The Keota news., 1917-03-09
PRECEDENT CALLS FOR A UNITED
NATION TO UPHOLD JUericE
IN WAR.MAp WORLD.
y. q. Must Stand for Peace With
Honor and Free Of Greed or In
trapus, Declares Wilson In
inaugural Address.
wsstsr. Newspaper Union News Service

ent and immediate future, Woodrow
Wilson of New Jersey. Monday sub
scribed In public to the oath as his
own successor.
With q new conservation to the ma
tion's service the President, touching
on the international crisis. declared
there could now be no turning back
from the trasical events of the last
thirty months which have brought up
ON Americans new responsibility as
citizens of the world. The President
stand for peace, stability of free peo-
right. that the seas must be free to all
and that the family OF nations shall
not support any governments not de-
rived from the consent of the gov
erned.
Sounding solemn waYAing 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:
Ny Fellow citixens:-The four years
which have elapsed since last I stood
Counsel CO s and action Of the most vital
interest and consequences. Perhaps no
equal period in our history has been 80
economic and industrial life or 30 fun
Of Significant changes in the spirit
and purpose Of our political action.
set our ' house % in order. correct the
dustri.l life: ileerst: and quicken The
snsTsy ana lift our politics to a broad
o. view of the peoples essential inter-
ssts. It 10 record of singular vari,
not attempt to review ii. It speaks Tor
snce AZ the years 60 by.
It 10 time, rather. to speak of our
present and the Immediate future.
and aSI acsion with naHs such Unusual Unusual eoneen- ]
problems OF domestic legislation to
@ ots.r matsn. snvs moqs
and more forced themselves upon our
attention: matters lying outside our
ws had no control. but which. despite
drawn us more and more irresistibiy
It has been Impossible to avoid them
They have affected the life of the whole
world. They have shaken men every
sion they neves knew before. It has
been hard to preserve calm counsel.
while the thought of our own people
swayed this way and that under their
deeply wrsasea Upen Seas.
We are q composite and cosmopolitan
people. We are Of tho blood of all the
nations that are At war. The currents OF
our trade run quick at all seasons
back and forth between US and them.
The war inevitably SGT Its mark from
the first alike upon our minds. our in
dustries. our commerce. our politics
ent to it or Independent of 1t was cut
And yet. ali the while We have been
conscious that We were not part OF It.
In that consciousness. despite many d.
We have been deeply wronged upon
the seas, but we have not wished to
wrong or to injure in return: have re-
tanned throughout the consciousness
upon an Interest that transcended the
Immediate tissues Of the war itself. AZ
some Of the Injuries done us have be-
We notSsns aays st for
selves that We were not ready to de-
mand for all mankind-fair dealing.
justice. the freedom to Nve and be At
ease .gainst org.nised wronE
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-
Obliged to arm ourselves to make good
our claim to . certain minimum OF
right and Of freedom of action.
We stand firm IN armed neutrality
can demonstrate what 1t 70 We insist
upon ana cAnn6t forego. We may even