I thank you for having given me the opportunity this afternoon to come before you and to lay the corner-stone of this building.

It is indeed appropriate that the Methodists of America—the men belonging to that religious organization which furnished the pioneers in carving out of the West what is now the heart of the great American Republic—should found this great…

Nothing more need be said than has been said already by those who have addressed you this afternoon.

It is hereby ordered that upon Wednesday, the 21st instant, such employees of the Executive Departments, the Government Printing Office, and the Navy Yard and Station at Washington, D.C., as served in the military or naval service of the…

The disaster is complete; that the city of St. Pierre has ceased to exist; and that the American consul and his family have perished.

It is hereby ordered that such employees of the Executive Departments, the Government Printing Office, and the Navy Yard and Station at Washington, D.C., as served in the Military or Navy service of the United States in the late Civil War…

The disaster is complete; that the city of St. Pierre has ceased to exist.

I have directed the departments of the Treasury, of War, and of the Navy to take such measures for the relief of these stricken people as lies within the Executive discretion.

For this purpose I recommend that an appropriation of $500,000 be made, to be immediately available.

I earnestly commend this case of unexampled disaster to the generous consideration of the Congress.

The Government of France [...] inform us that Fort de France and the entire island of Martinique are still threatened.

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by law, do hereby declare and make known that all of the lands so as aforesaid ceded by the Shoshone and Bannock Indians…

By the President of the United States of America, A Proclamation

And in the names of the mighty men of the past I ask each man here to do his part in seeing that this nation remains true in deed as well as in word to the ideals of the past;

We may be sure that the honor of the Republic is safe in their hands.

From now on throughout your lives there can be no slackness in the performance of duty on your part.

Of course you must have the ability to stand up to the hammering; the courage, the daring, the resolution to endure.

With righteousness must go strength to make that righteousness of avail.