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Charles Gates Dawes writes to clarify his position that he agrees there is some role for government supervision and fair regulation of corporations, but that any laws regulating capitalization should be carefully considered.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-08
Charles Gates Dawes notifies President Roosevelt that an article Dawes wrote on the attitude of business men towards the current corporation problems will be appearing in the Saturday Evening Post under the editor-selected headline of “Roosevelt & Corporate Reform.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-23
President Roosevelt thanks The Outlook for three years of support during his presidency and hopes that he will continue to have the support of the American people during his second term. He intends to continue the policies and attitudes he held during his first term. Roosevelt hopes that Lyman Abbott and his son can visit the following week.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-10
Samuel D. Smolev is acting as debate manager at Masten Park High School, which he attends in Buffalo, New York, and asks Theodore Roosevelt for his view on an upcoming debate topic. The issue to be discussed is whether corporations engaging in interstate commerce should be required to take out a federal charter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-08
Grenville M. Dodge regrets he was away while Theodore Roosevelt was in town. He discusses Roosevelt’s proposal for federal control of corporations, especially regarding transportation companies. Dodge sends an updated copy of his manuscript about railroad matters and his military experiences.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-12-01
Hector M. Hitchings urges President Roosevelt to have Secretary of War Taft speak at the meeting of the West Side Republican Club in support of Charles Evans Hughes’s candidacy for Governor of New York. While Republicans think Hughes will be elected by a heavy majority, no one is able to accurately gauge the sentiment of that class of people who make up a large bulk of the state. Hitchings thinks having the influence and bearing of Taft at the meeting will combat support for William Randolph Hearst.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-24
Cecil Andrew Lyon tells President Roosevelt the people of the United States will not be happy if he follows through with the Standard Oil plan and the rebates in Kentucky. Lyon praises Roosevelt’s actions in a number of other incidents and events (such as settling the anthracite coal strike, the Panama canal, the Rough Riders, and the Square Deal). Lyon states something must be done to “curb the growing power of money” if the United States wants to avoid incidents like the French Revolution. He believes that Roosevelt is the man to apply such checks on that growing power.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-04
President Roosevelt complains to Senator Patterson about the corruption, lies, and lack of “moral scruple” on the part of Edward Harry Harriman and other corporate leaders who oppose Roosevelt because he has instigated measures to strengthen the federal government’s oversight of their businesses. Roosevelt admits that corporations did contribute to his 1904 campaign, but he claims that he did not personally solicit funds from Harriman.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1907-04-08
Nick Salvatore examines the growth of the corporation in the decades after the Civil War, and he also notes the many political movements and parties that emerged during Theodore Roosevelt’s political life to manage these combinations. Salvatore details Roosevelt’s response to industrial concentrations, including the reforms enacted during his second term in office like the Hepburn and Pure Food and Drug Acts. Salvatore asserts that Roosevelt wanted to enact reforms and oversee corporations to forestall revolution, hoping to prevent the rise of Socialism. He concludes his essay with a look at the campaign of 1912, highlighting the policy positions of Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Eugene V. Debs.
In addition to a photograph of Salvatore, the essay features two photographs of Roosevelt in dynamic speaking poses, as well as a photograph of Debs. A text box at the end of the article contains the vision statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
William N. Tilchin asserts that President Theodore Roosevelt was guided in his policies by a strong sense of morality, one that had been instilled in him by his father. Tilchin examines four areas of Roosevelt’s presidency–the control of corporations, the status of African-Americans in the Jim Crow South, the conservation of natural resources, and diplomacy–and argues that in each Roosevelt’s sense of morality, of right and wrong, guided his approach. Tilchin states that Roosevelt’s greatest moral shortcoming in his policies occurred over race, noting Roosevelt’s failure to adequately curtail lynching and his treatment of African-American soldiers in Brownsville, Texas. On the other hand, Tilchin says that in his conservation policies, Roosevelt “was the very model of an effective moral leader,” and he praises Roosevelt for his foreign policy that had as one of its underpinnings that the United States acted as a “morally upright” and civilized nation.
A political cartoon and three photographs of Roosevelt supplement the essay.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1996
In three speeches on October 20, 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt addresses a variety of topics in front of crowds in Roswell and Atlanta, Georgia. Roosevelt notes the courage and devotion to duty of soldiers on both sides of the Civil War, and he states that he can take pride in his Southern heritage. Roosevelt asserts that large corporations should be regulated by the federal government and that political corruption should be identified and eliminated. He notes that the problem of Chinese immigration needs to be addressed by Congress, and he comments on the importance of cotton to the Southern economy. Roosevelt also states that he enjoys the stories of Georgia’s Joel Chandler Harris precisely because they have moral themes that imbue him “with the purpose of being a better man.” John A. Gable provides an introduction to the speeches.
Six photographs of Bulloch Hall in Roswell, Georgia, accompany the text as does a photograph of nearby Barrington Hall. A text box lists the members of the executive committee of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1905-10-20