By virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, I do proclaim that the boundaries of the Tahoe National Forest in California are hereby changed.

A situation had to be met whose elements and fixed conditions were indisputable.

We need them now and we shall continue to need them.

The whole presumption of modern experience would, it seemed to me, be in its favor, whether there was arbitration or not.

I unhesitatingly offered the friendly services of the administration to the railway managers to see to it that justice was done the railroads in the outcome.

I yield to no man in firm adherence, alike of conviction and of purpose, to the principle of arbitration in industrial disputes.

To undertake to arbitrate the question of the adoption of an eight-hour day in the light of results merely estimated and predicted would be to undertake an enterprise of conjecture.

I felt warranted in assuring them that no obstacle of law would be suffered to stand in the way of their increasing their revenues to meet the expenses resulting from the change.

I was seeking to compose the present in order to safeguard the future.

It is easy to lose your temper, and hard to keep it.

The object of the law is that there, written upon these pages, the citizen should read the record of the experience of this state and nation.