"Equal care is taken by the inspectors of the health department to secure cleanliness in the houses and proper hygienic conditions of every kind."
"Now, after two years of our occupation the conditions as regards sickness and the death rate compare favorably with reasonably healthy localities in the United States."
"I am gravely concerned at the extremely unsatisfactory condition of the public land laws and at the prevalence of fraud under their present provisions."
"The situation on the open government range is strikingly different."
"The first great problem to be solved, upon the solution of which the success of the rest of the work depended, was the problem of sanitation."
"The Isthmus had been a by-word for deadly unhealthfulness."
"Actual--not constructive--living at home on the land for three years should be required before commutation."
"This country has never made a better investment than the $40,000,000 which it paid to the French Company for work and betterments."
"I found the conditions perfect."
"Some work injustice by granting valuable rights in perpetuity without return."
"I also saw and had long talks with two deputations--one of machinists and one representing the railway men of the dirt trains."
"There is but one way by which the fraudulent acquisition of these lands can be definitely stopped."