New York (State)--New York--Wall Street

Milton B. Goodkind is glad he amused Theodore Roosevelt with is last letter. He hopes to speak in person with Roosevelt soon, but discusses possible Democratic presidential candidates. In response to Roosevelt’s article “Whats the Matter with Business,” Goodkind list several things that are wrong with business and why things are so broken and why promises will no longer be enough for American’s.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-12

Senator Lodge informs President Roosevelt about his sister-in-law’s health and comments on dealings among several political figures, including Secretary of War William H. Taft and Senator Joseph Benson Foraker.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-13

Ripley Hitchcock, editor at Harper & Brothers, notifies President Roosevelt that his articles on hunting that had been published in Harper’s Round Table magazine have been combined into a book called Good Hunting. Hitchcock says the publishers have followed all of Roosevelt’s requests, and expresses his hope that Roosevelt will be pleased. Hitchcock also notes that they are publishing Sampson Rock of Wall Street by Edwin Lefevre, which he believes Roosevelt will be interested to hear. Hitchcock says he will be in Washington, D.C., in upcoming weeks and hopes they can meet then and discuss more literary matters.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-08

William Emlen Roosevelt writes to President Roosevelt arguing the right of the U.S. to control all cable landing rights and the establishment of wireless stations on the coast of Panama.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-01

William Emlen Roosevelt writes President Roosevelt about annoyances with the Oyster Bay government. He concludes with an update on the family as they get ready for the holidays.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-19

This advertisement for a subscription package for both the New York World and the Citizen announces the impartiality of the World in covering the upcoming elections.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-27

President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit about the weather, jumping the horses with Captain Lee and Mrs. Wadsworth, and Pete the bulldog killing squirrels. Roosevelt says he has been busy since Congress closed with the trouble on Wall Street and with Edward Harriman. Roosevelt is also working on four or five speeches.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1907-04-07

A diminutive President Roosevelt stands on Wall Street, holding a large sword labeled “Public Service” before giant capitalist ogres labeled “J. J. Hill” holding a club labeled “Merger,” “Morgan” holding a club labeled “High Finance,” and “Rockefeller, Oxnard, [and] Gould.”

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Comments and Context

Cavernous Wall Street, with Trinity Church at its western end, and the statue of George Washington marking the spot where the first president took his first oath of office, is pictured in realistic proportions in Joseph Keppler’s cartoon. But then the prerogatives of a cartoonist: the financial titans of Wall Street are oversized, and the President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is diminutive.

Uncle Sam uses a magnifying glass to see in his left hand a diminutive man labeled “Rumor Monger” yelling “Panic, National Disaster, Failures, [and] Ruin” into a megaphone labeled “Wall Str.” Caption: Uncle Sam — Well! Will this nuisance ever learn that the country governs Wall Street; not Wall Street, the country.

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Comments and Context

Even Puck, whose cartoons can be seen as a weekly diary of current events and prevailing opinions, occasionally in the early Roosevelt years reflected unease on Wall Street, insecurity about labor peace, and such public feelings. However — and far more frequently, as in this cartoon — cartoonists and commentators like Joseph Keppler Junior depicted the second American “Era of Good Feelings” and the solid prosperity of the Roosevelt years.

A man on a rocking horse labeled “Wall Street” pushes a large cannon ball labeled “Roosevelt Boom 1904” towards the Capitol, flattening trusts along its way as others flee from its path. Caption: For mercenary reasons Wall Street opposes Roosevelt.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-03-11

President Roosevelt is shown tied up in a leash labeled “Republican Financial Policy” attached to a lamb with a collar labeled “Trusts.” He is dressed to go hunting, as a bear and bull on Wall Street are behind him. Caption: The President Goes A-Hunting.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-11-12

Theodore Roosevelt has never studied law in a law office and therefore could not have worked with Mr. Mullally in the Drexel-Morgan Building at 29 Wall Street.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-11-11

President Roosevelt thanks Joseph Bucklin Bishop for his letter. Roosevelt found it interesting and delightful, especially Bishop’s analogy for Wall Street financiers.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-06-15

President Roosevelt thanks General Dodge for his letter. He is glad Dodge liked his speech, and believes those who did not like it are “very shortsighted indeed.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-06-05

President Roosevelt appreciates the letter from Judge Cohen. He is sorry Cohen has been affected by the fall in prices on Wall Street.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-06-04

Theodore Roosevelt writes to Henry W. Taft about Alton Parker’s speech on trusts and common law. Roosevelt views Parker’s position as related to the Democratic state convention’s declaration that states, and not the federal government, should regulate trusts. To Roosevelt, this is an abandonment of every effective attempt by the nation to regulate trusts, and he notes that it could result in Parker receiving several million in campaign donations from Wall Street.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-01

President Roosevelt was pleased with the editorial that Ernest Bross wrote.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-16

William Emlen Roosevelt wonders if President Roosevelt will return to Oyster Bay to vote. If so, Emlen would like to travel with him. Emlen has registered to vote, but is unsure for whom he should vote. He also fears that the worst of the financial panic gripping Wall Street is not yet over.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-23

Paul D. Cravath congratulates President Roosevelt on the election of Charles Evans Hughes in New York, because without Roosevelt’s help and the speeches of Elihu Root he thinks that William Randolph Hearst would have been elected instead. He nevertheless thinks that Hearst will continue to be a strong factor in New York politics. The politics of labor and capital will continue to be the most important political question in the coming years. Cravath admits that in the past he has had some doubts about Roosevelt’s policies, but now promises to try to influence the opinions of his friends on Wall Street to Roosevelt’s side.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-07

Ludwig Nissen suggests that Secretary of the Treasury Shaw make an effort to stop newspapers from discrediting the economic policies of the administration. Nissen tells Shaw that newspapers should give him more credit for helping businessmen, rather than portraying him as helping speculators.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-24