The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-03-04
INAUGURAL ADDRESS DELlV.
ERED BY WOODROW WILSON
AT WASHINGTON TODAY.
HIS FIRST STATE PAPER
Concise Statement of Some Of the
Conditions Existing, and the
Remedies Proposed. !
,By Associated Press. }

lowing is the full text Of the inaug-
ural address of Woodrow Wilson, de-
! llvered this afternoon:
There has been change Of gov
ernment 1t began two years ago,
when the House Of Representatives,
became Democratic by decisive ma
! jority. 1t has now been completed.
! The Senate about to assemble will
also be Democratic. The offices OF
president and vice president have
been put into the hands OF Demo-
Gratis. What does the change mean!
That is the question that is upper
most in our minds today. That Is
the question | am going to try to
answer, in order. if may, to inter-
pret the occasion
1t means much more than the
success Of Il party. The success OF .
party means little except when the
nation is using that party for large
aid definite purpose. No one can
mistake the purpose for which the ma
ton now seeks to use the Democratic
party. II seeks to use it to interpret
il change in its 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 dsguises
and shown themselves alien and sim
lister Some new things, as We look
frankly upon them, willing to COM
prchcnd their real character, have
come to assume the aspect of things
long believed 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 incompara-
bly, great in it's material aspects, in
its body of wealth. in the diversity
and sweep of its energy, in the in
| dustries which have been conceived
and built up by the genius of ind-
vidual men and the limitless enter
prise Of groups of men. II is great,
also, very great, in its moral force.
Nowhere else in the world have no.
BILE men and women exhibited in
more striking forms the beauty and
the energy of sympathy and helpful
ness and counsel in their efforts to
rectify wrong, alleviate suffering,
and set the weak in the way of
strength and hope We have built
up. moreover, a great system of gov
ernment, which has stood through q
long age 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 con-
tains every great thing. and con-
tains it in rich abundance.
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 to
conserve the exceeding bounty OF ma
ture, without which our genius for
enterprise would have been worth.
less and impotent, scorning to be
careful, shamefully prodigal a. we'll
as admirably efficient We have
been proud of our industrial achieve
ments. but We have not hitherto
stopped thoughtfully enough to count
the human cost. the cost of lives
snuffed out, OF energies overtaxed
and broken, the fearful physical and
spiritual cost to the men and wom-
en- and children upon whom the
dead weight and burden of 1t all has
fallen pitilessly the years through.
The groans and agony of il all had
rot vet reached our ears. the SOL
emn, moving undertone of our life.
coming up ont Of the mines and fac
tories and out Of every home where
lie struggle had its intimate and
familiar seat. With the great gov.
ernment went many deep secret
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