Inaugural Address
03/03/1901
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To single out for payment a few claims of this large class to the exclusion of all others would, in my judgment, be unju...
It is the constitutional method of ascertaining the public will.
Existing problems demand the thought and quicken the conscience of the country.
Considering it a matter entirely between that gentleman and his tenants, Messrs. Gardiner and Atkinson, I at that time r...