Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-06
ROOSEVELT'S WORDS
Acclaimed as Chief of the
 Nation at Washington.
"NO REASON TO FEAR THE FUTURE"
President Said, eve Have Faith That We Shall Not Prove False to the Memories of the Men of the
 Mighty Past"

WASHINGTON, March 6.-Theodore Roosevelt is now the president of the United States by the voice of the peo- pie. He has passed, self reliant and aggressive, into the category of chief magistrates who have been elected by the popular vote.
 Standing bareheaded in nipping northwest wind on the east portico of the capitol, facing great concourse of admirers from all over the Union, Mir. Roosevelt typiied the active and impulsive figure that his admirers worship and his enemies decry.
 MT. Roosevelt swore, with uplifted hand, to uphold the constitution and obey the laws of the United States. Then in an address as remarkable for its brevity as for it's scope he dedicat- ed the next four years of his life to the solution of those great economic prob- lens which have been thrust into the very foreground of American politics
 
 emphasized. He said:
 My Fellow Citizens-No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with gratitude to the Giyer of Good, who has blessed us with the conditions which have enabled us to achieve so large measure of well being and of happiness. To us as peo- pie it has been granted to lay the foun- dations of our national life in a new continent We are the heirs of the ages, and yet we have had to pay few of the penalties which in old countries are exacted by the dead hand of by. gone civilization. We have not been obliged to fight for our existence against any alien race, and yet our life has called for the vigor and effort without which the manlier and hardier virtues wither away. Under such con. ditions it would be our own fault if we failed, and the success which we have had in the past, the success which we confidently believe the future will bring, should cause in us no feeling of vainglory, but rather deep and abid- ing realization~-of- all which life has offered, us-a full acknowledgement of the responsibility which is ours and a fixed determination to show that under a free government mighty people can thrive best, alike as regards the things of the body and the things of the soul.
 Much has been given to us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves, and we can shirk neither. We have become a great na- tion,, forced by the fact of it's great ness into relations with the other ,na- tions of the earth, and we must behave as beseems people with such respon- abilities, Toward all other nations. large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words but in cur deeds that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights. But justice and generosity in a nation. as in an individual, count most when shown not by the, weak, but by the strong. While ever careful to refrain from wronging others, we must be no less insistent that we are not wronged ourselves. We wish peace, but we wish the peace of jus tice, the peace of righteousness. We | wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid. No weak nation that acts rightly and just ly should ever have cause to fear us, and no strong power should ever be able to single us out as a subject for | insolent aggression.
 Our relations with the other powers of the world are important, but still more important are our relations among ourselves. Such growth in wealth. in population and in power as this nation has seen during the century and a quarter of it's national life is in- evitably accompanied by a like growth ! in the problems which are ever before every nation that rises to greatness. Power invariably means both respon- sibility and danger. Our forefathers faced certain perils which we have outgrown. We now face other perils. the very existence of which t was inn possible that they should foresee. Mod ern life is both complex and intense, and the tremendous changes wrought by the extraordinary industrial devel- opment of the half century are felt in every fiber of our social and political being. Never before have men tried so vast and formidable an experiment as that of administering the affairs of q continent under the forms of a democratic republic. The conditions which have told for our marvellous ma. terial well being. which have devel. oped to a very high degree our energy, self reliance and individual initiative, also have brought the care and anxiety inseparable from the accumulation of great wealth in industrial centers. Up on the success of our experiment much depends, not only as regards our own welfare. but as regards the welfare of mankind. If we fail. the cause of free self government throughout the world will rock to it's foundations. and