The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-03-04

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government a mighty people can thrive
best. alike as regards as the Things OF
1.-THE body and the things Of toe soul
| Much has been given to US, and muea
win rightfully be expected from Us. We
have duties to others. and duties to our
selves; AMI We can sairk neither. We,
nave become great nation. forc,i by
the fact of its greatness into relations
with tine other nations Of the aar'h; and
We must behave as be<e,ms people with
suca responsibilities. Toward all otaer
nations, large and small our attitude
must be one of cordial and sincere friend
ship. We must show not only in our
words but in our deeds that we are earn.
testify DESTROYS of securing their good will
by acting toward tnem in spirit of
lust and generous recognition of all their
Irigats. But justice and generosity in a
lnation, as in an individual count most
when SHOWN not by the weak. but by the
lstrong. While ever careful to refrain
from wronging others wa must be no
less insistent that We are not wronged
Yourselves. We wish peace; but we wish
Itae peace of justice, the peace of right
eousness. We wish it because we think
il is right and not because we are afraid.
No weak nation that acts manfully AMI
justly should ever have cause to fear US.
and no strong power snouh ever be able
to single US out as subject for insolent
aggression.
| Our relations with the other powers
OF the world are important; but still
more important are our relations among
ourselves. Sucn growth in wealth, in
population. and in power as this nation
has seen during the century and a quar-.
ter of its national life is inevitably ac-
lcomPanied by like growth in the prob
lens which are ever before every nation
that rises to greatness. Power invar-
iably means both responsibility and
danger. Our forefatners faced certain
perils which we have outgrown. We
now face other perils the very existence
lof which it was impossible that they
Isnouli forssee. Modern life is both
complex and intense, and the tremend-
Gus changes wrought by the extraordi-
nary industrial development OF the last
half century ara felt in every fibre of
our social and political being. Never
before nave men tried so vast ami form
liable an experiment as that of admin.
Iistering the affairs of continent under
the forms of democratic republic. The
conditions which have told for our mar
velous material wellheing, which have
developed to a very high degree our
energy, selfreliance and Individual ini.
ltiative, have also brought the care and
anxiety inseparable from the accumula-
ton of great wealth in industrial centers
Upon the success Of our experiment
Inuch depends; not only as regards our
own welfare, but as regards the welfare
of mankind. If we fail, the cause of
free self.government throughout the
lworld will rock to its foundations: ami
therefore our responsibility is heavy. to
Yourselves, to tae world as It Is today
land to the generations yet unborn. There
is no good reason why we should fear
the future, but there is every reason
lwhy we should face it seriously. neither
hiding from ourselves the gravity of
the problems efore us nor fearing to
approach these problems with the un-
bending. nnfincaing purpose to solve
them Alright.
Yet, after all though the problems
are new, though the tasks set before us
differ from the tasks set before our
fathers. who founded and preserved ibis
republic. the spirit in which these tasks
must be undertaken and these prob
lens faced, If our duty is to be well
done, remains essentially unchanged.
fe know that self government is diff
cult. eW know that no people needs
sucn aign traits of character as taat
people which seek to govern It's affairs
laright through the freely expressed will
OF the freeman VINO compose It. But
We have faith that we snail not prove |
false to the memories of the men of |
the mignty past. They did their work,
ltney left US the splendid heritage We
now enjoy. We IN our turn have an
lassured confidence that we shall be able
to leave this heritage unwasted and en-
llarged to our children and our ehildrens |
Icnildren. To do so we must show, not |
merely in great crises, but in the every
day affairs of life. the qualities of prae-
teal intelligence, of courage, of narii-
7aooi and endurance, and above all the I
power of devotion to lofty ideal, which
made great the men who founded this
republic in the days of Washington,
which made great the men who preserv-
ed this republic in the days of Abraham
| Lincoln.