We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither.

In view of the fact that the Department of Justice is now engaged upon other matters involved in the resolution, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor can not at this time report thereon.

Your attention is respectfully invited to the accompanying letter of the Secretary of Agriculture.

The attention of the Congress is respectfully invited to the accompanying letter of the Secretary of Agriculture, recommending that 10,000 copies of the report be printed for the use of the Department of Agriculture in addition to such…

I transmit herewith the appendix to the Report of the Commission on the Public Lands, forwarded by me to the Congress on February 13, 1905.

The right of the Secretary of Agriculture to regulate interstate movement of animals exposed but not actually diseased must be recognized if the spread of such diseases from State to State and to other countries is to be prevented;

I fear, if no remedial legislation be granted at this session, that it may not be possible to continue to enforce the necessary measures for controlling this class of diseases, and that serious, widespread, and irreparable injury will be…

I therefore put in an earnest plea for early action in this matter, and commend to your favorable consideration the two bills proposed by the Committees on Agriculture and referred to in this message.

In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, dated the 25th instant (the Senate concurring), I return herewith House bill No. 15657, entitled 'An act granting an increase of pension to William Tawney.'

an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol in the city of Washington on the 4th day of March next, at 12 o'clock noon

public interests require that the Senate of the United States be convened at 12 o'clock on the 4th day of March next, to receive such communications as may be made by the Executive

Our navy is the surest guaranty of peace and the cheapest insurance against war.

Again Washington said: 'Give to manhood the example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.'

Among Washington's maxims which he bequeathed to his country men were the two following: 'Observe good faith and justice toward all nations,' and 'To be prepared for war is the most effective means to promote peace.'

Like Lincoln he sought after the noblest objects, and like Lincoln he sought after them by thoroughly practical methods.

As a nation we have had our full share of great men, but the two men of pre-eminent greatness who, as the centuries go on, will surely loom above all others are Washington and Lincoln.

Finally, it is peculiarly appropriate, when I have come to this city as the guest of the University of Pennsylvania, to quote another of Washington's maxims: 'Promote, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general…

Again Washington said: 'Cherish public credit.'

Your attention is respectfully invited to the accompanying letter of the Secretary of Agriculture, recommending that 10,000 copies of the report be printed for the use of the Department of Agriculture in addition to such number as may be…

To the Senate and House of Representatives:I transmit herewith for the information of the Congress a report on the progress of the beet-sugar industry in the United States in 1904.

Americanism is not a matter of birthplace, of ancestry, of creed, of occupation; Americanism is a matter of the spirit that is within man's soul.

The great prizes come more or less by accident.

I should think ill of any man here who did not wish to leave his children a little better and not a little worse off materially than he was.

I have come, as I said, not to make a set speech, but to thank you for your greeting and to assure you that not one meeting which I have attended since I have been President has given me greater pleasure to attend than this dinner here…

We need good laws, we need honest administration of the laws, and we cannot afford to be contented with less.