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A prospectus for the Hudson Supply Company outlines the aims and objects of the organization, which provides supplies to hotels, clubs, restaurants, steamboats, sailboats, and other outfits. The pamphlet invites investors to purchase common stock in the company.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-15
Milton B. Goodkind is glad he amused Theodore Roosevelt with is last letter. He hopes to speak in person with Roosevelt soon, but discusses possible Democratic presidential candidates. In response to Roosevelt’s article “Whats the Matter with Business,” Goodkind list several things that are wrong with business and why things are so broken and why promises will no longer be enough for American’s.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-12
Thomas T. Chaloner asks Theodore Roosevelt why rich corporations do not give the public a square deal and gives the example of his attempts to sell his train stop device to railroad companies. Chaloner knows his device could save lives, yet the railroad companies do not want to pay to install the device and therefore turn Chaloner away. Chaloner believes railroad companies are selling all the stock and bonds to foreign nobles, catering to them rather than making railroads safer for Americans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-18
Richard P. Keif repeats his earlier request of Theodore Roosevelt to recommend an honest lawyer to help him, having not received a response to his previous letter. Keif placed his stock in the care of a broker who stole the stock and sold it before declaring bankruptcy. Keif does not believe America has honest laws that are followed and has been unable to file charges against the man who robbed him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-16
The author of this article argues that the United States Supreme Court is working with the American Tobacco Company to dissolve the illegal company but, in allowing a new company to be created, are forming a monopoly that will drive out independent retailers from the tobacco industry. To avoid the scandal and lawsuits that will come if the Supreme Court continues on their path, the author suggests the Supreme Court request a full inventory of the assets of all the companies forming the new trust and verify all stocks and bonds under the companies, especially the American Cigar Company, are covered. The second suggestion made is to make coupons illegal because the issuance of coupons runs independent retailers out of business.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-21
William Allen White assures President Roosevelt that the railroads have fared well this past winter. White believes the slump in railroad stocks is due to anti-railroad sentiment in the middle Western states and the unwanted interference of attorneys hired by railroad executives Edward Henry Harriman, George Jay Gould, and Mr. Marowitz in local politics.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-15
Leslie M. Shaw is glad that President Roosevelt will be meeting with a committee of railroad men. Shaw notes that “at least three-fourths of the accumulated wealth of the United States has been unearned,” referring to value increases of land and real property over time. The difficulty is in how to “adjust matters that every man who has contributed capital or effort toward the development of our country shall have his fair share of the results of American effort.” Shaw identifies the corporate evils in the railroad industry as rooted in granting rebates and special privileges, and corporate control of corporations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-14
Thomas Fortune Ryan thanks former President Cleveland for “the personal sacrifice” in agreeing to serve on the board of trustees of the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
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1905-06-12
President Roosevelt uses “the spear that knows no brother” to take the “respectability” cloak off a “stock market gambler.” Caption: “There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market.” –President Roosevelt’s Message.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-01
As President Roosevelt holds a “dishonest” brand on a stick labeled “special message to Congress,” he chases a man holding “dishonest wealth,” “illegal discrimination,” “watered stocks,” “stock gambling,” and “dishonest corporation methods.” The man says, “The public and the courts be ‘d–d.'” In the background, “Congress” says, “Oh I’m so afraid somebody will be hurt!”
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1908-02-01
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from T. F. Baldwin that includes a certificate for 40 shares of stock in the Melba Mining Company. Roosevelt asks whether he should “stay in” the matter.
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1902-04-29
President Roosevelt asks Milton Dwight Purdy to get in touch with Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver. Dolliver is preparing a bill regarding better oversight of stocks and securities from interstate carriers, and Roosevelt would like Purdy to help Dolliver, or tell him who in the Department of Justice or the Interstate Commerce Commission may be able to assist.
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1908-02-04
President Roosevelt acknowledges that decontextualized parts of his message regarding the financial crisis may have been circulating on Wall Street, but he stands by what he has said and believes his policies should be permanent. Roosevelt also tells William Emlen Roosevelt that J. P. Morgan and George F. Baker were in favor of his financial measures.
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1907-11-23
Louisa Lee Schuyler assures Theodore Roosevelt she can arrange a luncheon instead of a dinner. Schuyler liked what Roosevelt wrote in The Outlook regarding Trusts and says she has great faith in the steel corporations because they are transparent, allow employees to participate in profits, stock, and ownership, and they do not work on Sundays.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-29
S. H. Cowan reminds Theodore Roosevelt of his offer to help. He recently organized the Citizens Securities Company and asks Roosevelt to put him in contact with Eastern investors. Cowan wants to meet with Roosevelt in ten days to discuss the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-01
Henry B. Joy is busy and finds it difficult to arrange an interview with Arthur L. Holmes and prefers that he write a letter instead. He comments on washed sales on the New York Stock Exchange and how they mostly stopped under Governor Charles Evans Hughes’s administration. Joy feels that America is strangling business enterprise and industry unnecessarily through prejudice towards corporations, which pose no threat if adequately regulated.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-31
P. Wagner updates his readers on the state of the stock market. He advises those holding stocks, to continue to do so.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-04
P. Wagner updates his readers on the state of the stock market and issues a variety of recommendations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-28
P. Wagner provides some terse recommendations about the market, which has not changed much. Below the main body of the newsletter Wagner comments on the value of the newsletter and the accuracy of his past predictions, and promises to reveal further predictions in time for his readers to act on them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-26
George Stuart Smith sends Theodore Roosevelt several newsletters of financial advice, and offers to explain how he makes his calculations to anyone Roosevelt would care to have inspect them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-26