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Title: A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1897.
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: United States. President Richardson, James D. (James Daniel), 1843-1914, comp
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Publisher: New York, : Bureau of National Literature, Inc.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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s and in the spirit of the new age upon which we have so happilyentered. So far as our domestic affairs are concerned the problem of ourreturn to peace is a problem of economic and industrial readjust-ment. That problem is less serious for us than it may turn out tdbe for the nations which have suffered the disarrangements and thelosses of war longer than we. Our people, moreover, do not wait tobe coached and led. They know their own business, are quick andresourceful at every readjustment, definite in purpose, and self-reliantin action. Any leading strings we might seek to put them in wouldspeedily become hopelessly tangled because they would pay no atten-tion to them and go their own way. All that we can do as their legis-lative and executive servants is to mediate the process of change here,there, and elsewhere as we may. I have heard much counsel as tothe plans that should be formed and personally conducted to a happyconsummation, but from no quarter have I seen any general scheme
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LAUNCHING A WAR TRANSPORT. No effort of the United States was of greater value in the final defeatof the Central Powers than shipbuilding. Throughout 1918 and 1919 theGerman submarine warfare was seriously threatening the ability of theEntente Allies to continue the war; and the presence of American soldiersin large numbers upon the battlefields of Europe was contingent upon theexistence of a fleet of transports large enough, not only to carry themacross the seas, but also to carry abundant supplies to them despite the ac-tivities of the German underseas craft. In the illustration one of the largesttransports built for the Army service is seen leaving the ways at Hog Island,the monster shipbuilding plant near Philadelphia erected by the UnitedStates during her participation in the War. Woodrow Wilson 8641 of reconstruction emerge which I thought it likely we could forceour spirited business men and self-reliant laborers to accept with duepliancy and obedience. While the war lasted we

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