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President Roosevelt was pleased with Lyman Abbott’s editorial on trusts and believes that the state must be master of the corporation and not the other way around. Roosevelt requests that Abbott look at the last paragraph of his Detroit speech.
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1902-09-26
President Roosevelt thanks Edward Henry Harriman for the kind message and sends a speech he intends to give upon trusts. Roosevelt asks Harriman to return the speech with his comments.
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1902-08-16
President Roosevelt would like to know why anti-trust action cannot be taken against the coal operators.
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1902-08-21
President Roosevelt thanks Jacob Gould Schurman for the letter and editorial. Roosevelt also addresses tariff legislation and does not believe that the tariff could have much effect on the trusts.
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1902-08-11
President Roosevelt is trying not to concern himself with renomination and hopes that his work as President will secure the Republican nomination for him. Roosevelt disagrees with F. Norton Goddard on regulating beef duties and strongly defends the record and actions of Attorney General Philander C. Knox and Secretary of War Elihu Root.
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1902-08-14
President Roosevelt suggests that John James Jenkins write to Attorney General Knox for details on the Northern Securities Company case and the beef trust suits. Roosevelt wants to make it clear to the public that the Republican Party has made every effort against the trusts.
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1902-07-21
President Roosevelt found J. H. Woodard’s letter on the Anthracite Coal Strike interesting and believes that Attorney General Knox has done a great deal regarding the “beef matter.”
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1902-07-09
Memorandum outlines the history of the ice trust case and lawsuits involving Charlie Morse.
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1901-1909
Gifford Pinchot provides a statement on the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy regarding the use of government land for private coal mining in Alaska.
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1912-01
Elijah E. Knott accuses the New York Stock Exchange of being “the most un-American institution” in the country. It is the guardhouse of all corrupt, law-defying corporations and goes against Theodore Roosevelt’s policies. New York should break up this monopoly. Knott suggests Roosevelt write an article for The Outlook on regulating stock markets.
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1911-11-11
Felix H. Levy sends Theodore Roosevelt various telegrams associated with the dissolution of the Tobacco Trust. He invited Hugh Campbell to attend the meeting with Roosevelt. Levy believes that the Circuit Court’s decision will allow the Tobacco Trust to “go unwhipped of justice” and feels it is the duty of every citizen interested in the country’s welfare to stand against “this wicked monopoly.”
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1911-11-09
Julius Chambers sends Theodore Roosevelt an enclosure that might interest him. He knows through experience that it takes years to “awaken the people of a nation.” His 1884 book discusses the monopolists’ plans but was ignored until Roosevelt spoke on the same issue during his presidency.
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1911-11-01
Oscar Trombitz proposes a remedy to the anthracite coal monopoly, although it is slower than legal reform. He suggests using tidal energy to generate electricity on the coasts through a cooperative company.
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1911-10-27
James Kennedy gives Theodore Roosevelt his comments on government regulations Congress should enact to monopolies through anti-trust laws.
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1911-10-20
Charles G. Washburn selects Theodore Roosevelt as a target to his observations of the Sherman Act due to the recent comments published in The Outlook. Washburn lists to Roosevelt 5 difference points in response to George W. Perkins’ address the Detroit Board of Commerce.
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1911-10-20
Alford Warriner Cooley shares with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt how much he enjoyed the clippings detailing Theodore Roosevelt’s testimony before the Senate investigative committee regarding the acquisition of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. He agrees entirely with Roosevelt’s ideas, especially those concerning governmental control of large corporations. However, the issue of restoring competition remains. Cooley and his wife, Susan Dexter Dalton Cooley, enjoyed seeing the “charming and delightful” Kermit Roosevelt. The doctor gave Cooley a clean bill of health, although he intends to rest for a few months before returning to work.
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1911-08-20
Robert S. Bradley quotes a statement Theodore Roosevelt supposedly made before the House Committee of Inquiry regarding Germany’s governmental regulation of the potash industry. He believes that Roosevelt was either misquoted or is greatly misinformed about the matter. Having made the basic contracts that initially caused the “potash controversy,” Bradley discusses the situation in depth and includes additional materials.
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1911-08-12
Curtis Guild conveyed to the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-American War that Theodore Roosevelt could not attend the event. Guild discusses the progress he was able to make against monopolies in Boston before he leaves for Russia, including ensuring bills “enforcing the immediate electrification of the Boston terminals,” protecting savings banks, and overseeing that the waterfront of Boston “is to be controlled by the people and not owned by the railroad monopoly.”
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1911-05-27
Eben Weaver Martin discusses Theodore Roosevelt’s idea of giving the Bureau of Corporations power to fix commodity prices and control output when unlawful monopolies control them. He believes there needs to be a thorough system of national control preventing monopolies from organizing while removing the “powers of evil” of existing ones.
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1911-01-31
Julius D. Dreher has long refrained from writing Theodore Roosevelt and add to his overburden of correspondence. However, he sympathizes with Roosevelt’s struggle between loyalty to President William H. Taft and duty to the country and his principles. He commends Roosevelt for his fight in the recent elections and hopes he will rise above the unjust criticism and continue to push back against privileged interests and monopolies.
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1910-12-05