Imperialism

President Roosevelt updates Secretary of War Taft on his conversation with Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou in which he made clear that the nominee for president will be chosen based on what is best for the party. Men from various states have contacted Roosevelt attempting to convince him to run again and expressing whether they would support Taft. Evaluating the potential candidates, Roosevelt focuses on Governor Charles Evans Hughes, who is the biggest potential threat. Roosevelt says that Bishop Charles Henry Brent recently delivered a ridiculous sermon on the Philippines and that Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte has been doing well this summer despite his difficult work.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

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1907-09-03

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Secretary of War Taft reports to President Roosevelt on the progress of the Panama Canal. He has heard from the men working on the canal, those in charge of steam shovels, locomotive engineers, and construction conductors, but does not want to make a decision until he hears back from the President. Taft tells Roosevelt he should receive a letter with Taft’s in-depth analysis and a copy has also been sent to George W. Goethals. Taft is in Cuba for the next week and then travels to Puerto Rico.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-07

Creator(s)

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Andrew Carnegie tells President Roosevelt that he believes the priority at the next Hague Peace Conference must be the establishment of an international police force.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-14

Creator(s)

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919

Secretary of War Taft lists the names of the heads of companies making a bid on contracts for the Panama Canal project and asks John F. Stevens if he has any more information on them.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-06

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Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Secretary of War Taft asks John F. Stevens if he knows the men W. J. Oliver proposes as his associates for his work on the Panama Canal. Taft is investigating Oliver before they accept any bid.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-02

Creator(s)

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

George von Lengerke Meyer writes to Secretary of State Hay about a letter Meyer received from Russian Foreign Minister V. N. Lamzdorf. In the letter, Lamzdorf points out that the Imperial Government would like President Roosevelt to find out Japan’s viewpoint on an armistice and Japan’s plans for appointing plenipotentiaries. Meyer goes on to express his idea that both Japan and Russia should give their plenipotentiary nominations to Roosevelt, who will then share the nominations with each country’s ambassadors.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-23

Creator(s)

Meyer, George von Lengerke, 1858-1918

This is a book review for Marquis de Barral-Montferrat’s de Monroë à Roosevelt (From Monroe to Roosevelt). This review appears in the “histoire” (history) section of De la librairie plon (From the Plon bookstore). The book examines President Theodore Roosevelt and the Monroe Doctrine.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-01

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Unknown

President Roosevelt thanks Joseph Bucklin Bishop for his letter about the immigration office. He does not wish to have to intervene in the Dominican Republic in any way. He has no desire to annex the island: “I have about the same desire to annex it as a gorged boa constrictor might have to swallow a porcupine wrong-end-to.”

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Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1904-02-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt informs Joseph Bucklin Bishop that he enjoyed the editorials. He remarks on anti-imperialists, including Erving Winslow.

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Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1902-08-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

A young boy in uniform and cap labeled “1905” sweeps an office clean of many papers labeled “Yellow Peril 1904, Broken Resolutions, Dave Hill ‘I was a Democrat’ 1904, [and] St. Louis Graft 1904” and a large crown labeled “Imperialism.” Some papers labeled “Tom Taggart, [and] Campaign Oratory 1904” are already in the wastebasket.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-01-04

An eagle stands on the “U.S.A.” portion of a globe with its wings extending from “Porto Rico” and “Panama” on the right to the “Philippines” on the left. Caption: “Gee, but this is an awful stretch!”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-06-29

President Roosevelt, wearing his Rough Rider uniform, looks at the style of hats worn by past presidents U.S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington, but the hat he likes best, atop a stand labeled “Imported Hat – All the Style in Europe,” is a crown labeled “Imperialism.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-09-21

President Roosevelt sits at a desk pondering the Philippine and Central American issues. Papers on his desk read, “Philippine Policy,” “Panama Canal Treaty,” and “Mastery of the Hemisphere.” He imagines a statue of Abraham Lincoln, around which are vignettes showing Roosevelt denying the “Philippine Petition for Freedom,” using force against Colombia at the Panama Canal, menacing South America and Central America with a big club, and standing with arms folded across his chest, wearing imperial robes and a crown.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-09-28

The Republican elephant collapses under the weight of Republican and/or Roosevelt policies, including a large crown labeled “Imperialism,” a “Big Stick,” a basket labeled “Odellism,” a mail pouch labeled “Postal Scandals,” a box of “Gloves & Gaunts,” a large cannon labeled “Militarism,” a question mark labeled “Philippines,” a disk labeled “Extravagance,” a thick wad of papers labeled “High Protection” bound together by “Dingley Schedules,” and finally a bloated man labeled “Trusts.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-10-19

A statue labeled “Thomas Jefferson The Father of Expansion” stands at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis, Missouri, with Puck directing the attention of George Frisbie Hoar and other anti-expansionists Edward Atkinson, Carl Schurz, and Charles Francis Adams, who look on in disbelief.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-04-15

George F. Hoar, Carl Schurz, David B. Hill, and former Massachusetts Governor George S. Boutwell place their “Anti-Expansion Speech” at the feet of a huge American soldier holding a rifle and the American flag, while opposite them Filipinos place guns and swords at the soldier’s feet. Caption: The American Filipinos and the Native Filipinos will have to submit.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902-06-04

David B. Hill stands on a platform, speaking to an unseen audience. He holds a paper that states “Jefferson! Jeffersonianism!! Jeffersonian Simplicity!!!” The ghost of Thomas Jefferson is tapping him on the elbow. Caption: “Hold on there, David! – Don’t make me ridiculous! Remember, I was always an Expansionist – and if I were alive to-day I should be doing just as McKinley and Roosevelt have done.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902-06-11

A bruised John Bull offers a “Tonic” of “Financial Help” and “Liberal Treatment” to an injured and battered Paul Kruger, President of the South African Republic, following the end of the fighting in South Africa.

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Creation Date

1902-06-18

Anti-imperialists George Frisbie Hoar, Carl Schurz, Edward Atkinson, Charles Francis Adams, and Andrew Carnegie are drowning in “Quicksand of Public Opinion,” with the U.S. Capitol building in the background.

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Creation Date

1902-08-27

Thomas Jefferson, laughing, sits on a bench, holding papers that state “Dem. Doctrine, 1901 ‘We oppose, with Jefferson, the conspiracy of National Expansion'” and “New York State platform – 1902 – ‘The Dem. Party stands for Jeffersonian Principles’ also National ownership of coal mines.” Other papers, touting Jeffersonian Principles, are on the ground at his feet. Caption: Thomas Jefferson — How my principles have changed! They’re not a bit like they were when I knew them!

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

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1902-10-29