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Theodore Roosevelt declines an invitation from the Board of Trade and Cotton Exchange in Meridian, Mississippi.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-16
Zachariah Lamar Cobb sends Theodore Roosevelt the report of the meeting of the Board of Directors of the two Water Users’ Associations of the Rio Grande project. During the meeting, Cobb and his associates fought a scheme under the guise of organizing a power company. To prevent this and other “vicious” speculative schemes, Cobb argues the necessity of amending the law.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-30
A note by Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus says that “bucket-shops cannot be distinguished from exchanges.” He notes that exchanges are “a civilized way of making a good living with least amount of work,” concluding “no bucket, no exchange.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-21
A man labeled “Producer,” laden with farm produce, is stopped on one side, and a man labeled “Consumer” is stopped on the other, by a masked man between them labeled “Food Speculator” who is pointing handguns labeled “Cold Storage” at both. They have been ambushed on the “Road of Supply and Demand” and the middle-man is now going to profit from both the producer and the consumer. Caption: Good guns in bad hands.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-10-06
A freight train has departed a railroad station labeled “Producer” in the countryside and is passing through a tunnel labeled “Parcels Post Tunnel” in a mountain labeled “Mount Middleman” that has the figure of a man on its side. The front of the train has emerged on the city-side of the mountain and is headed toward a station labeled “Consumer” where a crowd of people are anxiously waiting. Caption: Mount Middleman is no longer an insurmountable barrier between producer and consumer.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-01-01
Copy of the August 8, 1903, edition of the Wall Street Journal. The lead article is “Review and Outlook: Prices and Publicity” and the thesis is that policies forcing corporations to be open and aboveboard about their inner dealings did not cause the fall in prices in the security market, and that those who say otherwise are enemies of President Roosevelt. The second article is about the rights of common stock holders. The third is about the Merchant Marines, and the fourth is about U.S. Steel. There are also articles on the bond market, and various commodities and their markets, and guides to values of railroad shares.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-12