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Excerpt from a letter from Kee Owyang

In an excerpt copied over from a larger letter, Kee Owyang, Chinese Imperial Vice-consul at San Francisco, asks the recipient to ask Lucius B. Swift to see if Theodore Roosevelt might be able to use his influence on the San Francisco board of education to allow Chinese children to go to public schools. Owyang explains the current situation, in which the children are only allowed to go “to an old oriental school in Chinatown,” but protests that as the families pay taxes and the children were born in the United States, they should be allowed to attend public school. Owyang also hopes that Roosevelt will be able to visit the Presbyterian Occidental Home, which has done good work on behalf of Chinese girls in San Francisco.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-02

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lucius B. Swift

Theodore Roosevelt commends Lucius B. Swift’s excellent letter to President William H. Taft. One thing he most wants to avoid is mixing in purely state affairs where he can do no good. He has been supporting the reciprocity movement. While he sympathizes with the farmers, it is not enough to oppose the movement. Roosevelt agrees with Swift about the political situation in Indiana. However, New York is slightly worse. He discusses machine politics, especially as played out in the most recent election. In theory, the people of New York want Roosevelt to be involved in state politics, but in practice, it makes him suspicious.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-08

Letter from Lucius B. Swift to Theodore Roosevelt

Lucius B. Swift conveys a request from Chinese Vice-Consul Kee Owyang to meet with Theodore Roosevelt for a few minutes when he visits San Francisco. Since the election in which John Worth Kern was elected Senator from Indiana rather than Albert J. Beveridge, Swift has considered it prudent to bide his time. He believes Beveridge would have been elected “except for the liquor people, who would sacrifice anything in order to sell more beer.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-02