The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-03-04
DUTY TO CLEANSE, RESTORE,
RECONSIDER and CORRECT
ltemlzes Tariff Revision, Banking
System, Efficient Agricultural De-
partment, Nations Health And
Property Rights.
. (By Associated Press.)

Washington, March 4.-President
Wilson's inaugural address was as fol
lows:
There has been a change Of govern.
ment. 1t began two years ago, when
the House of Representative became
Democratic by a decisive majority. !
1t has now been completed. The Sen
ate about to assemble will also be
Democratic. The officers of President
and Vice President have been put into
the hands of Democrats. What does
the change mean? That is the ques-
ton that is uppermost in our minds
today. That is the question l am go
ing to try to answer, in order, If l
may, to interpret the occasion.
1t means much more than the sue
cess of party. The success of
party means little except when the ma
tion is using that party for 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 a change
in its own plans and point of view
Some old things with which we had
grown familiar, and which had be.
gun to creep into the very habit OF
our thought and of our lives, have al.
tered their aspect as We have latterly
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 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.
We see that in many things that life
is very great. 1t is incomparably grea
in its material aspects, in its body o.
wealth, in the diversity and sweep O
its energy, in the industries which
have been conceived and built up b!
the genius of individual men and tn,
limitless enterprise Of groups of men
It is great, also, very great, in its nor
NAL force. Nowhere else in the worl,
have noble men and women exhibitet
in more striking forms the beauty an
= the energy Of sympathy and helpful
ness and counsel in their efforts t
rectify wrong, alleviate suffering, an
set the weak in the way Of strengtl
= and hope. We have built up, more
) over, great system Of government
. which has stood through long ag
as in many respects model for thos
| who seek to set liberty upon foundl
a tions that will endure against fortui
i Gus change, against storm and acc
dent. Our life contains every gres
thing, and contains 1t in rich abun'
ance. ...-.
Evil Has Come With Good.
u But the evil has come with the goo,
and much fine gold has been corro
l. ed With riches has come inexcusab
l. waste. We have squandered grei
e part of what we might have used, an
u have not stopped to conserve the e
: ceeding bounty of nature, witho
. which our genius for enterprise won
% have been worthless and impoter
Ie scorning to be careful, shamefully pro
D. igal as well as admirably efficieI
Of We have been proud of our industri
RS achievements, but we have not hith'
to to stopped thoughtfully enough
I'd count the human cost, the cost of liv
re snuffed out, of energies overtaxed a
th broken, the fearful physical and 81
sr. itual cost of the men and women a
Sc children upon whom the dead weig
re and burden Of it all has fallen p
he lessly the years through. The gros
n and agony of it all had not yet reach
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