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Uncle Sam holds “Guam,” “Philippines,” “Hawaii,” and “Porto Rico” in his arms as he reaches for “Panama.” “Mexico,” “Central America,” and “Colombia” are hidden in the foliage.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-20
This cartoon depicts various components of President Roosevelt’s annual message, including international relations with Colombia, Canada, the Philippines, Turkey, and China; support for Civil War veterans and General Leonard Wood; and “more lighthouses for Hawaii.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12
President Roosevelt plants a tree with several fruits on it: “Guam,” “Hawaii,” “Santo Domingo,” “Porto Rico,” “Panama,” and the “Philippines.” The ghost of George Washington appears out of the “White House.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02
In the cartoon on the left, Uncle Sam holds “Panama” in his hands and walks into a room where “England,” “Germany,” “Russia,” and “France” are all dressed as pirates seated around a table with a globe and are holding up their glasses to toast. Caption: Toasting the Recruit. But Uncle Sam is doubtful about the company he is getting into. —Taylor in the Denver News. In the cartoon on the right, Uncle Sam watches the “Philippines,” “Puerto Rico,” and “Hawaii” leave the “Uncle Sam Complete Outfitter” store dressed up in Stars and Stripes clothing. “Panama” is dressed in rags and looks on. Caption: A Possible Customer. Panama—”Those are mighty fine lookin’ clothes he sells.” —Satterfield in the Omaha News.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11
President Roosevelt assures Lyman Abbott that no private corporations will have exclusive rights to such a telegraph cable, but he has his doubts about government ownership of the cable. If Congress does not provide funding for the federal construction of such a cable, then Roosevelt believes private individuals should begin their own construction. He comments that while private individuals can run cables to Hawaii as they can between other states, running cables to the Philippines is a trickier matter, and depends on the Supreme Court.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-09
Secretary of War Taft will investigate the Japanese labor issues in Hawaii on his way to the Philippines during the summer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-11
Anastasia Swift asks John J. Wynne to send Benziger’s Magazine and the July issue of Sacred Heart Magazine to her granddaughter, Christine Nilsson. Swift reports that business and social conditions in Hawaii are still bad and getting worse.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-24
Anastasia Swift asks John J. Wynne to send The Messenger to the above address. She is old, but her daughter plans to keep up the magazine after she dies if she can afford it. However, the Swifts live in Hawaii, and their financial situation has become much worse since it was annexed to the United States. Swift believes that if President Roosevelt knew more about the situation he would do more for Hawaii.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904
Commissioner General of Immigration Sargent presents statistical information on the Japanese immigrants admitted to the United States since March 26, 1907. These monthly statistics are divided into subsets based on entry point location and occupations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-27
Attorney General Bonaparte sends President Roosevelt the report of William R. Harr, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, regarding the charges against United States Attorney Robert W. Breckons. Bonaparte has been dealing with this case for some time, but has ultimately come to the conclusion that retaining Breckons in his current position would be against the public interest. While Bonaparte acknowledges Breckons’s ability, he feels that he is lacking in propriety, and that his “personal habits and associations are indecorous.” This would not necessarily call for his removal, but Breckons’s conduct in a recent case was greatly out of line.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-30
Songbook supporting the Republican presidential campaign of 1900.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1900
“The United Order of Jingoes,” comprised of newspaper editors and legislators identified as “Dana, Pulitzer, Reed, Frye, Reid, Lodge, Allison, Boutelle, [and] Hoar,” sits outside the White House on a winter’s night, in the snow. President Cleveland, visible through a window, reads from a paper labeled “Cleveland’s Hawaiian Policy.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-02-20
Chaplain Vattmann will be called to meet with President Roosevelt or Secretary of War Taft to discuss “religious-political” matters in Hawaii and the Philippines.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10
Theodore Roosevelt tells former territorial governor of Hawaii George Robert Carter that he agrees with George W. Perkins that the delegates should be given to Hawaii and to the other territories.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-22
A shotgun wedding between Uncle Sam and Hawaii is being presided over by a minister labeled “McKinley” who is reading from the “Annexation Policy.” A former Confederate general labeled “Sen. Morgan” with a “Jingo” feather in his hat stands behind them holding a shotgun labeled “Bluster.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-12-01
George F. Hoar is in the “Senatorial Nursery” as an oversized infant strapped into a chair, watching a young boy, a Senate “Page,” manipulate a jumping jack toy that is labeled “Queen Lil,” the deposed Queen of Hawaii, Liliuokalani.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-02-28
Sanford B. Dole, President of the Republic of Hawaii, conducts a land auction, selling property that he probably does not own, and contributing to the Americanization of Hawaii. Caption: The annexation hustlers in Hawaii will start a genuine American real estate boom, and reap all the profits there are in it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-01-27
In a foreign policy speech in Detroit, Michigan, President Roosevelt first praises the veterans in the crowd, giving special recognition to the Michigan naval militia who served with distinction during the Spanish-American War. On behalf of all who served in that war, Roosevelt expresses the hope that they lived up to the standards of those who fought in the Civil War, and he notes that “a good deed done by any American is put down to the credit of all Americans.” Turning to post-war challenges, Roosevelt says that the Filipinos are happier and freer than ever before and praises the United States for the amount of “self-government and personal freedom” that it has already given to the Filipino people. He discusses Congressional plans to undertake a census, create a legislative assembly, and install telegraph cables in the Philippines. He also explains how matters in Cuba are different than in the Philippines. With Cuban independence, Roosevelt sees a need for economic reciprocity between the island nation and the United States. He concludes by delivering what he calls “the gospel of hope”: the belief that with optimism and hard work the United States will become the greatest nation in world history.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-09-22
In a foreign policy speech given in Detroit, Michigan, President Roosevelt first praises the veterans in the crowd, giving special praise to the Michigan naval militia who served with distinction during the Spanish-American War, a conflict that pointed out the “fundamental unity of our country.” On behalf of all who served there, Roosevelt expresses the hope that they shared the spirit of those who fought in the Civil War and notes that “a good deed done by any American is put down to the credit of all Americans.” Turning to post-war challenges, Roosevelt says Puerto Rico prospers and that the Filipinos are happier and freer than ever before; he praises the United States for the amount of “self-government and personal freedom” that it has already given to the Filipino people. He discusses Congressional plans to undertake a census, create a legislative assembly, and install telegraph cables in the Philippines. He also explains how matters in Cuba are different than in the Philippines. With Cuban independence, Roosevelt sees a need for economic reciprocity between the island nation and the United States. He concludes by delivering what he calls “the gospel of hope”: the belief that with optimism and hard work the United States will become the greatest nation in world history.
Commissioner Roosevelt appreciates Colonel Durrett’s criticisms. He agrees that Mr. Marshall and Mr. Green’s comments should be left out. Roosevelt will also incorporate some of Durrett’s language regarding the Yazoo grants. He hopes that it was made clear that he does not implicate Mr. Brown and Mr. Innes with corruption. Roosevelt agrees that a hundred years ago he would have joined Durrett on an expedition to “wrest Louisiana from the Spaniards.” He might even be willing to currently join a “general national buccaneering expedition” to remove the Spaniard from Cuba or the British from Canada. He also favors the annexation of Hawaii.
1894-04-27