The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-03-05
BY Associated Press

President Roosevelt's inaugural adj
dress was as follows;
My Fellow Citizens:
No people on earth have more cause
to be thankful than ours, and this Is
said reVerently in no spirit OF boast.
fulness 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 weIl-being and OF
happiness. 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. and vet
we have had TO pay few of the penal
ties which in old countries are exacted
by the dead hand of a bygone civniza-
ton. We have not been obliged 10
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 with
er 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 brfnZ.
should cause in us no feeling of vain
glory, but rather a deep and abiding
realization of all which life has offered
us; a full Acknowledgement of the re-
spOnsibility which is ours; and a fix
ed determination to show that under
a free government a mighty peopls
can thrive best, alike as regards thu
things of the body and the things OK
the soul.
Attitude Toward Nations.
Much has been given to us, and
much will rightfully be expected from
us. We have duties to others and du-
ties to ourselves; and we can shirk
neither. We have become a great na-
ton, forced by the fact of it's greatness
into relations with the other nations
of the earth; and We must behave as
beseems a people with such RESPONSE
bilities. 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 generous recognition of all
their rights. But justice and generosi-
ty in 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 wrong
ed ourselves. We wish peace. but
We wish the peace Of justice, the peacs
of righteousness. We wish Il because
we think It Is right and not beoauss
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
us out as subject for insolent.agg
sion.
Modern Problems.
Our relations with the other powers
of the world are important; but sim
more important are our relations
among ourselves. Such growth in
wealth, in population. and in power az
this nation has seen during the CEN
fury and a quarter Of its national life
Is inevitably accompanied by a Ike
growth in the problems which are
ever before every nation that rises 70
greatness. Power invariably means
both responsibility and danger. Our
faced certain perils which
we have outgrown- We now face
other perils the very existence OF
which is was impossible that they
should foresee. Modern life Is both
complex and intense. and the tremen-
dous changes wrought by the extra
ordinary Industrial development Of thu
last half century are felt in every