William Taft said...

I must therefore withhold my approval from this resolution if in fact I do not approve it as a matter of governmental po...

I am in full sympathy with the concern of reasonable and patriotic men that the valuable resources of Alaska should not ...

We have made great progress, almost within our own memory, in such ideals.

I shall not stop to discuss whether it might have been possible to accomplish the same great reform by milder methods.