The Dolores star., 1917-03-09
NATIONAL EQUALITY
CREED Of AMERICA
PRkeseGMT CALLS FOR a UNITED
NATION TO UPHOLD JUSTICE
&c. IN NAR-AaAo WORLD.
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- Honor and Frse N Greed or In,
trsus, Dseiarss Wilson In
Inaugural Address

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Washington. March 6.-Facing. to
use his own words, not retrospect, but
the thought and purpose Of the pres
emit and immediate future, Woodrow
Wilson of New Jersey, Monday sub
scribed in public to the oath as his
own successor.
With = new consecration to the ma
tons service the President, touching
ON the International crisis. declared
there could now be no turning back
from the tragical events OF the last
thirty months which have brought up
ON Americans . now responsibility ~
cttizens 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
mot support any governments not de-
rived from the consent of the gov
.erned.
) Sounding 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:-The four years
which have elapsed since last stood
in this place havesbeen crowded with
counsel and action Of the most vital
equal period in our history has been SO
fruitful of important reform in our
economic and industrial Inc or SO fun
of significant changes In the spirit
and purpose Of our political action.
We have sought very. thoughtfuliy to
set our house in order. correct the
dustrial life, liberate and quicken the
processes Of our national genius and
energy and lift our politics to a broad
ests. 1t IL record of singular vari-
ETY. and singular distinction. But shall
not ettempt to review II. II speaks for
ence a. the years go by.
This. il not the time for retrospect.
II is time, rather. to speak of our
present and the immediate future.
Although we have centered counsel
and action with such unusual concen-
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 no control. but which. despite
our WIEN 70 Keep Tree OIL them, nave
drawn. us more and more ;irresistibiy
into their own current and influence.
1t his been impossible to avoid them.
They have affected the life Of the whole
where with passion and an apprehen-
sion they never knew before. 1t has
been hard ,n to preserve calm counsel
swayed this way and that under their
DeeDIy wre.ssA Upon seas.
n - nd = .,
people. We are of the blood Of all the
nations that are at war. The currents of
our trade run quick ut 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
ent to it or independent Of 1t was out
And Yet. ali the while we have been
In that consciousness, despite many d.
visions, we have drawn closer together.
We have been deeply wronged upon
wrong or to injure In return: have re-
tanned throughout the consciousness
of standing in some sort apart, intent
Immediate issues Of the war itself. AS
some of the injuries done US have be-
come intolerable we have still been
selves that we were mot ready to de-
mand for all mankind--fair dealing,
Justice, the freedomSto live and be at
ease against organized wrong.
1t is In this spirit and with this
thought that we 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 vindi-
cate and fortify peace. We have been
obliged to arm ourselves to make good
our claim to a certain minimum of
right and of freedom of action.
We stand firm in armed neutrality
since 1t seems that in no other way we
can demonstrate what It is we insist
upon and cannot forego. We may even