The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
WILSON APPEALS
FOR j. 5. UNITY IN
INAUGURAL TALK
PRESIDENT SAYS AMERICA MUST
STAND FOR eEACE-ASSERTS
AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE
"NoW WORLD CITIZENS"
SOUNDS new DOCTRINE
OF INTERNATIONALISM
Executive Pleads for Limitation Of
World Armaments-sounds Warn
Ing Against lss:tpue to Break
Harmony Of PeopIe-Stands
Firm Armed Neutrality.

Harmony Of PeopIe-stands
Firm Armed Neutrality.
Wilson's second inaugural address de-
livered before great crowd in Wash
1ngton, was as follows:
my fellow-citizens: The four years
which have elapsed since last l stood
In this place have been crowded with
counsel and action of the most vital
interest and consequences. Perhaps
no equal period in our history has
been so fruitful of important reforms
in our economic and industrial life or
so full of significant changes in the
spirit and purpose of our political &C.
ton.
Not the Time to Look Back.
I'VE have sought very thoughtfully
to set our house in order, correct the
grosser errors and abuses of our in
Gustrial life, lfberate and quicken the
processes of our national genius and
energy, and lift our politics to broad
or view of the peoples essential in
terests. It is record of singular va
riety and singular distinction. But I
shall not attempt to review it. It
speaks for itself and will be of increas-
ing influence as the years go by: This
is not the time for retrospect, it Is
time, rather, to speak our thoughts
and purposes concerning the present
and immediate future
Other Matters Intrude.
'Although we have centered coun.
sci and action with such unusual con.
nd
problems of domestic legislation to
which we addressed ourselves four
years ago, other matters have more
and more forced themselves upon
our attention, matters lying outside
our own life as nation and over
which we had 10 control, but which,
despite our wish to keep free of them,
awe drawn us more and more IRE.
gtstibly into their own current and
tnfliience.
Whole World Affected.
1T has been impossible to avoid
them. They have affected the life Of
the whole world. They have shaken
men everywhere with a passion and
an apprehension they never knew be.
fore. It has been hard to preserve
calm counsel when the thought of our
own people swayed this way and that
under their influence. We are a com
posite and cosmopolitan people. We
are of the blood of all the nations that
are at war. The currents of our
thoughts as we'll as the currents of our
trade run quick at all seasons back
and forth between us and them. The
war inevitably set it's mark from thS
first alike upon our minds, our indus
tries, our commerce, our politics anG
Dur social action. To be Indifferent
to it or independent of it was out o.
| the question.
Wronged Upon Seas.
"And yet, all the while we hav.
heen conscious that we were not par
Of it. In that consciousness, DESPITE
| many divisions, we have drawn close
together. We have been deeply wrong
ed upon the seas, but we have no
| wished to wrong on 1njure in return
we have retained throughout the con
sciousness of standing in some sor
| apart, intent upon an interest tina
| the war. AS some of the injuries dom
us have become intolerbale, we still
have been clear that we wished moth
|
ready to demand for all, the freedom t.
live and to be at ease against organ
lied wrong.
Stand Firm in Armed Neutrality.
1T is in this pirit and with th1
thought that we have grown more an,
more awake, more and more certain
that the part we wished to play wa
the part of those who mean Ito vind1
cate and fortify peace. We have bee1
obliged to arm ourselves to make goo
our claim to a certain minimum O
right and of freedom of action. w
stand firm in armed neutrality, sine
It seems that in no way we can den
onstrate what it is we insist upon an
cannot forego.
Neither Conquest Nor AdvAntaae.
I'VE may even be drawn on, by CT
cumstances, not by our own purpose
or desire, to a more active assert1o
Of our rights as we see them and
more immediate association with tn
great struggle itself. But nothin
will alter our thought or our purpose
They are too clear to be obscuret
They are too deeply rooted in tn
principles Of our national life to b
altered. We desire neither conques
nor advantage. We wish nothing tha