Excerpt from Inaugural Address of His Excellency, Don Arturo Alessandri, President of the Republic of Chile: Read at the Opening of the National Congress, Santiago De Chile, June the First, 1921
I have arrived at this post of honour and responsibility after an active and energetic electoral contest, the most active, perhaps, recorded in the history of our country.
The result of this election does not represent the triumph of a man, because, considering the magnitude of the civic contests of our era, the men within them are mere accidents moved by the impulses of opinion, following ideals and defending aspirations and programmes.
The political struggle and its results to which 1 refer obey profound causes, which have their roots deep in our organization and which require to be brought forward in order to find within them the courses which the administration recently initiated must strive for and follow.
It is a palpably unquestionable fact that of late the country has been suffering from a lack of initiative, of effort and of definite plan directed towards an ideal on the part of the Government of the Republic.
Some political parties of tralitioual importance, split up into infinitesimal fractions for reasons proper to their historical evolution, have been losing their objective, often forgetting their ideals and programme, and this relaxation of some organizations which should form the starting point from which strong and definite courses are taken in democracies, has been turning them towards anarchy and disorder which have disturbed the tranquil and progressive march of public affairs.
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