Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-03-07

Woodrow Wilson's inaugural address
delivered today, one of the shortest on
record, was as follows:
There has been change of govern
ment. 1t began two years ago, when
the house of representatives became
Democratic by a decisive majority,
! 1t has now been completed. The sem
ate about to assemble will also be
Democratic. The offices Of president
and vice-president have been put into
the hands of Democrats. What does
the change mean? That is the ques-
ton that is uppermost in our minds
today. That is the question / am CO.
ing to try to answer, in order, II !
may, to interpret the occasion.
1t means much more than the mere
success OF a party. The success OF a
party means little except when the
nation is using that party for large
and definite porpose. No one can
mistake the purpose for which the
nation now seeks to use the Demo-
cratic party. 1t seeks to use it to in
terpret a 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 DISCUSSES and
shown themselves alien and sinister
Some new things. as we look frankly
upon them, willing to comprehend
their real character, have come to as
sumo the aspect of things long believ-
ed in and familiar, stuff of our own
convictions. We have been refreshed
by new insight into our own life.
We see that in many things that
life is very great 1t is incomparably
great in its material aspects, in its
body of 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 limitless enterprise of groups
of men. 1t is great, also, very great,
in its moral force. Nowhere else In
the world have noble men and women
exhibited in more striking form the
beauty and energy of sympathy and
helpfulness and counsel in their efforts
to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering
and set the weak in the way OF
strength and hope.
But the evil has come with the
good, and much fine gold has been
corroded. With riches has come in
excusable waste. We have squan
dered a great part of what we might
have used, and have not stopped te
conserve the exceeding bounty of ma
ture, without which our genius for en-
terprise would have been worthless
and fmpotent, scorning to be careful
. shamefully prodigal as well as admir-
ably efficient. We have been proud o
, our industrial achievements, but W.
have not hitherto stopped thought
. fully enough to count the human cost
: the cost of lives snuffed out, of ener
gies overtaxed and broken, the fear
!. full physical and spiritual cost to tn
!. men and women and children upol
! whom the dead weight and burden
!. it all has fallen pitilessly the year
through. The groans and agony Of
all had not yet reached our ears, tn
solemn, moving undertone OF our life
= coming up out of the mines and fat
= tories and out of every home wher
the struggle had its intimate and IL
: miliar seat. With the great govern
ment went many deep secret thing
which we too long delayed. to loo
into and scrutinize with candid, fea
. less eyes The great government W
- loved has too often been made use
- for private and selfish purposes, an
% those who used it had forgotten til
= people.
~ ~ At last vision has been voucl
~ safed us of our life as whole. W
10 see the bad with the good, the d
~ based and decadent with the sour
and vital. With this vision we a
"a proach new affairs. Our duty is
cleanse, to reconsider, to restore,
correct the evil without impairing I'll
IN good, to purify and humanize evei
e- process of our common life witho
rs weakening or sentimentalizing
ne There has been something crude al
}" heartless and unfeeling In our haste
e. succeed and be great Our thought HI
10 been Let every man look out for hiI
Ip- self, let every generation look out II
90 itself, while we reared giant mach
at cry which made it impossible that al
but those who stood at the levers
on control should have chance to lot
&C. out for themselves. We had not fc
ed gotten our morals. We remembers
OF we'll enough that we had set up
ne policy which was meant to serve Il
as humblest as well as the most powt
mt full, with an eye single to the star
gn ards of justice and fair play, and
ne membered it with pride. But we we
ms very needless and in hurry to begre
en- We have come now to the sob
gu second thought. The scales of het
TIC lessness have fallen from our ey'
go We have made up our minds to squa
ars every process of our national Il
'tlc again with the standards we so prof
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