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Letter from Charles J. Bonaparte to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Charles J. Bonaparte to Theodore Roosevelt

Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte encloses an article he believes President Roosevelt will appreciate. The writer, who was counsel for Standard Oil Company, has been “getting off, at intervals, oracular utterances” about Roosevelt being in sympathy with William Jennings Bryan, William Randolph Hearst, anarchists, and others who undermine the interests of the country.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-30

Letter from Cecil Spring Rice to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Letter from Cecil Spring Rice to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Cecil Spring Rice provides Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt with a detailed synopsis of the ongoing turmoil in Russia, including student demonstrations, labor strikes, and violent police reprisals. Spring Rice believes Roosevelt has seen accounts of the “inconceivable brutality” of the attacks on students and Jews, and that the “accounts are not exaggerated.” He believes the army is the only organized force left in Russia but wonders how long it will last. Spring Rice believes that no one either trusts or likes Sergei Vitte or his government and due to all the uncertainty “the forces of anarchy flourish.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-27

To General Harrison Gray Otis

To General Harrison Gray Otis

R. A. Dague writes an open letter to General Harrison Gray Otis regarding the war between capitalists and organized labor. Dague addressed Otis as a comrade because they are both members of the G. A. R. (Grand Army of the Republic), having enlisted on the side of the Union in the Civil War. But the choices Otis has since made are bringing destruction and violence as capitalists fight to crush labor unions. Dague references the Los Angeles Times Bombing as abhorrent but believes that violence on the part of organized labor is justified in self-defense against actions taken by capitalists. He believes that Socialists are the only ones who can resolve the conflict peacefully by convincing workers to vote rather than strike or boycott. Dague himself is a capitalist with profound sympathy for the working class and poor who are just trying to better their lives.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-14

President Roosevelt on anarchism

President Roosevelt on anarchism

This Times article discusses President Roosevelt’s campaign against anarchism in the United States, especially in light of several recent anarchist attacks in the United States in 1908. The article suggests if Roosevelt can figure out a way to suppress anarchist doctrines, he will be doing a great service to mankind.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-10

Aroused!

Aroused!

Marie-Francois-Sadi Carnot lies in state after being assassinated by an Italian anarchist. In the right foreground, a female figure holding a sword labeled “Law and Order” is stepping on a large snake labeled “Anarchism.” A wreath resting against the sarcophagus is labeled “Sympathy and Respect of the Civilized World.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-07-11

This will be an internal explosion

This will be an internal explosion

The child king Alfonso XIII, as a wooden puppet, is slumped over on the “Throne of Spain” with a clergyman standing next to him. On the walls to the right are portrait paintings of “Charles V, Ferdinand and Isabella, [and] Philip II.” On the left, an arm labeled “Home Riots” reaches through the curtains with a torch to ignite a bomb labeled “Anarchy” next to the throne.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-06-08

We despise him for the friends he has made

We despise him for the friends he has made

William Jennings Bryan rides on the shoulders of the “Tammany” Tiger, carrying a banner that states “Repudiation and National Dishonor.” Accompanying him are, on the left, John Peter “Altgeld” holding a torch burning “Arnachism” [sic] and, on the right, Benjamin R. “Tillman” with a patch labeled “S.C. Primaries” over one eye and holding a pitchfork that appears to be soiled with manure.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-10-14

The two trusts

The two trusts

Print shows two large male figures, one, wearing business attire, is labeled “Commercial Trust,” he is holding paper labeled “Order to Raise Wages” and the other labeled “Labor Trust” is armed with a bomb, a handgun, and a rifle, and is holding paper labeled “Order to Strike.” Behind the “Labor Trust” are unemployed families, explosions, and anarchy; behind the “Commercial Trust” is order, as men head for factories. Caption: Commercial Trust (to Labor Trust) – While you are denouncing me, why don’t you include yourself? You use violence and destroy property, while I use peaceful methods and not only lower prices but raise wages, as the statistics of the last fifteen years will show.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-06-07

Ireland’s evil genius

Ireland’s evil genius

“Britannia” stands on the left, holding “Concessions to Ireland,” and “Hibernia” stands on the right in a militant pose. Between them is a nasty looking man with two “Dynamite” bombs slung over his shoulders.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-06-11

Too weak to fight – too old to run

Too weak to fight – too old to run

The British Lion carries W. E. Gladstone, dressed as a woman, on his back, as they head into the sea after departing the “British Consul” in advance of “Anarchy, Riot, [and] Bloodshed.” The lion is labeled “Moral Complicity, British Prestige, Peril, Profits, [and] Responsibilities.” Gladstone’s dress is labeled “Vacillation, Procrastination, Irish Trouble, [and] Timidity.” On the shore is a set of jaws labeled “Brag & Bluster,” and the lion is stepping on a gunboat labeled “Thunderer.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-06-21

Under false colors

Under false colors

James Russell Lowell, minister to England, turns his back on an Irishman who is dressed like Uncle Sam and is in the custody of the British military for anarchistic activities. Lowell holds a paper that states, “All such persons should be made to understand distinctly that they cannot be Irishmen and Americans at the same time! J. R. Lowell.” Caption: Minister Lowell–“No, sir, you are not the kind of American citizen I am sent here to protect!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-03-22

Noxious growths in liberty’s grounds

Noxious growths in liberty’s grounds

Uncle Sam and a female figure identified as Liberty stroll through a park among trees labeled “Equal Rights, Free Press, Free Schools, Free Speech, Free Ballot, Constitution, [and] Religious Liberty.” Around the bases of the trees are many mushrooms labeled “Total Abstinence Fanatics, Monopoly, Socialist, Nihilist, Dynamiter, Communist, Anarchist, Demagogism, Bribery, [and] Corrupt,” and a vine labeled “Protection” is beginning to strangle a tree labeled “Unrestricted Commerce.” Puck, sitting on a tree branch, tells Uncle Sam that he needs to clear out the fungus before it destroys “Liberty’s” park. Some of the mushrooms have faces that might be identified. Caption: Uncle Sam – Hello, Puck, are you “up a tree”? – Puck – No, but you will be if you don’t clear this stuff out pretty soon!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-02-25

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

Uncle Sam, Columbia, and Puck sit at a table, ready to enjoy a Thanksgiving turkey dinner in a gallery with paintings on the wall in the background. Uncle Sam is gesturing toward these paintings, which depict Irish uprisings and unrest in England, volcanoes in Java, earthquakes in Italy, “Cholera” as the grim reaper in Egypt, French colonialism, anarchy in Spain, German militarism, and Alexander III, Emperor of Russia, standing on the body of a peasant in a painting titled “Russian Reform.” On the far right, at a dock labeled “U.S. Navy,” a ship in disrepair leans to one side. A bulldog gnaws on a bone labeled “New York” beneath a bench on the left. Caption: Uncle Sam – “Well, we seem to be getting along a little better than the rest of the world, and if we can’t be thankful for all that we have, we may at least be thankful that there are some things we haven’t.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-11-28

In the lion’s den

In the lion’s den

Charles Fletcher Lummis reflects on several topics in his column, “In the lion’s den.” Fletcher suggests that yellow journalism played a role in William McKinley’s assassination and praises the American people’s reaction to the assassination. Lummis is also thankful that President Roosevelt was there to lead the country after the tragedy. He concludes by suggesting American intervention in the South African War and thanking his readers for aiding the Mission Indians of Southern California.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-10