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Letter from Robert Grant to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Robert Grant to Theodore Roosevelt

Judge Robert Grant writes to President Theodore Roosevelt congratulating him on continuously advocating for progressive tax reform. Grant knows that progressive taxes are very unpopular amongst the upper class, who prefer to maintain control over their wealth and dole it out to their inheritors as they wish. Grant maintains that progressive tax reform is more reliable in assisting society’s needs than relying on the upper class to voluntarily donate their money to useful causes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-16

Creator(s)

Grant, Robert, 1852-1940

Letter from Tasker L. Oddie to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Tasker L. Oddie to Theodore Roosevelt

Governor of Nevada Oddie looks forward to welcoming Theodore Roosevelt to the state. Oddie discusses several measures of the recent state legislative session, including bills on water law, reclamation, and labor compensation. He attests to Roosevelt’s “profound influence” as an “example of purposeful citizenship.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-30

Creator(s)

Oddie, Tasker L. (Tasker Lowndes), 1870-1950

Forgotten on purpose

Forgotten on purpose

A man labeled “Tax-payer” has fallen on steps labeled “Congress.” He has a large boulder labeled “War Taxes on Iron on Sugar on Cloth Salt Leather [and] Linens” strapped to his back. On the steps is a small stone labeled “Tax Taken Off Patent Medicines, Perfumery, etc.” In the room at the top of the steps, many hands dip into a bowl of coins labeled “River & Harbor Bill.” Caption: “He asked for bread, and they gave him a stone!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-08-09

Creator(s)

Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896

Which clapper?

Which clapper?

The Liberty Bell lies on its side in a barren landscape with a large man labeled “Monopoly” sitting on the top. The crack in the bell is labeled “Plutocracy.” Many different groups of people, including a group of women, carry clappers for the bell. The clappers are labeled “Socialism, Tax Reform, The Oregon Idea, Woman Suffrage, Free Trade, [and] Protection.” Caption: Take your choice; but while that crack is in it, the Liberty Bell will never ring clear.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-06-28

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Memorandum from James Francis Smith to the Honorable Secretary of the Interior of Baguio, Benguet, Philippines

Memorandum from James Francis Smith to the Honorable Secretary of the Interior of Baguio, Benguet, Philippines

James Francis Smith, Secretary of Public Instruction, outlines paragraphs (e) and (f) of sections 43 and 45 of Act No. 82 to the Honorable Secretary of the Interior of Baguio, Benguet, Philippines. Smith explains that under section 43, a municipality can only derive income in four specific instances: taxation, services rendered, punishments, and property. Section 45 specifies “the income which the municipality may derive from its own property or from property in which it has an interest” and “gives no authority” to taxing those properties.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-06-01

Creator(s)

Smith, James Francis, 1859-1928