Address at the Coliseum in St. Louis, Missouri
10/24/1909
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Executive order of June 14, 1879, temporarily withdrawing from sale and settlement for Indian uses so much of townships ...
This imposes a penalty on the domestic labor of cutting and would transfer half the process in the industry of shoemakin...
I concur fully in the conclusions which the Secretary of War has reached and in the recommendations which he makes.
I can not make myself a party to dealing with the industries of the country in this way.