Arizona republican., 1905-03-05
The Inaugural Address.


 velt's inaugural address should be inn mediate It is easily conceivable that there has been anxiety in Europe pend ing a definite announcement of the new administrators foreign policy.
 The quality of American humor is constant puzzle to the people of the old world-there is an inherent some thing in our jokes which ever eludes European understanding. Accordingly, the popular exploitation of MT. Roose- welt as the apostle of the "big stick has tended to alarm rather than amuse transatlantic observers of American affairs Every presidential campaign in the United States has characteristic note for each of the contending armies. Last year, our democratic friends, af- ter searching vainly for an issue. fin- ally hit upon the "big stick" as the question before the people. A few years before. when vice president. Mir. Roose- welt in speaking of Uncle Sans proper attitude toward other nations, urged that preparedness for war was the best guaranty of peace, and he insisted that if this nation proposed to measure up to its duties and opportunities it must accept the responsibilities set before it. 1t must have good army and good navy, in order that its world-wi in- terests might be protected, and If with a forehanded preparation for war we observed the golden rule. We need neither fear nor expect a war. In other words let this country follow the old saying: If you would travel far, keep a still tongue and carry a big stick" And in the late campaign the conceit of the +.big stick reached the American sense of humor, after the idea had been distorted by the demo- crats. All sorts of cartoons pictured Mir. Roosevelt as carrying a huge club in menace against all the nations of the world. He was represented to be the worlds greatest trouble hunter. The exaggerated features of this 'is- sue" appealed to fun-loving Americans, but it was different abroad. Probably most of Europe considers that the president constantly carries chip on his shoulder.
 For these reasons his sober words uttered yesterday should be altogether reassuring. In short, sharp sentences for which he has become famous he thus defined his foreign policy:
 Much has been given to us. and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others, and du- -r.s-. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into re- lations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities. To- ward ali 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 our deeds that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recog- milton of all their rights. But justice and generosity in a nation, as in an in- diyidual, 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 wronging ourselves. We wish peace; but We wish the peace
 
 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 a subject for insolent aggression
 If our friends across the pond can find anything alarming in thesewords 0P read into the speech a meaning that was not intended. MT. Roosevelt has terse1y summed up and expressed in a forceful way the doctrine to which the people of the United States almost unanimously subscribe.
 MT. Roosevelts discussion of our do- mestic problems will please the people. It is along the lines expected. With a sincerity that cannot be questioned he is. constantly insisting upon equal rights for all. and his domestic policy is stated in the single phrase: "A square deal for everybody"
 As he pointed out in words not lack ing in solemnity. grave problems now confront the country-problems wholly unknown to the fathers of the republic. The experiment of popular government is on trial more than ever before but there is no occasion to doubt the out come. iE
 The ship of state never had more capable captain than the honest, demo- cratic citizen who took his place on the quarter-deck yesterday