"Lynchings are a reproach to any community; they impeach the adequacy of our institutions for the punishment of crime."
"They brutalize the participants and shame our Christian civilization."
"I will give the matter you have suggested the most serious consideration."
"To the Senate and House of Representatives:I transmit herewith the seventh annual report of the Commissioner of Labor, which report relates to the cost of producing textiles and glass in the United St..."
"It also comprehends the wages and the cost of living of persons employed in the textile and glass industries."
"Executive orders heretofore issued declaring the places subject to noncompetitive examination under clause (d) of section 2 of General Rule III are hereby amended so as to include among said places th..."
"It is ordered,That the office of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries be, and the same is hereby, classified as a part of the classified departmental service"
"no person who may be appointed to an office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and that no person who may be employed merely as a messenger, laborer, workman, or watchman, shall be cons..."
"no person shall be admitted to any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he or she shall have passed an appropriate examination un..."
"No orator, however gifted, can overpraise General Grant."
"This stone which has now been laid, accompanied by this magnificent expression of popular interest, is only the top stone of a foundation, but it speaks to us of a structure, imposing and graceful in ..."
"Shall it rise with stately progress, without check or tardiness, until the capstone is set amid the plaudits of the liberal and patriotic citizens of this great city?"
