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Gwen To NATION
Inaugural Address Of The New
President.
DEFINES PEOPLES DUTY.

First Obligation Of Law Is to Keep So
ciety Sound by Sanitary and Pure
Food Statutes and Measures Deter
mining Conditions Of Lsber-Task
Not Merely One os Politics.
Washington. March 4.-The inaugural
address Of President Woodrow Wilson
Il dS follows:
There has been a change Of govern
ment 1t began two years ago. when
the house of representatives became
Democratic by decisive majority. 1t
has now been completed. The senate
about to assemble will also he Demo
cratic. The Offices Of president and
vice president have been put into the
hands Of Democrats. What does the
change mean? That is the question
that Is uppernost in our minds today.
That is the question am going to try
to answer. in order, il may. to inter-
pref the ot'c;lsion.
1t means much more than the mere
success Of party. The success or
party means little except when the
nation is using that party for 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 tlse it to Interpret change
in its own plans and point Of view.
Some old things with which we had
.v.t,s hod
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. awak-
cned eyes: have dropped their disgnises
and shown themselves alien and sin
lister. Some new things as We look
frankIy upon them. willing to compre-
hend their real character. have come
to assume the aspect Of things long be-
heved in and familiar. stuff Of our own
convictions. We have been refreshed
by new insight into our own life.
Our Model Government.
We see that in many things 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 linn
itlexs enterprise of groups of men. 1t
* great also. very great. in it's moral
force. Nowhere else in the world hav
noble men and women exhibited in
more striking forms the beauty and
the energy of sympathy and helpful
ness and counsel in their efforts to rec
tify wrong. alleviate suffering and set
the weak iii the way Of strength and
hope. We have built UP. moreover.
a great system Of government. which
has stood through~a long e as in
many respects 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
I epntnin* Il In rich abundance.
I3t the evil has ceme with the good.
IND much fine gold has been corr0ded.
With riches has come inexclsable
waste. We have squandered great
part Of what we might have used and
have not stopped to conserve the ex-
ct.tling bounty of nature without
which our genius for enterprise would
have been worthless and impOtent.
scOrning to lie careful. shamefully
prOdigal as we'll as admirably efficient.
We have been proud of our Industrial
achievements. but we have not hith
ertO stopped thoughtfu!ly enough to
count the human cost. the cost of lives
snuffed out. of energies OvertaXed and
it,lal cost to the men and women and
children upon whom the dead weight
and burden of it all has fallen pitiless-
II the years through The grOanS and
agony Of it all had not vet reached
our ears. the solemn. moving under
tone of our life. coming up out of the
mines and factories and out Of every
home where the struggle had its init
mate and familiar seat. With the
great government went many deep sc
cret things which we too long delayed
to look into and scrutiniZe with cam
did. fearless eyes. The great govern
ment we loved has too often been
made use OF for private and selfish
purposes. and those who used it had
forgotten the people.
Duty o; Americans Outlined.
At last u vision has been vOuchsa fed
~ of our life as whole. We see the
had with tine good. the delaSed and
decadent with the sound and vital.
With this vision we approach new af-
fairs. Our duty is to cleanse. to re-
consider. tn restore. to correct the evil
without impairing the good. to purify
and humanize every process of our
common life without weakening or
sentimentalizing it. There has been
something crude and he;rtless and un-
feeling in our haste to succeed and be
great. Our thought has been. LET ev
cry man look out for himself: let ev-
cry generation look out for ITSELF
while we reared giant machinery which
made it impossible that any hut those
who stood OF the levers Of control
should have chance to look out for
themselves. We had not forgotten our
morals. We remembered well enough
that we haf set up Il policy which was
meant to serve the humblpst as we'll as
the most powerful. with an eye single
to the standards Of Justice and fair
play, and remembered 1t with pride
But we were very needless and In a
hurry to be great.
We have come now to the sober Sec
ond thought. The scales OF needless
ness have fallen from our eyes. We
have made up our minds to square ev-
cry process of our national life again
with the standards we SO proudly set
up ut the beginning and have always
carried ut our hearts. Our work Is
work of reStUrat ton.
Things to Be Accomplished.
We have iteniZed with some degree
Of particularly the things that ought
to he altered. and here are some of the
chief items: \ tariff which cuts uS eff
from our proper part in the commerce