Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-04

INAUGURATION IS
OBSERVED BY
HOUSE

The inauguration Of President
Woodrow Wilson was duly observed
by the house today, though the senate
completely ignored the occasion, the
only mention of IL Being the senate
chaplain's comment la his invocation.
In the house, Chaplain Akaiko Aka.
8 ma prayed for the nations new chief
executive. As part Of the mornings
regular business, a resolution by DIR.
Archer Irwin. ordering the clerk to
caLle that body's congratulations to
President Wilson, was adopted unani-
mously Just before the sessions
close DIR. Irwin delivered brief ad-
dress, commenting on the induction OF
the new president into Office, and at
It's close the representatives adj
journed for the remainder of the day
ont Of respect to the president.
DIR. Twins address was as follows:
Every time a new president taxes
his seat as chief magistrate of this
nation, the question in the mind Of
every citizen is, How viii the new
man prove out? Will he make good ?
with the exception of Abraham
Lincoln, no president has approached
his duties with questions of greater
Importance or more vital Interest TO
the country at large. pending for so
lution--the Mexican trouble, tariff re-
form. currency and social legislation.
all call for such a display OF ability
and discretion as would tax to the
utmost the best men our nation could
produce
I'VE can only Judge of q mans fll-
and. in looking back over the career
Of our new president, we find man
81 sound training. with q profound
knowledge of the science Of govern
inert, and the mental ability and az
tributes OF a wise leader-character
tics that fit him superbIy for the high
position TO which he has been called.
Fitted for Task.
a student OF political economy
from youth--an authority on the
science later in life--president of 2,
university, a little republic by itself
IA governor who proved to he a real
governor in conditions where all the
wiles OF the political triekster were
played against him; all this expe't
enee has fitted and furns he'd him, as
few presidents have been fitted and
finished, for this great task.
seThe lawa of the Evolutionary the
ory hold as good in the development
Of political institutions as they do IN
the development Of species in the,
REALM of animal and vegetable life;
and as in the latter there are long
periods without seeming change, SO.
in. the former there are periods OF
uuiescence or seeming evenness when
peonle are lulled into the belief that
thoy have arrived at permanent or
der of society. The longer the sta
tionary. period. the greater the shock
and lar when the wheels speed up.
1--WE sometimes blame this disturn-
ance on this system, or that, on this
doctrine. or that. but after all IT is
hut the working out of natural law
Great Questions to Solve.
aThere is no doubt but that we are
now at such a period of rapid action
In the evolution of our political instr
tutions. a time when events move
swiftly. when new and broader ideas
of the comparative value of property
rights and human rights are develop,
ing. when questions of the control oil
huge commercial or financial COM
binations and their economic influ-
ence on the daily life of the average
citizen must be solved.
"At this, / might almost say, Crisis
in national affairs, it gives a sense OF
security and confidence to know that
we have as captain at the helm of the
shin of state, man well grounded In
the board, basic principles that under
lie all free governments man train
ed to deal with men in the mass and
as Individuals man with such
sense of fairness that he can see both
sides Of question and decide the
rights of conflicting interests without
prejudice and without bias-a man OF
high hope and abundant enthusiasm
a man of courage and faith in the peo-
pie over whom he is called to preside |
with such a leader to direct. with
the genius, intelligence and integrity |
of such race as ours to follow, we
can weather any storm and win
through. stronger. sounder, cleaner
people"