Address at the Coliseum in Des Moines, Iowa
09/05/1919
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I return herewith, without my approval, House joint resolution No. 440.
I shall adopt twenty of these children as my own temporary wards.
I cannot overemphasize the necessity of economy in Government appropriations and expenditures.
I do not believe that they should be accorded indirectly.