The Mena weekly star., 1913-03-06
WILSON SPEAKS
 ID THE NATION
Inaugural Address Delivered hy
 the New President.
SEES WORK OF RESTORATION
Task of Victorious Democracy Is to Square Every Process of National Life With Standards Set Up
 at the Beginning.

Life With Standards Set Up
 at the Beginning.
 Washington, March 4.-Presiden Wilson's inaugural address, remark able for its brevity, was listened tC with the greatest interest by the vast 1 throng which was gathered in from of the capitols east portico, and at iti close there was heard nothing but praise for its eloquence and high moral tone. The address in full wal as follows:
 There has been a change of govern ment. It began two years ago, wher the house of representatives became Democratic by a decisive majority It has now been completed. The sen ate 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 ques ton that is uppermost in our minds today. That is the question l am go- ing to try to answer, in order, if may, to interpret the occasion.
 Purpose of the Nation.
 It means much more than the mere success of a party. The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Demo cratic party. It seeks to use it to in- terpret change in it's 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 alien and sinister. Some new things, as we look frankly upon them, willing to comprehend their real character, have come to as- sume the aspect of things long believ- ed in and familiar, stuff of our own convictions. We have been refreshed by new insight into our own life.
 We see that in many things that life is very great. It is incomparably great in it's material aspects, in it's 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. It is great, also, very great, in it's moral force. Nowhere else in the world have noble men and women exhibited in more striking form the beauty and energy of sympathy and helpfulness and 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 govern ment, which has stood through long age as in many respects a 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 e aims it in rich abundance.
 Evils That Have Come.
 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 a great part of what we might have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of na. ture, without which our genius for en. terprise would have been worthless and impotent, 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 overtaxed and broken, the fear. full physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of 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 coming up out of the mines and fac tories and out of every home where the struggle had its intimate and ia miliar seat. With the great govern ment went many deep secret things which we too long delayed to look into and scrutinize with candid fear less eyes. The great government we loved has too often been made use oi for private and selfish 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 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 to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore. to correct the evil without fmpairing 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 him