The Tomahawk., 1917-03-15
WILSON APPEALS
FOR i, s. UNITY IN
INAUGURAL TALK
PRESIDENT SAYS AMERICA MUST
STAND FOR PEACE-ASSERTS
AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE
"NOW WORLD CITIZENS."
SOUNDS NEW DOCTRINE
OF INTERNATIONAL
Executive Pleads for Limitation Of
World maments-Sounds Warn
Ing Against Intrigue to Break
Harmony of People-Stands
Firm In Armed Neutrality.

Harmony of People-Stands
Firm In Armed Neutrality.
Washington, March 6.-Preident
Wilson's second inaugural address de-
| livered before great crowd in Wash
| ington, was as follows:
my fellow citizens: The four years
which have elapsed since last l 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 &C.
ton.
Not the Time to Look Back.
1--WE have sought very thoughtfully
to set our house in order, correct the
grosser errors and abuses of our in
dustra! life, liberate and quicken the
processes of our national genius and
energy, and lift our politics to broad
or view of the peoples essential in
terests. 1t is a record of singular va
riety and singular distinction. But
shall not attempt to review it. 1t
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 Intrude.
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
our attention, matters lying outside
our own life as nation and over
which we had 10 control, but which,
despite our wish to keep free of them,
have drawn us more and more IRE
sistibly into their own current and
influence.
Whole World Affected.
at has been impossible to avoid
them. They have affected the life OF
the whole world. They have shaken
men everywhere with 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 COM
posite and cosmopolitan people. We
are of the blood Of all the nations that
are at war. The currents of our
thoughts as well as the currents OF our
trade run quick at all seasons back
and forth between us and them. The
| war inevitably set it's mark from the
first alike upon our minds, our Indus
tries, our commerce, our politics and
our social action. To be indifferent
to II or indeDendent of it was out of
the question:
Wronged Upon Seas.
"Ard 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-
sciousness of standing in some sort
apart, intent upon an interest that
transcribed the immediate issues of
| 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 to
| live and to be at ease against organ
lied wrong.
Stand Firm In Armed Neutrality.
TT 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
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 way we can dem.
| onstrate what it is we insist upon and
cannot forego.
Neither Conquest Nor Advantage.
I'VE may even be drawn on, by CIR.
| cumstances, not by our own purposes
or desire, to a more active assertion
| of our rights as we see them and a
! more immediate association with the
great struggle itself. But nothing
| will alter our thought or our purpose,
| They are too clear to be obscured.
They are too deeply rooted in the
| principles of our national life to be
| altered. We desire neither conquest
NOR ADVANTAGE We wish nothing that