The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-03-07
WILSON
OR JUSTICE ONLY
!. Inaugural Address Calls on
y mia IIonest Men to Aid in
His Task.
al RESTORE, NOT DESTROY
..,.t Executive Says Change OF
y n.ut Means the Nation Is
,'.,.r Democratic Patry for
Vs. -. and Definite Purpose.

80. and Definite Purpose.
s.,siprton, March 4, -Looking
;. Ne victory Of the Democratic
y ) the mandate of the nation to
" The evils that have been al
~ % gov up in our national life
.,.',sat Wilson in his inaugural adj
y. ,oday called on all honest men
'..,s him in carrying out the will
y. oaople. Following is his ad-
nra has been change of govern
:, II began two years ago, when
I. s,rse Of representatives became
...e,atic By a decisive majority.
- NOW been completed. The SEN
,b0ut to assemble will also be
',.rratic. The offices OF president
4 vceprssident have been put into
! lands Of Democrats. What does
s ,sauge mean? That is the CUES
I, mat is uppermost in our minds
i q, That is the question / am go
I = nv to answer, in order, II I
u 10 interpret the occasion
New Insight lHto Our Life.
susans much more than the mere
r.sS Of a party. The success OF a
~ means little except when the
aSa Is using that party for a large
a iefnite porpose. No one can
,t,ts the purpose for which the
uiOl now seeks to use the Demo-
atc party. 1t seeks to use 1T to In
vss. change IN its own plans and
Ypt Of view. Some old things with
] ,Akh we had grown familiar, and
,htS had begun to creep into the
4 n5 habit Of our thought and of our
Ines have altered their aspect as we
Es utterly looked critically upon
hn, With fresh, awakened eyes;
hs dropped their DISCUSSES and
swn themselves alien and sinister.
/ sns new things, as we look frankly
lrr them, willing to comprehend
aai real character, have come to as
nae the aspect 0f things long belieV,
i 4 h and czmiliar, stuff of our own
HagicGlOns. We have been refreshed
1aleE insight into our own life.
Ne see fiat in many things that
u 5 very gsaat. 1t is ineomparably
Eat In Its material aspects, in its
4 hiT Of wealth, in the diversity and
Hsp Of its energy, in the industries
EAkh have iaen conceived and built
i . b. The genius of individual men
nd the hmhless enterprise of groups
u men. It Is great, also, very great
B Its moral fogce. Nowhere else in
De world hive noble men and women
Inhibited In more striking form the
Aauly and energy of sympathy and
klsiulnesS and cd1unsel in their efforts
isctity wrong, alleviate suffering
y sex the weak in the. way Of
aslgih and hope We have built up
tsoser, q great system of govern
b which mas stood through a long
g q In many respects a model fol
Ss Who seek to set liberty upor
Mldatlons that will endure against
ApiIuus change, against storm ant
Misnt Our life contains every
pa thing, and contains it in rict
Guidance,
Human Cost MOI Counted.
W the evil has come with ths
Na ana much fine gold has beer
anded With riches has come in
aple waste. We have squan
a great part of what we migh
/ y eed. and have not stopped tt
& tne exceeding bounty Of ma
Without which our genius for en-
1slHe would have been worthless
Mpolelt, scorBing to be careful
1sIallg prodigal as we'll as admir-
saelent, We have been proud o.
4. INDUSTRIAL achievements, but We
aOs hitherto stopped thought
sa0usa to count che human cost
s. ~ q hEas snuffed out, of ener
eFtaxed and broken, the fear
8. F-lsleal and spiritual cost to the
81 women and children apor
.ae dead weight and burden o.
s,ss.s y fallen pitilessly the years
.gss sn Inc groans and agony of il
4
nE.r ~ YET reached our ears, the
as = moving undsrtone of our life
s.. up ott Of the mines and fac
'ld out Of every home where
uggle had its intimate and ia
u, -. ~ With the great govern
l q many deep secret things
= y TOO long delayed to look
~ - Aeiutlnizs with candid, fear
S., The great government We
4 = egg TO often been made use NJ u
a 4 and selfish purposes, and
g used It had forgotten the
VA : Vision has been youch
il = Z our Life as a whole. We
s. IS !. with the good, the de.
,i's ~ ascadent with the sound
as With this vision we an
Nv = Affairs. Our duty is to
A. reconsider. to restore, t.