The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-03-09
RENEWS PLEDGE
40 GlAKD NATIONS HONOR
Nations Ruler and His Second Ap-
plauded as They Return From
Their Second Inauguration.

Their Second Inauguration.
Washington March 5.-Woodrow
Wilson, with the major part of the
world at war and America poised on
its verge, consecrated his second in
auguration as president OF the United
States today with a message OF hope
for world freedom
:5tailuing III the shadow Of the ma
tons capitol with his face turned to-
ward the eastern war-seared skies,
the president renewed his oath Of al
legiance to the constitution, praying
to God that he might be given wisdom
and prudence to do his duty in the
TIE spirit Of the American people.
While trumpets blared and martial
accoutrements ratified prophetically
about him, the president pictured the
deep wrongs the United States patient
ly had borne in the conflict of other
peoples without wishing to wrong or
injure them in return. Asserting that
the trIA edies OF another continent
had removed provincialism and made
Americans citizens Of the world aDi
that the principles of this republic
should be applied to liberation OF
mankind. he resolutely voiced de-
termination that America, standing
firm in armed neutrality must dem
onstrate her claim to a minimum Of
right and freedom of action in world
affairs.
Nav Come to Conflict.
Peculiar interest and significance In
the light Of his rebuke last night to
senator's who prevented passage of the
armed neutrality bill were attached
to the presidents assertion on this
point. Even more interest aN con-
Germ we're aroused when he added:
I'VE may even be drawn on by cir
cumstances, not by our own purpose
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. We
desire neither conquest nor advantage.
We wish nothing that can be had
only at the cost of another people.
We have always professed unselfsh
purpose and We covet the opportunity
to prove that our professions are sim
cere.'
Making no attempt to review the
legislative record of the last four
years the president said this was no
time for retrospection. The time was
one to speak of thoughts and pur-
poses for the immediate future To
be Indifferent to the influence of the
war upon America, he said, was i'm
possible, and he was firm in the con-
viction that the part this country
wished to play in the vital turmoil
was the part of those "who mean 10
vindicate and fortify peace
These were the dominant thoughts
of the president as he addressed the
cheering multitude in the broad plaza
of the capitol grounds. In the as
semblage before him American citi-
zens of all nativities had sung Amer
ica" with a mighty voice while wait
ing for his appearance on the in
augural stand. And in the procession
which followed him to the White
House ana passed IN review COLL
posite and cosmopolitan people gave
graphic evidence of loyalty and pa
triotism.
Are Americans Ne.
1--WE are American citizens" fared
from banners borne by once alien
hands. 1--WE are ready to fight and
die for America" was the stirring
messages blazing from a standard
waving over the heads of new Amer
lean citizens from Poland. Men OF
many foreign ancestries held to the
breeze as they marched past the chief
executive other insignia of patriotic
Americanism and the words America
! First" emblasoned from countless