Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-03-06

Washington, March 4.-"Justice'
will be the watchword of President
Wilson'S administration. In his in
|augural address, remarkable for its
|brevity and succinctness, the new pres
ident outlined the program he proposes
to follow. His speech in full follows:
'There has been change of gov
|ernment. 1t began two years ago.
when the House of Representatives be-
came democratic by decisive ma
The Senate about to assemble will also
be democratic. The Offices of presi-
dent 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 l may, to interpret the occasion.
More Than Party Success.
success Of a party. The success Of a
party means little 4cept when the ma.
lion is using that part for large, and
definite purpose. No ono can mistake
the purpose for which the nation now
seeks to use the democratic party. 1t
seeks to use it to interpret 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.
awakened eyes; have dropped their
and sinister. Some new things, as we
look frankly upon them. willing 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.
Our United States.
I'VE see that in many things that
great in its material aspects. in its
body of wealth. in the diversity and
sweep of it's energy. in the industries
which have been conceived and built
up by the genius of individual men
and the linitless enterprise of groups
of men. 1t is great, also, very great,
in it's moral force. Nowhere else in
exhibited in more striking forms the
beauty and the energy of sympathy
| and helpfulness and counsel in their
efforts to rectify wrong. alleviate suf-
fering, and set the weak in the way
of strength and hope. We have built
up. moreover great system of gov
eminent, which has stood through a
long age as in many respects a model
| for those who seek to set liberty upon
| foundations that will endure against
| fortuitous change, against storm and
accident. Our life contains every great
thing. and contains it in rich abund-
ance.
Evil Corrodes Gold.
| But the evil has come with the
good, and much fine gold has been cor
roded. With riches has come mex
cusable waste We have squandered a
great part of what we might have
used, and have not stopped to con-
serve the exceeding bounty of nature,
without which our genius for enter
prise would have been worthless and
impotent, scorning to be careful,
| shamefully prodigal as well as admir-
ably efficient.
I'VE have been proud of our in
dustrial achievements, but we have
not hitherto stopped thoushtfuIIy
the cost of lives snuffed out, of
energies overtaxed and broken, the
the fearful physical and spiritual
cost to the men and women and
children upon whom the dead
weight and burden Of it all has
fallen pitiIessly the years through:
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
deep secret things which we too
long delayed to look into and scru-
tinize with candid, fearless eyes.
I Tho great government we loved
has too often been made use of for
private and selfish purposes, and
those who used it had forgotten
the people.
Says Nation Sees Itself.
at last vision has been vouchsafed
as of our life as whole. We see the
bad with the good, the debased and
Idecadent 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 i1npairing the good, to purify
and humanize every process of oul
common life without weakening or SEN
ltimentalizing it. There has been some
thing crude and heartless and unfeel-
ing 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 machinery which made
it impossible that any but those who
stood at the levers of control should
have a chance to look out for them
selves We had not forgotten oul
morals. we remembered Wen enough
that we had set up policy which was
meant to serve the hulnblest as wei
as the most powerful, with an eye
single to the standards of Justice anG
fair play, and remembered it witt
pride. But we were very needless anc
in a hurry to be great
I'VE hace come now to sober SECOND
Thought. The scales Of heedlessness
have fallen from our eyes. We have
made up our minds to square every
process of our national life again will
1.-The standards we so proudly set up al
the beginning and have always car
Iried at our hearts. Our work is {
work of restoration.
Things to Be Altered.
1--WE have itemized with some
degree Of particularly tho things
that ouaht to be altered and here
are Some Of the chief items: A
tariff which cuts us off from our
proper part in the commerce Of the
world, violates the Just principles
Of taxation, and makes the govern
msnt q facile instrument in the
hands Of private interests; a bank.
inc and currency system based
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