Forestry, irrigation, all the efforts of the nation and the State governments, all the efforts of individuals and of local associations are to be bent to the object of building up the interests of the home-maker.

How could I help being fond of people with whom I have worked, with whom I marched to battle?

There can be no greater privilege than to meet a missionary who has done good work.

You know well the claim that comradeship in war makes between man and man.

I should count myself wholly unworthy of the position I hold if I did not strive to represent the people of the mountains and the plains exactly as much as those of the Mississippi Valley or of either coast, Atlantic or Pacific.

I appreciate to the full all the difficulties under which you labor, and I think that your progress has been astonishing.

Of all the work that is done or that can be done for our country, the greatest is that of educating the body, the mind, and above all the character, giving spiritual and moral training to those who in a few years are themselves to decide the destines of the Nation.

I congratulate you upon all that has been done, and I am certain that the future will far more than make good the past.

There was in the regiment but one kind of rivalry among those men, and but one would have been tolerated.

The policy is a policy of encouragement to the home-maker, to the man who comes to establish his home.

The object of the law is to provide small irrigated farms to actual settlers, to actual home-makers; the land is given away ultimately in small tracts under the terms of the homestead act, the settlers repaying the cost of bringing water to their lands in ten annual payments.

I congratulate you upon what you are doing for yourselves.

Great peoples must have in addition the governmental capacity which comes only when individuals fully recognize their duties to one another and to the whole body politic.

We have met here today to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the event which more than any other, after the foundation of the Government and always excepting its preservation, determined the character of our national life—determined that we should be a great expanding Nation instead of relatively a small and stationary one

This work of expansion was by far the greatest work of our people during the years that intervened between the adoption of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War.

Our currency laws have been recently improved by specific declarations intended to secure permanency of values; but this does not imply that these laws may not be further improved and strengthened.

I greet you.

President McKinley was one of these men.