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THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON.
EIGHT PAGES
"NOT A TRIUMPH,
BUT DEDICATION"
President Wilson So Declares
Inauguration Ceremony.
Believes Country Ready for Change
of Policy Justice and Equal
Opportunity for Workers.
Washington, D. C. President Wil
son's inaugural address follows:
There has been a change of govern
ment. It began two yeai sago, when
the house of representatives became
Democratic by a decisive majority.
It has now been completed. The sen
ate about to assemble will also be
Democratic. The offices of President
and Vice President have been put into
the hands 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 to try to answer, in order, if I
,may, to interpret the occasion,
i It means much more than the mere
success of a party. The success of a
party means little except when the
nation is using that party for a large
and definite purpose. No one can mis
take the purpose for which the nation
now seeks to use the Democratic
party.
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
out thought and of our lives, have al
tered 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 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 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 Dy the genius or individual men
and the limitless enterprise of groups
of men. It is great also, very great,
in its moral lorce. Nowhere else m
the world have noble men and women
exhibited in more striking forms the
beauty and the energy of sympathy
and helpfulness and counsel in their
efforts to rectify wrong, alleviate suf
fering, and set the weak in the way
of strength and hope. We have built
up, moreover, a great system of gov
ernment, which has stood through a
long age 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.
But the evil has come with the
good, and much fine gold has been cor
roded. With riches has come inex
cusable waste. We have squandered
a great part of what we might have
used, and have not stopped to conserve
the exceeding bounty of nature, with
out which our genius for enterprise
would have been worthless and impo
tent, scorning to be careful, shameful
ly prodigal as well as admirably effi
cient. We have been proud of our
industrial achievements, but we have
not hitherto stopped thoughtfully
enough to count the human cost, the
cost 01 lives snuited out, or 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
has fallen pitilessly the years through.
The groans and agony of it all had not
yet reached our ears, the solemn, mov
ing 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 deep
secret things which we too long de
layed to look into and scrutinize with
cartdid, fearless eyes. The great
government we loved has too often
been made use of for private and self-
g ish" 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 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 himself,
let every generation look out for it
self," while we reared giant ma
chinery which made it impossible that
any but those who stood at the levers
of control should have a chance to look
out for themselves. We had not for
gotten our morals. We remembered
well enough that we had set up a pol
icy which was meant to serve the
humblest as well as the most power
ful, with an eye single to the stand
ards of justice and fair play, and re
membered it with pride. isut wo
were very heedless and in a hurry to
be great.
We have come now to the sober sec
ond thought The scales of heedless
ness have fallen ; from our eyes. We
have made up our minds to square ev
ery process of our national life again
with the standards we so proudly set
up at the beginning, and have always
carried at out 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 pri
vate interests; a banking and cur
rency system based upon the necessity
of the government to sell its bonds 5C
years ago and perfectly adapted to
concentrating cash and restricting us to say what we will do
credits; an industrial system which, I live up to the great trust?
take it on all its sides, financial as
well as administrative, holds capital
in leading strings, restricts the liber
ties and limits the opportunities of
labor, and exploits without renewing
or conserving the natural resources of
the country; a body of agricultural ac
tivities never yet given the efficiency
WILSON ISl I AUGURAlD
Greatest Crowd in History Witnesses
Ceremony Seventh Democratic
President Now Holds Reins.
It seeks to use it to interpret " n Tv V ?t
. .... , . - served as it should be through the in
strumentality of science taken directly
to the farm, or afforded the facilities
of credit best suited to its practical
needs ; watercourses undeveloped,
waste places unreclaimed, forests un
tended, 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 produc
tion, but we have not studied cost or
economy as we should, either as or
ganizers of industry, as statesmen, or
as individuals.
Nor have we studied and perfected
the means by which government may
be put at the service of humanity, in
safeguarding the wealth 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 of opportun
ity, the first essential of justice in the
body politic, if men and women and
children are 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.
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 incon
ceivable we should do it in ignorance
of the facts as they are or in blind
haste. We shall restore, not destroy.
We shall deal with our economic sys
tem 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 own wisdom and seek
counsel and knowledge, not shallow,
self-satisfaction or the excitement of
excursions whither they cannot tell.
Justice, and only justice, shall always
be our motto.
And yet it will be no cool process of
mere science. The nation has been
deeply 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 we
iace tnis new age or right and oppor
tunity sweep across our heart-strings
like some air out of God's own pres
ence, where justice and mercy are rec
onciled 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 under
stand our time and the need of our
people, whether we be indeed their
spokesman and interpreters, 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 forces 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, ull patrio
tic, all forward-looking men, to my
side. God helping me, I will not fail
them, if they will but counsel and sus
tain me!
Washington, March 4. Woodrow
Wilson became president of the Unit
ed States today amid imposing cere
monies and tumultuous scenes of pop
ular greeting. Standing at the his
toric east front of the capitol he took
the constitutional oath of office, and in
his brief inaugural address made a
fervid appeal to all patriotic men for
counsel and aid.
"This is not a day of triumph," he
said; "it is a day of dedication.
Here muster not the forces 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
Who shall
Who dares
fail to try? I summon all honest men,
all patriotic, all forward-looking men
to my side. God helping me, I will
not fail them if they will but counsel
and sustain me."
Vice-President Marshall had been
inaugurated in the senate chamber
President Taf t bowed to the crowd as
they took their seats in the center of
the platform.
President-elect Wilson sat at the
right of President Taft, while Vice
President Marshall took his scat at
the left of President Taft at the edge
of the platform and talked with Sena
tor Bacon.
A burst of applause and cheers
greeted Champ Clark as he passed on
to the inaugural stand at the head of
the line of house members.
Major-General Wood directed the
closing in of the troops before the
guests had all been seated and the
crowd gradually edged toward the in
augural platform.
Speaker Clark leaned toward President-elect
Wilson and the two shook
hands, bringing more applause from
the crowd.
Applause came from the crowds near
the entrance of the capitol as former
Speaker Cannon emerged, swelling
I
tice repeated tho oath to the presi
dent. Mrs. Wilson, seated on a lower
level, climbed on a chair at the edge
of tho platform and peered up at her
husband as he repeated the outh after
the chief justice at 1 :3G o'clock. In a
moment her daughter, Margaret,
pulled another chair forward "and
joined hor. A moment later, as Pres
ident Wilson began his inaugural ad
dress, Mrs. Marshall joined them nnd
peered over the rail.
Lieutenant Commander Kodgers,
naval aid at the White Houso, placed
chairs for tho other women and they
stood on tiptoe for a near view of the
proceedings.
While President Wilson was doliver
Ing his address, the first van load of
the Wilson family's belonging reach
ed tho White House from 1'rlnccton.
There were seven trunks, 11 suit
cases, 11 umbrellas and several walk
ing sticks. There also reached the
White House a largo cake, which
graced the Wilson dinner table in tho
evening. It was surmounted by a
brown donkey and a purple elephant.
President Wilson's voice ut first
failed to carry into the crowd, but as
he raised it ho secured close attention,
which he held throughout the reading
of his address. Although he had
memorized much of his address, he ad
hered closely to tho reading of tho
manuscript.
A burst of cheers greeted tho Presi
dent's 'declaration, "our work is a
work of restoration," and it swelled
into cheers and hats were thrown into
the air when ho said :
"A tarilf which cuts us off from our
proper part in the commerce of the
world, violates tho jiiHt principles of
taxation and makes the government a
facile instrument in the hands of pri
vate interests."
From time to time as the President
spoke the sun pooped from behind the
clouds and shed a feeblo light on the
scene. I
A moment later the crowd voiced its;
approval in cheers at his declaration j
that "justice and only justice shall
always be our motto."
A storm of cheers greeted the end
ing of his speech at 1 :54.
William J. Bryan was the first man
to shake hands with the President.
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume of World's Important
Events Told in Brief.
Fire swept the town of White
Plains, N. Y., causing $700,000 loss.
A Kansas sexton dropped dead of
heart disease in a gravo he was dig
ging. Snow and cold have almost stopped
tho fighting between Turks and Bul
garians. Tho flrst'AlnHkan territorial legisla
ture met at Juneau, March 3, with 24
members.
Taft's last day in tho White IIouso
was one of the busiest nnd apparently
happiest of his administration.
The senato voted to promote three
colonels In tho army, and turned down
Boveral other Taft appointments.
Fire destroyed almost tho entire
town of Numadisu, Japan, burning two
thousand houses and causing $3,500,
000 loss.
More than COO Indiana suffragettes
stormed tho legislature and a resolu
tion was introduced grunting full
suff rugo rights to women.
American officers at Douglas, report
tho discovery of a plot to capture
Douglas, New Mexico, and Agua Pri
eto, Mexico, by Mexican rebels.
Dr. Freidmann has been informed
by New York medical authorities that
ho must have a physician's license in
order to administer his tuberculosis
serum in America.
Senator Fall, of New Mexico, bit
terly assails the Mexican border policy
of the United States, declaring the
troops are a menace instead of a pro
tection to residents.
A Bhip's butcher was arrested by
customs officials ut Honolulu trying to
get ashore with a big siring of sau-
He then shook hands with Mr. Taft. sages, which were found to be stulTed
The party then prepared to heud the J with about $4,800 worth of opium.
procession oacK to tne White house,
back
and this time President Wilson sat on
the right-hand side of the carriage.
The procession to tho Whito House
started at 1 :57 p. m.
Tho congressional conference com
mittee has allowed $1,000,000 for a
new K)stoMice building atj'ortland.
The great suffragist parade in Wash-
Castro Refuses Honors.
Washington, D. C General Cipri
ano Castro, exiled ex-president of Ven
ezuela, joined the crowds on the
streets and from the pavement viewed
the inauguration ceremonies. Two
reviewing stand seats had been offered
him by friends, but were declined, the
exiled president preferring to mingle
with the crowds. General Castro said
he was much impressed with the cere
monies as giving a phase of American
public life with which he was not
familiar. The general left for New
York after the inauguration.
Nebraskans Exultant.
Lincoln, Neb. Democratic mem
bers of the Nebraska legislature held
an "inaugural dinner" at which there
were felicitations on the inauguration
of a Democratic president and vice
president. The dinner was informal.
The dinner is regarded as preliminary
to the annual banquet to be held here
on the 53d birthday anniversary of
William J. Bryan. Definite announce
ment was made that Mr. Bryan will
come from Washington to attend the
banquet and that other party leaders
of the nation would attend.
only shortly before, and at the con
clusion of President Wilson's inaug
ural address the party hurried back to
the White House, ahead of the inaug
ural procession, where Mr. Taft said
goodby to President Wilson and pre
pared to leave at once for Augusta,
Ga. President Wilson shortly after
took his place to review the proces
sion.
While Vice-President Marshall was
swearing in new senators and return
ing ones, the remainder of the com
pany began the march to the stands
on the east front, where the inaug
uration of Mr. Wilson was to take
place. President Taft and Mr. Wilson
were greeted with loud cheers as they
came out the main door.
Immediately in front of the presi
dential platform Major-General Wood
and his general staff held a space
clear. Across the open space loomed
a battery of nearly 100 cameras and
motion picture machines, trainer! on
the single spot where President Taft
was to pass his mantle of office to
President-elect Wilson. Back of the
West Point cadets stood the Essex
troop, President Wilson' guard of
honor, and near them the Black Horse
troop of Culver.
The troops were prepared to give
way when the delivery of the inaug
ural address began so that the crowd
might close in to hear the new presi
j i mi i
aent. xnere was a lun in tne cere'
monies as the company assembled.
A mild wind blew over the stands,
and the West Point cadets and sailors
ran about in little groups to relieve
the tedium, while the presidential
party slowly assembled. The east
front of the capitol, sweeping down
from the dome to the ground and out
as far as the Congressional library
and neighhoring apartment buildings
presented a brilliant scene of color.
The weather still was cloudy, but there
was no immediate sign of ram.
It was 1:11 o'clock before the pro
cession to the stand had got as far as
the diplomatic corps, so slowly did it
move. This was because many re
mained Denind to see new senators
sworn in. President-elect Wilson and
Madero's Guard Promoted.
Mexico City Major Cardenas, who
was in charge of the escort of Fran
cisco Madero and Jose Pino Suarez on
the day they were killed, was promo
ted from the rural guard to the same
rank in the regular army. A general
inclination to recognize General Huer
ta's administration is being manifest
ed by the rebels in all parts of the re
public. Nearly all the rebel leaders
have now fallen in line. Many of the
rebels, however, display sensitiveness
in regard to the amnesty bill, which
they say wrongly implies their defeat.
into a large volume as William J.
Bryan came forward with the other
guests comprising the membership of
President Wilson's cabinet. Governor
Fielder, successor to President-elect
Wilson as governor of New Jersey,
came out to the stand with Senator
Martine.
Mr. Bryan, Mr. McAdoo, Mr. Red
field, Representative Burleson, Mr.
Daniels, Franklin K. Lane, Represen
tative William B. Wilson, Professor
Houston and the others of the new
cabinet were escorted to seats as the
crowd voiced its approval by cheers.
Mrs. Wilson and her daughters took
seats close to the square platform at
the left. At. Mrs. Wilson's request,
Mrs. Marshall took a seat beside her.
The two women walked forward to the
rail to look at the crowd. The Wilson
girls joined them.
"Oh, isn t it wonderful"? said Mrs.
Wilson, as she looked out over the im
mense gathering that extended so far
that faces were not recognizable.
At 1 :29 the last restraint on the
crowd was removed, and across the
empty space of asphalt came a cheer
ing mass of men and women waving
hats, flags and coats upward in the di
rection of the president-elect. In a
moment a dense sea of people touched
the very edge of the inaugural stand,
the military preserving their places
with difficlty. Somebody in the crowd
shouted :
"Three cheers for Miss Nellie Wil
son," and a good-natured laugh went
up.
The Wilson cabinet on the stand in
cluded all but James C. McReynolds,
the new attorney general, who had
been unable to accept the invitation to
be present.
President Taft, who had sat with a
good-natured smile on his face as the
crowd surged about, burst into a
hearty laugh when some one yelled.
"Where is Teddy?"
It was 1 :34 o'clock when Chief Jus
tice White stepped forward and the
party arose and President-elect Wilson
raised his hand to take the oath of
office. Cheers which greeted the
rising fell to a hush as the chief jus-
Vice President Marshall returned ; ington was forced to fight its way
along the entire lino of murch, jeers
and insults meeting them on all sides.
Portland Rose Festival plans for
1913 to cost $100,000 are announced.
Society women of Corvallis, Or.,
have agreed not to go above a $7 limit
for hats.
from tho inaugural stand to the sen
ate. Mrs. Wilson with other members
of the family party took carriages for
the White House.
CONVICTS TO BE REWARDED
Good Roads Congress Would Give
Incentive for Highway Work.
Chicago The Fifth International
Good Roads congress closed here Sun
day after adopting resolutions urging
the employment of convicts on public
highways at a commutation of 10
days of their sentence for every 30
days of labor. The resolution reads:
"We urge the'' adoption by every
state of the convict labor system of
Colorado, giving all available convicts
the privilege of working on the public
highways with a commutation of 10
days for every 30 days' work. We
urge the state and national construc
tion of post' roads and the construction
of a national Lincoln memorial high-!
way, connectiong Washington with
the capitals of every state in the
Union."
The next International Good rond3
congress will meet in San Francisco in
1915.
Eastern Oregon farmers traveled
100 miles to attend the college course
for farmers at Burns.
President Taft pardoned four Feder
al prisoners on account of their pre
vious good character.
All requests for tuberculosis serum
are Deing reiused until the U. s. surgeon-general
has made satisfactory
tests.
British merchants resent the Chinese
war on tho opium trade, as it is in
juring also the trade in opium from
India.
PORTLAND MARKETS
Falls 17 Floors; Rolls Cigarette.
New York John Brunnon, a marble
worker, fell from the 17th floor of the
Municipal building to the bottom of
an elevator shaft and treated his ex
perience so lightly that those who ran
to his aid found him rolling a cigar
ette and casually inquiring if an am
bulance could be summoned. Much
shorter falls have taken scores of lives
on the recent skyscraper buildings,
but Brunnon was saved from being
dashed to pieces because he landed
on a bundle of empty bags. He suf
fered fractures of the leg.
Probers Cannot Agree.
Washington, D. C. The senate
campaign expenditures committee
made to the closing congress no report
upon its exhaustive inquiry into cam
paign expenditures for 1904, 1908 and
1912, and into the relations of John D.
Archbold and the Standard Oil com
pany with members of congress and
Federal ofiicrs. Members of the spe
cial committee have found it impossi
ble to agree upon the report, and the
question is to be carried over to the
new congress, when it is believed bet
ter progress can be made.
Election Bettor On Hike.
Portland, Maine Leading a 22
year-old donkey and wearing a khaki
uniform, B. H. Anderson, of Butler,
Pa., left Portland Tuesday to settle an
election bet on Theodore Roosevelt by
walking from this city to Portland,
uregon. Anderson, who was a page
in the national house of representatives
in 1901, was ' a follower of Colonel
Roosevelt and laid a Wager on his elec
tion. The distance Anderson will lead
the donkey is 4300 miles, and he ex
pects to complete the journey in eight
months.
Jail Preferred to Wife.
Des Moines, la. John Davis was
sentenced to a year in the penitentiary
in the Uistrict court here Monday for
wife desertion, after he had told the
judge that he preferred hard labor in
prison either to returning to Mrs.
Davis or contributing to her support.
Davis was in court a week ago and
was given that much time to deter
mine which he would prefer impris
onment or reconciliation. His liberty
on a bond of $1000 was offered him.
Foreign Steamers Fired On.
Constantinople French and Italian
steamers passing Charkeii have been
fired upon by the Bulgarians. One
Italian vessel was badly damaged and
as a consequence was beached. It is
reported that British vessels also have
attracted the fire of the Bulgarians.
Wheat-Track prices: Club, KCrtft
8CJc per pushel; blucstem, 98(.S)9c;
forty-fold, 88c; red Russian, 85rti)
85Jc
Barley Feed $23.50 per ton; brew
ing, nominal; rolled, $25.5()d26.50.
Millstuirs Bran, $21(i(21.50 per
ton; shorts, $23(123.50; middlings,
$30.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy,
choice, $15f 17 per ton; mixed, $10(r
12.50; oat and vetch, $12; alfalfa,
$11.50; clover, $10; straw, C(afl.
Oats No. 1 white, $2728.
Apples Spitzenbcrg, extra fancy,
$1.25V $1.50; choice, 75cf$l; Yellow
Newtown, extra fancy, $1.26(f1.60;
choice, 75c($l; Winesup, extra
fancy, $1.2fitf)l.B0; Red Cheek Pip
pin, extra fancy, $1.25(f,l.Gt); Arkan
sas Black, extra fancy, $1.75fr;2;
Baldwin, extra fancy, $1(3)1.62;
choice, 75c(!$l; Rome Beauty, $1.25
31.60; small sizes, all varieties, less;
Hen Davis, etc., common pack, 60()
60c.
Vegetables Artichokes, $1.50 per
dozen; cabbage, lc pound; cauliflow
er, $2 per crate; celery, $2.50(3)4
crate; peppers, 30c pound; rhubarb,
$2.75 per box; sprous, 10c; toma
toes, $2 per box; garlic, 63)6c pound;
turnips, 90c$l per sack; parsnips, ,
90c(?)$l; carrots, 90c(3j$l.
Onions Oregon, $1 per sack.
Potatoes Jobbing prices: Bur
banks, 60c per hundred.
Poultry Hens 16c; broilers, 22c;
turkeys, live, 18(ffi20c: dressed.
choice, 25c; ducks, 17c; geese, nominal.
EggsFresh - locals, candled. 19c
per dozen; current receipts, 1718c.
Butter uregon creamery cubes. S7e
pound; prints, 39c.
Pork Fancy, 10(S)10c per pound.
Veal Fancy, 14(3)14c per pound.
Hops 1912 crop, prime and choice.
1618c per pound; 1913 contracts.
15c.
Wool Early shorn, east nf moun
tains, 1520c pound.
Cattle Choice steers, $7.50(3)8;
good, $7 7.30; medium, $6.50(3)7;
choice cows, $6.50(3j7; good, $68.60;
medium, $5.60(316; choice calves,
$8(3)9; good heavy calves, $6.60(3)
7.50; bulls, $5.50(3)6.
Hogs Light, $8 8.50; heavy,
$6.60$7.
Sheep Yearling wethers, $56.60;
ewes, $46.25; lambs, $67.15."