When Woodrow Wilson won the presidential election in 1912, his first inaugural address consisted of him talking about the changes that had been occurring in government preceding him. The first thing that he mentioned was that the majority of the capitol were Democrats now. Clearly, this agreement in politics in the capitol would mean that the government would be able to pass new laws because they would agree on them, but Wilson also said that it was good because it was a fresh ideology to run the country by. Then he states that, though we have tried to build our country upon moral values, evil has come along with the good that we have done. While we have done much good for our country by industrializing, we were forgetting a greater evil that was going on. The abuse of a large part of the population was occurring all over, and change was needed. Now, the greater good was starting to realize this and was working to restore the country to its former prestige and value on human rights. We still however, tended to take economic factors into account much more than social factors. Wilson said that we still needed to restore, not to destroy. There was still work to be done. It will not be easy. Wilson concluded by saying that this was a day not of success, but of a need for more dedication and summoned the true honest and patriotic Americans to his side to help him.
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