My Fellow-Citizens: 同胞们：
When we assembled here on the 4th of March, 1897, there was great anxiety with regard to our currency and credit. None exists now. Then our Treasury receipts were inadequate to meet the current obligations of the Government. Now they are sufficient for all public needs, and we have a surplus instead of a deficit. Then I felt constrained to convene the Congress in extraordinary session to devise revenues to pay the ordinary expenses of the Government. Now I have the satisfaction to announce that the Congress just closed has reduced taxation in the sum of $41,000,000. 1897年3月4日我们在这里集会时，人们对我国的货币和信用深感忧虑。如今，这种忧虑已不复存在。当时，财政收入不足以履行政府当前的各项义务；如今，收入足以满足一切公共需要，而且我们已有盈余，不再面临赤字。当时，我不得不召集国会特别会议，设法筹措政府日常开支所需的收入。如今，我欣慰地宣布，刚刚闭会的国会已将税收削减了四千一百万美元。
Then there was deep solicitude because of the long depression in our manufacturing, mining, agricultural, and mercantile industries and the consequent distress of our laboring population. Now every avenue of production is crowded with activity, labor is well employed, and American products find good markets at home and abroad. 当时，制造业、采矿业、农业和商业长期萧条，由此造成劳动民众生活困苦，人们对此深感不安。如今，各个生产领域都充满活力，劳动者充分就业，美国产品在国内外都有良好的市场。
Our diversified productions, however, are increasing in such unprecedented volume as to admonish us of the necessity of still further enlarging our foreign markets by broader commercial relations. For this purpose reciprocal trade arrangements with other nations should in liberal spirit be carefully cultivated and promoted. 然而，我国多种多样的产品正以前所未有的规模增长，这提醒我们，必须通过建立更广泛的商业关系，进一步扩大海外市场。为此，我们应当本着宽厚开放的精神，审慎培育并推动与其他国家达成互惠贸易安排。
The national verdict of 1896 has for the most part been executed. Whatever remains unfulfilled is a continuing obligation resting with undiminished force upon the Executive and the Congress. But fortunate as our condition is, its permanence can only be assured by sound business methods and strict economy in national administration and legislation. We should not permit our great prosperity to lead us to reckless ventures in business or profligacy in public expenditures. 1896年大选所表达的全国民意，大部分已经得到落实。凡是尚未完成的事项，仍是行政部门和国会必须继续承担的责任，其约束力丝毫未减。尽管我国当前形势可喜，但要使这种局面长久维持，唯有在国家行政和立法中采用稳健的经营方式并厉行节约。我们不应让巨大的繁荣诱使自己在商业上轻率冒险，或在公共支出上挥霍无度。
While the Congress determines the objects and the sum of appropriations, the officials of the executive departments are responsible for honest and faithful disbursement, and it should be their constant care to avoid waste and extravagance. 国会固然负责确定拨款的用途和数额，但行政各部门的官员有责任诚实、忠实地使用这些款项，并应时刻注意避免浪费和奢靡。
Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment. These should be fundamental requisites to original appointment and the surest guaranties against removal. 在任何领域，诚实、才干和勤勉都不像在公共任职中这样不可或缺。它们应当成为初次任用的基本条件，也是防止免职的最可靠保障。
Four years ago we stood on the brink of war without the people knowing it and without any preparation or effort at preparation for the impending peril. I did all that in honor could be done to avert the war, but without avail. It became inevitable; and the Congress at its first regular session, without party division, provided money in anticipation of the crisis and in preparation to meet it. It came. The result was signally favorable to American arms and in the highest degree honorable to the Government. 四年前，我们已经站在战争边缘，人民对此却毫不知情，国家也没有为迫近的危险做好任何准备，甚至没有着手准备。为了避免战争，我在不失荣誉的前提下尽了一切努力，却未能奏效。战争最终不可避免；国会在第一次常会上不分党派，预先拨款，以应对危机并做好准备。危机果然到来，而结果对美国军队极为有利，也为政府赢得了至高荣誉。
It imposed upon us obligations from which we cannot escape and from which it would be dishonorable to seek escape. We are now at peace with the world, and it is my fervent prayer that if differences arise between us and other powers they may be settled by peaceful arbitration and that hereafter we may be spared the horrors of war. 这场战争使我们承担了无法逃避的义务，试图逃避这些义务也是可耻的。我们如今与世界和平相处。我衷心祈愿，今后如果我们与其他强国发生分歧，能够通过和平仲裁解决，并愿我们从此免遭战争的恐怖。
Intrusted by the people for a second time with the office of President, I enter upon its administration appreciating the great responsibilities which attach to this renewed honor and commission, promising unreserved devotion on my part to their faithful discharge and reverently invoking for my guidance the direction and favor of Almighty God. I should shrink from the duties this day assumed if I did not feel that in their performance I should have the co-operation of the wise and patriotic men of all parties. 人民第二次将总统职位托付给我。我就任施政之际，深知这份再次授予的荣誉和使命所伴随的重大责任。我保证全心全意、毫无保留地忠实履行职责，并虔诚祈求全能的上帝指引我、眷顾我。倘若我不相信在履行职责时能够得到各党派中睿智而爱国人士的合作，我定会对今天承担的责任心生畏惧。
It encourages me for the great task which I now undertake to believe that those who voluntarily committed to me the trust imposed upon the Chief Executive of the Republic will give to me generous support in my duties to "preserve, protect, and defend, the Constitution of the United States" and to "care that the laws be faithfully executed." The national purpose is indicated through a national election. It is the constitutional method of ascertaining the public will. When once it is registered it is a law to us all, and faithful observance should follow its decrees. 那些自愿把共和国最高行政长官所肩负的重任托付给我的人，会慷慨支持我履行“维护、保护并捍卫美国宪法”以及“确保法律得到忠实执行”的职责；这一信念鼓舞我面对如今承担的艰巨任务。国家的意志通过全国选举得到表达，这是确定公众意愿的宪政方式。民意一经正式确认，对我们所有人便具有法律般的约束力，我们应当忠实遵从它的裁决。
Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country. We are reunited. Sectionalism has disappeared. Division on public questions can no longer be traced by the war maps of 1861. These old differences less and less disturb the judgment. Existing problems demand the thought and quicken the conscience of the country, and the responsibility for their presence, as well as for their righteous settlement, rests upon us all--no more upon me than upon you. 我们需要坚强的心灵和有力的双手；幸运的是，在我们挚爱的国家各地，这两者都不缺乏。我们已经重新团结起来，地域主义已经消退。对公共问题的分歧，再也不能依照1861年的战争地图划分界线。过去的分歧越来越少地干扰我们的判断。现实问题要求全国认真思考，也唤醒全国的良知；这些问题之所以存在，以及如何公正解决，责任在我们每一个人身上——既在我，也同样在你们。
There are some national questions in the solution of which patriotism should exclude partisanship. Magnifying their difficulties will not take them off our hands nor facilitate their adjustment. Distrust of the capacity, integrity, and high purposes of the American people will not be an inspiring theme for future political contests. Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings are worse than useless. These only becloud, they do not help to point the way of safety and honor. 有些全国性问题在解决时，应当让爱国精神排除党派之争。夸大这些问题的困难，既不能让它们自行消失，也无助于解决它们。怀疑美国人民的能力、正直和崇高志向，不会成为未来政治竞选中鼓舞人心的主题。描绘黑暗景象、作出悲观预言，不仅毫无用处，反而更加有害；它们只会遮蔽视线，不能帮助我们指出通往安全与荣誉的道路。
"Hope maketh not ashamed." The prophets of evil were not the builders of the Republic, nor in its crises since have they saved or served it. The faith of the fathers was a mighty force in its creation, and the faith of their descendants has wrought its progress and furnished its defenders. They are obstructionists who despair, and who would destroy confidence in the ability of our people to solve wisely and for civilization the mighty problems resting upon them. “盼望不至于羞耻。”那些预言灾祸的人没有缔造共和国，此后在共和国历次危机中，他们也从未拯救或服务过共和国。先辈的信念是创建共和国的强大力量，他们后代的信念则推动了共和国的进步，并为它提供了捍卫者。那些陷入绝望、企图摧毁人们信心的人才是真正的阻挠者；他们要破坏的，正是我们相信人民能够以智慧、以有利于文明的方式解决肩头重大问题的信心。
The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go, and they reject as mistaken and unworthy the doctrine that we lose our own liberties by securing the enduring foundations of liberty to others. Our institutions will not deteriorate by extension, and our sense of justice will not abate under tropic suns in distant seas. 美国人民在国内以自由为坚固根基，无论走到哪里，也会把对自由的热爱带到哪里。他们拒绝这样一种错误而不足取的论调：为他人奠定持久的自由基础，会使我们丧失自己的自由。我们的制度不会因为向外延伸而退化，我们的正义感也不会在遥远海域的热带阳光下减弱。
As heretofore, so hereafter will the nation demonstrate its fitness to administer any new estate which events devolve upon it, and in the fear of God will "take occasion by the hand and make the bounds of freedom wider yet." If there are those among us who would make our way more difficult, we must not be disheartened, but the more earnestly dedicate ourselves to the task upon which we have rightly entered. The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. They are inconvenient. They cost us something. 一如过去，今后这个国家也将证明，它有能力治理事态发展所赋予它的任何新领地；并将在敬畏上帝之心的指引下，“把握时机，让自由的疆界更加宽广”。如果我们中有人要使前路更加艰难，我们也绝不能灰心，反而应更加坚定地投身于这项我们已经正当开始的事业。进步的道路很少平坦，新事物往往难以实行。我们的先辈如此，我们也是如此。它们会带来不便，也会让我们付出代价。
But are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed? 然而，我们难道不会因为这些努力和牺牲而变得更好？我们所服务的人，难道不会因此得到提升与福泽吗？
We will be consoled, too, with the fact that opposition has confronted every onward movement of the Republic from its opening hour until now, but without success. The Republic has marched on and on, and its step has exalted freedom and humanity. We are undergoing the same ordeal as did our predecessors nearly a century ago. We are following the course they blazed. They triumphed. Will their successors falter and plead organic impotency in the nation? 还有一个事实足以给我们安慰：从共和国诞生之初直到今天，每一次向前迈进都曾遭遇反对，但这些反对无一得逞。共和国不断前进，它的每一步都提升了自由与人道。我们正在经受与近一个世纪前先辈们相同的考验，也正沿着他们开辟的道路前行。他们取得了胜利。难道他们的继承者会畏缩不前，并声称这个国家在根本制度上无能为力吗？
Surely after 125 years of achievement for mankind we will not now surrender our equality with other powers on matters fundamental and essential to nationality. With no such purpose was the nation created. In no such spirit has it developed its full and independent sovereignty. We adhere to the principle of equality among ourselves, and by no act of ours will we assign to ourselves a subordinate rank in the family of nations. 在为人类取得一百二十五年成就之后，我们当然不会在那些关系国家存在与主权、具有根本性和必要性的问题上，放弃与其他强国平等的地位。这个国家绝不是为了这样的目的而建立，也绝不是以这样的精神发展出完整而独立的主权。我们在国内坚持人人平等的原则，也绝不会以自己的任何行动，把自己置于世界各国中的从属地位。
My fellow-citizens, the public events of the past four years have gone into history. They are too near to justify recital. Some of them were unforeseen; many of them momentous and far-reaching in their consequences to ourselves and our relations with the rest of the world. The part which the United States bore so honorably in the thrilling scenes in China, while new to American life, has been in harmony with its true spirit and best traditions, and in dealing with the results its policy will be that of moderation and fairness. 同胞们，过去四年的公共事件已经载入历史。它们离我们太近，现在还不宜一一叙述。其中一些出乎意料，许多则意义重大、影响深远，既影响我们自身，也影响我们同世界其他地区的关系。美国在中国发生的惊心动魄事件中所承担的角色，对美国而言虽属新的经历，却符合美国真正的精神和最优良的传统；在处理事件后果时，美国将采取温和而公正的政策。
We face at this moment a most important question: that of the future relations of the United States and Cuba. With our near neighbors we must remain close friends. The declaration of the purposes of this Government in the resolution of April 20, 1898, must be made good. 此刻，我们面对一个极其重要的问题，即美国与古巴未来的关系。我们必须同这个近邻保持亲密友谊。我国政府在1898年4月20日决议中宣告的目标，必须切实兑现。
Ever since the evacuation of the island by the army of Spain, the Executive, with all practicable speed, has been assisting its people in the successive steps necessary to the establishment of a free and independent government prepared to assume and perform the obligations of international law which now rest upon the United States under the treaty of Paris. The convention elected by the people to frame a constitution is approaching the completion of its labors. 自西班牙军队撤离古巴以来，行政部门一直在一切可行范围内迅速协助古巴人民，推动建立一个自由、独立政府所必需的各个步骤。这个新政府必须准备好承担并履行国际法规定的义务；根据《巴黎条约》，这些义务目前由美国承担。古巴人民选出的制宪会议已接近完成其工作。
The transfer of American control to the new government is of such great importance, involving an obligation resulting from our intervention and the treaty of peace, that I am glad to be advised by the recent act of Congress of the policy which the legislative branch of the Government deems essential to the best interests of Cuba and the United States. 把美国的管治权移交给新政府意义极其重大，其中包含着我们因干预行动及和平条约而承担的义务。因此，我很高兴看到国会最近通过法案，向我说明政府立法部门认为何种政策对古巴和美国的最大利益至关重要。
The principles which led to our intervention require that the fundamental law upon which the new government rests should be adapted to secure a government capable of performing the duties and discharging the functions of a separate nation, of observing its international obligations of protecting life and property, insuring order, safety, and liberty, and conforming to the established and historical policy of the United States in its relation to Cuba. 促使我们进行干预的那些原则要求，新政府所依据的根本法必须确保建立这样一个政府：它能够履行一个独立国家的职责、发挥其职能，遵守国际义务，保护生命和财产，保障秩序、安全与自由，并符合美国在对古巴关系上既定的历史政策。
The peace which we are pledged to leave to the Cuban people must carry with it the guaranties of permanence. We became sponsors for the pacification of the island, and we remain accountable to the Cubans, no less than to our own country and people, for the reconstruction of Cuba as a free commonwealth on abiding foundations of right, justice, liberty, and assured order. Our enfranchisement of the people will not be completed until free Cuba shall "be a reality, not a name; a perfect entity, not a hasty experiment bearing within itself the elements of failure." 我们承诺留给古巴人民的和平，必须包含确保长久稳定的保障。我们曾为古巴岛的平定承担保证责任；对于在权利、正义、自由和可靠秩序的持久基础上，把古巴重建为一个自由共和国，我们不仅要向古巴人民负责，也同样要向自己的国家和人民负责。只有自由的古巴“成为现实而非虚名，成为完整的实体而非仓促进行、内部潜藏失败因素的试验”，我们解放古巴人民的使命才算完成。
While the treaty of peace with Spain was ratified on the 6th of February, 1899, and ratifications were exchanged nearly two years ago, the Congress has indicated no form of government for the Philippine Islands. It has, however, provided an army to enable the Executive to suppress insurrection, restore peace, give security to the inhabitants, and establish the authority of the United States throughout the archipelago. It has authorized the organization of native troops as auxiliary to the regular force. 虽然同西班牙签订的和平条约已于1899年2月6日获得批准，双方也在将近两年前交换了批准书，但国会尚未为菲律宾群岛确定一种政府形式。不过，国会已经为行政部门提供了军队，使其能够平息叛乱、恢复和平、保障居民安全，并在整个群岛确立美国的权威。国会还授权组建当地部队，作为正规军的辅助力量。
It has been advised from time to time of the acts of the military and naval officers in the islands, of my action in appointing civil commissions, of the instructions with which they were charged, of their duties and powers, of their recommendations, and of their several acts under executive commission, together with the very complete general information they have submitted. 国会不断获悉群岛上陆海军军官的行动、我任命文职委员会的举措、交付给这些委员会的指示、它们的职责与权力、它们提出的建议，以及它们依据行政授权分别采取的行动；同时，国会也收到了这些委员会提交的十分全面的综合资料。
These reports fully set forth the conditions, past and present, in the islands, and the instructions clearly show the principles which will guide the Executive until the Congress shall, as it is required to do by the treaty, determine "the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants." 这些报告充分说明了群岛过去和现在的状况，而有关指示也清楚表明，在国会依照条约要求确定“当地居民的公民权利和政治地位”之前，行政部门将遵循哪些原则。
The Congress having added the sanction of its authority to the powers already possessed and exercised by the Executive under the Constitution, thereby leaving with the Executive the responsibility for the government of the Philippines, I shall continue the efforts already begun until order shall be restored throughout the islands, and as fast as conditions permit will establish local governments, in the formation of which the full co-operation of the people has been already invited, and when established will encourage the people to administer them. 国会已经以自身权威认可行政部门依据宪法原已拥有并行使的权力，从而继续由行政部门承担治理菲律宾的责任。因此，我将继续推进已经开始的工作，直至整个群岛恢复秩序；并将在条件允许时尽快建立地方政府。我们已经邀请当地人民充分参与这些政府的组建，而政府建立后，我们将鼓励人民自行管理。
The settled purpose, long ago proclaimed, to afford the inhabitants of the islands self-government as fast as they were ready for it will be pursued with earnestness and fidelity. Already something has been accomplished in this direction. The Government's representatives, civil and military, are doing faithful and noble work in their mission of emancipation and merit the approval and support of their countrymen. 早已宣布的既定目标，是在群岛居民具备条件时尽快让他们实行自治；我们将认真而忠实地贯彻这一目标。在这方面，我们已经取得了一些进展。政府派驻当地的文职和军事代表，正在为解放使命进行忠诚而高尚的工作，理应得到本国同胞的赞许和支持。
The most liberal terms of amnesty have already been communicated to the insurgents, and the way is still open for those who have raised their arms against the Government for honorable submission to its authority. Our countrymen should not be deceived. We are not waging war against the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands. A portion of them are making war against the United States. By far the greater part of the inhabitants recognize American sovereignty and welcome it as a guaranty of order and of security for life, property, liberty, freedom of conscience, and the pursuit of happiness. 我们已经向叛乱者提出了最为宽大的赦免条件；对于那些曾拿起武器反对政府的人，以有尊严的方式服从政府权威的道路仍然敞开。我国同胞不应受到蒙蔽。我们并不是在同菲律宾群岛的居民作战，只是其中一部分人在同美国作战。绝大多数居民承认美国的主权，并欢迎这种主权，将其视为秩序以及生命、财产、自由、信仰自由和追求幸福之权利的保障。
To them full protection will be given. They shall not be abandoned. We will not leave the destiny of the loyal millions of the islands to the disloyal thousands who are in rebellion against the United States. Order under civil institutions will come as soon as those who now break the peace shall keep it. Force will not be needed or used when those who make war against us shall make it no more. May it end without further bloodshed, and there be ushered in the reign of peace to be made permanent by a government of liberty under law! 我们将为他们提供充分保护，绝不会抛弃他们。我们不会把岛上数百万忠诚民众的命运，交给数千名反叛美国的不忠者。只要那些破坏和平的人停止破坏，建立在文官制度之下的秩序就会到来；只要那些向我们发动战争的人不再作战，武力便不再必要，也不会再被使用。愿冲突在不再流血的情况下结束，愿和平时代由此开启，并由一个以法律保障自由的政府使和平长久延续！
