Morris tribune., 1913-03-07

ciety Sound by Sanitary and Pure
Food Statutes and Measures Deter
mining Conditions of Labor-Task
Not Merely One of Politics.
Washington, March 1.-The inaugu-
raj address of President Woodrow
Wilson is as follows:
There has been a change of gov
eminent. 1t began two years ago,
when the house of representatives be-
came Democratic by a 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 Democrats.
What does the change mean? That
is the question that is uppermost in
our minds today. That is the ques-
ton / am going to try to answer, in
order, If | may, to interpret the &C.
casion.
1t means much more than the
mere success of a party. The sue
cess of a party means little ex-
cept when the nation IL using that
party for a large and definite pur-
pose. No one can mistake the pur-
pose for which tbs nation now seeks
to use the Democratic party. 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 aud which had be-
gun to creep into the very habit of
our thought and OF our lives have
altered their aspect as We have lat
terly looked critically upon them
with fresh, awakened eyes; have
dropped their DISCUSSES and shown
themselves alien and sinister. Some
new things as we look frankly upon
them, willing to comprehend their
real chara ter, have come to assume
the aspect of things long believed
in and familiar. stuff of our own con.
Victions. 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 it's material aspects, in its
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 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 wo
men exhibited in more striking forms
the beauty and the energy of sym
pathy and helpfulness and counsel in
their efforts to rectify wrong, alleYi
ate suffering and set the weak in
the way of strength and hope We
/. have built up, moreover. great sys
| tenn of government, which has stood
through long age as in many re
spects 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 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 great part of what we might
have used and have not stopped tc
conserve the exceeding bounty of ma
ture without which our genius for en-
| terprise would have been worthless
| and inlpotent, scorning to be careful
shamefully prodigal as well as admir-
ably efficient We have been proud
OF our Industrial achievements, but
! we have not hitherto stopped thought
! fully enough to count the human cost
| the cost of lives snuffed out, of ener
! gies oyertaxed and broken, the fear
/ full physical and spiritual cost to the
| men and women and children upor
[ whom the dead weight and burden o.
| it all has fallen pitilessly the years
| through. The groans and agony of Il
all had not yet reached our ears, the
solemn, moving undertOne of our life
| coTNiag up out of the mines and fac
tories and out Of every home Whers
| the struggle had it's intimate and ia
miliag seat With the great govern
ment went many deep secret things
which We too long delayed to look intt
and scrutinize with candid, fearles:
! eyes. The great government We
| loved has too often been made use o.
for private and selfish purposes, ant
those who used it had forgotten the
people.
Duty of Americans Outlined.
At last vision has been youch
safed us of our life as whole. W.
see the bad with the good. the de
based and decadent with the SOUND
and vital With this vision we ap
proach new affairs Our duty is II
| cleanse, to reconsider, to restore. tt
correct the evil without impairini
the good, to purify and humanize ever!
process of our common life withou