Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1901 — ROOSEVELT’S INAUGURAL. [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT’S INAUGURAL.

Country Stands Supreme in* Continent and Hemisphere. In his inaugural address Vice-President Roosevelt spoke in part as follows; “Great privileges and great powers nrs ours and heavy are the responsibilities that will go With these privileges and these powers. Accordingly us we do well pr ill, so shall mankind in the future be raised or cast down. We belong to a young nation already of giant strength, yet whose present strength is but a forecast of the power that is to come. We stand supreme in a continent, in a hemi sphere. East and west we look across the two great oceans toward the larger world-life in which—whether We will or not—we must take an ever-increasing share. And as .keen-eyed we gaze into the coming years duties new and old rise thick and fast to confront us from within and from without. There is every reason why we should face ytese duties with a sober appreciation alike of their importance and of their difficulty. But there is also every reason for facing them with high-hearted resolution and eager and confident faith in our capacity to do them aright. “A great work lies ready to the hand of this generation; it should cotfnt itself happy indeed that tq it is given the privilege of doing such \\jb rk. A lending part therein must be taken by this, the august nml powerful legislative body over which I have been called to preside. Most deeply do I appreciate the privilege of nty position, for high indeed is the honor of presiding over the American Senate at the outset of the twentieth century.”