There is not the slightest doubt that if labor had remained unorganized, wages would be very much lower.

I had to ask them all to make personal sacrifices in the matter of compensation.

There is a higher standard of living among American laborers than in any country in the world.

I can not sympathize with this element in the slightest degree.

Nothing revolutionary, nothing disturbing to legitimate business is needed; but we must set the marks clear in the statute by which the lines can be drawn and the proper legitimate paths be laid down upon which all business shall proceed…

I am very grateful for the hospitable reception which I have had on the North shore of Massachusetts.

As Boston is the commercial center of New England, your association really speaks for New England, a part of the country whose importance can be measured by the emphasis with which sectional writers and speakers sometimes attack it.

The personal touch between the people and the man to whom they temporarily delegate power of course conduces to a better understanding between them.

We all need education on the subject.

It is no mere exaggeration of speech or flattery, therefore, for me to point out that this Chamber of Commerce, by the ideals which it may maintain in the matter of business integrity and scrupulous business methods and in maintenance of…

I congratulate Boston on a union in one organization of all of her business men, for it insures a concentration of influence that must make for good.

It is quite apparent from the statements of Mr. Vreeland, who is now the head of the committee on banking and currency in the House of Representatives, and from the conversations of Mr. Aldrich, who is the chairman of the monetary…

This is the second week of September. We are all ending our vacations and going home.

I have attempted to keep within the speed limit and before a broad-minded judge I could establish this by satisfactory evidence.

It will strain the digestion not only of myself and those who accompany me, but also of the many who extend hospitality along the way; and it will very considerably reduce the appropriation of $25,000 made by Congress for the traveling…

Well, it certainly is not going to be a pleasure trip, although I shall enjoy it.

Duty to the country, to you, and to myself requires that any aspersion upon the propriety of your acts or those of your subordinates be promptly met and carefully considered.

In my judgment, he is the best friend of the policy of conservation of natural resources who insists that every step taken in that direction should be within the law and buttressed by legal authority.

You are therefore authorized to dismiss L. R. Glavis from the service of the Government for filing a disingenuous statement, unjustly impeaching the official integrity of his superior officers.

The great responsibility of Cabinet positions demands the selection therefor of men of the highest character and integrity.

Six special agents of the General Land Office to investigate fraudulent entries and other matters of a criminal nature.

the period of two years from the date of the approval of said Act is hereby extended for and during six months from and after the second day of September, 1909, and for no longer time

it being the judgment of the President that such time is necessary to enable the Commission to complete its work

Now, Therefore, I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, in pursuance of the aforesaid Section thirty-six of the Act aforesaid, do hereby revoke the said proclamations of January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and…

Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered:That every convict who is now or who may hereafter be confined in the Canal Zone penitentiary under sentence for a definite time, and who shall have no infraction of the rules and…