Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-03-04
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
OF PRESIDENT Will SON


INAUGURAL ADDRESS
OF PRESIDENT WILSON
The inaugural address OF Presiden,
Woodrow Wilson is az follows:
There has been a change of govern
ment. It began two years ago. when
the house Of representatives became
Democratic by a. decisive majority 1,
has now been completed. The senate
about to assemble will also be Demo
cratic. The offices Of president and
vice president have been put into the
hands of Democrats What does the
change mean2 That is the question
that Is uppermost In our minds today
That Is the question am going to try
to answer, In order. II l may. to inter.
pref the occasion.
II 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 Tor large
and definite purpose, No one can mis-,
take the purpose for which the nation
now seeks to use the Democratic party.
1t seeks to use II to interpret u change
In Its 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
a hou Il, tnt.lu La,
critically upon them with fresh. awak.
ened eyes; have dropped their DISCUSSES
and shown themselves allen and sin
lister. Some new things as we look
frankly upon them. willing to compre'
bend their real character. have come
to assume the aspect of things long be,
lieved In and familiar. stuff of our own
convictions. We have been refreshed
by new Insight into our own life.
Our Model Government.
We see that In many things life
is very great II Is incomparably great
In its material aspects. In its body OF
wealth. In the diversity and sweep of
its energy. In the industries which have
been conceived and built up by tn
genius Of individual men and the lin
itless enterprise of groups of men, II
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 helpful.
In IN
tify 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 long age AS In
many respects model for those who
seek to set liberty upon foundations
that will endure against fortuitous
change, against storm and accident
Our life contains every great thing and
contains II In rich abundance.
But the evil has come with the good
and much fine gold has been corroded
With riches has come inexcusabe
waste We have squandered great
part Of what we might have used aud |
have not stopped to conserve the ex
ceeding bounty of nature without
which our genius for enterprise would |
have been worthless and impotent,
scorning to be careful, shamefully |
prodigal as well as admirably efficient
We have been proud Of our industrial |
achievements, but we have not bith
erto stopped thougbtfully enough to
count the human cost. the cost Of lives
snuffed out. of energies overtaxed and
broken. the fearful physical and spir
ltual cost to the men and women and
children upon whom the dead weigh,
and burden OF II all has fallen pitIess
y the years through. The groans and
agony OF II all had not yet reached
Dur ears, the solemn. moving under
tone Of our life. coming up out of the
mines and factories and out of every
home where the struggle had its init
nate and familiar seat. With the
great government went many deep Sc
ret things which we too long delayed
o look into and scrutinize with can
lid. fearless eyes. The great govern
nent we loved has too often been
made use OF for private and selfish
purposes. and those who used II had
orgotten the people.
Duty Of Americans Outlined.
At last vision has been vouchstfed
Is Of our life as a whole. We see the
'ad with the good. the debased and
ecadent with the sound and vital
With this vision we approach new af
airs. Our duty Is to cleanse, to re-
onsider, to restore. to correct the evil
Without impairing the good, to purify
nd humanize every process of our
ommon life without weakening or
1t. There has been
omething crude and heartess and un
ceiling In our haste to succeed and be-
reat. Our thought has been, LET ev
ry man look out for himself; let ev. Il
~ generation look out for itself. :
yhile we reared giant machinery which
lade 1t impossible that any but those
Tho stood at, the levers of control
hould have chance to look out for
themselves. We had not forgotten our !
,orals. We remembered well enough t
nat we had set up a policy which was a
,eant to serve the humblest as well as
he most powerful, with an eye single
} the standards of Justice and fair