Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-03-08
The Inauguration.

% 100. 900 people, Theodore Roose-
volt and Charles w. Fairbanks
were inaugurated in Washington
last Saturday afternoon
The weather, which had been
threatening during Friday night,
came forth on Saturday with sun
and z sharp ind, which rapidly
dried up the wet streets.
No accident or other happening
MARRIED the occasion, and every
thing went off in perfect style.
The Presidents inaugural adj
dress. one of the shortest ever
delivered, consisting of barely a
thousand words. follows:
My Fellow-citizens-No people
on earth have more cause to be
thankful than ours, and this is said
reverentIy, in no spirit of boast
fulnesS in our own strength, hut
with gratitude to the Giver of
Good. who has blessed us with the
conditions which have enabled us
10 achieve so large a measure of
wel-being and happiness. To us
as a people it has been granted to
Law 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 penal
ties which in OLD countries are ex-
acted by the dead hand Of a bygone
civilization.
I'VE 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. I'm
der such conditions it would be our
own fault if we failed; and the sue
cess which we have had in the past,
the success which we confidently
believe the future will bring. should
cause in us no feeling of vain glory,
but rather a deep and abiding re-
alization of all which life has offer
ed us; full Acknowledgement of
the responsibility which is ours.
and a fixed determination TO show
that under a free government q
mighty people can thrive best,
alike as regards the things of the
body and the things of the soul.
Much has been given to us, and
much will rightfulIy be expected
from Us. We have duties TO others
and duties to ourselves, and we
can shirk neither. We have be-
come a great nation, forced by the
fact of its greatness into relations
with the other nations of the earth;
and we must behave as beseems 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 spirit of just and generous
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 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 1t 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
lear us, and no strong Power
should ever be able to single us out
as asubject for insolent aggression.
Our relations with Nthe other
Powers of the world are important;
nut 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 inev-
ltaoly accompanied by a like
growth in the problems which are
ever before every nation that rises
10 greatness. Power invariably
means both responsibility anC
Danger. Our forefathers facec
certain perils which we have out
grown. We now face other periIs
the very existence of which it wa,
impossible that they should fore
see. Modern life is both compile,