Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-03-13
SUCCESS !,
DOES NOT COUNT
President Moralizes on the
Change in Government.
CALLS NATION PRODIGAL

Fallen From Our Eyes and We
Have Determined to Square Ma
tional Life Again With High Stand
ards Set at Beginning-Summons
Patriotic Men to His Side In Great
Struggle.
Washington, March An his in.
augural address President Wilson
said:,
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. 1t means
much more than the mere success of
party. The success of party means
little except when the nation is using
that party for large and definite
purpose. No one can mistake the
purpose for which the nation now
seeks to use the Democratic party.
We see that in many things life
is very great. 1t is incomparably great
in its material aspects. We have built
up, moreover, a great system of gov.
eminent, which has stood through n
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.
But the evil has come with the good.
| With riches has come inexcusable
waste. We have squandered great
part of what we might have used and
have not stopped to conserve the ex-
ceeding bounty of nature. 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 spir.
itual cost to the men and women and
children upon whom the dead weight
and burden of it all has fallen pitiless
ly the years through. The great gov.
eminent we loved. has too often been
made use of for private and selfish
purposes, and those who used 1t had
forgotten the people.
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
every process Of our national life
again with the standards we sc
proudly set up at the beginning ant
have always carried at our hearts
Our work is work of restoration.
We have itemized witA-some degree
Of particularly the things that ough
to be altered, and here are some of tn,
chief items; AAS-riff which cuts us. OF
from our proper part in the commerc,
of the world. violates the just princl
pies of taxation and makes the govern
ment facile Instrument in the hand
of private interests; banking am
J currency system based upon the ne
cessity of the government to sell it
bonds fifty years ago and perfect.
adapted to concentrating cash and re
stricting credits: an industrial system
which. take II on all sides, financial
! as well as administrative, holds cap
I tai in leading strings, restricts the lii
critics and limits the opportunities Q
labor and exploits without renewin
T or conserving the natural resources O
the country; body of agricultural az
a tivities never yet given the efficienc
/ Of great business undertakings o
served as it should be through the IL
{ strumentality Of science taken direc
-, ly to the farm or afforded the facil
ties of credit best suited to its prat
teal needs; water-courses undeve
S oped, waste places unreclaimed, TO
ests INTENDED, fast disappearing will
: out plan or prospect Of renewal, III
regarded waste heaps at every min
2 We have studied as perhaps no othe
, nation has the most effective mean
Of production, but we have not studio
cost or economy as we should eithC
u as organizers Of industry or as ind
q viduals.
e Nor have we studied and perfecte
5 the means by which government ma
n be put at the service Of humanity
|. safeguarding the health OF the natio
. There can be no equality Of oppo
tunity, the first essential OF justice
, the body polite, II men and wome
= and children be not shielded In the
e lives, their very vitality, from Il
: consequences Of great industrial al
a social processes which they can n,
" alter, control or singly cope with. S
" ciety must see to It that II does n
!. itself crush or weaken or damage |
&c own constituent parts.
. This is not day OF triumph; 1t
" a day Of dedication Mems hearts wa
W upon us; mems lives hang in the bI
rs ance; mems hopes call upon us to 81
&c what we will do. Who shall live up
in the great trust? Who dares fail
10 try? | summon all honest men, .
,e patriotic, all forward looking men,
IN my side God helping me, will n
\, fail them If they will but counsel al
sustain me.
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~ Marshall to Live at Hotel,
UTaebingtnn March A-Vfpn Pre-