Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-13
WOODROW WILSON'S FIRST AD-
DRESS AS PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES.
PRINTED HEREWITH IN IT'S ENTIERIY
Remarkably Short, But to the Point
Says TITS Not Day of Triumph,
But One of Dedication-With
Gods Help Will Do His Best.

Washington, D. c., March 4.-Presi-
dent Wilson in his inaugural address
said:
There has been change of govern
ment. 1t began two years ago when
the house of representatives became
democratic by a decisive majority. 1t
has now been completed. The senate,
about to assemble, will also be 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 uppermost in our minds today.
That is the question l am going to try
to answer in order if l may, to inter-
pref the occasion.
1t means much more than the mere
success of a party. The success of
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 use it to interpret change
in it's 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, awak-
ened eyes; have dropped their dis
guises 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 a new insight into our
own life.
Life Is Very Great.
We see that in many things that life
is very great 1t is incomparably great
In its material aspects, in its body of
wealth, in the diversity and sweep OF
it's energy, in the industries which
have 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 have noble men and women ex
beauty and the energy of sympathy
and helpfulness and counsel in theil
efforts to rectify wrong, alleviate suf
fering, and set the weak in the way
of strength and hope.
We have built up, moreover, a grea'
system of government, which has stood
through long age as in many respect:
a model for those who seek to Sc
liberty upon foundations that will en-
dure against fortuitous change, agains
storm and accident. Our life contains
every great thing, and contains it il
rich abundance.
But the evil has come with the good
and much fine gold has been corroded
With riches has come inexcusabl
waste We have squandered a grea
part of what we might have used, ant
have not stopped to conserve the eS
ceeding bounty of nature, withou
which our genius for enterprise woul
have been worthless and impotent
scorning to be careful, shameful
prodigal as we'll as admirably efficient
We have been proud of our indus
trial achievements. but we have nc
hitherto stopped thoughtfully enoug
to count the human cost, the cost c
lives snuffed out, of energies ovel
taxed and broken, the fearful physics
and spiritual cost to the men an
women and children upon whom tn
dead weight and burden of it all ha