I also inspected the receiving hospitals in various settlements.
Temporary accommodation, even if only such as soldiers use when camped in the field, should have been provided.
I also saw and had long talks with two deputations--one of machinists and one representing the railway men of the dirt t...
The first great problem to be solved, upon the solution of which the success of the rest of the work depended, was the p...
Equal care is taken by the inspectors of the health department to secure cleanliness in the houses and proper hygienic c...
The desert land act results so frequently in fraud and so comparatively seldom in making homes on the land that it deman...
The law forbids it, and the law must and will be enforced; I will see to it that the illegal fences are removed unless C...
The governor and council are co-operating with all of the most enlightened and most patriotic of the people of Porto Ric...
I most earnestly hope that this will be done.
In conclusion let me express my admiration for the work done by the Congress.
I earnestly hope that this body will be kept permanent.
Every effort is being made to secure not only the benefits of elementary education to all the Porto Ricans of the next g...
I earnestly hope that immediate provision will be made for dredging San Juan harbor.
It has not been easy to instill into the minds of the people unaccustomed to the exercise of freedom.
We have just cause for pride in the character of our representatives who have administered the tropic islands.
Last year was the most prosperous year that the island has ever known, before or since the American occupation.
Material well-being, indispensable though it is, can never be anything but the foundation of true national greatness and...
Upon our material well-being must be built a superstructure of individual and national life in accordance with the laws ...
