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Show MRS. WILSON I AT SENATE, Mother and Daughters Cynosure of All Eyes in Galleries Washington, March 4 Mrs. Wilson and her daughters entered the places reserved for them In the Benate galleries gal-leries and were the center of all eyes. Mrs. W ilsou wore a tan cloth dress with a brown ribbed silk coat and a small hat to match. Miss Margaret Wilson wore blue silk ioplin. Miss Jessie W'iluun la. under broadcloth and liss Eleanor Wilson a bright blue j loth dress. At 11 :',n o'clock committees from he house and senate waited on Pres- dent Taft In the marble room and avc formal notification that congress .as ready to adjourn Neither Mrs. aft nor any other member of the resident's family occupied the space ser ed for i ln-m in th r-n te al- f ' eries, or on the stand at the east IVIr6. Taft Awaits Husband I Mrs. Taft and her daughter went to 1 he home of Miss Mabel Boardman 0 await the coming of Mr. Taft after he inauguration ceremonies, when 1 I hey all were to depart for ugusta, t 11:4a o'clock Vice President ifaraball, accompanied by the inane-nation inane-nation committee, was ushered into he senate chamber and given a seat . the front row, facing the presiding jfTicer. Mrs. Marshall Present. 1 I Mrs. Marshall from her place in ne of the galleries, accompanied by liss ("'ami m. I h,. viand of Indianapo- J aved to her husband as he came on the senate floor, but after a stay B moment Mr. Marshall and the ommittee returned to the vice presi-lent's presi-lent's room, while Senator Fall con-Inued con-Inued his filibuster on the Indian bill j All eyes were upon the ten chairs in the senate floor which were allotted allot-ted to President Wilson's cabinet. Jo-lephus Jo-lephus Daniels and William G. Mc Vloo were the first to take seats William J Bryan and Franklin K Lane then held a brief reception and each took a chair in the "cabinet H row." Representative Redfleld enter-d enter-d the chamber a moment later and look his place with the other cabinet 1 appointees. H While Senator Potndexter continued to talk with the evident purpose of preventing the sundry' civil bill from coming to a vote, the house of re pre-sentatlves, pre-sentatlves, in a long line outside the senate door, Impatiently awaited en-try. en-try. The diplomatic corps In full court dress also stood outside. Final ly. with Mr. Poindexter still speaking. the house was announced and filed j in. It looked as though there could be no H The measure was finally taken up for a vote. President Taft's veto characterized It as "class legislation of the most vicious sort." After a filibuster by Senator Poin-Se'XTPT Poin-Se'XTPT it appeared that the attempt to repass the bill In the senate would L (Continued on Page Eleven.) jH MWES- TAKES OATM OF OFFICE ! (Continued from Page One ) INAUGURAL - $3 H Jl S S Wilson Makes Fervid Appeal to All Men For Counsel and Aid Washington, March 4 Woodrow il-Yl il-Yl 9on became president of the CditeS llB S,atPS od;iy timid im f'OR.i i .n n I B8 anl tumultuous scones or popular S; I greeting. Standing at the historic I BBt 'rout of the capitol. he took the HI constitution I oath of ofice and in II his brie; inaugural address made a I fend appeal m all pairlol me I I ccinsel ;uid aid. "This is not a day of triumph." he I declared; "it is a day ot dedication M . Here muster not the forces of par;' J but the forces of bumanitj M i a hearts wait upon Us. men's lives ban I in the balance: men's hopes call upon V I us to sa what we will io 'h h shall live up tojhe great trust' Wli dores fail to try'' 1 summon all hon I est men. all patriotic, all forwar:! 1 ' looking men to my side (.or helpin I me. I will not fall them, If the will I bat counsel and sustain me 2 Vice President .Marshall had been J ; lnauKur.-ii.--ii in the Benate chamber r only ehortij before . nd al the son- c'usion of President Wilson's Inaugur-I Inaugur-I ! si address h.' (.arty hurried back to K the White House, ahead ot the lnaug m ural procession, where Mr Tnft said good-by tn President Wilson and pre I Wparcd to leave at once for Augusta, I Ga. President Wilson shortly after I wnra iook nis place to rei-v. the pro-4 pro-4 I cession The president in his inaugural ad-i ad-i dress said There has been a change of gpv-I gpv-I ernment. It began two years ago. I when the house of representatives I became Democratic by a decisive mail ma-il jority It has now been completed. Tn 'n"1' ri Im mi io uss.-rnli'e will al- I I so )' r-emocratic The offices of president and vice president have I been put into the hands of Democrats f What does the change mean" That I is the question that Is uppermost in I oar minds today. That is the ques-i I tlot: I am going to try to answer. In I E order, if 1 iua , to interpret the OC-f OC-f casion j It means much more than the mere h success of a part) The success of a I party mean little except when the I nation is using that party for a large I and definite purpose. No one can I mistake tie purpose for which the I nation now seeks to use the Derao-era Derao-era tic party, It seeks to use it to ( interpret a change in its own plans and point of view. Some old things i B with which we bad gl iwn familiar. H and -which had begun to creep into the very habit of our thought and of JsT our "veS- bave altered tlielr aspect as' H we have latterly looked critically up-; K on thera. with fresh, awakened eyes:i H have dropped ;lielr disguises and' H shown themselves alien and sinister I Seine new thircs. as wo look frankh I linen them. v. ding to comprehend' I their real character, have come to as-' I sume the aspect oi things long be-1 lievel in and familiar, stuff of our, II owr convictions. We have been re-1 1 freshed lv a new insight into our own ! nr. Life Is Great. II We ?er that in mr.ny things that! 1 I life is verv great. P 8 incomparably 1 I great in its material asp'ts In its M br.dv of wealth, in the diversity sni 2 sweep of Its energy, ,in the industries which have been conceived and built up by ihw geuius oi individual men and the limitless enterprise oi groups oi men. it is great, also, werj great, m its uiurai loi ce. Nowhere eise in U'e woild have OOoIg men and women exhibited in more striking forma tho beauty auj the energy oi Sympath) helpfulness aud counsel in their eitorts to rectify wront;, alleviate sui-Icnng, sui-Icnng, aud set the weuk in the way ot strength and hope We have built up, moreover, a great system of government, gov-ernment, which has stood through a J lonfc, Bge as in many respects a model lor those who sock to set liberty upon up-on foundations tiiat will endure against tortuteons change, agalnsi storm and accident. Our life con-ta.us con-ta.us every great thing, and contains it in rich abundance. True Gold Corroded. Cut the cvl has come with the good, and much fine gold has been ! corroded. With riches has come in- j excusable waste. We have squandered squander-ed a great part of what we might 1 have used, and havo not slopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of nature, na-ture, without which our genius for en-l.-rprlse would have been worthless i anu impotent, scorning to he careful. Shamefully prodigal as well as ad-mirably ad-mirably eificicnt. We have been prou, j of our industrial achievements, hut we have not hitberto stopped though-full) though-full) enough to count the human cost, t i co.-, o lives snulfed out. of energies en-ergies overtaxed and broken, the fear. fui physical aud spiritual cost to the l men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of, it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agonv of it all had not vet reached our ears, the solemn moving undertone of our life, coming up out ol the mines and factories fac-tories and out of every home where tlie struggle had its intimate and familiar fa-miliar scat. With tlie creat porn- . merit wpnt many deep secret things which we too long delayed to look In-i In-i to and scrutinize with candid, fear- less eyes The gre;?t government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes, and those who used it had forgotten the people. Duty to Cleanse. At last a vision has been vouchsafed vouchsaf-ed us of our life as a whole We see the had with the good, the debased and decadent with the sound and viral. With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse. to reconsider, to restore, to correct i the evil without impairing the good. I to purify and humanize everv process I of our common life without weaken-J weaken-J Inc or sentimentalizing it There has been something crude and heartless and unieeling in our h?ste to succeed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for it-s it-s li," while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of cr.ntrol should have a chance to look jour for themselves. We had not for-I for-I gotten our mor als. We remembered well enough that we had set up a policv which was meant to serve the humblest as well as the most power-t'il. power-t'il. with an eye single to the si an d -i aris of instlce and fair play, and remembered re-membered if with pride. Put we w. re very heedless and in a hurry to be great. We have come now to the sober I second thought The scales of heed-lesfiiess heed-lesfiiess have fallen from our eyes. We have made up our minds to j snuare every process of our national life again with the standards we so proudly set up at the beginning an I hae always carried at our hearts Oi'r work Is a work of restoration Tariff Alterc-t. on. We hive Itemized with some detrrep of part icilarltv the things that oi:-?lif to be altered and here are some of the ch'ef items: A tariff which cuts us off from our proper part in the commerce com-merce of the world, violates the just principles of taxation, and makes the government a facile instrument in the hand3 of private interests; a banking and currency system based upon the necessity of the government to sell its bonds fifty years ago and perfectly adapted to concentrating cash and restricting credits; an industrial in-dustrial system which, takp it on all sides, financial as well as administrative, administra-tive, holds capital In leading strincs restricts the liberties and limits the opportunities cf labor, and exploits without renewing or conserving the natural resources of the country: a , body ot agricultural activities never ct given the efficiency of great business busi-ness undertakings or served as it should be through the Instrument a 111 of science taken directly to the farm, or afforded the facilities of credit best suited to its practical needs, water coursrs undeveloped, waste places unreclaimed, forests untended. fast disappearing without plan or pros-j pros-j K?ct of renewal, unregarded waste ! heaps at every mine. We have studied stud-ied as perhaps no other nation has j the most effective means of production, produc-tion, but we have not studied eost oi econrmiv as we should either as organizers or-ganizers of industry, as statesmen, or i as individuals. Nor have we studied and perfected the means by which government may 'be put at the service of humanity, in safeguarding the health of the nation, na-tion, the health of Its men and its women and its children, as well as their rights In the struggle for existence exist-ence This Is no sentimental duty. The firm basis of covernment is justice, jus-tice, not pity These are matters of Justice There can bo no equality or opportunity, the first essential of ji.stlce in the body politic, if men and women and children be not shielde I In their lives, their verv vitality, from the consequences of jireat Industrial lonj social processes which they cannot can-not alter, control, or sinlv cope with. Society must seo to It that It does 'not itself crush or weaken or damage its own constituent parts The first1 duty of law is to keep sound the so-cietv so-cietv It serves. Sanitary laws, pure) food laws, and laws determining con-ditiens con-ditiens of labor which individuals are, powerless to determine foi themselves them-selves arc intimatp parts of the very j j business of justice, and legal efficiency. effi-ciency. Safeguarding of Property. These are some of the things we ought to do. and not leave the others I undone, the old-fashioned, nevcr-to-be-r.eclected fundamental safeguard-1 safeguard-1 ing of property and of individual I right. This is the high enterprise of the new day to lift everything that concerns our life as a nation to the light that shines from the hearthfire of everv man's conscience and visio'i of the right. It Is inconceivable that no should do this as partisans: it is inconceivable we should do it in ig- ( nonce of the facts as they are or in blind haste. We shall restore, not ; destroy. We shall deal with our I economic system as it is and as it ma? he modified, not as it might be' : If we had a clean sheet of paper to write upon: and step bv step wo shall make U what It should he. In the spirit of these who question their own wisdom and seek counsel and knowledge, knowl-edge, not shallow self-srtlsfaction or the excitement of excursions whither the cannot tell. Justice, and only Justice, shall always be our motto. And yet it .will be no cool procc I of mere science. The nation has been deeply stirred, stirred by a, solemn sol-emn passion, stirred by the knowledge of wrong, of ideals lost, of government govern-ment too ofteu debauched and made! ar Instrument of evil. The feellngB with which we face this new age of ri'-,ht and opportunity sweep across our heart-strines like some air out of God's own presence, where justice and mercv are reconciled and the Judge and the brother are one. Wo know our task to le no mere task of politics but a task which shall search us through and through, whether we be able to understand our time and the need of our noon1?, whether we be indeed their spokesmen spokes-men and interpreters, whether we h;.e the pure heart to comprehend and the rectified will to choose our high course of action. Day of Dedication. This Is not a day of triumph: it Is a day of dedication. Here muster, not the forces of party, but the forces oi humanity. Mens hearts wait upon up-on us; men's lives hang in the balance; bal-ance; men's hopes call upon US to say what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to try? 1 summon all honest men. all patriotic, all forward-looking men, to my side Hod helping me, I will not fall them. If they will but counsel and sustain me! |