Justice

Meyer D. Rothschild, president of the National Jewelers’ Board of Trade, responds to the opinions of United States Court Judges James L. Martin and George C. Holt, who do not believe smugglers should be imprisoned if a fine will serve justice. Rothschild states that all smugglers, rich or poor, deserve the same punishment and in order to discourage future smuggling, those convicted of smuggling need to be imprisoned. Fining smugglers a fraction of what they make selling the smuggled goods does nothing to deter the practice and harms honest businessmen.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-18

Creator(s)

Unknown

Harrison D. Boyer tells Theodore Roosevelt that the common people can only see Roosevelt as the next president because Roosevelt is the only one they can trust. Boyer believes the government needs to regulate business, social, educational, and political life to provide equal rights, justice, and liberty to the people and future generations. Roosevelt is the only man who might do this and Boyer hopes he will come out as a candidate for the presidency because it is his duty.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-14

Creator(s)

Boyer, Harrison D., 1878-1922

Richard Randolph McMahon agrees to allow William E. Glasscock to use his name in the press “on behalf of the cause of Justice.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-04

Creator(s)

McMahon, Richard Randolph, 1860?-1935

William E. Glasscock appreciates the Richard Randolph McMahon’s approval of Glasscock’s plan to challenge the election of Senator’s William E. Chilton and Clarence Wayland Watson. Glasscock will provide the letter written by McMahon to the press because it argues the case of an investigation so well. Glasscock plans to petition Congress for an investigation at the opening of the next session.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-02

Creator(s)

Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925

Edward Thompson thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his reply but regrets he can’t follow his advice. He hopes Roosevelt will still help fix what he sees as an unfair situation in the Canal Zone.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-12

Creator(s)

Thompson, Edward, 1845-1923

President Roosevelt’s former classmate, James Ford Rhodes, reflects on Roosevelt’s administration and how it will be viewed by history. He believes three points will endure: the man whose critics called him a champion of war has become a peace keeper; Roosevelt has set a high standard of honesty in public service, and has inspired good young men to enter into politics; and his presidency has favored neither the rich nor the poor, but administered justice to both. Rhodes also reflects on the lives of the rich, comparing America’s wealthy with others in history, particularly those of the Roman Republic and Empire. He believes the Americans are better because of the use they make of their wealth. While the ancient Romans dedicated themselves to lives of sensual pleasure, the modern Americans live simply and give to educational and charitable causes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-16

Creator(s)

Rhodes, James Ford, 1848-1927

Harvard University President Eliot defends himself against newspaper claims that the portion on athletics in his Annual Report was in response to what President Roosevelt had said at the Harvard Union on February 23, 1907. Eliot references the Brownsville Affair and “the difference between College pranks and ‘shooting up’ a town.” He explains that he felt the old college administrative practice of “punishing the innocent with the guilty when the innocent would not bear witness against the guilty” unjust.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-09

Creator(s)

Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

C. C. McCabe writes to inquire whether an article reporting that Roosevelt has pardoned two convicted counterfeiters is true. McCabe condemns the decision if the article is correct.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-04

Creator(s)

McCabe, C. C. (Charles Cardwell), 1836-1906

President Roosevelt carrying a big stick stands beside a man labeled “Senate” casting a vote into the “Dominican Ballot.” To their left stands a woman blindfolded, holding scales in her right hand and an enormous sword “justice” in her left.

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-26

An old and haggard “Justice” sits in a chair on a rock in the East River. Cobwebs have grown over her sword, scales, and an “Indictment.” In the background, the steamship General Slocum is engulfed in flames. (It burned on June 15, 1904, with a loss of over 1,000 lives.) Caption: “Slocum? Slocum? Where have I heard that name?”

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-06-14

Justice, wearing a crown labeled “Law” and carrying a sword and scales, rides on the back of a snail, climbing a steep hill strewn with bolders labeled “Certificate of reasonable doubt, Appeals, Change of venue, Injunction, [and] Stays” toward the “Hall of Justice” at the top of the hill.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-12-23

A large, angry female figure representing Justice draws a sword labeled “Law and Order” as she strides toward striking union laborers who, taking the law into their own hands, are beating a “non union” worker and burning another tied to a tree. A factory is in flames in the background.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-03-25

An angry mob of strikers with clubs, guns, and bricks pursues a man labeled “Independent Labor” who has fallen near his wife and child in front of the statue of Justice. Justice is bound with red tape labeled “Politics.” Her scales and fasces lie on the ground next to her feet.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902-10-01

On the left, a husband and wife, wrapped in chains with a large padlock labeled “Unhappy Marriage,” fight in front of Justice who holds the ends of the chains. Opposite the couple is a member of the clergy who is arguing with Justice that divorce is an “awful immorality” and must be stopped. Caption: The Church–Stop this awful immorality! / Justice–You are wrong! Divorce is rather an aid to morality. Statistics prove that countries where divorces are granted are more moral than countries that forbid them!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1900-02-07

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

“Justice” holding her scales is being buried under an avalanche of paper labeled “Law,” as a “Legislator” at the top turns the crank spewing legislation from the U.S. Capitol.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1900-01-10

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Theodore Roosevelt will be unable to travel to Tuskegee, Alabama, for the Tuskegee Board of Directors meeting. He would like to speak with Booker T. Washington regarding the injustice done to Washington at the Ulrich trial.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-06

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt asks Nelson H. Henry to consider the case of Robert J. Neppert, a soldier who fought with Roosevelt at Las Guasimo and Santiago, who claims he has not had justice in a recent situation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-06

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Charles Noonan for his letter and the clipping and invites him to stop by The Outlook sometime. Roosevelt comments on movements for peace and the need for justice and righteousness as well as honesty and practicality.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt does not recall the land fraud case involving Dr. Perrin. He will not answer Perrin’s letter but gives Gifford Pinchot permission to inform Perrin that he never “set people” on Perrin’s trail or persecuted him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt asks Henry L. Stimson for legal advice regarding a case involving Charles France Bates, stating that Mr. Bates was a very good man who may have been unintentionally slandered due to a past situation from Roosevelt’s presidency.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919