The United States Government was trying to fix the price of silver by law, which, of course, was bound to fail.

For the purpose of assisting the news distribution we make these early deliveries of the message.

The main reason for this has been the sound foundation on which it stands.

I am working on my Message to the Congress.

It is almost a slight on Congress to have a message generally distributed promiscuously around the country before it goes to the Congress itself.

I want to get the Message done so that it can be early in the hands of the press and that leads me to make a suggestion that is bom of my past experience, that the advance copies that are given out are given out exclusively for the use of…

We have some of the old problems that have been left over from the various messages that I have sent in before and such surveys of the country as I have received from reports of various departments indicate that the country is in very good…

I hope this year it can be kept confined exclusively to news services and not fall into the hands of others.

There isn't very much legislation, so far as I have been able to discover, that is exceedingly pressing that is new.

But each year they turn up in the hands of the people that are in no wise connected with the press like legislative agents in Washington, brokerage offices in different cities, so that I think the news reporters or news agents to whom my…

I haven't seen any report of a suggestion that it is said here was made in the House of Lords yesterday proposing an English-American mutual arms limitation.

The Government of the United States wants to see the condition of the farmer continue to improve.

While this leaves the questions of national defense and limitation of armaments practically where they were, as the negative supports of peace, it discards all threat of force and approaches the subject on its positive side.

The gravest responsibilities that can come to a people in this world have come to us.

No country ever exhibited a more magnificent spirit or demonstrated a higher degree of patriotic devotion.

No good thing ever came out of war that could not better have been secured by reason and conscience.

He says also that the matter hasn't been finally determined.

I told him I would be very glad to afford any cooperation he might require.