Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-03-06
WOODROW WILSON'S FIRST AID.
DRESS AS PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES.
PRINTED HEREWITH IN IT'S ENTIERIY
Remarkably Short, But to the Point
Says 'Tis Not a Day of Triumph,
But One of Dedication-With
Gods Help Will Do His Best.

Washington, D. c., M arch 4.-Presi.
dent Wilson in his inaugural address
said:
There has been a 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 senate,
about to assemble, will also be demo-
cratic. The offices of president and
vice president have bee n 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 l am going to try
to answer in order, if l may, to inter-
pref the occasion.
1t means much more than the mere
success of a party. TN success of a
party means little exc ept when the
nation is using that party for a large
and definite purpose. No one can mis-
take the purpose for which the nation
now seeks to use the democratic party.
1t seeks to use it to interpret a change
in Its own plans and point of view.
Some old things with which we had
grown familiar, and VIII ich had begun
to creep into the very habit of our
thought and of our live ), have altered
their aspect as we have l~atterly looked
critically upon them, with fresh, awak-
ened eyes; have drop ped their dis
guises and shown the mselves alien
and sinister. Some new things, as we
look frankly upon the m, willing to
comprehend their real character, have
come to assume the as pect of things
long believed in and familiar, stuff of
our own convictions. We have been
refreshed by a new insight into our
own life.
Life Is Very 9 treat.
We see that in many things that life
is very great. 1t is incomparably great
in its material aspects, in it's body of
wealth, in the diversity n sweep of
its energy, In the industries which
have been conceived and built up by
the genius of individual men and the
1imitless 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 ex-
hibited in more striking forms the
beauty and the energy of sympathy
n 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 government, which has stood
through a long age as in many respects
a model for those who seek to set
liberty upon foundations that will en-.
dure against fOrtuitous change, against
storm and accident. Our life contains
every great thing, and contains it in
rich abundance.
But the evil has come with the good.
much fine gold has been corroded.
With riches has come i~nexcusable
We have %squandered a great
part of what We might have used. and
have not stopped to cd nserve the ex-
ceeding bounty of nature, without
our genius for enterprise would
have been worthless and impotent.
scorning to be carefu i'll, shamefully
prodlgal as well as adm trably efficient.
We have been proud of our indus
trial achievements, but we have not
hitherto stopped t%houghtfully enough
to count the human cost, the cost OF
lives snuffed out, Of energies over
axed and broken, the fearful physical
and spiritual cost to the men and
"omen and children Upon whom the
e weight and burden of it all has