I earnestly hope that this body will be kept permanent.
The governor and council are co-operating with all of the most enlightened and most patriotic of the people of Porto Ric...
In conclusion let me express my admiration for the work done by the Congress.
Last year was the most prosperous year that the island has ever known, before or since the American occupation.
I most earnestly hope that this will be done.
It has not been easy to instill into the minds of the people unaccustomed to the exercise of freedom.
We have just cause for pride in the character of our representatives who have administered the tropic islands.
Never before in our history or in the history of any other nation has a people enjoyed more abounding material prosperit...
We should be both reverently thankful for what we have received, and earnestly bent upon turning it into a means of grac...
Upon our material well-being must be built a superstructure of individual and national life in accordance with the laws ...
Material well-being, indispensable though it is, can never be anything but the foundation of true national greatness and...