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Bela Tokaji writes to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Times to refute claims that immigrants will be the downfall of America made by Alfred Paul Karl Eduard Schultz. Tokaji states the peaceful and industrious men and women who come to America have demonstrated their loyalty. The children of immigrants will continue to take care build America for centuries to come.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-10
Bela Tokaji writes to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Times to refute claims made by Alfred Paul Karl Eduard Schultz that immigrants will be the downfall of America. Tokaji states the peaceful and industrious men and women who come to America have demonstrated their loyalty. Mary Emelia Clark Barnes is quoted from her speech at the international congress for the welfare of children saying immigrant children are the future of the nation. Since four in five children born in New York City are born to immigrant parents, Tokaji agrees with Barnes and cites immigrants’ enormous contribution to the industrial growth in America as proof.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-09
Vahan Cardashian has spoken to the Turkish ambassador, Seyfettin Bey, and shares information with a reporter about the position of Turkey in the conflict with Italy. Cardashian does not believe the reasons used by the Italians justify an attack on Tripoli.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-03
Boy Scouts of America’s April 17, 1911 newsletter contains seven articles. Ernest Thompson Seton compares the American Boys Scouts with the British Boy Scouts. The British scouts are more disciplined, whereas the American scouts are skillful at camping and have “greater lung power.” There is a discussion on doing a troop exchange. National Scout Commissioner Daniel Carter Beard discusses how scouts should regard men like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone as heroes rather than Jesse James or Robin Hood-type characters. The Executive Board plans to establish a Scout Masters’ School at Silver Bay, New York, in conjunction with the Boys’ Workers Camp. The two new manuals are almost ready to be published. Lorillard Spencer is planning summer activities for New York scoutmasters. New Jersey scouts are cleaning up areas to prevent mosquitoes. Italian scouts are working on propagating universal peace.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-17
Henry E. Huck briefly outlines three options for implementing his Proclamation for countries to remove their unwanted populations. The plans include means of granting land concessions to the United States and England, reimbursements, possible forms of governance, and international arbitration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-03
It is reported that at a dinner with President Roosevelt, Ambassador to Italy George von Lengerke Meyer was told that his resignation is expected, in order for former New York City mayor Seth Low to take up the post. Meyer was made ambassador by William McKinley in 1900, with the understanding that he would resign after a year. Meyer has not resigned, much to the consternation of Secretary of State John Hay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-26
It has been reported that former New York City mayor Seth Low accepted an ambassadorship from President Roosevelt in a recent meeting. Low will become ambassador of Mexico, or of Italy. Reports state that he would prefer Italy, and thus would displace current ambassador George von Lengerke Meyer, whose term expires in December.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-25
The Philadelphia Evening Item reports on the good economic conditions in various industries, companies, and places in the United States and its trading partners, which it says “give[s] the lie to the calamity howlers.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-22
President Roosevelt rides a hobbyhorse as he has his sword through the “Constitution” and uses “the big stick” to hit “South American republics.” A “conquest and expansion” bird says, “I’m the bird of freedom now.” Several countries, including “England,” “Spain,” “Italy,” “Russia,” and “Germany” watch behind a park bench in “International Park—Keep off the grass.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08
Uncle Sam holds a revolver in one hand and points to a sign that reads “Peace on Earth and goodwill to men” with his other hand. “France,” “England,” “Germany,” “Austria,” “Russia,” “Italy,” and “Japan” all look at the sign.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-25
President Roosevelt, Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, and Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich walk out of the “National Treasury” with “aid for Italy” money bags.
Foreign aid as we know it today was never a major part of the national government’s attention or priorities, and even in President Roosevelt’s era the source of American monies sent overseas was largely the work of charities and church organizations.
President Roosevelt uses a “Peace of Portsmouth” axe to cut down the big stick labeled “war: partisan exaggeration of Roosevelt’s strenuousity.” “China,” “Germany,” “England,” “Italy,” and “France” all look on.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-04
Ambassador White thanks President Roosevelt for the honor of naming him his representative to the Algeciras Conference. He will update Roosevelt and Secretary of State Root by cipher when matters involving the conference develop. White describes his social events on Thanksgiving Day, including a Thanksgiving dinner where he hosted George Otto Trevelyan, who was very pleased to attend and spoke highly of Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-10
Germany is concerned that France wants to exclude Austria and the United States from the banking question at the Algeciras Conference. Italy is pressuring the United States to accept the French plan, but the U.S. delegates are adhering to the principle that all interested nations should participate.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-01
Italy has proposed an agreement with Great Britain and France to reduce the size of their militaries which seems to have been received positively. Italian foreign minister Tommaso Tittoni has been meeting with Sir Edward Grey and Léon Bourgeois, heads of British and French foreign offices, respectively, on the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-14
Given the increasingly interconnected nature of the world’s financial markets, prominent economist Luigi Luzzatti has called for an international conference to reform international banking. Issues at hand would be the prevention and mitigation of financial crises, the establishment of a central bank in the United States, and modernizing England’s financial systems. Luzzatti hopes that eventually a permanent international monetary commission could be formed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-15
President Roosevelt writes to Ambassador Reid about ongoing negotiations between France and Germany about Morocco. Beginning with background information about the situation, with Germany wishing to call a conference to reform the government of Morocco—in opposition to France—Roosevelt then includes the text of numerous letters and telegrams in English and French from various parties related to this issue. Roosevelt says he will send copies of this letter to Henry White and George von Lengerke Meyer, and will show it to Secretary of State Elihu Root, as well, but no one else, as it is to be strictly confidential. He closes with some personal remarks to Reid, responding to a previous letter from him, and thanking him for presenting Milla Shonts and her daughters. The envelope appended at the end suggests that this is the copy of the letter which was sent to Meyer.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1906-04-28
A table of the naval statistics of Great Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Japan, Russia, Italy, and Austria, including the types of vessels built and in the process of being built. The total tonnages are listed in order from greatest to smallest in a separate table.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-01
Commissioner Roosevelt requests Robert Harry Munro Ferguson’s opinion on an enclosed letter. The letter should also be shown to Douglas Robinson. Roosevelt will write a letter to Joseph A. and Sylvane M. Ferris in the meantime. Roosevelt recently had a nice luncheon and is indebted to two Italian diplomats who recently helped Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s sister and mother. The elk meat has not arrived.
Arizona Historical Society
1891-12-20
The Italian Day parade passes the Palace of Varied Industries at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904