Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-13
OUR NEW PRESIDENTS INAUGURAL SPEECH

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 it's intimate and familiar seat.
With the great government went many
deep secret things which we too long
delayed 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.
Duty Is to Cleanse.
At last vision has been vouchsafed
us of our life as whole. We see the
bad with the good, the debased and
decadent with the sound and vital.
With this vision we approach new af-
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 it.
There has been something crude and
heartless and unfeeling in our haste
to succeed and be great. Our thought
has been, Let every man look out for
himself, let every generation look out
for ITSELF" while we reared giant ma
chinery which made it impossible that
any but those who stood at the levers
of control should have a chance to
look out for themselves.
We had not forgotten our morals
We remembered well enough that we
had set up a policy which was meant
to serve the humblest as well as the
most powerful, with an eye single to
the standards of justice and fair play
and remembered it with pride.
We have come now to the sober
second thought. The scales of heed
lessness have fallen from our eyes. We
have made up our minds to square
every process of our national life AGAR
with the standards we so proudly sci
up at the beginning and have always
carried at our hearts. Our work is {
work of restoration.
J. We have itemized with some degree
to be altered and here are some o
the chief items:
A tariff which cuts us off from ou
proper part in the commerce of thu
world, violates the just principles o
/ taxation, and makes the government
{ facile instrument in the hands of pr
T vate interests banking and currenc,
/ system based upon the necessity o
? the government to sell it's bonds 5
: years ago and perfectly adapted to cor
. centratng cash and restricting cree
5 its; an industrial system which, tax
: it on all its sides, financial as well a
: administrative, holds capital in leadin
2 strings, restricts the liberties and lin
Y its the opportunities of labor, and e1
r ploits without renewing or conservin
: the natural resources of the country
y body of agricultural activities neve
yet given the efficiency of great bus
t ness undertakings or served as
d should be through the instrumentalit
S of science taken directly to the farm
t or afforded the facilities of credit hes
l. suited to it's practical needs; waite
t courses undeveloped, waste places VI
s reclaimed, forests INTENDED, fast di
n appearing without plan or prospect {
renewal, unregarded waste heaps ;
|, every mine.
: Should Study Economy.
It We have studied as perhaps no otht
d nation has the most effective NEAR
< of production, but we have not studio
It cost or economy as we should, eith'
d as organizers of industry, as state
t. men. or as individuals.
y Nor have we studied and perfecte
t. the means by which government me-
s. be put at the service of humanity,
IT safeguarding the health of the natio
h the health of its men and it's womt
Of and its children, as well as their RICH
r in the struggle for existence. This
al no sentimental duty. The firm bas
ID of government is justice, not pity.
lie These are matters of justice. The
is can be no equality or opportunity, Il