I congratulate the gentlemen of Dallas and of North Texas on their representative for this evening.

I want to thank the Confederate and the Grand Army veterans who have honored me by coming here this morning.

I am not in favor of drastic legislation against railroads except such as is necessary to keep them within the law.

We have not yet adopted the laws, but I hope to recommend them to Congress.

We have not taken the steps that ought to be taken, but which doubtless will be, following the model of the general Government by the State governments.

We have not yet adopted a rule, but I hope we may, and I shall recommend it.

Seriously speaking, I am exceedingly obliged to your Chief Magistrate for his continued hospitality and his kindness in visiting and welcoming me to the various important parts of the State.

He pointed out the necessity for our saving our forests and reforesting parts where the forests had been destroyed.

I am delighted here to have the privilege of meeting and receiving the hospitable greeting of your Governor.

I think it does them good and gives them a patriotic thrill to come together on an occasion like this to meet the man who for the time being represents the sovereignty of the Nation which they love.

The subject of the conservation of our national resources received its first impetus from that crusader and reformer, Theodore Roosevelt.

He pointed out the necessity for the irrigation and reclamation of our arid and semi-arid land.

That the improvement of harbors and waterways is a matter to which we may properly devote our attention.

I am delighted to be here and to meet the citizens of this enterprising city of Corpus Christi.

It is a most appropriate building for all these purposes, and will remain here as long as the other buildings put up by the government, to show the attachment and loyalty of the people of San Antonio both to the government and to those…

You will hardly believe me when I tell you that this ceremony and the burden that I am now trying to discharge came to me but to-day.

We do not unite officially under our Constitution Church and State.

It has not always been so at every post, but that you should love the army and that the army should love you under the conditions is a noteworthy fact in which I rejoice.

I now dedicate this edifice to peace, good will and humanity.

I drink to my friend, the President of this great Republic, to his continued long life and happiness, and to the never-ending bond of mutual sympathy between Mexico and the United States.

The people of the United States respect and honor the Mexicans, for their patriotic devotion, their will, energy, and for their steady advance in industrial development and moral happiness.

The aims and ideals of our two nations are identical, their sympathy mutual and lasting, and the world has become assured of a vast neutral zone of peace, in which the controlling aspiration of either nation is individual human happiness.

I should be very glad to have the pleasure of taking you and Governor Creel, who interprets so well and who is my personal friend, into an adjoining room for just a few moments.

I should be glad to have the privilege of meeting your staff.

It gives me not only great pleasure to welcome the President of the great Republic of Mexico, but to welcome the present President of the Republic of Mexico, who has made it so great.