbe een- , at about to assemble will also be j Democratic. The offlcea of president , and vice-president have been put Into , the bands of Democrats. What doea ( th change mean? That la the quea- , tlon that Is uppermost In our minds , today. That la ths quaaUon I am go- t Ing to try to answer, In order, If 1 i may, to Interpret th occasion. t Purpose of the Nation. I It meana much more than th mere success of a party. Th success of s 1 party meana little except when the i nation Is using that party for a large i and definite purpose. No on' can 1 mistake th purpose for which tbe i nation now seeks to us th Demo- c cratlc party. It seeks to us It to In- c terpret a change In Ita own plana and i point of view. Bom old things with I which w had grown familiar, and which had begun to creep Into th very babtt of our thought and of our t lives, have altered their aspect aa w I have latterly looked critically upon i them, .with fresh, awakened eyes; t bar dropped tbetr disguises and i shown themselves alien and sinister. I Bom new things, aa w look frankly i upon them, willing to comprehend their real character, have come to as- ' some th aspect of things long bellev- t sd In and familiar, stuff of our own I convictions. W hav been refreshed I by a new Insight Into our own life. i W see that In many things that 1 life Is very great It 1 Incomparably great la Ita material aspects. In Its I body of wealth, In th diversity and sweep of Its energy, In th Industries i which hav been conceived and built BP by th gralua of Individual men aad th limitless enterprise of groups 1 of men. It Is great, also, very great i la Ita moral fore. Nowhere site In ' th world hav noble men and women I sxhlblted In mora striking form th beauty and energy of aympathy and helpfulness and counsel In their efforts I lo rectify wrong, alleviate suffering, ind set th weak in th way of itrength and hop. W hav built up, t moreover, ft great aystem of govern- nent, which has stood through a long kg as In many respects ft model for 1 .ho who seek to aet liberty upon oundatlons that will andor against 'ortultous Changs, against atom and ' iccldent Our life contains every rreat thing, and contalna It la rica ' ibundance. Evlla That Have Corns. c But th evil haa com with th rood, and much fin gold haa been t iorroded. With rtche haa com In- ncusabl wast. W'd Jiav aquan- c lered ft great part of what we might av used, and hav sot stopped to unserve th exceeding bounty of na- or, without whjrn oar genius for en- 1 erprTl9 Vpuld have been worthless t tpi impotent, cornfnf lift careful ihamefulty prodigal as well Is aJmfr- ldU efficient W haVt tFh proaJ 1 1 0j Industrial tchleveme&ts, hut w i av hot hitherto stopped thought- ully enough to count (ne nnman coat, a cost Of lives snuffed out, ft! Iner-rles Iner-rles overtaxed and. Woken, the fear o Ul physical and spiritual cost to tbe d nen and women and children upon t rhom the dead weight and burden of ' t all baa fallen pitilessly the years hrough. Tbe groans and agony of It ill bad not yet reached our tart, th ' tolemn, moving undertone of our life, omlng up out of th mine and fao B orles and out of every bom where C be atruggl bad Ita Intimate and fa- r nlllar aeat With th great govern- neot went many deep secret things e vhlch w too long delayed to look 4 nto aad scratlnts with candid, fear- t ea eye. Th great government w ovd baa too often been made us of or privat aad selfish purposes, and d hoe who used it bad forgotten tbe 1 eopl. t At last ft vision baa been vouch- t tafed us of our Ufa as ft whole. W th bad with th good, th do- taaed aad decadent with th sound 1 tad vital. With thla vision w ap- " iroach new affairs. Our duty Is to E leans, to reconsider, to rntor. to orrect the evil without Impairing tb ' xd, to purify and bumanls every iroccea of our common lif without ' reakenlng or sentlmentallilng It fber baa been something crude aad f learlless and unfeeling Is our baste to 1 luoeeed and be groat Our thought haa E m 'Let every maa look out for blm-lf, blm-lf, let every geaeratioa look out for i taelf.' while w reared giant machln- i rry which mad K impossible that any i rat those who stood at tb Uvers of c antral should have ft chance to look 1 lout for themselves. W had not for gotten our morals, W remembered well enough that we bad aet up a policy which waa meant to aerv th humblest as well as the most powerful, power-ful, with an eye single to th standards stand-ards of Justice and fair play, and remembered re-membered it with pride. Hut w wer very heedless and In a hurry to b great Things, to Ba Altered. W hav com now to tb sober second thought The scales of heedlessness heed-lessness have fallen from our eyes. We hav mad up our minds to SQuar every process' of our national life again with the standards we so proudly proud-ly set up at the beginning and have always carried at our hearta. Our work la a work of restoration. We have Itemised with some degree of particularity tb things that ought to bo altered and here are some of tb chief Items: A tariff which cuts ss off from our proper part In th commerce of th world, violates th Just principles of taxation, and makes the government ft facile Instrument In the handa of privat Interests; a banking, bank-ing, and currency system baaed upon the necessity of the government to ell Its bonds fifty yeara ago and perfectly per-fectly adapted to concentrating cash uid restricting credits; an Industrial lystem which, take it on all lla sides, Rnancial aa well as administrative, holds capital In leading strings, re-itricta re-itricta th liberties and limits tb opportunities op-portunities of labor, and explolta with-ut with-ut renewing or conserving th nat-iral nat-iral resources of th country; ft body f agricultural activities never yet Iven th efficiency of great business indertaklnga or served as It ahould be hrough tb instrumentality of science aken directly to the farm, or afforded he facilities of credit best suited to ts practical needs; water courses un-leveloped, un-leveloped, wast placea unreclaimed, orests untended, fsst disappearing vlthout plan a. prospect of renewal, inregarded waste heaps at every mine. V hav atudled aa perhaps no other latlon baa th most effective meana if production, but w have not atudled :ost or economy aa we should either is organisers of industry, ss statesmen, states-men, or aa Individuals. Government for Humanity. Nor hav w atudled and perfected he meana by which government may e put at th service of humanity. In lafeguardlng the health of th nation, he health of Ita men and Ita women ind Ita children, aa well as their rights n the struggle for existence. This Is o sentimental duty. The firm bssls f government Is Justice, not pity, rhese ar matters of Justice. There :an be no equality or opportunity, th Irat essential of Justice In the body politic, If men and women and chil-lren chil-lren be not shielded In their lives, ihelr very vitality, from the cons-luence cons-luence of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, sontrol, or aingly cop with. Society must see to It that It doea not Itself crush or weaken or damage Ita own constituent parts. Th first duty of law ts to keep aound th society ,It lerves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws', ind laws determining conditions of abor which Individuals ar powerless o determln for themselves ar lnti-nate lnti-nate parte of th very bustnesa of Jus-Ice Jus-Ice and legal efficiency. Tbes ar soma of tb things w night to do, and not leave tb others i indon. th old fashioned, never-to-be- i leglected. fundamental safeguarding f property and of Individual right 1 rhla la tb high enterprise of tb new I Isy; to lift everything that concerns 1 mr life aa ft nation to th light that ' bines from th bearthfir of every I nan's conscience and vision of th 1 1ght It la Inconceivable tbat we I hould do thla aa partisans; It Is In- oncelvabl w ahould do It In Ignor-jic Ignor-jic of th facta ss they ar or In l illnd hast. W shall restore, not de- ' troy. W shall deal with our econ- mlo system as It Is and aa It may I modlflsd, not as It might be If we iad a cleAA sheet of paper to writ ' ipon; and step1 by step we iha.1) make t wbtt It should be. in the spirit tf i boss who questlos tbetr own wisdom nd seek counsel sod knowledge, not hallow self satisfaction or the eicit ' atn 5j jxsunlojil hlthef VhtJ tiU-9t tiU-9t i.U, JUlUce, only Justloo, hall aH aya be our motto. Nation Deeply Stirred. 1 And yet It will bl no cool process f mer science. Th nation baa been leeply stirred, stirred by ft solemn i isssloa, atlrred by th knowledge of I rroog, bf Ideals met, of government I do often debauched and made an In- t trument of evil. Tb feelings with I ihlch-jv face this new age of right i ad opportunity sweep across our ' lesrt-strings Ilk some air out of i od's own presence, where Justice and I nercy ar reconciled and th Judge nd the brother are one. W know ur task to b no mere task of politics 1 ut ft task which shall aearch us I hrough and through, whether w be I bl to understand our' time and the I eed or our people, whether w be In- 1 red their spokesmen and Interpre- I era, whether w bav th pur hesrt I 0 comprehend and tbe rectified will 9 choose our high course of action. This Is not ft dsy of triumph: It Is ' , day of dedication. Here muster, not be force of party, but tbe forces of l lumanity. Men'a hearts wait upon us; ' sen's Uvea bang In tbe balance; men's ' lopea call upon u to aay what w rill do. Who shall live up to th Teat trust? Who dares fall to try? summon an honest men, all patriotic. ill forward-looking men, to ray side. I lod helping me. I will not fall them. 1 they will but counsel and sustain ae! Possibly tb era of superstition la t nthering away. On of tb great 1 iteamshlp lines la to start out Its ve 1 ls on fYldaya hereafter. Tot tb I saany travekr sUIl refuses to sleep i a upper U. |
