The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-03-04
WILSON'S VIEWS
GIVEN TO NATION
Inaugural Address of the New
President Defines Duty
of Government
MUST IMPROVE COMMON LIFE
Evil Must Be Corrected Without
Impairing the Good
JUSTICE TO BE HIS MOTTO

Washington. March 1.-The inaugural
address of President Woodrow Wilson
IL rs follows:
There has been change Of govern
ment. Ii began two years ago. when
the house of representatives became
Democratic by decisive majority. It
has now been completed The senate
about To assemble will also be Demo.
cratic. The offices of president ana
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, II | may, to inter
pref the OCCASION.
Ii means much more than the mere
success OF Il party. The success OF
party means little except when the
nation Is using that party for 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 1t 10 interpret n change
in its own plans and point of view.
Some old things with which we had
grown familiar ana which had begun
to creep into the very habit OF our
thought and OF our lives have altered
their asrect ~ we have latterly looked
critically upon them with fresh. awak.
ened eyes: have dropped their DISCUSSES
and shown themselves alien and sin
lister Some new things as we look
frankly upon them. willing 10 compre-
bend their real character. have come
to assume che aspect of things long be-
lieved in ana familiar. stuff OF our own
convictions We have been refreshed
by II new insight into our own life.
Our Model Government.
We see that in many things life
is very great 1t is ncomparably great
in its material aspects. in its body or
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. 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 aud helpful
ness aud counsel III their efforts 10 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 long age as ia
many respects model for those who |
seek 10 set liberty upon foundations
that will endure against fortuitous
change. against storm and accident |
Our life contains every great thing and |
contains il In rich abundance.
But the evil has come with the good. |
and much fine gold has been corroded. !
With riches has come iuexcusable |
waste We have squandered 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, |
scorning 10 be careful. shamefuly |
prodigal as well as admirably efficient. /
We have been proud of our industrial |
achievements, but we have not hith. |
erto stopped thoughtfully enough to |
count the human cost. the cost Of lives |
snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and |
broken. the fearful physical and spir. |
itual cost to lsle men and women and |
children upon whom the dead weight
and burden of ii all has fallen pitiless.
~ the years through. Tie groans and
agony OF IL all had not yet reached
our 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 .int.
mate aud familiar seat With the
great government went many deep Sc.
cret things which we too long delayed !
To look into aud scrttiniZe with can.
did. fearless eyes The great govern.
ment we loved has too often been
made use of for private and selfish
purposes, aud those who used Il had
forgotten the people.
Duty OF Americans Outlined.
At last n vision has been vouchsafe fed
us OF our life ~ u whole. We see the
bad with the good. the debased and
decadent with the sound and vital.
With THIS vision we approach new ar
fairs our duty IN 10 cleanse. To re-
consider. To restore. to correct the evil
without impairing the good To purify
ana hrinnniZe every process of our
common Kfe without weakening or
sentinentnlizing II. There has been
something crude ana heartless and nm
feeling In our haste 10 succeed and he
great Our thought ms ben Let ev-
cry man hook ont for himself: let ev.
ery gpntsrutipt L,ul< ,,t,f fnr itv.,If !