Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-03-07
WILSON'S INAUGURAL.
Now President Outlines His CONTROL.
ina Principles.

l ing frtnclples.
More than twenty thousand people
listened to President Wilson's inaugu-
raj address last Tuesday. The address
was brief; but remarkably compre-
hensive. The full text Of it is as fol-
lows:
There has been a change Of govern
| ment. It began two years ago, When
| the house or representatives became
| Democratic by decisive majority. II
has now been completed. The senate
about to assemble will also be Demo-
cratic. The offices Of president and
I vice president have been 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 ! am going to try
| to answer, in order, II may, to inter-
pret the occasion.
It means much more than the mere
success Of party. The success OF q
party means little except when the
nation Ii 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 par
ty. 1t seeks to use 1t to interpret
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 al
tered their aspect as we have latterly
looked critically upon them, with fresh
awakened eyes; have dropped their
disguises and shown themselves alien
and sinister. Some new things, as we
look frankly upon them. willing to
comprehend 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. r
Greatness of Life.
We see that In many things that life
Is very great. It Is incomparably great
in its material aspects, in It's 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
limitIess enterprise OF groups OF men.
1t is. great, also, very. great, In Its
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
and helpfulness and counsel In their
efforts to rectify wrong, alleviate suf-
fering, and set the weak In the way
Of strength Of hope. We have built
up, moreover, great system OF gov
ernment, which has stood through q
long age as In many respects q 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 1t In rich ahun-
dance. 5stt
Evil With Good.
But the evil has come with the good,
and much fine gold has been corroded.
With riches has come inexcusable
waste. We have squandered a great
part Of what we might have used, and
have not stopped to conserve the ex-
ceeding bounty Of nature, without
which our bounty for enterprise would
have been worthless and impotent,
scorning to be careful, shamefully
prodigal as well as admirably efficient.
We have been proud Of our Industrial
achievements, but we have not hither-
to stopped thoughtfully enough to
count the human cost, the cost OF
lives snuffed out, Of energies over.
taxed and broken, the fearful physical
and spiritual cost to the men and wo-
men and children upon whom the dead
weight and burden Of 1t all has fallen
Fpitilessly the years through. The
groans and agony Of It all had not yet
reached our ears, the solemn. moving
undertone of our life, coming up out
Of the mines and factories and out OF
every home where the struggle had Its
intimate and familiar seat. With the
great government went many deep Sc
cret things which we too long delayed
to look into and scrutiniZe with can
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 1t had
forgotten the people.
A Vision.
At last a vision has been vouch-
sated 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 al
fairs. Our duty Is to cleanse, to re.
consider, to restore, to correct the evil
without impairing the good, to purify
and humanize every process OF our
common life without weakening or
sentimentalizing 1t. There has been
something crude and heartless and un,
feeling in our haste to succeed and
every man look out for himself, let
every generation look out for Itself"
while we reared giant machinery
which made II impossible that any
but those who stood at the levers OF
control should have chance to look
out for themselves. We had not Tor
gotten our morals. We remembered
well enough that we had set up pol
icy which was meant TO serve the
humblest, as well as the most power
full, with an eye single to the standards
Of justice and fair play, and remem-
bered 1t with pride. But we were very
needless and in 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
every process Of our national LIE
again with the standards we so proud
ly set up at the beginning and have al
ways carried in our hearts. Our work
is work Of restoration.
Things Needing Alteration.
We have itemized with some degree
Of particularly the things that ought
to be altered, and here are some OF the
chief items: A tariff which cuts US on
from our proper part in the commerce
OF the W0rlQ, violates tne Jusl pfinSi
Piles of taxation, and makes the gov
ernment a facile instrument In the
hands of private interests; banking
and currency system based upon the
necessity of the government to sell It's
bonds fifty years ago and perfectly
adapted to concentrating cash and re-
stricting credits; an industrial system
which, take 1t on all sides, imam
cial as we'll as administrative. holds
capital in leading strings, restricts the
liberties and limits the opportunities
of labor, and exploits without renew
ing or conserving the natural re-
sources of the country; body OF agri-
cultural activities never yet given the
efficiency Of great business undertak-
ings or served as 1t should be through
the instrumentality of science taken
directly to the farm, or Afforded the
facilities Of credit best suited to It's
practical needs; water courses unde-
veloped; waste places unreclaimed,
forests untended, fast disappearing
without plan or prospect OF renewal
unregarded waste heaps at every mine.
We have studied as perhaps no other
nation has the most effective means OF
production. but we have not studied