Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-03-06
OUR NEW PRESIDENTS INAUGURAL SPEECH

fallen piteously the years through.
The groans and agony of it all had
not yet reached our ears, the solemn,
moving undertone of our life, coming
up out Of the mines and factories and
out OF every home where the struggle
had its intimate and familiar seat
With the great government went many
deep secret things which we too long
delayed to look into and scrutinize
with candid, fearless eye The great
government we loved has too often
been made use OF for private and sell
flsh purposes, and those who used ii
had forgotten the people.
Duty Is to Cleanse.
At last a vision has been v~ouchsafed
us OF our life as a whole. We see the
bad with the good, the debased and
decadent with the sound and vital.
With this vision we approach new af-
fairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to re-
consider, to restore. to correct the evil
without impairing the good, to purify
and humanize every process of our
common life without weakening or
sentimentalizing it.
There has been something crude and
heartless and unfeeling in our haste
to succeed and be great. Our thought
has been, Let every man look out for
himself, let every generation look out
for ITSELF" while we reared giant ma
chinery which made it impossible that
any but those who stood at the levers
OF control should have a chance to
look out for themselves.
We had not forgotten our morals.
We remembered we'll enough that we
had set up a policy which was meant
to serve the humblest as well as the
most powerful, with an eye single to
the standards of justice and fair play,
and remembered it with pride.
We have come now to the sober
thought. The scales of heed.
lessness have fallen from our eyes. We
have made up our minds to square
every process of our national life again
with the standards we so proudly set
up at the beginning and have always
carried at our hearts. Our work is a
work of restoration.
We have itemized with some degree
particularly the things that ought
be altered and here are some of
chief items:
A tariff which cuts us off from our |
proper part in the of the
world, violates the just principles of
and makes the government q
facile instrument in the hands of pri-
vate interests; a banking and currency
system based upon the necessity of
government to sell it's bonds so
ago and perfectly adapted to con.
centratlng cash and restricting cred
It's; an industrial system which, take
It on all its sides, financial as well as
administrative, holds capital in leading
restricts the liberties and lin
is the opportunities of labor, and ex-
o!olts without renewing or conserving
me natural resources of the country:
l body OF agricultural activities never
yet given the efficiency of great bust
less undertakings or served as it
'nould be through the instrumentality
II science taken directly to the farm.
" afforded the facilities of credit best
suited to its practical needs: water
courses undeveloped, waste places un.
reclaimed, forests INTENDED, fast dis.
appearing without plan or prospect of
'enewal, unregarded waste heaps at
every mine.
Should Study Economy.
We have studied as perhaps no other
latlOn has the most effective means
production, but we have not studied
'ost or economy as we should, either
IS organizers of industry, as states
men, or as individuals.
Nor have we studied and perfected
means by which government may
re put at the service of humanity. in
the health of the nation,
he health of it's men and it's women
nd its children, as well as their rights
the struggle for existence. This is
o sentimental duty. The firm basis
government is justice, not pity.
These are matters of justice. There
be no equality or opportunity, the