The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-03-08
NATIONAL EQUALITY
CREED OF AMERICA
PRESIDENT CALLS FOR A UNITED
NATION TO UPHOLD JUSTICE
IN WAR-MAO WORLD.
y. S. Must Stand for Peace With
Honor and Free of Greed or In
trigue, Declares Wilson in
Inaugural Address,

| Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington. March C.-Facing, to
use his own words. not retrospect, but
the thought and purpose OF the pres
ent and immediate future, Woodrow
| Wilson OF New Jersey, Monday sub
scribed in public to the oath as his
own successor.
With a new conservation to the ma.
| tons service the President, touching
On the internationa. crisis, declared
there could now be no turning back
from the tragical events OF the last
thirty months which have brought up
on Americans new responsibility as
citizens of the world. The President
declared anew that America must
stand for peace, stability of free PEG.
pies. national equality in matters of
right, that the seas must be free TO all
and that the family of nations shall
not support any governments not de.
rived from the consent OF the gov.
erned
Sounding a solemn warning against
any faction or intrigue to break the
harmony or embarrass the spirit OF
the American people, the President
called for an America united in feel
ing, in purpose and in its vision of
duty, OF opportunity and of service"
The inaugural address was as fol.
lows:
My Fellow Citizens:-,Thc four years
which have elapsed since last | 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 reform in our
economic and Industrial life or so fun
OF significant changes in the spirit
and purpose of our political action.
We have sought very thoughtfully to
set our house in order, correct the
grosscr 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 inter
ests. II is record OF singular vari-
ETY. and singular distinction. But shall
not attempt to review 1t. 1t speaks for
Itself and will be of Increasing influ-
ence as the years go by.
rms Is not the time for retrospect
~ Is time, rather. to speak of our
thoughts and purposes concerning tie
present and the immediate future
Although we have centcrcd counsel
and action with such unusual conCen-
tration 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 our
own life rs "A nation and over which
We had no control. but which. despite
our wish to keep free of them. have
drawn us more and more irresistibly
INTO their own current and influence
1t has been impossible to avoid them
They have affected the life of the whole
world. They hav" shaken men every
where with a passion and an apprehen.
sion they never knew before. 1t has
been hard to. preserve calm counsel.
while the thought Of our own people
swayed this way and that under their
Influence.
Deeply Wronged Upon Sens.
We are a composite and cosmopolitan
people. We are OF the blood OF all the
nations that are at war The currents o {
our trade run quick at all seasons
back and forth between us and them
The war Inevitably set its mark from
the first alike upon our minds. our In
dustries' our commerce. our politics
ana our social action, To be indiffcr-
cnt to II or Independent OF II was out
Of the question.
And yet. all the while we have been
conscious that we were not part Of IL.
In that consciousness. despite many di-
visions, we have drawn closer together
We have been deeply wrungcd upon
the seas, hut we hav" not wished to
wrong or to tnjur" in return: have re-
tnincd throughout the consciousness
of standing in some sort apart, Intent
upon an interest that transcribed the
immcdiat" issues Of the war itself. As
some of the injuries done us have be-
come lntnl"rahl" we have still been
clear that We wished nothing for our
selves that "" w"r" not ready to de-
mand for all maulSind-fair dealing
justice. the freedom to live ana be at
ease against organized wrong.
II is In this spirit and with this
thought that "" have grown more and
more aware, more and more certain
that the part we wished to play was
the part Of those who mean to yindl-
cat" and fOrtify peace. We have been
Obliged to arm ourselves to make good
our claim to certain minimum OF
right and ~ freedom Of action.
We stand firm In armed neutrality
since II seems that In no other way we
can demonstrate. what II Is W" insist
upou and cannot forogo, W. may even