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Asahi Ikeda tells Theodore Roosevelt he misses Roosevelt a great deal. After leaving America Ikeda traveled the world and returned home where he changed his name to Ikeda and began working for a successful Japanese company. Ikeda asks for a picture of Roosevelt to hang in his room.
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1911-12-13
Draft of a letter of introduction from Theodore Roosevelt to William J. Calhoun on behalf of Charles P. Stewart, who will be traveling to China on behalf of United Press and the Newspaper Enterprise Association.
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1911-11-25
Bela Tokaji writes to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Times to refute claims that immigrants will be the downfall of America made by Alfred Paul Karl Eduard Schultz. Tokaji states the peaceful and industrious men and women who come to America have demonstrated their loyalty. The children of immigrants will continue to take care build America for centuries to come.
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1911-11-10
Bela Tokaji writes to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Times to refute claims made by Alfred Paul Karl Eduard Schultz that immigrants will be the downfall of America. Tokaji states the peaceful and industrious men and women who come to America have demonstrated their loyalty. Mary Emelia Clark Barnes is quoted from her speech at the international congress for the welfare of children saying immigrant children are the future of the nation. Since four in five children born in New York City are born to immigrant parents, Tokaji agrees with Barnes and cites immigrant’s enormous contribution to the industrial growth in America as proof.
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1911-11-09
Map showing the positions of Russian and Japanese military forces, 1905.
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1905-03-03
Assistant Secretary of State Loomis writes to William Loeb to discuss the boycott in China and its effect on the Standard Oil Company.
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1905-09-01
Secretary of State Root encloses a dispatch from Minister William Woodville Rockhill of a translated note from Prince Ching regarding the Chinese government’s attitude towards the boycott of American products.
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1905-10-05
An article discussing Chinese students in Japan and their influence on Chinese society.
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1905-08-31
A picture indicates that Americans are mistreating Chinese workers in their country, ignoring their contributions to the infrastructure, and making the Chinese outcasts. This angers the Chinese and sparks their peaceful protests of America through boycott.
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1905-08-10
An extension and renewal of the Treaty of Anglo-Japanese Alliance signed in 1902. This Treaty states that England will remain neutral with respect to the Russo-Japanese War, unless another nation attacks Japan.
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1905-08
The memorandum records an interview between Assistant Secretary of State Alvey A. Adee and Japanese Minister Kogoro Takahira concerning the Japanese position on Russia’s violation of China’s neutrality at Shanghai. Although the matter has been settled, Takahira offers Adee an informal communication before the Japanese make an official announcement.
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1904-08-26
President Roosevelt summarizes two letters he has received from Oscar K. Davis for Elihu Root. The letters, from Times reporter William Bayard Hale, describe an interview Hale had with German Emperor William II. In the first letter, Hale describes the two-hour interview itself, in which William makes several incendiary statements regarding England, Russia, China, Japan, the United States, and the Catholic Church. In the second letter, Hale reports that after showing the interview to the German Foreign Office and American Ambassador David Jayne Hill, both decided it would be unwise and improper to quote the emperor. Roosevelt told Davis that he strongly discouraged making the interview public. In domestic news, Roosevelt is making a “quiet canvass” of feeling regarding the re-nomination of Charles Evans Hughes for governor of New York.
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1908-08-08
President Roosevelt is glad to see Secretary of State Root returning to his old self. Roosevelt feels he should accept the appointment of Tingfang Wu as China’s Ambassador to the United States as they are unlikely to get an ambassador like the one who has just left. He has received a report that the Chinese Army has stopped reforming itself and cannot compare to leading military powers. Roosevelt asks Root to give his good wishes to Mexican President Porfirio Díaz.
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1907-09-26
President Roosevelt is impressed with Commissioner General of Immigration Sargent’s report and requests he continues his observations. Roosevelt feels the transit of Japanese should stop immediately and asks Sargent if the arrangements for Chinese transit can be implemented.
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1907-08-29
President Roosevelt tells John Lake he hopes the people of the United States “out of their abundance will contribute” to help erect a building in honor of Robert Morrison, who first visited China as a missionary one hundred years prior. Lake, also a missionary, has informed Roosevelt that the locals in the congregations and missions in China have been planning for the memorial building.
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1907-01-16
President Roosevelt supports the Monroe Doctrine and wants South America to “develop on its own lines, with an open door to all outside nations.” He wishes that the same policy could be applied to China. Roosevelt is saddened by England’s military “decay” and wonders if the Franco-Russian alliance will be permanent.
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1901-10-11
H. C. G. Moule writes Annie Augusta King about a letter he received from Hester J. B. Hart, whose husband Robert Hart recently died. He discusses the current upheaval in China and wishes Cole well.
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1911-10-14
A clip from the Japan Chronicle describes the plight of the Chinese laborers brought to work on the Kagoshima Railway in the Miyazaki Prefecture. The situation violates the Imperial Ordinance No.352 of 1899, and as such, the workers have been laid off. An economist quoted in the Osaka Mainichi has stated that affordable labor from foreign workers will support the Japanese workers and the development of Japan. They have also reported that Chinese laborers are permitted to work in mines and charge less per day than Japanese workers.
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1907-09-01
Consul Murphy reports to William Loeb a perception arising in France that the United States and Japan may go to war. In a recent meeting with Sir Thomas Barclay, international lawyer, Barclay detailed a conversation he had some time ago with a Japanese businessman. The latter said Japan was looking to “pick a quarrel with” a weaker nation, to gain prestige for Japan, and that Spain would have been a candidate, with control of the Philippines the pretext for contention. Barclay believes that the seizure of the Philippines by the United States delayed that plan, but that Japan still looks to take the Philippines.
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1907-02-07
Lyman Abbott is not sure what the United States government can do in the cases of the Armenians or the Congo Free State, but believes there is “a real power” in international public opinion. Abbott believes that giving the Japanese suffrage now would put the control of Hawaii in their hands and doubts the wisdom of it for the same reason he doubts the wisdom of giving political control of the Philippines to the Filipinos. Abbott also gives his opinion that Reed Smoot’s religious beliefs as a Mormon should not exclude him from the Senate, unless his allegiance to the Church is “above” his allegiance to the Constitution.
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1907-01-08