The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-03-04
PRES. WOODROW WILSON'S
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
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MhUuUhAL AuUklOO
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With this vision we approach new af-
fairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to re-
consider. to restore. to correct the
evil without impairing the good, to
purify n humanize every process of
IL common life without weakening
heen something crude INC heartless
unfeeling in our haste to succeed
n be great. Our thought has been
Let every man look put for himself,
let every generation look out for it.
self,' While we reared giant machin.
cry which made 1t impossible that
any but those who stood at the levers
OF control should have a chance to
look out for themselves. We had not
lorgotten our morals. We remember
ed We'll enough that we had set up a
policy. which was meant to serve the
numblest as well as the most power
ful. with an y single to the stand
ARDS OF justice and fair play, and re-
membered it with pride. but we
were very needless and in a hurry tn
be great. ~ ~
We have come now to the sober
second thought. h scales Of heed
y AoiAcu lIOIl our ewes. We
have made up our mlpds to souare sws
cry process Of our Ntional life again
with the standards We so iproudly set
up at the beginning and have always
carried at our hearts. Our work is a
work Of restoration.
Alteration is Needed.
We have itemized with some degree
OF P~articularity the things that ought
To ha 0Ifarod rrl hoo
tle chief items: a tariff which cuts us
OF from our proper part in the com.
merce of the world. violates the lust
principles Of taxation, and makes the
government a facile instrument IN tho
nands of private interests; a banking
ana currency system based upon the
necessity of the government to sell its
oonds fifty years 6 and perfectly
aaapted to concentrating cash and re-
s.tle1lng credits; an industrial system
"nlcn. take 1t on all lis sides, financial
as well as administrative. holds capitai
IN leading strings. restricts the liber-
Ties and limits the opportunities of la
DOT, n exploits without renewing mr.
conserving the natural esources Of
the country; u body Of agricultural
ACTIVITIES never yet given the efficiency
OF great business undertakings or serv,
ed as 1t should be through the instru-
%NaSiiSg ldhSH ulTeCtIv IN
the farm. or afforded the facilities Of
credit best suited to it's practical needs:
Watcourses undeveloped, waste places
unreclaimed. forests INTENDED. tact
disappearing without plan or prospect
OF renewal. unregardcd waste heans
at every mine. We have studied az
perhaps no other nation has the most
GIectlVe means of production, bur We
nave not studied cost or %econon,y nc
We should either as organizers NJ ;no
dustrN, as statesmen. or as individuals
Nor nave we studied and perfected
the means by which government NAV
De put at the service Of humanity IN
s~afeguarding the health Of the natio ,
me health Of Its men and women ami
us children, as well. as their rights in
inc struggle for existence. This is no
s=sn.l.nentai DUTY. The firm basis OF
soVernment is Justice. not pity. These
are matters of justice. There ran he
no equailty OF opportunity, the first
essential OF justice in the body polite
II men women and children he moi
snleided IN their lives. their very vi
taiitS. from the consequences of great
industrial and social processes which
they cannot alter. control. or singly
cope with. Society must see In 4
that it does not itself crush or weaken
or damage its own constituent parts
Ihe first duty Of law is to keep SOUND
the society it serves. Sanitary laws
pure food laws. and laws determining
conditions of labor. which indiyjdnaIs
are powerless to determine tor them
selves are Intimate parts OF the very
business Of justice and legal efficiency.
Still Great Duty.
Tines are some Of the things We
ought to do. and not leave the others
undOne, the nld-fashioned. neyer.tn-
be-neglected. fund. mental safeguard.
ing of property and of individual right.
This is the high enterprise OF Inc new
day: to lift everything that concerns
our life as Il nation to the light that
shines from the tearthfre of every
mans conscience and vision Of the
right. 1t Is inconceivable that we
should do this as partisans: 1t is in
conceivable we should do 1t in ignor-
ance OF the facts as they are or in
blind haste. We shall restore. not de-
stroy. We shall deal with our eco.
monte system as it il and as it may be
modified. not as it might be II We mad
a clean sheet Of paper to write upon;
and step by step we shall make 1t what
1t should be. in the spirit OF those VIII.
question their own wisdom and seek
counsel and knowledge. not shallow
self.sattsfactiOn or the excitement Of
excursions whittier they cannot tell.
Justice, and only justice. shall always
be u motto.
And yet it will no no cool process
Of mere science. The nation has been
deeply stirred. stirred by q solemn
passion. stirred by the knowledge OF
wrong. Of ideals lost. Of government
too often %debauched and made an In
strument Of evil. The feelings. with
which we face this new age Of right