The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-03-06
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
WILSON OUTLINES PROGRESSIVE LEGISLATION he.
WILL WORK FOR DURING HIS ADMINS
TRATl0N IN BRIEF INAUGURAL !
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ADDRESS,.

| upon the necessity OF the uovern.
mont TO self its bonds so years ago
and perfectly adapted to concern
trating cash and restricting cred
take IL on all its sides, financial
an well as administrative, holds
capital in leading strings, restricts
the liberties and limits the oppor-
tunities of labor and exploits with
out renewing or conserving the
natural resources Of the country;
body Of agricultural activities
great business undertakings or
served as it should be through the
fundamentally of science taken
directly to the farm, or afforded the
facilities OF credit best suited to its
practical needs; water courses UNI
developed, waste places unre-
claimed, forests INTENDED, fast dis
Appearing without plan of prospect
OF renewal, ~unresarded waste heaps
at every mine W. have studied as
perhaps no other nation has the
most effective means of produce
ton, but we have not studied cost
or economy as we should either az
organizers Of industry, as states
men, or as individuals. =
Governing for Humanity. ,
Nor have we studied and perfected
the means by which may
De put at the service of humanity, in
safeguarding the health Of the nation,
the health of its men and Its women
and Its children, as well as their rights
In the struggle for existence. This Is
no m duty. The firm basis
or government Is justice, not pity.
Ihese are matters Of justice. There
can be no equality Of opportunity, the
nrst essential of justice in the body
polltlc, IL men and women and chill
dren be not shielded in their lives,
their very Vitality, from the conse-
quences of great Industrial and social
processes which they cannot alter,
control, or singly cope with. Society
must see to 1t that 1T does not itself
crush OF weaken or damage it's own
constituent parts. The first duty Of
law Is to keep sound the society 1t
serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws,
and laws determining conditions Of la
Dor which individuals are powerless to
determine for themselves are intimate
parts of the very business Of justice
and 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 a nation to the light that
shines from the hearthflre Of every
mans conscience and vision Of the
right. IT is inconceivsble thai we
should do this as partisans; it is in
conceivable we should do it in igno-
rance OF the facts as they are or in
blind haste. We shall restore, not de-
stroy. We shall deal with our eco
nomic system as ii Is and as 1t may
be modified, not as it might be il we
had a clean sheet Of paper to write.
upon; and step by step we shall make
IL what 1t should be, in the spirit of
those who question their W wisdom
and seek counsel and knowledge, not
shallow self satisfaction or the excite
ment of. excursions whittier they cam
not tell. Justice and only justice, shall
always be our motto.
Not Political Task.
And yet it will be no cool process
Of mere science. The nation has been
deeply stirred by a solemn passion.
stirred by the knowledge of wrong,
OF ideals lost, of government too often
d~ebauched and make an instrument of
evil The feelings with which We face
this new age of right opportunity
sweep across our heart strings like
some air out of Gods own presence,
where justice and mercy are recon
ciled and the judge and the brother
are one. We know our task to be 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 people.
whether we be indeed their spokes-
men and interpreters, whether we have
the pure heart to- comprehend and the
rectiied will to choose our high course
of action.
This is not a day Of triumph; il is
a day of dedication. Here muster, not
the forces of party, but the forces Of
humanity. Mems hearts wait upon US;
mems lives hang in the balance; mems
'hopesIeall upon US to say what we will
trust2 Who dares fail to try? ! sum
mon all honest men, all patriotic, all
forward looking men, to my side. God
helping me, ! will not fail them, If they
will but counsel and sustain mel"