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Editor Albert Shaw holds himself responsible for everything that appears in his magazine, The American Monthly Review of Reviews, but says that he was absent when Dr. John J. Cronin’s article, “The Doctor in the Public School,” was approved. He agrees that the paragraph about race suicide should not have been published.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-06
President Roosevelt thanks Baron Kaneko for his concern about Archibald B. Roosevelt’s illness. He explains why the United States wishes to restrict members of the Japanese working class from migrating to the United States. Roosevelt believes that this will ease tensions between both countries. The new commission on immigration might also consider restricting immigration from Europe.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-23
President Roosevelt directs Secretary of State Root to meet him soon about the potential legislation in California discriminating against Japanese students. Roosevelt wants to write an open letter or telegram to the Governor of California James Norris Gillett to oppose the measure. Refusing to restrain the Japanese immigration will make the situation worse. They can speak to Californians Victor Howard Metcalf and Frank P. Flint if needed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-10
B. G. Tieger sends Theodore Roosevelt their poem petitioning Americans to read Jewish history and “see how much utility and advantage this people has brought.” They hope Roosevelt will publish it in The Outlook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-18
Anti-Japanese sentiment in San Francisco has spiked and the local authorities have yet to investigate or pursue justice. Tension between Japan and the United States is unusual, as an experienced diplomat on the subject stated: “America is the last country with which I expected complications with Japan. Traditional friendship of the two nations uniformly maintained by the government at Washington, makes me almost hesitate to believe that an anti-Japanese sentiment exists in Uncle Sam’s territory”. Fortunately, President Roosevelt is a capable and thoughtful leader, who will no doubt resolve the matter efficiently.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-06
General Hamilton commends President Roosevelt for his tact with handling San Francisco’s challenges to the Gentlemen’s agreement with Japan. He discusses different forms of combat. He believes that Japanese and Russian soldiers are more prone to fight in hand-to-hand combat, while superior soldiers rely on firearms. Hamilton relays his opinion of Captain Tanaka and Tamemoto Kuroki, and Japanese men more broadly. Hamilton was happy to see the photographs of Roosevelt riding his horse.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-11
A memorandum containing summary of Commander Simon P. Fullinwider’s letter from December 6, 1907, which criticizes Brazil’s construction of large and expensive dreadnoughts and says they may be Japan’s project. He recommends the United States ready their fleet accordingly and dismiss Japanese men aboard the ships, who he thinks could be spies. Commander Sims writes that the officers will learn more while in Rio, and he shares Fullinwider’s concerns about “foreign servants” and enlisted men sharing confidential information.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-19
Typescript of a speech carried by Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee on October 14, 1912. The speech was folded in his jacket pocket at the time of the attempted assassination. Bullet holes indicate how the speech helped to break the force of the bullet. The speech is now bound and presented as a book. The speech attacks Woodrow Wilson for nativism and xenophobia while defending immigration and the racial, religious, and cultural diversity of the United States population.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1912-10-12