Filipinos

Ranks of troops marching in the Inaugural Parade

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-03-20

President Roosevelt is interested in what Delos F. Wilcox says about Hadley’s article, which he had not seen. He agrees with Wilcox when he wrote in his article that universal suffrage is safe, and that Filipinos could be given independence if their constitution “followed the flag.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-02

President Roosevelt through Governor Dancel of the Rizal province thanks the Representative Committee of the Province of Rizal for the beautifully engraved plate with a nice inscription. He wants Dancel to know that he will do all he can for the Filipino people.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-28

President Roosevelt was glad to receive several letters from Leonard Wood. He does not believe that the United States will send an expedition to China, but wished to be prepared in case it became necessary. He agrees with Wood’s assessment of the number of troops that would be necessary for such an operation, as well as his opinion regarding the desirability of using some Filipino troops. Roosevelt thanks Wood for the information about Horatio C. Pollock, and advises imprisoning him if possible.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-02

President Roosevelt asks Captain Ahern to thank Flaviano Abreu on Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s behalf for the “beautiful piece of Filipino embroidery.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-08

President Roosevelt relays to General Wood the contents of a letter, from Hugh Douglas Wise, a sailor in the United States Navy, regarding conditions in the Philippines. Wise writes that people who have been in the Philippines for any length of time believe the only way to civilize districts containing bad elements is to “clean them out,” but politicians will not permit this. According to the sailor, there is only one officer who the bad Filipinos are afraid of, and that is Wood. Having said this, the sailor describes Wood’s actions as leading to the tensions in the Philippines.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-12

President Roosevelt will not promise Josephine Shaw Lowell more than he already has and believes the Democrats are “utterly insincere” in promising independence to the Filipinos. Roosevelt compares the Christian Filipinos to the Islamic Moros and worries that freedom for one group would disrupt peace. Roosevelt also discusses the absurdity of the Democrats calling themselves a reform party under Thomas Taggart, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He is also upset about Carl Schurz’s support of Alton B. Parker in the election because it is the party of John Sharp Williams, Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, who presides over a district whose majority is comprised of people of color but which is governed by white men.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-01

President Roosevelt was not surprised by Bishop Rooker’s letter since he had already heard of the conflict between Rooker and the Filipinos, as well as the American government officials. Many people have contradicted what Rooker said and Roosevelt hopes that the Catholic prelates in the Philippines can convince the Filipinos that they are their friends and not their enemies like the friars who preceded them. Roosevelt has taken steps to create a special tribunal regarding the Aglipayan quarrel, disregards Rooker’s “groundless” claims against Commissioner Smith and is committed to increasing Filipino independence.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-22

President Roosevelt is enjoying Archibald R. Colquhoun’s book, Greater America, and plans to share some of Colquhoun’s views about the Philippines with Secretary of War William H. Taft. Roosevelt does not agree with Colquhoun on everything, but believes it would be utterly wrong to govern Filipinos based on “the obvious untruth that they should be treated as, for instance, the Swiss or Norwegians, or men of Vermont and Iowa can and must be treated.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-04-15

James F. Tracey, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, writes to President Roosevelt regarding the condition of the court and relations with Filipinos.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-19

Maurice Francis Egan encloses an article criticizing President Roosevelt’s administration for the placement of Catholic Filipinos in non-Catholic educational settings and homes in the United States. Egan notes that the item is not in good taste, but he sends it to Roosevelt to illustrate public sentiment.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-11

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

1908

Creator(s)

Philippine & Oriental Curio Company

Language

English

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

1908

Creator(s)

Phil. Curio Agency

Language

English

Mississippi Representative John Sharp Williams holds a ballot box to an Igorrote tribesman from the Philippines while an African American man faces a “Southern ballot” box that is locked shut. Caption: John Sharp Williams has a ballot box for the Igorrote, but none for the Mississippi Negro.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-24

Print shows the dream of an “Anti-Expansionist” where Admiral George Dewey, General Elwell S. Otis, a sailor, and a soldier come ashore in the Philippines to offer their weapons and the American flag in surrender to Emilio Aguinaldo and a poorly armed, ragged, but haughty, group of Filipinos.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-04-19