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President Roosevelt enjoyed Washington Representative Cushman’s speech, especially his points on the labor business and “law as a curative agency.”
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1907-08-13
Paul V. Collins informs Theodore Roosevelt that Minnesota and Dakota farmers opposed Canadian reciprocity, citing economic losses and betrayal by the administration, and describes efforts to organize a Farmers’ League for protection of agricultural interests.
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1911-09-13
Attorney General Bonaparte relays to President Roosevelt the language of the immigration law enabling the President to prevent the Japanese government from issuing passports for immigrants to the continental United States who first travel through other countries or United States territories and the draft executive order. Bonaparte suggests changes to the order to make it conform with the immigration law.
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1907-03-14
Three men struggle under tariff burdens–“on the salaried man,” “on labor,” and “on farmer”–as the “one cent newspaper publisher” refuses to pick up the “tariff on wood pulp.”
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1908-04
President Roosevelt holds strings attached to four bears and holds a “Wash. D.C.” suitcase as he marches toward a “labor” man. The “labor” man is leaning up against a book entitled “the law” and holds a “protest against federal interference” paper. Caption: The President: “Uphold law and order and there’ll be no need of federal troops.”
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1905-05-11
President Roosevelt thanks Joseph Bucklin Bishop for his editorials and encloses a copy of a speech he gave in Springfield. Roosevelt comments on his position towards labor and capital.
1903-06-06
Lyman Abbott wants to publish President Roosevelt’s views on the issues of the day in the next edition of The Outlook. He encloses a memorandum of several topics and asks that Roosevelt’s secretary return the best statement on each topic.
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1904-06-17
President Roosevelt tells Seth Low that he wishes to strengthen the power of the executive branch to handle business matters like those that Low refers to, as he does not wish to allow the “chaos and inefficiency” of using the courts to administer such a law.
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1908-03-28
President Roosevelt expresses concern that government employees are working both at the navy yard, while also reportedly working two shifts a day at the Firth-Sterling plant. This is bad both from a public policy standpoint, but also because of the ongoing presidential campaign, which is happening in the context of an industrial depression. Roosevelt instructs Assistant Secretary of the Navy Newberry to to see Labor Commissioner Charles Patrick Neill about the matter.
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1908-04-02
President Roosevelt thanks Charles A. Goddard for the letter, and comments on several passages that Goddard used that he is in agreement with. He has taken up the matter with Commissioner Charles Patrick Neill, of the Bureau of Labor.
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1908-02-07
President Roosevelt tells his son, Kermit Roosevelt, about playing tennis, and while he enjoyed it he will keep to walking for the time being for exercise due to the cold weather. Roosevelt had delivered a speech on trusts and labor to Congress. With the election coming closer, the public are beginning to pay more attention to what the candidates are saying rather than himself, and Roosevelt relished one of his last opportunities to speak before Congress.
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1908-02-02
President Roosevelt thanks Arthur Twining Hadley for his recommendation of John K. Beach for judicial nomination. Roosevelt likes what Hadley wrote him about John K. Beach’s views on labor.
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1907-06-15
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1907-05-02
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Wadsworth, William Austin, 1847-1918
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President Roosevelt received Secretary of War Taft’s letter and report on labor issues on the Isthmus of Panama. He approves the recommendations and directs they take effect as of May 1.
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1907-05-05
President Roosevelt comments on and advises Kermit Roosevelt on his athletic abilities and pursuits. He is “up to my ears in work,” which includes dictating speeches. Archibald “Archie” Roosevelt commented that it seems Roosevelt is currently under attack more than at previous times. Roosevelt felt it best to “attack aggressively and fearlessly” in his letter to the Moyer-Haywood Defense Association. He finds comfort in having Secretary of War William H. Taft and Secretary of State Elihu Root with him and hopes Taft will be nominated for president.
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1907-04-23
President Roosevelt thanks Thomas J. Dolan for his letter and states his strong support not only for labor but for labor unions. He is committed to standing against lawlessness and violence, whether the perpetrators represent labor or capital.
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1907-04-29
President Roosevelt informs Census Director S. N. D. North that despite North’s protests, the Census Bureau will investigate the labor of women and children. Roosevelt claims that this is revenge for the investigation of the packing houses in Chicago.
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1907-03-02
President Roosevelt congratulates Gilbert W. Dickson, President of the Detroit Federation of Labor, on the opening of the labor carnival. Roosevelt hopes that the conditions of labor in both Michigan and the rest of the country will continue to improve for all citizens.
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1906-11-27
President Roosevelt sent Speaker of the House Cannon’s letter to Frank P. Sargent and Edgar E. Clark. He suggests Cannon write to Senator Boies Penrose about the John Mitchell matter. Going forward, Roosevelt directs Cannon to be careful about directly attacking labor leader Samuel Gompers and instead emphasize the administration’s recent accomplishments on behalf of labor.
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1906-09-17
President Roosevelt is pleased with how Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is handling the packing men. The Congressional situation in Iowa concerns him. He comments on the political conditions in various states, concluding that upsets in local matters will lead to suffering in the general government. He feels Congress was unwise in its treatment of the labor people. Roosevelt believes “in refusing any unjust demand on labor just as quickly” as any such demands on capital.
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1906-09-11