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President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte to prepare a report on the United States’s deficiency in powder, which will be published. He thinks that it is necessary to bring Congress’s attention to the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-14
This data indicates the Navy’s supply levels of smokeless powder and various sizes of shells.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-29
Captain Mason, Chief of the Bureau of Ordinance, writes to Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte discussing the Naval budget and ammunition supply needs of various battleships and cruisers in a time of war. The bureau recommends replenishing as soon as possible the navy’s reserve supply of ammunition and gunpowder, as it would take too long to manufacture in the event of war. The current reserves of older brown powder will not be sufficient as they only work with older classes of ships, and even then inefficiently.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-09
President Roosevelt speaks to a crowd in Wheeling, West Virginia. After thanking and praising native Senator Nathan B. Scott for the introduction, Roosevelt discusses how America is living in a period of unparalleled prosperity and advancement in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. However, that prosperity comes with its own problems, namely those related to the rise of large, interstate corporations. He encourages the crowd to reject patent solutions or revolutionary reactions to the problems introduced by trusts. Rather, he asserts that the country must evolve, with the federal government regulating corporations, gaining facts and encouraging publicity but not opposing corporations as such. He compares the need to adapt the law to address trusts with the evolution of military arms and tactics; the means may change, but the need for citizen courage, honesty, and character remain.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-09-06
President Roosevelt tells the crowd in Lexington, Kentucky, that the state has a special relationship to American history as a border state both between north and south, as well as east and west. Kentucky has also contributed more than one would expect to “the leadership of the country in peace and in war.” Roosevelt expounds on three necessary qualities of citizenship: honesty, courage, and common sense. He argues that, just as military tactics and arms change but the soldier’s spirit remains constant, so too must good citizenship continue even as laws or the Constitution must adapt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-09-06