Some work injustice by granting valuable rights in perpetuity without return.

I earnestly hope that this body will be kept permanent.

In conclusion let me express my admiration for the work done by the Congress.

I most earnestly hope that this will be done.

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.

Last year was the most prosperous year that the island has ever known, before or since the American occupation.

We have just cause for pride in the character of our representatives who have administered the tropic islands.

The governor and council are co-operating with all of the most enlightened and most patriotic of the people of Porto Rico.

Every effort is being made to secure not only the benefits of elementary education to all the Porto Ricans of the next generation, but also as far as means will permit to train them.

Material well-being, indispensable though it is, can never be anything but the foundation of true national greatness and happiness.

We should be both reverently thankful for what we have received, and earnestly bent upon turning it into a means of grace and not of destruction.

Never before in our history or in the history of any other nation has a people enjoyed more abounding material prosperity than is ours;

Upon our material well-being must be built a superstructure of individual and national life in accordance with the laws of the highest morality, or else our prosperity itself will in the long run turn out a curse instead of a blessing.

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I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.