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Asahi Ikeda tells Theodore Roosevelt he misses Roosevelt a great deal. After leaving America Ikeda traveled the world and returned home where he changed his name to Ikeda and began working for a successful Japanese company. Ikeda asks for a picture of Roosevelt to hang in his room.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-13
Ikeda, Asahi
President Roosevelt uses an “administration scoop” to dig the “Panama Canal.” He digs up a number of men, including a “grafter,” “revolutionist,” and “favored contractors.” There are more men still in the canal.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-04-01
A bearded, hairy man appears as a young child labeled “Russia,” learning to walk with a walker labeled “The Douma” while playing with toy figures of royalty.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-06-06
Uncle Sam, taking a break from digging, leans on a shovel while speaking to a diminutive man wearing two handguns and a knife, and a sombrero labeled “Central America.” In the background is a sign that states “Panama Canal Route.” Caption: Uncle Sam — Now, young man, while I’m digging here, I’d like a long period of depression in the Revolution Business.
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1903-03-25
A well-dressed woman, holding a fan labeled “Cuba,” accepts the arm of Uncle Sam rather than going over to a well-dressed Cuban man wearing a sash labeled “Revolution.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-04-17
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs William H. H. Llewellyn that Roosevelt is out of town but replies on his behalf. Roosevelt thinks it best to avoid meeting with anyone connected to the trouble in Mexico as it would cause misapprehensions. However, he looks forward to seeing Llewellyn in New Mexico.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-06
President Roosevelt informs President of Harvard University Eliot he is speaking at the fiftieth anniversary of the Michigan State Agricultural College on May 31. Before taking stronger action in Cuba, he will do everything in his power to facilitate a peaceful agreement. He will contact Secretary of War William H. Taft about Americans financing revolutionists.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-20
President Roosevelt responds to Ray Stannard Baker’s letter about the proposed maximum rate laws for railroad shipping. While Roosevelt agrees that a minimum rate law may benefit more people, he is unsure if such a law would be upheld by the courts. He stresses the importance of writing a law that will not be overturned in court, even if it cannot meet the demands of the people.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-28
Colonel Ernesto Asbert states that the revolutionaries are not in arms for the purpose of waging capricious warfare, but that the attitude of the Cuban government, which is using the most reprehensible means to keep itself in power, has forced them to take this position. Asbert values efforts to establish peace that have arisen without further bloodshed. The revolutionists will maintain their position while parties attempt to find a solution, accepting with resignation the consequences this may bring. They prefer a new American intervention that will guarantee future legal elections.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-29
President Roosevelt responds to an offer, transmitted by John Ellerton Lodge, to have the Russian author and political activist Maksim Gorky visit during his trip to the United States. If Gorky were only an author, Roosevelt would have no objection to seeing him, but because of Gorky’s involvement with revolutionary movements, “which in governmental matters is a revolt against order as well as against tyranny, and in domestic matters is a revolt against the ordinary decencies and moralities even more than against conventional hypocrisies and cruelties,” Roosevelt is not interested in receiving him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-23
Ambassador Meyer is reporting to President Roosevelt the state of affairs in Russia after having found St. Petersburg quiet. Meyer traveled throughout Russia, Poland, and the Ukraine. The letter examines the situations in many different cities and other topics including removing Jews from Russia, revolution and revolutionaries’ tactics, a pheasant shoot, military escorts, history, travel, and Russian construction quality.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-28
Consul General Steinhart conveys to Assistant Secretary of State Bacon a request from Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma for American intervention in Cuba. Estrada Palma will resign as soon as American troops have landed in Cuba to protect the country from “complete anarchy.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-13
Juan Francisco O’Farrill, Secretary of State and Justice for the Republic of Cuba, reports to Jacob Sleeper, the charge d’affaires to Cuba, about the current state of the rebellion. The Cuban government has defeated the rebels in Santa Clara and Havana Provinces, and the newspapers are reporting that the rebellion is on the decline following these losses. Colonel Avalos is restoring public order in Pinar del Rio and is trying to engage with the rebels under Pedro Betancourt Davalos and Faustino Guerra. Other generals are arriving daily in Havana and offering their support to President Tomás Estrada Palma and soon the insurrectionists will be conquered.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-01
Cecil Spring Rice thanks Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for her letter and gives personal updates on his life. He wishes he could bring his wife to see Roosevelt, but she is in London and is expecting a baby soon. Spring Rice wishes he could be with her, but is doing his duty in St. Petersburg. He comments on the state of politics in Russia, particularly between Sergei Witte and Pyotr Durnovo. The Emperor believes the army is loyal to him, but Spring Rice believes that the situation will not last very long and that a revolution will come sooner or later. He mentions the San Francisco earthquake, commenting on how well the military responded and how quickly the city is likely to be rebuilt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-25
Appeals on behalf of the Mexican Revolutionaries state that they are poorly treated by the current government, and wish for Theodore Roosevelt to intercede and mediate on their behalf.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-23
Uncle Sam wears an “international police” uniform and runs toward several revolutionists fighting one another in the “Republic of Santo Domingo.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-08
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte notifies President Roosevelt that the USS Marietta is in Cienfuegos, Cuba, and the landing parties have overcome the revolutionary leaders. The estates will escape for the present.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-18
A head labeled “Cuban Moloch,” probably meant to suggest a demonic figure, has its mouth open wide to swallow a flotilla of Spanish ships headed toward Cuba. A frightened young King Alfonso XIII of Spain cowers on a throne in the lower right corner among mounting “Debts,” an empty strong box, a broken sword labeled “Spain,” orb, scepter, and a tattered Spanish flag. The “Moloch” reaches a hand out, across the ocean, toward the still child-like Alfonso.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-02-02