Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-03-09

A new doctrine OF international
and world, peace was sounded by
President Wilson in his second inau-
gural address Monday, but in the
same breath he warned that the
United States may require "a more
immediate association with the war
than mere armed neutrality.
He spoke of a unity of American
thought, spirit and action and voiced
the view that this must be an Amer
icanism stepped in world spirit-in-
stead of the isolated provincial view
of the past.
Electric with the spirit Of patriot
ism, of Americanism, of new world
unity, the speech solemnly suggested
that despite the war fires raging and
despite the possibility that this ma
ton must take a broader hand, still
that peace is coming soon.
Secs Peace Soon.
"The shadows that now lie dark
upon our path will soon be dfBa
PEELED" the president declared, "and
We shall walk with the light all about
us II we be but true to ourselves
to ourselves as We have wished to
be known in the councils OF the
world and in the thought Of all those
who love liberty and justice and the
right exalted"
President Wilson took his second
oath of once shortly after the ad-
iournment of the. Sixty-fonrth con-
gress Sunday noon. Before. desk
piled with executive business laid be-
fore him in the closing hours Of con-
gress, and surrounded by members Of
high Official fame, the president re-
afiirmed with uplifted hand and
grave features his promise to uphold
the constitution in whatever crisis
may confront the nation in the mo-
mentous four years before it.
Sundays ceremony was private,
the formal ceremonies not being held
until Monday. Then it was that he
delivered his inaugural address, as
follows:
Text of Inaugural Address.
My Fellow Citizens: The four
years which have elapsed since last
l stood in this place have been crowd
ed with counsel and action of tho
v,ooct X,i<ol ,rxoroc< opA copcouuonco
Perhaps no equal period in our
history has been SO fruitful of i'm.
portant reforms in our economic and
industrial life, or so full of signifi.
cant changes in the spirit and pur.
pose of our political action. We
have sought very thoughtfully to gel
our house in order; correct the gross.
er errors and abuses of our Industrial
life. liberate and quicken the process
es of our national genius and energy
and lift our politics to broader view
of the peoples essential welfare.
1t is a record of singular variety
and singular distinction. But I shall
uOt dttCuPt " ICVAcW ~ opc6hS
for itself, and will be of increasing
influence as the years go by. This is
not the time for retrospect. 1t is
time, rather. to speak our thoughts
and purposes concerning the present
and the immediate future.
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 ouI
own life as 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
Situation Unavoidable.
1t has been impossible to avoid
them. They have affected the life Of