The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-04
inaugural Address q New President
In Which He Says Presidential
Task 10 Not Merely One
Of Politics
DEFINES PEOPLES DUTY
First Obligation Of Law Is to Keep
Society Sound BY Sanitary
and Pure Food
Statutes.

washington. March 4.-The inaugural
address OF President Woodrow Wilson
3 IL as follows:
There has been change OF govern
ment. 1t began two years ego. 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 upperlnost In our minds today.
!, That is the question i am going to try
to answer. In order, If I may. to inter-
pref the occasion.
1t means much more than the mere
success of a party. The success Of n
marty 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 a 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. awak-
ened eyes: have dropped their DISCUSSES
and shown themselves alien and sin
lister. Some new things as we look
frankly upon them. willing to compre-
bend their real character. have come
to assume the aspect of things long be-
lieyed 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
It's energy. in the industries which have
been conceived and built up by the
genius Of individual men and the linn
itiess 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 exhibited in
more striking forms the beauty and
the energy of sympathy and helpful
ness and counsel in their efforts to rec
tlfy wrong. alleviate suffering and set
the weak in the way Of strength and
hope We have built up. moreover.
great system OF government, which
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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 ana
contains it in rich abundance.
But the evil has come with the good.
and much fine gold has been corroded
with riches has come inexcusable
waste We have squandered great
part OF what we might have used and
nave not stopped to conserve the ex-
ceeding bounty of nature without
which our genius for enterprise would
nave been worthless and impotent,
Scorning to be careful shamefully
prodigal as well as admirably efficient.
we nave been proud OF our Industrial
achievements. but we have not hith
erlo stopped thoughtfully enough to
count the human cost. the cost Of lives
snulfed out, Of energies overtaxed and
broken, the fearful physical and spir-
tual cost to the men and women and
! children upon whom the dead weight
ahd burden of 1t all has fallen pitiless-
~ the years through. The groans and
agony OF 1T 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
nome where the struggle had its init
niate and familiar seat With the
great government went many deep Sc
cret things which we too long delayed
10 look into and scrutinize with can
uid fearless eyes. The great govern
naent we loved has too often been
nade use OF for private and selfish
purposes. and those who used 1t had
forgotten the people.
Duty OF Americans Outlined.
AT last a vision has been vouchsafed
US or our life as whole. We see the
DAD with the good. the debased and
Secadent with the sound and vital
WIN this vision we approach new af-
iairs Our duty is to cleanse, to re-
eonsider. to restore. to correct the evil
without impairing the good. to purify
ahu humanize every process OF our
common life without weakening or
sentimentalizing 1t. There has been
something crude and heartless and un-
ieeilng 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"
Whlle we reared giant machinery which
made 1t impossible that any but those
VINO stood at the levers of control
should have chance to look out for
themselves. We had not forgotten our
morals. We remembered well enough
.nat we had set up policy which was
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