The Parker post., 1913-03-08
SPEAKS TO
THE NATION
PRESIDENT WILSON'S INAUGUR-
AL ADDRESS AT WASHINGTON
ELOQUENCE AND BREvlTY.

WASHINGTON, March -4.-Presi-
dent Wilson's inaugural address, re-
markable for its brevity, was listen
ed to with the greatest interest by
the vast throng which was gathered
in tornt OF the capitol's east porticO,
and at it's close there was heard no.
thing but praise for it's eloquence and
high moral tone. The address in full
was as follows:
There has been a 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 SEN
ate about to assemble will also be
democratic. The offices of president
and vice-president have been put in
to 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 l may, to interpret the occasion.
1t means much more than mere
success of party. The success of
party means little except when the
nation is using that party for a
large and definite purpose. No one
can mistake the purpose for which
the nation now seeks to use the
! democratic party. 1t seeks to use it
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 altered their aspect
as We have latterly looked critically
upon them with fresh awakened
eyes; have dropped their disguises
and shown themselves allen and sin
| lister. Some new things, as We look
frankly upon them, willing to COM
prehend their real character, have
come to assume the aspect of things
| long believed i'm and familiar, stuff
of our own convictions We have
been refreshed by a new insight into
our own life.
life is very great 1t is incampar-
ably great in it's material aspect i'm
/ it's body of wealth, in its diversity
and sweep of it's energy, in it's in
| n nj
and built up by the genius OF indi-
vidual men and the limitleSs enter
prise of groups of men, 1t is great,
also, very great, in it's normal force
Nowhere else in the world have noble
men and women exhibited in more
| striking form the beauty and energy
counsel in their efforts to rectify
wrong, alleviate suffering and set
the weak in the way of strength and
hope. We have built up moreover
great system of government, which
has stood through long age as in
many respects a model for those who
that will endure against fortuitous
change, against storm and accident.
Our life contains every great thing.
and contains it in rich abundance
Eut the evil has come with the
eXcuSable waste. We have squan-
dered great part of what we might
have used and have not stopped to
| conserve the exceeding bounty of ma
ture, without which our genius for
enterprise would have been worth
less and impotent, scorning to be
as admirably efficient. We have beer
proud of our industrial achievements,
but We have not hitherto stopped
thOughtfully enough to count the
human cost, the cost of lives snnffed
out, of energies overtaked and brOk-
en-, the fearful physical and spiritual
cost to the men and women and chill
! dren upon the dead weight of the
burden uf it all has fallen pitilessly
the years through. The groans and
agony of it all had not yet reached
oul ears, the solemn, moving under
cne Of our life, coming up out of the
ni~es and factories and out of every
home where the struggle had its in
innate and familiar seat. With the
great government want many deep
secret things which we too long de-
layed to look into and scrutinize with
candid, fearless eyes. The great
government We loved has too often
been made use of for private and sell
fish purposes, and those who used it
had forgotten the people.
| At last a vision has been VOuch-
safed us of our life as a whole. We
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