Elsewhere in this message I have spoken strongly against the jealousy of mere wealth, and especially of corporate wealth as such.

But it is particularly regrettable to allow any such jealousy to be developed when we are dealing either with our insular or with foreign affairs.

The big corporation has achieved its present position in the business world simply because it is the most effective instrument in business competition.

In foreign affairs we cannot afford to put our people at a disadvantage with their competitors by in any way discriminating against the efficiency of our business organizations.

In the same way we cannot afford to allow our insular possessions to lag behind in industrial development from any twisted jealousy of business success.

Yet this development is one of the things most earnestly to be wished for in the interest of the islands themselves.

We have been paying all possible heed to the political and educational interests of the islands, but, important though these objects are, it is not less important that we should favor their industrial development.

At any rate, give Alaska some person whose business it shall be to speak with authority on her behalf to the Congress.

All Indians who are competent should receive the full rights of American citizenship.

It is, for instance, a gross and indefensible wrong to deny to such hard-working, decent-living Indians as the Metlakahtlas the right to obtain licenses as captains, pilots, and engineers; the right to enter mining claims, and to profit by…

These particular Indians are civilized and are competent and entitled to be put on the same basis with the white men round about them.

I recommend that Indian Territory and Oklahoma be admitted as one State and that New Mexico and Arizona be admitted as one State.

There is no obligation upon us to treat territorial subdivisions, which are matters of convenience only, as binding us on the question of admission to Statehood.

There is no justification for further delay; and the advisability of making the four Territories into two States has been clearly established.

The Congress should by law forbid this practice, the harmful results of which are obvious at a glance.

The American people is pledged to the speediest possible construction of a canal adequate to meet the demands which the commerce of the world will make upon it, and I appeal most earnestly to the Congress to aid in the fulfillment of the…

This task has been so thoroughly accomplished that yellow fever has been virtually extirpated from the Isthmus and general health conditions vastly improved.

The same methods which converted the island of Cuba from a pest hole, which menaced the health of the world, into a healthful place of abode, have been applied on the Isthmus with satisfactory results.

There is no reason to doubt that when the plans for water supply, paving, and sewerage of Panama and Colon and the large labor camps have been fully carried out, the Isthmus will be, for the tropics, an unusually healthy place of abode.

The work is so far advanced now that the health of all those employed in canal work is as well guarded as it is on similar work in this country and elsewhere.

Hospitals have been established and equipped that are without their superiors of their kind anywhere.

The country has thus been made fit to work in, and provision has been made for the welfare and comfort of those who are to do the work.

The fee system should be entirely abolished, and a due equivalent made in salary to the officers who now eke out their subsistence by means of fees.

In many parts of the world the lack of suitable quarters for our embassies, legations, and Consulates detracts from the respect in which our officers ought to be held, and seriously impairs their weight and influence.

It does not now correspond either to the importance of the service to be rendered and the degrees of ability and experience required in the different positions, or to the differences in the cost of living.