We are with you to the end – Sam Davis and Carson City
Cartoon depicting Sam Davis’s support of the Goldfield miners’ strike and lockout.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-04-04
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Industrial Workers of the World
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Medill McCormick
Theodore Roosevelt supports progressive and “well-nigh expropriatory taxation of swollen inheritance.” He does not care for the income tax and dislikes taxes on small incomes and inheritances. Roosevelt objected to Amos Pinchot and George L. Record because they took positions “too far off to one side.” He views the Industrial Workers of the World as representing destruction, not advancement.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-02-06
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles McCarthy
Theodore Roosevelt refers to the value of reformers in society and the work of Charles McCarthy in Wisconsin. Roosevelt agrees with McCarthy on the “absurb (sic) attitude of so many of our universities.” Roosevelt has been asked to write about the topic in public, but did not give agreement to that request.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-01-27
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Letter from George D. Moulton to Theodore Roosevelt
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-05-08
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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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English
Letter from Sam P. Davis to William Loeb
Sam P. Davis acknowledges the recent letter from William Loeb stating that President Roosevelt would be unable to attend the unveiling of a statue of John William Mackay. He had not mentioned the prospective invitation to anyone, so there will not be any criticism of his inability to attend. Davis says that someday when Roosevelt is out of the White House, he and Governor Sparks of Nevada will try to give him a chance to hunt grizzly bears. Many people in Nevada commend Roosevelt’s stance on the Moyer, Haywood, and Pettibone cases, and Davis says that they have recently been having trouble with the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), who sympathize with the three men. Davis encloses newspaper articles giving an idea of the situation in Nevada.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-04-26
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Letter from Fred W. Carpenter to William Loeb
Fred W. Carpenter returns papers to William Loeb concerning the indictment against Charles H. Moyer and Big Bill Haywood for the murder of former Governor Frank Steunenberg. He confirms that Secretary of War William H. Taft has read them.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-05-23
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The birth and death of Theodore Roosevelt’s industrial peace foundation
Louis B. Livingston describes the process by which the prize money awarded to Theodore Roosevelt for his 1906 Nobel Prize languished for years before it was finally put to use to address the needs of soldiers and their families during World War I. Livingston notes that Roosevelt refused the prize money for his personal use and that he oversaw the establishment of a Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Peace to promote better relations between workers and their employers. When the money went unspent, Roosevelt asked Congress to return the funds to him. Livingston asserts that this episode demonstrates Roosevelt’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances and his preoccupation with World War I in the last years of his life.
A photograph of Roosevelt with the representatives of Russia and Japan to the Portsmouth Treaty negotiations appears in the essay, along with a copy of Roosevelt’s Nobel Prize award check and a page from the Congressional Record.
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Speech – September 5, 1917 – Columbia County Fair
Typed draft with handwritten edits of Theodore Roosevelt’s speech at the Columbia County Fair. Roosevelt says that while America is a melting pot of many cultures, it is still a single country. He calls for all citizens to be united under one flag and one language. He condemns Germany’s actions during the war and says anyone that does not fully support the United States is a traitor. Americans have an obligation to be loyal to their country and to demand justice for all men regardless of social class. The country needs to be better prepared for war in the future.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1917-09-05
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Speech – September 5th, 1917 – Columbia County Fair
Typed draft with edits of Theodore Roosevelt’s speech at the Columbia County Fair. Roosevelt says that while America is a melting pot of many cultures, it is still a single country. He calls for all citizens to be united under one flag and one language. He condemns Germany’s actions during the war and says anyone that does not fully support the United States is a traitor. Americans have an obligation to be loyal to their country and to demand justice for all men regardless of social class. The country needs to be better prepared for war in the future.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1917-09-05
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Speech at Racine, the Hun within our gates
Theodore Roosevelt speaks out about “the Hun within our gates”, or German Americans he says are helping Germany from within the United States. Roosevelt says the term Hun was attributed to the German forces by William II himself and that it matches the atrocities committed by the German military in Europe and Asia. He gives examples of the Huns within our gates, particularly pacifists, and compares them to the “Copperheads” of the Civil War era. He calls for all Americans, regardless of ethnic origins, to unite under one flag and one language.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1917-09-27
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Speech of Colonel Roosevelt at Billings, Montana
Theodore Roosevelt speaks to the people of Billings, Montana, about denying Germany acceptance into the League of Nations. He believes that Germany’s surrender should be absolute. Roosevelt reads off the complaints of the farmer in Montana. Roosevelt also speaks in opposition to the Non-Partisan League and the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1918-10-05