The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-03-06
MESSAGE
WILSON OUTLINES PROGRESSIVE LEGISLATION HE
WILL WORK FOR DURING HIS ADMINS
TRATION IN BRIEF INAUGURAL
ADDRESS.


Washington, March 4,-.Jnstice'
will be the watchword of President
Wilson's administration. In his m
augural address. remarkable for IT'S
brevity and succinctness, the new pres
ident outlined the progrlm he proposes
to follow. His speech in full follows:
There has been a change OF gov
eminent. 1t began two years g
when the House of Representatives be-
Icame democratic by a decisive ma
jority. 1t has now been completed.
The Senate1about to assemble will also
be democratic. The offices of presl-
dent and vice president have been put
into the hands of democrats. What
Question that is uppermost in our
minds today. That is the question i
am going to try to answer, in order,
If I may, to Interpret the occasion.
More Than Party Success.
at means much more than the nero
success of a party Tho success of a
party means little <cept when the ma.
definite purpose. No ono can mistake
tho purpose for which tho 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
Il 6iO"I y VA " iAtS'A AANN SNo-N
Ito creep into the very habit of our
thought and of our lives, have altered
their aspect as we AVE latterly looked
critically upon them, with fresh.
awakened eyes; have dropped their
[disguises and shown themselves alien
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 beer
refreshed by a new insight into our
own life.
Our United States.
I'VE see that in many things that
life is very great. 1t is i~ncomparably
great in it's material aspects, in its
body of wealth, in the diversity and
sweep of it's energy, in the industries
up by the genius of individual mel
and the, limitless enterprise of groups
of men. 1t is great, also, very great,
in it's 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 h~elpfulness 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, a great system of gov
eminent, which has stood through q
1 AoIiS 10 III iilsAAl ACSPSSIC " AAAoASi
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.
dustriaI achievements, but we have
not hitherto stopped thoushtfuily
: enough to count the human cost,
the cost of lives snuffed out, of
energies overtaxed and broken, the
cost to the men and women and
children upon whom the dead
weight and burden of it all has
fallen pitilessly the years through:
The sroans and agony of it all had
Solemn ~. moving asu undertone Of our
life, coming up out of the mines
and factories and out of every
home where the struggle had it's
intimate and familiar seat. With
the great government went many
long delayed to look into and scru-
tinize with candid, fearless eyes.
The 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.
Saws Nation Sees Itself.
last a vision has been v~ouchsafet
US of our life as a whole. We see The
bad with the good. the debased ant
decadent with the sound and vital
With this vision we approach new at
fairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to re
consider, to restore, to correct the evi
without impairing the good, to purify
and humanize every process of GU,
common life without weakening or sen.
timentalizing it. There has been some
thing crude and heartless n unfeel
ing in our haste to succeed and b.
great. Our thought has been Let ever!
man look out for himself, let ever.
generation look out for itself Will
we reared giant machinery which mad
it impossible that n but those wh'
stood at the levers of control shoult
nave a chance to look out for them
selves. We had not forgotten GU
morals. We remembered well enough
that we had set up a policy which wa.
meant to serve the humblest as wei
!. as the most powerful, with an ey
single to the standards of justice an.
fair play, and remembered it wit
pride. But we were very needless AM
in a hurry to be great.
I'VE .hace come now to sober secon'
thought. The scales of heedlessnes
have fallen from u eyes. We hav
( made up our minds to square ever
process of our national life again wit,
1.-The standards we so proudly set up a
the beginning and have always car
/, ried at our hearts. Our work is
work of restoration.
: Things to Be Altered.
1--WE have itemized with some
degree Of particularly the things