The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-03-07
PRESIDENT WILSON'S
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
FfeSaent summons All Honest Patriotic Men to His Side
and Promises Not to Fail Them.

| nave mace up our minds to square ev
cry process of our national life agail
with the standards we SO proudly So
mp Mt the beginning and have alway
carried ut our hearts. Our work is
work Of restoration.
Things to Be Accomplished.
We have itemizpd with some degre,
Of particularly the things that ough
TO he altered. and here are some of thu
chief items: a tariff which cuts us of
from our proper part in the commerce
| OF the world. violates the Just princi
| pies Of taxation and makes the govern
ment facie instrument in the hands
! of private interests; n banking and cur
rency system based upon the necessity
! Of the government to sell its bonds fifty
years ago and perfectly adapted to con
centrating cash and restricting credits
an industrial system which. take it Oh
all its sides. financial as well us ad
miniStrative. holds capital in leading
strings, restricts the liberties and lin
its the opportunities of labor and ex.
ploits without renewing or conserving
the natural resources of the country; Il
body Of agricultural activities never
yet given the efficiency Of great bust
ness undertakings or served as il
should be through the inStrumentality
of science taken directly to the farm
or afforded the facilities of credit best
suited to its practical needs; water.
courses undeveloped. waste places un.
reclaimed. forests INTENDED. fast dis.
appearing without plan Or prospect of
renewal. unrpgarded waste heaps at
every mine We have studied as per-
hHpS no other nation has the most eff
fectiye means Of production. but we
We should either as organizers of in
duStry. as statesmen or as individuals.
society's Duty to Itself.
Nor have we studied and perfected
the means by which government may
be put Mt the service of humanity in
safeguarding the health of the nation.
lHC llthllll VI IlS anu llS NOulCu
and its children, us we'll as their rights
in the struggle for existence. This is
no sentimental duty. The firm basis
of government is justice, not pity.
These are matters of justice. There can
be no equality or opportunity, the first
essential of justice in the body polite.
if men and women and children be
not shielded in their lives. their very
industrial and social processes which
they cannot alter. control Or Singly
cope with. Society must see to 1t that
it does not itself crush or weaken or
first duty of law is to keep sound the
society it serves. Sanitary laws, pure
food laws and laws determining con.
dtiOnS of labor which individuals are
powerIess to determine for themselves
are intimate parts of the very bust
ness Of justice aud legal efficiency.
These are some of the things we
ought to do and not leave the others
undone the old fashioned, never to be
neglected, fundamental safeguarding
of property and Of individual right.
This is the high enterprise of the new
day: TO lift everything that concerns
our life as nation to the light that
shines from the hearth fire of every
mans conscience and vision Of the
right 1t is incUnceivuble we should do
this rs partisans; it is inconceiyabe we
should do it in ignorance of the facts
as they are or in blind haste We shall
restore, not destroy We shall deal
with our economic system as it is and
uS it may he modified not rs it might
be if we had Il clean sheet of paper
to write upon. and step by step we
shall make it what it should be, IN the
spirit of those who question their
own wisdom and seek counsel and
knuWIcdge. not shallow self SatiSfac
ton or the excitement Cf excursions
whittier they cannot tell. Justice, and |
only Justice, shah always be our motto |
Task Net Merely One of Politics.
And yet it will he no cool process of |
mere science. The nution has been
deeply Stirred-stirred by II solemn pas |
sion, stirred by the knowledge of |
wrong, of ideals lost. of government |
too often dehauched and made an in
strument of evil The feelings with
which we face this new age of right |
and opportunity sweep across our
like some air out of Gods |
bwn presence, where Justice and mercy |
are ,reroucled and the Judge and the |
brother are one. We know our task to |
he no mere task Of politics, but Il task |
which shall search us through and |
.hrough, whether we he able to under. |
stand our time and the need of our |
people. whether we he indeed their |
SpOkeSmpn and interpreters. whether |
we have the pure heart to comprehend |
and the rectitipd will to choose our
high course of action.
This is not Il day of triumph: 1t is |
! day Of dedication. Here muster not |
he forces of party. hut the forces of |
Mems hearts wait upon MS:
mems lives hang in the balance: mems |
hopes call upon Ms 10 say what we |
will do, Who shall live up to the great |
rust: Who darpS tail To try? | sum |
mon all honest men. all patriotic. all !
forward hooking men. tu my side God |
helping me. will not fail them If they |
will hut counsel and sustain mP
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