I haven't had any report from the Tariff Commission on butter, or straw hats, or gold leaf.

Congress enacted a law abolishing the bathing beach that was contemplated for colored people and abolished also the bathing beach that was in existence for the white people.

If you can base the economic condition of the people on their appearance, the way they are dressed, the general appearance of prosperity, I should say that it was very good.

It is customary I suppose for those who are interested in those things to look into the possible inherited background of Presidents.

I haven't thought at all about political impressions until I got this inquiry.

I am pretty purely American, having I believe a little tinge of Indian blood in me.

I noticed most of the ladies had on silk dresses and I thought I saw a rather general display of silk stockings.

The impression that struck me more than anything else was rather of a patriotic impression, an apparent general satisfaction with conditions in the country.

I know that we have some war vessels in the harbor at Shanghai, and I think one or two others on the way there.

That is the only purpose that America ever lands any Marines on foreign soil and they would have no other purpose in the present situation.

Though we know—I know of nothing serious that has happened to any American citizens or any American property, but on account of the disorder there it is considered that they are in jeopardy and Marines have been landed in order that they…

I think that some of the Marines are at Shanghai for the purpose of protecting American lives and property, and they will be used to whatever extent it is necessary that they should be used for that purpose.