The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-03-08
PRESIDENT SAYS AMERICA MUST
STAND FOR PEACE-ASsERTS
AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE
SNOW WORLD CITIZENS"
NEW DOCTRINE
OF INTERNATIONALiSM
Executive Pleads for Limitation Of
World Armaments-Sounds Warn
ing Against Intrigue to Break
Harmony of Peopie-Stands
Firm In Armed Neutrality.

Washington, March 6.-Preident
Wilson's second inaugural address de-.
livered before a great crowd in Wash
ington, was Is follows:
MY fellow-citizens: The four years
which have elapsed since last I 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 ac-
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
dustrial life, liberate and quicken the
processes of our national genius and
energy, and lift our politics to a broad.
er view Of the peoples essential in
terests. 1t is a 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 lntrude.
although we have centered coun-
sci and action with such unusual con-
centration and success upon the great
problems of domestic legislation to
which we addressed ourselves four
years ago, other matters have more
and more forced themselves upon
u attention, matters lying outside
our own life as a nation and over
which we had no control. but which,
despite u wish to keep free of them,
have drawn us more and more ire.
sistibly into their own current and
influence.
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. 1t 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 u quick at all seasons back
and forth between US and them. The
wal inevitably set it's mark from the
first alike upon III minds, our indus.
tries, our commerce, u politics and
our social action. To be Indifferent
to it or independent of it was out of
the question.
Wronsed Upon Seas.
And yet, all the while we have
been conscious that we were not part
OF 1t. In that consciousness, despite
many divisions, we have drawn closer
together. We have been deeply wrong
ed upon the seas, but we have not
wished to wrong on injure in return;
we have retained throughout the con
seriousness of standing in some sort
apart, intent upon an interest that
transcribed the immediate issues o.
the war. AS some of the injuries done
us have become intolerbale, we still
have been clear that we wished moth
ing for ourselves that we were not
ready to demand for all, the freedom tc
live and to be at ease against organ
lied wrong.
Stand Firm in Armed Neutrality.
1T is in this pirit and with this
thought that we have grown more and
more awake. more and more certain
that the part we wished to play was
h part of those who mean to vindi
cate and fortify peace. We have beer
obliged to arm ourselves to make gooc
u claim to a certain minimum Of
right and Of freedom of action. We
stand firm in armed neutrality, since
it seems that in no way we can dem
onstrate what it is we insist upon anc
cannot forego.
Neither Conquest Nor ADVANTAGE.
I'VE may even be drawn. on, by CIR
cumstances, not by our W purposes
or desire. to a more active assertion
of u rights as we see them and 6
more immediate association with thu
great struggle itself. But nothins
will alter our thought or our purpose
They are too clear to be obscured
They are too deeply rooted in thu
principles of our national life to b,
altered. We desire neither onque
nor advantage. We wish nothing tina
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