I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section six of said act of Congress of June 6, 1900, do hereby declare and make known that said land is hereby restored to the public domain, to be disposed of to said city for park purposes under said act of Congress approved September 30, 1890.

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I ask that we help her as she struggles upward along the painful and difficult road of self- governing independence.

In the case of Cuba, however, there are weighty reasons of morality and of national interest why the policy should be held to have a peculiar application.

The granting of reciprocity with Cuba is a proposition which stands entirely alone.

I ask for her certain special economic concessions in return; these economic concessions to benefit us as well as her.

It is earnestly to be hoped that we will complete in the same spirit the record so well begun, and show in our dealings with Cuba that steady continuity of policy which it is essential for our nation to establish in foreign affairs if we desire to play well our part as a world power.

In my judgment no American industry will be hurt, and many American industries will be benefited by the proposed action.

It is to our advantage as a nation that the growing Cuban market should be controlled by American producers.

I ask this aid for her, because she is weak, because she needs it, because we have already aided her.

it is hereby ordered that the existing boundaries of the Wakeeney land district and of the Colby land district, in the State of Kansas, be, and they are hereby, changed and re-established by the transfer from the Wakeeney land district to the Colby land district of that portion of the State of Kansas included in township 10, ranges 26 to 42 inclusive.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.

Our soldiers fought to give her freedom; and for three years our representatives, civil and military, have toiled unceasingly, facing disease of a peculiarly sinister and fatal type, with patient and uncomplaining fortitude, to teach her how to use aright her new freedom.

We are bound by every consideration of honor and expediency to pass commercial measures in the interest of her material well being.

Your duty here at West Point has been to fit men to do well in war.

During that century no other educational institution in the land has contributed as many names as West Point to the honor roll of the nation's greatest citizens.

Here we care nothing for the boy's birthplace, nor his creed, nor his social standing.

This institution has completed its first hundred years of life.