I have done all I could to secure them equal school training when young, equal opportunity to earn their livelihood, and achieve their happiness when old.

I authorized and directed Secretary Metcalf to state that if there was failure to protect persons and property, then the entire power of the Federal Government within the limits of the Constitution would be used promptly and vigorously to…

It is obviously not desirable that young men should go to school with children.

Let me point out further that there would be no objection whatever to excluding from the schools any Japanese on the score of age.

The number of Japanese children attending the public schools in San Francisco was very small.

The present coal law limiting the individual entry to 160 acres puts a premium on fraud.

In the evening I attended a reception, which was also a Government function.

Equal care is taken by the inspectors of the health department to secure cleanliness in the houses and proper hygienic conditions of every kind.

The first great problem to be solved, upon the solution of which the success of the rest of the work depended, was the problem of sanitation.

Temporary accommodation, even if only such as soldiers use when camped in the field, should have been provided.

I am gravely concerned at the extremely unsatisfactory condition of the public land laws and at the prevalence of fraud under their present provisions.

The Isthmus had been a by-word for deadly unhealthfulness.

I also examined certain of the schools and saw the school children, both white and colored, speaking with certain of the teachers.

To have yielded to the natural impatience of ill-informed outsiders and begun all kinds of experiments in work prior to a thorough sanitation of the Isthmus, would have been disastrous.

The situation on the open government range is strikingly different.

Many of the existing laws affecting rights of way and privileges on public lands and reservations are illogical and unfair.

The money value of the national forests now reserved for the use and benefit of the people exceeds considerably the sum of one thousand millions of dollars.

Many of the buildings they put up were excellent and are still in use.