Do not misunderstand me.

I congratulate you, my fellow citizens, upon what you are doing here, in this great State, in bringing up your children worthily to continue the work that the pioneers began, and that you are helping carry to completion.

Let me greet those whom I know.

If you doubt my words, do not believe them.

Phenomenal though your growth has been, it has barely begun.

I earnestly hope that Congress will speedily provide for a delegate from Alaska,

I earnestly hope that Congress will speedily provide for a delegate from Alaska, so that the people of the Territory may have some recognized exponent whose duty it shall be to place their needs before the national legislature.

I earnestly hope that the need for war will never come to our people.

I want to thank you and through you your fellow workmen for this token.

Seriously, let me thank you and the members of the Arctic Brotherhood for their greeting and their gifts.

The preservation of our forests depends chiefly upon the wisdom with which the practical lumberman, the expert in dealing with the lumber industry, works with the men who have studied the scientific side of forestry.

And think how absolutely the event has falsified the predictions of those men.

I am absolutely confident of the future, not only of this State, but of our entire country.

Think of having a Sound with about fifteen hundred miles of possible dockage!

Very few European races have exercised a more profound influence upon Europe, and none has had a more heroic history, than the race occupying the Scandinavian countries of the Old World.

The republics of antiquity and of the middle ages all failed and almost invariably because a bitter factional war began among them.

I try to practice it myself, too.

I believe in the pioneer, even when he is as well dressed as the pioneer I am addressing.