Woodrow Wilson’s First Inaugural Address

Woodrow Wilson’s First Inaugural Address

Woodrow Wilson basically states in his address that the government has been (was) turned over to help an elite few, and those had power to mold the law to their wants and desires. He proposes that we turn this power back over to the people, because they are the initial reason for the government. He wants to improve on the sanitation system, along with regulations on food processing and handling, and newer standards on the factory worker’s environmental conditions in the workplace. He realizes these mistakes of the government and its lack of control. He makes the point of gaining back trust instead of just wiping it clean and starting over by stating, “We 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 we had a clean sheet of paper to write upon; and step by step we shall make it what it should be…”