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George Gilmour sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of an address on The Press and Social Progress given by Harry C. Withers in which the unused possibilities of the newspaper are discussed. Gilmour hopes the address might make it into The Outlook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-16
Nicholas II, wearing crown and royal robe, draws the drapes over the window to shut out the sun labeled “Progress,” as three ghouls clutch at him from behind.
The “Emperor of All Russia,” Czar Nicholas II, in 1905 sustained a restive population, revolution in border states seeking independence, international condemnation for social and religious repression, palace intrigue, a disastrous war against Japan in the Far East, and a weak will that could not rebuke the waves.
A man representing Russia holds a cat-o’-nine tails labeled “Russia” with the lashes labeled “Absolutism, Persecution, [and] Tyranny.” Next to him, on the left, are several dead or wounded people with the word “Kish[i]neff” written on the ground, and in the background, clouds labeled “Finland” and “Poland” are hovering above large groups of people being persecuted by the Russians. The man is shielding his eyes against a burst of sunlight on the right in which is a Japanese woman labeled “Modern Japan” surrounded by the words “Justice, Progressiveness, Humaneness, Enlightenment, Tolerance [and] Religious Liberty.” The figure of a Japanese man labeled “Medievalism” lies on the ground, crushed by the light of “Modern Japan.”
With the commencement of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 in the month before this cartoon’s publication, Puck clearly chose sides, as seen in this cartoon by Keppler. The world learned that the failure of often harsh diplomatic exchanges was quickly followed by Japan’s overwhelming victory over the Russian fleet in Port Arthur (occupied Manchuria).
Several scenes of wit and humor in life are depicted, including children swimming and being rebuked for playing baseball on the Sabbath, women doing plein air painting, men yachting, and young women discussing courtship. At bottom right, “American progression of three years (Next!)” shows a repair shop moving forward with the times, from wagon repair to bicycle repair and then to automobile repair.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-09-11
Ralph M. Easley has correctly stated Theodore Roosevelt’s end goal, but Roosevelt emphasizes that such a goal can best be reached by a series of smaller steps. He agrees with Easley that both the nation and individual states should act on the matter. Roosevelt doesn’t think that prices should be absolutely fixed by the government, but there should be a check on them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-07
President Roosevelt outlines for Patrick H. Grace the reasons that he and all labor leaders and laborers should support William H. Taft. He details Taft’s judicial record, and important decisions he has made that have protected the rights of workers. Roosevelt also discusses Taft’s work in his administration, particularly regarding the Panama Canal, in which he has supported working men. Roosevelt believes that if elected, Taft will continue “the definite and constructive program of social reorganization” begun in the current administration, while William Jennings Bryan’s proposals are all vague. A handwritten note by William Loeb states that this letter will be published in the papers on October 26, and asks that it be kept confidential until then.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-19
President Roosevelt thanks Baron Kaneko for his concern about Archibald B. Roosevelt’s illness. He explains why the United States wishes to restrict members of the Japanese working class from migrating to the United States. Roosevelt believes that this will ease tensions between both countries. The new commission on immigration might also consider restricting immigration from Europe.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-23
Lincoln C. Cummings admonishes that the members of St. David’s Club need to work together to discover the Club’s real potential to be a practical force of progress in all aspects of life. He counsels on the importance of clear direction and that actions, not intentions make one useful.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-04
John E. Bell, a farmer from Michigan, is very supportive of the vision of the new Progressive Republican League that Theodore Roosevelt is launching. He thinks the time is right for such a movement and hopes that it will give people a way to support the national supervision of resources, economic, industrial, and commercial matters without turning to socialism.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-05
Henry Stuart Oliver offers praise, admiration, and encouragement to Theodore Roosevelt for his work promoting “popular rights” in the United States. Although public interest is currently “sagging down,” he hopes Roosevelt will not be discouraged, because he has many supporters, especially in the West.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-04
Celia Baldwin Whitehead sends Theodore Roosevelt an enclosure that she had hoped to have published in a progressive periodical. She believes the matter requires serious attention from political thought leaders.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-03
Archbishop Soler praises American Catholics and the thriving nature of Catholicism in the United States. He argues that the Church is not the enemy of progress, which is proven by how Catholicism has flourished in the U.S., the example and standard of progressive nations. He explains a visit he made to Secretary of State Elihu Root, to express his admiration for the way in which American ideals allow complete liberty to Catholics, and the way other Americans respect them as collaborators in the social order.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-30
In this excerpt from his foreword to the second edition of the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia, John A. Gable characterizes Theodore Roosevelt as both traditionalist and progressive–wishing to preserve American and Judeo-Christian values, while also working to implement modern reforms to face new conditions and challenges.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
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“Prosperity” and “progress” cannons are pointed at “Port Parker” where a Democratic donkey and Alton B. Parker stand. Their two cannons—”charges of blackmail” and “attacks on Roosevelt”—are damaged. President Roosevelt looks up at them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-05
Hugh Gordon Miller addresses the Annual Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club of the City of New York. He jokes about his previous speaking engagement in New York. He describes the historical and contemporary relationship between Virginians and New York. He celebrates the rebuilt union of states. Miller reviews the accomplishments of the United States and New South since the American Civil War. He teases about Kentucky’s politics. He pays tribute to Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, William McKinley, and Rough Riders. Miller regrets that the South is aligned with the Democratic Party and calls on Republicans in the North to help settle “the problem of the suffrage and of the races.” Miller concludes with a vision of the ideal United States. Club President Henry Edwin Tremain introduces Senator John M. Thurston.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-02-12
William L. Wilson appears as a soldier wearing a helmet labeled “Tariff Reform” and holding a rifle labeled “Enlightenment” with fixed bayonet, with which he prevents William McKinley from advancing. McKinley is dressed as a Chinese man with a hat labeled “McKinleyism,” an amulet labeled “Monopoly,” and a medal that states “The Foreigner Pays the Tax.” He is holding a large sword labeled “Fallacious Arguments” and a shield labeled “Trusts,” and his long pigtail is wrapped around a post labeled “Played Out Protection Ideas.” Caption: Superstition and old-fogyism must be conquered in the end by enlightenment and progressiveness.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-09-05
An elderly physician holding a box labeled “Old School Drug Cure” sits with bottles of various drugs labeled “Opium, Strychnine, Calomel, Morphine, Arsenic, Poisons, [and] Squills” in front of a crowded “Chockful Cemetery.” A younger man stands in the street, holding a large book labeled “New School Mind Cure,” with a sparsely populated cemetery labeled “No drugs Cemetery” behind him.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-04-06
A man labeled “Mediæval Quack” and wearing outdated clothing administers a large pill labeled “False Pride” to a female figure labeled “Spain” reclining in a chair next to a small table on which is a bottle labeled “Superstition.” On the floor below is another bottle labeled “Jesuit Rule.” A well dressed man labeled “Science and Enlightenment” enters through a door in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-11-02
A female figure labeled “Civilization” pulls the pigtail labeled “Worn Out Traditions” of a man labeled “China.” She is holding a pair of scissors labeled “19th Century Progress” and is about to cut the pigtail. There are telegraph poles, plows, and locomotives hanging from her waist.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-10-19
A woman labeled “Progress” stands next to a well constructed from stones labeled “Experiment Station, Library, Vivisectional Laboratory, University, Astronomical Observatory, Surgical Clinic, Social Settlement, [and] School of Geology.” She is lowering a bucket labeled “Scientific Research.” Hanging on the counter-weight are men and a woman labeled “Oldfogyism, Intolernace, Bigamy, Superstition, Podsnappery, Anti-vivisection, Sentimentalism, [and] Ignorance.” Caption: Despite the weight of opposition, the bucket will continue to make trips.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-08-10