Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-03-07
MESSAGE
WILSON OUTLINES PROGRESSIVE LEGISLATION HE
WILL WORK FOR DURING HIS ADMINS
TRATl0N IN BRIEF INAUGURAL.
ADDRESS.

Washington. March 4.-.Justice"
will he the ~watchword of President
Wilson'S administration. In his in
augural address. remarkable for it's
brevitN and succinctness. the new pres
ident outlined the program he proposes
! To follow. His speech i'll full follows:
I There has been a change of gov
eminent. 1t began two years ago
when the House of Representatives be-
jority. 1t has now been completed.
The Senate about to assemble will also
be democratic. The offices of presi-
dent and vice president have been put
into the hands of democrats. What
does the change mean? That is the
question that is uppermost in our
minds today. That is the question !
am going to try to answer. in order.
II NAV. to interpret the occasion.
More Than Party Success.
ut means much more than the moro
success Of a party. The success Of a
party means little except when the ma
lion is using that part for a large and
the purpose for which the nation now
seeks to use the democratic party. It
soeks to use it to interpret a change
in its WI plans and point Of view"
Some old things with which we had
grown familiar. and which had begun
~ &.SSE hANC liC y ~ tldOIt vi Jul
thought and of our lives. have altered
their aspect as we have latterly looked
critically upon them. with fresh.
awakened eyes: have dropped their
DISCUSSES and shown themselves alien
and sinister Some new things, as we
look frankly upon them. Wiling to
comprehend their real character. have
come to assume the aspect of things
long believed in and familiar. stun OF
u own convictions. We have been
refreshed by a new insight into our
own life.
Our United States.
We see that i'm many things that
life is very great. 1t is incOmparably
great in it's material aspects. in it's
body of wealth, in the diversity and
sweep of it's energy, in the industries
which have been conceived and built
up by the genius of individual men
n the limitless enterprise of groups
of men. II is great, also. very great,
In it's moral force. Nowhere else i'm
the world have noble men and women
exhibited i'm more striking forms the
beauty and the energy of sympathy
and h~elpfulness and counsel In their
efforts to rectify wrong. alleviate suf-
OF strength and hope. We have built
up. moreover. a great system of gov
eminent. which has stood through a
ong q as in many respect a model
Tor those who seek To set liberty upon
foundations that will endure against
accident. Dun life contains every great
thing. and contains il in rich abund-
ance.
Evil Corrodes Gold.
But the evil has come with the
good, and much fine gold has been cor
roded. With riches has come mex
cusable waste. We have ~suuandered a
i great mart .f what Az. ,,,;orIt ln,.n
used. and have not stopped to con
serve the exceeding bounty of nature.
without which our geaiu., for enter
prise would have been worthless and
shamefully prodigal as well as admir-
ably efficient.
w have been proud Of our in
dustrial achievements. but we have
not hitherto stopped .~thoushtfuliy
enough to count the human cost,
enersies overtaxed and broken. the
the fearful physical and spiritua!
cost to the mon and women and
children upon whom the dead
weight and burden of il all has
fallen pititessiy the years through.
not yet reached i ears, the
solemn. moving undertone Of our
life, coming up out of the mines
and factories and out of every
home where the struggle had its
intimate and familiar seat. With
h great government ven many
deep secret things whic:, we too
Tong delayed to look into and seru-
tinize with candid, fearless eyes.
The great government we loved
has too often been made use Of for
private and selfish purposes, and
the people.
SAY. Nation Sees Itself.
last a vision has been vouchsafed
US OF our life as Il whole. We see the
bad with the good. the debased and
decadent with h sound n vital.
fairs. Our duty is to cleanse. to re-
consider. to restore, to correct the evil
without impairing the good, to purify
and humanfze every process of our
common life without weakening or SEN
timentalizing it. There has been some
thing crude heartless and unfeel-
ing in our haste to succeed and be
great. Our thought has been Let every
man look out for himself. let every
generation look out for itself while
we reared giant machinery which made
it impossible that any but those who
STOOD at the levers of control should
a a a to Ook out for them
selves. We had not forgotten our
morals. We remembered well enough,
that we had set up a policy which was
meant to serve the us well
as the most powerful. with an eye
single to the standards OF justice and
fair play, and remembered it with
pride. But we were very needless and
In Il hurry to be great.
I'VE hace come now to sober second
thought. The scales of heedlessness
have fallen from our eyes. We have
made up our minds to square every
process of our national life again with
the standards we so proudly set up at
the beginning and have always car
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