In spite of every discouragement that has arisen, the general results have demonstrated that the correct theory was adopted.
When authority is located afar off, it is necessarily less well informed, less sympathetic, and less responsive to public requirements.
We have every desire to see that great people, who are traditional friends, restored to their position among the nations of the earth.
It almost seems to me as though the protection of the people and the property in the lower Mississippi that need protection has been somewha...
It becomes a bestowal of favors on certain localities and naturally if one locality is to be favored, all the other localities in the United...
This undertakes to have the United States go in and assume the entire burden.
I should like very much to have a measure for helping the farmer in accordance with my various messages to the Congress.
It leaves the United States Government also to pay all the major costs of maintenance, which it has never done before.
But he has been willing to come over here.
That is a dog that is very much attached to my wife and he is very disconsolate in the absence of his mistress.
Another dog has come in.
You will notice I have a new addition to the conference.
So you can see that the Alien Property bill has some merit in it.
I think that is the outstanding feature.
I have not received their formal report on it.
I have several departments making a study of the Alien Property bill.
There is no disposition in America, and certainly not on my part, to discourage any reasonable aspiration of the people of Porto Rico
It would not be difficult to show that the present status of Porto Rico is far more liberal than any status of its entire history
