The forces of evil are strong and mighty in this century and in this country, as they are in other countries; and the people who sincerely wish to do the Lord’s work will find ample opportunity for all their labor in fighting the common…

The appointment of Mr. E. W. Libbey as telegraph and telephone operator, at $1,000 per annum, in the Department of Commerce and Labor, on July 13, 1903, is approved, and he may be continued in the service without examination under the…

I transmit herewith certain reports by the Commissioner of Labor and the Attorney-General on the labor disturbances in Colorado, together with copies of correspondence between the President and the Attorney-General and the Commissioner of…

To the Senate:In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 25th instant (the House of Representatives concurring), I return herewith Senate bill No. 5501, entitled \An act granting an increase of pension to Sarah A. Rowe.\

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of the cause you represent.

But if we have solved every other problem in the wisest possible way, it shall profit us nothing if we have lost our own national soul.

No material prosperity, no business growth, no artistic or scientific development will count if the race commits suicide.

If the average husband and wife fulfil their duties toward one another and toward their children as Christianity teaches them, then we may rest absolutely assured that the other problems will solve themselves.

Such improvements in the monetary systems of the silver-using countries bring them into closer connection with the gold-standard countries and are of very great benefit to the trade of the United States, and every effort should be made to…

The attention of Congress is invited to the request of the Secretary of State that 500 copies of the report and appendixes be printed for the use of the Department of State.

I earnestly hope that legislation along the general lines advocated by Lieutenant Emmons can be enacted.

I very earnestly ask the attention of the Congress to the facts set forth in this report as to the needs of the native people of Alaska.

It seems to me that our honor as a nation is involved in seeing that these needs are met.

The magnitude and steady growth of this export movement from our workshops and factories are such as to suggest the grave importance of providing it with all the official apparatus necessary to its full and free development.

It would be most regrettable, however, if this improvement, which has been brought about by the zeal and energy of individual consuls rather than by the efforts of the service as a whole, should be accepted as fully satisfying even present…

In view of the interest and importance of the subject to the public, and especially to the business community, I also suggest that authority be given for the printing of a special edition of 5,000 copies of the Acting Secretary's letter.

Agriculture in the United States has long been dependent for its prosperity upon the demand from abroad for its surplus product.

For this reason I cordially commend to the consideration of Congress the recommendations of the Acting Secretary of State.