The Red Cloud chief., 1905-03-10

posing spectacles Of the night, the
promenade at the pension office, mis-
named a ball; the fireworks on the
white house lot and the dazzling street
decorations. The attendance at the
ball was limited to the 10000 or 49,.
900 which the building would hold.
The street decorations were viewed
by a solid marching column filing the
wide %pavements of the avenue.
Rooseveit's Inaugural Address.
My FellNw CITIZENSHIP people on
earth have more cause to be thank.
full than ouis, and this Is said eve
emily, 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 have
enabled us to achieve so large a
measure Of well being and Of happi.
ness. To us as a people it has been
granted TO lay the foundations Of our
national life in a new continent. We
are the heirs of the ages, ana yet we
have had TO pay few of the penalties
which in old countries are exacted
by the dead hand of a bygone civiliza-
ton. We have not been obliged to
fight for cur 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 con-
fidently believe the future will bring,
should cause In us no feeling OF vain.
glory, but rather a deep and abiding
realization of all which life has of.
fered us; a full acknowledgment Of
responsibility which is ours; and a
fixed determination to show that I'M
der a free government a mighty peo-
pie can thrive best, alike as regards
the things of the body and the things
OF the soul.
Wants the Peace Of Justice.
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 sbirk
neither. We have become a great ma
ton. forced by the fact Of its great
ness into relations with the other ma
tions of the earth; and we must be-
have as beseems a people with such
responsibilities. Toward all other ma.
tons, large and small, our attitude
must be n 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 generous recog-
milton of all their rights. But Justice
and generosity in a nation, as in an
individual, count most when shown
no 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 righteousness. 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
nave cause to fear us, and no strong
power should ever be able to single
us out as a subject for insolent ag-
gression.
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, ana 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
forefathers faced certain perils which
we have outgrown. We now face 9TH
er perils, the very existence of which
1t was impossible that they should
foresee. Modern life Is both complex
and intense, and the tremendous
changes wrought by the extraordinary
industrial development of the last
half century are left 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 a CONT
nent under the forms of a democratic
republic. The conditions which have
told for our marvellous material well.
being, which have developed to a very
high degree our energy, self.reliance
and individual initiative, have also
brought the care and anxiety insep,
arabic from the accumulation OF great