LAD #28

            As a result of the split in votes between the Progressive Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican William Howard Taft, the democrat Woodrow Wilson won the 1912 election for the democrats. In Wilson’s First Inaugural Address, he called upon his fellow American patriots, he called upon them to remember and stand true to their morals. Wilson describes a country overcome with the evils of industry, and that there country needed to have a time of restoration. With meticulous organization Wilson laid out his plans for everyone. He wanted to continue the cleanse of the industrial system and of course provide better working conditions for the common people. It was his goal to pass regulatory legislation that would regulate the industries of the time. One such legislation is the Pure Food and Drug Act. He saw his election as a cry from the people to help clean up the American way of life and the business world to how it was before, a society based on the true honest morals of man. This concludes Wilson’s very patriotic and hopeful first inaugural address.