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US Presidential Inaugural Addresses by Various
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possible. We must not now, therefore, keep up a fire in the rear of the
agents whom we have authorized to do our work on the Isthmus. We must
hold up their hands, and speaking for the incoming administration I
wish to say that I propose to devote all the energy possible and under
my control to pushing of this work on the plans which have been
adopted, and to stand behind the men who are doing faithful, hard work
to bring about the early completion of this, the greatest constructive
enterprise of modern times.

The governments of our dependencies in Porto Rico and the Philippines
are progressing as favorably as could be desired. The prosperity of
Porto Rico continues unabated. The business conditions in the
Philippines are not all that we could wish them to be, but with the
passage of the new tariff bill permitting free trade between the United
States and the archipelago, with such limitations on sugar and tobacco
as shall prevent injury to domestic interests in those products, we can
count on an improvement in business conditions in the Philippines and
the development of a mutually profitable trade between this country and
the islands. Meantime our Government in each dependency is upholding
the traditions of civil liberty and increasing popular control which
might be expected under American auspices. The work which we are doing
there redounds to our credit as a nation.

I look forward with hope to increasing the already good feeling between
the South and the other sections of the country. My chief purpose is
not to effect a change in the electoral vote of the Southern States.
That is a secondary consideration. What I look forward to is an
increase in the tolerance of political views of all kinds and their
advocacy throughout the South, and the existence of a respectable
political opposition in every State; even more than this, to an
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