LAD #28: Woodrow Wilson's First Inaugural Address

Woodrow Wilson's first inauguration

Now that Congress would soon be primarily Democratic, Wilson predicted that America would begin to look upon situations with fresh new eyes. Though there is much good in life, there is evil as well, as with industry; though innovations have been made, the government hadn't stopped to properly think about the human cost. So it was the country's duty, then, to restore the good that had been lost while the nation was in a hurry to industrialize. Wilson listed some things that needed to be changed, including tariffs, the banking system, the exploitative industrial system, and environmental problems. The government had forgotten about the people, caught up in its own affairs, and Wilson asked for the people's aid in revitalizing the nation. He promised he wouldn't fail them as long as they stood by him.