The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-03-09
THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

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begun in official salute 10 the president.
THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
President Spoke Very Briefly of on,
National Duty.
The president in his brief inaugural
address said: MY Fellow Citizens
No people on earth have cause to be
more thankful thar ours, and this is said
revarently and in no spirit Of boastfulness
in our own strength, but with gratitude
to the Giver of Good who. has blessed US
with the conditions which nave enabled
us to achieve SO large a measure of we'll
being and of happiness. TO us as a people
it has been granted to lay the foundations
of our national life in a j new continent. We
are the heirs of the ages, and yet we have
had 10 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. Under 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 be-
licve the future will bring, should cause
iii us ITO feeling Of VAN glory, but rather
a deep and abiding realization Of all which
life has offered US; a full acknowledge
ment of responsibility which is ours; ana
a fixed determination to show that under
a free government a mighty people can
thrive best. alike as regards the things
of the body and the things of the sou.
Large Opportunities. Large Duties.
Much has been given to us. and much
will rishtfully be expected from us. We
have duties to others, and duties to our
selves, and we can shirll peitler. We have
become a great nation, forced by the fact
of It's greatness into relations with the
other nations of the earth; and we must
behave as beSeernS a people 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 DESTROYS
of securing their good will by acting
toward them in a spirit of Just and gen
erous 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 9TH
ers we must1be no less insistent that we
are not wronged ourselves. We wish
peace, but we wish the peace of justice;
the peace of righteousness. We wish it
because we think it is right and not be-
cause 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 10 single us out as
a subject for insolent aggression.
Our Foreign Relations.
Our rela atoms with the other powers of
the world are important; but still more
important are our relations among our
selves. Such growth in wealth. IN popula-
ton, and in power as this nation has
seen during the century and a quarter of
Its national life,is inevitably accompanied
by a like growth in the problems which
are ever before every nation that rises to
greatness. Power invariably means both
responsibility and danger. Our forefatl-
ers faced certain 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. and the tre-
mendous changes wrought by the extra
ordinary industrial development of the
last half century are felt IN every fibre
of our social and political being. Never
before have men tried 50 vast and fornlid-
able an experiment as that of administer
ing the affairs of a continent under the
forms of a democratic republic.
Prosperity Has Its Problems.
THE conditions which haye told for our
marvellous materia! well-heing. which
have developed to a very high degree our
energy, self-reliance and individual ini-
%tiative, have also brought the care and
anxiety inseparab1e from the
ton of great wealth in Industrial centers.
Upon the success of our experiment. much
depends: not only as regards our w well
fare, but as regards the welfare of man
kind. If we fail. the cause of free self
government throughout the world will
rock to it's foundations; M therefore our
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world as 1t 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 it seriously, neither hiding
TfTo1ri aaT sai.v oss4+ssa Ss:::: .:ts=e - ae prob
lens before us nor fearing to approach
these problems with the unbending, un-
flinching purpose to solve them Alright.
Yet, after all. though the problems are
new. though the tasks set before us diff
fer from the tasks set before our fathers
who founded and preserved this republic,
the spirit in which these tasks must be un-
i6ertaken and these problems faced, IL our
duty Is to be we'll done, remains essentially
unchanged. We know that self govern
ment is difficult. We know that no people
needs such high traits of character as
that people which seeks to govern Its af-
fairs Alright through the freely expressed
viii of$the freelnen who compose ii.
But Faith Is Firm.
But we nave 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
tnsoy. We in OUR turn have an assured
/ confidence that we shall be able to leave
his heritage unwasted and enlarged to
our children and our chi.dren's children.
To do SO We must show. not merely in
great crisis, but IN the everyday affairs
q ne. me Qualities OF practical intelli-
sftiSS, oISS1stasS, olIIrdruI1ouu ard en-
durarce. and above all the power 81 de-
votfon to a lofty ideal. which made great
The men who founded this republic IN the
iavs Of Washing ton, which made great tha
men who preserved this republic IA the !
IBlaysgof Abraham Lincoln.