The National Government alone can deal adequately with these great corporations.

The Nation continues to enjoy noteworthy prosperity.

Of course any violence, brutality, or corruption, should not for one moment be tolerated.

Constant care should be taken to guard against unnecessary increase of the ordinary expenses of government.

The eternal vigilance which is the price of liberty must be exercised.

It is a mere truism to say that every nation, whether in America or anywhere else, which desires to maintain its freedom, its independence, must ultimately realize that the right of such independence can not be separated from the…

They are not against the rich man any more than against the poor man.

Our peculiar form of government, with its sharp division of authority between the Nation and the several States, has been on the whole far more advantageous to our development than a more strongly centralized government.

Wage-workers have an entire right to organize and by all peaceful and honorable means to endeavor to persuade their fellows to join with them in organizations.

It is an absurdity to expect to eliminate the abuses in great corporations by State action.

They have under no circumstances the right to commit violence upon these, whether capitalists or wage-workers, who refuse to support their organizations, or who side with those with whom they are at odds.

There should be severe child-labor and factory-inspection laws.

Such prosperity is of course primarily due to the high individual average of our citizenship, taken together with our great natural resources.

The safety-appliance law, as amended by the act of March 2, 1903, has proved beneficial to railway employees.

Many times peoples who were slothful or timid or shortsighted, who had been enervated by ease or by luxury, or misled by false teachings, have shrunk in unmanly fashion from doing duty that was stern and that needed self-sacrifice.

before making any appointment or employment for service with respect to which there may be reasonable doubt as to the requirement of examination the head of the Department or office shall confer with the Civil Service Commission for the…

Substitute watchmen in the Government Printing Office will hereafter be regarded as classified under the civil-service rules.

and when such conference does not result in agreement the case shall be presented to the Attorney-General for his opinion.