Teddy Roosevelt

The rates of compensation and the regulations for its payment should be specified in the law.

Under no circumstances should the injured employee or his surviving dependents be required to bring suit against the Government.

Exactly as the workingman is entitled to his wages, so he should be entitled to indemnity for the injuries sustained in the natural course of his labor.

The burden of the trade risk should be placed upon the Government.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, excavate, injure or destroy any of the prehistoric ruins or remains thereof declared to be a National Monument, or to locate or settle upon any of the lands…

Provided, That this withdrawal shall not affect any existing valid rights of any party.

Be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement, and set apart for Indian purposes, for the use of the Indians of the Jicarilla Indian Reservation

During the past year we have been free from famine, from pestilence, from war.

Into our care the ten talents have been entrusted; and we are to be pardoned neither if we squander and waste them, nor yet if we hide them in a napkin; for they must be fruitful in our hands.

In Witness Whereof,I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

We are at peace with all the rest of mankind.

Our natural resources are at least as great as those of any other nation.

Much has been given us from on high, and much will rightly be expected of us in return.

Once again the season of the year has come when, in accordance with the custom of our forefathers for generations past, the president appoints a day as the special occasion for all our people to give praise and thanksgiving to God.

A great democracy like ours, a democracy based upon the principles of orderly liberty, can be perpetuated only if in the heart of ordinary citizens there dwells a keen sense of righteousness, and justice.

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt,President of the United States, do set apart Thursday, the 28th day of November, as a day for general Thanksgiving and Prayer.

Any qualified person desiring to make entry of any of these lands shall execute in person within the limits of the Pierre, South Dakota, land district an affidavit showing his qualifications to enter and means of identifying him.

All persons are especially admonished from attempting to settle upon, occupy, or improve any of these lands prior to December 20, 1907, except those making entry in accordance with the terms of this Proclamation.

The plan herein provided for governing the manner of opening these lands shall have operation and control the order in which all entries of the lands are allowed until December 20, 1907.

Such of said lands as are unreserved and undisposed of shall on and after date hereof be subject to disposition under the general provisions of the homestead, townsite laws and of Sec. 2455 R.S., as amended by Act of Congress, approved…

There must be vested in the Federal Government a full power of supervision and control over the railways doing interstate business.

There can be no halt in the course we have deliberately elected to pursue, the policy of asserting the right of the Nation, so far as it has the power, to supervise and control the business use of wealth, especially in its corporate form.

There will be no halt in the forward movement toward a full development of this policy.

For he died in the fulness of time, serving his country with entire devotion—a death that every man may well envy.

There must be progressive legislative and administrative action for the correction of the evils which every sincere man must admit to have existed in railroad management in the past.