The pure food legislation has already worked a benefit difficult to overestimate.

It has been my purpose from the beginning of my administration to take the Indian Service completely out of the atmosphere of political activity, and there has been steady progress toward that end.

It seems clear that its extinction had better be made final now, so that the ground can be cleared for larger constructive work on behalf of the Indians, preparatory to their induction into the full measure of responsible citizenship.

If deliberately introduced for the purpose of diminishing the effectiveness of war against crime it could not have been better devised to this end.

The amendment in question was of benefit to no one excepting to these criminals, and it seriously hampers the Government in the detection of crime and the securing of justice.

In its present form the restriction operates only to the advantage of the criminal, of the wrongdoer.

I again renew my recommendation for postal savings hanks, for depositing savings with the security of the Government behind them.

The object is to encourage thrift and economy in the wage-earner and person of moderate means.

It is believed that in the aggregate vast sums of money would be brought into circulation through the instrumentality of the postal savings banks.

Postal savings banks are now in operation in practically all of the great civilized countries with the exception of the United States.

It would seem only proper that such an experiment should be tried in order to demonstrate the practicability of the proposition, especially as the Postmaster-General estimates that the revenue derived from the operation of such a system on…

The share that the National Government should take in the broad work of education has not received the attention and the care it rightly deserves.

The dangers to public health from food adulteration and from many other sources, such as the menace to the physical, mental and moral development of children from child labor, should be met and overcome.

There are numerous diseases, which are now known to be preventable, which are, nevertheless, not prevented.

This Nation can not afford to lag behind in the world-wide battle now being waged by all civilized people with the microscopic foes of mankind, nor ought we longer to ignore the reproach that this Government takes more pains to protect the…

For this there is no remedy except for the United States to control and legislate for the interstate fisheries as part of the business of interstate commerce.

In this as in similar problems the obvious and simple rule should be followed of having those matters which no particular State can manage taken in hand by the United States; problems which in the seesaw of conflicting State legislatures…

The federal statute regulating interstate traffic in game should be extended to include fish.

This Nation's foreign policy is based on the theory that right must be done between nations precisely as between individuals, and in our actions for the last ten years we have in this matter proven our faith by our deeds.

We have behaved, and are behaving, towards other nations as in private life an honorable man would behave towards his fellows.

The work on the Panama Canal is being done with a speed, efficiency and entire devotion to duty which make it a model for all work of the kind.

No task of such magnitude has ever before been undertaken by any nation; and no task of the kind has ever been better performed.

Our army needs complete reorganization,—not merely enlarging,—and the reorganization can only come as the result of legislation.

We must see that there is civic honesty, civic cleanliness, civic good sense in our home administration of city, State, and nation.

We must govern it wisely and well, primarily in the interest of its own people.