New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-03-09
NATIONAL EQUALITY
CREED or AMERICA
PRESIDENT CALLS FOR A UNITED
NATION TO UPHOLD JUSTICE
IN WAR-MAD WORLD.
U. S. Must Stand for Peace With
Honor and Free of Greed or In
trigue, Declares Wilson in
Inaugural Address.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, March G.-Facing, to
use his own words, not retrospect, but
the thought and purpose of the pres
ent and immediate future, Woodrow
Wilson of New Jersey, Monday sub
scribed in public to the oath as his
" successor.
With a new conservation to the ma
tons service the President, touching
on the international crisis, declared
there could now be no turning back
from the tragical events of the last
thirty months which have brought up
on Americans a now responsibility as
citizens of the world. The President
declared anew that America must
stand for peace, stability of free peo-
pies, national equality in matters of
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 a solemn warning 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:
My Fellow Citi2cns;-Thc four years
which, have ELAPSED since last stood
in this place have been crowded with
counsel ANA action of the most vital
interest aud consequences. Perhaps no
equal period in our history has been so
fruitful of important reform in our
economic ANA Industrial life or so fun
of significant changes in the spirit
and purpose of our political action.
We huve sought very thoushtfully to
set our house in order, correct the
glosScr errors and abuses of our in
d%ustrial life, liberate n quicken the
processes of our national genius and
enerEy and llft our politics to a broad
er view Of the peoples essential inter
ests, 1t is Il record of singular -vari-
ETY. and singular distinction. But rshall
not attempt to review it. 1t speaks for
itself and will be of increasing influ-
ence as the years so by.
This is not the time for retrospect.
It is time, rather, to speak of our
thoughts and purposes concerning the
present and the immediate future.
Although we have conferred counsel
and action with such unusual concen-
tration 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
w 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 |
their w current and influence. |
1t has been impossible to avoid them. |
They have affected the life of the whole
They have shaken men every
NJ IA n pa Wi 81 >, e. q on ami a, "a - |
sion they never knew before. 1t has
been hard to preserve calm counsel, |
the thought of our own people |
swayed this way and that under their
Influence.
Deeply WrOnged Upon Seas.
We, are n composite and cosmopolitan
people. We are of the 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 set its mark from
the first alike upon our minds, our in
Il commerce, our politics
md our social action. To be indiffer-
INT to it or Independent of it was out
IF the question:.
And yet, All the while we have been
that we were not part of it.
n that consciousness, despite many di-
i%isions, we have drawn closer together.
We have been deeply wronged upon
seas, but we have not wished to
or to iHjure in return; have re-
aihed |lhFouInout the CONSCIOUSNESS
If standing in some sort apart, intent
an interest that transcribed the
issues of the war itself. AS
of the injuries done us have be-
intol.rable we have still been
that we wished nothing for our
elves that we were not ready to de-
hand for all mankind-fair dealing,
Justice, the freedom to live and be at
against organized wrong.
1t is in this spirit and with this
lOnGht that we have crown more and
aware, more and more certain
hat the part we wished to play was
he part of those who mean to vindi-
and fortify peace. We have been
bliged to arm ourselves to make good
ur claim to a certain minimum of
and of freedom of action. {
We stand firm in armed neutrality {
ince it seems that in no other way we {
an demonstrate what it is we insist t
pom and cannot forego. We may even