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Martin V. Calvin sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of The Tradesman, published in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with an article on corn production in the cotton states. Calvin highlights the lower yield per acre and challenges in managing share-tenants who are African American, in the cotton states, compared to Eastern and Western states.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-12
Newspaper articles describing Richard Cheatham’s verbal attack on Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson regarding cotton interests.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-11
Charles Francis Adams expresses his views about President Roosevelt’s intervention in the Anthracite Coal Strike, which Adams believes was an “egregious blunder.” He encloses a copy of a speech that was prepared for an anti-imperialist meeting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-09
A synopsis of Horace E. Stockbridge’s address in which he discusses the loss of agricultural products to boll weevils is related to the farming practices of uneducated African American laborers. Once educated in modern methods by fellow African Americans, these farmers and, thus, the cotton industry will no longer be impacted by the “weevil problem.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-12-15
Text of a speech delivered by John Milliken Parker on the financial importance of the cotton industry.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-02
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson reports that he will travel to the South to assess boll weevil damage to cotton crops. Wilson will arrive in Washington, D.C., to meet with the United States Congress regarding Cuban legislation. Wilson is confident of Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna’s win in the upcoming election and mentions railroad men and labor unrest.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-25