Teddy Roosevelt

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.

The men in the Life Saving Service continually and in the most matter of fact way do deeds such as make Americans proud of their country.

I call your especial attention to the desirability of giving to the members of the Life Saving Service pensions such as are given to firemen and policemen in all our great cities.

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

The boundaries of the Yellowstone National Park should be extended to the south and east, to take in such portions of the abutting forest reservations as will enable the Government to protect the elk on their Winter range.

Adequate provision should be made by the Congress for the proper care and supervision of all these National parks.

Nothing should be allowed to interfere with the preservation of Niagara Falls in all their beauty and majesty.

It is greatly to be wished that the State of New York should copy as regards Niagara what the State of California has done as regards the Yosemite.

In my judgment, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado should be made into a National park.

There are certain mighty natural features of our land which should be preserved in perpetuity for our children and our children's children.

Something has been accomplished under it, but much remains to be done if we would preserve the capital city from defacement by the smoke nuisance.

Traffic in food-stuffs which have been debased or adulterated so as to injure health or to deceive purchasers should be forbidden.

Such law would protect legitimate manufacture and commerce, and would tend to secure the health and welfare of the consuming public.

I recommend that a law be enacted to regulate inter-State commerce in misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks, and drugs.

Such an attitude tends to the peace of the world.

But we must treat the Chinese student, traveler, and business man in a spirit of the broadest justice and courtesy if we expect similar treatment to be accorded to our own people of similar rank who go to China.

We cannot ask the Chinese to do to us what we are unwilling to do to them.

But we cannot expect to receive equity unless we do equity.

But it will be more easy to see that both justice and courtesy are shown, as they ought to be shown, to other Chinese, if the law or treaty is framed as above suggested.

Our laws and treaties should be framed, not so as to put these people in the excepted classes, but to state that we will admit all Chinese, except Chinese of the coolie class, Chinese skilled or unskilled laborers.

But in the effort to carry out the policy of excluding Chinese laborers, Chinese coolies, grave injustice and wrong have been done by this Nation to the people of China, and therefore ultimately to this Nation itself.

The stocks out of which American citizenship is to be built should be strong and healthy, sound in body, mind, and character.

Not merely the Anarchist, but every man of Anarchistic tendencies, all violent and disorderly people, all people of bad character, the incompetent, the lazy, the vicious, the physically unfit, defective, or degenerate should be kept out.

As far as possible we wish to limit the immigration to this country to persons who propose to become citizens of this country, and we can well afford to insist upon adequate scrutiny of the character of those who are thus proposed for…

It will be a great deal better to have fewer immigrants, but all of the right kind, than a great number of immigrants, many of whom are necessarily of the wrong kind.