Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-04

INAUGURATION IS
OBSERVED BY
HOUSE

The inauguration of President
Woodrow Wilson was duly observed
by the house today, though the senate
completely ignored the occasion, the
only mention of it being the senate
chaplain's comment In his Invocation
In the house, Chaplain Akaiko Aka.
ma prayed for the nations new chief
executive. As part of the morning s
regular business, resolution by DIR.
Archer Irwin, ordering the clerk to
cattle that -bodyis congratulations to
President Wilson, was adopted unani-
mously. Just before the sessions
close DR.. Irwin delivered a brief adj
dress, commenting on the induction OF
the new president into Office, and at
Its close the representatives adj
journed for the remainder of the day
out of respect to the president.
DIR. Twins address was as follows
Every time new president takes
his geat as chief magistrate of this
Iation, the question in the mind OF
every citizen is, How will the new
man prove out? Will he make good?
with the exception of Abraham,
Lincoln, no president has approached
his dulles with questions of greater
importance or more vital interest t
the country at large, pending for SO
lution-the Mexican trouble, tariff re
form, currency and social legislation
all call for such a display of ability
and discretion as would tax TO the
utmost the best men our nation could
produce.
We can only judge of a mans fu
ture actions by his past performance
and, in looking back over the career
of our new president, We find mar
of sound training, with a profoun6
knowledge OF the science of govern
ment, apd the. mental ability and at
tributes of wise leader-characteris
tics that fit him superbly for the higf
position to which he has been called
Fitted for Task.
"A student Of political eaonom'
from youth-an authority on the
science later In life-president OF
university, little republic by itself
Ia governor who proved to he p rea
governor In conditions where all tn
wiles of the political trickster were
played against him; all this expe'i
ence has fitted and furnthed him, as
few presidents have been fitted and
finished, for this great task.
"The lawp of the Evolutionary the
ory hold as good in the development
of political Institutions as they do IN
the development of species in the
realm of animal and vegetable life.
and as in the latter there are lone
periods without seeming change. SO
in the former there are periods o.
uuiescence or seeming evenness When
peoYle are IuIled into the belief the
they have arrived at permanent or.
der OF society. Tha longer the Sta
tionary period. the greater the shocf
and jar when the wheels speed MP.
I'VE sometimes blame this disturb
snce on this system, or that, on this
doctrine. or that, but after all II i
hut the working out OF a natural law.
Great Questions to Solve.
There is no doubt but that we are
now at such period of rapid action
In the evolution of our political insti- /
buttons, time when events move
swiftly. when new and broader ideas |
OF the comparative value OF property |
rights and human rights are develop |
ing, when questions of the control OF
huge commercial or financial com
binations and their economic influ-
ence on the daily life of the ayerag5
citizen must be solved
"At this, might almost say, crisis |
in national affairs. it gives sense OF I
security and confidence to know that
we have.as captain at the helm of the
ship of state, q man we'll grounded In
the board. basic principles that under
lie all free governments man train
ed to deal with men in the mass AND
as individuals man with such
sense of fairness that he can see both
sides OF question and decide the
rights of conflicting interests without
prejudice and without bias-a man OF
high hope and abundant enthusiasm
a man of courage and faith in the PEG
pie over whom he is called to preside
with such a leader to direct. with
the genius, intelligence and integrity
Of such a race as ours to follow, We
can weather any storm and win
through. a stronger. sounder, cleaner
people,
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