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Charles W. Weber, a “little Republican,” reminds Theodore Roosevelt that he is the child who recently shook his hand at the embassy. He has lived in Paris, France, for four years and started a successful rubber business. Weber sends a gift he hopes Roosevelt will find helpful when he returns to New York and starts writing for The Outlook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-04
This report provides statistics and analysis regarding tariff concessions to the United States by Brazil, including details of specific rates of imports proportionate to Brazilian exports.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-29
This postcard shows a colorized picture of a rubber plantation, where many workers are planting and caring for young rubber trees. Charles C. Myers adds that rubber is one of the principle products of southern India and Ceylon.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “Scene on a rubber plantation. Planting and cultivating the young trees.”
Booker T. Washington writes about the poor conditions currently existing in the Congo Free State. Léopold II, King of the Belgians, has created a state of extreme cruelty by removing African’s ability to independently gather and trade goods, essentially enslaving an entire nation. Washington quotes a passage from a report by William H. Sheppard to illustrate this, in which Sheppard has met with a tribe of cannibals who had been employed by the state to raid villages who had not harvested the required amount of rubber. Washington hopes by writing this article to call the attention of civilized nations to this treatment in order to improve conditions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-04