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Our Navy needed large provision for increased ammunition and supplies, and even numbers to cope with any sudden attack from the navy of Spain, which comprised modern vessels of the highest type of continental perfection.
All these things carried conviction to the most thoughtful, even before the finding of the naval court, that a crisis in our relations with Spain and toward Cuba was at hand.
Yet the instinct of justice prevailed, and the nation anxiously awaited the result of the searching investigation at once set on foot.
At this juncture, on the 15th of February last, occurred the destruction of the battle ship Maine while rightfully lying in the harbor of Havana on a mission of international courtesy and good will--a catastrophe the suspicious nature and…
Military service under a common flag and for a righteous cause has strengthened the national spirit and served to cement more closely than ever the fraternal bonds between every section of the country.
Notwithstanding the added burdens rendered necessary by the war, our people rejoice in a very satisfactory and steadily increasing degree of prosperity, evidenced by the largest volume of business ever recorded.
It is a commanding duty to keep the appropriations within the receipts of the Government, and thus avoid a deficit.
These expenses will in my judgment admit of a decrease in many branches of the Government without injury to the public service.
While the Congress may not find it an easy task to reduce the expenses of the Government, it should not encourage their increase.
The system has the approval of the people and it will be my endeavor to uphold and extend it.
The important branch of our Government known as the Civil Service, the practical improvement of which has long been a subject of earnest discussion, has of late years received increased legislative and Executive approval.
It is earnestly to be hoped that having done so much toward the cause of education, Congress will continue to develop the Library in every phase of research to the end that it may be not only one of the most magnificent but among the…
It should be a matter of congratulation that through the foresight and munificence of Congress the nation possesses this noble treasure-house of knowledge.
It is clear to my mind that the Government should not permit the property to be sold at a price which will yield less than one-half of the principal of its debt and less than one-fifth of its entire debt, principal and interest.
In further effort to prevent the invasion of the United States by yellow fever, the importance of the discovery of the exact cause of the disease, which up to the present time has been undetermined, is obvious, and to this end a systematic…
The recent prevalence of yellow fever in a number of cities and towns throughout the South has resulted in much disturbance of commerce, and demonstrated the necessity of such amendments to our quarantine laws as will make the regulations…
Friends of the Indians have long believed that the best interests of the Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes would be found in American citizenship, with all the rights and privileges which belong to that condition.
Thousands of their children who were born in the Territory are of school age, but the doors of the schools of the Nations are shut against them, and what education they get is by private contribution.
However, should these reports of the suffering of our fellow-citizens be further verified, every effort at any cost should be made to carry them relief.
Immediate steps should be taken to provide three or four docks of this capacity on the Atlantic Coast, at least one on the Pacific Coast, and a floating dock in the Gulf.
The best sentiment of the civilized world is moving toward the settlement of differences between nations without resorting to the horrors of war.
The Government by every proper constitutional means, should aid in making our ships familiar visitors at every commercial port of the world, thus opening up new and valuable markets to the surplus products of the farm and the factory.
The inferiority of our merchant marine is justly humiliating to the national pride.
Most desirable from every standpoint of national interest and patriotism is the effort to extend our foreign commerce.
