Bill Taft: “We are not breeding in proportionate numbers a race of independent and independence-loving landowners, for a lack of…”

Now that they can be studied and understood—all the business men who touch the decision in any way will conduct their business hereafter according to the law.

There is no difference between the reasons which call for the application of the leasing system to the coal lands still retained by the Government in the United States proper and those which exist in Alaska.

I can not close this message without inviting the attention of Congress again to the necessity for the erection of a building to contain the public archives.

I earnestly recommend the establishment of a Bureau of National Parks.