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President Roosevelt is pleased with the letter Judge Speer sent along with the clippings and details of his speech. He is pleased with Speer’s views on promoting social justice regarding race relations, and is upset that some senators are still using their power to undo advancement of African Americans in society.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-18
Theodore Roosevelt writes to former Representative Charles Washburn to list his reasons for considering running for president again. He lists the concerns of social justice on one hand, but expresses unease of the LaFollettes. He believes President William Howard Taft only represented the monied interests.
1915-11-29
Theodore Roosevelt writes that he was touched by the checks sent by Louisa Lee Schuyler and Georgina Schuyler. Roosevelt especially appreciated what Louisa Lee Schuyler wrote about social and economic justice, and the verse she sent from Gustavus Adolphus’s Battle Song.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-28
Theodore Roosevelt asks Jane Addams to provide him with an explanation of an enclosed telegram that may pertain to Millicent Garrett Fawcett. He requests that Addams write a few articles on the progressive movement, especially as it relates to social justice for women and children.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-16
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Commander Von Rodesky and the U. S. Spanish War Veterans of Nevada for pledging their support to Roosevelt’s campaign.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-09
Theodore Roosevelt compliments Judge Ben B. Lindsey’s policies and states that the people would revolt if Lindsey’s movement were to succeed. Roosevelt encourages Lindsey to continue his work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-12
President Roosevelt is sorry that he cannot be present at the dinner of the Playground Association of America, but is glad that the association has Mrs. Humphry Ward as the guest of honor. Roosevelt tells Richard Watson Gilder that he feels that Americans owe Ward much, as she has played a large role in the world movement for social betterment. He sends his best wishes for the future progress of the Playground Association.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-20
President Roosevelt thanks Richard W. Knott for the editorial, and says that he believes it is essential that there be “temperate criticism when they go flagrantly wrong.” In order to avoid the injustice that is present in political platforms of people like William Randolph Hearst or Eugene V. Debs, it is important to act on the just portion that is also present.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-27
George Patrick Ahern tells Theodore Roosevelt about a conversation he had with a friend recently. The friend criticized Roosevelt, but he seemed merely to object to Roosevelt’s frequent use of the term “social justice,” without offering a definition of the term. Ahern expresses his confidence in Roosevelt’s candidacy and hopes that Roosevelt will provide a definition of “social justice” in the Outlook magazine when he gets the chance.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-23
Norman H. Blackmer has read the book produced by The Outlook on Theodore Roosevelt’s “New Nationalism,” and is pleased by Roosevelt’s advocacy of progressive topics. Blackmer compares the way in which a regular army depends on the availability of provisions to the way in which the “Army of Progress” in the “great War for the Wellbeing of Man,” relies on citizens being well provisioned and not left to “forage on charity, grafting and theft.” He agrees with Roosevelt that every citizen should receive fair wages, but emphasizes that this is only a first step towards being able to improve society, not an end unto itself.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-20
Harrison C. Babbitt uses Christian ideals to advocate for socialist reform and urges President Roosevelt to read The Truth About Socialism by Allan L. Benson.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-28
This tape recording presents the audio from several Edison Amberol cylinders which originally recorded speeches by Theodore Roosevelt given in 1912. Speeches presented here include “The Right of the People to Rule,” “The Farmer and the Businessman,” “Social and Industrial Justice,” and “The Progressive Covenant.” Additionally, there are several iterations of Roosevelt’s address to the Boys Progressive League in 1912, including one prefaced by an introduction by Daniel Carter Beard, the founder of the organization the Sons of Daniel Boone, which later merged with the Boy Scouts of America.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1969-05-20
This episode of the television program You Are There dramatizes the events of October 14, 1912, when John Flammang Schrank attempted to assassinate Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The program examines some elements of public opinion regarding Roosevelt’s decision to run for a third presidential term, in addition to mentioning several of Roosevelt’s main accomplishments and philosophies. The program was sponsored by the Prudential Life Insurance Company of America, and includes several advertisements for their services.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1957
Scenes of Hastings H. Hart, penologist, consultant in delinquency and penology for the Russell Sage Foundation, and recipient of the 1930 Roosevelt Medal for Distinguished Service for the promotion of social justice. Opening scene of Hart greeting two guard officers at what appears to be a prison building in New York State; long shot of Hart posing with group of inmates and guards; and medium view of Hart talking with an unidentified inmate in a jail cell.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1930
A booklet published by the Progressive National Committee. The publication lists the names of people in the Progressive Party’s administration and outlines the party’s ideals and goals. The Table of Contents is as follows: Organization of the National Service; Division of Administration – Organization of State Services, Office Organization; Department Work – Social and Industrial Justice, Conservation, Popular Government, Cost of Living and Corporation Control; Bureau of Education; Bureau of Legislative Reference.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1913-03-31
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates the letter from W. H. Little and reiterates his belief in the development of a social conscience.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-04-15
Theodore Roosevelt lays out the duties of the United States as a member of an international community, which include securing the safety and rights of our citizens at home and abroad, guarding the honor and upholding the just influence of our nation, and maintaining the integrity of international law. He insists that the United States should try to maintain peace, but believes there are “higher things which we must keep, if need be at the price of war.” Roosevelt believes military preparedness and a strong sense of nationalism are critical, but notes that patriotism cannot develop in members of a class that is being oppressed. Therefore, the protection of the working class is necessary, as a country “must be worth living in, to be worth dying for.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
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Copy of Theodore Roosevelt’s speech to be delivered at Des Moines, Iowa. Roosevelt says the United States was unprepared for war and at present is still lacking its own guns and other supplies. The country, he says, must work to be better prepared in order that it does not repeat the mistakes it has made during this war. He says the government must “interfere” with the wage-worker and farmer to secure social and industrial justice for its citizens. The United States, he says, must unite as one country with citizens loyal to her and must be better prepared for future wars by instituting universal military service. Note: This speech was not delivered due to illness.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-02-11
Copy of Theodore Roosevelt’s speech to be delivered at Des Moines, Iowa. Roosevelt says the United States was unprepared for war and at present is still lacking its own guns and other supplies. The country, he says, must work to be better prepared in order that it does not repeat the mistakes it has made during this war. He says the government must “interfere” with the wage-worker and farmer to secure social and industrial justice for its citizens. The United States, he says, must unite as one country with citizens loyal to her and must be better prepared for future wars by instituting universal military service. Note: This speech was not delivered due to illness.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-02-11
Theodore Roosevelt congratulates women in New York State on obtaining the right to vote. He asks that they fulfill the duties and obligations that come along with such a privilege and believes that women will do much to further social and industrial justice. He particularly asks for them to fulfill the duty of patriotism required during the war.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-11-20