Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-03-07
MESSAGE
WILSON OUTLINES PROGRESSIVE LEGISLATION he
WILL WORK FOR DURING HIS ADMINS
TRATi0N IN BRIEF INAUGURAL
ADDRESS.

Washington. March 4.-.Justice'
will be the w%atchword 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 a change of gov
eminent. II began two years ago.
hen h House OF Representatives be-
came democratic by a decisive ma
jority. 1t has now been completed.
he democratic. The Offices of presi-
dent n vice president have been put
Into the hands OF democrats. What
does the change mean? That is the
question that is uppermost in u
minds today. That is the question /
II j may. to interpret the occasion.
More Than Party SUGGEST
ut means much more than the more
success Of a party. The success Of a
party means little except when the ma
ton is using that part for a large and
definite purpose. No one can mistake
the purpose for which the nation now
sssks to Use the democratic party. 1t
seeks to use It to interpret a change
Some old things with which we had
grown familiar. and which had begun
to creep into the very habit of our
ought and of our lives. have altered
their aspect as we a v latterly looked
critically upon them, with fresh.
awakened eyes: have dropped their
DISCUSSES and show themselves alien
and sinister. Some new things, as we
look frankly upon them. willing to
comprehend their ZEAL character. have
come to assume the aspect OF things
long believed in and familiar. stuff OF
our own, convictions. We have been
refreshed by a now insight into our
own life.
Our United States.
I'VE see that i'm many things that
life il very great. 1t is incomparably
great in it's material aspects. in its
body of wealth. in the diversity and
sweep of it's energy, in the Industries
hich nave 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 nave noble men and women
exhibited in more striking forms the
beauty and thu energy of sympathy
and helpfulness and counsel in their
efforts to rectify wrong. alleviate sui
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 stood through "A
long age as In many aspects "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-
ancc.
Evil Corrodss Gold.
But the vii has come with the
good. and much fine gold has been cor
roded. With riches has come mex
cusable waste. We have squandercd a
great part OF what Ne might have
USED n have not stopped to- con-
serve h exceeding bounty of nature,
without which our genius for enter
prise would have been worthless and
impotent. scorning to he careful.
shamefully prodigal as well as admir-
ably efficient.
dustrial achievements, but we have
not hitherto stopped thoushtfuiIy
enough to count the human cost,
the cost of lives snuffed out, Of
energies overtaxed and broken. the
the fearful physical and spiritual
post to the mon and women and
weight and burden Of It all has
fallen pitiiessly the years through.
The groans and agony Of it all had
not yet reached u care, the
solemn, moving undertone Of our
life, coming up out Of the mines
and factories and out Of every
home where tho struggle had its
intimate and familiar seat. With
the great government went many
deep secret things whic:, we too
long delayed to look into and scru-
tinize with candid, fearless eyes.
has too often been made use Of for
private and selfish purposes, and
those who used it had forgotten
the peopis.
Says Nation Sees Itself.
A, last u vision has been vouchsafed
us OF our life as a whole. We see the
bad with the good. the debased and
decadent with the sound and vital.
With this vision we approach new af-
fairs. Our duty is to cleanse. to re-
consider.xto restore, to correct the evil
without impairing the good. to purify
and humanize every process OF our
common life without weakening or sen
timcntalizing it. There. has been some
thing crude and heartless and unfeel-
ing in u haste to succeed and be
great. Dun thought has been Let every
mar TOOL 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 nance 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 well
as the most powerful. with an y
single to the standards of justice and
AIR play. and remembered it with
pride. But We were very needless and
IN a hurry to be great.
We lace come now to sober second
thought. The scales Of he~edlessness
nave 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 always car