The attitude of the United States is one of benevolent encouragement, coupled with a hopeful trust that the good work, responsibly undertaken and zealously perfected to the accomplishment of the results so ardently desired, will soon justify the wisdom that inspires them and satisfy the demands of humane sentiment throughout the world.
Bill Taft: “The attitude of the United States is one of benevolent encouragement, coupled with a hopeful trust that the good work…”
On the recordDecember 6, 1909
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First Annual Message
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