Weekly journal-miner., 1913-03-12
For Wrongs He Can Rlghten, For the Good He Can Do, Is Keynote of Wilson's
 Inaugural Address.

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 prise of groups of men. It is great,
 also, very great, in its moral force.
 Nowhere else in the world have
 noble men and women exhibited in
 more striking forms the beauty and
 the energy of sympathy and help
 fulness and counsel in their efforts
 to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering,
 and set the weak in the way of
 strength and hope We have built
 up, moreover, great system of government, which has stood through
 a long age as in many respects a
 model for those who seek to set
 liberty upon foundations that will en- dure against fortutitous change, against storm and accident Our life
 contains every great thing, and con ] tains it in rich abundance
 But the evil has come with the good, and much fine gold has been
 corded. With riches has come in-
 excusable waste We have squand-
 cred a great part of what we might
 have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of
 nature, without which our genius for
 enterprise would have been 'yorth- less and impotent, scorning to be
 careful, shamefully prodigal as we'll
 as admirably efficient We have
 been proud of our industrial achieve
 ments, but we have not hitherto
 stopped thoughtfully enough to count
 the human cost, the cost Of lives
 snuffed out, of energies overtaxed
 and broken, the fearful physical and
 spiritual cost to the men and wo-
 men and children upon whom the
 dead weight and burden of it all has
 fallen pitilessly the years through
 The groans and agony of it all had
 not yet reached our 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 ia miliar seat. With the great govern ment went many deep secret things
 which we too long delayed to look into and scrutiniZe with candid, fear less eyes. The great government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish pur- poses, and those who used it had forgotten the people
 At last a vision has been vouch- 1 safed us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good, the l debased and decadent with the | sound and vital. With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty IS to cleanse, to reconsider, to re- store, to correct the evil without inn pairing the good, to purify and hu- manize every process of our com mon life without weakening or sen timentalizing it. There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great Our thought has been Let every man look out for him self, let every generation look out for itself while we reared giant which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a Il chance to look out for themselves. We had not forgotten our morals. We remembered well enough that we had set up policy which was meant to serve the humblest as we'll 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 heed ii less and in hurry to be great
 We have come now to be the sob er second thought The scales of leedlessness have fallen from our : ,yes. We have made up our minds ; o square every process of our nat I onal life again with the standards $ We so proudly set up at the begin S ling and have always carried at our i hearts. Our work is a work of re- ' toration. $
 We have itemized with some de- s -ree of particularly the things that c ught to be altered and here are c ome of the chief items: A tariff t 'hich cuts us off from our proper
 art in the commerce of the world. O iolates the justest principles of b axation, and makes the government e