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S- ; : . ' ' PRESIDENT WiLSoiT FOR JUSTICE ONLY His Inaugural Address Calls on All Unripst Mpn tn AiH in me nanus or Democrats. What does the chango mean? That is the question that is uppermost in our minds today. That is the question I am going to try to answer, in order, if I may, to interpret the occasion. New Insight Into Our Life. It means much more than the mere success of a party. The success of a party means little except when thu nation is using that party for a large and deliuite porpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret 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 criticully upon them, with fresh, awakened eyes; have dropped their disguises and | Known tneinselves alien and sinister. Some new things, as we look frankly upon them, willing to comprehend their real character, have come to assume the aspect of things long believed in and familiar, stuff of our own convictions. We have been refreshed by a new insight into our own lifo. 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 by the genius of individual men and the limitlesB 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 mope' striking form the beauty and energy of sympathy and helpfulness, ahd counsel in their efforts to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering, and j^t the weak in the way of strength and hope. We have built up. myreover, a great system of governyfent, which has stood through a long ,,4ige as in many respects a model for / those who seek to set liberty upon foundations that will endure against | fortuitous chai.ge, against storm and accident. Our life contains every trreat thine and rnntnina It In rlnli abundance. Human Cost Not Counted. Dut the evil has come with the good, and much lino gold has been corrotfed. With riches has come inexcusable waste. We have squandered a great part of what we might have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of nature. without which our geniua for enterprise would have been worthless anu impotent, scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admirubly efllcient. We have been proud of our Industrial achievements, but wo have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully euough to count the human coat, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of It all haB 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 factories and out of every home where the struggle had its intimate and familiar seat. With the great government went many deen secret things which we too long delayed to look Into and scrutinize with candid, fearless eyes. The great government we loved has too often been made ubo of for private and selfish purposes, and those who used it had forgotten the people. At last a vision has been vouchsafed us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good, the debased and decadent with the sound and vital. With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty la 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 himself. let every generation look out for -i'i* liJmi l lili i J a *li 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 tho victory of the Democratic party as the mandate of the nation to correct tho evils that have been allowed to grow up in our national life. President Wilson in his inaugural address today called on all honest men ' to assist him in carrying out the will of the people. Following is his address: There has been a change of government. It began two years ago, when the house of representatives became Democratic by a decisive majority. It has now been completed. Tho senate about to assemble will also be Democratic. The offices of president and vice-president have been put into Itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers o< control should have a chance to look out for themselves. We had not for gotten our morals. We remembered well enough that we hi d set up a policy which was meant to serve the ; humblest as well :ih uiui icoumics ui me couniry; a DOdy of agricultural activities never yet given the efficiency of great business undertakings or served as it should bo through the instrumentality of science taken directly to the farm, or afforded the facilities of credit best suited to its practical needs; water courses undeveloped, waste places unreclaimed, forests untended, fast disappearing without plan or prospect of renewal, unregarded waste heaps at every mine. I We have studied as perhaps no other J nation has the most effectivo meanB of production, but we havo not studieu cost or economy as we should either i as organizers of Industry, as statesmen, or as Individuals. Matters of Justice. Nor have we studied and perfected the means by which government may be put at the service of humanity, in j 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 aro matters of justice. There can be no equality or opportunity, the , first essential of justice in .the body ' politic, if men and women and children 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 1 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. I and laws determining conditions of labor which Individuals are powerless to determine for themselves are inti- j mate parts of tho very business of jus tlco and legal efficiency. These are some of the things we ought to do. and not leave the others undone, the old-fashioned, never-to-be- I 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 tho right. It is inconceivable that wo should do this as partisans; it is in conceivable we should do It in ignorance of the facta as they are or in blind haste. Wo shall restore, not destroy. We shall deal with our economic system as it is and as it may be modified, not as it might be if wo had a clean sheet of paper to writo upon; and step by step we shall make it what it should be, in the spirit of those who question their own wisdom and seek counsel and knowledge, not shallow Belf-satisfaction or the excito ment of excursions whither they cannot tell. Justice, and only justice, shall alwayc be our motto. Task Not One of Politics. And yet it will be no cool process of mere science. The nation has been deeply stirred, stirred by a solemn passion, stirred by the knowledge of wrong, of ideals lost, of government too often debauched and made an instrument of evil. The feelings with which wo face this new age of right and opportunity sweep across our heart-strings like soino air out of God's ow: presence, where justice and mercy are reconciled and the Judgo and tho brother are one. We know um WOK 1?J L?e um Iiieru lasa or pOllUCB, 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 interpreI ters, whether we have the pure heart to comprehend and the rectified will to choose our high course of action. This is not a day of triumph; it is a day of dedication. Here muster, not the Torces of party, but the forces of humanity. Men's 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 forwardiooking men, to my side. God helping me, I will not fall them, if they will but counsel and sustain me! l'ul, with an eye single to the standards of justice and fair play, and remembered it with pride. Hut we were very heedless and in a hurry to be great. Chief Items in Proararr.. We have come now to the sober second thought. The scales of heedlessness have fallen from our eyes. We have made up our minds to square every process of our national life again with the standards we so proudly set up at the beginning and have 1 always carried at our hearts. Our j work is a work of restoration. We have itemized with some degree of particularity the things that ought to be altered and bore ar** 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 perfectly adapted to concentrating cash and restricting credits; an industrial system which, take it on all its sides. ' financial as well as administrative, holds capital ir. leading strings, restricts the liberties and limits the opportunities of labor, and exploits without renewing or conserving the nat* Zn INAUGURAL MS[ OF FORMER YEARjS How George Washington Became President at Federal Hall inl New York City. 1 FALSE STORY OF JEFFERSON "Simplicity" of His Inauguration a Myth Traced to English Writer? Jackson Fairly Mobbed by Motley Throng. By EDWARD WEBSTER. From the very beginning of the nation, inauguration day has generally been a day of display and festivity for the people of the United States, though at times national conditions have made it an occasion more solemn than joyous. Rut always the induction of a new president has been a noteworthy and interesting event. When George Washington was in augurated the first president in 1783. New York was the temporary capital of the young nation, and it was there that the ceremony took place after General Washington had ridden from his home at Mount Vernon in what was much like a triumphal progress. Welcomed to New York. Arriving at Elizabethtown Point, N J., on April 23, he entered a barge rowed by 12 .pilots clad in white, and passed through the Kill von Kull into Now York harbor, which was full of all manner of craft gaily decorated and loaded with cheering crowds. The Spanish man of war Galveston broke out the colors of all nations, and lired a salute of 13 guns, to which the American frigate North Carolina responded. Finally, on April 30, ail was ready ! for the Inauguration. Washington j v as escorted to Federal hall, then .he capitol, which stood on the site of the present sub-treasury at Wall and Hroad streets. Tho streets had been filled since sunrise with waiting crowds, and the enthusiasm was intense. In the senate chamber Washington was joined by Adams, Knox, Hamilton. VOll Stenhon ninl n mh ers, and all of them appeared on tlio balcony. Robert R. Livingston, chancellor of New York, administered the oath and cried "Long livo George Washington, president of the United States," whereupon there broke out a mighty tumult of cheering, bell-ringing and the noise of cannon. ReturningJm the senate chamber. President JflKshingt on read his inaugural - uddress and tlio history of the United States under tho constitution began. Jefferson Story False. If you are a good Democrat, no doubt you believe that Thomas Jefferson rode unattended to the capitol on horseback, tied ids horse to th fence, and was inaugurated with less ceremony than would attend the tuklng of offlee by a keeper of a dog pound. Such la the old story, but it is pure myth and is tlrst found in a book of travels in the United States written by John Davis, an Englishman. Davis asserted that he was an eye-witness of the simple ceremony which ho described, but it has been W..V, vr viutft IUC AJt'XI Chief Justice White. proved that he was not In Washington at the time. The inauguration of Jefferson, which marked the defeat of the Federalist party of Hamilton. Washington, Adams and Jay, was the Hrst to take place in Washington. The newly established national capital, then but a few months old, contained only 3,000 inhabitants, many of them negroes; the houses were mostly huts and the streets muddy roads. The big event was thus described in the Philadelphia Aurora of March 11; 1801; "At an early hour on Wednesday, March 4, the city of Washington presented a spectacle of uncommon animation occasioned by the addition to its usual population of a large body of citizens from the adjacent districts. A discharge from the company of Washington artillery ushered in the day. and about nnn '? ?' ? / .'V^V^A A ' ? \ ? Cioneu niai L uw ceremonies be made very simple, but Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. tho masses were too hilarious to heed the request. Tho weather was pleasant and the east front of tho capitol was usoil for tho first time for the inauguration. In front of It surged 10,000 persons who were restrained only by a great iron chain. Jackson rode to the capitol on a white horse and went through the ceremonies with dignity, and started bark to tho White House. Then began his troubles, for tho people broke loose with a vengeance. "The president was literally pursued by a motley concourse of people, riding, running, helter-skelter, striving who should llrst gain admittance into the executive mansion, where it was understood that refreshments would be distributed." wrote a contemporary, Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith. In tnetr mad rush the crowds smashed furniture and dishes and seized the food as if they were starving. "The confusion became more and more alpalling. At one moment the president, who had retreated until ho was pregsed. against the wall of tlie apartment, could only be secured against serious^ danger by a number of gentlemen linking arms and forming themselves into a barrier. It was then that the windows were thrown open, and the living throng found an outlet. It. was the people's day, the people's president, and the people would rule." Too Much for Harrison. For 12 years the Democrats controlled the destinies of the country and then the Whigs elected William Henry Harrison, who was inaugurated March 4, 1841. My this time transportation was made easier by thebuilding of railways and the crowd that lloeked to Washington was ini mense. It was much better behaved than that which "honored" Jackson but it was hungry for otllces. Cold, wintry blasts swept the streets of Washington that March day, and Harrison, already old and rathe? feeble, rode his white horse without cloak or overcoat, and with his hat off in salute to the cheering crowds The line of march was uuprecedent edly long, and so was the inaugural address, and then the president lec the procession back to the White. House. The exposure was too much foi him and within one month lie wa> dead. When Lincoln Took Hold. Immensely dramatic was the ilrst inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in lXdl. From the day of his election threats against his life were nuiner ous, and detectives discovered and foiled an organized plot to assassinate him on his way to Washington. The big bodies of troops that had been employed at former inaugurations merely to add pomp to the occasion now were used for the protection ol the president. The day had opened cloudy, chilly and dismal, but as the president stepped forward to take the oath from me aged Chief JuBtlce Taney the sun burst through the clouds und shone full on the bowed head of the man who was to give up his life for the country ho loved. Lincoln hlmsol! noticed this "sunburst" and drew from It a happy augurv I andria company of riflemen with th? company of artillery paraded in front of the President's lodgings. At 12 o'clock Thomas Jefferson, attended by a number of his fellow citizens, among whom were many members of congress, repaired to the capitol. His dress was, as usual, that of -a plain citizen, without any distinctive badge of ofllce. He entered the cupltol under r. discharge from the artillery. As soon as he withdrew a discharge from the artillery was made. Tho remainder of the day was devoted to purposes of festivity, and at night there was a pretty general illumination." "Man of the People." When Andrew Jackson was elected in the fall of 1828 tho people of the west and the radical elements of the south scored a triumph and he was hailed as a "man of the people." This character was emphasized on the day of his inauguration the following March, for never before had such a huge motley throng gathered in Washington. Jackson's wife had died not lone hpfnro oml 1?? oobo?i W? " ... y. PEACE NOT YET ' FULLY RESTORED MUCH DISSATISFACTION AND AN UPRISING IS FEARED IN HIDALGO. GUERRILLA LIKE WARFARE Four Hundred Textile Employees Start Riot But Were Dispersed by the Police?Provisional President Has Been Conferring For Eight Days. Mexico City.?There is considerable dissatisfaction in liidalgo and an uprising is feared if the Federal Government fails to satisfy the conflicting interests. A committee of citizens of that state has come to the Capital to prefer charges against Itamon Resales, the Governor-elect. He is churged with grafting 70,000 pesos and with secreting arms and ammunition belonging to the Government. Four hundred textile, workers who wery denied permission to hold a public demonstration in memory of rioting, but were dispersed by the police. One factory. La Carolina, has been closed us a result, the employes declaring a strike. The firm and energetic military rule promised by the new Government probably will be in augurated this week, President Tuetta has had eight days of conferences with the various rebel chiefs or with commissioners sent by them. The government is now disposed to consider an irreconcilable all those rebels who continue to delay definite recognition of the new order of things. The program of pacification will, it is expected, be put to some severe tests. A band of adherents of Zapata, tired on a Federal troop train running from the Capital to Cuernuvaca and tit) soldiers were killed or wounded. Similar bands of Zapatistas continue committing raids in the Federal district itself and in the state of Morelos, indicating that some of the mountaineer rebels are determined to keep up their guerrilla warfare despite the negotiations between the Government and the Zapata brothers. No News of Mexican Assault. Washington.?Although Major General Wood, chief of staff of the army, called on the commanding officer at Douglas, Ariz., for a full report of the alleged killing of four Mexicans in a j border light with the ninth cavalry i troopers, nothing has been heard of i the affair at last report. Army ofllcers reiterated their conviction that if the , American troopers fired on the Mexi: can soldiers. It wna i?i , .. .. .t? UVII UCICUOC, aia | ter :in attack was made upon them. Prince Takehito Critically ill. Toklo.?Prince Takehito, head of a collateral branch of the imperial army is critically ill from tuberculosis at his country residence near Kobe. The emperor ordered his own chief physician to proceed there. Prince Takehito is an admiral in the Japanese navy and served with distinction in the wars between Japan and China and Japan and Russia. William Chambers Third Arbitrator. Washington. -William L. Chambers [ of Washington, former chief justice of the international court at Samoa, and a former member of the Spanish treaty claims commission, was chosen as the third arbitrator in the wage dispute between the eastern railroads and their firemen. W. W. Atterbury, vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Albert Phillips, vicepresident of the firemen's organizaI Hon, are the others. F. K. Lane Is Secretary of Interior. Washington.? Franklin K. I^ine, of ' California, chairman of the interstate commerce rummNuinn i>?.? ~?*--? IKVO acuc|iieu ll . ..st of secretary of the interior. Though (Chairman Lane himself re' fused lo deny or affirm the report of | his ( lection, leaders in congress close to. President Wilson dtM-lare positively. that Mr. Lane's formal acceptance of the portfolio has been sent to Mr. WUrfort. ; i . , Making Military Preparations. Geneva, Switzerland. -The Italian .governripen has Joined the remainder '<vf Ihe JOuropean continental powers 1n making military preparations. It halt''ine'feato <] the Italian garrisons along the Swiss frontier, and military ! epgin^?;rs are engaged in building new forts. Chambers for mines have been excavated at the Italian entrance to the great Siniplon tunnel, and these have been fitted with secret electrical Connections, so that by pressing a button 20 miles away the tunnel can be shattered. Hotel Employees Start Movement. , Chicago. Benjamin P. Parker, spe! cial orcanizer fnr fh? ' * ? ... - liwici *141 LI rt'HIHU' | rant employes' International alliance in a speech before the American Federation of I^abor said that a campaign to amend the employment agency law so that no one will be permitted to charge for obtaining employment for another had been begun by 6,000 restaurant and hotel employes. One provision sought in the proposed law is to make it a misdemeanor to encourage the purchase of liquor by promise of employment. "V f "\'K I F?n? fw-I iVXm i faff f 1 JHflnul m UtowH -?-=i!&8!!i?J!^s| 1 Torn. ""gSf^SSw ?r. Ml I ISSttssaer*1 art single tension Clipping bsed. Oet ' one tram your deeler, sTsry machloa gnsranteed. CHICAGO PLBXIBUI SHAFT CO. Walla and Ohio Sta. omioaoo.ha. Write for free new catalog of moet modern Una of bona clipping and aheap shearing machlaaa. Salesmen Wanted We haTKaCA.SH weekly proposition for a raaponllble man U> handle oar line of HIGH GRAPH NIlltHMKT stock. OOMFLHTB NHW OUTFIT KitKK. Write at onoe for oar liberal oSer ana n-curo ozclustve Agency. W. T. HOOD A COMPANY OLD DOMINION NURSERIES. Richmond. Vn. Mention this paper aben writing ^^TYPEWRITERS lyrwSijSJifSr All makes, sold, rented and skilfully Li^Til'fcKi repaired. Rented lb for 8 mouth*, - fiWlSfh rent applies tm purchase. tiiRirtii TTrrwarrkR EX., 1m., h?m " !*/ oar., got Eaet del. Mml, KI?S?mS, Vs. Taking a Lesser Chance. A government inspector was conducting an oral examination for marine engineers. Said he to one: "If you hau tested your gauge cocks, hurl lnnlra/1 of ? ? ?*?- ?1 J ?v. .wvr... u IU JUUI ? aifl glUHB UI1U had found no water in the boiler, what would yon do?" Came the answer, swift and true: "I would jump overboard." After 10 Year* of Suffering, Show Man Find* Relief in Tetterlne. "I have been troubled with & severe rase of Tetter for ten years. In Columbia last week a druggist recommended Tetterlne. I bought a box; it khvs me relief, so I bought another and am entirely well." Lew Wren, Chicago. Tetterlne cures Ecxema, Tetter, Itching Piles, Ring Worm and every form of Scalp and Skin Disease. Tctterli.i 60c; Tetterlne Soap 23c. Your druggls., or by mall from the manufacturer. The Shuptrlne Co., Savannah. Oa. With every mall order for Tetterlne we give a box of Shuptrlne's 10c Liver Pills frye. Adv. Rubber Atrocities. "I can sympathize with those vietimes of atrocity in the rubber regions." "What do you know about them?" "It's my business to carry our rub ber trees in and out of the house, according to the weather." Burduco Liver Powder. Nature's romadv tnr KPI constipation, indigestion and all atom* ach diseases. A vegetable preparatlon, better than calomel and will not salivate. In screw top cans at 25o each. Tlurwell & Dunn Co., Mfrs., Charlotte, N. C. Adv. What's the Use? "It did Jack no good to marry his stenographer, for she continued the habit of the office In their home." "How so?" "When he starts to dictate she takes him down." 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They coax the liver into activity by gentle methods, they do not scour; they do not gripe; they do not weaken; but they do start all the secretions of the liver and stomach in a way that soon puts these organs in a healthy condition and corrects constipation. Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills are a tonic to the stomach, liver and nerves. They invigorate instead of weaken; they enrich the blood instead of itnpdver* ishing it; they enable the stomach to get all the nourishment from food that is put into y it. Price 25 cents. All Druggists. *BEBBEB0ma||8B jjm