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

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

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…

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

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

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…

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

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.

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…

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

It will be more difficult in the future than ever before to know your profession, and more essential also;

West Pointers have risen to the first rank in all the occupations of civil life.

This institution has completed its first hundred years of life.

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

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.

I welcome you here, and I am glad to have the chance of seeing you, and I wish to say a word of congratulation to you upon this Association.

I am glad to have the opportunity to bid welcome to the members of this Association and their friends to—day.