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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The two citizens whose welfare is in the aggregate most vital to the welfare of the Nation, and therefore to the welfare of all other citizens, are the wage-worker who does manual labor and the tiller of the soil, the farmer.

It is declamation against a non-existent evil, one which never has existed in this country, and which has not the slightest chance of appearing here.

There should be a relatively even greater increase in the pay for the enlisted men.

Such an attitude can not be condemned too severely, for men of property should recognize that they jeopardize the rights of property when they fail heartily to join in the effort to do away with the abuses of wealth.

Postal savings banks will make it easy for the poorest to keep their savings in absolute safety.

There should be a progressive inheritance tax on large fortunes.

As far as possible we should lighten the burden of taxation on the small man.