No question growing out of our rapid and complex industrial development is more important than that of the employment of women and children.

Both of these evils must be removed or public discontent with the criminal law will continue.

Neglect to provide for all of this means to incur the risk of future disaster and disgrace.

We wish for no victories but those of peace; for no territory except our own; for no sovereignty except the sovereignty over ourselves.

Whether they are Catholic or Protestant, Jew or Gentile; whether they come from England or Germany, Russia, Japan, or Italy, matters nothing.

Not only must we treat all nations fairly, but we must treat with justice and good will all immigrants who come here under the law.

It was a marked step in advance to get the recognition of employers' liability on the statute books; but the law did not go far enough.

In many respects the system which was adequate to the work of twenty-five years or even ten years ago, is inadequate now, and should be changed.

It is unjust for a great nation like this to permit these men to become totally disabled or to meet death in the performance of their hazardous duty and yet to give them no sort of reward.

They have no political influence, and they live in such remote places that the really heroic services they continually render receive the scantiest recognition from the public.

Such a herd as that on the Flat-head Reservation should not be allowed to go out of existence.

This ratio should be high enough to insure the coming hither of as good a class of aliens as possible.

We cannot afford to substitute tenants for freeholders on the public domain.

During the last century there has been a distinct diminution in the number of wars between the most civilized nations.

All such legislation frees the corporation that wishes to do well from being driven into doing ill, in order to compete with its rival, which prefers to do ill.

Attention should be paid to the needs of the Alaska Indians; provision should be made for an officer, with deputies, to study their needs, relieve their immediate wants, and help them adapt themselves to the new conditions.

The forests if properly guarded will form another great source of wealth.

No governmental movement of recent years has resulted in greater immediate benefit to the people of the country districts.

There is no need of insisting upon its importance, for the welfare of the farmer is fundamentally necessary to the welfare of the Republic as a whole.

In the arid States the only right to water which should be recognized is that of use.

The object of the Government is to dispose of the land to settlers who will build homes upon it.

The blow was aimed not at this President, but at all Presidents; at every symbol of government.

The ties that unite Germany and the United States are many and close, and it must be a prime object of our statesmanship to knit the two nations ever closer together.

He did not care to have his name known, he did not desire to be immortalized in connection with the work; he cared only to make the work itself the best that it could possibly be made.

Too much praise can not be given to those who have done this work in Panama.