【正文】 nt thing in the universe and that the essentials of human relationship do not must frequently take our bearings from these fixed stars of our political firmament if we expect to hold a true we examine carefully what we have done, we can determine the more accurately what we can stand at the opening of the one hundred and fiftieth year since our national consciousness first asserted itself by unmistakable action with an array of old sentiment of detached and dependent colonies disappeared in the new sentiment of a united and independent began to discard the narrow confines of a local charter for the broader opportunities of a national the eternal urge of freedom we became an independent little less than 50 years later that freedom and independence were reasserted in the face of all the world, and guarded, supported, and secured by the Monroe narrow fringe of States along the Atlantic seaboard advanced its frontiers across the hills and plains of an intervening continent until it passed down the golden slope to the made freedom a extended our domain over distant islands in order to safeguard our own interests and accepted the consequent obligation to bestow justice and liberty upon less favored the defense of our own ideals and in the general cause of liberty we entered the Great victory had been fully secured, we withdrew to our own shores unrepensed save in the consciousness of duty all these experiences we have enlarged our freedom, we have strengthened our have been, and propose to be, more and more believe that we can best serve our own country and most successfully discharge our obligations to humanity by continuing to be openly and candidly, in tensely and scrupulously, we have any heritage, it has been we have any destiny, we have found it in that if we wish to continue to be distinctively American, we must continue to make that term prehensive enough to embrace the legitimate desires of a civilized and enlightened people determined in all their relations to pursue a conscientious and religious can not permit ourselves to be narrowed and dwarfed by slogans and is not the adjective, but the substantive, which is of real is not the name of the action, but the result of the action, which is the chief will be well not to be too much disturbed by the thought of either isolation or entanglement of pacifists and physical configuration of the earth has separated us from all of the Old World, but the mon brotherhood of man, the highest law of all our being, has united us by inseparable bonds with all country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as ports with the dignity and security of a great ought to be a balanced force, intensely modem, capable of defense by sea and land, beneath the surface and in the it should be so conducted that all the world may see in it, not a menace, but an instrument of security and Nation believes thoroughly in an honorable peace under which the rights of its citizens are to be everywhere has never found that the necessary enjoyment of such a peace could be maintained only by a great and threatening array of mon with other nations, it is now more determined than ever to promote peace through friendliness and good will, through mutual understandings and mutual have never practiced the policy of petitive have recently mitted ourselves by covenants with the other great nations to a limitation of our sea one result of this, our Navy ranks larger, in parison, than it ever did the burden of expense and jealousy, which must always accrue from a keen rivalry, is one of the most effective methods of diminishing that unreasonable hysteria and misunderstanding which are the most potent means of fomenting policy represents a new departure in the is a thought, an ideal, which has led to an entirely new line of will not be easy to never moved from their old positions, some are constantly slipping back to the old ways of thought and the old action of seizing a musket and relying on has taken the lead in this new direction, and that lead America must continue to we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and we are to judge by past experience, there is much to be hoped for in international relations from frequent conferences and have before us the beneficial results of the Washington conference and the various consultations recently held upon European affairs, some of which were in response to our suggestions and in some of which we were active the failures can not but be accounted useful and an immeasurable advance over threatened or actual am strongly in favor of continuation of this policy, whenever conditions are such that there is even a promise that practical and favorable results might be conformity with the principle that a display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations, we have long advocated the peaceful settlement of disputes by methods of arbitration and have negotiated many treaties to secure that same considerations should lead to our adherence to the Permanent Court of International great principles are involved, where great movements are under way which promise much for the welfare of humanity by reason of the very fact that many other nations have given such movements their actual support, we ought not to withhold our own sanction because of any small and inessential difference, but only upon the ground of the most important and pelling fundamental can not barter away our independence or our sovereignty, but we ought to engage in no refinements of logic, no sophistries, and no subterfuges, to argue away the undoubted duty of this country by reason of the might of its numbers, the power of its resources, and its position of leadership in the world, actively and prehensively to signify its approval and to bear its