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Letter from Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt to H. B. Jayne

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary communicates Roosevelt’s regrets that he will not be able to keep his appointment with H. B. Jayne. He also disputes Jayne’s statement that Roosevelt wants to “destroy the Standard Oil Company” and other trusts without preparing to replace it. Roosevelt’s position is to control “big business,” not to destroy it. The secretary also addresses Jayne’s statement that the Pacific Coast requires definite declarations, by giving specific examples of when Roosevelt did make specific declarations and requesting that Jayne read the Progressive Party platform.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-08-22

Telegram from Walter Roscoe Stubbs to Theodore Roosevelt

Governor Stubbs advocates for greater regulation of big business and the prohibition of selling stocks that have not been approved by federal or state government.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03-11

Letter from Charles J. Bonaparte to Theodore Roosevelt

Attorney General Bonaparte returns the enclosed draft with some suggested revisions and explanations for the revisions. The draft of the document is largely about labor, corporations, and other business matters.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-17

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Douglas Robinson

President Roosevelt encloses $25 as a donation for the Porcellian Club gate. Although fond of both George W. Perkins and Robert Bacon, Roosevelt believes they are wrong about the trust question and knows that William McKinley had been uneasy over the issue.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-04

Government and business enter upon a new era of good feeling

President Wilson as Virgil labeled “Government” guides Dante labeled “Business” on his journey through Hell. They have emerged from a cave to view the stars overhead that spell “Co-operation.” Includes four lines of verse from Dante’s Inferno.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-02-14

Address of President Roosevelt on the occasion of the laying of the cornerstone of the Pilgrim Monument, Provincetown, Massachusetts, August 20, 1907

Draft of a speech with handwritten corrections. President Roosevelt praises the Puritans for their “iron sense of duty” and “will to do the right.” Everyone should strive for a “life of effort” and the Puritan’s descendants must try to shape modern industrial civilization with the same “justice and fair dealing.” These altered conditions call for different laws and government methods, including greater control over business and corporations. Good laws and institutions must also be based on a “high quality of individual citizenship.”

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1907-08-20

Mr. Roosevelt

Newspaper article claiming that President Roosevelt’s attempts to regulate trusts and large corporations has paralyzed the economy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08-11