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,His Inaugural Address Calls on
AH Honest Men to Aid in
His Task.
WILL RESTORE, NOT DESTROY
New Chief Executive Says Change of
Government Means the Nation Is
Using Democratic Patry for
Large and Definite Purpose.-
Washington, March 4. Looking
upon the victory of the Democratic
party as the mandate of the nation to
correct the evils that have been al
lowed to grow up in our national life,
President Wilson in his inaugural ad
dress today called on all honest men
to assist him in carrying out the will
of the people. Following is his ad
dress :
There has been a change of govern
ment. It began two years ago, when
the house of representatives became
Democratic by a decisive majority.
It has now been completed. The sen
ate aboifc to assemble will also be
Democratic. The offices of president
and vice-president have been put into
the bands of Democrats. What does
the Change mean? That is the ques
tion that is uppermost in our minds
today, ’that is the question I am go
ing tfr try to answer, in order, if I
may, to Interpret the occasion.
Neyv Insight Into Our Life.
It means much more than the mere
success of a partly. The success of a
party meant little except when the
nation is using that party for a large
and definite porpose. No one can
mistake the purpose for which the
nation now seeks to use the Demo
cratic party. It seeks to use it to in
terpret a change In its own plans and
point of view. Some old things with
which we had grown familiar, and
which had begun to creep Into the
very habit of our thought and of our
lives, have altered their aspect as we
have latterly looked critically upon
them, with fresh, awakened eyes;
have dropped their disguises and
shown themselves alien and sinister.
Some new things, as we look frankly
upon them, willing to comprehend
their real character, have come to as
sume the aspect of things long believ
ed in and familiar, stuff of our own
convictions. We have been refreshed
by anew insight into our own life.
We see that in many things that
life Is very great. It is incomparably
great in Its material aspects, in its
body of wealth, in the diversity and
sweep of its energy, in the industries
which have been conceived and built
up h;- the genius of Individual men
and the limitless enterprise of groups
of men. It Is great, also, very great,
In Its moral force. Nowhere else in
the world have noble men and women
exhibited in more striking form the
beauty and energy of sympathy and
helpfulness and counsel In their efforts
to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering,
and set the weak in the way of
strength and hope. We have built up,
moreover, a great system of govern
ment, which has stood through a long
ago as In many respects a model for
those who seek to set liberty upon
foundations that will endure against
fortuitous change, against storm and
accident. Our life contains every
great thing, and contains it in rich
abundance. 4 i ,
Human Cost Not Counted.
But the evil has come with the
good, and much flno gold has been
corroded. With riches has come in
excusable w r aste. We have squan
dered a great part of what we might
have used, and have not stopped to
conserve the exceeding bounty of na
ture, without which our genius for en
terprise would have been worthless
and impotent, scorning to be careful,
shamefully prodigal as well as admir
ably efficient. We have been proud of
our industrial achievements, but we
have not hitherto stopped thought
fully enough to count the human cost,
the cost of lives snuffed out, of ener
gies overtaxed and broken, the fear
ful physical and spiritual cost to the
men and women and children upon
whom the dead weight and burden of
it all has fallen pitilessly the years
through. The groans and agony of it
all had not yet reached our ears, the
solemn, moving undertone of our life,
coming up out of the mines and fac
tories and out of every home where
the struggle had its intimate and fa
miliar seat. With the great govern
ment went many deep secret things
which we too long delayed to look
into and scrutinize with candid, fear
less eyes. The great government we
loved has too often been made use
for private and selfish purposes, and
those who used it had forgotten the
people.
Ai last a vision has been..vouch.
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and vital. With this vision we ap
proach new affairs. Our duty is to
cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to
correct the evil without Impairing the
good, to purify and humanize every
process of our common life without
weakening or sentimentalizing It.
There has been something crude and
heartless and unfeeling in our haste to
succeed and be great. Our thought has
been ‘Let every man look out for him
self, let every generation look out for
Itself,’ vklle we reared giant machin
ery which made it impossible that any
but those who stood at the levers of
control should have a chance to lock
out for themselves. We had uot for
gotten our morals. We remembered
well enough that we had set up a
policy which was meant to serve the
humblest as well a3 the most power
ful, with an eye single to the stand
ards of justice and fair play, and re
membered It with pride. But we were
very heedless and In a hurry to be
great.
Chief Items In Program.
We have come now to the sober
second thought. The scales of heed
lessness have fallen from our eyes.
We have made up our minds to Bquare
every process of our national life
again with the standards we so proud
ly set up at the beginning and have
always carried at our hearts. Our
work is a work of restoration.
We have Itemized with some degree
of particularity the things that ought
to be altered and here are some of
the chief Items: A tariff which cuts
us off from our proper part in the
commerce of the world, violates the
Just principles of taxation, and makes
the government a facile instrument in
the hands of private interests; a bank
ing and currency system based upon
the necessity of the government to
sell its bonds fifty years ago and per
fectly adapted to concentrating cash
and restricting credits; an industrial
system which, take it on all Its sides,
financial as well as administrative,
holds capital In leading strings, re
stricts the liberties and limits the op
portunities of labor, and exploits with
out renewing or conserving the nat
ural resources of the country; a body
of agricultural activities never yet
given the' efficiency of great business
undertakings or served as it should be
through the instrumentality of science
taken directly to the farm, or afforded
the facilities of credit best suited to
Its practical needs; water courses un
developed, waste places unreclaimed,
forests untended, fast disappearing
without plan or prospect of renewal,
unregarded waste heaps at every mine.
We have studied as perhaps no other
nation has the most effective means
of production, but we have not studied
cost or economy as we should either
as organizers of industry, as states
men, or as individuals.
Matters of Justice.
Nor have we studied and perfected
the means by which government may
be put at the Bervice of humanity, In
safeguarding the health of the nation,
the health of its men and its women
and its children, as well as their rights
in the struggle for existence. This is
no sentimental duty. The firm basis
of government is justice, not pity.
These are matters of justice. There
can be no equality or opportunity, the
first essential of justice In the body
politic, if men and women and chil
dren be not shielded in their lives,
their very vitality, from the conse
quences of great industrial and social
processes which they cannot alter,
control or singly cope with. Society
must see to it that it does not itself
crush or weaken or damage its own
constituent parts. The first duty of
law is to keep sound the society it
serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws,
and laws determining conditions of
labor which individuals are powerless
to determine for themselves are inti
mate parts of the very business of jus
tice anijegal efficiency.
These are some of the things we
ought to do, and not leave the others
undone, the old-fashioned, never-to-be
neglected, fundamental safeguarding
of property and of individual right
This is the high enterprise of the new
day; to lift everything that concerns
our life as a nation to the light that
shines from the hearthfire of every
man’s conscience and vision of the
right. It is inconceivable that we
should do this as partisans; it is in
conceivable we should do it in ignor
ance of the facts as they are or in
blind haste. We shall restore, not de
stroy. We shall deal with our econ
omic system as It is and as it may
be modified, not as it might be if we
had a clean sheet of paper to write
upon; and step by step we shall make
it what it should be, in the spirit of
those who question their owm wisdom
and seek counsel and knowledge, not
shallow- self-satisfaction or the excite
mqnt of excursions whither they can
not tell. Justice, and only Justice,
shall always be our motto.
Task Not One of Politics.
And yet it will be no cool process
of mere science. The nation has been
deeply 6tirred, stirred by a solemn
passion, stirred by the knowledge of
wronn. of ideals lqgt, of government
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of rheumatism. Charles B. Allen
a school principal of Sylvania,
Ga., who suffered indescriable
torture from rheumatism, liver
and stomach troubles and diseas
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failed until I used Electric Bit
ters but four bottles of this won
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Maybe your rheumatic pains conn
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trouoles. Electric Bitters will
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T. Wages Drug Cos.
Gas o lin e si the one thing that
refutes the old adage that what
goes up must come down. ’
too often debauched and made’ an in
strument of evil. The feelings with
which we face this new age of right
and opportunity sweep across our
heart-strings like some air out of
God’s owi. presence, where justice and
mercy are reconciled and the Judge
and the brother are one. We know
our task to be no mere task of politics,
but a task which shall search us
through and through, whether we be
able to understand our time and the
need of our people, whether we be in
deed their spokesmen and interpre
ters, whether we have the pure heart
to comprehend and the rectified will
to choose our high oouree of action.
This is not a day of triumph; it is
a day of dedication. Here muster, not
the forces of party, but the forces of
humanity. Men’B hearts wait upon us;
men’s lives hang in the balance; men's
hopes call upon us to say what we
will do. Who shall live up to the
great trust? Who dares fail to try?
I summon all honest men. all patriotic,
all forwardlooking men, to my side.
God helping me, I will not fail them,
If they will but counsel and sustain
me!
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GRIFFETH, HILL & CO., Agents, Winder, Ga.
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It is beginning to look as though
many of our people are awakening
to the task and desire of becomii g
possessed of a wholesome, aggressive
Christianity. Every organization of
this church is reaching the “high
water mark’’ of interest and attend
ance. Let there be no abating.
This whole town is set thinking
religiously these days, and young
Luther Bridgers is preaching such a
practical every-day gospel as the
living God would have us practice.
Trouble has been in Winder, Bap
tists as well as others, that too many
of the large host of church members
have too little religion, and too
much of the fire insurance, Sunday
kind. With such enormous percen
tage of professing Christains here,
there should be a dominant spirit
of honesty, purity, right living and
Christain worth and stamina as that
this city should be one of the most
notable and desirable to live in to
be found in all this section of Geor
gia. God give U 9 large-heartedness
and noble living in Winder-
Only the higher zoology can ex
plain these swan songs from the
lame ducks in Washington.
Ask your dealer. He should be able to supply you. If not,
write direct to us. Be sure you are informed before you buy.
Glxolsst in-Cii rirLinsilxtim
Co.
Manufacturers ATLANTA, GA.
ROBINSON, Agent, Winder, Ga.
Depends largely on the mattress
you buy. The mattress must be of
uniform thickness, gently elastic to
conform to the body lines, at the
same time supporting the sleeper
without pressure.
The Princess Mattress
is made of cotton woven by our specially designed
machinery into layers of light fluffy felt, one layer
placed upon the other to insure uniformity of
thickness. It weighs full 50 pounds, and is en
cased in ticking artistic in design—plain stripe or
fancy—of durable quality.
Ours is the oldest, largest and best equipped
factory in the south for the manufacture of mat
tresses. THE PRINCESS is our specialty. We
sell it under a 60 night’s trial, promising to refund
your money if you are not satisfied. We are safe
in doing this because we employ none but expert
workmen of long experience who make THE
PRINCESS by hand in a large, well lighted,
thoroughly ventilated factory.
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Urinary troubles often follow.^
Act in time by curing the kid**
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Many people in this locality re
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Here is one case.
Mrs. Glennie Marlow, 243 sfl
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my public statement given in
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from kidney disease, how it came
ob her when she was two years o 1
age, running down her
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J| did so and the results of their
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