Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1913-03-07
EXISTING CONDITIONS
DEMAND A CHANGE


PFescribes the Remedy-Touches
i Upon important Questions.
/ WASHINGTON, March A broad
constructive, political policy during
his administration of the affairs Of
the United States was pledged to the
people by President Woodrow Wilson
In his inaugural address delivered
here today, which he closed with an
appeal to all patriotic men. irrespee
tive of party, that they aid him in
carrying out that policy.
We shall restore, not destroy"
said the president in summing up his
proposed alterations in legislative
governmental and industrial affairs
Existing conditions demanding
change through legislative action
were partieularized by President VII
son as follows;
"A tariff which cuts US off from cur
world. violates the Just principles Of
taxation. and makes the Government
a facile instrument in the hands of
private interests
"A banking and currency system,
based upon the necessity Of the Gov
eminent to sell its bonds fifty years
ago, and perfectly adapted to concen-
tratiug cash and restricting credits
AN Industrial system, which, take
it on all sides, financial as well as ad-
ministratiye, holds capital in leading
strings, restricts the liberties and
limits the opportunities oil labor, and
exploits without renewing or conserV-
ing the natural resources of the coun-
try.
"A body of agricultural activities
never yet has given the efficiency OF
great business undertakings, or serv-
ed as it should be through the instru-
mentality Of science taken directly
TO the farm, or afforded facilities of
credit best suited to its practical
needs
Water courses undevelop"d; waste
places unreclaimed; forests intended
and fast disappearing without plan OF
prospect Of renewal, and nnregarded
waste heaps at every mine.
The inaugural address of the new
president was short in the extreme,
occupying scarcely 2.ooo words, No
mention was made OF the future for
eign policy of the United States or
the attitude of the Wilson admins
uration toward Mexico.
The Address.
President Wilson said
There has been change of govern
ment. 1t began two years ago, when
the house of representatives became
democratic by a decisive majority. 1t
has now been completed. The sen
ate about TO assemble will also be
democratic. The Offices OF president
and vice-prcsident have been pat into
the hands of democrats What does
the change mean? That is the tues
ton that is uppcrmost in our minds
today. That is the question | ann 60
ing to try to answer, in order if ]
may, to interpret The occasion.
What 1t Means.
1t 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 ma
ton now seeks to use the democratic
party. 1t seeks to use it to interpret
a change in its own plans aud 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 lat
terly looked critically upon them WIFE
fresh awakened eyes; have dropped
their Disguise and shown themselves
alien and sinister Some new things,
as we look frankly upon them, willins
TO comprehend their real character
have come to assume the ASPECT OF
things long believed in and familiar
stuff of our own convictions. We
have been refreshed by new insight
into our own life
Its Material Aspects
We see that in many things that
life is very great 1t 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 the genius of individual men
aud the limtlcss enterprise OF groups
of men. IT is great also, very great,
in it's moral force, Nowhere else in