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Theodore Roosevelt is not able to give the lecture. He did it once, because he cared about the unemployed in New York City.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-05
Theodore Roosevelt acknowledges that it was a mistake to send Pastor Roussel to Cleveland H. Dodge.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-03
Theodore Roosevelt is sorry that the country is experiencing times where it is hard to get employment.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-06
Theodore Roosevelt apologizes to Ferdinand C. Iglehart for not being able to attend church on Sunday due to a high fever. Also, he states that it is unlikely that he will donate money to the unemployed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-04
Theodore Roosevelt regretfully declines to make a speech, especially concerning any political matters. The only exception will be a request to speak about the unemployed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-04
Theodore Roosevelt declines Jacob A. Falconer’s request to give a speech, because he does not want to be criticized for attracting public attention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-04
Theodore Roosevelt was sorry to hear about the accident Mrs. Robins experienced. It is not possible for Roosevelt to accept the Northwestern University Settlement invitation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-29
Theodore Roosevelt apologizes for missing Lucretia Thatcher Perry Osborn’s previous letter and the dinner invitation. Roosevelt is not able to make a speech before the New York Zoological Society, similar to that which he gave for the American Museum of Natural History. If he speaks again in New York, it must be for the unemployed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-19
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Leslie Sutherland of the Third Avenue Railroad Company to see whether there might be a position open for a William R. Lush, who served in the Second Volunteer Cavalry in 1898. Lush is a steamfitter by trade but has been out of work for several months and his wife and four children are in “bad shape.” Roosevelt knows that Frederick W. Whitridge, President of Third Avenue Railway Company, has given chances to some of Roosevelt’s acquaintances.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-09-17
Ambassador Meyer explains in a memorandum that the Admiralty are laying down two battleships to be built in Russia. Meyer learned in a conversation with a Russian Admiral that they had begun building the ships since if they had waited until March it would have meant paying off 20,000 workmen and causing great unemployment. Meyer learned from another source that the plan was to have a fleet of four battleships and an English Company is offering to build a ship with ten or twelve 12-inch guns with speed similar to the “Dreadnought.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-06
John E. Reyburn, mayor of the city of Philadelphia, suggests that President Roosevelt’s rhetoric contributed to the protests and demonstrations that the city saw against rising unemployment. Director of Public Safety Henry Clay says that while the people and magazine articles who speak out against economic inequality may have good intentions, they open the door for people such as anarchist Voltarine De Cleyre to take advantage of the situation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-22
Both Assistant Superintendent of Police Timothy J. O’Leary and Mayor John E. Reyburn of Philadelphia blame the policies of President Theodore Roosevelt for the recent riots in the city. The riots were due to a recent increase in unemployment, and saw demonstrators marching to City Hall.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-22
Print shows two large male figures, one, wearing business attire, is labeled “Commercial Trust,” he is holding paper labeled “Order to Raise Wages” and the other labeled “Labor Trust” is armed with a bomb, a handgun, and a rifle, and is holding paper labeled “Order to Strike.” Behind the “Labor Trust” are unemployed families, explosions, and anarchy; behind the “Commercial Trust” is order, as men head for factories. Caption: Commercial Trust (to Labor Trust) – While you are denouncing me, why don’t you include yourself? You use violence and destroy property, while I use peaceful methods and not only lower prices but raise wages, as the statistics of the last fifteen years will show.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-06-07