The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-05
UNITED STATES
 GUARDIAN NOW
 FOR THE WORLD
President Wilson Today in Inaugural Address Says Nation Must
 Be Foremost.
(Contlnued from Page One) live at ease against organized

(Continued from Page One) to live at ease against organized wrong.
 "We may even boz drawn on by circumstances, not by our own pur- pose or desire, to more active as- scrtion of our rights as we see them and q more Immediately the association with the great struggle itself but nothing will alter our thought or our purpose.
 "We are provincials no longer. The tragical events of the past thirty months of virtual turmoil through which we have just passed, have made us citizens of the world,
 Cannot Turn Back.
 "There can be no turning back Our own fortunes, as nation are involved, whether we would have it so or not. And yet we are not the less Americans on that account. We shall be the more Americans if we but remain true 10 the Drinci- pIes in which we have been bred. They arc not the principles of province or of a single continent. We have known and boasted all along that they were the princi- ples of liberated mankind. Those therefore are things we shall stand for whether in war or in peace.
 "That all nations are equally in- tcrcsted in peace of the world and in political stability of its free peo- ples and equally responsible for their maintenance is clear That essential principles of peace is mu- tual equality of nations in all mat ters of right or privilege.
 Peace Not by Arms.
 Peace can not securely or justly rest upon an armed balance of pow CT. That the governments derive all their just powers from the con sent of the governed and that no other powers should be supported by common thought, purpose or power or family of nations is affirmed, That the seas should be equally free and safe for the use of all peoples under rules set up by a common agreement and consent and that so far as practicable they should be acceptable to all upon equal terms.
 Limit Armaments.
 That national armamsnts should be limited to necessities for nation al order and domestic safety; that the community of interest and of power upon which peace must henceforth depend imposes upon each nation a duty seeing that to it that all influence preceding from its own citizens meant to cncOur- age or assist revolution in our States should be sternIy and ef- fcctualy suppressed and prevented.
 Must Stand Together.
 And 1t is imperative that WIG should stand together. We are forced into new unity amid fires that now blaze throughout the world. In their ardent heat we shall, in Gods providence, let us hope, be purged of a faction of di- vision and purified of errant hu- mors of party and of private inter est and shall stand forth in the days to come with new dignity or national pride and spirit
 "I stand here and have taken a high and solemn oath to which you have been audience because the people of the United States have chosen me for this august de- claratioh of power and have by their gracious judgment named mo their leader in affairs.
 q know now what the task means. realize the full rcsponsi- bility which it involves. pray God l may be givcnthc wisdom and the prudence to do my duty in the true spirit of this great people. am their servant and can succeed only as they sustain and guide me by their confidence and their coun- scl.
 "Thc thing I shall count upon, the thing without which neither counsel nor action will avail, is unity of all AmerCians, an America united in feeling in purpose and in the vision of duty opportunity and service"
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