Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-03-08
AMERICA MUST STAND
FOR PEACE, STABILITY,
NATIONAL EQUALITY
President Declares in Inaugu-
raj Address-Large Audi
ence Sings "America."

Washington, March 5.-President
Wilson took the oath of office at:
12:45 o'clock this afternoon and de-
livered his inaugural address before.
a great crowd which packed the plaza
at the east front of the capitol.
| Vice-President Marshall had been
inaugurated in the senate chamber a.
few minutes before. --...
| With new conservation to the ma
tion's service, the president touching
on the international crisis, declared
that there could now be no turning
back from the tragical events of the
last thirty months, which have
brought Americans new RESPONSE
bility as citizens of the world.
The president declared anew that
! America must stand for peace, sta
bility of free peoples, national equali-
ty in matters of right, that the seas
must be free to all and that the
| family of nations shall not support
any governments not derived from
the consent of the governed.
The guard of the president was
extraordinary. On the top of build
ings along the line and scattered
through the crowds were large num-
bers of police and secret service men,
The president, with barred head
smiled at the demonstration which
greeted him as he advanced to the
rostrum, the crowd singing "Ameri-.
ca" and cheers swept over the crow4
as he faced them. The crowd cheereG
while waiting for the president to.
take the oath. "Hurrah for Woodrow
Wilson" was repeatedly shouted
The president and Mrs. Wilson smiI-3
|fngly acknowledged the applause. -
The president took the oath and
shook hands Immediately with the.
chief Justice and with the vice presi-
dent.
The president concluded his ad-
dress at 1902 and prolonged cheering
followed. The surging crowds were
pushed back to make way for the be-
ginning of the procession back to the
White House.
PRESIDENT WILSON'S SPEECH.
My Fellow Citizens: 81 ='N
The four years which have elapsed
since last I stood in this place have
been crowded with counsel and ac-
tion of the most vital interests and
consequence. Perhaps no equal period
in our history has been so fruitful OF
important reforms in our economic
and industrial life or so full of signif-
icant changes in the spirit and pur-
pose of our political action. We have
sought very thoughtfully to set our
house in order, correct the greater
errors and abuses of our Industrial
life, liberate and quicken the pro-
cesses of our national genius and en-
ergy and lift our politics to a broad
er view OF the peoples essential in
terests. 1t is record of singular
variety and singular distinction. But.
I shall not attempt to review it. It.
speaks for itself and will be of in
creasing influence as the years gus
by. This is not the time for retro
spect. 1t is time, rather, to speak
our thoughts and purposes concern
ing the present and the Immediate
future. Although we have centered
counsel and action with such unusu-
ally concentration and success upon
the great problem of domestic legisla-
ton to which we addressed ourselves
four years ago, other matters have
more and more forced themselves
upon our attention, matters lying out
side our own life as nation and over
which we have no control, but which,
despite our wish to keep free Of them,
have drawn US more and more irre-
sistibly into their own current and in
huence. 1t has been impossible ito
avoid them. They have affected the
life of the world. They have seen
men everywhere with passion and
an apprehension they never knew be-
fore. It has been hard to preserve
calm counsel while the thought OF
our pepole swayed this way and that
under our influence; we are a COM
posite and cosmopolitan people. We
are of the blood Of all the nations
that are at war. The current OF our
thought, as we'll as the current OF
our trade, run quick at all seasons
back and forth between us and them.
The war inevitably sets its mark 4
from the first alike upon our minda. 4
our industries, our commerce, our
politics and our social action. TO be-
Indifferent to it, or Independent OF it.
was out of the question. And yet, an
the while we have been conscious
that we were not part Of it.. In that
consciousness. despite many divisions.
We have drawn closer together. We
have been deeply wronged upon tkees
sea-. but we have not wished ~
wrong q in19re n return; hare -
tanned throughout the conscio cioesssesE5 4
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