The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-05
SPEECHES OF
 ROOSEVELT AND FAIRBANKS

Washington: March 4.-Following .s the inaugural speech delivered today by President Roosevelt:
 My fellow citizens: No people on thankful than ours, and this Is said reverently. in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with grati- fude to the Giver of Good who has have enabled us to achieve so large a measure of well being and of happi- ness To us as people 1t has been granted to lay the foundations of our national life in 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 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 virtues wither away Un- der such conditions 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 no feel Ing of vainglory, but rather a deep and abiding realization of all which life has offered us; full acknowledgement of responsibility which Is ours; and fixed determination to show that under free government a mighty people can thrive best, alike as regards as 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 tot ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become great nation forced by the fact of its greatness into rela- tions with the other nations of the earth and we must behave as beseens a peo- pie with such responsibilities. 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 our deeds that we are earnestly desirious of securing their good will by acting toward them in spirit of just and generous recogni- ton of all their rights. But justice and generosity in a nation, as in an indivi- ual, count most when shown not by the weak but by the strong. While ever careful to refrain from wronging oth- CTS we must be no less insistent that we are not wronged ourselves. We wish 1t because we think 1t is right and justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it becaus we thing 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 lis out as a subject for inso- lent aggression.
 "Our relations with the other powers or 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 quarter of its national life is inevitably accompanied by like growth in the problems which are ever before every nation that rises to great ness. Power invariably means both responsibility and danger. Our fore fathers faced certain perils which we have outgrown. We now face other perils the very existence of which 1t was impossible that they should fore see. Modern life is both complex and intense. and the tremendous changes wrought by the extraordinary indus trial development of the last half cen tury are felt in every fibre of our social and political being. Never before have men tried so vast and formidable an experiment as that of administering