The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-03-10
At the East Front Of the Capitol
Says Our People Have Cause to be
Thankful for Things Of the Past and
No Good Reason Why We. should
Fear the Future-Lauds Lincoln.

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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 a bygone 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 harder
ditions it would be our own fault II
we failed; and the success which we
have had in the past, the success that
we confidently believe the future will
bring. should cause In us no feeling
Of vainglory, but rather deep and
abiding realization of all which life has
offered us; full acknowledgment of
responsibility which is ours; and a
fixed determination to show that under
free government a mighty people
can thrive best. alike as regards the
things of the body and the things of
the soul.
| Duties Must Not BE shirked.
Much has been given to us, and
much will rightfully be expected from
us. We have duties to others, and du-
ties to ourselves; and we can shirk
neither. We have become great ma
ton, forced by the fact of it's great
ness into relations with the other ma
lions of the earth; and we must be-
have as beseems people with such
responsibilities. Toward all other ma
tons, large and small, our attitude
must be one of cordial and sincere
friendship. We must show not only
in our words but in our deeds that we
are earnestly DESTROYS of securing
their good will by acting toward them
in spirit of just and generous recog-
milton of all their rights. But justice
and generosity in 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 justice, the peace of righte-
BUSINESS. We wish it because we
think it is right and not because we
are afraid. No weak nation that acts
manfully and justly should ever have
cause to fear us, and no strong power
should ever be able to single us out
as subject for insolent aggression.
Foreign Relations.
"Our relations with the other pow.
ers 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 its national
life is inevitably accompanied by q
like growth in the problems which are
ever before every nation that rises tt
greatness. Power invariably means
both responsibility and danger. Oul
forefathers faced certain perils which
we have outgrown. We now face 9th
er perils the very existence of which
it was impossible that they shoult
/ foresee.
/. Modern life is both complex and in
tense, and the tremendous changes
wrought by the extraordinary indus
trial development of the last half cen
fury are felt in every fibre of our so
cial and Political being. Never before
. have men tried so vast and formidable
an experiment as that of administering
: the affairs of continent under thu
! forms of democratic republic. Thu
. conditions which have told for oul
marvellous material wellbeing, which
have developed to very high degre'
i our energy, self reliance and individ
ual initiative, have also brought thu
care and anxiety inseparable from thu
a accumulation of a great wealth in in
{ dustrial centers. Upon the success O
. our experiment much depends, not on
, ly as regards our own welfare, but II
! regards the welfare of mankind. 1
q we fail, the cause of free self govern
ment throughout the world will rocl
to its foundations; and therefore oul
responsibility is heavy, to ourselves
to the world as it is today and to tn,
generations yet unborn.
Faith In the Future.
. There is no good reason why W.
should fear the future, but there Il
every reason why we should face i
> seriously, neither hiding from our
selves the gravity of the problems be
fore us nor fearing to approach thes,
2 problems with the unbending, unfiinch
ing purpose to solve them Alright.
a yet after all. though the prob
lens are new, though the tasks set be
= fore us differ from the tasks set be
fore our fathers who founded and pre-
!. served this republic, the spirit IL
which these tasks must be undertaken
and these problems faced, If our dut!
is to be well done, remains essential,
unchanged. We know that self gov
!. eminent is difficult. We know tina
Q NO people needs such high traits o.
{ character as that people which seek
: to govern its affairs Alright through
4 the freely expressed will of the free
9 men who compose it. But we have
d faith that we shall not prove false tc
the memories of the men of the mighty
I past They did their work, they left
4 us the splendid heritage we now enjoy
We in our turn have an assured con
fidence that we shall be able to leave
this heritage unwasted and enlarged
: to our children and our children's
J. children. To do SO we musf show mi