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The article discusses Theodore Roosevelt’s statements on morality and international justice, criticizing his foreign policy actions related to the Panama Canal.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-09
Mary Goulding Hooff Fawcett has seen Ambler Mason Blackford’s article in The Outlook about Quentin Roosevelt during his time at Episcopal High School at Alexandria, Virginia, and adds to this account her own remembrance of Quentin. Fawcett reflects on the receiving photographs, letters, and kind words remembering her own son, Lieutenant Richard Hartshorne Fawcett, who also was killed while in the Air Service.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-10-21
In the Garden of Eden, God or an angel labeled “The Trusts” points toward an apple tree labeled “The Tariff.” Theodore Roosevelt, as Adam, is crouched behind a fig bush to hide his nakedness, and Eve is standing among palms, her body hidden mostly by long hair labeled “Republican Party.” The figures and faces of various trust magnates and trust-friendly legislators are in bushes and trees throughout the cartoon. Caption: “Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it.” Genesis 2:3
Through the decades, Puck‘s cartoons more than occasionally used Biblical scenes, Shakespearean motifs, and famous operatic moments as the basis of political cartoons. This drawing by Udo J. Keppler is more tortured than most, not due to theology but its political ambiguity. Oddly, Puck and its rival Judge virtually always excoriated the trusts (Puck especially) but occasionally praised them for “administrative efficiency” or “increased employment.” Local and temporary factors — even advertising revenue — might have played roles.
In this cartoon, the God-figure displays holy wrath as He defends the Republicans’ sacred High Tariffs. And that “Tree of Knowledge” is depicted quite clearly as thriving, healthy, and productive, with plenteous fruit. Further ambiguity is seen in the Garden; President Roosevelt wears a countenance (and little else) that is difficult to fathom; Eve is similarly drawn.
James Francis Smith writes to President Roosevelt in receipt of his letter and those of Bishop McFaul, Father James T. Reilly, and Father O’Mahoney. Smith discusses grievances reported by Catholic officials about poor relations between the Catholic Church and Philippine government. Referencing the Spanish-American War and American colonization in the Philippines, Smith discusses the Cavite uprising of 1872, the Pact of Biac Na Bato, and Filipino blood pacts inspired by European secret societies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-24