Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-03-06
WILSON IS
PRESIDENT
Inaugural Address Of Woodrow
Wilson, the New President
Of the United States.
HE DEFINES PEOPLES DUTY
First Obligation Of Law is to Keep
Society Sound by Sanitary and
Pure Food Statutes.

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Washington, March 4.-The inaugural
address Of President Woodrow Wilson
Is as fellows:
| There has been change of govern
/ ment. II began two years ago, when
the house of representatives became
| Democratic by decisive majority 1t
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 mean? That is the question
that is uppermost In our minds today.
That is the question ! am going to try
to answer. in order, if may. to inter-
pret the occasion.
1t means much more than the mere
success of party. The success of a
party means little except when the
1 nation is using that party for a 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 it to interpret 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. awak-
ened eyes: have dropped their disgnises
and Shown themselves alien and sin,
lister Some new things as we look
/ FRA tsssess pen hem. willing to compre-
bend their real character, have come
to assume the aspect OF things long be-
heved in and familiar, stuff of our own
convictions We have been refreshed
by new insight into our own life.
i Our Model Government.
!, We see that in many things 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 and the linn.
itless enterprise of groups of men. 1t
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
ness and counsel in their efforts to rec
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 a 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
i Our life contains every great thing and
contains it in rich abundance.
But the evil has come with the good.
! and much fine gold has been corroded.
:. With riches has come inexcusable
; waste. We have squandered a great
part Of what we might have used and
have not stopped to conserve the ex-
ceeding bounty of nature without
which our genius for enterprise would
have been worthless and impotent,
scOrn1ng to be careful. shamefully
: prodigai as well as admirably efficient.
We have been proud of our industrial
achievements but we have not hith
erto stopped thoughtfuIly enough to
count the human cost. the cost OF lives
snuffed ont. of energies overta xed and
lbroken. the fearful physical and spir.
Idtual cost to the men and women and
children upon whom the dead weight
|; and burden of ii all has fallen pidless-
iy the years through The groans and
j agony of it all had not yet reached
our ears. the solemn. moving under
tore Of our life. comm: mp out of the
mines and factories and ont OF every
home where tin, struggle had its init
mate and familiar seat. With the
q great government Went many deep Sc
cret things which we too long delayed
to look into and scrntiniZe with can
did. fearless eyes. The great govern
made use of for private and selfish
purposes. and those who used 1t had
4 forgotten the people
DUTY OF Americans Outlined.
4 At last vision has been vouchsafed
US OF our life as whole We see the
uau Will tbS SOOu. tHS drUaoSu anu
4 decadent with the sound and VITAL
With this vision we approach new af-
fairs. Our duty is 10 cleanse. to re-
consider. to restore. to correct the evil
\ Without fmpairing the good. to purify
4 and humaDize every process OF our
common life without weakening or
sentimentalizing it. There has been
something crude and haartless and up-