Dec 10, 1906
In conclusion let me express my admiration for the work done by the Congress.
Teddy Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. A member of the Republican Party, he was born on October 27, 1858, in New York. Roosevelt was a prominent leader of the Progressive Movement, advocating for domestic policies that included trust-busting, regulation of corporations, and conservation of natural resources. His administration is noted for significant reforms and the establishment of national parks and forests.
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Dec 10, 1906
Last year was the most prosperous year that the island has ever known, before or since the American occupation.
Dec 10, 1906
Every effort is being made to secure not only the benefits of elementary education to all the Porto Ricans of the next generation, but also as far as means will permit to train them.
Dec 10, 1906
We have just cause for pride in the character of our representatives who have administered the tropic islands.
Dec 10, 1906
The governor and council are co-operating with all of the most enlightened and most patriotic of the people of Porto Rico.
Dec 10, 1906
It has not been easy to instill into the minds of the people unaccustomed to the exercise of freedom.
Dec 10, 1906
I earnestly hope that immediate provision will be made for dredging San Juan harbor.
Oct 21, 1906
Never before in our history or in the history of any other nation has a people enjoyed more abounding material prosperity than is ours;
Oct 21, 1906
Material well-being, indispensable though it is, can never be anything but the foundation of true national greatness and happiness.
Oct 21, 1906
Upon our material well-being must be built a superstructure of individual and national life in accordance with the laws of the highest morality, or else our prosperity itself will in the long run turn out a curse instead of a blessing.
Oct 21, 1906
We should be both reverently thankful for what we have received, and earnestly bent upon turning it into a means of grace and not of destruction.
Sep 25, 1906
by virtue of the power in me vested by said Act of Congress and by virtue of said agreement, do hereby declare, proclaim and make known that all of the lands within the Walker River Indian Reservation in the State of Nevada which have not…
Sep 18, 1906
I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said Act of Congress, approved June 5, 1906, do hereby declare and make known that all of said four hundred and eighty thousand…
Aug 31, 1906
I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby declare and make known that the lots numbered 2 and 13 of Section 10, Township 2 S., of Range 1 E., Uintah Special Meridian, in Utah, are…
Jun 29, 1906
I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Jun 29, 1906
by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, do proclaim that the aforesaid Black Mesa Forest Reserve is hereby enlarged to include the said additional lands, and that the boundaries of the reserve are now as shown…
Jun 5, 1906
Bids for said lands shall be in accordance with such form, and at such minimum price as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
Jun 3, 1906
The conditions shown by even this short inspection to exist in the Chicago stock yards are revolting.
Jun 3, 1906
Under existing law the National Government has no power to enforce inspection of the many forms of prepared meat food products.
Jun 3, 1906
The report shows that the stock yards and packing houses are not kept even reasonably clean.
Jun 3, 1906
Let me repeat that under the present law there is practically no method of stopping these abuses if they should be discovered to exist.
Jun 3, 1906
It is imperatively necessary in the interest of health and of decency that they should be radically changed.
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