The San Domingo nuisance
A defense of American intervention in the Dominican Republic.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-02-22
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Intervention (International law)
Letter from William H. Taft to Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of War Taft updates President Roosevelt on the political situation in Cuba, which may necessitate intervention by the United States. Taft has been in communication with Cuban Secretary Rafael Montalvo. Taft includes the text of a telegram from President Roosevelt to Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma, as modified by Taft, and Estrada Palma’s response, insisting that he cannot remain at the head of the government on the foundation proposed by Taft and Roosevelt.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-09-26
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Letter from John Campbell Greenway to Theodore Roosevelt
John Campbell Greenway encloses a letter from Allan Brown Jaynes, Republican National Committeeman, of Arizona. Greenway would like Theodore Roosevelt to come to Arizona and make campaign speeches in Douglas, Bisbee, and Phoenix. He summarizes the current situation in Mexico.
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Creation Date
1916-08-23
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Letter from Kermit Roosevelt to Isabella Ferguson
Kermit Roosevelt has accepted a position at the Hooker Electrochemical Company. He might be able to see the Fergusons soon if the United States intervenes in Mexico as he has Theodore Roosevelt’s approval to participate. Kermit is optimistic about his father’s chances of receiving the Republican presidential nomination.
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Creation Date
1912-06-14
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Letter from John Campbell Greenway to Theodore Roosevelt
John Campbell Greenway will chair the progressive, Arizona delegation to Chicago, Illinois. He provides an update on which delegates will be supporting Roosevelt. The Villa expedition is at a standstill and Greenway believes that President Wilson is waiting for a pretext to withdraw.
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Creation Date
1916-04-21
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“Let us have peace”
President Grover Cleveland and British Prime Minister Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury, are dressed as Native Americans, smoking peace pipes filled with “Common Sense Tobacco.” Sitting with Cleveland, also dressed as natives, are Richard Olney, Robert R. Hitt, Charles A. Boutelle, Nelson Dingley, George Frisbie Hoar, William E. Chandler, John T. Morgan, and Henry Cabot Lodge. Sitting with Salisbury are Joseph Chamberlain, Arthur James Balfour, George Joachim Goschen, and the Duke of Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish. In the foreground is a hatchet in a hole, to be buried, possibly over the Venezuela boundary dispute.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1896-01-22
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They can’t fight
Uncle Sam and John Bull are about to come to blows, possibly over the Venezuela boundary dispute, but are tied together in ribbons that are labeled “Financial Ties, Mutual Needs, Property Interests, International Marriages, Trade Interests, Mutual Commercial Benefits, Ties of Kinship, [and] Social Ties.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1896-01-15
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“Give it another twist, Grover – we’re all with you!”
President Grover Cleveland, wearing military uniform, gives a twist to the British Lion’s tail as it stands on a small island labeled “Great Britain” just off the coast of the “United States” where Cleveland and his backers are standing. Among Cleveland’s backers are Thomas B. Reed, Charles A. Dana doing a headstand on the “N.Y. Sun,” George F. Hoar holding a rifle, William E. Chandler wearing a grenadier’s bearskin hat and holding a sword, Henry C. Lodge with a sword, John T. Morgan, and Charles A. Boutelle also wearing a bearskin hat.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1896-01-08
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Uncle Sam’s dream of conquest and carnage – caused by reading the Jingo newspapers
Uncle Sam lies asleep in a chair with a large eagle perched on a stand next to him. He is dreaming of conquests and annexations, asserting his “Monroe Doctrine” rights, becoming master of the seas, putting John Bull in his place, and building “formidable and invulnerable coast defenses.” On the floor by the chair are jingoistic and yellow journalism newspapers.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1895-11-13
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John Bull’s dilemma
John Bull sits on a rock facing a dilemma. Across a narrow body of water is a man holding a sword labeled “Kurd Atrocities” and a handgun, about to strike a kneeling woman labeled “Armenia.” John Bull has a bag hanging from his shoulder labeled “Turkish Revenues” containing “Turkish Bonds” and “Turkish Loans,” and in his pocket is a paper labeled “Suez Canal Stock.” At his feet is a cashbox labeled “£.s.d. He is worried that if he interferes with Turkish affairs, it might jeopardize their financial relations. Caption: “It’s ‘ard to ‘ave to disturb ‘im – ‘e’s such a good customer!”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1895-01-16
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A small job for six big policemen
Figures representing “England, Hungary, France, Germany, Russia, [and] Italy” are carrying nightsticks and escorting a young child labeled “Greece.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1897-04-14
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The Cuban melodrama
Uncle Sam, in the role of the “Noble Hero” in a melodrama, defends a young woman labeled “Cuba” from the “Heavy Villain” labeled “Spain.” Caption: The Noble Hero (to the Heavy Villain)–Stand back, there, gol darn ye! – If you force this thing to a fifth act, remember that’s where I git in my work!
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1896-06-03
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The peace maker
Uncle Sam takes off his jacket as he steps toward two men labeled “Cuba” and “Spain” fighting with each other. Like Cuba’s tattered clothing, it is a war-torn landscape. Caption: Uncle Sam–In the cause of humanity it is my duty to separate them.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1898-04-20
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It’s got to be sooner or later – and it looks like “sooner”
Uncle Sam holds the hand of a female figure on a tiny island labeled “Cuba.” She is holding the flag of Cuban independence. Uncle Sam is gesturing to go home, to a ship on which is a defeated pirate wearing a crown and holding a large sword labeled “400 Years of Misrule.” The tattered flag of Spain is trailing in the water.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1898-04-27
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The next step, as it looks now
Uncle Sam stands on a platform next to a ballot box where three men are casting their votes. One man is labeled “Loyalist” and is voting for the “Monarch”; the other two are casting votes for “Autonomy” and the “Republic.” In the crowd, at the base of the platform, are the flag of Cuban independence labeled “Republic,” a flag labeled “Autonomy,” and the flag of Spain labeled “Monarchy.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1898-05-04
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The song of freedom
Cuban General Máximo Gómez sits on a horse, listening to an eagle perched on the U.S. Capitol building singing “the song of freedom.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1898-05-11
Creator(s)
“Save me from my friends!”
Print shows Uncle Sam wearing a sword and using the American flag to shield a woman labeled “Cuba Libre” from three men wearing hats labeled “Insurgent Leader.” They are standing on soil labeled “Cuba” and shows the “U.S.” as just across a narrow body of water.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1898-09-07
Creator(s)
The duty of the hour; – to save her not only from Spain, but from a worse fate
A female figure labeled “Cuba,” holding the Cuban flag, is caught in a frying pan labeled “Spanish Misrule” that is being held above flames labeled “Anarchy” raging between fighting factions labeled “Insurgents” on the left and “Autonomists” on the right, on the island of Cuba.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1898-05-11
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The hoaxer hoaxed
Print shows New York Herald editor James Gordon Bennett, holding a shotgun and carrying a bag labeled “Game Bag for Sensations J. G. Bennett,” standing next to a scarecrow labeled “$500.00 Herald Cheque” and “This is not the Original Hartman.” The scarecrow, armed with bombs, a knife, and a handgun, looks like Leo Hartmann who was apparently involved in the 1879 assassination attempt of Alexander II, Emperor of Russia. Looking over a stone wall is Secretary of State James G. Blaine who stated in the press that he could not make a statement regarding the extradition of Hartman prior to a request for such action by Russian authorities. In the background, on a mound of earth labeled “Russia,” Alexander III, Emperor of Russia, is sitting on a large chair labeled “Chair of Alexander III,” reading the “New York Herald.” An opening beneath the chair is labeled “The Real and Only Hartman Private Office” and shows a man who also looks like Leo Hartmann, waving. Caption: J.G.B. – This has been a hard hunt for a sham Hartmann!
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1881-09-07
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Panama
Extract from a letter written by Theodore Roosevelt regarding the Panamanian revolution and securing the Isthmus of Panama for an inter-oceanic canal. Roosevelt uses the analogy of nailing currant jelly to a wall in reaching an agreement with Colombian rulers. This extract comes from a letter to William Roscoe Thayer.
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Creation Date
1915-07-02