Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-06

WdSuluStOH, Mdi ' II o' wilson's inaugural address was as fol- lows:
 "My Fellow Citizens: The four years which have elapsed since last stood in this place have been crowded with counsel and action of the most vita! interest and consequence. Per- haps no equal period in our history has been so fruitful of important re- forms in our economic and industrial fife or so full of significant changes in the spirit and purpose of our polltl- cal action. We have sought very thoughtfully to set our house in order, correct the grosser errors and abuses of our industrial life, liberate and quicken the processes of our national genius and energy and lift our politics to a broader view of the peoples es. sential interests. It is record o1 singular variety and singular dlstlnc- tion. But I shall not attempt to re- view it. It speaks for itself. and will be of increasing influence as the years 20 by. This is not the time for ret , respect, It is time, rather, to speak our thoughts and purposes concern ing the present and the immediate future.
 Although we have centered coun- sel and action with unusual cOncentra- tion and success upon the great prob lens of domestic legislation to which we addressed ourselves four years ago. other matters have more ana more forced themselves upon our at- tention. matters outside our own lire 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 1nto thelr own current and influence.
 "It has been impossible to aVola them. They have affected the llfe oi inc whole world. They have shaken men everywhere with a passion ana an apprehension they never knew De- fore. It has been hard to preserve calm council while the thought Of our own people swayed this way and that under their influence. We are a composite and cosmopolitan people. We are of the blood of all the nations that are at war. The currents of our thoughts as we'll as the currents or our trade run quick at all seasons back and forth between us and them. The war inevitably set its mark rom the first alike upon our minds, our industries, our commerce, our politics and our social action. To be indiner- ent to it or independent of 1t was out of the question.
 "And vet. all the while we have been conscious that we were not part or IT, In that consciousness, despite many divisions, we have drawn closer to- gether. We have been deeply wronsed upon the seas, but we have not wished to wrong or injure in return. We have retained throughout the consci- ousness of standing in some sort apart, intent upon an interest that transcended. the immediate issues of the war itself. Although some of the injuries done us have become in tolerable we have still made it clear that we wished nothing for ourselves that we are not ready. to demand for all mankind-fair dealing, justice. the freedom to live and be at ease against organized wrong.
 Firm in Armed Neutrality.
 "It is in this spirit and with this 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- cate and fortify peace. We have been obliged to arm ourselves to make good our claim to certain minimum o1 right and of freedom of action. We stand firm in armed neutrality. since it seems that in no other way we can demonstrate what it is we insist upon and cannot forego. We may even be drawn on, by circumstances, not by our own purpose or desire, to a more active assertion of our rights as we see them and more immediate as. sociation with the great struggle it. self. But nothing will alter oul thought or our purpose. They are toe clear to be obscured. They are toe deeply rooted in the principles of oul national life to be altered. We de sire neither conquest nor advantage We have always professed unselfisf purposes and we covet the opportunity to prove that our professions are sin. cere.
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