The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-07
WILSON SPEAKS
 ID THE NATION
Inaugural Address Delivered by
 the New President.
SEES WORK OF RESTORATION
Task of Victorious Democracy Is to Square Every Process of National Life With Standards Set Up
 at the Beginning.

Washington, March 4.-President Wilson's inaugural address, remark able for it's brevity, was listened to with the greatest interest by the vast throng which was gathered in front of the capitol's east portico, and at it's close there was heard nothing but praise for it's eloquence and high moral tone The address in full was as follows:
 There has been change of govern ment. It began two years ago, when the house of representatives became Democratic by a decisive majority It has now been completed. The sen- ate about to assemble will also be Democratic. The offices of president and vice-president have been put into the hands of Democrats. What does the change mean? That is the ques' tion that is uppermost in our minds today. That is the question l am go- ing to try to answer, in order, if may, to interpret the occasion.
 Purpose of the Nation.
 It means much more than the mere success of a party. The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Demo cratic party. It seeks to use it to in. terpret a change in it's own plans and point of view. Some old things with which we had grown familiar, and which had begun to creep into the very habit of our thought and of our lives, have altered their aspect as we have latterly looked critically upon them, with fresh, awakened eyes have dropped their disguises and shown themselves }alien and sinister Some new things, as we look frankly upon them, wiling to comprehend their real charscter have come to as same the aspect of things long believ. ed in and familiar, stuff of our own convictions. We have been refreshed by a new insight into our own life. We see that in many things that life is very great It is incomparably great in it's material aspects, in its 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 and the limitless enterprise of groups of men. It is great, also, very great in it's moral fierce. Nowhere else in the world have noble men and women exhibited in more striking form the beauty and energy of sympathy and helpfulness and counsel in their efforts to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering and set the weak in the way oi strength and hope. We have built up moreover, a great system of govern ment, which has stood through long age as in many respects model fol those who seek to set liberty upoT foundations that will endure against | fortuitous change, against storm anG accident Our life contains every great thing, and contains it in ricI abundance.
 Evils That Have Come.
 But the evil has come with the l good, and much fine gold has beer corroded. With riches has come in excusable waste. We have squan dered a great part of what we migh have used, and have not stopped tc conserve the exceeding bounty of na ture, without which our genius for en terprise would have been worthless and impotent, scorning to be careful shamefully prodigal as well as admir- ably efficient. We have been proud O. our industrial achievements, but wt fully enough to count the human cost the cost of lives snuffed out, of ener gies overtaxed and broken, the fear full physical and spiritual cost to thu men and women and children upo1 whom the dead weight and burden O. it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of i all had not yet reached our ears, tht solemn, moving undertone of our life coming up out of the mines and fac tories 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 lool into and scrutinize with candid, fear less eyes. The great government WI loved has too often been made use O for private and selfish purposes, ant those who used it had forgotten tn, people.
 At last vision has been vouch safed us of our life as whole. w see the bad with the good, the de based and decadent with the sount and vital. With this vision we ap proach new affairs Our duty Is tt cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, t' correct the evil without impairing tn, good, to purify and humanize ever. process of our common life withou weakening or sentimentalizing it There has been something crude ant heartless and unfeeling in our haste t, succeed and be great. Our thought ha been Let every man look out for him self, let every generation look out fol itself,' while we reared giant machin cry which made 1t impossible that any but those who stood at the levers O control should have a chance to lool out for themselves. We had not for gotten our morals. We remembered