I hope you gentlemen will completely inform yourselves on these matters before you come to any conclusion as to what your policy should be with regard to the policy of the United States.

In order that we may have definite organization for this service, I am today calling upon the heads of the leading civic organizations to meet with me on Saturday next for the creation of a national organization to further this campaign.

They must be fought continuously, not on one front but upon many fronts.

But in order to assure that there will be no failure to meet problems as they arise, the organization will be continued over the winter.

The ideal solution, of course, would be to excite the press without exciting the country.

Perhaps the method that he may employ is not so very important, if it results in bringing about an amicable condition.

The trouble has been that when they came in the past—they came with all their bristles out; they came on the defensive; they came to see, not what they could accomplish, but what they could prevent.

I do not speak of emancipation at once, but of a decision at once to emancipate gradually.