it would, of course, be impossible to preserve discipline in the Army save by pursuing precisely the course that in this...
The point to be especially emphasized is that prompt action must be taken, if any; otherwise the conditions may become s...
The making of this cut in a bank composed of light alluvial soil above a depression such as this without controlling dev...
Nature has through many centuries protected this great depression from overflow, but the restless river, constantly shif...
The results have been highly alarming, as it appears that if the water is not checked it will cut a very deep channel wh...
The work of the Reclamation Service in developing the larger opportunities of the western half of our country for irriga...
I ordered the discharge of nearly all the members of Companies B, C, and D of the Twenty-fifth Infantry by name, in the ...
I have condemned in unstinted terms the crime of lynching perpetrated by white men, and I should take instant advantage ...
I have done all I could to secure them equal school training when young, equal opportunity to earn their livelihood, and...
But I wish it distinctly understood that the fact of the birthplace of either officer is one which I absolutely refuse t...
Precisely the same action would have been taken had the troops been white--indeed, the discharge would probably have bee...
I have striven to break up peonage; I have upheld the hands of those who, like Judge Jones and Judge Speer, have warred ...
Under no circumstances will I consent to keep in the service bodies of men whom the circumstances show to be a menace to...
In precisely the same spirit I have now acted with reference to these colored men who have been guilty of a black and da...
If the colored men elect to stand by criminals of their own race because they are of their own race, they assuredly lay ...
Every farsighted friend of the colored race in its efforts to strive onward and upward, should teach first, as the most ...
I challenge as a right, the support of every citizen of this country, whatever his color, provided only he has in him th...
People have spoken as if this discharge from the service was a punishment. I deny emphatically that such is the case, be...
