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Clark Howell congratulates President Roosevelt on the Senate’s vote supporting the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (Panama Canal treaty).
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-24
The two-sided handbill features a reprint from the Boston Evening Transcript. The first side includes text referencing the United States’ neutrality in the “European War” and calling attention to an “editorial which appeared in the Providence Journal, soon after the start of the European War, and which was reprinted by the Boston Transcript, as shown on the following page.” On the reverse side, the cartoon entitled “Convicted!” shows a small girl, labeled “Belgium,” pointing at an over-sized German soldier. Below the cartoon is an editorial condemning German atrocities in Belgium.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1914-10-16
Franklin Delano Roosevelt looks at an image of Theodore Roosevelt in a mirror above his desk. A speech bubble over FDR’s head reads, “He got away with the Panama Canal!” A document labeled “St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty” sits on FDR’s desk.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1934-01-14
President Roosevelt discusses the recently ratified treaty with Cuba and its benefits. He also discusses the tariff in relation to the products of the Philippines and the general prosperity of the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-04
Theodore Roosevelt discusses the duties of the United States within this hemisphere. He also justifies the building of the Panama Canal, as well as highlighting problems with the Republic of Venezuela.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-02
President Roosevelt discusses the recently ratified treaty with Cuba and its benefits. He also discusses the tariff in relation to the products of the Philippines and the general prosperity of the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-04
President McKinley stands at center holding an “Inexhaustible Prosperity Hat” and surrounded by vignettes showing his accomplishments since taking office. Caption: A few of the wonders performed by magician McKinley, since his inauguration.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-10-06
Theodore Roosevelt stands among ships in a harbor, digging and throwing dirt in the direction of “Bogota,” while a small man on a hill raises a flag labeled “new treaty.” Probably in reference to the Hay-Herran Canal Treaty of 1903.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903
The Roman god “Mars” is shown bound to rocks, imprisoned with shackles and clamps labeled “Russo-German Commercial Treaty,” fastened with spikes driven by Alexander III of Russia and William II of Germany using large sledgehammers labeled “Ratification.” In the background, a female figure labeled “Peace” reclines in a hammock that hangs between the standards of each nation. Caption: Peace in Europe is safe for ten years more, anyhow!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-04-04
Lame duck president Grover Cleveland and Secretary of State Richard Olney look down at a knocked-out document labeled “Arbitration Treaty” lying on a desk between them. John Sherman is looking in through a window in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-02-24
The Russian Bear plays a fiddle labeled “Politics.” Around its waist is a belt with papers labeled “French Military Secrets” tucked behind. A cord extending from its right wrist is connected to a restraint labeled “Treaty” around the neck of a dancing soldier labeled “France.” The French soldier may refer to (and looks somewhat like) Ferdinand W. Esterhazy who was involved in the Dreyfus Affair and the sale of military secrets to Germany.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-03-16
Two masked legislators labeled “Anti-Administration Senator” and “Jingo Senator,” holding long knives labeled “Hatred of Cleveland” and “Hatred of England,” stand outside the “U.S. Senate,” waiting to ambush an “Arbitration Treaty” standing at the entrance to the Senate.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-02-03
Theodore Roosevelt speaks to the American Historical Congress about his time as president and his role in the actions leading up to the construction of the Panama Canal. He discusses his desire that the United States have sole dominion over the canal and negotiations with other countries, particularly Colombia, to acquire the rights and land to build it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-07-23
Theodore Roosevelt describes the Colombian president’s attempt to “blackmail” the United States in 1903 to secure a high price for the rights to build the Panama Canal. Roosevelt credits himself with refusing to pay the Colombian government and for paying the French Company for the land. President Wilson’s administration is now proposing to pay the Colombian government for its rights in Panama, to which Roosevelt is opposed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02
Print shows John Bull standing on the left at an entrance labeled “India” and Uncle Sam standing opposite at an entrance labeled “Philippines” inviting men labeled “Germany, Russia, France, Italy, [and] Austria” to enter carrying bags, boxes, and bundles of products for export and trade. Caption: In spite of all agreements, this seems to Puck to be the only way it can ever be settled.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-05-31
Print shows Uncle Sam standing on one side of a street, in front of a store with a sign that states “Beware of All German Goods,” while William II, the German Emperor, stands on the opposite side of the street, in front of a store with a sign that states “Beware of All American Goods.” They are trying to come to an agreement to remove both signs. Caption: Uncle Sam / Emperor William–If you take down your sign I’ll take down mine.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-04-12
Print shows the ghost of the British Lion reacting with fear at finding an “Irish American” and a “German American” in a bed labeled “Anti Anglo-American Alliance.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-05-03
A man wearing a hat labeled “Oregon,” and holding two handguns, gives Chinese men a “Hobson’s choice” or the option of leaving by jumping off a cliff into the sea below (on the right) or staying and being shot to death (on the left). At his feet is a “Treaty with China” torn in half.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1886-02-24
The British lion and the Russian bear threaten a turkey dressed as a Turk. Caption: England and Russia, together – “Be my ally, or I’ll give you the worst thrashing you ever had in your life!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-04-22
Theodore Roosevelt will continue to support Canadian reciprocity. He is not surprised that New York supported Charles Francis Murphy and William Barnes. Roosevelt informed Barnes that he “had no intention of making war upon him,” and that he hoped Barnes would act decently.
1911-02-03