12/06/1909
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"I like to come out here, because I believe that here I find a people that sympathize deeply with me about the Philippines."
"I want to congratulate you on the fact that in the next fifty years the growth of this world's business is to be in the Pacific—and you are on the Pacific."
"I think it wise to apply to Congress for relief by urging the passage of an enabling act, which shall permit the Secretary of the Interior to issue bonds in the sum of $10,000,000 or more, to complete..."
"The Executive can recommend but the legislature must enact."