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This article describes an incident between an African American soldier and a white woman. The article expresses some surprise that more of these sorts of incidents have not happened and blames Senator Joseph Benson Foraker for denouncing President Roosevelt’s handling of the Brownsville incident, wherein African-American soldiers were rumored to have opened fire on citizens.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-31
Theodore Roosevelt mentions his work on the situation in Mexico and expresses a desire to write about outrages on the women and children. He asks Senator Fall to provide him with information on specific cases concerning the topic.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-08
President Roosevelt admires people who do their full duty; he compares the mother of many children, the soldier who fought well, and the man who worked hard. Roosevelt believes that a race that will not fight and “flinch from breeding” will bring about the death of their own race.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-19
Theodore Roosevelt returns to Edith Wyatt a manuscript about the exploitation of women, “the saddest, and most perplexing, problem we have to face.” He laments that merely abolishing brothels and professional prostitution is not adequate, as evidenced in Sweden and in Vermont, where there is “lamentably widespread sexual immorality, and self-sale of the most callous kind” by women raised in respectable homes. Roosevelt comments that he was taught that chastity was as much the duty of the man as the woman. He abhors excusing the man and letting the blame fall on women. Roosevelt hopes to help through organizations such as the Salvation Army.
1912-12-15