Show PLEA FOR FOB A UNITED PRESIDENT DENT SOLEMNLY RENEWS HIS HI COVENANT IN I 1 URAL ADD ADDRESS R E SS deep wrong inal cited acted upon united state tilts pictured and hint given that country may be forced into we war westil washington agton president pres f d Wl il leons en folina loons I 1 inaugural gavel address wast waa aa follows my tellow fellow rill citizens the tour four years alch have ul elapsed rp bad ince ce last at I 1 stood in this thia placebo place have 7 been crowded it with counsel coment and ad an ac tion alon ot of the most vital interest and ad consequences perhaps no equal pe tied in our history he lias bee been GO fruit ful cut of important reforms in our a econ min and industrial life or no BO ful fall I 1 of signing sign significant inc nt change in the spirit bad and on purpose P oa of a our or political so action on we have 81 sought tight very thoughtfully thoughtful y to set bet our gar house in order corr correct ct the gros sep bar errora and abas abuses of our indus trial life liberate rod and quicken the P pro of our mor national samoa genius and en an orgy ergy and lift our politics I 1 to I 1 broader view of the people a base essential let inter esla it t 1 la a record of Bin singular gular var lety and not singular ditha distinction tum but I 1 all shall 1 not act attempt 1 to review it it t speaks peak for itself end it will be of I 1 in creasing influence as the years go by this thia to Is not net the time tor for retrospect it Is time rather to peak our of thoughts thought and and our purposes P oses concerning the present and it the immediate join future no new P problem C confronting find world I 1 it geredt although we her have c centered counsel u ansel and it act action with such unusual 0 concen as ration and ad success upon the great problems of domestic legislation to which we addressed ourselves four years ago other matters have more and ad m forced themselves upon our attention matters lying outside our own I 1 life ifo as a nation at and over r which we had no an control but not which despite its opt our a wish to keep tree free of them have v draw drawn us more amm and ad more are irresistibly in into to the their r own curre current t and nd influence 1 it ahe has bawa been impossible to avoid it the them they have offo affected ottil the I 1 life of the whole world they have shaken men man ever everywhere here with a passion bad and an a apprehension ap pp relic as sion they never knew be tore fare it ban baa been hard to p preserve calm counsel tinsel white while the thought go our a own people swayed this way that under their influence we or are composite and ad cosmopolitan people we are 0 of f the blood of all the ami nations an that are am at war or the currents our thoughts as aa well wall as tile the of 0 our or trade run an quick 0 at t nil ell seasons back and forth between u us s and them the war inevitably set its mark from the first alike upon our or mind our in bustnes dust dus tries nes our commerce our P politics title 0 and our social action accio T to be ba in differ a ent tto to it or iri independent depend at ot at it we was out of the he question atio injuries become intolerable A and it yet all the while we he have bee been c conscious biou that we were not part of it in that consciousness despite many divisions we have drawn closer together we have been deeply wronged ranged upon the seas bea but we have not at wished to on wrong or injure in return have retained throughout the ile consciousness of tending standing in some borne hm sort art apart intent upon pa a an interest fairest that transcended the immediate issues of the we war itself As aa same borne of t the he I 1 in juries done us have become intolerable ate have still been clear that we wished nothing tor far ourselves mr the that t W we were not ready to demand tor far all man kind fair dealing justice the tree doon dom to live and be at ease agai against at or gouni old kroml it 1 Is 1 in this oil spirit and ad with this thought that e be haie grows W ait more and more aware more and more certain that the part we wished to play was the part of those these who me mean an to vin tot dacate and fortify peace W we have bee been obliged to arm am bursel our ourselves sel to in make good our claim to a certain latu minimum ot of right and of freedom of action we at stand od I 1 firm in armed neutrality since alone it areme am that in no other way we can demonstrate what it is 16 we insist upon pon and ad mand cannot forego we may ven even be drawn on by circumstances out ot b by y our own purpose or desire to ma more re active ass assertion rt a of our or rights light as 3 we see eee them old and a more immedi tc association to with lb the great struggle itself cited but nothing will site alter I 1 1 our ar 0 thought thought or our purpose they are too clear to be obscured they are too imply rooted in the principles of our or national lie on li ute lf to be altered we its de sire e neith neither e r conquest nor advant advantage ake we e wish nothing that can be had only at t the unit cost of at another people we have always professed unel unselfish fth pur par a om and it wo a covet the opportunity to wove that our professions are sin or ere i uni united t ad states no longer pr provincial voncial T there he or are ins many things at still to at b home to clarify our or own ind ilive give new vitality to the tha industrial or processes 0 m beca 0 of our own life and we a shall hall d do phout them aa a if time and opportunity serve but we realize that the great really things that min remain ato to be il done one must net be 1 done I with the whole world tor for stige i g a and it I 1 in co pera s I 1 wt with itskin its kin hie I 1 wide and universal le forces r of mankind d zd and w we riar tire mail making our or spirits ready for those them things thing they will 11 follow law I 1 in the hous immediate silicon w waka one of th the war it left elt and will set civilization up 1 get we are am 9 1 no an longer th the L ical events of the he thirty months ot or vital turmoil through which we have just pissed have made us ua slit a lena of ill the world th there ere a can be no ot 9 back our own oun fortunes fortune as a nation an are involved whether we would have it so or not and yet wo we me ais not the less leaa americans american on that account 0 at we shelf shall be the more amer accor lean iran it we wa hot but remain true to th the p prin i islea in which we have hava bee been b bred r 0 d rhy are not the principles of a brov rice or of at a single continent if t we lave to kii known mil and boasted all 11 along ag lb that at ill they kiino no were a the he principle ot of a ill ady spited d nation standa for these therefore are the things we shall blind for whether in war ar or in D peace that all nations are caily lot inter rated ested in the peace 1 1 1 of tle the world and in I 1 the 11 0 political stability billt of 1 true free lie poo pie plea and ad squally ally creations reat responsible ions his for heir maintenance that the llie essential principle of poem peace Is the mutual 0 equality of na ties ions b in all 11 to baltra t tr of right or eriv uri ahat peace cannot securely or just ly y at upon an armed ad balance of on power ahr thit t gt g govern menta t dolila derive all 11 their lust just powers from the content consent ot of the governed and that no other powers should be supported by the c common a in th thought purpose or power a of r the am y of nations action that tho the should be equally free and safe bate tor far the use of all P peo ples plan under rules rate set up alp by common crould bud and consent and ad that so no far as P practicable r they should be so ac feasible cea sible b t to all upon B equal I 1 torso terms that national settlements armaments should be if limited called to the neresia of national order and domestic safety that tile the common community of interest it and it or of P power war up upon which ch peace must henceforth depend deam 4 imposes upon each to nation ton len the dat duty of seeing to it that all il influences u a as proceeding from its own citi citizens a s in meant at to encourage S or r assist re resolution lution cel 1 in other h states should old bo be sternly and il suppressed bud and prevented I 1 need a not arguo argue these them principle plea to you my fel fellow low countrymen they are arc your tour own part and parcel ot of your own thinking and your year own motive mothe in affairs affair they spring up native amongst matus mg us upon this p platform of purpose and d of action we wa ran can stand together people must stand together and it Is imperative that we should stand together we are being forged into a new unity gadist tile the firm fires that n ow now til blaze lituri throughout at the world in t their h h ardent rd t heat beat 1 we shall boul in amid god a providence dence let tl ri hope be li purged urge of fiction and ad divo division simi purified of the errant humors home r a of party parly unit and of ON vola vate interest and shelf shall stand forth in ill ine davs dava to come with a new dignity dimity of national pride and spirit let each b man see aee to it that the ded dedication lod in IE in his own heart the high purpose particle ol of tha the nation in his hie own mind ruler let ot 1 his own will and nd desire deahm id I 1 stand he here and d have are take the high and it solemn oath to which you have be been a audience c because becaas the pe peo pie of the tha united states be bare chosen me for far this thin august agust delegation of pow er be and ad have by their ud gracious I 1 I 1 judg u dir ment at named mail me a their leader r I 1 in of at fairs fair I 1 know knew raw now wil what at the task means I 1 realize to lb the full fall the re which it dinv inv involves olves I 1 pray god I 1 may be given I 1 tha be wisdom and ad the prudence to do my duty h in eop the true spirit of this great P people 1 d I 1 am their servant bud and can call ase succeed e only as they austain to and ad guide me ab by their confidence and ad their counsel th the thing I 1 shall count upon the thing thine without which neither counsel nor action will avail I 1 la the unity ally ol 01 1 america B rica an america united 1 in feel ing in id purpose and in vision ot of it duty my ot of a opportunity op in durilla and of service we ire to beware ot of all men who would to turn r the t tasks k and it the of at th the e nation to their oa uin private profit or use them tor for the building up of private power beware th that t no a fee fac tion lion or disloyal Int intrigue irig b break r wit the harmony or embarrass ro barram tile the spirit ot of our people beware that our or govern ment be kept pure piles and it I 1 incorrupt p t in 11 all its parts parta united still alike in t the he hi con 0 ot of our or duty and it in the high gh resolve to perform it in t the he face ot all avace tuf men let us dedicate ourselves r a to the met great task taik to which which we must set our hand for FOP myse myself f I 1 urge your to toler 1 r area ance your counte countenance and Y your our unit lle i ed B aid fit the shadows he the that t now W lie ed dark rk a upon pa our path will son eoon he be die dia belled and we shall walk with the shelf walk light el all I 1 bout about us as it we he be but true tight to ourselves to our ourselves selve aa 11 we ho have wished to u he be known I 1 in the ia h counsels I 1 wo of the world ald and in the th thought augh t 0 ot til 1 those these who love liberty are and d P lusung us G no and d th the a right exalted |