The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-03-08


single us out as a subject for inso-
lent aggression.
Our relations with the other pow
ers of the world are important; but
still more important are our rela-
lions among ourselves. Such growth
in wealth, in population. and in pow
err as this nation has seen during the
century and n quarter of its national
life Is inevitably accompanied by a
like growth in eie problems which
are ever before every nation that
rises TO greatness. Power invaria-
bly, means both responsibility and
danger. Our forefathers faced GER
tain perils which we have outgrown.
We now face other perils the very
existence of which It was impossible
that they should foresee. Modern
/ life Is both complex and intense,
md the tremendous changes wrought
by the extraordinary industrial de-
/ velopment of the last half century
are felt in every fiber of our social
and political being. Never before
have men tried so vast and formida-
BILE an experiment as that of admin
| istering the affairs of continent un-
/ der the forms of democratic repub-
| lie. The conditions which have told
/ for our marvellous material well-be-
/ ing. which have developed to very
/ high degree our energy, self-rellance,
and individual initiative, have also
brought the care and anxiety insepa-
rable from the accumulation of great
wealth in Industrial centers. Upon
the success of our experiment much
depends; not only as regards our
own welfare, but as regards the well
fare of mankind. If we fail, the
cause of free self-government
throughout the world will rock to its
foundations: and therefore our re-
sponsibility is heavy, to ourselves, to
the world as IL is today, and to the
generations yet unborn. There is no
good reason why we should fear the
future, but there is every reason why
we should face IL seriously, neither
hiding from ourselves the gravity of
the problems before us nor fearing
to approach these problems with the
unbending. unninching purpose to
solve them Alright.
Yet, after all. though the prob
lens are new, though the task set
before us differ from the tasks set
before our fathers who founded and
preserved this republic, the spirit in
which these tasks must be undertake
en- and these problems faced, If our
duty is to be well done, remains es-
sentially unchanged. We know that
self-govcrnment is difficult. We
know that no people needs such high
traits of character as that people
which seeks to govern its affairs
Alright through the freely expressed
will of the freemen who compose IL.
But we have faith that we shall not
prove false to the memories of the
men of the mighty past. They did
their work, they left us the splendid
heritage We now enjoy. We in our
turn have an assured confidence that
we shall be able to leave this herit-
age unwasted and enlarged to our
children and our children's children.
To do so we must show. not merely
in great crises, but i'm the everyday
affairs of life. the qualities of prac-
teal intelligence, of courage, of har-
dihood and endurance, and above all
the power of devotion to lofty ideal.
which made great the men who
founded this republic in the days OF
Washington. which made great the
men who preserved this republic in
the days of Abraham Lincoln.
The conclusion of the address was
the signal for another ovation, dur
ing which Mr.. Roosevelt shook
hands with most of the notables who
pressed about the tribune. Then he
was escorted back to the rotunda of
the capitol and thence to the execu-
tive chamber, where he held a brief
reception before leaving for the
White House.
Today's closing business was of in
sufficient Importance to seriously en-
gage the attention of the SIP ctators,
the heavy business of this congress
already having been concluded for
better or worse.
At noon Senator Frye, president
pro tenn, hammered the marble desk,
and announced in set formula that
the senate of the Fifty-elghth con
gress was adjourned sine die; then
he Immediately called the extraor-
binary session OF the senate of the
Fifty-ninth congress TO order.
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