Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-03-06
(Bv Morning Journal Special Leased Wire)


Washington, March 5.---Woodrow
wilson, with the major part of the
world at war and America poised on
its verge, consecrated his second in
auguration as president of the United
States today with last message of
hope for peace.
Standing in the shadows OF the ma
tons capitol with his faco turned
toward the eastern war scared skies,
the president renewed his oath of al
legianCe to the constitution, prayinA
tc God that he might be given wis
dom and prudence to do his duty in
the true spirit of the American peo-
pie.
While trumpets blared and mar
tlal accoutrements ratified about him,
the president pictured the deep
wrongs the United States had pa
tiently borne in the conflict of other
peoples without wishing to wrong or
injure in return. Asserting that the
tragedies of another continent had
removed provincialism and made
Americans citizens of the world, and
that the principles of this republic
should be applied to a liberation of
mankind, he resolutely voiced a de-
termination that America, standing
firm in armed neutrality" must
demonstrate her claim to minimum
of right and freedom of action" in
world affairs
May Have to Assert Rights.
Peculiar interest and significance
in the light Of his rebukc last nigh
to senatorS who prevented the pass
age Of the armed neutrality bill, were
attached to the presidents assertion
on this point Even more interest
and concern were aroused when he
added:
"Wc may even he drawn on, by cir
Cumstances, not By our own purpose
or desire, TO n more active assertion
of our rights as we see them and Il
more immediate association with the
great struggle itself But nothing will
alter our thought or our purpose. W.
'"pi' iNi''"' 'o'thtFSt IHb utN
age. We wish nothing that can he
had only at the cost of another peo-
pie. We have always professed un-
selfish purpose and we cOSct the
opportunity to prove that our profess
Sons are sincere"
Making no attempt to review the
legislative record of the last fou'
years, the president said that this was
no time for retrospection. The time
was one to speak of thoughts and
purposes for the Immediate future.
To be Indifferent to the influence Of
the war upon America, or independ-
ent of it, he said, was impossible and
he was firm in the conviction that
the part this county wished to play
in the vital turmoil was the part Of
those "who now mean to vlnOI,ate
and fortify peace"
Graphic Evidence of Loyalty
These were the dominant thou -IJ-
Of the president as he addressed tho
cheering multitude in the broad plaza
of the capitol grounds. In the as
semblaRe before him American citi-
zens of all nations had sung Amer
lea" with a mighty voice while wait-
ing for his appearance on the inaug-
ural stand. And in the procession
which followed him to the White
House and passed in review "a com.
posite and cosmopolitan people" gave
graphic evidence of loyalty and pa
triotsm.
I'VE are American citizens" flared
from banners borne by once alien
hands. I'VE are ready to fight and
die for America" was the stirring
blazing from q standard
waving over the heads of new Amer
can citizens from Poland. Men of
many foreign ancestries held to the |
freeze as they marched past the chief
executive other insignia of patriotic
Americanism, and the words Amer
ca First emblazoning from count
less streamers aroused the throngs