Gentlemen, I am delighted to welcome you here.

I should be glad to regard what has happened only as a personal reflection, so that I could pass it over and take no official cognizance of it.

If a railroad company, by mere allegation in its bill of complaint, supported by ex parte affidavits, can overturn the result of days of patient investigation, no very satisfactory result can be expected.

Moreover, if I were to pass over this matter in silence, it would be most demoralizing to the discipline of the executive branch of the Government.

When the People of the United States elected me President, they placed me in an office of the highest dignity and charged me with the duty of maintaining that dignity and proper respect for the office on the part of my subordinates.

In point of fact it usually profits, because it can seldom be required to return more than a fraction of the excess charges collected.

By your own conduct you have destroyed your usefulness as a helpful subordinate of the Government.

Potable strength varies from 90° to 100° or 103°.

All distilled spirits pay, under the internal-revenue laws, a heavy tax.

Distilled spirits are manufactured under the close supervision of revenue officers.

I am glad to come here and to testify by my presence as to my sympathy with the great work of Dr. Klopsch in this mission.

It is curious to see how the Almighty works His ways.

I hope he will take back in his pocket that $300,000 that is necessary to aid him in the great work he is there carrying on.

I am glad to be here, if, by being here and saying so, I can convince you that the so-called chasm between you and people who seem for the time to be more fortunate is not a chasm.

I know it is difficult for you to believe that I, who for the time being am receiving a large salary from the United States and living in comfort, could understand or take into my heart, the feeling that you may have of desperation and of…

The missionaries in China and the missionaries in Africa are the forerunners of our civilization.

I am just about as much surprised at being here as you are at seeing me.

I know him by what he has done.