The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-03-06

Twill be the watchword or PRESIDENT
WILSON'S administration. In his in
Iaugural address, remarkable for It's
lbreyity. and -succinctness, the new pres
ltdent outlined the program he proposes
to follow. His speech IN full follows:
There a been q change OF gov
ernment. 1t began two years ago,
when the House OF Representatives be-
came democratic by a decisive ma
Ijority. 1t has now been completed.
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
ldoes h change mean? That Is the
Question that is uppermost in u
minds today. That is the question /
am going to try to answer, in order,
liz / may, to interpret the occasion.
More Than Party Success.
at means much more than the mere
Isuccess Of q party. The success Of a
Iparty means little <cept when the ma
Ition 10 using that part for q large and
definite purpose. No one can mistake
the purpose for which the ration now
seeks to use the democratic party. u
seeks to use IL to interpret a change
in it's own plans and point of view"
Some old things with which we a
grown familiar, and which had begun
to creep into the very habit Of U
thought and Of our lives, have altered
their aspect as We have latterly looked
Icritically upon them, with fresh,
awakened eyes, have dropped their
DISCUSSES n 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, stun of
our own convictions. We have been
refreshed by a new insight into u
own life. ~
Our United States.
1--WE see that in many things that
life Is very great. 1t is incomparably
great in it's 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 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 n hope. We have built
up, moreover, a great system Of gov
eminent, which has "tood through a
long age as in many respects q mode
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 1t 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 sq%uandered a
great part of what we might have
used, have not stopped to con-
serve the exceeding bounty of nature,
without which III 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 rave
not hitherto stopped ~thouehtfuily
enough to count the human cost,
the cost Of lives snuffed out, Of
energies overtaxed and broken, the
tho fearful physical and spiritual
cost to the men and women n
children upon whom the dead
fallen pitihessly the years through:
The sroans 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 tho struggle had it's
intimate and familiar seat. With
deep secret things which we too
lona delayed to look into and scru-
tinfze with candid, fearless eyes.
| The great government we loved
1 has too often been made use Of for
private and selfish purposes, and
the people.
Saws Nation Secs Itself. .
Eat last a vision has been v~ouchsafed
as of our life as a whole. We see the
bad with the good, the debased n
| 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 evil
| without impairing the good, to purify
and humaniZe every process of u
| common life without weakening or SEN.
| timentalizing 1t. There has been some
thing crude and heartless n unfeel-,
| ing in our haste to succeed n 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.
1t impossible that n but those who
stood at the levers of control should
have "a chance to look out for them
selves. We had not forgotten our
morals. We remembered well enough.
that we had set up a policy which was
meant to serve the humblest as we'll
as the most powerful, with an eye
| single to the standards Of justice and
fair play, and remembered it with
pride. But we were very needless and
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 with
the standards we so proudly set up at
| the beginning and have alwsys car
| ried at our hearts. Our work is a
[ work Of restoration.
4 Things to BE Altered.
I'VE have itemized with sonne
dsaree Of particularly the things
that ought to be altered n here
are some Of the chief items: A
tariff which cuts Us off from our.
proper part in the Of h
world, violates the just principles
Of taxation, and makes the govern
ment a faciIe instrument in the
hands of private interests; a bank
ina and currency system based Z