[*Beattie*] E. D. BEATTIE MANAGEMENT OF ALASKA HUNTING PARTIES OUTFITS GUIDES LAUNCHES JUNEAU, ALASKA August Second 1913 Re Big Game Hunting in Alaska Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir: In planning your big game hunting trips have you ever considered Alaska, with its vast, well-stocked game fields? Doubtless you--like many others--would like to make a trip to this section but have been confronted with the problems of securing authentic information, the best big game centers, the chance of securing reliables, our complicated game laws and the many other vexing questions of a far-away hunting trip. To eliminate these annoyances prompted me to engage in the business I am now conducting --arranging, outfitting and managing hunting parties. Being familiar with the game, the game fields, and conditions generally, I can lay out almost any trip a sportsman desires to take--give him a close estimate of its cost and time required. For such service there is no charge. Should you decide to come up this way I would be pleased to arrange for your outfitting, secure you guides, boats, horses and other necessaries. I have co-workers scattered throughout the territory and should I not be able to personally attend to your wants will see that you are placed in good hands and receive fair and honest treatment. Getting started right is half the battle in this country. Owing to the rigid enforcement of our game laws game of all kinds has rapidly increased and it is no great difficulty for a sportsman to get all the trophies allowed by law. Pleased to hear from you at any time if considering a trip up this way and glad to render you any assistance possible. Yours very truly, ED Beattie Reference: First National Bank of Juneau Sportsmen's Committee, Commercial Club, JuneauForm 168 WESTERN UNION WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM [*8-2-13] THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT RECEIVED AT 172 Fifth Ave., N. W. Cor. 22d St., New York Always Open A273NY Q 29 LOS ANGELES CALIF AUG 2 1913 FRANK HARPER SCY THEODORE ROOSEVELT 287 FORTH AVE NY PROGRESSIVES WILL HOLD BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY BANQUET OF PROGRESSIVE PARTY LOS ANGELES NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT GOVERNOR JOHNSON WILL SPEAK WOULD LIKE PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM COL ROOSEVELT TO READ AT BANQUET ANSWER EDWIN T EARL 512 PMBox 195, Hartsdale, N.Y. August 2, 1913. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, "The Outlook", 287 Fourth Ave., N.Y. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: A grasshopper may hold up a train, and a woman's scruple may hold up the autobiography of a Theodore Roosevelt. The Macmillans have asked me for a photograph of myself, to be included in your forthcoming autobiography. Before I can comply with this request, I must make sure what text the picture is meant to illustrate, in order to save you from the charge of not knowing the exact shade of opinion held by each one of your multitude of followers on anyone of a multitude of subjects! I have already been the cause of your incurring such a charge, and I cannot let it happen again through my failure to warn you. In your article in the "Outlook" of June 28th, you did me the honor of mentioning me in the same sentence with the blessed Jane Addams and Frances Keller the great, in your discussion of your attitude on suffrage. It happens that my position is not exactly the same as theirs, and while it is of the least consequence in the world what I think on this or any other subject, your casual reference has invested the matter with a degree of importance absurdly out of proportion to my influence in a public debate. The truth is that I am very cool about the suffrage,- by no means against it, but not warmly interested in securing it. I simply haven't got religion on the subject, and you cannot count on me until I have. When people ask if I am a suffragist, I say "not yet". You have never heard me say "not yet", because suffrageAugust 2, 1913. Col. T.R.---#2. was not discussed on the few occasions when I was happy enough to be in your company. But others, who have known that I am holding back, have inferred, from your brief reference, that I have been converted, and have made much of the matter; as if the victory of the suffrage cause only waited my approval! The stir caused by my supposed conversion would only amuse me, were it not for the fact that some people, on being set right, have expressed themselves as if you were to blame for not knowing exactly where I stand,- as though Caesar were expected to know the exact fighting position of every soldier in his legions! I am sorry indeed that my failure to share your enthusiasm in this one respect has put you in a false position, and to prevent the perpetuation of the error I hereby declare that I am outside the ranks of the suffragists - so far! If this confession disqualifies me for the honor of being included in your gallery of witnesses, I shall have the comfort of knowing that the same confession marks me as a true Rooseveltian. For those who know you best, know well that honesty is the first thing you demand of the men and women who seek services under you. I heard, not long ago, of a woman who asked her neighbor, an enthusiastic Progressive, "Where do you Progressive ladies get your opinions? Does somebody tell you what to think?" I wish that lady might know what I am writing to you to-day. She would learn that there is no moral dictatorship in the Progressive Party; that with us loyalty to a leader does no degenerate into slavishness; that we can work together for good government and a higher interpretation of the American idea, without surrendering our right to think each one for himself. Yours conscientiously, Mary Antin GrabauAugust 2, 1913 Col. T. R. ---#2. was not discussed on the few occasions when I was happy enough to be in your company. But others, who have known that I am holding back, have inferred, from your brief reference, that I have been converted, and have made much of the matter; as if the victory of the suffrage cause only waited my approval! The stir caused by my supposed conversion would only amuse me, were it not for the fact that some people, on being set right, have expressed themselves as if you were to blame for not knowing exactly where I stand,- as though Caesar were expected to know the exact fighting position of every soldier in his legions! I am sorry indeed that my failure to share your enthusiasm in this one respect has put you in a false position, and to prevent the perpetuation of the error I hereby declare that I am outside the ranks of the suffragists - so far! If this confession disqualifies me for the honor of being included in you gallery of witnesses, I shall have the comfort of knowing that the same confession marks me as a true Rooseveltian. For those who know you best, know well that honesty is the first thing you demand of the men and women who seek service under you. I heard, not long ago, of a woman who asked her neighbor, an enthusiastic Progressive, "Where do you Progressive ladies get your opinions? Does somebody tell you what to think?" I wish that lady might know what I am writing to you to-day. She would learn that there is no moral dictatorship in the Progressive Party; that with us loyalty to a leader does not degenerate into slavishness; that we can work together for good government and a higher interpretation of the American idea, without surrendering our right to think each one for himself. Yours conscientiously, Mary Auten GrabanAlbuquerque New Mexico Aug. 2d 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir, Noticing that you will be the guest of Mr. Lorenzo Hubble. I direct this letter in his care. When you return to Albuquerque. I am exceedingly anxious for you to see a mamoth & exceedingly fine Bear skin - a grisley. It arrived in Albuquerque a few hours after you lift the day. You were here. The bear was killed by an old hunter here & he is an acquaintence of Dr. Pettit. (Dr. Pettit has the skin he is a prominent dentist here) Well Colonel: I am presumtious2 Enough to think you never saw a larger or firm bear skin, and I know you have seen many. I am a stranger in on sense to you & another not I cast my presidential vot for you & am prowd of it Cincerly your Milton C. Nettleton 220 West Gold Ave Albuquerque New MexicoOfficers PRESIDENT, EDWARD W. PIERCE VICE PRESIDENT, HARRY O. SANDBERG SECRETARY, FRANCIS D. ALEXANDER 2123 18th STREET N. W. TREASURER, JOHN D. HOWARD SERGEANT-AT-ARMS, WILLIAM T. JONES National University Law School Class of 1915 #332 Bond Building. Washington, D. C. August 2d, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, "Outlook" office, New York City. Dear Sir: By direction of the Class of 1915 National University Law School, I, as president of the Class, on the 26th of May, last, telegraphed you an invitation to address the student body of the School at their annual banquet at Rauscher's in this City. Up to this date I have received no reply to this telegram. This is written for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not you received it, for the reason that you have a great many admirers in our School and they cannot understand why an invitation of this kind should not be accorded the courtesy of a reply. Very respectfully, E.W. PiercePARK A ROSS, SYDNEY. AUSTRALIA. Sydney, 2nd August 1913 AUSTRALIA. CABLE ADDRESS--- NEROH, SYDNEY. CODES--- WESTERN UNION. LIEBERS, A.B.C. (5TH EDITION.) The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, Long Island, NEW YORK.U.S.A. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: Enclosed please find clipping from the Sydney Evening "Sun" of July 28th 1913. Of course I know this is a lie made out of whole cloth, and as an American, it cut pretty deep to see the name of the man, in whom every citizen takes such pride, coupled with an enterprise of this character, and roused my spirit of resentment to the boiling point. The McIntosh referred to was formerly a fight promoter here, and he is now managing a circuit of variety theatre's probably instigated this article for advertising purposes. I have done all in my power to correct this misrepresentation, and to show the people here how utterly impossible it would be for a man of your caliber and reputation to become a party to such a contract. It is unfortunate that men such as McIntosh or his agent would be so low as to use your name, a name which is a byword for everything that is good in manhood, a name that is respected and revered by every nation on the face of the globe.Hon. Theo. Roosevelt. -2- 2:8:13. I know that people of Australia hold you in the highest regard and esteem, and would welcome a visit from you with open arms, and I sincerely hope that in the near future you will find time to pay this country a visit, and show them the ideal American. I also trust that I will be here at that time, and do my little mite to help give you the rousing welcome you deserve. Under separate covers I am sending some literature and views of Australia, which I think will be of some interest to you. Also a full copy of the Evening "Sun", one of the only two evening papers is Sydney, and the one of larger circulation. With kind regards, Iremain, Yours sincerely, Park. A. Ross Ocean House PAR/MHUnited States Post Office Austin, Texas, 8/2/13. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, #287 Fourth Ave., New York, N.Y. My dear Sir:- I wish to thank you especially for, and tell you how much I have enjoyed, your article, in today's issue of "The Outlook", on "Good Citizenship". It is a nugget: all the essentials for a good and telling life, in the home, municipality, state and nation, are condensed there for us, whether we be in business or profession, artisans or farmers. But to me, what appeals, has been, not so much the statement of fact, but the attractiveness of this life as you put it, and the stirring up and revivifying of a desire to "hit the ball" in this way, even better than we have ever done before. Very sincerely yours, Wilber St. Young Asst. P.M.[[shorthand]] 274 MADISON AVENUE August 3, 1913. My dear Col. Roosevelt, I realise that it is scarcely the hour to approach you with anything of a personal nature, and please permit me just here to say how deep is my understanding of the trial through which you and Mrs. Roosevelt have just passed. The unselfed nobility of your attitude teaches a great lesson and fills me with reverence. I am impelled to send you the enclosed pamphlet as your unswerving adherence to what you have believed to be right has always been a great inspiration to me. I feel sure that you will appreciate the sincerity of my convictions and the serious import of the subject in hand. With assurances of my deep regard, believe me Faithfully yours, Kitty Cheatham Col. Theodore Roosevelt Bar Harbor, Maine UNITED STATES SENATE. PRESS GALLERY, [*Hebbs Bldg*] WASHINGTON, D.C., August 3 191 [*[13?]*] Dear Colonel Roosevelt:- This may interest you or Mr. Perkins: Senator Kenyon has written to George Wiekersham, who was attorney general in the Taft cabinet to get permission, as a matter of ethish to exploit on the floor an alleged incident of the Taft administration. Kenyon was at that time Assistant to the Attorney General "trust buster" as we called him the newspaper accounts. He succeeded your friend Milton D. Purdy. The incident as alleged by Kenyon is that George W. Perkins called on President Taft to dissuade him from prosecuting the Harvester Trust under the Sherman Act. Finally, according to Kenyon as he relates it privately to a friend here Perkins threatened Taft with political chastisement of some kind and Taft ordered him out of the White House. As he went Taft was warned by Perkins so Kenyon's narrative goes that if Taft did not relax his legal campaign against the Traust he would "be the worst beaten candidate who ever ran for President". Kenyon claims this story was known to a few close frineds of Taft in the administration circle. That Wiekersham knew it and Kenyon as confidential as istant to Wiekersham knew it. He is writing or has written to Wiekersham for permission to make the matter public in the debate in the Senate. I did not get this from K. direct but from an Iowa man to whom he told it and I thought you would be interested. The course in in confidence that is Iprefer it be. Although it involves no violation of confidence on my part in advising you. Faithfully, Jerry A. Mathews237 E. 3rd S.t., Elyria, Ohio Aug. 3rd 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir: Having seen by the newspapers that you are organizing four regiments of cavalry in the Southwest, if such be true, I hereby wish to place myself at your service. If, however, this is not the case, may I beg of you sir, to keep my name in mind in case that at some future date you may contemplate doing so? Am 27 yrs. of age, 5 ft. 6 in. in height and weigh 160 lbs., and since leaving the cavalry branch of the U. S. Army from which I was honorably discharged a sergeant and sharpshooter in the fall of 1910, I have been in the employ of the Engineering Dept. of The National Tube Co., Lorain, Ohio, and should you desire to make inquiry as to my habits, morals etc. can refer you to some of the officials of the above company. Have also in my possession excellent recommendations from army officers under whom I had the honor to serve in the Army of Cuban Pacification, in Cuba. Hoping to receive a favorable reply, I beg to remain, sir. Yours to command Frank Nisley Jr.[*[8-3-13]*] Hook Point Camps Mattawamkeag Lake Island Falls, Main. W.W. Sewall, Proprietor. Aug 3rd 1913 Friend Theodore I wrote both you and [Enden?] several days ago in regard to your comeing here and other matters but as I have not heard from either of you, I am afraid they have gone wrong. We of Aroostook Co are very anxious to have you speak here as we think we can carry the county sure if you can onley talk to the people and I feel very sure that I shall be elected Sheriff if you get into this County the people are all asking for you and any Progressive friends are all asking mem to write you and try and persuade you to come I wrote you a long letter the other day but as the time is so short before election I thought I had better write againHook Point Camps Mattawamkeag Lake Island Falls, Main. W.W. Sewall, Proprietor. if you can manage to come here if onley for a few days it will rest you as we will make it just as quiet as you want it and when you leave here you can talk to the people of arooslook from any point in the County and can reach any part of it in three hours The roads are good Autos plenty and I know lots of people who will be on hand for the job Please answer as soon as you can so I may know what plans to make in order to be ready to meet you Yours very truly W.W. Sewall8-3-13 CONFIDENTIAL MEXICAN SITUATION Telegram to . . . Washington, D.C., from J.B.P., Esq., Mexico City, August 3d, 1913. (a) If President, Senate, and House Committee on Foreign Affairs peruse U.S. Consul Ham of Durango, Mexico, reports Nos. 245 and 246, depicting the savage sacking of the City of Durango by 4,000 Northern Rebels they would realize the mockery of considering such savages as Constitutionalists: (b) If they consider that no Mexican President was never elected nor could be: (c) If they realize that the present Government is Mexico's last chance and ours to avoid undemocratic armed intervention, morally undesirable for numerous reasons; they would immediately grant recognition as the sole alternative possible. J. B. P.O. A. BALYEAT. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 107 1/2 E. MAIN STREET VAN WERT - OHIO. Aug. 4, 1913. The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., New York, N.Y. Gentlemen:- Received the enclosed statement together with check for $16.09 and herewith return statement receipted. Please accept thanks. Very truly yours, Oscar A. Balyeat Enc.[*[ca 8-4-13]*] STATEMENT. Theodore Roosevelt, Dr., to Oscar A. Balyeat. To services in taking Plaintiff's depositions in the case of Theodore Roosevelt, Plaintiff, vs George A. Newett, Defendant, and filed in Marquette Circuit Court, Michigan. Van Wert, Ohio. Writing and certifying depositions as 10¢ per 100 words, $10.50 Swearing 6 witnesses, 4¢ each. .24 Clerk's certificate and stamp, .35 Postage and other necessary expenses (actual cost) and stenographer's notes, 5.00 $16.09 [*This Bill is correct to my best knowledge and by that I mean I know the work was done and the amount seems reasonable. James H Pound*] [*8/4/13 Recd Payment Oscar A, Balyeat*][Eve, in Balyeat 8-4-13]Trinidad Colo. 8-4-13 R.R.I. Col. Roosevelt - Dear Sir, As you have been invited to attend the cattlemen & cowboys reunion at Trinidad next month, and to eat with the cowboys, cowboy fashion. The cowboys & people in general are very anxious that you be with us. Now Col. I would be very glad to furnish you a horse to ride in the parade that I think would please you. Old Blue Jacket & he is running on pasture in good condition but I will get him up, and have him in good shape for the occasion. Will otherwise aid & serve you in any way that I can. With good wishes I am yours, Very Respct. Ferd Davis Old Cow PuncherOFFICERS F. N. DOUBLEDAY, PRESIDENT E. FRED EASTMAN, SECRETARY PAUL D. CRAVATH, VICE PRESIDENT E. MORTIMER WARD, TREASURER DIRECTORS C. A. COFFIN R. S. C. FULLER F. COIT JOHNSON F. W. STARR PAUL D CRAVATH ANTON G. HODENPYL E. T. LATTING S. V. UNDERHILL F. N. DOUBLEDAY F. A. HORSEY ROBERT S. LOVETT E. MORTIMER WARD BENJ. W. DOWING FRANK C. JENNINGS HARVEY MURDOCK MATINECOCK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION LOCUST VALLEY, NEW YORK August 4, 1913 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: I am sending you under separate cover the just-published 1913 year book of the Matinecock Neighborhood Association believing that this report of a rural social experiment among your neighbors will interest you. This Association is in no sense an up-lifting movement conducted by the rich for the improvement of the poor ; it is democratic and co-operative with a membership of 260 adults, 95% of them men, out of a community of 220 families. Sincerely yours, Fred Eastman EFE/MEGJAMES R. GARFIELD ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 1029 GARFIELD BUILDING CLEVELAND Aug. 4, 1913 My dear Mr. Harper: Permit me to introduce Honorable W. P. Barnum, Judge of the Common Pleas Court of Mahoning County, Ohio. Judge Barnum was a member of the Progressive Delegation. He desires to meet Colonel Roosevelt, and I shall be pleased if you can arrange a meeting for him. Very truly yours, James R. Garfield Mr. Frank Harper, 287 Fourth Ave., New York, N.Y."The Elms" Andover, Mass. Aug 4, 1913 Mr. T. R. Roosevelt Dear Sir The inclosed bill for your Son's Board at this place has been sent three times to Oyster Bay without any attention being paid to it. We think there must be an oversight or mislayed in some way so we're taking this way to reach a settlement in the matter. Sorry to trouble you in this way. Very Respectfully Mr & Mrs. Warren L. Johnson David Keppel. Pastor Methodist Episcopal Church. Phoenix, N. Y. [Note in margin] 14. [Note in margin] Ack Illegible initials 9/22/13 August 4th. 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Contributing Editor of THE OUTLOOK, My dear Sir: I have read with much interest, and some doubting, your article in the Outlook of July 19th on "The Country Church". I was for several years pastor of country churches in Tompkins County, N.Y., one of the counties discussed in Gill and Pinchot's work, which you review in that article, and am sure that so far as the churches of my own denomination is concerned, and 15 of the 36 country churches visited by Mr Gill are of that denomination, some of his figures are very far from being correct, and throw doubt on all his conclusions, for I know no reason why churches of other denominations should differ much from Methodist churches. I have examined the statistics of thirteen of these churches, the other two being so connected with churches outside of the county that it is impossible to get their statistics correctly. I may add that the statistics which I am using are made with great care, and are practically correct. I fear the same is not true of any of the estimates of attendance, for so far as I know such are never kept in any denomination, certainly not in ours, and Mr Gill's estimate that "in Tompkins County church attendance fell off in twenty years 33%", is very far from being true in my judgment. (2) David Keppel. Pastor Methodist Episcopal Church. Phoenix, N. Y. But when he says: "The expenditures of the churches increased, when expressed in dollars, in Tompkins County seven [margin note referring to dollars] 191 percent", he is so far from the experience of our denomination that I am sure he is incorrect. In 1892 our country churches in that county raised $7788.00; in 1912 the same churches raised $11.266, an increase of $3478.00 or about 45per cent. Our two city churches in Ithaca raised in 1892 $7588.00 and in 1912 $11278.00, nearly the same increase. [hand drawn brackets in margin mark paragraph from "in 1892 our country" to the end] He says: "In Tompkins County 72 percent of the ministers were receiving less real pay in the second period than their predecessors were in the first". I do not know what he means by "real pay"; but I am sure he is mistaken. Every one of our pastors receives more than his predecessor of twenty years ago. The eight country and village pastors received for "pastoral support," which includes the pay of bishops, district Superintendents and retired ministers, in 1892 $5852.00 and last year $8213.00. The cash salaries, which does not include the pastor's home, are: In 1892, $700, $600, $800, $700, $800, $600, $600, $500 and in 1912. 850, 700, 850, 800, 1000, 900, 800, 600. You will see that the increase is considerable; and unless Mr. Gill has very peculiar ideas as to what constitutes "real pay", I am afraid he is away off in his estimates. I am sure that, even with the best of motives, you would not willingly give the weight of your name to what I am afraid are very carelessly made estimates, which do great injustice to the "Country Church". Yours Cordially David Keppel [*[8-4-13]*] [*[Niederhauser]*] [*Mr Harper*] [*EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT AUG 6 1913 ACK._______NO ANS. ______ ANS._______ BY____________*] State College, Pa., Aug 4/13 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, N.Y. City I voted for you as the Bull Moose Candidate and believe you are a true staunch Reformer Three colleges in this State of Penna received from the last legislature about a million $ apiece. for various uses. One particular fact I wish to mention: State College, here has a School of[8-4-13] [NIEdERhAusER] 11 mining and has had for a number of years. Last year about as graduated in all courses and of Metalleengy Mining. About 5 years ago W. of Pittsburg taking as its then head of mining here at state, started its school of mining, and had ten graduating this year from that school.[8-4-13] iii Here is a great state paying out millions of the money of taxpayers and duplicating the work in mining where it is surely not only necessary but uneconomic and unless since like it. As I understand it State College proposes now to take $125,000 and erect fine a building or buildings for the school of mining. is it economy?The Washington Party is the hope for Reforms. May it not investi gate? Dr. O. P. Ray, Head of History here is a hearty worker in the party, an eloquent man. I was an instructor her in Math but go to Reading to teach Science in Schuykill Germany Truly S. W. NieaerhauseDr. EDUARDO CARLOS POËY, EMPEDRADO NO. 5, HABANA. CABLE ADDRES: "EDPOY," HABANA. The Honorable, August, 4th.,1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City, My dear Col.Roosevelt:- I beg to inform you that I have taken the liberty of naming one of my streets"Col.T.Roosevelt" in the develepment of my property inside the City limits of Habana. This urbanization plan has the approval of the City authorities and will be opened to public sale shortly. Among ether distinguished names chosen by me, is that of Gen.T.Wint whom was my commander in the China and Phillipine campaigns. Undoubtedly you de net remember me though I met you personally at Montauk Camp when I mustered out Troops,I, K, L and M of your famous 1st.U.S.Volunteer Cavalry. I was then surgeon of the 2nd.U.S. Cav. being an Act.Asst.Surgeon then. My brother, now dead, was a private in either troops K or L, I do not recollect, being a graduate of Harvard and of Columbia Law School. He died in New York City on August,19th.,1909. I request that you authorize me to use your name for the purpose above stated. Thanking you in advance and wishing yourself and family success and happiness. Very truly yours. Eduardo Carlos Poëy M. C.COURT BEGINS 2nd MONDAY FEBRUARY 1st MONDAY MAY 1st MONDAY SEPTEMBER 3rd MONDAY NOVEMBER COURT OFFICERS NATHAN A. WHITAKER, JUDGE WM. H. PAYNE, CLERK EUGENE HAASE, SHERIFF Morgan Circuit Court Martinsville, Ind,. August 4th, 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City, N. Y. My dear brother; I have been appointed Business & Financial Manager of the Knights of the Holy Grail, in a National capacity. I assume you know something of the Grail, its purpose, teachings and achievements. It is a Nationally Incorporated Inter[?] Church Brotherhood for young men and Boys, and is the gre atest power to-day for reaching, interesting and training them in right thinking, Christian living and binding them to the Church of the blessed Master. The strength of the Grail has become too great for Dr. Powell, its founder, to manage in the field alone, and the National Executive Committee has requested my service. Others will soon have to be added. Dr. Powell has given so much of his time to extension work, upbuilding and insituting Castles he has not been able to devote sufficient time to finances now needed for proper future National Extension work and unlimited success. Its 70000 members should be 170000 within a year, its 600 Castles more than doubled. IT WILL REQUIRE FUNDS TO DO THE WORK. We need and want your financial assistance and influence, which will be very greatly appreciated, and every cent collected will go right into this great work. It is the greatest work of the Century. Young men and Boys for Christ, think of it! We need the money and a most wonderful work awaits us. An individual remittance , a Church or S S collection, a big or little campaign among your friends and acquaintances, will all be highly appreciated. Please make your own as large as possible.COURT BEGINS 2nd MONDAY FEBRUARY 1st MONDAY MAY 1st MONDAY SEPTEMBER 3rd MONDAY NOVEMBER COURT OFFICERS NATHAN A. WHITAKER, JUDGE WM. H. PAYNE, CLERK EUGENE HAASE, SHERIFF Morgan Circuit Court Martinsville, Ind., 1913 *The Young Knight* our monthly publication will doubtless publish a list of contributors and we want your name to head that list. We will attract National attention when executed. Give us the funds and we will show you results. I have given up my law practice here for the labor of love among the Boys, and Dr. Powell and I will devote our entire time and energies to this great work. Your prestige in the Nation, your love for the Master, your deep interest in Young men and Boys the hope of our country, the wonderful good your contribution will do the cause, your great desire to better the present generation, and leave an everlasting heritage for good to the generations to follow, the good we can and will do with the money, all impel us to earnestly request you to aid this great cause as liberally as you possible can. Awaiting with great interest your kind and helpful response, and with my best wishes for your success and prosperity, personally and, nationally and in the cause of humanity, allow me to remain, Sincerely & Fraternally, E. E. Pryor Business & Financial Manager, Knights of the Holy Grail. I am a Bull Moose[?]to be Your obedient servant Alex. Gordon Ross (Hon. Sec.) Chilcôte Carterton Clanfield. Oxon. August 4. 1913 Dear Sir, I have the distinguished honour of writing to invite you on behalf of the Hon. Committee of the Peace Concert to come over and open the proceedings with one of your strong and suggestive speeches. This would appear a suitable occasionfor the expression of some practical commonsense and from nobody would it come with greater effect than the Ex. President of the United States. Should you however be [?]willing to spare the time I am to beg you to consent to speak into me of the machines of the "Gramophone Company" and they will reproduce your words at the Albut Hall on the occasion of the Peace Concert. The representatives of the Balkan States join the Hon. Committee in the hope that you may see your way to come over and the month of November is suggested as possibly convenient to you. I bed to enclose a preliminary short statement on the Concert for your kind perusal and have the honourStation & Telegrams Kingham. Gledington, Chipping Norton, Oxon. 4 Aug 1913. Dear Colonel Roosevelt Thank you very much for your letters & all the trouble you have so kindly been to in making inquiries for me. I fear the reformation does not sound very attractive & I don't think I shall venture west just now and hope something may turn up for me. In England and Africa. I trust all is well with you & yours. We are going throughsome very troublesome times just now with [?] + funeral [?], but it is a long lane that has no turning & no doubt better times are ahead. Again Thank you. I am Yours sincerely Al Slatter PS. Our little son has been in a nursing home in Oxford for nearly 2 months & undergone 4 operations for appendicitis. His life is nearly despaired of but we are still hoping he may be spared."SAVE THE BOY" Anti-Cigarette League of America Successor to "The Anti-Cigarette League," Incorporated 1899, and "The National Anti-Cigarette League," Incorporated 1901 AIM: A crusade against the use of cigarettes and tobacco by the young. SUPPORT: From the public which which the League serves METHOD: EDUCATION LEGISLATION LAW-ENFORCEMENT General Headquarters, 1119 Woman's Temple, Chicago FROM THE NEW YORK COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDERED Judge Leroy B. Cranes, Chairman Charles Loring Brace Mrs. Clarence Burns Frank L. Brown Rev. Dr. D. J. Burrell Mrs. John Shermin Crosby Mrs. James P. Cahen Mrs. Mary E. Falkner W. W. Freeman Newell Dwight Hillis, D. D. Prof. Franklin Hooper, LL. D. Cornelius S. Loder L. D. Mason, M. D. Rev. Dr. Henry Mottet T. A. MacNicholl, M. D. John B. Prest Rev. Chas. H. Parkhurst, D. D. A. Josephine Sherman, M. D. Courtland Smith Rev. Leslie W. Sprague James E. Sullivan Mrs. Fanny G. Villard Gen. Geo. W. Wingate Wm. Alberti Whiting Burt G. Wilder, M. D. GENERAL OFFICERS Honorary President, JOHN BALCOM SHAW, D. D., Chicago President, DAVID PULSON, M. D., Hindsdale (Chicago), Ills. Vice-Presidents DAVID STARR JORDAN, California, JUDGE BEN B. Lindsey, Colorado OZARA S. DAVID, D. D., Ills. CHARLES BULKLEY HUBBELL, New York E. THOMPSON SETON, New York P. P. CLAXTON, U. S. Com. of Education. Superintendent (and Founder), LUCY PAGE GASTON, Chicago Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. CAROLINE F. GROW, Chicago Treasurer, CHARLES S. ROBERTS, First National Bank, Chicago EASTERN DIVISION Chairman, JUDGE LEROY B. CRANE, New York General Secretary, LEONARD L. NONES 452 W. 47th St., New York Supt. Legislation and Law Enforcement, J. W. HUFF, Elmira, N. Y. Chairman Publicity, J. GEORGE FREDERICK Counsel, ALEXANDER CUMMING, LL. B., A. M., Ph. D. Field Secretary, REV. MANFRED P. WELCHER 310 Clermont Ave. Brooklyn. Lecturer, MRS. KATE UPSON CLARK Treasurer, WILLIAM W. J. WARREN 129 Lafayette St., New York FROM THE GENERAL ADVISORY COUNCIL President Brown Ayers Commander Ballington Booth Francie E. Clark, D. D Mrs. D. A. Cleage Horace Fletcher, M. D. S. B. Goff, Sr. J. H. Kellog, M. D. Ira D. Landrith, D. D. Mrs. John A. Logan Rev. P. J. O'Callaghan Bishop W. A. Quayie Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw Josiah Strong, D. D. Mrs. Elizabeth R. White Henry Smith Williams, M. D. New York, Aug. 4, 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, N. Y. My dear Mr. Roosevelt; - In Buffalo Public School #16 I asked Dr. Gregory, the official physician visiting the school, and sitting on the platform while I spoke: "Am I right in saying that the smoker is doubly liable to tuberculosis?" He replied, "You are right". This statement has been of great value to me. Now, Mr. Roosevelt, please permit me to ask just this of you as an expert in active life and in race welfare: "Am I right in saying that a boy or young man reduces by half or more, his prospect of success, by smoking?" If you prefer to make your own statement, I am willing and am very grateful for such a bomb shell as this. With all best wishes, I am, Respectfully yours, Manfred P. Melcher [*Senator slide and folder of your photo is "on the ways".*]OFFICE OF W. S. WRIGHT 801 D. S. MORGAN BUILDING BUFFALO, N. Y. Aug 4th 1913 Editor Outlook ,Dear Sir: Will you kindly advise me promptly where a letter will reach ex-President Roosevelt? Not knowing he was to leave so[o] soon I had intended writing him on important matter. I presume the traveling and sight-seeing, he will be at times where mail can reach him? Would you kindly tell me when he arrives in New York, and also when he leaves for South America. Trusting it will be practicable for you to give the above several bits of information, believe me, Sincerely yours, W. S. Wright."Sampeck Clothes" THE STANDARD OF AMERICA SAMUEL W. PECK & CO. DEPT. 1 YOUNG MEN AND MEN OF YOUTHFUL FIGURE DEPT. 2 BOYS - DEPT. 3 JUVENILE 806 AND 808 BROADWAY NEW YORK CABLE ADDRESS "PECLOTHES" NEW YORK Aug. 5, 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir: - Have you realized that nine tenths of the salesmen of this country are for Roosevelt and his policies and that that nine tenths find it impossible to vote and never have voted. Here was I, last election, just come of age and cheated out of my night to vote because I had to be absent from the city both at enrolling and registration time and on Election Day. I am a full fledged Bull Mooser and there are others. We are all heartily in support of Leon Meyer's"Sampeck Clothes" THE STANDARD OF AMERICA SAMUEL W. PECK & CO. DEPT. 1 YOUNG MEN AND MEN OF YOUTHFUL FIGURE DEPT. 2 BOYS - DEPT. 3 JUVENILE 806 AND 808 BROADWAY NEW YORK CABLE ADDRESS "PECLOTHES" NEW YORK efforts to solve the problem and trust he will have your [to] co-operation where compatible. Would it be impossible to have a line from you with your permission to publish same. Very Truly N. Hancock Burlingame.J. P. CARICO President E. R. MCMILLAN Vice President G. F. CARR Secretary Treasurer Office of Secretary Galax Fair Association Fair September 3, 4, 5, 1913 Galax, Va., Aug. 5, 1913 Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sire; Would you be open to a proposition to speak at our Fair, either September the 3rd or 5th? If so, please advise me at once, and we will then take up the matter of terms, etc. We will have from 15000 to 20000 people present, and it will be and excellent opportunity for you to get in touch with your many friends in this section of the country. We have a very prosperous young town in the mountains of Virginia, at the terminus of the North Carolina Division of the Norfolk and Western Railway, and the climate here the first week in September is ideal, and I have no doubt that you would enjoy a few days here more than almost any other place in the South. Our people are very anxious for a distinguished speaker at this Fair, and at a meeting your name was decided upon as the unanimous choice and I trust that you can be with us on this occasion. I am, Truly, G. F. CARR Sec'y.TELEPHONE, NO. 6059 GRAMERCY. Church Temperance Society. Offircers Patron THE RIGHT REVEREND DANIEL S. TUTTLE, D. D. PRESIDING BISHOP President THE RIGHT REVEREND FREDERICK COURTNEY, D. D. Vice-Presidents THE RIGHT REVEREND WILLIAM LAWRENCE, D. D. BISHOP OF MASSACHUSETTS THE RIGHT REVEREND DAVID H. GREEN, D. D. BISHOP OF NEW YORK THE RIGHT REVEREND FREDERICK BURGESS, D. D. BISHOP OF LONG ISLAND Treasurer MR. IRVING GRINELL General Secretary MISS H. K. GRAHAM Women's Auxiliary President MRS. GEO. S. BOWDOIN First Vice-President MRS. ROBERT B. POTTER Vice-Presidents MRS. DAVID H. GREER MRS. DANIEL T. WILSON MRS. RICHARD B. POST Treasurer MRS. CHARLES TOWNSEND Corresponding Secretary MISS H. D. FELLOWES THE CHURCH MISSION HOUSE, FOURTH AVENUE AND 22D STREET New York, August 5th, 1913 Theodore Roosevelt, Esq., Oyster Bay, Long Island My dear Sire: In June, the President of this Society, Bishop Courtney, called upon you for the purpose of inviting you t speak at a Mass Meeting of the Church Temperance Society to be held during the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, on October 9th. Bishop Courtney reported to the Board of Managers that you were unable to give a definite reply at that time but had suggested that the invitation be deferred until September. As the New York press has announced that your plans are completed for visiting Brazil in the Fall, and that you will :leave New York during the first week of October", the Committee on Arrangements thought that you might now be able to say whether there is any hope of your acceptance of the Society's invitation. Yours faithfully, HK. Graham General SecretaryLost Angeles Cal. Aug 5th 1913 Dear Colonel Roosevelt Please pardon us for asking of you a favor in helping a sorry Mother and sister in fineding their son and brother whom have tried in all our means to locate him but have fail so we have come to you in our hope if you could help us in anyway. He inlisted in the navy at the time of the build and he is Med size tall and if one notice he can see he has a sare on back of his head please pardon us again if we ask to much of you as we tried every thing in our hope in fineding him pardon us if we take to much liberty in writing to you but we try not to give up hope with many thanks from a Mother and sister. We are Mrs Gunhild and Nellie Pedersen 7363.10 st. Los Angeles CalSpanish American war we wrote to the navy Department and recive reply that he was discharged and they do not know of his whereabouts but later on we heard he deserted from the navy and was caught at the Hawallan island after that is the last we heard of anything of him. My father left mother with 3 small children my brother is the oldest and he being a good boy and not very strong we known he would come to us if he knows where we are as we want him to know that he is more than welcome to us when he comes as our heart and souls might and day goes out in pray for his wefare and his homecoming. Dear Colonel Roosevelt we spoke to a lady back East and she said if any one will help you she said you would as we all hold great respect for you. My brother name is Clarence Elmer Pedersen age 29 years birthday on May 6th Med Brown hair and kind of stoutForm 168 WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT RECEIVED AT 172 Fifth Ave., N. W. Cor. 22d St., New York ALWAYS OPEN A167NY W 9 SANMATEO FLO AUG 5 1913 COL ROOSEVELT OFFICE OF THE OUTLOOK, NEWYORKCITY I AM SENDING LETTER TO MR BURNS NEWYORK AGENCY ALLEN HOLTON 1224PMMoses. New_Mex. Aug. 5th 1913. Hon Theodore Roosevelt. Oyster Bay. New York My Dear old Commander, I notice in the K. C. Journal. that - should any thing place in Mexico you would voice - and lead a bunch of troops to that country, should that be the case. "Colonel" nothing would do me more good, than to assist you in any way I can. My H years session in the PI2. gives me a knowledge of the Spanish people that money do not have, and for the past 7 years, I have lived right among the mexicans here. I am not hunting trouble but seems to me - it is high time. something was doing. Please let me hear from you. Ever a comrad. I am yours most Resply S. A. Kennedy. "F" Troop. R.RR Mosest "Eagle."San Diego, Calif., Aug. 5 - 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. Dear Sir:- Mr. Edward J. Sullivan, formerly of New York City but now living in San Diego, has mentioned you as being familiar with his record in the foreign service of the U. S. Government, and his standing as a man. As I am contemplating some business connection with Mr. Sullivan, and some of my friends have questioned his truthfulness and ability, I shall be greatly obliged to you if you will favor me with such information regarding Mr. Sullivan as you are in a position to give of your own knowledge. Mr. Sullivan has told me that he was abroad for a number of years with important matters in hand for the U. S. Government, both during your administration and that of President McKinley. I frankley admit that some of Mr. Sullivan's tales of his adventures are either a tribute to his unusual experience or an extremely active Irish imagination, but I think it possible that he is a monumental truth teller. I certainly hope so. ## Trusting that you will find it convenient to make an early reply in the accompanying addressed and stamped envelope, and thanking you in advance for your kindness, I am, Yours very respectfully. Mary Clarke Lowry 1421 Finer ST San DiegoWildwood NJ Aug 5 1913 Mr. Roosevelt Dear Sir: I am writing to see if I can get you to speak before the Politics Club of Lehigh University at South Bethelhem Pa some evening during the first or second week of October. A can guarantee any size audience youwould care to speak to not exceeding five hundred persons. Please believe that I am not writing this merely to obtain your signiture but write a sincere hope that I may obtain you as our speaker for the October meeting. Very respectfully yours R. C. Mickel P. O. Box M. Wildwood N. G.The First Presbyterian Church Minden, Nebraska George E. Parisoe, Minister Aug. 5, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Editor, The Outlook, New York, N.Y. My Dear Sir: This is to ask information pertaining to the Harlem Estate. I have among the membership of my Church two or three parties who trace their ancestry quite clearly to the Harlem Estate. In 1887 they received a notification that they were one of the heirs, and two years ago in 1911, were again notified that one of their claims was quite valid, and quite probably a second claim. I am writing to you to find whether the Royal Register as published by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Building, New York, is a reliable source of information, and whether the Hon. John H. Fonda, No. 253 West 13th Street New York City, who claims to be President of the Union Association of Heirs, is a reliable and trustworthy person. Can you put me in touch with information regarding the Harlem Estate? What is the present condition of affairs, and is there a probability of a settlement being made in the near future? I have been so requested to write you in behalf of my membership. Thanking you for the privilege of your attention to this matter, I have the privilege to remain, Cordially yours, GE Parisoe GEP/EP.[*AUC 8-19-13*] BELL PHONE MAIN 584 Ex. U.S. ATTORNEY JOHN J. SULLIVAN ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW SUITE 619 WILLIAMSON BUILDING CLEVELAND, OHIO August 5, 1913. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, My dear Colonel:- I take great pleasure in introducing to you the bearer, Honorable William P. Barnum, Jr., who is now serving as one of the judges with the Court of Common Please, and residing at Youngstown, Ohio. He is an able lawyer, a just judge, and has the confidence of his community, and it is with great pleasure that I introduce him to you. With assurance of my kind personal regards, I am Sincerely yours, John J. Sullivan [*destroyed [????]*]#200 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass., 8/5/13. Mr Frank Harper, Secretary, Dear Sir :- I wish to thank you for your answer to my letter and for the information in regard to photograph of Mr Roosevelt. I have written to the firm mentioned in your favor and upon receipt of the photograph will mail it to you "some time in September". I appreciate your interest in the matter. Very truly yours, Nathan B. WheelerLAW OFFICES J.S. & B.D. WISE 20 BROAD STREET NEW YORK JOHN S. WISE JOHN S. WISE JR BYRD D. WISE WILLIAM J. MAMON CABLE ADDRESS "PLOVERWISE August 5th, 1913. Mr. Frank Harper, The Out-Look 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Sir:- Will you do me the courtesy to let me have an acknowledgement to my letter of July 16th. Yours very truly, Byrd D. Wise JAMES B. CAMP, President R.C. BALLARD THRUSTON, 1st V.-P. Dr. BEN L. BRUNTER, Treasurer DENNY B. GOODE, General Secretary SMITH T. BAILEY, Executive Secretary WM. E. RILEY, Director of Amusements Kentucky Association of Perry Centennial Celebration HEADQUARTERS 202 COURIER-JOURNAL BUILDING CUMB. MAIN 1415-A HOME CITY 6257 Louisville, Ky. August 6, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. Oyster Bay, Mass. Sir: The Kentucky Perry Centennial Commission is exceedingly desirous of concluding the various Centennial celebrations with a splendid finale in Louisville. The event being commemorative of one hundreds years of peace between the English-speaking nations, and Louisville being the last city in which celebrations will be conducted, it has occurred to the Commission that a fitting climax to the several excellent observances in the cities of the country would be the holding of a large public gathering, at which the two principal speakers would be yourself and the Honorable Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice, British Ambassador to the United States. To have an ex-President representing the United States and the British Ambassador representing England, would provide, to our notion, a conclusion which would attract universal attention and would further be exceedingly appropriate to the occasion. [*EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE JAMES B. CAMP R.C. BALLARD THRUSTON DR. BEN L. BRUNER DENNY B. GOODE C.B. NORTON O.M. BILLINGS R.W. BROWN LOGAN C. MURRAY DR. HENRY ENOS TULEY*] [*COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN Dr. Henry E. Tuley, Conference Chas. B. Norton, Finance Smith T. Bailey, Decorations Geo. H. Wilson, Pageant and Parade Gen. Geo. H. Harries, Ball Ben. S. Washer, Chaos Dan. H. Russell, Batile of the Thames Spectacle Geo. T. Settle, 1812 Museum Chas. L. Crush, Mystery Conflagration, Wm. E. Riley, Souvenirs, Concessions and Fireworks Mayor W.O. Head, Public Exercises Gen. John B. Castleman, Military Rev. Dr. Aquilla Webb, Public Devotions Col. W. A. Colston, Competitive Drills Capt. Pink Varble, Water Carnival W. K. McKay, Court of Honor C. W. Milliken, Illumination J.J. Garrity, Music Dr. Henry E. Mechling, Flambeau Parade Col. R. S. Brown, Fraternal Horace McCrocklin, Seats Edw. W. Perry Perry Family Reunion Louis Seelbach, Public Parks S. M. Anderson, Halls Jas. R. White, Hotels and Accommodations Geo. T. Wood, Patriotic Societies Dr. Walker B. Gossett, Medical E. H. Bacon, Transportation John Thixton, Jr., Badges Prof. E. O. Holland, Education Gen. Bennett H. Young, History *] KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION OF PERRY CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, #2. Our celebration will be conducted from September 29 to October 5, 1913. It would be our desire to have you present September 29. However, if it would be more convenient for you, should you be able to attend later in the week, we will fix the date subject to your approval. Our Commission indulges in extravagant hopes of your favoring us upon this occasion, and we shall be exceedingly grateful for your early response in the affirmative. An invitation of similar nature is being simultaneously forwarded to the Honorable Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice. Most respectfully yours, James B. Camp President.OCEANIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY SYDNEY SHORT LINE 19 DAYS, SAN FRANCISCO TO AUSTRALIA VIA HONOLULU AND SAMOA A. M. CULVER AGENT 334 SOUTH SPRING STREET S. S. SIERRA “ SONOMA " VENTURA PHONE MAIN 3917 HOME A 2789 RESIDENCE WEST 2592 HONOLULU SAMOA AUSTRALIA Steamers All Classed 100 A 1 at Lloyds Honululu 1st Class $65.00 Honolulu and Return 1st Class $110.00 Sydne. Australia 1st Class $200.00 Sydney, Australia 2nd Class $125.00 Sydney, Australia 3rd Class $80.00 Sydney and Return 1st Class $300.00 Sydney and Return 2nd Class $200.00 Round the World 1st Class $600.00 via San Francisco Honolulu Samoa Australia Ceylon Aden Suez Naples New York 2nd Class $380.00 Touching five continents and visiting the world's great cities. Stopovers "A voyage on a sun-kissed sea- And just what you would have it be," "The way that every one would go, If every one did only know" All Kinds of Travelers' Checks and Letters of Credit Issued Los Angeles, Cal., August..6th.1913 Hon Theodore Roosevelt. New York. Dear Sir,- I understand that you are contemplating a trip to Australia, in the near future, and beg to advise that the Oceanic Steam Ship Company has the very best and quickest service between the United States and Australia. The rates are as follows,- San Fransisco to Sydney. First class $200.00 " " " "and return 300.00 Room with private bath can be had for 125.00 additional. The ships make the trip from San Fransisco to Sydney in nineteen days, they are all rated 100-A-1 by Lloyds for insurance purposes, they are twin screw double bottoms, with bilge keels, and the table they set and the service in general is the best on the Pacific. Any information that you desire, will be gladly furnished. Yours very truly, A.M. Culver[8-6-13] Fort Worth Tex. Aug 6th 1913 Col Theadore. Roosvelt My Dear sir and Brother I have been wanting to write to you for some time. as I am a Bull Moose man. and I want you to be our next President of the United States of America I wanted to let you know that I intend to vote for you When you was President you made us a good one far better than the man that occupies the Executive Chair at this time. Colonel Roosvelt I wanted to write to you and I want you to be the next President I want you to answer my letter and Colonel 2nd I want your signature to the letter I receive. I send you and family my highest regards and best wishes Col. Roosvelt I will watch my letter carrier to hand me your letter in answer to mine yours in F.T.A.M. Joe S Foster 34. A. Jemmings ave Fort Worth Tex3 Me Dr. 35 8/6/13 Baires Led Mrs Roonveel Most anxious have you both Stay with us must leave under doctors orders November Eighth Form 1 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in trans- mission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER NUMBER SENT BY REC'D BY CHECK Received at 191 Dated To When do you arrive your visit is keenly looked forward to by every one here - Alice GarrettDEPARTMENT OF HISTORY Central High School NEWARK, N. J. August the sixth, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. My dear Sir: I am anxious to promote the study of American History in a trade school which puts too much premium upon the practical and too little upon the ideal. I take the liberty, therefore, of asking for a statement direct from you, as one of our two living ex-presidents, as to just why you think American History should be considered an important subject in any high school course. Am I asking too much for the boys and girls of Newark? Trusting you will not refuse me and thanking you. I am Very truly yours, J. Warren GibbsProgressive National Committee OFFICE OF PROGRESSIVE SERVICE FORTY-SECOND STREET BUILDING FRANCES A. KELLOR, CHIEF OF SERVICE R. K. FORSYTH, GENERAL SECRETARY PAXTON HIBBEN, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION DONALD R. RICHBERG, DIRECTOR, LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU PROGRESSIVE SERVICE BOARD Frances A. Kellor Jane Addams Robert G. Valentine William Draper Lewis Samuel McCune Lindsay Gifford Pinchot George L. Record COUNCIL OF CHAIRMEN Frances A Kellor [Robert Bacon] Truxton Beale Paul U. Kellogg Henry Moskowitz Mary E. McDowell Mrs. Maud Nathan William L. Ransom Herbert Knox Smith Delos Wilcox Edith Ellicott Smith James R. Garfield George W. Kirchwey Woods Hutchinson LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE COMMITTEE William Draper Lewis Jane Addams Henry F. Cochems James R. Garfield Francis J. Heney George W. Kirchwey Ben B. Lindsey Charles E. Merriam Gifford Pinchot Herbert Knox Smith Walter E. Weyl New York, August 6, 1913. Mr. Frank Harper, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York. My dear Mr. Harper: - Several influential German-Americans in Chicago have written me lately to assist them in obtaining a letter from Colonel Roosevelt for the following purpose. I hesitated to bother him before his departure for the West but I have heard so much about the matter since that I think it should be called to your attention. Mr. Albert F. Madlener, who is manager of the Seipp estate and a well known Chicago German-American, has made a collection of letters of the presidents. As you will see in the enclosed letter to Mr. Raster which has been transmitted to me, he had a bound volume of letters some being typewritten. He now has a complete collection with the exception of the letter from Colonel Roosevelt in long hand and he desires a long hand letter from Colonel Roosevelt before rebinding his volume. This is of course, as he says, not a money making matter, he is a wealthy gentleman who has made this a hobby. I would suggest that Colonel Roosevelt might be willing to scribble a line to me giving me an appointment or in regard to some similar unimportant matter which would require little thought or energy. If he felt more interested in this matter, he might be willing to write a brief note to Mr. Madlener himself regarding the collection. These are merely suggestions of taking as little as possible of his time. I think the Colonel can give considerable pleasure and satisfy a not unreasonable request if you will call this matter to his attention. In any event, considering the way in which Mr. Madlener and his friends have bombarded me with a request to do something for them, I feel it necessary that I should do what I can. I might mention by the way, that Mr. Raster to whom Mr. Madlener's letter is addressed, is a son of the great German editor, Herman Raster, a man of considerable PROGRESSIVE SERVICE BOARD Frances A. Kellor Jane Addams Robert G. Valentine William Draper Lewis Samuel McCune Lindsay Gifford Pinchot George L. Record COUNCIL OF CHAIRMEN Frances A. Kellor Truxton Beale Paul U. Kellogg Henry Moskowitz Mary E. McDowell Mrs. Maud Nathan William L. Ransom Herbert Knox Smith Delos Wilcox Edith Ellicott Smith James R. Garfield George W. Kirchwey Woods Hutchinson Progressive National Committee OFFICE OF PROGRESSIVE SERVICE FORTY-SECOND STREET BUILDING FRANCES A. KELLOR, CHIEF OF SERVICE R. K. FORSYTH, GENERAL SECRETARY PAXTON HIBBEN, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION DONALD R. RICHBERG, DIRECTOR, LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE COMMITTEE William Draper Lewis Jane Addams Henry F. Cochems James R. Garfield Francis J. Heney George W. Kirchwey Ben B. Lindsey Charles E. Merriam Gifford Pinchot Herbert Knox Smith Walter E. Weyl Mr.F. Harper - 2 - New York, August 6, 1913. able influence in the West and the spontaneous warmth of his own loyalty to Colonel Roosevelt may be shown in the fact that his name appears second in chronological order in the list of contributors in the last campaign. Sincerely yours, Donald R. Richberg Director, Legislative Reference Bureau. DRR/MB. 1 - Encl.Douglas Robinson, 146 Broadway, New York Aug. 6, 1913. Cable Address, "Ryraport," New York. Dear Sir:- Your favor of August 5th, enclosing Astor Trust Company's cheque to the order of Colonel Roosevelt for $120., received, and the amount has been placed to Colonel Roosevelt's account. Yours very truly, Douglas Robinson S Frank Harper, Esq., The Outlook, #287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. C LEGACIÓN DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE VENEZUELA. WASHINGTON, D. C. August 6th, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. New York City. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: Yesterday I had the pleasure of receiving a visit from the Reverend J. A. Zahm, and took occasion to show him the letter which I had just received from the President of Venezuela, General Gómez, in reply to the announcement which I had made him of your proposed visit to my country, during the voyage which you are planning to make to South America. It gives me pleasure to copy here the paragraph from General Gómez' letter, which refers to this interesting subject: "I have received your esteemed letter of the 1st instant and from it I note with much pleasure that it is the intention of Mr. Theodore Roosevelt to make Venezuela a visit. This information gives me the greatest satisfaction, and you may be very certain that every means will be availed of to the end that we may give him such a reception as would be worthy to offer a gentleman of his name and fame." As you will note, the President has taken upwith enthusiasm the announcement of your visit, which will also be very much appreciated by the people of Venezuela. I would repeat once more the assurance that the Government of Venezuela will take very care to make as comfortable and rapid as possible your journey through the interior of the Republic, from the Brazilian frontier to Caracas. Always at your service, and with assurances of my highest esteem, I am, Very sincerely yours, P. Ezequiel Rojas (F. E. Rojas)206 West 119th St. New York, August 6, 1913. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt., Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L.I. My Dear Sir: Kindly pardon the privilege that I take in permitting myself to write the following letter to you. Since the election last Autumn, I had an idea to attach myself with the Progressive Party and work in their interest. I had many followers and was in a position to bring about great results. I had at that time written to you expressing my desire of getting an audience, or seeing you personally., but on account of your absence from the city, I could not satisfy this desire as it could not be determined at what time you might return. Up to this time I have heard nothing., but I assure you that I would consider it an honor to see you personally in order that I might fully state my mission to you. Kindly name the time and place which is most convenient for you. Thanking you in advance for your expected friendly and favorable reply, I am Very respectfully yours, J. Schulz 206 West 119th St S/I.S.Elmendorf Bexar County Texas Aug 6, 1913 Hon. Th. D. Roosevelt Washington D.C. Dear Sir I will address this to you for approval & you might forward to proper authorities if the idea is tenable. There doubtless will be many times when a swift turning move of the cavalry will aid materially toward a successful campaign and as such operations are often impossible, owing to swollen & dangerous streams I hereby suggest the remedy, which in the advancing shadows of approaching events, might not be entirely out of place to consider. My idea consists of a pneumatic horse collar as per enclosed sketch, collapsible of course & made preferably out of silk painted over with liquid rubber. The air tube always in reach & can be pumped while in action & therefore useful, leaking or not. I beg to remain Dear Sir Yours very respectfully Wm Stanley M.D.air tube around neck around belly bandT.A. WRIGHT, PRESIDENT. J. ALLEN SMITH, VICE PRES. DON CARLOS ELLIS, 2ND VICE PRES. MU. M. JOHNSON, 3RD VICE PRES. GEO. W. CALLAHAN, 4TH VICE PRES. S.V. CARTER, TREASURER. W.M. GOODMAN, DIRECTOR-GENERAL. THE NATIONAL Conservation Exposition Knoxville, Tennessee August 6, 1913. Mr. Frank Harper, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York, N.Y. My Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your favor of the 14th instant, and sincerely trust that you will hear from Colonel Roosevelt at an early date with a favorable reply, and that our people here may again have the opportunity of seeing and hearing him. He is the most popular man living to-day, and there is not a section of the United States where he would have a more royal welcome than in this Central South. I assure you that the four or five hours that he might be here would be the only time that he would lose by reason of his stopover. Very truly yours, T.A. Wright President. TAW.M [*[8-6-13]*] RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE KING COUNTY PROGRESSIVE LEAGUE The recent resolution passed by the Board of Regents of the University of Washington, tending to restrict freedom of speech on the University Campus, ought to be condemned by every public organization as well as every private citizen. The resolution was aimed at the so-called Open Forum meetings which so far as can be ascertained have been, not only of a harmless, but also of a valuable character. Yet the resolution says that "neither they ( the Open Forum) nor any other organization not connected with the University will in the future be permitted to meet upon or use the University Campus or buildings without application to and consideration by the Board in every particular case." The Open Forum was established May 11, 1913, the idea being to use the university campus as an informal place for free discussion of certain topics of the day. Such meetings have been held continuously from May 11th to the present time. The following is a list of the topics which have been discussed. May 11th -- What the Last Five Years has brought, What the Next Five Years will bring toward the Solution of Economic and Social Problems. May 18th -- The Alien Ownership of Land and its Relation to War. May 25th -- The Causes of the High Cost of Living. June 1st -- Should the City of Seattle Furnish Water and Light to its Inhabitants Free of Charge?-2- June 8th - Robert Bridges addressed the Forum on the Port Election Issues. June 15th. - Port Election Issues. June 23rd - Should Seattle Furnish Water Free to the Residence District? June 29th - Martial Law in West Virginia. How to prevent it in Washington. July 6th - Prohibition. July 13th - The Wilson Currency Bill. July 20th - "Prohibition" was the question chosen for this date, but it was later changed to "The Seattle Riots: What actually took Place." July 27th - Means of Lowering City Taxes in Seattle without Lowering Efficiency. August 3rd - "What is Social Justice?" was the topic first chosen, but was later changed by the Forum to "Social Justice and its Relation to Blethen and Humphries." It will be seen from the above list that there was little justification for the Board of Regents in the action which they took. The seriousness of the act of the Board lies, however, not in their attempt to suppress this apparently harmless institution - the Open Forum - but in the adoption by the Board of the policy of repression , - a policy which is advocated by so many as the proper method of dealing with the I. W. W. and the Socialist organizations. We feel that it is a complete lack of understanding of the conditions which have brought the I. W. W. and Socialist into prominence that has led so many to adopt this policy of repression. For the street-speaking and I. W. W. agitation is not as has been said, a tempest in a teapot, but rather a teapot in a great, world-wide tempest, a tempest that has arisen as a protest against social injustice, against the degradation and poverty of the mass of humanity.-3- The I.W.W. and Socialist movement is but one small portion of the revolt by the majority of mankind against the usurpation and control of the governments by the minority for their own special ends. The Socialist and the I.W.W. would never have gained the foot-hold they have in the United States had it not been for the fact that both the old line parties became controlled by corrupt bosses, who in turn controlled legislation, diverting it into channels of special legislation and privilege. For example, nothing the I.W.W. as an organization has done, nothing the Socialists have proposed, is more subversive of American institutions than were the acts of the American Manufacturers Association in gaining control through its many powerful influences of votes of Congressmen and United States Senators, both Republican and Democratic Nothing in government can be conceived more foul than this. Nothing deserves greater censure. When men of power can buy national legislation, do we wonder that the thunders of revolt begin to rumble? Are we surprised that some of the ignorant begin to condemn even the symbol of democracy, when it is shown that democracy is purchased and aristocracy dressed in its garments? The Progressive Party was born as one great result of the revolt against such conditions. It came to life demanding honesty in government as well es social justice. It has taken an advanced position, protesting vigorously on the one hand against tory injustice and high-handed usurpation of democratic institutions for the exploitation of the many in favor of the few. It has on the other hand realized that through centuries of progress we have attained much that should not and must not be lost.So the Progressive Party protests as strongly against revolution, as against a stand-still policy, as strongly against the Direct Actionist as against the Re-Actionist. It believes it is the best friend and abetter of the poor and oppressed as well as the best friend of the honest man who has attained success. For the former it believes it will gain opportunity more effectively-4- than opportunity can be gained through revolution and direct action. For the latter it believes it can retain opportunity, devoid of special favor. We know that a policy of repression will not stop the ferment of progress. We believe such a policy will drive men from sane progress into channels of radicalism that are dangerous to all men alike. Therefore the Executive Committee of the King County Progressive League feels it must protest against such a policy on the part of the Board of Regents of the State University. A State University should, above all institutions, stand in the forefront of progressive democracy. It should be a guide rather than a stumbling block. Therefore, in view of the action of such Board, and in view of the principles of our party, it is hereby resolved by the Executive Committee of the King County Progressive League that the Governor of this State be requested to investigate the act of the Board of Regents in its attempt to restrict freedom of speech, and we believe that if the Governor cannot obtain a reversal of the resolution referred to, that he should take steps to secure a Board of Regents that would sympathize more with progressive principles. KING COUNTY PROGRESSIVE LEAGUE By Its Secretary Dated August 6th, 1913.Baker THE COURIER-NEWS GUARANTEES THE LARGEST PAID CIRCULATION OF AN NEWSPAPER IN THE STATE AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER The Courier-News MORNING AND SUNDAY THE ONLY 7-DAY PAPER IN NORTH DAKOTA A PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER FARGO, N.D., Aug 7 1913 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N.Y. Dear Col. Roosevelt;-- After long and tedious trying to get the Courier-News into right hands for a permanent progressive fight it is mighty pleasant to be able to write you that the thing is practically accomplished, a gentlemen who seems to be one after your own heart having purchased the paper and will take charge September 1st. I believe that we have gotten a man who will do great work for the party and as he is a practical man in the newspaper line he will have an advantage in his ownership that Mr. More could not have with his varied interests and lack of knowledge of the newspaper business. This will make the work of the paper more effective because more defenite and those of us who have been alarmed over the possibility of control by our enemies are feeling mighty elated over the outcome. The new man is L.T.Guild of Toledo, O. and he is to take over the management of the paper Sept 1st. I anticipate that you will find the future work of the Courier-News more effective for the cause in the future than in the past. This too, settled the question of party organization here and there will be an immediate upward tendency in Progressive stock. Hope You're having the time of your life and enjoying the best of health, Faithfully yours, A.M.Baker OFFICES OF HERBERT A. DRAKE Counselor-at-Law SECURITY TRUST BUILDING 301 MARKET STREET Bell Telephone, Camden, 476 Camden, New Jersey, August 7th, 1913 Dear Mr. Harper: Mr. Ormsby McHarg is taking much on himself, in my opinion, in proposing that the Progressive party shall fall backwards into the slough of [the] Republican stand-patism. I wish Mr. Roosevelt would tell him to mind his own business. He can't speak for Progressive party men in this state, Colby, Fort, Osborne, [record] Jess et al. Jersey will stand to her guns if she become the Lone Star of Progressivism. Yours truly Herbert A. Drake My stenographer is on vacation, but the McHarg wrong brooks no delay.C. A. Nichols Company Established 1851 Book Publishers Springfield, Massachusetts Publishers of Larned's "History for Ready Reference and Topical Reading" August 7th, 1913. The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Outlook Office, New York City. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- At this moment, when Mr. J. N. Larned, formerly President of the National Library Association, cannot at all appreciate, perhaps, our purpose or your own acquiescence therein (as we hope)----Mrs. Larned informs us that her husband is putting out to sea----we are about to further perpetuate the influence of his monumental and universally approved "History for Ready Reference" in the issuance of a new edition from the Riverside Press. It has occurred to your writer, now Associate Manager with Mr. Larned's long-time publishers, The C. A. Nichols Company, Springfield, Mass., that a certain group of men and women resting under a sense of greater or less obligation to Mr. Larned for his contribution to all literary work, would be willing by a brief note of appreciation and characterization to give thus both momentum to this new edition, and at the same time to enter Mr. Larned's home-and-family circle just now with such testimony as when placed before him would both gratify him and would emphasize in his life that significance of his service that his own posterity would cherish. It is our trust that, whatever of this note may be, of course, a matter of affairs, (these affairs contributing, allow me to say, directly to the author's substantial interests) you will none the less appreciate the sincerity of this sentiment. We beg your contribution, as asked above, at as early a date as possible. Cordially, C. S. Nichols Co. By John Mason Duncan Associate Manager. D/HThe Pride of Sulphur Grocery Headquarters for First Class Staple and Fancy Groceries, California Fruits and Best Refreshments, Fine Cigars, Tobacco, Etc. C. A. FOOTE, Manager Sulphur, Ky., 8-7-1913 Col Theodore Roosevelt. Oyster Bay L.I. N.Y. Hon Sir: I am told on good authority that the present Democrat Administration is not so much interested in Small appointments Such as 4th class Post masters Star Keepers Gaugers and etc as are the Local Petit Politicians: Now Col as a 4th class P.M. I feel protected under Pres Tafts Order of Oct 1912. In this way that where I stand the Civil Service Examination and Prove my qualifications "that is" prove that I am efficient I shall be allowed to Hold my office: Now as an Honorable Discharged Spanish American War Regular Soldier I can get Reliable Democrat Backing to Request the Postmaster General and the President to allow us a special examinationThe Pride of Sulphur Grocery HEADQUARTERS FOR FIRST CLASS Staple and Fancy Groceries, California Fruits and Best Refreshments, Fine Cigars, Tobacco, Etc. C. A. FOOTE, MANAGER Sulphur, Ky., ..................191.... 2. to prove our [efficiency] merit. We know that as Republicans and Progressives we will all be thrown out and replaced by Democrats under the Present Examination Plan and will [?] Please give me your Personal and Private advice as how to Procede to get the Special Examination for Honerable Discharged Spanish American War Soldiers: I know I can Prove my efficiency in an examination but of course I can not get the Democrat Recommendation over the Democrat Preffrence: and it is a well known fact that the Civil Service questions that are to be the Test are already in the Hands of the Democrats to be Postmasters: Please let me Hear from you. Respectfully Claude A. Foote P.M. Sulphur Ky. Late Co. A. 12th U.S. Infty. Service 1897. to 1900. Sulfur KY.Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 7, 1913 Col.. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir, Enclosed a pen sketch illustrating as cause of the drought; based upon a new science which first became known to me about twenty-seven years ago. The principles of the science are practical and clear so that ordinary, high-school students can learn them. My son has learned them so that he can forecast weather two and three years in advance. After the experiences of the better part of a life-time of (dating back to 1888 when I endeavored to get magazines interested in the work), I have been unable to get the subject before the people. I can explain the technical details of any ordinary physical phenomenon and can show a meteorologist more about the weather in an hour than he can discover in a life-time; yet I have been unsuccessful in getting these things before the public. I cannot afford to advertise or publish the many forecasting rules as an advertisement. The World Alliance asks twenty dollars for one eighth of a page and I suppose the Chicago News Advance asks about the same price. The use of a small spacein a newsletter for weather notes (like the government forecasts) would soon explain the principles as the ordinary public. Along with the weather notes could be space for questions from readers and space for the technical answers. If you can assist in getting this mathematical method of forecasting the general weather of a season before the people, so that merchants can guard against losses and farmers can get weather information in advance and that the people can look a year ahead and prepare for the season, I know that you will be glad to see how greatly they will be benefitted by it. Very respectully, D.A.N. Grover 5407 Holmes St.[Tovenil Per 8-7-13]Explanation of the Terrible Drought of 1913. 8-7-13 SUN 3rd cause of Drought MERCURY, WITHDRAWING - OCT. 1 ITS REPULSION FROM THE EARTH AND ALLOWING THE EARTH TO MOVE TOWARD THE SUN FROM AUG. 4 TO 22, - SEPT 10 -SEPT. 1 -AUG 21 -AUG 4 - AUG 1 - JULY 28 - JULY 9 - JULY 5 - JULY 1 EARTH'S PATH INWARD TOWARD THE SUN DURING DROUGHT OF 1913 EARTH'S NORMAL PATH --> 1st cause of Drought JUPITER REPELLING THE EARTH TOWARD THE SUN FROM JULY 5 to SEPT. 10. 2nd cause of Drought URANUS, FORCING THE EARTH TOWARD THE SUN FROM JULY 28 TO SEPT. 10. The irregular parts of the dotted line indicates slightly outward movements of the earth from the Sun, on cooler days and rains. But from Aug 4 to Sept. 10 the few rains due will be insufficient to counter-act the drought unless counter-acted by the position[s] of unknown planets. D. A. N. Troock. [Endin Grover 8-7-13]Lockport N.Y. Aug 7/13 Hon Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir The County Fair Com" requested me to write and see if you would speak for them some afternoon during Fair Week from Sept. 22nd to 29th. Believe it would help Progressive cause very much if you would at suggestion of J. Hawkin direct c/o "Outlook". Hoping for a favorable early reply Yours very truly C.J. Guild 234 Locust Sr.Carle L. Maskey P.O. Box 23 Westpoint, VA. August 7-1913 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt New York City My dear Colonel Roosevelt: My "outlook" for June 28 announces that you will go in the early fall to Argentina to lecture. I should like to make this trip with you if I could be of any use in the capacity of aide, secretary or "official" photographer or the like. I will furnish satisfactory2 references and will go up to New York to see you if you say there is any chance. I am 27 years old and my business is the development of vacant farm lands. Yours very truly O.L. Maskey7th August 1913 Theodore Roosevelt, Esqre. Dear Sir, Will you kindlly say if you can write for us a Magasine article under some such title as "En Entente between Great Britian and America", tresting the subject from the side of Universal Peace, and incidentally, of commerce. We believe that such an article would arouse great interest and we shall be pleased to forward a cheque in consideration. Faithfully Yours, [Signature]Hillsboro, Ore., 8/7/13. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Sir:- Can you refer me to any family of wealth desiring to place their children in the care of a Methodist minister and wife as private tutors, spiritual advisers, etc. ? Perhaps you know of some wealthy couple or widower desiring to travel or for other good reasons to leave their children in good care at home for a year or more. Or possibly some bereaved parent desires to secure a family to share his or her home for companionship, in addition to the care of the children. The case with use is this: because of having had expenses for a higher education and because of the low salaries paid to ministers attending school, we are burdened with a debt of $2500, which even our present salary will not enable us to pay off in any reasonable period of years. It takes all we call save to pay interest. We must double our 2 income for the next two or three years. And it has occurred to me that we could be of valuable personal service in some wealthy family somewhere. If I as a wife can secure a position something like I have suggested, in conjunction with my husband, we could achieve our desired end. We have four children of our own, the oldest 10, and they would be fit companions for the best. I could easily care for four more if I had income enough to enable me to confine my energies to child culture. You will understand, I am sure, why I desire to find this opportunity for service without advertising or publicity. I trust you will see fit to help or advise me in this matter, and I shall be very, very grateful to you for any help you may be able to render. Very sincerely yours, Mrs. W .J. Weber, Box 271 Hillsboro, Ore.Please address all communications to the company. New York Leather Belting Co. Manufacturers of Oak Tanned Leather: Belting & Lace Leather. Viking Pile Face Solid Woven Belting Office and Salesrooms 51 Beekman Street, New York. ORIGINATORS OF SCIENTIFIC BELT CONSTRUCTION REGISTERED TRADE MARK PHOENIX Telephone 33 BEEKMAN. Cable Address 'PINZOTE' NEW YORK. FACTORIES: 465-471 KENT AVE. 29-35 S. ELEVENTH ST. BROOKLYN, N. Y. 51 BEEKMAN ST. AND 81 ANN ST. NEW YORK. BRANCH OFFICE 170-172 N. FRANKLIN ST. CHICAGO. August 7, 13. HON. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, New York City. My dear sir:- Under separate cover we are sending you a copy of our publication--PHOENIX-- and would like to call your attention to an article on page three entitled "OUR NAVY". If after reading the same you feel inclined to drop us a line telling what you think of the article we shall greatly appreciate it. Yours very truly, New York Leather Belting Co., J. C Whiteside Advertising Mgr. JCW-W.849 E, 226 Street, New York City, Aug. 8, 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island. My dear Col. Roosevelt:- Not knowing you or knowing anyone intimately enough that knows you to ask for an introduction to you, I am taking this liberty of asking you a personal favor, which would be of great benefit to me and others concerned,if granted. Being a graduate nurse and having the opportunity of becoming acquainted with people of means and prominence, I have been given the privilege of selling a picture, called "The Christ", painted by Carl Ludwig Brandt. Now if you would stop to think for a moment, I think that you must have known him, or else you know of him as he and one of your Uncles, I am told, kept bachelor quarters in New Jersey together when they were young men. He also painted portraits of members of your family. The picture is in the possession of his daughter, and she is quite anxious to sell it on account of needing the money greatly. Thinking that you might be interested in purchasing the picture, and if not, would you kindly give me an introduction to some person of means whom you think would like to purchase it? A letter from a man of your reputation and stamp would carry a great deal of weight, and thet is what I am after. Now, of: course, I am frank to confess that you do not know me, and, therefore, would not be interested in me any further than it might appeal to you to want to do a kind act to a person who might appear to be worthy of such. In order that I may be able to prove this, I will refer you to Commodore Benedict, of Greenwich, Conn. whom I nursed during his illness in 1910. Trusting that this request may not be con- sidered by you to be of an impertinent nature, and that you will grant me an interview at your convenience, I remain, Yours truly, Serena E. Ashford. National Committeeman Hon. Nathan Merriam, Omaha, Nebr. Chairman State Committee F.P. Corrick, Lincoln Executive Committee F. P. McCormick, Lincoln Don L. Love, Lincoln John Lewis, Omaha John R. Luschen, Columbus D. C. Van Deusen, Blair M.F. Stanley, Aurora H. E. Spafford, Beatrice W. P. Hall, Holdrege J. P. Gibbons, Kearney M. F. Harrington, O'Neill State Committee 1st District— S.S. Stewart, Tecumseh 2d District— H. C. Walker, Douglas 3d District— Thos. Nelson, Springfield 4th District— Dr. W. O. Henry, Omaha John Lewis, Omaha John W. Towle, Omaha Nelson T. Thorson, Omaha August Miller, South Omaha 5th District— R. P. Turner, Fremont 6th District— Eric Morell, Oakland 7th District— H. Zeplin, West Point 8th District— W. H. Stageman, Randolph 9th District— J. C. Jenkins, Neligh 10th District— James Rosenborough, Norfolk 11th District— L. C. Staats, Central City 12th District— F. B. Tipton, Seward 13th District— Don L. Love, Lincoln John S. Bishop, Lincoln 14th District— H. E. Spafford, Beatrice 15th District— A. V. Pease, Fairbury 16th District— S. O. Kucera, Tobias 17th District— M. F. Stanley, Aurora 18th District— H. Schickedantz, St. Paul 19h District— A. H. Lewis, Sutton 20th District— W. H. Miller, Bloomington 21st District— W. P. Hall, Holdrege - 22d District— J. P. Gibbons, Kearney 23d District— Allen Clements, Ord 24th District— W. T. Wills, Butte 25th Distriet— Dan Ballmer, Cozad 26th District — A. L. Taylor, Trenton 27th District— A. L. Bentz, Oshkosh 28th District— K. L. Pierce, Hemingford [stamp] 21 Headquarters Progressive Party Fraternity Building Lincoln, Nebraska Office of State Chairman Lincoln, Nebr., Aug 8, 1913 Col. Theodore Roosevelt New York Dear Mr Roosevelt I cam advised that you are to address the state conference of Kansas Progressives next February. We will also hold such a gathering at about that time and if you will consider to address the meeting will arrange the date to suit your convenience. I am very anxious that you should come. Very truly, F.P. CorrickThe Gideons New England Bible Committee Christian Commercial Travellers Association of America DIRECTOR C. L. DRAKE TREASURER PERCY H. HODGMAN ASSISTANT TREASURER J. P. JONES PERMANENT HEADQUARTERS ROOM 507 TREMONT TEMPLE BOSTON TELEPHONE 3163 MAIN "AND THEY STOOD EVERY MAN IN HIS PLACE ROUND ABOUT THE CAMP." -- Judges 7-21. Gideon Bible Committee of New England BOSTON, MASS. W. A. McCOY, CHAIRMAN C. E. FISH A. C. EMERY P. H. HODGMAN F. G. KELLOGG C. A. WATERMAN N. W. DENNETT R. E. THORPE W. L. CASWELL J. P. JONES C. L. DRAKE PORTLAND ME. J. A. WRIGHT WORCESTER, MASS. GEO. F. BROOKS A. S. S. LOTHROP F. W. HOVEY SPRINGFIELD, MASS. C. H. FOWLER C. J. ALLEN August 8, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. Outlook Office, N. Y. My dear Brother: Under this cover we mail you a Program of the Gideon Bible Conference to be held at Old Orchard, Maine, Aug. 11, 12, 13, 1913, when we will try to secure cash and pledges enough to provide us with the $30,000 necessary to pay for the 75000 Bibles that we will place in the Hotel Guest rooms of New England. We realize that you are interested, and although you told us you could not spare the time to address our Conference, we feel you will deem it a privelege to send us a pledge or check to show your interest. Such a Contribution will be announced at our Conference. Thanking you for a reply, I am Yours in Gideon Service, C. L. Drake Director. 75000 Bibles for New England Hotels, costing $30,000. National Gideon Day -- 3rd Sunday in May Bible Demonstration, Old Orchard Camp Grounds, August 11-12, 1913.Carnegie Museum, (Department of the Carnegie Institute) W. J. Holland, Ph. D., LL. D., Director. (address all correspondence to the director.) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U. S. A. August 8, 1913. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir;- While in New York recently I learned of your contemplated trip to South America to lecture and to explore on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History. I have been for years interested in the fishes of South America, and I sent you my report on the fishes of Guiana several months ago. I regret that I have no copy of the report on the fishes of Patagonia, and an outline of the entire question of the distribution of fishes in the rivers of South America, published by Princeton University. Perhaps you have access to that. It was published in the Patagonian Report of Princeton University. I hope your plan will include some fishes, and that if it does, I shall be given an opportunity to look at your stuff. I am at present engaged on the distribution of the fishes in that portion of Colombia west of the eastern Andes. I traveled through this region myself, and two of my students have been there during the past winter. This region has acted as a funnel through which the fresh-water fauna of South America has passed into the rivers of Central America. Another of my students several years ago passed through the region into which you yourself are going. I shall try toCol. R. R. 2. send you shorter papers with illustrations of the fishes of the region to which you are going. Harvard University is just publishing the first section of my monograph on the Characins,, the largest of the groups of South American fresh-water fishes. If the expedition will ultimately become such that a man can go along for the fishes, I shall be very glad to try to send one of my students. Respectfully yours, C.H. Eigenmann[8-8-13] Williams College Good Government Club Executive Committee 1913-1914 John D. Stevens, '14, President Durand H. VanDoren, '14, Vice President James McKown, Jr., '14, Secretary Donald Winston, '15, Treasurer Williamstown, Mass. July 28,1913 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir: On behalf of the Williams College Good Government Club I wish to extend to you a most hearty invitation to address us during the coming college year. Our Club, including as members three hundred of the five hundred undergraduates, aims to keep alive an active interest in political affairs and to instill into the college men and the community at large an earnest desire for clean government. We endeavor to accomplish this, in part, by giving the men such practical experience through committee work as the problems of the neighboring towns and cities afford, but we depend largely upon securing the most influential speakers to bring the students into touch with the men who are striving for progressive government and social betterment. Among those who have addressed us in recent years are Ex-President Taft, Hon. Richard A. Ballinger, Hon. James R. Garfield, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, and Prince Lazarovitch of Servia. The date would be made to suit your convenience, We can arrange to give you a strictly college audience or a mixed audience from town and college. Unfortunately the condition of our treasury permits to offer you only your travelling and entertainment expenses, but I can promise you a large and interested audience from Williamstown and neighboring cities. Yours very respectfully, John D. Stevens President. Rockport Mass. Aug. 8/13 Dear Col. Roosevelt: I am pleased to add my very cordial endorsement of the club work & to express the hope that you will find it possible to accept Stevens invitation with high regard, Sincerely yours, H. A. Garfield [Garfield]Charles City, Ia., Aug. 8, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I anderstand that you are going south to fill a large number of lecture engagements. We are putting on at Mason City, Iowa an 8 or 9 numbered course of big ones, among them Melba, McCormick, one Grand Opera, and we want one or two men of national repute, am therefore writing you to see if it would be possible for as to get you to fill a lecture date at Mason City, Iowa sometime in the early fall, say, the latter part of October. We will greatly appreciate a reply and would more appreciate to have your terms with the assurance, that if agreeable we could have you along about that date. Thanking you for an early answer, I remain, Yours sincerely, Freimont. S. Gibson [*[Gibson?]*] William Elliott R. Beverley Herbert Elliott & Herbert Attorneys at Law Columbia, S.C. 8 Aug 1913 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. Dear Col. Roosevelt: It is reported in the local press that in case of war with Mexico you will lead several regiments of cavalry into Mexico. I have no way of knowing whether or not there is any foundation for the report. If you should recruit a regiment I would be glad to enlist with you and think I am fully qualified in matter of physical ability to ride, shoot, etc. I could and would be willing to bear whatever experience is necessary. I have a horse which I think would be suitable. If you wish further statement I shall be glad to send some. I shall expect to enlist as a private. Please let me know if there is "anything doing". Yours very truly R. Beverley HerbertCADWALLADER W. KELSEY HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT U.S.A. August 8th, 1913. Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y. Honorable .Sir:- Under separate cover I have sent you a Prosperity Puzzle. Perhaps you will find a moment in your busy career to glance at it. It is an entirely new idea in the puzzle line, and has been gotten up with the idea of vizualizing the value of Truth, to show that prosperity, peace and the things which all thinking people are striving for, cannot be accomplished by any one person, party or condition. Please do me the honor to look at the Prosperity Puzzle when it comes to hand. You will find it has the fascination attached to any good puzzle, besides the added value of making you think truthfully about the problems of the day. You will see, after studying and amusing yourself with the puzzle for just a few moments, that whenever both balls fall into holes at the same time, one ball will indicate the cause, the result of which will be indicated by the other ball. Thus, Disarmament corresponds with war, Prohibition with Bad Booze, and so on, Prosperity only being reached by getting one of the balls into a hole that indicates the causes which would actually bring it about. I expect to put the Prosperity Puzzle on the market shortly, and would like to mention the fact that you are the possessor of one of them, without quoting you in any way. If you have no objection, do not take the time to answer this letter. I will simply mention the fact that you are among the prominent citizens who lave tried the Prosperity Puzzle, as shown on the enclosed hanger. Trusting I may be honored by using your name, I beg to remain, Yours most respectfully, Cad. KelseyADIRONDACKS HUNTING FISHING BOATING GUIDES MOOSE HEAD INN ON MOOSE RIVER FRANK W. SMITH, PROPRIETOR MCKEEVER, N.Y., Aug 8th 1913 My Dear Col. Will you join us and make up party of (3) when Season opens this Oct. I have written Sergeant Gerard of Troop I. Who is now in Milwaukee and have every reason to believe he will be on. I would love to have you as my Guest and feel sure we will get our allowance of Game. This is strictly confidential so you will not be molested. Our host not only runs the Moose Head Hotel but is a Bull Moose through and through so with (2) Rough Riders &ADIRONDACKS HUNTING FISHING BOATING GUIDES MOOSE HEAD INN ON MOOSE RIVER FRANK W. SMITH, PROPRIETOR MCKEEVER, N.Y., 191 an (a) No 1 Bull Moose & Guide I feel sure we will take the best of care of you let me hear from you and believe me that this is simply one comrade looking for Society of another and will be strictly confidential. Best Wishes Resp. Yours Harry B. King c/o Moose Head Hotel McKeever N.Y. I am trying to arrange this for about Oct 15th.SEVENTH ANNUAL SOUTHWEST INDIAN CONFERENCE FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA. AUG. 14-24, 1913 BIBLE CONFERENCE, AUG. 14-21 INDIAN CONFERENCE, AUG. 22-24 ALTITUDE OF FLAGSTAFF is 6,700 FT. THE VICINITY ABOUNDS WITH POINTS OF INTEREST Rev. J. B. FREY, PRES., TUBA, ARIZONA Rev. L |. THAYER. Vice Pres., KEAMS CANYON. Ariz Rev. F. G. MITCHELL, Cor. SECY., TOLCHACO, Ariz Rev. H. A. CLARK, REC. SECY. & TREAS., TUBA, Ariz Rev. L. P. Brink, TOHATCHI, New Mexico Rev. C. M, ROSS, FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA Rev. F. S. HERNDON, TUCSON. ARIZONA SAN FRANCISCO PEAKS, FLAGSTAFF. ALTITUDE 13,500 Tolchaco, Arizona. August eighth, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o "The Outlook", New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Roosevelt ,- I am advised that you are now in the vicinity of Flagstaff, Arizona, and therefore take pleasure in enclos- ing to you copy of the program for our Seventh Annual South- west Indian Conference. I do not suppose your plans will admit of your being present with us, but I wish to extend to you a most cordial invitation in case you may be able to spend a day or so with us. The splendid assistance which you have given to the Navajos through Mr. W. R. Johnston and others, is highly appreciated, and we should all be more than glad to welcome you at the Flagstaff meeting. With best wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, [F???] Mitchell Corresponding Secretary. La Saeur, Minn. Aug. 8th, 1913; Hon. Theodore Roosevelt; Hon. Moses E. Clapp; Hon. James A. Garfield and hon. Charles Thompson; Dear Sir; Just lately a Progressive Party man of national reputation, told me, during a long and confidential conversation a stupenduous story condemnatory of the private morals of a Democratic, public official of immense national importance, setting forth, in the coruse of the story, in close detail, the parts some of you took in the development of the matter and the comments made by you in conversation about it and the views you expressed as to the desirability of giving the story to the public. Can it not be that there is some terrible mistake about the story? is it possible that beneath the smooth surface of this great man's repultation there Lies quiescent that would stir a nation of the hundred millions of people to the very depths and would go far forwards the wrecking of a great national party? I have no reason whatever to doubt my informant's veracity and do not do no, only that the story is so stupenduous and the potential scandal so vast, that it seems as though there must be some great mistake about it. Yours very truly, [Signature] President Le Sueur Minn. Progressive Party Club. From Ora. J. Parker, Le Sueur, Minn.Will H. Parry Seattle August 8th 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City. My Dear Colonel: I am enclosing a copy of Resolution adopted by the Executive Committee of the Progressive League, of which I am President, hoping you may take time to read the same. While I know you are not particularly interested in the local issue referred to therein, namely, the order of the Board of Regents suppressing free speech on the University Campus, I would, nevertheless, like to have you read that portion of the Resolution marked with a red pencil. We are actively organizing, and full of hope. Yours very truly, Will H Parry President Progressive League WHP-FS EnclosureB. O. HILL, PRESIDENT, SECOND NATIONAL BANK J. A. MEADE, VICE PRESIDENT, FIDELITY TITLE & TRUST CO. J. M. LUTHER, SECRETARY, FARMERS DEPOSIT NATIONAL BANK W. E. SCHEIBLER, TREASURER, DIAMOND NATIONAR BANK American Institute of Banking Pittsburgh Chapter SECTION OF AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION. Pittsburgh, Pa. Aug. 8, 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Outlook Office New York, N. Y. My dear Sir:- The Pittsburgh Chapter American Institute of Banking, representing 1200 Bank men in this city, extend to you an invitation to speak before then during the coming season 1913-14. We realize you are extremely busy, but the great hope of our members has been that we be honored by your coming to our chapter. Hoping we may have the pleasure of entertaining you in Pittsburgh and with kindest personal regards, I am, Sincerely yours, H. E. Reed. Chairman Ways & Means Committee c/o Union National Bank, Pittsburgh, Pa.WESTERN UNION Form 2289 B TELEGRAPH WESTERN UNION AND CABLE NIGHT LETTER THEO. N. VAIL. PRESIDENT RECEIVED AT THE WESTERN UNION BUILDING, 195 BROADWAY, N. Y. ALWAYS OPEN B100CH ZN 185 NL FRESNO CALIF AUG 8 1913 COL THEODORE ROOSEVELT CARE THE OUTLOOK [*X166ms*] NEWYORK PRESIDENT MOORE OF EXPOSITION WIRES ME THAT STRONG INFLUENCES ARE WORKING IN ENGLAND TO ENDUCE GOVERNMENT TO RECONSIDER ITS TENTATIVE REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE IN PANAMA PACIFIC EXPOSITION DIRECTOR IN CHIEF SKIFF OF EXPOSITION IS SOON TO MEET LORD NORTHCLIFFE AND ENDEAVOR TO SECURE HIS INFLUENCE WITH BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN THIS MATTER OUR INFORMATION IS THAT LORD NORTHCLIFFES INFLUENCE MAY BE VERY IMPORTANT AND KNOWING THAT YOUR WORD MIGHT HAVE MUCH WEIGHT WITH HIM PRESIDENT MOORE ASKS ME TO ENQUIRE IF YOU WOULD NOT BE WILLING IMMEDIATELY BY CABLE OR IN WHATEVER WAY YOU THINK EFFECTIVE TO BRING THIS MATTER TO LORD NORTHCLIFFES ATTENTION URGING HIS SUPPORT MOORE BELIEVES DETERMINED EFFORT BY GREAT AMERICAN INFLUENCES AT THIS TIME MAY RESULT IN BRITISH RECONSIDERATION ACTION OF ENGLANDSheet two Blooch ZH 185 NL Sheet two Fresbo calif Aug 8, 1913 Col T Roosevelt care the outlook Network Under president circumstances will be almost decisive whether exposition is to be offirst or second class and we are tremendously anxious that the Panama Canal shall not be celebrated by anything less than absolutely first class exposition; earnestly hope you will be your way clear to carry out President moores suggestion and; add my request to his. 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VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVER'S No. TIME FILED CHECK SEND the following NIGHT LETTER subject to the terms on back hereof which are hereby agreed to COPY FRESNO CALIF AUG 8 1913 COL THEODORE ROOSEVELT CARE THE OUTLOOK NEW YORK PRESIDENT MOORE OF EXPOSITION WIRES ME THAT STRONG INFLUENCES ARE WORKING IN ENGLAND TO ENDUCE GOVERNMENT TO RECONSIDER ITS TENTATIVE REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE IN PANAMA PACIFIC EXPOSITION DIRECTOR IN CHIEF SKIFF OF EXPOSITION IS SOON TO MEET LORD NORTHCLIFFE AND ENDEAVOR TO SECURE HIS INFLUENCE WITH BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN THIS MATTER OUR INFORMATION IS THAT LORD NORTHCLIFFES INFLUENCE MAY BE VERY IMPORTANT AND KNOWING THAT YOUR WORD MIGHT HAVE MUCH WEIGHT WITH HIM PRESIDENT MOORE ASKS ME TO ENQUIRE IF YOU WOULD NOT BE WILLING IMMEDIATELY BY CABLE OR IN WHATEVER WAY YOU THINK EFFECTIVE TO BRING THIS MATTER TO LORD NORTHCLIFFE ATTENTION URGING HIS SUPPORT MOORE BELIEVES DETERMINED-2- Effort by Great American influences at this time may result in British Reconsideration Action of England Under President circumstances will be most decisive whether exposition is to be of first or second class and we are tremendously anxious that the Panama canal shall not be celebrated by anything less than absolutely first class exposition I earnestly hope you will see your way clear to carry out President Moores and I add my request to his Chester H. Rowell 6 15 AMNight Letter The Western Union Telegraph Company 25,000 Offices in America Cable Service to all the World The company transmits and delievers messages only on conditions limiting its liability which have been assented to by the sender for the following night letter. Erjors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Night Letters, sent at reduced rates beyond a sum equal to ten times the amount paid for transmission; nor in any case beyond the sum of fifty dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the company for transmission. This is an Unrepated Night Letter, and is delievered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. Robert C. Clowry, President , Belvidere Brooks, General Manager. Received at A31 MY MC.... 11NL. Fresno Calif Aug 8 th - 13 Frank Harper, Care the outlook new york, Please Forward to Colonel Roosevelt If possible my telegram of today. Chester H Rowell 722 AM FRANK GOLDFIELD, PRESIDENT MISS MILDRED SHAPIRO, CORRES. SEC'Y JAMES E. GOLDFIELD, FIN. SEC'Y LOUIS SPOTKOV, 1ST VICE-PRES. WM. KROHN, 2ND VICE-PRES BERNARD P. CAREY, TREASURER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE H. N. SCHWARTZ, CHAIRMAN FINANCE COMMITTEE T. H. JOHNSTON, CHAIRMAN ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE MISS MILDRED SHAPIRO, CHAIRMAN HOUSE & RULES COMMITTEE WM. K. PENNINGTON, CHAIRMAN MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE MISS ANNA STERLING, CHAIRMAN ATHLETIC COUNCIL WM. K. ABODIE, CHAIRMAN Alumini Association of the Abigail Vare School.. Philadelphia, Pa. August 8th 1913 To His Excellency, the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- I am taking the liberty to ask of you something which to me would be very valuable. I am making a collection of autographs, and already number in my collection those of President Wilson, Governor Tener, quite a number of Congressman, Senators and Judges. I would feel very much honored to have your autograph. Allow me to assure you that I shall know how to value it. Thanking you very much, I am Yours most respectfully, Mildred Shapiro 540 Fernon Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 1893 East 19th Street Cleve-Ohio August-8-1913 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay Long Island Dear Sir; I noticed something in the paper about a reorganization of the "Rough Riders", I have had five month compulsary service in Mexico and would like to go again in case these is any cause. I can pass army or navy examinations and am an excav head as Texas in my house. I stand five feet eleven inches weigh 163 pounds can bust broncos wrangle a rope and shoat null. In case you organize I will appreciate a notice for inspection. Very sincerely yours Robert R. StuartTheodore Roosevelt Peculiar Mo 8/8th 19.13 Dear Sir you will find inclosed the words of a song that I rote years ago; but never published, I would like your judgment in regard to its merits, if it would be worth while to have it set to music as you are better posted on such matters than I am. a good many thought that I ought to of had it published and used in our last Campain that I was not able to do; the idea as material for this song was obtained from a wounded soldier as he lay on the san June hill battlefield; I have seen hundreds of dying men on the field and their thoughts always wander back home; I am no song wrighter and have no standing as one amung publishers; all though I have rote a good many and several Pices of poetry some on the field under fire in our late Civeel rebellion; if it is of sufficent merrit some music publisher might handle it I have never tride yours Respectifully J W Stroud Peculiar Cass Co MoProgressive Party of Vermont Headquarters Montpelier Vermont TELEPHONE 70 P. O. BOX 453 National State Committeeman CHARLES H. THOMPSON P. O. Box 453 Montpelier State Organization Chairman M. L. ASELTINE St. Albans Secretary and Treasurer E. L. KELLEY Salisbury EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chas. H. Thompson Chairman P. O. Box 453 Montpelier M. L. Aseltine St. Albans E. L. Kelley Salisbury H. Nelson Jackson Burlington March M. Wilson Randolph Members State Committee First District Mrs. O. H. Rixford East Highgate Mrs. Guy B. Horton Burlington Members State Committee Second District Mrs. Juliet Rublee Windsor Mrs. George Ide Lyndon STATE COMMITTEE Addison E. L. Kelley Salisbury Bennington W. H. Nichols Bennington Caledonia W. J. Aldrich St. Johnsbury Chittenden H. S. Howard Burlington Essex A. E. Parlin Island Pond Franklin Oscar A. Rixford East Highgate Grand Isle W. A. Soule Alburg Grand Isle J. S. King Isle La Motte Lamoille B. C. Hawley Jeffersonville Orleans J. M. Blake Barton Orange March M. Wilson Randolph Rutland D. E. Martin Rutland Rutland F. L. Russell Shrewsbury Windham E. W. Gibson Brattleboro Washington A. W. Allen Barre Windsor Glenn Lathrop South Royalton Date August. 8. 1913. Mr. Frank Harper. New York City, My dear Mr. Harper, Will you give me Col. Roosevelts address where I might possibly reach him by wire, as I wish his personal judgement on a very important matter, which has come up here in Vermont, and oblige. Yours very truly, Charles H. Thompson Vincent Hollis Todd, Ph.D. Professor of Modern Languages Greenville College Eldon Grant Burritt, A.M. Prsident Jacob Moyer, A.M., Dean Greenville, Illinois August 8, 1913 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt The Outlook New York Dear Colonel Roosevelt I should be very much pleased if you will accept a copy of my thesis entitled , "Baron Christoph von Graffenried's New Bern Adventure," past published in the German Year Book in Chicago. Knowing your interest in American History and having heard Professor Goebel of the University of Illinois speak of your interest in Things German. I have taken the liberty of sending you my dissertation, hoping that you may find a convenient time to give it a reading. Yours respectfully Vincent Hollis Todd, Harvard '07.8-8-13 Marshall P. Wilder Atlantic City, N.J. Bell Phone 136 Friday 11 a.m. Dear Col Roosevelt We are trying to boom Atlantic City as a health [?]. Will you kindly write a few lines in its praise for publication? Merrily yours Marshall P. Wilder8-8-13 Sue in Carrington 9-4-13CARRINGTON ISSUES ULTIMATUM TO G.O.P. Insists Amalgamation Platform Must Be All Progressive OTHERWISE PLAN IS A WASTE OF TIME Sub-Committee To Meet Today To consider Further Statement Of Party Principles In a statement issues today, col. Edward C. Carrington replied to chairman Hanna of the Republican State Central Committee and to Governor Goldsborough regarding the platform to be adopted by the amalgamated Republican-Progressive party in the fall campaign. Mr. Carrington was out of town when Mr. Hanna, with the sanction of Governor Goldsborough, criticized him for making public what he(Carrington) claimed was practically the platform to be adopted by the amalgamators in the fall campaign. Mr. Carrington's statement follows: Thinks he Is Right "I have read Chairman Hanna's statement, issued with the approval of Govenor Goldsborough as to concessions made with amalgamating Progressives. "I believe, and still believe, that the Republican members of the platform the committee tentatively agreed to a Progressive program fr the Republican party in this state-safe and sane, of course. "If it is not the purpose of Governor Goldsburough and his associates to make the Republican party progressive from stem to stern, we are all wasting a lot of valuable time and our efforts will prove futile, inasmuch as the rank and file will follow nothing but a progressive program. Progressive Ultimatum "I have no wish to embarrass Governor Goldsborough, but this is the position of my friends and myself. "from the very beginning of our conferences on amalgamation it was our understanding that in an attempt to reunite the forces, the Republicans were to retain the party label and our people were to come in on a Progressive platform. Any other course would make amalgamation impossible from our standpoint." The sub-committee of the platform committee will meet again this afternoon to work on an acceptable platform to be submitted to the full committee of eight, then to the joint committee of thirty and finally to the state-wide mass convention to be held in Baltimore august 14. Two Republicans-Chairman Hanna and William T. Warburton of cecil county-and two amalgamating progressives-former Congressman Chas. R. Schirm of Baltimore city and Calen L Tait of Montgomery county- compose the sub-committee on platform. Schrm and Tait stand with Carrington, and it is assumed that Mr. Warburton holds similar views as Mr. Hanna. The committee will however, it is said, endeavor to get together on a policy that is mutually fair and just. A LIGHT REGISTRATION Less Thank 4,000 Additional Names Placed on the Books. Comparatively few voters took the trouble to register yesterday. The Democrats, who have a contest in every district, were the more active, the Republicans apparently making no effort to bring out their voters. Even in the Seventeenth ward, where the colored vote is very heavy and the Republicans always make much the better showing, the Democrats went ahead yesterday. The Progressives added 38 to their string while the declined vote was reinforced by 134. The Democrats registered 3,208 and the Republicans 618. Altogether there were placed on the books 3,998 additional names. Add these to the 112,201 already there and the total registration to date is 116,199. Yesterday's Registration was intended to give voters who neglected to register last year, a chance to vote in the primaries. The regular sittings will begin September 23. FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1913. AMALGAMATORS' JOINT COMMITTEE APPROVES PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM Body Unanimously Agrees To Recommend Its Adoption. STATE CONVENTION HERE ON THURSDAY The platform of the amalgamated Republican-Progressive party was approved today by the joint committee of 30, which unanimously agreed to recommend its adoption by the Statewide mass convention, to be held in Baltimore next Thursday night. Progressive Throughout. The platform, which is progressive throughout, is as follows: Whereas, it is self-evident that continued disunion between Republicans and Progressives will, by giving the Democratic party a continued overwhelmingly plurality at the polls, result in making this a one-party State and subject to all the evils which follow when one party has complete sway and is fearless of opposition; and Where as, Republicans and Progressives of Maryland, looking toward the welfare and security of the people of this State particularly and of the whole country generally, have been able to reach an honorable and acceptable agreement of reunion; Now therefore, we, Republicans and former Progressives of the State of Maryland, in State mass-meeting assembled, as Republicans, do adopt the following platform and earnestly appeal to all citizens of this State, without regard to previous political affiliation, to unite with us to promote the purposes and objects of our platform and to assist us in preventing the State of Maryland from degenerating into a one-party State and we recommend the adoption of this platform by the Republican State Convention, to meet in September next. The Platform. We commend the administration of Governor Goldsborough and call particular attention to his efforts to raise the tone of administration throughout the State; to his appointment of the Penal Commission to investigate the Penitentiary, resulting in much needed prison reforms; to his appointment of a commission to investigate the tax laws and report a more equitable revision of the same; to his endeavor to take the Agriculture College out of politics and make it a more efficient aid to the farmers of the State; to his efforts to unify the higher education and to apply to it and the primary education more enlightened methods of teaching and discipline; to his appointment of a commission to revise the election laws and a commission to prepare a workingmen's compensation bill; to his signing the child labor act and the Presidential preferential primary act; to the more faithful and progressive work done by the Road Commission under his leadership, and to his impartial enforcement of the discrimination, to obtain a common school education. Election Laws. We favor election and registration laws which shall apply uniformly to the entire State. We declare that the ballot should be as short as practicable as well as easy to understand and vote; and that in counting the ballots the manifest intention of the voter should control. We favor the constitutional amendment to be submitted to the voters at the election in November of this year providing for a penalty for offering or giving a bribe toa voter and removing the penalty for accepting one by the voter. We condemn the envelope system of voting, now in force in some of the counties, as making corruption in elections easy and its detection difficult. Woman's Suffrage. We pledge ourselves to submit to the voters of this State for their determination a constitutional amendment granting to women the right to vote equally with men. Initiative And Referendum We pledge ourselves to submit to the voters of this State for their determination a constitutional amendment embodying the principles of the initiative and referendum. Home Rule. We believe that the several counties, Baltimore city and the other larger municipalities of the State should be allowed in the regulation of their local affairs the largest possible liberty consistent with a strong, well organized and effective State government; and we, therefore, favor for them a clearer delimination of administrative authority, by such a plan as will avoid the mass of local laws passed biennially by the Legislature and will lead to greater uniformity of administration under general laws; and for this purpose we favor the appointment of a commission by the Governor to devise a practicable plan to carry it into effect. Administrative Reforms. Appeal Is Made To People To Unite Against Democratic Party. ONE-PARTY STATE IS FEARED BY ALL Information, keeping it administration upon a non-political basis, and a sufficiently large appropriation to enable this bureau to make the investigation of factory, farm, labor and commercial conditions required by the law and to fully publish them. Changes In Party Rules. We recommend the following changes in the rules of the national organization of the republican party: 1. That representation in national conventions should be based jointly on party-voting strength and State representation-in Congress. 2. That the right of each State to determine by law the qualification and manner of election of delegates and alternates to national conventions shall be recognized. We commend the administration of Governor Goldsborough and call particular attention to his efforts to raise the tone of administration throughout the State; to his appointment of the Penal Commission to investigate the Penitentiary, resulting in much needed prison reforms; to his appointment of a commission to investigate the tax laws and report a more equitable revision of the same; to his endeavor to take the Agricultural College out of politics and make it a more efficient aid to the farmers of the State; to his efforts to unify the higher education and to apply to it and the primary education more enlightened methods of teaching and discipline; to his appointment of a commission to revise the election laws and a commission to prepare a workingmen's compensation bill; to his signing the child labor act and the Presidential preferential primary act; to the more faithful and progressive work done by the Road Commission under his leadership, and to his impartial enforcement of the laws. Tariff Principles. We favor a protective tariff sufficient to protect products of American industries against the products of the industries of foreign countries where the standard of living of the producer is on a lower plane than that of the producer in this country; but a protective tariff which is so adjusted to prevent oppressive monopolies. To this end we favor a law providing for the appointment of a non-partisan, scientific tariff commission; whose duty it shall be to thoroughly investigate industrial conditions at home and abroad and, when required, report their findings to Congress. We condemn the Underwood tariff bill, now pending before Congress, as destructive of our home market, which, as William McKinley said, is the best commercial asset of the American people. Army, Navy; Foreign Policy. We believe that an adequate army and navy is the best guarantee of peace, and in this connection we condemn the short-sighted and indifferent policy of the Democratic House of Representatives, which prevented the building of necessary battleships. We declare for the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine and that no additional European and no Asiatic flag shall be planted in the Western world. We believe that all the honorable means incident to diplomacy should first be exhausted to protect American citizens and their property, and when these means fail to secure justice that then such other powers of the Government should be invoked as may be necessary. We believe it is the urgent duty of the Government at this time to firmly safeguard the lives and property of American citizens in Mexico as well as of those who dwell along out Southwestern border. Interstate Commerce. We believe that the honest business man should be encourage to invest his capital in legitimate business enterprises, and that the laws regulating interstate commerce, intended to prevent monopoly and harmful combinations, should be so plain that all business men may know exactly what may and what may not be legally done, to the end that legitimate business, freed from confusion, uncertainty and litigation, may continue normal development. Equality Before Law. We hold it essential for the preservation of this republic in its integrity that all citizens, regardless of nationality, race, creed or station, should stand equal before the law. We further hold that the advancement of the best interests of the people makes it the duty of the State to provide equal opportunity for all our youth, without Initiative and Referendum. We pledge ourselves to submit to the voters of this State for their determination a constitutional amendment embodying the principles of the initiative and referendum. Home Rule. We believe that the several counties, Baltimore city and the other larger municipalities of the State should be allowed in the regulation of their local affairs the largest possible liberty consistent with a strong, well organized and effective State government; and we, therefore, favor for them a clearer delimination of administrative authority, by such a plan as will avoid the mass of local laws passed avoid the mass of local laws passed biennially by the Legislature and will lead to greater uniformity of administration under general laws; and for this purpose we favor the appointment of a commission by the Governor to devise a practicable plan to carry it into effect. Administrative Reforms. We hold that experience has clearly shown that the following administrative reforms should be the subject of prompt legislation: 1. The simplification of our legal procedure. 2. The simplification of our legislative procedure. 3. The adoption of a uniform system of accounting by all public officers. 4. The payment of public officials for their services by fixed salaries instead of out of the fees of their office, wherever such plan is practicable. 5. Changes in the assessment and taxation laws looking to uniformity and equity in the enforcement of tax levies. Human Legislation. We favor such legislation as will prevent injurious conditions of labor and the payment of wages below a living standard, with the purpose of surrounding all wage-earners, particularly women and children, with the sanitary and moral protection which is essential to normal human progress. We also favor the following: 1. The fixing of minimum safety and health standaard for the various hazardous industrial occupations. 2. Thorough prison reform and the abolition of the convict contract labor system. 3. Fixing standards and methods of compensation for death by industrial accident and injury and trade diseases. 4. The rearrangement and enlargement of the Bureau of Statistics andPleaae to write your name and the subscription list enclosed and mail list and a check to The american Security and First Co., Washington, D.C. in care of Mr. John J. Edson. Make the ckech payable to Miss Anne Knight Shea, for the Staffing Memorial Portaits. Very respectfully, Florence M. Bryce Sec. S. M. P. F. The Foranto Du Pont Circle Apartment 43 Washington, Aug. 9, 1913 Dear Mr. Rossevelt, A magnificent portait in oil of the late Rev. Fathers Stafford repose senting him seated in a characteristic pose is now exhibited in Washington Friends of Dr. Stafford desire to purchase the paintine for the purpose of presenting it to the Corcoran Art gallery. Your friendship for Dr. Stafford is well known and your name ought to head the list of donors. It is wanted on this list, not only as an example to others, but as a lasting testimony to the high esteem. in which Dr. Stafford was held in Washington. A character like his, broad and ground in its sympathies, combines with a splendid intellect, deserves public ac- knowledgement and honor. There is no better way of respect ing His honor than by placing in our great national gallery, a master by portrayal of this distinguished man so loved and revered in Washington presented by the best known and most highly esteemed citizens of the Capital city, headed by the President of the United States. The portrait, framed, will cost about fifteen hundred dollars.No.58807 First National Bank J.N GREENE, PREST. D.L. McPHERSON, VICE PREST. J.G.LE BLANC, CASHIER Abbeville, La. August Ninth 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York. My dear Sir:- First allow me to ask pardon for this interruption but knowing you to be the friend of the wronged I wish to lay before you a small matter wherein political pull is attempting to thwart the purposes of the Civil Service Rules and Regulations. Under your administration as President of the United States the Civil Service System reaches an efficiency never before attained, the working of the system was divorced from politics and merit attained regardless of political affiliation. In the small appointment of a carrier for a rural mall route originating at Abbeville, La., there is apparently an attempt, by political pull, to disregard the mandates of the Civil Service: During the month of July the local Postmaster here, J. T. Labit, a good progressive republican, was advised that the Postoffice department would order an examination held under Civil Serve rules for eligibles to the appointment as carrier of this route. Two applicants presented for examination, the Postmaster being instructed to hold the examination. One of these applicants, the son of the Postmaster, who resides at Abbeville, the other a Mr, J.E.LeBlanc residing at Erath, La., some six miles removed from Abbeville. The son of the Postmaster, Chester Labit, being an applicant, the papers were not graded by the examiner but were forwarded to Washington for grading. The time arrived to put the service in operation and the Postmaster at point of origin was requested to inaugurate the service. He placed his son in charge, he being the only applicant living at point of origin of the route. The Postmaster was then notified that Chester Labit had successfully passed the examination and would herecommend his appointment to the position. The recommendation was prompt- ly forwarded, but it seems that at this juncture local politicians depped in and got busy with R. F. Broussard at Washington and though LeBlanc does not live at Abbeville and it is reported that he made a lower mark on examination than Labit, the 4th Asst Postmaster General gives him the permanent appointment. If I interpret the Civil Service rules cor- rectly politics cannot enter into any appointment coming under that head. I read an order by President Taft during 1912 that should an error be made in appointing eligibles to rural route positions that the appointment should be cancelled and the eligible living at point of destination should be appointed. I contend that Labit is entitled to this place, he stands highest on the county list of eligibles residing at the point of origin, and according the rules the appointment belongs to him. LeBlanc is not a patron of the Abbeville Postoffice.He lives at Erath, La., and is a pat- ron of office. You will pardon me for writing you at length, but being an admirer as well as a political supporter of yours I wished to ask in my humble way if you would not interest yourself in this little affir and call the same to the attention of Civil Service Commissioner McIlhenny, who is now at Pass Christian,Miss. Thanking you in advance. For any interest you might take and assuring you of continued loyal support I beg to remain, Binns A.T. More j. L. More MORE BROTHERS Fargo and Wimbledon , No. Dak. Automobiles, Gasoline Engines, Threshing Machinery and Supplies Retailers of Hardware and Farm Implements A.Y. More, Manager 417-419 Front St. Fargo, No. Dak. Wimbledon, No. Dak. FARGO, NO. DAK. 8/9/13 Dear Colonel, i am greatly indebted to you for writing my mother. Since you wrote her, she has made a visit - She showed me the letter with great pride and said "I always thot a lot of him but I think more of him now". She had the letter wrapped up in a piece of paper so it would not become soiled and I assure you that it will be taken care of as long as she lives. it was very kind of you and it is appreciated by the entire family. I received telegram from Statler Brown just before Mr. Burkins went abroad saying he had nothing [to] definite to offer. I took this to mean no help. i have contracted with L. T. Guild of Toledo, O. for [?????} of the paper. i will retain $10,000 stock in new company. Mr Guild is a thorough progressive and a generous Roosevelt supporter. Just rec'd letter from him intimating that [????] want to back out. Better write him letter of encouragement. Sincerely yours. A.Y. Moreand I shall not merely be a voting Bull-moose - but a "fighting one" provided that you are nominated president candidate for the next term. The American nation need not a figurehead as president but a "Man." Yours Very Truly John M. Nyholm [*[Nyholm]*] [*N*] Captain Y. N. Nyholm 855 Camp Street New Orleans 9 August 1913 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt! Dear Sir. I don't know if you remember a letter I sent you at the last president election. I signed it with "Foreign Spectator", not because I wanted to cover myself with anonymity but because I had not lived long time enough here then to be able to judge [at] the political situation - I roasted Mr. Taft and predicted that the word "to taft" in the future would denote a less fair elections proceedings I told you that Mr Wilson could not govern a nation, gigantic as the American one - for other things because he was a genuine type of a "sartor resartus" schoolmaster. Am I right? I believe I mentioned the "Mexican Question", and now Mr Wilson has not only mixed himself up but also the Honor of the Great American Nation in such a scrape, that Mr Wilson or either his political nurse in foreign affairs Mr Bryan must be a superhuman genius to fix up this question in the right way. - and this day to-day I read in the news paper that Mr Wilson has permitted the export of grains and rounds to Mexico city - What do you believe the [?] government will use this ammunition to in case of war with W.S.? Mr Wilson has committed a thing worse than a crime - He has committed a blunder. I have been here in U.S. for five years, having left my country - Denmark - for ever. In three years I can be an American citizen and my first stop shall be to enlist in the Bull-moose organization.Will H. Parry SEATTLE August 9th, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City. My Dear Colonel: I am sending by mail a Curtis photograph of you, with the request that you inscribe thereon your autograph. I want it to hang in my office, which is the meeting place of Progressives. Enclosed with the photograph is a return label with postage. Yours sincerely, — Will H. Parry President Progressive League WHP-FSWill H. Parry Seattle August 9th 1913 Private Secretary Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City. Dear Sir: I am sending by mail a Curtis photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, with the request that he inscribe his autograph thereon. As he may be absent from his office when this arrives, I will appreciate your kindly holding the same for his attention upon his arrival home. A return label with postage attached is enclosed with the picture. Thanking you in advance for your usual courteous attention, I am Yours very truly, Will H. Parry WHP-FS President Progressive LeagueFabrica de Polvora sem Fumaça Piquete, Augt 9th [dc] 1913 Gabinete do Director - S. Paulo - Col. Theodor Roosevelt New York City N. Y. My dear Colonel I have just learned from the newspapers that you are contemplating an extended visit to Brazil and South America. I feel that your stay in our country would not be complete without my factory being honored by a visit from you.The Government Smokeless Powder Factory her is a trully American Institution and is operated, as nearly as I can make it, on the American plan. It was installed by the E.J. du Pont de Nervous Powder 60 and would be an honor to any country. It is situated about Midway btween Rio de Janerio and S. Paulo, you can break in half what your afread would be a very tiresome journey. Should Mrs. Roosevelt come with you Mrs. Peder- neiras shall be delighted to have the pleasure of entertaining her. Your country an you remaining with us a number of days so that we may continue again our long interrupted friendship. With admiring regards I remain Very sincerely yours Col. A de PederneciasGrand Hotel Britannique, Spa. (Belgique.) Aug 9 -'13 Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y. Dear Sir I write to offer you my services when what I have always believed the inevitable intervention of the U.S. in Mexico takes places. I have lived in Mexico six years, up to a coupleof months ago when our further stay was rendered impossible by danger to my wife from raiding bands both of Federals and Carranzistas. Before we left we had lost all the horse stock on three ranches and we stand to lose some 25,000 head of cattle in the event of intervention. I know the country about my ranches - one in Coahuila and two widely separated in Tamaulipas - and the country between Laredo and Monterey - as I have been through many times since the railroads have been disabled. I speak the language and know the people. If I can be of use to you in any capacity, pray command me by wire care of Paris Bank Ltd., Trafalgar Sq., London. Yours very truly, H.H. ReederForm 168 WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT RECEIVED AT 1/2 Fifth Ave., N. W. Cor. 22d St., New York ALWAYS OPEN A322NY HN 7 BAXTOR SPRINGS KAS AUG 9 1913 OUTLOOK. 287 FOURTH AVE NY PLEASE WIRE ME COLONEL ROOSEVELTS PRESENT ADDRESS. CHAS L. SMITH. 1055P S 202 The Germania Life Insurance Company Of New York Agency at St. Joseph, MO. August 9, 1913. Hon Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. My Dear Sir: The young people of the First Baptist Church have asked me to lead the meeting on August 24th, and the subject is "Good citizenship": I wish to present some thoughts on that subject with the hope of helping some of the young folks, and I write to beg of you a short expression that I may read same at this meeting. I realize the imposition of asking such a thing in view of your busy life: Yet I hope that you may be able to dictate just a few words upon this most important subject, feeling that the good results therefrom will be far reaching. Allow me to express to you my personal admiration for your both in your personal and official life. Most Sincerely yours Jos. P. Trickett[*W*] Orchard Lake Mich Aug 9th/1913 Col. Roosevelt Dr Sir I am a progressive. Seeing this out in Detroit News "if it is true." I would like your support in my battle in the 6th Congressional district of Mich. I could also be of good use to you on the Congressional Committee. Yours truly E.C. WoodwardArequipa (Perú) agosto 10 de 1917 Señor Theodore Roosevelt New York Muy Sr. mío: Me permito dirigirme al Sr. ex-presidente de los Estados Unidos de América para que se sirva otorgar un consejo útil y necesario. El Perú necesita soldados de experiencia; yo -Marqueza- peruano- rio y soy de Bolivia. Quisiera ser amigo de usted. Allí hay plata en depósitos en objetos de oro: talento, capacidad y dinero nuestro al servicio. Tenemos gobernantes de sobra y obreros malos y bien disciplinados en el sentido de trabajo; igualmente cultura pero bien empleada en América; mis discípulos son bien disciplinados, y soy amigo de la estación. Peruanos indígenas y su Rey, rebelde al oro y a su idea del Sur. Aclamé la resolución. Mi acción hace unión de América en Lima el 1917 con el ciudadano de Chile, Santiago. Al mismo se lo diré, si tiempo le parece. Yo así he estado arrepentido y en solicitud por el Perú, al Norte, Santiago, y yo me permito disponer.[*Sn att. SS. Jose Leopoldo Cardenas B de La-Sola*][8 - 10 - 13] Paye Post Office Grosse Pointe Mich. Aug 10/1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt. Dear Sir - I have just been reading your Idea of the Basis of the whole social structure. I have wondered so often if because I am always so busy making over cloths, baking, Washing, Ironing, mending & cleaning and helping my three children who go to school with there school work and find so little time to keep u with the current events of the day as why my husband has left me alone to care for the four I have and to provide for the one that is to come the latter part of &ct. I hope some day to be in possession of money enoughPage 2 to get this book of Kathleen Norris's called "Mother." I imagine it has a great many things in it that are ideal for mothers to read of in the night. My ambition is to get settled in a house where I can keep someone and take time mending, plain sewing, cleaning and pressing, and educate my children and make noticeable and popular citizens of them in two or three years to come. If my husband should wish to return and I acknowledge them, he can be proud of them at all times and anywhere. I want my girls to be well trained; if they must be good cooks and housekeepers and my boys—I want to give them a legal education so that they will be able to handlePage 3 There are or are any poor families in this vicinity, but there are rather anxieties (?). As for one living in a leaking tent — hardly knowing from one meal to the other where the next meal is coming from soon. It is only fried potatoes, apple sauce, and bread and butter. The trade from these larger mill and from strangers to get $7.50 to gather so that I could take a home near the auto factories and take roomers and serve trappers and do what-ever else I could get them to make extra money. It brought me and my world. There are no real friends out since I ask them to loan me this money and they4 know the circumstances only tire about. Three blocks from where I have the tent, and they know how dreadful it leaks, neither of them hardly notice me, and now the bridge used to come down quite often. But she never comes now, and there isn’t a more true saying of “after you have money, you pass friends.” Now the bridge tried to sell me treats—my husband and tried to get a man to send me to a home and give me a chance to get some one to care for the children so I could work. But he never seemed to realize my actual position. I can do very little in this tent-I can’t bare it and I can’t do much in it - I half to carry order -so far I5 could not take washings, and some busy body tried to stop me from getting water from some one elses tap, & did you read in the paper about that woman who bought a $55.00 Casket for her dog made of silver satin and plush and if my baby dies although she is not any worse but no better and that same woman lived here and I should ask her to loan me $15.00 to burry her; if I had a million dollars I would not be afraid to wager it that she would not be able to see her way clear to do it, The demands are so great now that are made upon her that, well she just could not do it. do you wonder Mr Roosevelt6 that I feel so bitter towards people with so much money. dogs, cats and anything can have what they need but I can't get a fair chance to earn an honest living for my children and give them the proper suroundings they should have. and then the ministers howel about a just and mercyful god. Can you find him? have you found him? and what has he done for you. I have sought him Ive prayed day and night for him to come to my rescue, but it seems to me that he is the same as the people, those who have plenty he can do more for, those who have nothing he has'nt time for. but I guess you will think me nothing but a scolder because I seem to do nothing but scold to you. But I'm not so cross Mr Roosvelt I'm dubbed peek of sunshine in the neighbor hood The neighbors don't know my troubles I fight there the best I can and cry where they don't see me to release my feelings. It's poor policy for Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone. They say every cloud has a silvery lining I certainly hope mine turns wrong side out soon I'm getting tired of looking at the dark side. it's rained for three days and is still raining and getting cold so you know my comforts are few inthis canvess outfit—but it’s a little better than living out doors. If [Fabies?] picture has been mislaid and you should find it—please send it to me, for I can’t get another taken and it’s all I have of her. I know that this will help fill the wastebasket same as the other missives I’ve sent you no one has time to think about me or mine. Respectfully, Mrs Milton D. FoxAbbazia 1913 August 10 My dear Mr Roosevelt Your letter of July 5th reached me in the High Tatra, also the preface which you have kindly consented to wrtte. Messrs Macmillan have also received it and have already sent me, the proof sheets.I am deeply obliged to you for having so quickly complied with my request.. Your preface is certainly most flattering but it hits the nail on the head. You could not described the contents of my book and my aims in writing it better if you had read the book instead of its table of contents and my preface. l feel sure your introduction will prove a most powerful recommendation with the American public. I have also asked Mr Bryce to write one for the English public. He is not yet returned from his tour through Australia and Asia but is expected in London by the middle of September. Mesers Macmillan are only waiting for his arrival to bring out the book and we hope that it wtll appear in October. We have a most extraordinary summer all over Europe. Cold and rainy weather everywhere. We spent 3 weeks in the Tatra mountains where we could make but few excursions and were confined to our rooms most of the time. It is raining here too but at least it is warm. If the weather gets finer we intend to make a tour in the Dolomites. Glad as I am to live again in my own country I can not help to feel a vivid regret for America at times. In fact I feel as if I had retired from Washington too early or too late. Too early for myself which does not matter, too late for my daughter who can not get over her American reminiscences and remains an American at heart. I have no doubt however that with time this will right itself. Washington must seem much changed indeed. I can not well imagine what sort of Secretary of State Mr Bryan makes and how the personal intercourse is with him. As for the future we shall be better able to form an opinion a year from now. We hear that Mrs. Roosevelt is in Italy. I wish we could persuade her to pay a visit to Abbazia. It is so near from Venice and so lovely in the second part of September. Unfortunately we do not know her address. I hope these lines will find you on your return from Arizona and that you will again let me hear from you. Shall we ever see you in Europe again? As for my seeing America again, the only thing that would tempt me to do so in the capacity of a private individual would be your being in the White House. The Bulgarians have been too foolish for words. With best regards from us all very sincerely yours Hengelmuller [*Hengellmuller*]elements in politics the sound phylosophy of money, based on human happiness or brotherhood and character. I am happy to say that in southern Ohio the belief is rapidly growing that the trusts must not be busted that we need consentration of money for the economy, necessary to do our vast work, and that you are the man to write through the ballott Box to handle this greatest of commercial issues. I candidly believe the flattening out of the business of the country, by 1916; the hopelessness of the Repub. party to come to life, will force capitalists to trust you, and that you will be the next President of U.S.A. if you accept the nomination. Sincerely yours Dr Jno. G. Reed Aug 10 '13 Hon Theo Rosefelt New York My dear Sir: I see the Moosers are beginning to get togather and a meet is pending for an outlineing of action. 4 000 000 of us, in no sense, divided; the Repub's, and Democrats, divided; the unrejuvination of business - rather the failure of legislation at Washington to boone business, or reduce the cost of living, in fact, or in prospect; the shying of capital, and Wall street puling down the thumb screws enough to depess all along the line, is makeing "Moosers" by the thousands. Right here inthe Mill Creek Valley (28000 people) suburban to [?] will say, as the leader of the Progressive cause for 4 years, the people are restless; they feel that there is something better in store for them than is going to come out of this Democratic effort to go back to old fashioned Competition, on the basis of supply and demand. When I tell them that tariff which will protect us from the products of foreign cheap labor is the thing, and that there was not much wrong with Dingley Tariff if the Repub's had not used it for roberry, and had the people elected the Moose ticket with Mr Rosefelt as President we would have peserved to the limit, what is good in Tariff for the masses, and have made the benefits of it equitably distributive, particularly as relates to the products of brave and brown in the industrial department, they take hope anew, then it dawns upon their minds what we promiced, and still promice, and also that some great men must be trusted, under tremenduous pressure to do the wrong thing, if we ever get Capital and labor on a sound basis - instill into the minds of two extreamsPan-American Life Insurance Company Crawford H. Ellis. President New Orleans, U.S.A. August.10th1913. Hon. Theo. Roosevelt; New York City, N.Y. My Dear Sir: I have read with great pleasure the corespondence between you and Mrs.___ who complains of the husband neglecting the wife because she happens to lose her form and beauty of youth I agree with you he is a hound and has more reason to be ashamed of himself than his dutifull wife, however there are many a man does look down on his wife for that very reason. Now I wish to enlighten you on the views of thousands of men whom I have canvassed personally for Life-Insurance with a view of protecting his inocent ones against the unforseen which might happen at any time and the answer I receive is to the effect that he will not leave anything for them for fear another man may come along and marry the widow for the money and many other reasons to foolish to mention I contend that the Goverment ought to pay a little more attention to this subject and help these unfortunates to realize the responsibility of a father and husband. I beleave in the establishment of a School of Correspondence at Washing D.C. for the proper instruction of anyone who might care to take a course of instruction such as carried on by the I.C.S. of Scranton Pa only more complete for instance many a man is under the impression that it requires at least $5000.00 to get married and it also requires at least $150.00 per month to run the home and so on I am proud to say that I had less than $50.00 and my income was less than $60. per month and many a month I struggle along on $7.00 a week and paid my way as I went along owe no one a penny and borrow from no one fortunately I had very little sickness in the family but that was due to our good judgement and medical books that helped us out we did not call a Dr. for every little thing I can say that we have a family of five and married twelve years and if I had it to do over again I certainly would I notice the Goverment is handing out some Money to help move the crops well that is very good but I have a plan whereby the Goverment could help increase, yes double the amount of farmers in this vast country and thereby double the amount of the crops and that would decrease the high cost of living and at the same time encourage the young men to marry and settle down instead of having their minds centered on white slavery. if this interests you answer me and I'll show you some figures that will open your eyes, hoping to hear from at an early date I beg to remain, Yours Very Truly, R.A. Whalt #818-Orleams, st.I wrote you in reference to my work, that the newspaper reportere drew upon their imagination in saying that I would a appeal to the Postmaster-General for "free mail"- I realize only too well, that would be impossible I am going to Washington however, with lettere [8-10-13?] My Dear Col Roosevelt A letter, signed by your secretary, Mr. Harper, and dated May sixteenth, is before me. I should have answered it before, but I have been away from home nearly all summer. I forgot to say, whenof introduction to the Vice-President, twenty-two Congressman, and a number of the most prominent people in Washington - for the sole purpose of interesting them in this new work. I am taking steps to have this work carried on in Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Baltimore, and Washington. I believe I told you, that I am only seventeen years old and for this reason particularly I need the endorsements, and interests of older and more experienced people. I have hundreds of beautiful letters from the most prominentPlease do not think, as lots of people have, that I am rushing into a work of this kind without realizing just what I am doing. I have given it the greatest amount of thought for one year and have gotten advise from the best authorities. I shall be under people throughout our great country. Now, will you not be willing to endorse this work for me? I am confident, Col. Roosevelt that if you knew what an immense amount of good, your name, your endorsement would do, you be willing to let me have it.everlasting obligation if you will let me hear from you. Trusting you will be willing to endorse my mark for me and to receive a prompt reply. I am Most Sincerely, Olive M. Nilson 301 Beechwood Ave Jenkintown Pa. August Tentha/c 8-16-13 Bellows Falls, VT August 11, 1913 Mr. Roosevelt New York, N.Y. Dear Sir, I am writing you as one of the heirs to the [Mammy] estate, as I understand that you are acting as attorney in this case. What has been done and what are the chances of action in this matter? I have had some talk with Mrs. Kelly Green, and she informs me the chances are very good.indeed to realize something on the property at present held by the Trinity Church Corporation as well as some other blocks of property in New York City. Will you kindly let me know what you are doing, if anything, at once, as there are other parties that are anxious to take up this matter. I am Respt. Yours, R. J. Armstrong Bellows Falls V.t Care of Putnam & DamonTHE BARNES-KEARTON EXPEDITION To East Africa and The Congo. [*Copy*] August 11th, 1913. James K. Hackett, Esq. Vanderbilt Hotel New York City. My dear Jim, - Well here we are back again in Nairobi, Kearton weighing 20 lbs. less, and I, 17 lbs. short, but in most excellent general health. We have had no easy time of it during the past two and a half months and there were times when I sincerely wished that I was in a cosy corner at the Players, especially when it came to that hour that ushers in dinner-time, and a man's natural thirst asserted itself. We lost a case of Whisky on the journey, and I hope those who found it or stole it drank themselves to death, but the water we had to drink for over a month would have spoilt the best Whisky in the world, and if persisted in, I believe would ruin the best kidneys, for it was thoroughly impregated with both Soda and Sulphur. However, we got used to it after a fashion, and were grateful for its being wet. I wrote you before we started that we expected to get Camels up near the Uashu Neru, however they failed us entirely and we had to establish a base camp on the river and have the porters carry in our water in skins, until we reached the first oasis. There is a line of Kipling's in his Poem and Gunda Dhin that will describe it. Now as to the trip:- I think we can declare that it has been most successful. We have certainly got the best moving pictures ever taken in British East Africa, at least they are declared to be so by no less an authority than S. H. Lydford, who with his Brother, took Rainey's pictures of the Water-hole. He was our Conductor and Guide on the Expedition and proved to be not only competent and able but a most agreeable and entertaining companion. He was quite an enthusiastic as if the work was entirely for himself. The place where most of the pictures were taken was at a new spot, not photographed before, to which came Elephant and Rhino, and Lion, Giraffe, Water-buck, Buffalo, Zebra, Oryx, Impala and all of the lesser Gazelle and Antelope, by scores. I think that we will be able to show good pictures of all but the Elephant, but we will surely get him in Uganda or the Congo. I might mention also that we have some most amusing Monkey and Baboon pictures, Wild Pig and Wart Hog, and five or six differentCont.2. kinds of Vultures and Eagle, feeding on Hippo that I hed shot on the river bank, and here a little story of another Bird picture that we had recorded - I had shot a Gravy Zebra, a beautiful specimen, that will be presented to the Museum of Natural History - down each flank are five paralelled well defined scars, (the marks of where a Lion had nearly got him) and I bet Mr. Simba got a good kick in the midriff: We took the skin and skull and left the body out for a Lion kill,- visiting it early in the morning we found it occupied by four large Hyaenas, one of which I shot. As the Vultures would soon be coming round we built a hide up in a bush, within 20 yards, in which Cherry installed his Camera. After the Hyaena left, the next to visit it was a very beautiful Jackal, and as the huge birds kept tumbling down from out of the sky he fought them off, rushing into the midst of them until they became too many for him and the carcas was a seething mass of great girds, some stretching 8 or 9 feet across the wings. There must have been at least two hundred of them and inside of half an hour they had stripped the animal down to bare bones. The place was a mass of feathers from their squabbling and fighting and we obtained a magnificent picture of it. Suddenly while they were quarrelling over the remaining shreds they took flight and flew up - we heard the sound of human voices and too Wanderobo, a tribe of nomadic homeless savages, the lowest in the social scale out here, came up, attracted by the birds. They would not have been above taking some of the meat if there had been any left, but they had to content themselves with gathering up some of the feathers with which to adorn their heads. Although at times they were within xxxxx eight or ten feet of us, they never saw us, and we got them on the film too: At last an idea seized me to fire a shot, and Lydford and I let go our rifles in the air in the bush. They could not imagine where the shots came from and looked round in consternation - we fired again - and still they could not locate the sound, although they must have almost smelt the xxxxxxxxxx powder. With a howl they started off into the blue somewheres and I think they are running yet. How is that for a picture?? We have also got two more records, that are records, a herd of Giraffes, the tallest of whom would measure about 22 ft. feeding on the top branches of the trees, and 12 of them, with Oryx and Gravy Zebra, drinking at the holes the Elephants had dug the night before in the dry river bed. I don't suppose a living man had ever seen such a sight before - certainly never photographed it. We have a film of a Lion roaring on the River bank, that I hope will turn out well although it was quite early in the morning. Near him, strange to relate, and in contradiction to the teachings of all Natural History Books, was a herd of Impala Gazelle, quietly feeding. The Monkey and Baboon pictures that we took are sure to amuse the children - many times we almost disclosed our own presence by laughter at their antics. There is one picture that we got coming back that I am crazy to see - a herd of 400 Oryx, among the largest and handsomest ofCont. 3. Antelopes, advancing like a squadron of cavalry and charging by within 15 or 20 ft. of the Camera, but I will be writing a book if I don't haul up pretty soon. As to adventures, I have not had any hair-breath escapes, nor tight corners, nor has Cherry, although for a time we were a both little knocked out by the Climate and I suffered from a touch of the sun that laid me up, for a few days. On one occasion I was exceedingly polite to 3 Lion who suddenly appeared in the open about 100 yards from me and told me in plain words that they did not like my appearance. I had only gone about half a mile from our hiding place in the rocks and like a fool had left my cartridge belt behind, and had only the loads in my rifle, so consequently I did not wish to excite them by making a fliver of it and was quite contented when they decided that I wasn't worth eating and slowly went off. It was the best chance I had to shoot a Lion, and although we have seen twelve, I have not got one yet, but if I had fired and missed I did not have enough shots to go round! One thing I can assure you of is that the Zoological specimens of Leo Africanus cannot compete with the vocal powers of their free and untutored relatives of the veldt. But I must close, with the statement that I will write you again the course of a week or so, and that we intend to develop all of our pictures and films here before we leave. I have just written Zukor, and Cherry will write him on business, and will write you also in [x] relation to the Camera, with which you seem to have a devil of a time. I am awfully sorry that it turned out this way. Many thanks for sending me the programme - perhaps it will be best for you to wait until my return before you do anything with the other plays and stories - but I leave this to your discretion. Best regards to Mrs. Hackett, and remember me to your Mother-in-law and the tall young Officer, if they are still with you. Give my love to all the chaps at the Club, and I am, Yours very sincerely, (signed) James Barnes.[*[Enc. in Hackett 10-22-13]*] Chas. Brooks Girard Ala. 8/11/13 Mr. Theodore Rosevelt, Oyster Bay L.I. Dear Sir, I take this method of introducing myself to you hope you will pardon the liberty I am taking but I have always been a staunch admirer of yours from a little fellow, and very recently I learned that you were related to me on my grandmothers side who- was a Bullock before her marriage to Allen Brooks. They were both Georgians. I was born and reared in Opelika, Ala. I feel very proud of the distinction of being related to a man whom I consider nothing less than a hero- I am only a plain man, engineer by profession and this may seem very presumptuous on my part to address you. I was for a good many years with the Lou[?????] Nashville RR in capacity of locomotive Engr also- with the J.C. R.R. last Dec I was in wreck on J.C. R.R. sustained injury from which2. I am suffering to some extent I am for the present unemployed as I am only for the past few months able to be up. I have heard you were always a good friend to Engies and I am going to ask you to interceed for me or rather use your influence in helping me to secure protection with the safety appliance for reference + ability as Engr I refer you to send Manager I.C.R.R. T.E. Moisees Savanah Ga also R. E. Weaver Manager of Trains Birmingham Ala I would like to have the position with Safety Appliance and would greatly appreciate your influence used for me in securing same hoping you will pardon my presumption and favor me with reply I beg to Remain Yours Sincely Chas Brooks Girard Alan Russell Co.[The] Rhodesian Police Review. 6D. Net. [*S. Af*] BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA POLICE 6D. Net. THE RHODESIAN MONTHLY. RATES: South Africa, 6/3 per annum; Outside, 6/6 per annum. [*28*] [*Ack FH EH 9/17/13*] THE ADVERTISING MEDIUM. [Tel. 3 Bulawayo] [Business Address: The Manager, "The Police Review," Bulawayo] Box 403, Salisbury, S. Rhodesia. [Bulawayo] Aug. 11th, 1913. The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. U.S.A. Dear Sir, I am going to try to interest you with a few facts relating to the Rhodesian "Police Review," the regimental journal of a military mounted corps, the British South Africa Police (the defenders of Mafeking.) It is a paper edited + controlled by troopers of the regiment for the instruction + amusement of their comrades of all ranks. What little profit is made by the enterprise goes to swell the fund of the regimental recreation club, the only individuals to benefit financially being the civilian printers. The copy is provided by myself, aided by a few of the more enthusiastic of my police colleagues. Now + again impudent appeals, such as I am writing now, have induced sporting geniuses, among whom I may mention Mr. Rudyard Kipling, Mr. Heath Robinson, + Mr. Herbert Dickser, to raise our circulation with the gift of typical payments of copy or black + white. May I ask you also to help us, sir? I have singled you out as one of our victims because you are one of the most popular strong men with one strong Rhodesians. If you do find time to take pity on us, you will earn the gratitude + affection of 500 "home-boys" Rhodesians, most of whom face daily perils of the most menacing kind, [often] while many do not see a white man for six months or hear a word of their own language, + some have even become temporarily insane from sheer loneliness. We should be more thankful than I can well express for any copy from you-- reminiscent, sporting, humorous, military, if it is only the smallest paragraph. If you want to make a life-long chum of the B.S.A.P. trooper, you will give him something --fact or fiction-- that appeals to his instinct as a soldier + a policeman; + perhaps, as all Rhodesians-- (there are only 23,000 of them) I read the "Review," you may be cementing a very valuable bond between your great country + your cousins of Britain's youngest colony. With numerous apologies, I am Faithfully Yours, Wilfrid B Bussy. (Editor.)The Boston Journal ESTABLISHED 1833 MATTHEW HALE PUBLISHER BOSTON, MASS., August 11, 1913 My dear Colonel Roosevelt, Commencing September 1st and running until election day The Journal is planning to have each day a signed editorial or special article by some prominent person. As the campaign in Massachusetts this autumn is a vital matter for the entire Progressive party, it is essential to do everything possible to keep before the public mind the general social end political principles of the party as well as the specific issues which confront us locally. Therefore we are asking twelve writers, including Miss Addams, Governor Johnson and Senator Beveridge, to contribute one editorial every two weeks: I most earnestly hope that you will consent to help us in this way -- it will be of great benefit to the party and to this newspaper, and will only involve five contributions from you. Will you please let me hear from you as soon as possible? If your answer is favorable, I will then write you further suggestions as to dates, space, etc. Faithfully yours, Walton A. Green Editor-in-Chief. Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, New York.President General Geo. H. Worthington Cleveland, O. First Vice President General Henry Watterson Louisville, Ky. Secretary General Webster P. Huntington Cleveland, O. Treasurer General A. E. Sisson Erie, Pa. Auditor General Harry Cutler Providence, R. I. Otis Lithco.Cleveland 1813–1913 Perry's Victory Centennial Put-In Bay, Ohio And Lake Ports P.O. BOX #167, Cleveland, Ohio, August Eleventh, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir:— The formal invitation of the Interstate Board of the Perry's Victory Centennial Commissioners, extended to you in the hope and expectation of your attendance at the national and inter-state ceremonies to be held at Put-in-Bay Island, Ohio, on the tenth and eleventh of September, in honor of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie and a century of peace between English- speaking peoples, is going forward by this mail. The ceremonies will include the public exercises at Put-in- Bay on the tenth instant, the banquet to be given in honor of the distinguished guests on the evening of the same day at Cedar Point, Ohio, and the exercises at Put-in-Bay on the eleventh of September, when the remains of the American and British officers killed in the Battle of Lake Erie, September tenth, 1813, will be disinterred from their unmarked graves on the short of Put-in-Bay Island, with religious and patriotic exercises by the representatives of the United States and Canada, and re-interred in the crypt of the Perry Copyright 1912 By The Perry's Victory Centennial Commission. On this occasion we anticipate the presence of the President of the United States and such distinguished participants in the exercises as Former President William H. Taft, the governors of the ten states participating in the erection of the Memorial, Dr. J. A. Macdonald of Canada, and others whose presence will indicate the national significance of the events incident to the ceremonies. Upon receiving your acceptance of the formal invitation, on or before August twenty-fifth, we shall be pleased to advise you of the best railroad and boat routes to reach your destination, and to give you all necessary details in reference to your arrival, reception and departure. In the earnest hope that we may receive your favorable response within the time indicated, we remain, with assurances of the greatest respect, Very truly yours, WR Huntington Secretary-General Interstate Board. MacKenzie R Todd Secretary Put-in Bay Celebration Committee.Allentown Aerie No. 110 Fraternal Order of Eagles Meets Every Friday Evening, 135 North Sixth Street Thos. Ealer, P.W.P Price Hoffman, W.P M. J. McGuire, W.V.P WM. H. Smith, Chap. Ernst Wittwer, Cond. R.A. Barber, I.G. H.E Grim, O.G. WM. A. Ruch, Treas. C.T. Reno, Trustee 3 yrs. L.H. Rupp, Trustee 2 yrs. O.T. Weaber, Trustee 1 yr. Dr. C. Zellner, A.P. Dr. Jere McAvoy, A.P. Chas. A. Kemmerer, Secretary 107 S. Madison St., Allentown, PA. Allentown, Pa., Aug 11th 1913. Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir + Bro: Allentown Aerie 110, F.O.E. is about to have their annual "Mothers" "Day" Celebration and also celebrated their glorious success of increased membership to 2000, and wish to extend a most hearty invitation to you to be the orator for the occasion. This invitation comes from a great number of mothers of members of our Aerie who would delight in seeing and hearing a word or so from you. We know of no person who could and we feel would fill the position as well as you. We would leave the date entirely to you only suggesting the early part of September that is not later than the 20th. Last year we had Bro. Fred Gernert, District Attorney, as spokesman for the afternoon and Hon. Judge Frank Trexler for the evening. We always have elaborate programs and make it most agreeable for our mothers. Please consider this an appeal from about 2000 mothers and we are confident you will findAllentown Aerie No. 110 Fraternal Order of Eagles Thos. Ealer, P.W.P. Price Hoffman, W.P. M.J. McGuire, W.V.P. WM. M. Smith, Chap. Ernst Wittwer, Cond. R.A. Barber, I, G. H. E. Grim, O. G. WM. A. Ruch, Treas. C.T. Reno, Trustee 3 Yrs. L.H. Rupp, Trustee 2 Yrs. O.T. Weaber, Trustee 1 Yr, Dr, C. Zellner, A.P. Dr. Jere McAvoy, A.P. Meets Every Friday Evening, 135 North Sixth Street Chas. A. Kemmerer, Secretary 107 S. Madison St., Allentown, PA. Allentown, PA...................191 time to honor us with your presence. As far as compensation is concerned we feel that we would pay your fare and hotel expenses and the balance you would do for the love of "Mother." Awaiting an early reply and a favorable reply. we remain Yours fraternally L[?] JrE. Allentown Aerie #110. FOE Chas. A Kemmerer Secy. P.S. Last year our attendance was about two thousand with a membership of fifteen hundred. Aug. 11, 1913. Ezekiel Leavitt, 13 Thomas Park South Boston, Mass Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City My dear Mr. Roosevelt, Sometime ago I requested you to send me something for my paper "The Boston Jewish Voice." Your secretary answered them that you were overwhelmed with work and that you were "particularly sorry not to be able to grant the request of so staunch a friend." If you still remember me from Washington, where I edited a paper, and where I had the privilege to call on you several times together with our mutual friend Simon Wolf, I take the liberty to repeat again my old request to send me something for my paper. How small your contribution might be, I shall appreciate it very highly. I was always one of your admirers and supporters, and I am ready now to devote the columns of my paper to your cause; and your contribution would bring me in closer touch with your supporters in Boston as well as in New England States in general, thus helping to a great extent the issues you are advocating. Please comply with my request at your earliest possible convenience, as I wish to announce your contirnbution to my paper two or three weeks ahead. Assuring you of my high esteems, I am, Faithfully yours, Ezekiel Leavitt.Mayaquez, Porto Rico. August 11, 1913. mr. Frank Harper. 287 Fourth Avenue, New York. Dear Sir: A number of weeks ago your letter of June 11th was received. I immediately ordered a copy of African Game Trails to be sent to you in my name. At the same time I wrote you asking you to please be so kind as to forward the same, after Col. Roosevelt had autographed it, to Antonio Guzman Blanco, Caracas, Venezuela. I enclosed money to cover postage. Not having heard from you since, I surmised that the sending was necessarily delayed thru the absence of Col. Roosevelt. If the book has not yet been mailed, will you please not mail it to Venezuela owing to the disturbances there which would likely mean it would never reach its destination, but send it to me.instead as I shall probably have opportunities of sending it thru safer channels than the Venezuelan mails. Thanking you again for your courtesy and regreting to have to put you to so much trouble, I am, Very sincerely yours, Thomas B. McClelland.J.B. ROBINS. D.D. PASTOR TRINITY CHURCH ATLANTA, GA. Atlanta Ga. August 11 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt New York. My Dear Mr. Roosevelt;- I received a clipping a few days ago from some one in Wilmington N. C. and send it to you, I felt that you ought to know the use that some people are making of you in this section of the country. I take it as a compliment to be associated, even so distantly, with your efforts to help a country that needs help as much as ours. Excuse me for the liberty that I have taken in this matter. Yours very Truly John B Robins.Trustees Geo. M. Leopold, President. Wm. Heck, Vice-President. Wm. H. Stacey, Secretary. Chas. E. Leapley, Treasurer. W. H. Huffman. J. W. Lutz J. E. Stull. N. K. Reich. J. J. Martin. Otto Lees. F. H. Pfarrer. H. C. Hendrichs Elmer Stein. John Leute. A. L. Dodds. Office of The Montgomery County Progressive Club ROOMS 8 & 9 DAVIES BLDG Dayton, Ohio, Aug 11-1913 Mr Theadore Rousafelt Kind Sir.. I take the Liberty of writing this short note out of sympathy for a fellow flood sufferer: who is in bad health and circumstances, yet a good citizen and one who took great interest in our Progressive wish here last fall. so far as he was able, the flood almost reduced him to poverty. the water came into the 2nd floor of his house & they lost almost all of their worldly possesions. however he gets a pension of $12⁵⁰ per month, and his wife runs a small rooming house. was the enclosed both are past 60 yrs of age. After the water had subsided and out of the mud one of the first little keepsakes that came to his view was the enclosed emblem which he took great pride in wearing which he sends as a token, out of the great respect that he has always had for Theodore R His name is H. H. Sutton No 3 Sycamore st Dayton O. A few kind words if nothing more will be appreciated in the humble home. Now as to myself will say that I am a Progressive in every sense of the word, and want to see the next campaign a strictly Progressive one, and victory surely will be ours Most sincerly yours W. H Stacy 3E S. Perry FRED ADOLPH, GUNMAKER, GENOA, N.Y. THE QUALITY IS ALWAYS REMEMBERED,WHEN THE PRICE IS FORGOTTEN. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, August I2th I9I3 Oyster Bay, L.I. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: I don't know, if you will remember that German fellow who attacked you a year ago at Sagamore Hill with a gun - you declined to accept it and suggested, that I should keep the arm a year and that you would accept it, if I didn't change my mind. The year has gone by and I shipped today the gun per express - I sincerely hope that you will accept it from a very enthusiastic admirer, who looked upon you with reverence long before he set his foot on American soil. The rifle barrel is chambered for the 25/35 Winchester cartridge and is targeted for shells of "Winchester make- please use these cartridges, as other makes may be of different dimensions and don't fit so exact. The shotbarrel is 20 ga, full chocke. The gun is of take-down type and can be taken apart like most shotguns. If you put the gun together , please, draw out the extractor about 1/4 inch, press the lever forward and hang the barrel in like a shotgun. The rifle barrel is sighted by the three folding leaf sights for I00, 200 and 300 yards. Hoping, that you may use the gun many a saison and wishing you " Weidmannsheil", I remain Yours very respectfully Fred AdolphFort Collins Colo Aug 12th 1913 Ex President Roosevelt Dear Sir: and Mrs.Roosevelt Would you please tell us where to get a Ready made Frame Cottage 16 by 24 or 28, and what the cost of same would be? Where would be the Nearest City for us to Order one from We know you sent over 400 of these, Ready Made Cottages to Italy When you Were President. & We would like to have one, to set up in Our Mountain Home. Please send this letter to the Farm Nearest Colorado So they can give us their prices by Return Mail. Yours Truly Mrs. Annie Nightingale overFort Collins P. O Larimer Co ColoradoFred Collins Cols Auf 12th 1913 President Roosevelt Dear Sir Could you tell us where to get a Ready made Frame Collage 16 by 28 & what the cost would be? When would be the nearest city - for us to order over from? We know you sent over 400 ready made collages to Italy When you Were President & would like to know the name of the firm you ordered them fromWe are very anxious to Biuld before Winter comes and think a Ready Made cottage would suit us better than any other one We have always been firm Friends of yours & admired your helpful Policies & personality - We do not like to trouble you but do not know of any one else who could gives us this information With Kind Regards & Best Wishes to you & yours We are Yours Truly Mrs Annie Nightingale Firt Collins P.O. Larimer Co ColeradoSAMUEL L. HOWELL ATTORNEY AT LAW 300 PENN SQUARE BUILDING PHILADELPHIA BELL PHONE SPRUCE 2536 KEYSTONE RACE 64 [*EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT AUG 13 1913 ACK.___ NO ANS.___ ANS. AUG 14 BY Anna King [?]*] [*3*] August 12, 1913 The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Gentlemen:- It has occurred to me that with your resources you might be able to solve a little mystery that has been perplexing me, one that arose from my careless observation,- failure, I might say to live up to the ideals of the "perfect traveller". At Ponta Delgada on the island of St. Michael's in the Azores, is a tiny pink church that sits perched upon the top of a little knoll at the water's edge on the outskirts of the town and quite conspicuous to a ship lying in the offing. In the hour or so that we were allowed on shore when I crossed last summer on the new Austro-American liner "Kaiser Franz Josef I", I [made] found this to be one of the points of interest. Winding walks with beautiful flower-borders led up to the flat paved terrace around the church. Now there was a white marble tablet set in the wall of the church with gold letters incised in it of which the only ones that linger in my memory are "Piace Publico Theodore Roosevelt". It is the story of that tablet that I am curious about. An examination of a Portugese dictionary has failed to show whether "place" means peace or is the equivalent to "piazza" which were the alternatives that had suggested themselves to me. I should have found out about it on the spot but the few people around at the early hour, 7 a.m., spoke only Portugese. Lack of time and a pencil prevented my copying the inscription in full. The staff of the Travel Magazine were unable to explain this offhand but have been kind enough to publish my letter of enquiry in their August number and already I have received a solution to another question I had put. Very truly yours, Samuel L. Howell[*[Enc in Knight 8-14-13]*]Drs. Huxmann Dentists 220 Wisconsin Street Opposite Lincoln Park Chicago, Ill. Chicago, Aug. I2" '13 191 Col. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay N.Y. Honored Sir CONFIDENTIAL!! The Ills. section of the German-American National Alliance will have a convention in Peoria on Sept. 14" next. The inclosed article from the Chic. Record-Herald will show you that there are others besides the G-A. who object to having the IRISH furnish ALL the State officers and ALL the State appointive offices with some minor exceptions. You are also aware no doubt that it takes sometime to work the G-A. into the furor teutonicus,but when they are SET, they are SET! I am going to be a Delegate to this convention, and would like to know if you think this a propitious time to have a resolution of censure passed at this convention. I am also a member of the Hamilton Club of this City. It appears to me as if the formerly aggressive minority of standpatters of our 2000 members are becoming quite civil, I should not wonder if the majority of these will make an effort to DIRECT the Progressive party in the near future. With my best wishes for your future success, I am Yours Respectfully Fritz W Huxmann [DDS?]Oxford N.C. Aug. 12th 1913 Mr. Theo. Rosevelt N.Y. Dear Sir. A lady from Washington DC told me that you were very kind in getting a colored mans poem published. I am now writing to ask the same favor of you. They are a high and original class. One is on you and one on Harvard. I am disposed to think that if the book is made the very mention of your great name will win friends for both of us, and possibly change public sentiment in your favor. I have read of your struggles with much [intrest?]. You and Admiral Dewey deserve more praise than you have received. In your greatness you have a modesty that may yet win for you the White House and then like Goldsmithyou will say In all my wondering round this world of care, In all your griefs and God has given your share. You still have hopes [your] very latest hours to crowes. Ornidst those humble bowers to lay you down. If you cannot have my book made on Royalty I would still like you to correct the mss for me. Hoping you may yet be President & rule the nation as before. I am faithfully ours Chas. H. Male Priest in chargeAny information you can give will be most gratefully received by - Most sincerely yours - (Miss) Emma M. Moeckel EM Mac Farlands Cottage New London N.H. August 12 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt The Outlook, N.Y. N.Y. Dear Sir: Please pardon the liberty I take in addressing you, but I know of no other source where I can obtain the information I desire. Will you kindly give me the name of the guide whoaccompanied you on your African Trip, his address and if a reliable and safe guide for women to employ. A Mr. Pirouti, who claims he was in your service as guide or courier on your hunting trip would like some assurety of his character and trustworthiness and turn to you as the most reliable source to obtain it."THE PLOT OF THE SHORT STORY" An exhaustive study, both synthetical and analytical, making the work A PRACTICAL TREATISE By HENRY ALBERT PHILLIPS (Formerly Associate Editor of The Metropolitan Magazine) Cloth—Post-paid anywhere $1.20—160 pages. STANHOPE & DODGE, Publishers LARCHMONT NEW YORK August 12 1913 Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay New York Dear Sir:- About a year ago I took the liberty to send you a presentation copy of a little volume called THE PLOT OF THE SHORT STORY, which I thought might have some special interest to you from a minor literary standpoint. I fear this little book did not reach you, and your personal assurance in either case would be greatly appreciated. * By this mail I am sending you a copyof the second volume of the series - ART IN SHORT STORY NARRATION - which I trust you may be able to sean in some moments of your rare leisure. Should this happen and you should find anything in its contents to elicit your criticism it would indeed be one of my happiest moments to receive the same. * Believe me, a life member of the Progressive movement which you have made the biggest thing in our political life, Faithfully yours, Henry Albert Phillips "An amazing book. I recommend it to every writer seeking light." ROBT. H. DAVIS. Managing Editor Munsey's "I hope next year to require each student to provide himself with a copy." PROF. R. W. PENCE. Dept. English, Denison University "Beginners will find the book invaluable and advanced writers too will find out why they have not done even better." Boston Globe "It's mighty nourishing to have a message like the one contained in your book." RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD "A welcome addition. The book is both useful and helpful to the student or writer of short stories." Nashville American "Analyses the Plot and is worth the attention of every practical writer." The Independent (New York) "A straight shot and a good one. I find it filled with valuable material and advice. I shall refer our writers to it." E. M. MILLEN. Cincinnati Enquirer "Everything relating to the germinating and development of plots is touched upon and analyzed." San Francisco Call "As applicable to the Photoplay as to the fiction story." EPES WINTHROP SARGENT (In the Moving Picture World) "It is invaluable to the Photoplaywright." PHIL LANG (Ms. Editor of Kalem Company)BOOKER T. WASHINGTON PRINCIPAL EMMETT J. SCOTT SECRETARY WARREN LOGAN TREASURER THE TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE FOR THE TRAINING OF COLORED YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALABAMA August 12, 1913 Beth Low, Chairman, Member of Investment Committee, 30 East 64th St., New York, N.Y. W.W. Campbell, Vice-Chairman, Tuskegee, ALA. Warren Logan, Member of Investment Committee, Tuskegee Institute, ALA. William G. Willcox, Member of Investment Committee, 3 South William St., New York, N.Y. R. O. Simpson, Furman, ALA. Robert C. Ogden, 125 East 56th St., New York, N.Y. John C. Grant, 4651 Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, ILL. V. H. Tulane, 433 South Ripley St., Montgomery ALA. Belton Gilbrath, Birmingham, ALA. Charles W. Hare, Tuskegee, ALA. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute ALA. A. J. Wilborn, Tuskegee, ALA. Charles F. Dole, D. D., Jamaica Plain, Mass. William J. Schieffelin, Member of Investment Committee 170 William St., New York, N. Y. Charles E. Mason, 120 Franklin St., Boston, Mass. Frank Trumbull, Member of Investment Committee, 71 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y. Julius Rosenwald, Harvard St. and Roman Ave., Chicago, ILL. William M. Scott, 10th and Hamilton Streets. Philadelphia, PA. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. Dear Colonel Roosevelt:- These minutes are being sent forward at the earliest moment possible after securing Mr. Low's approval, first in the typewritten form, and then in the new printed form. It has taken some time for these exchanges. Please be good enough to let me know that the copy reaches you. Yours very truly, Emmett J. Scott Secretary. C.H.G. Enclosure B.V.M.[*Criterion Credit Clothing Parlor*] 27 Main East Hon. Theodore Roosevelt 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. Rochester N. Y. Aug. 12th 1913 My Dear Mr. Roosevelt: I surely expect to be in your City from next monday to thursday noon at which time I shall consider it a great pleasure to have an interview with you on political matters, which I deem of much importance to your party. I made known to your county chairman of this place, Mr. Armstrong of the above intent, and partially outlined my subject to be discussed with you at your pleasure, I am only a quiet worker with the Progressives here. To recall to you who I am, I am the person who had an engagement with you during the campaign of 1910, but for reasons as previously explained I held such engagement with your then manager Mr. Lloyd C. Griscolm. I am interested in the firm of Seeligman & Stern 17 west 17th St. your City, together with being the proprietor of the above firm, and where I make my headquarters whilst in your City, they have a telephone, should you not be able to reach me here in time with the mail. Yours Very Truly, Louis SternEXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chas. H. Thompson Chairman P.O. Box 453 Montpelier M. L. Aseltine St. Albans E. L. Kelley Salisbury H. Nelson Jackson Burlington March M. Wilson Randolph Members State Committee First District Mrs. O. H. Rixford East Highgate Mrs. Guy B. Horton Burlington Members State Committee Second District Mrs. Juliet Rublee Windsor Mrs. George Ide Lyndon Progressive Party of Vermont Headquarters Montpelier Vermont TELEPHONE 70 P.O. BOX 453 National State Committeeman CHARLES H. THOMPSON P.O. Box 453 Montpelier STATE ORGANIZATION Chairman M. L. ASELTINE St. Albans Secretary and Treasurer E. L. KELLEY Salisbury STATE COMMITTEE Addison E. L. Kelley Salisbury Bennington W. H. Nichols Bennington Caledonia W. J. Aldrich St. Johnsbury Chittenden H. S. Howard Burlington Essex A. E. Parlin Island Pond Franklin Oscar A. Rixford East Highgate Grand Isle W. A. Soule Alburg Grand Isle J. S. King Isle La Motte Lamoille B. C. Hawley Jeffersonville Orleans J. M. Blake Barton Orange March M. Wilson Randolph Rutland D. E. Martin Rutland Rutland F. L. Russell Shrewsbury Windham E. W. Gibson Brattleboro Washington A. W. Allen Barre Windsor Glenn Lathrop South Royalton Hon. Theodore Roosevelt New York City DATE August.12.13 My dear Colonel, I have just received a letter from one Ora J. Parker of Le Sueur. Minn, and I understand that a like one has been sent to you. Mr. Parker is a stranger to me and I enclose a copy of my reply to his. If this letter reaches you within a reasonable time, I would like your advise, politics have been hot here in Vermont underneath the surface, and when I have not been down in Maine have clinched with them here, The Rep. State committee are without a Chairman and cannot find a man of strength who will accept the place, and now they offer to me a place on the Public Service Commission, but if I accept, I will have to sever my connection officially with the Progressive Party. Candidly do you feel that I am of value to the Party? if I really am, will throw their offer into the discard. We are putting up with a big fight in Maine and hope to make a fine showing although Brown has refused to help us in any way which surprises me as I understood that Mr. Perkins and yohrself were in favor of helping the Maine people somewhat. However we are putting up the best fight possible with our slender resources, and I think will surprise them with our vote Sept. 8. How about Mexico? if they scrap and you go, "do not leave me behind." Yours very truly. Charles H. Thompson.Telephone No 202—Official ,, ,, 3683—Western Telegraphic Address—"Savingsbank, London." Post Office Savings Bank, West Kensington, London, W 13th August 1913. My Dear Sir. I could hardly believe my eyes when my friend Mr. W. D. Murphy handed me your portrait inscribed for me with a very kindly message in your own hand. When I say that I cannot tell you how proud and pleasedI am to be the recipient of this courtesy, I ask you to take me literally. For I have torn up more than one unsatisfactory attempt to give you some idea of it. With simple thanks, therefore, I beg you, Dear Sir, to believe me Yours most faithfully, W. Davies. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Glennsville, Ga Aug. 13-13 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. New. York. Dear Sir, I have a little Boy, named Roosevelt. Named for you. he is a fine Boy, one year old to day, if you desire to give him a present, it will be kept its life time in Honor and memory of you, Yours, Very truly, H.L. Flourrs. R.#.4 Glennville, Ga,It is a matter of course that in case it should not please you, we would ask you to choose any other subject. In any respect we will try to accomplish all your wishes and make your staying so agreable as possible, and we [want?] not with respect that you will be heartily and cheerfully received by people and government. With profoundest regards I remain, Sir, very sincerely yours Emilio Frers EMILIO FRERS CALLAO 1540 Buenos Aires August 13. 1913 Col. Theodore Roosevelt N. York. Dear Sir. I hope you are in receipt of all my previous correspondence by cable and post, so I only want to breafly reproduce the expression of my personal gratitude for your decision to visit our country and speak to our people under the auspices of the "MuseoSocial Argentinians" In doing so I may assure you once more that it will be an event of high historical importance, not only on cause of your speaking to the World at large from this part of it, but for the fact that it may be the point of departure for a better comprehension of both peoples, yours and ours, as we may change ideas and feelings in a free way which is not always possible under other circumstances. On behalf of your last cable gram kindly asking a little for your 3rd speech I am able to tell you that we would be very much pleased if you would accept to speak [about] on "the social reform, its ways and means in democracies." This subject is very interesting for us as it touches our own social work and as it would surely awake a greater interest for it in our own country and throughout South-America, procuring us increased aid, moral and material.34th & Chestnut Streets, August 13,1913. Mr. Frank Harper, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Dear Mr. Harper:-- Write this man that it is impossible for Colonel Roosevelt to take part in a local matter of this kind. He should direct his complaint to the Carnegie Institute, which is now engaged in the scientific study of economy and efficiency in higher education. Sincerely yours, William Draper Lewis. Copied from mms. received from Northeast Harbor and directed to be signed.[for encl see 8-13-13]Kittanning August 13th. 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt New York. Esteemed Friend: Again I come with my request to you, to come to our city and address us. I send you herewith your last answer. How many engagements have you for the fall or winter season? Have I a chance? Am I not justly entitled to it before others, since my requests have been before you for over two years? I am one of your admirers and you cannot blame me for being after you. You knew that there is such a thing as "sticking to it" that will win. In short "when are you coming, what month, what date, and what is the bill? I am satisfied with everything, month, date and expense. We need you, your enthusiasm, your fearlessness, your presence. Can you refuse a man the third time?2. Can you accept other engagements and pass me by every year? As well as I know you, You Can Not. Remember "A poor man served by thee Shall make thee rich A sick man helped by thee Shall make thee strong Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest." E.B Browning. Hoping to hear this time favorable news I remain Respectfully Yours Geo. U. Preuss.[*[Encl in Lewis 8-13-13]*](RR-6) Canandaigua,N.Y. August 13,1913. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: May I ask a favor? There is soon coming a time when my family Bible must be handed over to my grandson. In it I am to place the enclosed two poems which I have this day finished,and if I could get you to first read them-and send me a word of commendation for them,to be placed therein with them-it would be the very greatest of favors-for know that I want him to think well of his old grandfather,and thus a little of your worth will shadow mine,for all time. In fact-it was your own personality that caused me to write"The Dignity of Matter.” Understand, please,that what you may say will be used ONLY in the way herein stated. I am asking a lot-but somehow I feel that I can. Most respectfully, [?]Enc in Abbott 8-15-13 Speiden 8-13-13 Mendham, New Jersey., August 13th.1913. My dear Mr.Abbott; I realize fully what a great liberty I am taking, so please avail of your most convenient time for perusal of these papers,so full of concise details, that you will never have cause to regret any action in my behalf which your good judgment may decide upon. Very respectfully. William Specter formerly U.S. Navy An officer of the Navy in the Perry Expedition to Japan 1852,3,4, 5 and as an officer of the Navy holding the position of the U.S.Naval Store-keeper 1856-1864 at Hong Kong China.[*Enc in Abbott 8-15-13*] [*Speiden 8-13-13*] Copy. Lawrence F. Abbott President William B. Howland Treasurer Karl V.S. Howland Secretary Lyman Abbott Editor in Chief Hamilton W. Mabie Associate Editor Theodore Roosevelt Contributing Editor THE OUTLOOK 287 Fourth Avenue NEW YORK LFAMB June 28, 1912. Dear Sir: I have just received your letter of June twenty-fifth and cordially appreciate its friendly words. I shall take pleasure in showing your letter to Mr Roosevelt who will also, I am sure, appreciate it. I am Yours sincerely, Lawrence F. Abbott. M.B. Mr. William Speiden, 107 East 70th Street, New York,CityInc in Abbott 8-15-13 Speiden 8-13-13 Mendham W.Speiden. Morris County Phoenix House. New Jersey. August, 15th1913. Mr Lawrence F. Abbott. Editor. THE LOOKOUT. #287-Fourth Ave. New York. My dear Mr Abbott: Although I am taking the liberty of sending you a copy of your gracious lines of last year June 28th. 1912, I donot suppose you have forgotten the kind words of introduction,from that grand good man Dr Mingins,which accompanied my words last June 25th,1912. Knowing your relationship with Mr Roosevelt, I assume that you will permit me to ask a great personal favor at your hand. In 1891 Mr Roosevelt did me an unusual favor--He was then U.S.Civil Service Commissioner appointed by President Cleveland. In 1852, 3, 4 & 5 I was a young officer in the Historical Squadron to Japan,under Commodore M.C.Perry, whose diplomacy enabled us to land on Japan's sacred soil July 14th 1853, and He made a Treaty with Japan signed March 31st 1854,bringing Japan into the comity of nations. My relation with Commodore Perry were of that Character that I am now able to recall every incident of[Enc in Abbott 8-15-13 Speiden 8-13-13] importance, either Historcal or otherwise,that occurred. Commodore Perry in his great work upon the Expedition mentions my name among his list of Officers, and I was regarded as an officer,although my appointment (as clerk to my good father Purser William Speiden) Was, a Civil one, although the Secretary of the Navy could, (had my father asked him) have appointed me as assistant Purser, a grade subsequently established) We returned home in May 1855, with the full expectation- that Congress would handsomely reward every one connected with that Expedition, as was customary . Soon after our return that year say 1855, My father was assigned to the position of "Inspector of Provisions" at the U.S.Navy Yard.Norfolk Va.,and I accompanied him again as his clerk, but doing duty as assistant "Inspector of Provisions", as the enclosed Newspaper clipping may be easily read,let me beg of you, my good sir to take the trouble to read it,and thus gather a little of my career subsequent to the Expedition-My career from 1856 to 1865 was,if I do say so, a very remarkable one, which the paper but briefly decribes. My means,by reverses in business,between 1864 to 1870 I was deprived of my all,and May of 1870 by the aid of my now very old friend Ex.Vice President Levi Parsons Morton,I secured a position in the New York Custom Service. Which I occupied, and gradually was promoted from $1500 to the higest (then clerical position at $2000 per aumm.) [Enc in Abbott 8-15-13 Speiden 8-13-13] After an honorable service of 18 years,I was,without any charges being preferred, removed by Mr.Clevelands collector Mr.Daniel Magone of Ogdensburg N.Y.,who deliberatly gave the Press,the wrong information that I,with a few others were removed for inefficiency. Mr.Magone was a Roman Catholic,and in every instance of a removal,a Roman Catholic was appointed to the vacant place, after an ostensible Civil Service Examination. Civil Service rules were violated,although President Cleveland was elected especially on that platform,as Dr.Lyman Abbott,your Venerable Chief would remember. Although I found strong influence among Romanists,to be restored,Mr.Magone was insultingly obdurate. At my age,at that time 53 years,it was defficult for me to find such work as would enable me to gain a respectable support for my family and for three years I had an unfortunate experience, which greatly impaired my health. In 1891 Mr.Roosevelt,was still President of the Civil Service Commission and during his occupance of that position,a rule was adopted by the Board,and approved by the President,"That any Civil ‘Service Employee who had been removed,without cause,and who had at any time served in the army or navy during the Civil War could be restored to the dame salary he received at the time of his removal”. I at once wrote an exhaustive letter to Mr.Roosevelt telling him of my previous assingments in the navy,he at once kindly looked up my record, Enc in Abbot 8-15-13 Speiden 8-13-13 and immediately certified me to the Secretary of the treasury and I was at once restored to the service,-at a much less salary than I had received, and after 9 years was fully reinstated to the salary I was entitled to. Subsequently when I applied for a Naval Pension, I was denied it by the Judge Advocate General of the Navy. Capt. Robert L. Russell U.S.N. upon the ground that, and obsolete (almost) Treasury decision of 1847, that a man who held the place of U.S.Naval store-keeper was not a Naval Officer in 1847 to 1851 and he realy was not during that period,but as Mr Roosevelt decided properly in 1891 that I from 1852-1855 and from 1856 to 1864, was by uncontrovr-tible evidence,a Naval Officer,the opinion o f the Judge Advocate Gerneral of the Navy (Mr. Russell) in 1911, to the contrary not with-standing- Could I obtain from Mr. R.,a simple statement giving the facts of my Reinstatement in 1891,by virtue of my Naval Service as stated,the Judge Advocate General of the Navy would,in duty bound reverse his decision and so certify me to the Commissionor of Pensions and my name would be placed upon the roll for a Pension of $1125 per annum, from April 1854 to my death. (In consequence of ill health) (I resiged from the Navy in 1864) or [__] a repeal of the decision of 1847, by the "Committee on the Revision of Laws", could be made,for I am the only living individual affected thereby. Thus in two ways probably,I could have justice done,to now, a very old man; any kind action on your part, to accomplishing these apecial points,would be fully appreciated,I ask permission to refer you to Dr. Mabie,your wonderful associate Editor,who knows of my connection with the Japan Society and [Enc in Abbot 8-15-13 Speiden 8-13-13] my relation with the great Expedition to Japan 1852,3,4 & 5. A few words in conclusion I have vainly endeavoued to induce Mr Harper, the always polite Secretary to Mr Roosevelt, to take this matter up with Mr R., but the Ex.President was always engaged,especially last year. With the greatest respect for yourself,Dr.Lyman Abbott and your clean "Lookout",believe me. Most truly yours. [William Speiden] P.S. I feel sure that could my matter in any way be brought clearly to the attention of the President Mr.Wilson and the Secretary of the Navy,Justice would immediately be done me. [WS] [Enc in Abbott 8-15-13 Speiden 8-13-13] THE OUTLOOK. 287 Fourth Avenue New York. Office of Theodore Roosevelt, October 23rd,1911. My dear Mr.Speiden; I thank you for your telegram and appreciate your very kind message, With all good wishes, Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt, May 31,1912. My dear Mr.Speiden: I must send you just a line of personal thanks and acknowledgement for your very kind telegram. It was good of you to send it. Ohio certainly did splendidly and now New Jersey has followed in its foot-steps. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt. July 1st,1912. My dear Mr.Speiden: I appreciate your telegram so much that I must send just a line of personal acknowledgement. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt, Mr William Speiden, 107 East 70th,Street. New York City. [Enc in Abbott 8-15-13 Speiden 8-13-13] Possibly Mr.R.,would not object to give a certificate on these lines,merely suggestive. "When holding the position of U.S.Civil Service Commissioner in Mr.Clevelands Admmistration,I received a communciation from Mr.William Speiden of Newark N.J., asking for Reinstatement in the N.Y. Custom House; from which it was clearly shown,he had been unjustly removed; with other partiual of his having been recognized as a Naval Officer from 1852 to 1655 again from 1856 to 1864 when U.S.Naval Store-keeper at Hong Kong China, and that I carefully reviewed his Naval record from the files in the Navy Department and found that he was Naval Officer during the Civil War in foreige Service and so certified him to the Secretary of the Treasury,and under the Secretarys direction,Colonel Joel B. Erhardt collector at N.Y. who atv once restored him to the Custom Service,at however a lower salary than he received at the time of his removal by collector Magone,but was fully reinstated subsequently by collector Stranahan. P.S. Probably Mr.Russell, Judge Advocate General U.S.N. with the above in hand would revoke his decision and so advise the Commissioner of Pensions who would be justified in placing Mr.Speiden's name on the pension roll for a pension of $1125 per aunmm,from April 1864 to his death.[Enc in Abbott 8-15-13 Speiden 8-13-13] [Memorandum] The Hon. Mr Carew of New York has my bill in hand for presensation at the 1st.opportunity- the bill represents just one half per month of what I should justly have as my position as U.S.Navy at Hong Kong entitled me to,for my succsser was a Paymaster in the Navy,doing the same work done by me for 8 years 1856 to 1864 and received $3000 per aumm, I would say that my salary of $1500 per aumm was paid originaly to a man simply for taking care of a few Spars, 1000 8#Shot and shell. And a few other small articles, not needed on board the War Ships , while I had under my care about $100,000 worth of Provisions,Clothing & Etc.Etc., and gave bonds for $100.000- and my special service between 1856 to 1864 would have justified a salary of at least $10.000 per aumm, and when I resigned in 1864, I could have merely asked President Lincoln to give me the position made vacantn by the death of my good father a Purser in the U.S. Navy, and have been a full paymaster with a salary of $4000 per aumm, and later would have been retired (in 1898) as a Rear Admiral U.S.Navy with a yearly Pension of $4500 to my death- My prompt action in October 1856 saved many valuable lives, of Officers and Sailors, and my action in 1862 in connection with the retaking of Fort Sumter and subsequently "Charleston" S.C.-as department rocords(show by reports of General Quincy A. Gilmore and General Barnard U.S.A.) saving many lives[Enc in Abbott 8-15-13 Speiden 8-13-13] and [expedition] expenditure of Millions of dollars . There are men drawing pensions and Rear Admirals (Paymasters) of $5000, who never did one tenth of the service indirectly performed by me.- The effort to have justice done was ineffectual,with the Republican Party, and I shall hope to receive it from the Democratic Party, many of whom have already promised their kind assistance- A repeal ,Of an obsolete law in 1847 in my favor would give relief at once. Praying for justice as in duty bound. Respectfully. U.S.Naval Agent at Hong Kong 1856 to 1864, and a member of the U.S.Squadron to Japan 1853 to 1854, as one of Commodore Perry aids. La Rue Tiers Real Estate and Insurance Notary Public Oakmont, Pa. DEEDS, WILLS, AND OTHER LEGAL PAPERS CAREFULLY WRITTEN, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND DEPOSITIONS TAKEN AT RESIDENCES BELL PHONE 75-J OAKMONT, PA., Aug 13 1913 Col. Roosevelt The writer effects always to covet the opportunity to vote for you. He however repudiates "Bell Flum." Certainly the enclosed card is misleading as to anyone being required by law to enroll as a member of any political party. When we enrolled as soldiers we did so as free Americans not under compulsion of any laws, whether passed by the creatures of Flum, or Penrose or their prototypes or anyone whomsoever. Possibly you have not seen the enclosed card. That is mainly why I now send it to you your very truly La Rue Tiers (soldier 50 years ago)-BURTON VANCE, Chairman CHAS. A. HESS, Secretary HEADQUARTERS PROGRESSIVE PARTY Fifth Congressional District, Kentucky HOME PHONE CITY 2564 HOTEL HENRY WATTERSON LOUISVILLE, KY. Aug. 13, 1913. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- The Progressive campaign in Louisville and Jefferson County has opened most propitiously. We have succeeded in nominating under the new state primary law a strong Progressive ticket, headed by our friend, Mr. Wood F. Axton, as candidate for mayor of Louisville, and embracing an excellent delegation from this county to the state legislature. Unlike the Democratic Party, our candidates are running on a platform adopted by the Progressives in mass convention, prior to the Primary, a copy of which I am enclosing you so that you may see we are fighting here for Progressive principles wherever applicable to local conditions. It is practically conceded on all sides that our ticket will be elected provided we are able to secure a fair election md the general trend toward our ticket is so strong that we confidently hope the majority will be so great as to render feutal the efforts of the Democratic machine to count us out. Our cause has been greatly strengthened by a serious split in the Democratic Party, giving to us several thousand of the better class of Democrats who oppose the corrupt ring now controlling their party. So that, looking at the matter from all sides, we think we have reasonableBURTON VANCE, Chairman CHAS. A. HESS, Secretary HEADQUARTERS PROGRESSIVE PARTY Fifth Congressional District, Kentucky HOME PHONE CITY 2564 HOTEL HENRY WATTERSON LOUISVILLE, KY. grounds to believe that our ticket will be victorious. As you doubtless know, a very large part of our vote came to us primarily through enthusiasm for you personally. This is especially true of the great body of railroad men and I think it of the utmost importance that you come to us some time this Fall and make us a speech. In your letter of Jan. 18th, in answer to mine requesting you to address the Progressive Club here, you wrote that you could not come at that time and then said “but later when I get so that I can make speeches, most certainly I will come to Louisville if you wish me." We do wish you now and feel that your presence here would absolutely insure our victory this Fall and I am writing at this early date so that you can select some date to suit your own convenience, at any time between the 15th of September and the election. It has been suggested that it might be possible for you to stop over here on your return from Arizona in the latter part of September, which would suit us very well. However, we leave that entirely to you, only insisting that you come at some day without fail. Mr. Axton joins me in cordial good wishes and I have the honor to remain, Yours very sincerely, Burton VanceBURTON VANCE, Chairman CHAS. A. HESS, Secretary HEADQUARTERS PROGRESSIVE PARTY Fifth Congressional District, Kentucky HOME PHONE CITY 2564 HOTEL HENRY WATTERSON LOUISVILLE, KY. Aug. 13, 1913. Hon. Frank Harper., Outlook Office., New York City, N. Y. Dear Sir:- I am enclosing you herewith a letter to Colonel Roosevelt which I beg that you forward to him at the earliest possible moment. It seems to us that a Progressive victory in Kentucky's metropolis this Fall will prove of vital import to the whole Progressive Party throughout the South and that Colonel Roosevelt could do no greater service to the cause than to lend his assistance to that end. We are in hopes that on his return from Arizona, he may arrange to give us the time requested. Your kindness in promptly forwarding the letter will be greatly appreciated. Yours truly, Burton Vance[For encl see 8-13-13]BURTON VANCE, Chairman CHAS. A. HESS, Secretary HEADQUARTERS PROGRESSIVE PARTY Fifth Congressional District, Kentucky HOME PHONE CITY 2584 HOTEL HENRY WATTERSON LOUISVILLE, KY. Aug. 13, 1913. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- The Progressive campaign in Louisville and Jefferson County had opened most propitiously. We have succeeded in nominating under the new state primary law a strong Progressive ticket, headed by our friend, Mr. Wood F. Axton, as candidate for mayor of Louisville, and embracing an excellent delegation from this county to the state legislature. Unlike the Democratic Party, our candidates are running on a platform adopted by the Progressives in mass convention, prior to the Primary, a copy of which I am enclosing you so that you may see we are fighting here for Progressive principles wherever applicable to local conditions. It is practically conceded on all sides that our ticket will be elected provided we are able to secure a fair election and the general trend toward our ticket is so strong that we confidently hope the majority will be so great as to render feutal the efforts of the Democratic machine to count us out. Our cause has been greatly strengthened by a serious split in the Democratic Party, giving to us several thousand of the better class of Democrats who oppose the corrupt ring now controlling their party. So that, looking at the matter from all sides, we think we have reasonableBURTON VANCE, Chairman CHAS. A. HESS, Secretary HEADQUARTERS PROGRESSIVE PARTY Fifth Congressional District, Kentucky HOME PHONE CITY 2584 HOTEL HENRY WATTERSON LOUISVILLE, KY. ground to believe that our ticket will be victorious. As you doubtless know, a very large part of our vote came to us primarily through enthusiasm for you personally. This is especially true of the great body of railroad men and I think it of the utmost importance that you come to us some time this Fall and make us a speech. In your letter of Jan. 18th, in answer to mine requesting you to address the Progressive Club here, you wrote that you could not come at that time and then said “but later when I get so that I can make speeches, most certainly I will come to Louisville if you wish me.” We do wish you now and feel that your presence here would absolutely insure our victory this Fall and I am writing at this early date so that you can select some date to suit your own convenience, at any time between the 15th of September and the election. It has been suggested that it might be possible for you to stop over here on your return from Arizona in the latter part of September, which would suit us very well. However, we leave that entirely to you, only insisting that you come at some day without fail. Mr. Axton joins me in cordial good wishes and I have the honor to remain, Yours very sincerely, Burton Vance [Encl in Vance 8-13-13][8-13-13] Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir:- I am sure you won't mind giving a moments' though to this proposition, inspired by the Murphy-Sulzer spectacle this morning and the recent Police - graft exposé: How can a young ma who would be a clean, public spirited official get into active political work? I know several capable, scrupulous fellows who are so maddened by current political corruption that theyare willing to give up assured business success to help where they can in promoting good government. How can they help? Have you a practical word of advice to give me? Sincerely and reverentially- Elbert Wortman 40 Watson Ave., East Orange, N.J. Aug 13, 1913[8-13-13] [Adolph][8-13-13] [Adolph][*20. Compliments of Mr. Fred Adolph Geneva N.Y. [?] T.R. DECLINES GIFT GUN. --- Tells Admiring Maker to Bring $800 Weapon Back Next Year. OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Aug 13.—As Col. Roosevelt set out on his family picnic he declared that politics would be taboo for the day. Late in the evening he is to have a conference with George W. Perkins and several other leaders who will motor to Sagamore Hill for that purpose. Fred Adolph, an expert German gunmaker of Genoa, N. Y., who journeyed here to-day to present to the Progressive candidate the finest specimen of his workmanship yet turned out, interrupted the picnic for a few minutes. Col. Roosevelt, having heard nothing of the intended gift, was at first mystified. But after a voluble conversation in the tongue of his Teutonic admirer the Colonel convinced him that while exceedingly grateful and impressed by the admirable craftsmanship displayed in the manufacture of the gun its unusual value precluded the possibility of his accepting it. The gun, which is said to have cost its maker nearly a year's spare labor, and represents a value of nearly $800, was elaborately etched, carved and mounted with gold. Although weighing but six pounds it had two barrels of Krupp steel, one a rifle .25 calibre and the other 20 gauge shotgun. Upon the grip the emblem of the Campfire Club of America was etched in gold and either side of the lock plate bore golden designs of hunting subjects. Mr. Adolph departed with the intention of abiding by the Colonel's suggestion that the weapon be retained by its maker for another year, marked with the name of the former President, who, after the expiration of that time, would be glad to accept it.FRANK G. ATWOOD NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT August 14th, I9I3. Hon. Theodore Rossevelt, Oyster Bay, L.I. Dear Sir:- Herewith please find enclosed article that I took from the New Haven Union a paper which has a wide circulation in this state. I believe Mr Geo.L.Fox should be set right on some of his remarks as he is a man that tutors Yale students, he should not be so profoundly against you without a foot to stand on. With very best wishes I am, Faithfully yours, Frank G. Atwood. Mahoning County COURT HOUSE Youngstown, Ohio HON. GEO. F. ROBINSON} HON. CHAS. M. WILKINS} JUDGES OF COURT HON. W. P. BARNUM} OF COMMON PLEAS HON. W. S. ANDERSON} August 14th 1913. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, New York City, N. Y. My Dear Sir:- Enclosed you will please find two letters of introduction from mutual friends. I had written to Mr. Walter Brown for another letter of introduction but I understand he is away on his vacation, therefore I am forwarding these two letters without waiting to hear from him. My purpose in writing is this. I have spent a great deal of time in the north west, this being really my home. The last four years I have been here on the Common Pleas Bench and have some three years yet to serve, but for very good reasons, I desire if possible, to increase my earning capacity and to that end I am desirous of associating myself in some way with Mr. Louis W. Hill, Chairman Board of Directors of the Great Northern, or with some good firm in the north west, preferably Seattle. I enjoy my work here very much but am in love with the country there. If at all possible I wish you could give me a letter to Mr. Hill, as I understand you have a personal acquaintence with him. If you are personallyMahoning County COURT HOUSE Youngstown, Ohio HON. GEO. F. ROBINSON} HON. CHAS. M. WILKINS} JUDGES OF COURT HON. W. P. BARNUM} OF COMMON PLEAS HON. W. S. ANDERSON} August 14th 1913 #2 acquainted with any of the Bar in Seattle I would also appreciate a letter to them. If you feel as if Messrs Garfield and Sullivan are in a position to speak, I wish you would incorporate in your letter the statement made by them. If you can favor me in this matter I would consider it a very great kindness. Thanking you in advance for your courtesy in the matter, I beg to remain Yours respectfully. W.P. BarnumElkton, Md, R.D. Aug. 14" 1913. The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt:- I am sure you will sympathize with us in the loss of our church at Summit Bridge Del. by fire. A lightning bolt struck it July 24" and burned it to the ground. We had $2000= insurance The church was worth $5000= We cannot build that price church, but will do the best we can. The farmers are renters mostly and are not wealthy. Now I want to ask you if you will give us a lecture in the city of Wilmington Del, any time in Oct. This is something unusual to ask, but our folks are in peak distress. Will you do it? & how much will you charge? Yours Sincerely Rev. A. Burke, Pastor, Wilmington Conference, " District Dr. E. L. Hoffecker Dist. Supt.SOCIAL SERVICE CORPORATION 801-807 GARRETT BUILDING BALTIMORE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ROBERT GARRETT PRESIDENT LAWRASON RIGGS VICE-PRESIDENT HENRY F. BAKER MORRIS A. SOPER CARROLL T. BOND GEORGE A. WALKER, M. D. ELI FRANK MORRIS WHITRIDGE C. C. RUTLEDGE, TREASURER JOHN DANIELS GENERAL SECRETARY August 14, 1913 The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York, NEW YORK. My dear Sir: At the request of Mr. Robert Garrett, president of our Corporation, I am writing to ask your advice with reference to the subject which is briefly indicated on the inclosed sheet. In view of the fact that at present there appears to be no generally accepted standard of all-around worth and attainment in any community, which the individuals composing the community may keep before them as a norm or ideal, the suggestion has been made that it might be possible gradually to set such a common standard, with good results. This is the proposal to which the present enclosure has reference. We should be much indebted to you for your judgment, first, as to whether it is practicable and wise to attempt to set such a standard; and second, as to whether the particular plan for working toward that result, herein proposed, is a good one. Your opinion in this matter, given as fully as your convenience will permit, will be greatly appreciated by us. We should also be glad if you could give us the names of any persons whose views you think would have special value in this connection. Thanking you for this co-operation, I am, Sincerely yours, John Daniels Enclosures: 1. Outline of Plan 2. Photograph, "The Young David."[For encl see 8-14-13](Uruguayan Minister) The Oceanside Magnolia, Mass. 14th August 1913 Mr. Frank Harper Secretary to Mr. Roosevelt 287 Fourth Avenue New York Dear Sir: I have just received your letter of 12th instant. I certainly know of Mr. Roosevelt's trip to South America and as I will not be in Washington at the arrival of Dr. Zahm I suggest that the details of the trip be sent to me here at the earliest convenience of Mr. Roosevelt.in order to give him the best opportunity to know Uruguay. I will be very glad to hear about Mr. Roosevelt's plan, and help him in visiting my country. Very truly yours, Carls Sm ade PenaOrono. Maine. August 14th - [1913] Col. Theodore Roosevelt New York N. Y. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: -- I have in my possession some letters written by my grandfathers and grandmothers, portions of which touch upon a journey made by them across the Isthmus of Panama in 1845. I have put these disconnected portions into a connected story, with the belief that at this time when the attention of the public centers so keenly on the Isthmus, it will be of interest for publication. I am sending the article to you in the strong hopes that your will take a sufficient interest in it, to give your personal attention to the placing of it. I desire this very earnestly because I feel naturally that if you would lend your interest to the placing of it its publicationwould be assured. The reason I desire this sufficiently to be will to ask you [this] is this, I am interested in rural "social service" work, especially in the school-garden movement in procurement of home grounds and other lines of agricultural progress. Especially I would like to see the rural communities in Maine, take their old stand and more in the life of New England, and I plan to make work centering on that interest, my means of earning, if possible. But there is at present very little organized movement in the state and no money being spent, so that any branch efforts that result in money returns, enable me to keep on just so much longer in attempts at this line of work - still so pioneer in Maine. And if some assistanceShould come thru this article it would be particularly grateful to me, because my mother was also very fond of Maine, her native state, and took keen interest in the welfare of Maine's country people, and I know the pleasure She wuld take in keeping indirectly, As I believe that the article compares favorably in intrinsic value with many current magazine articles, I have felt that it was not unjustly imposing upon you, in asking your assistance. I am not sending the article to you with reference to publication in The Outlook only. May I leave the choice of magazines to you. The Outlook included if it would be acceptable there. I have made the introduction brief, believing that to be the most acceptable to the general public, and I do not offer anyillustrations as I did not know of any that would be accurate of conditions at that time. But I should be more than glad to accept from you any suggestions, that you would be kind enough to make. I should consider it a high compliment and be most grateful should you feel that you could write even a short word of introduction. I feel that the description in these lectures is lost as graphic as it might well be, [because] partly perhaps, because there were other letters -- not how [????] ant -- devoted entirely to descriptions of the strip. I have enclosed a short account of my grandfather, for I have thought it would interest you in connection with thearticle. The thought of peaking your personal interest in this, cause to me, almost as soon as I thought of writing the article -- your knowledge of Panama, your connections with the magazine world, your interest in rural life -- how could I help it! And if I may be pardoned for the thought -- that certain characteristics of Mr. J[??}et, were as pursuit gives them, would appeal to you. If I have been mistaken in my inspirations, I beg that you will pardon me, [???]d return the article without further thought. My address until August 28th will be Morris Mills. N. Y. Care Miss Susan Moore. After that Orono. Maine. University Maine.from which place mail will be forwarded me. I am respectfully yours. Taue (?) W. HarrisFor enc see 8-12-13 8-14-13 August 14, 1913 Mr. Harper: I have acknowledged this letter for Th Editors, saying we could not send an explanation of the inscription referred to, but that the letter was being passed on to Mr. Roosevelt secretary, who will perhaps be able to send a line of explanation. Anna Knight[8-14-13] To Whom it may Concern: After delivering two addresses in the open air on occasions that were assigned and designated by W. H. Hotchkiss, Provisional Chairman of the Progressive Party as "very important" and donating two addresses, f four in all to large and enthusiastic audiences, I have, after persistent effort extending into the second year and being compelled to incur legal expense in my struggle to obtain wage for work faithfully and capably per formed, received from the said W. H. Hotchkiss, lawyer, religio-politico Progressive reformer and would-be leader, the munificent sum of $50.fifty dollars from which legal fees for the collection of same and interest for more than one year have been deducted. I hereby release the said W. H. Hotchkiss from further liability fo for the payment of services rendered with the full understanding that he is politically, financially, and morally bankrupt. August 14' 1913. Mrs Mary Elizabeth LeaseFIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH (AMERICAN CHURCH) 718 CORRIENTES Buenos Aires S. A. TELEPHONE (UNION) 2845 AVENIDA William P. McLaughlin PASTOR Residence 1552 Calle Peru Telephone (Union) 434 Buen Orden 10 Spanish-speaking Methodist Episcopal Churches in the Buenos Aires District. Forth two in the East South America Annual Conference. One Publishing House. Two Spanish papers and one English. Ten schools for boys and girls. One Orphanage. 6000 children in Day Schools and Sunday Schools. 18 Buenos Aires.........August 14 1913 Hon Theodore Roosevelt [[shorthand]] Dear Sir Will you permit me,as an American, and as pastor of the "American Church" (First Methodist Episcopal) in this city,for the past twenty one years, to express my great delight at your approaching visit here,and to extend to you,in the name of my people, and myself,a most cordial welcome. Our church has been established here over seventy seven years,and has always been "persona grata" to the Argentine government and people. A few years since I was asked to officiate at the marriage of President Roca's niece,and he himself,(then being President) brought her to the altar on his arm. [Hon Elihu?] Root attended Divine Service in our church on the only Sunday he spent in Buenos Aires,and Hon William Jennings Brian on another Sunday gave a missionary address from our pulpit. We know that your time will be fully occupied ,but it would be a great pleasure to thousands of Christian peopleFIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH (AMERICAN CHURCH) 718 CORRIENTES Buenos Aires S. A. TELEPHONE (UNION) 2845 AVENIDA William P. McLaughlin PASTOR Residence 1552 Calle Peru Telephone (Union) 434 Buen Orden 10 Spanish-speaking Methodist Episcopal Churches in the Buenos Aires District. Forth two in the East South America Annual Conference. One Publishing House. Two Spanish papers and one English. Ten schools for boys and girls. One Orphanage. 6000 children in Day Schools and Sunday Schools. Buenos Aires, in this city and Republic if you could give some address while here on some phase of religious or missionary work. It would give many of your countrymen special pleasure if you could speak in what is popularly called here,the " American Church",and to myself the delight would be cery great. Our cable address here is "Methodius",and any intimation you might be able to telegraph would be especially appreciated and helpful. I have the honor to be very sincerely yours (Rev.) Wm P. McLaughlin24 Aikins Block, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. August 14th 1913. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My Dear Colonel, Although unknown to you I am writing to enquire if it would be possible for you to visit Winnipeg--the metropolis of Western Canada--late in the Fall of this year or early in the Spring of next, to deliver an address or lecture. I am sure that you would be accorded a most enthusiastic reception not only because of the fact that their are so many Americans in Western Canada, but Canadians themselves, the bond of friendship between the two countries tightening to a strength of inseparability. I will be pleased to hear from you at your earliest convenience. Yours very truly, N. M. PresslyPa- Allentown ALLENTOWN LEADER LARGEST EVENING CIRCULATION IN THE LEHIGH VALLEY 631 HAMILTON STREET WILLIAM F. ROTH, Editor GEORGE R. ROTH, Business MGR. } Proprietors Allentown, Pa., August 14,1913. Hon, Theodore Roosevelt, New York. Dear Colonel: The City of Allentown, which gave you a very large majority, just held a baby show, at which your name was frequently mentioned, in view of the fact that you would have been delighted with the number and vigor and beauty of the children shown, upwards of 2000. The show was bossed by Mrs. M. H. Malley, the mother of nine, assisted chiefly by Mrs. A. Samuels, who devised the plan of giving every one of the 2000 babies a prize, counting each one a prize winner. On account of the highly honorable mention made of you at this very successful baby show I presume to send you the facts about it, and also the clipping showing the list of babies. With assurance of most distinguished respect, I beg to remain, Very truly yours, George R. Roth[For I. enc see ca 8-14-13 card]Zion City, Ill., Aug. 14, 1913. Frank Harper. Dear Sir: Your reply to my letter written at San Antonio, Tex. has [f] been forwarded to me at Zion City, to which place I have come, since writing Mr. Roosevelt. I thank you for the inclosed information, and beg to insist with all [delacy] delicate but persistent determination, that my letter be placed in his hands upon his return that he, himself, may decide whether he will or not take up "any[2] new matter" at this time. I am not trying to appoint the time, or the season, or the moon, wherein he may take up this matter. I only want his attention called to this plea, which shall, and will, and must be attended to. I shall renew my appeal to him when he returns in Sept., if I can't get my plea before him, I shall come in person, or do any thing consistent with courtesy or seamliness, or right, to get his ear, for he is going to do this very thing that I have been over three years trying to get him started doing. I trust the "Brief" which3. I sent declaring a part of the difficulty of Zion, has not been destroyed. I earnestly beg this letter may not seem abrupt, as I am so in earnest, and so thoroughly determined, that I am compelled to speak with great plainess. Thanking you for the courtesy of your reply, and assuring you this letter needs no answer. I remain Sincerely yours, Florence Sadler. 2103 Gabriel Ave., Zion City, Ill.a volunteer. If my service is called for please wire me at my present adress. On regard to myself will say that I am an ExSoldier. have served in the Sixth Cav. in Montana. California. and the Philippines. have a good Discharge as Private. age thirty. white. Yours with respect. E.M.Sealy. 512 W 11th st. Charlotte N.C. Charlotte N.C. Aug. 14. 13. Col. Roosevelt. Oyster Bay N.Y. Dear Sir. I have had my eye on the trouble in Mexico for some time. and I blieve that there must be a change in the near fucher. On case of war I suppose the Col- will head another party of Rough rider. if so I would like to offer my services as[*[8-14-13]*] [*OFFICERS: J. A. TATUM, PRESIDENT C. A. REDIC, VICE-PRESIDENT SCOTT B. WILLIAMS. SECY.-TREAS. BUSINESS MEN'S ASSOCIATION OF CLOUDCROFT, NEW MEXICO ASK US ABOUT CLOUDCROFT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE J. A. TATUM J. I. BAILETY C. F. KNIGHT*] Cloudcroft N M 8/14/13 Theo. Roosevelt Oyster Bay Dear Sir: I have heard you are now organizing a company to go into Mexico in case there is any ocosion[?]. I do not expect to get the Honor of going with your outfit but if you can use me I am Here Very resp John E. Quipen [*Cloudcroft is located in the Sacramento mountains, at an elevation of 9000 feet, surrounded by one of richest farm and fruit sections of Otero county. One of the principal shipping points in New Mexico for oats, apples, vegetables, wood and lumber. Has good public school, complete water, sewerage and electric light systems. The Lodge, a modern hotel, was completed in 1911 at cost of more than $100,000. The Babies Sanatorium, a modern fire- proof building, was completed in 1911, costing $10,000. Cloudcroft has the most elevated golf course in the world. All classes of business are represented here and it is possible to supply every want. The scenery in and around Cloudcroft is unsurpassed. The woods abound in wild flowers and berries. The Mescelaro Indian Reservation is only a short distance out of Cloudcroft. Headquarters of Alama National Forest located in Cloudcroft. The summers are cool, making Cloudcroft the best known Summer Resort in the Southwest. The winters are not severe, the rainfall is ample, climate salubrious. Opportunities for investment in Cloudcroft and surrounding country are unlimited. Openings for several classes of business in Cloudcroft. Once more the lumber industry is opening up in this section. Several small mills are operating near Cloudcroft and a planing mill began to handle the cut of nearby mills at Cloudcroft in 1912. The Texas is a modern hotel. The first issue of "The Weekly Cloudcrofter" was published February 14, 1913.*]OUTDOOR WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLISHERS CASPAR WHITNEY, EDITOR TELEPHONE. BEEKMAN 3216-17 P. O. BOX 732 Outdoor World & RECREATION NOS. 2 to 8 DUANE STREET New York, N.Y., Aug. 14th, 1913. Frank Harper, Esq., Secretary to Col. Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Ave., N. Y. My dear Mr. Harper:- If you have handled my one or two letters to Colonel Roosevelt on this Remington Memorial matter, you will know that I have not done anything. Only a month or so ago the letters from the Colonel suggested that it seemed wisest to leave the thing alone. I have never been able to get any statement as to the subscriptions, or to get any data at all, in fact. Naturally I would not take hold of it until I could get at the status of things. Yours very truly, Caspar Whitney MK CW/LL[*[ca 8.14-13]*] [*[Enc in Roth 8-14-13*][*24 -*] From The children of the Second Ward Allentown Pa.[*[8-14-13]*] "THE YOUNG DAVID" Proposal To set a standard of physical, intellectual, moral and social excellence for boys in the period of transition (17-21 years) to young manhood. A statue of "The Young David," designed by the sculptor Mr. Hans Schuler, of Baltimore, to be adopted as a symbol of such all-around excellence (Photograph enclosed). This statue, which it is proposed to have in life or heroic size, to be put in some appropriate public place, and to be awarded periodically to the boy who comes nearest to the general standard; the award to be signified by the inscription of the boy's name on a tablet accompanying the statue. Basis of Award 1. Good physical development. 2. Several years' attendance at Public Athletic League classes and games.* 3. Recommendation by a Public Athletic League leader.* 4. Good mentality, -- attested by teachers or employers. 5. Abstinence from swearing, drinking or smoking. 6. Unselfishness. 7. Modesty. 8. Right attitude and conduct as respects home and parents. 9. Membership in some religious group, and recommendation by its leaders. 10. Alertness and "live-ness." 11. General recommendation by 20 or 30 boy associates. Method of Award A. So far as practicable, working definitions to be agreed upon, with reference to the preceding bases of award; - ;as for instance, what constitutes "Modesty," "Unselfishness," etc. B. The award to be determined by an appropriately constituted committee or jury. *The Public Athletic League is the recognized leading organization in athletic work with boys of adolescent age. Though supported mainly by private funds, it receives an annual City appropriation. Perhaps the Basis of Award might be extended to include other organizations, - as, for instance, the Boy Scouts.[*[8-14-13]*] Colonel Edward C. Carrington, who lead the primary fight, as well as the Post-Convention for Colonel Roosevelt in this State, delivered the following remarks at the Progressive-Republican amalgamation mass- meeting, held in Baltimore on Thursday, the 14th inst. "Mr. Chairman, Senator Jackson, and fellow Republicans; those Republicans who now can vote, and those whom I see here and who may hereafter vote. In the last election, in round figures, 57,000 Republican voters cast their ballots for Theodore Roosevelt for President; in round figures, 54,000 voted for President Taft, while, in round figures, 112,000 Democratic voters cast their ballots for the present incumbent of the White House, President Woodrow Wilson. These figures show plainly the duty of every Republican in this commonwealth. Their duty is as plain and obvious as was the duty of the troopers under Wellington and Blucher, namely - to have combined and united to defeat the ambitions of Bonaparte. I am referring to Napoleon and not the Honorable Charles Joseph, our distinguished citizen, and by thus defeating the elder Bonaparte, establishing the peace of Europe as well as the rest of the world in general. Within the last two or three months I have met hundreds of people on the street who have expressed the earnest desire that the Republicans and Progressives in this State get together against the common enemy. My invariable reply has been to those who have so expressed themselves to me, that we are together. Not because Senator Jackson and I conferred and agreed that we should get together without regard to past differences that arose in connection with the presidential contest; not because a Committee of fifteen Progressives and fifteen Republicans resolved that it is for the welfare of this State that we get together; not because this Convention was called and resolves that we are together; but because we believe in the same fundamental doctrines, the same theories applicable to the government of this great Republic. Because we believe and take equal pride, whether we be Republicans or Progressives, in the Party that was founded by Alexander Hamilton, which received a new character written by Abraham Lincoln, which produced and brought forward the great McKinley, and the Party which wrote on the Statute books of Congress its most glorious and brilliant chapters in the seven years administration of that great and vigorous Republican, Theodore Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt, the Republican President of the United States, put new life and vigor into not only the country, but in the Republican Party. The country in every instance where it had an opportunity to pass judgment on his administration, sent an overwhelming majority of Republicans to preside in the upper and lower houses of Congress. I have no apology to make for my political activity during the preceding year. I supported Colonel Roosevelt as against President Taft because I believed he was the only living American who could prevent the happening of a national disaster in the election of a Democratic president of these United States. I was opposed to Mr. Taft because I believed that he had abandoned the Republican platform and had gotten on a Democratic platform; because he had advocated a reciprocity measure aimed at the American farmers' prosperity, who holds in his hands and is in himself the keystone of our national prosperity. The great body of Republicans, it would appear, agreed with my point of view, as indicated by the primary election in which Roosevelt carried practically all the Republican States in which there was an opportunity for Republicans to express their preference. After his defeat in Chicago, I followed him, and would have followed his whether he called himself a Progressive, a Progressive-Republican, or a Bull Moose. I followed him with all the loyalty, courage and energy with which God Almighty endowed me up to the time the verdict of the American people was taken. That verdict was that 7 1/2 millions were in favor of a protective tariff principle and that 6 millions were in favor of a free trade or low tariff proposal. Mr. Wilson was elected President, not because Republicans had abandoned the faith of their fathers, but because they failed to agree as to which Republican -1-to support. Therefore, it seems to me in my elemental sort of way that if we are to prevent the repetition of this national disaster and avert the election of another exponent of free trade and the wild radicalism of William Jennings Bryan, that we should, we, the 7 1/2 millions, unite once more, reorganize our Party and inject into it all that is best in the way of sound, safe and sane progressiveness, at the same time retaining such of its conservatism as has made Republicanism synonymous with American prosperity. Therefore, I for one promptly endorsed the proposition of Frank A. Munsey, that the republicans of the Nation, those of the Progressive faith and those of the stand-pat faith should fuse or amalgamate, should confer - harmonize their differences, and once more place the republican standard upon the fortress of American prosperity, not only "to pass prosperity around," " but in order that prosperity might be kept passing around, and that it might reach every highway and byway in the land. Colonel Roosevelt says he stands for social justice. So do we all. There is not a man or woman here today who can claim any monopoly upon his or her faith in social justice. We believe in the prohibition of child labor. This is a part of the Progressive creed. We have this law in effect in the state of Maryland today; a law that became such by virtue of the signature of a Republican governor. We believe in the principle of a minority wage for women, but we believe that this is a social and industrial problem that can only be worked out after the most careful consideration by those experienced in the solution of social and industrial problems. The little girl in the shirty factory, who only makes $4.50 a week learning her trade, must not be debarred and driven out of employment into the streets because of an arbitrary standard built up against her by a law passed in the interest of her older and more experienced sisters. Virtue is not confined to the wealthy. A few dollars a week is not the price of the virtue of American womanhood. We believe in a direct presidential primary in order that there may be the fullest and freest expression of the popular choice for president of this great republic. This law is in force in Maryland and it is in force by virtue of the strong moral influence of a republican minority in the Maryland legislature, and the law became effective because there was appended to it the signature of a Republican governor, We believe in a direct vote of the people for United States senators; that they should be responsive to the popular will and not the members of either a rich man's club or the tools and hirelings of the corporate interests of this republic. They should be the servants of the people and not their tyrants and masters. this law is effective in the United states today by virtue of a resolution introduced and the passage of which was accomplished by a progressive-Republican, Senator Bristol of Kansas. The Republican Party has a record of accomplishments and a record of moral and material achievements that are big enough and bright enough to enable it to survive a temporary difference as to the choice of presidential candidates. It is big enough to again handle and shape of presidential candidates. It is big enough to again handle and shape the destinies of these United States. The Democratic Party is not so happily situated. The American people have no confidence in its theories and no faith in ability of its leaders. The country is undergoing a silent panic as the result of the Party's revolutionary and radical subversion, or attempted subversion of our protective tariff policy. A Democratic Governor finds that he cannot safely manufacture in the United States and, hence, is required to move his plants to the Dominion of Canada. We cannot live by bread alone, and neither can we subsist on up lift alone, The American people demand a full dinner pail and that full dinner pail must not be filled with the brown bread of the German peasant. Under Republican control the country has prospered and a standard of living has been established so far above that of the countries standard of living has been established so far above that of the countries of Europe and the rest of the world the it has kept our farmers and our manufacturers busy to maintain such standard and supply their wants, and under Republican supremacy the American has been able to pay the debts incurred in filling these wants. -2-[?] This Convention, or mass-meeting, or gathering of Republicans and Progressives, is not and does not of itself get us together, but it is the sign and the signal of the definite thing the mind can fasten upon that we think alike, and that those who in the past have stood for and championed the cause of good government in the State of Maryland under the Republican standard once more march shoulder to shoulder against the legions of a party whose theories of government are as obsolete as the stage coach. At the Progressive Convention last August I said after the campaign was over, and I gave expression to about the same thought that the Honorable Charles J. Bonaparte expressed, that when this campaign was over I would become a Socialist, an Anarchist, a Democrat or anything else that I pleased. However, it suited me to be neither a Socialist, nor an Anarchist, nor a Democrat, but on the contrary to be a Republicans, and my friends it makes me feel very comfortable to be back in the house of my fathers. It has become garnished and cleaned by defeat. It may need a little new paint and a few shingles here and there, but it was the abode that cherished - it was the abode that sheltered me in my boyhood, and I have faith in its shelter and love, and respect every old timber with which it is bu[i]lt. I have no word of criticism against those Progressives who, be cau[s]e of sincerity of motive, have held out against our harmony program. Many of such are actuated by the purest motives; others entertain real or imaginary grievances against party leaders. Prejudice against men must be made subordinate to principle, and the real Progressive, not the visionary moonbeam climbing altruist, would rather have one progressive measure, designed for the purification of our politics end for the betterment of men and women, than a thousand sermons for uplift and altruism, that will only yield dead sea fruit. Men die physically and politically, almost as inevitably the one way as the other. Bonaparte had his Waterloo; and I am speaking, of course, of Napoleon, not of his distinguished American descendant. If we are to get together, not only get together, but remain together, then we must all yield to the popular demand, as evinced at the last election, for a broader Republicanism. The wishes, demands and purposes of the majority must be more closely adhered to. Leaders must be followers. Progressiveism is not radicalism. In its broad sense, it means the advocacy of good government and the real rule of the majority. As the country is progressive from coast to coast, political leaders must fall in line quickly with the popular trend, or the general of yesterday will be the camp follower of tomorrow. -3-This Convention, or mass-meeting, or gathering of Republicans and Progressives, is not and does not of itself get us together, but it is the sign and the signal of the definite thing the mind ca fasten upon that we think alike, and that those who in the past have stood for and championed the cause of good government in the State of Maryland under the Republican standard once more march shoulder to shoulder against the legions of a party whose theories of government are as obsolete as the stage coach. At the Progressive Convention last August, I said after the campaign was over, and I gave expression to about the same thought that the Honorable Charles J. Bonaparte expressed, that when this campaign was over I would become a Socialist, an Anarchist, a Democrat or anything else that I pleased. However, it suited me to be neither a Socialist, nor an Anarchist, nor a Democrat, but on the contrary to be a Republicans, and my friends it makes me feel very comfortable to be back in the house of my fathers. It has become garnished and cleaned by defeat. It may need a little new paint and a few shingles here and there, but it was the abode that cherished - it was the abode that sheltered me in my boyhood, and I have faith in its shelter and love, and respect every ld timber with which it is built. I have no word of criticism against those Progressive who, because of sincerity of motive, have held out against our harmony program. Many of such are actuated by the purest motives; others entertain real or imaginary grievances against prty leaders. Prejudice against men must be made subordinate to principle, and the real Progressive, not the visionary moonbeam climbing altruist, would rather have on progressive measure, designed for the purification of our politics and for the betterment of men and women, than a thousand sermons for uplift and altruism, that will only yield dead sea fruit. Men die physically and politically, almost as inevitably the one way as the other. Bonaparte had his Waterloo; and I am speaking, of course, of Napoleon, not of his distinguished American descendant. If we are to get together, not only get together, but remain together, then we must all yield to the popular demand, as evinced at the last election, for a broader Republicanism. The wishes, demands and purposes of the majority must be more closely adhered to. Lenders must be followers. Progressiveism is not radicalism. In its broad sense, it means the advocacy of good government and the real rule of the majority. As the country is progressive from coast to coast, political leaders must fall in line quickly with the popular trend, or the general of yesterday will be the camp follower of tomorrow.[*Abbott 8-15-13*] August 15, 1913. Mr. Harper: Will you please take care of the attached correspondence? There is nothing, of course, that I can do about it. The poor old man ought to be treated with courtesy, but I do not see how Mr. Roosevelt can do anything. L.F.A. [For 6 enc all 7-9-13 8-13-13 8-15-13 8-15-13 8-15-13 8-15-13]Washington, D.C. Aug 15 1913 Theodore L. Baker, Notary Public City of Washington and District of Columbia. Hon Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y. Dear Friend, I see that the president has withdrawn Mr Frank B Ford's name from the ep[?]l bard of the District of Columbia. I certainly would appreciate it if you could have some of our progressive members at the senate or house help me I would like very much to have the appointment Hoping Jon are well and enjoying good health I am your ever friend Theodore L. Baker Wash D. C.WM. Salisbury, Chairman 9th Congressional Dist. R. D. Davis, JR., Sec'y. PROGRESSIVE PARTY Ill Winchester Ave. ASHLAND, Ky., August 15th,1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/ The Outlook, New York City. Dear Sir:- The writer had the pleasure of meeting you here last April 3d,1912, while you were making a trip through Kentucky. You perhaps may remember that Ashland and Boyd County akstrong Progressive centers. This fall we have a complete County and City ticket in the field, and we are seeking to uphold our end of Kentucky for the Progressive cause. However, we are at a great disadvantage, because here, as elsewhere, the Republicans are fighting us by claiming the Progressive Party is a dead issue, and that the great majority of Progressives have gone back to the Republican ranks. As you are aware, the Republican newspapers all over the country, evidently at the instigation of the Republican leaders, are enlarging upon these claims. We find it to be the only effective argument they can use against us, for we have a strong ticket in the field and hope to elect at least a part of it. The inclosed clipping was taken from our local paper recently, and realizing how much your leadership menas for us we are put at a great disadvantage. What we wan[t] is a statement from you in answer to this. In asking this we realize that we are getting into national politics, and that it may difficult for you to frame such a state- ment at the present time. Nevertheless we feel that the Progressive Party has agreat future, and we intend to support it so long as it has a national existence. If you can make such a statement, please do so in the form of a personal letter o[R] a telegram to me, as secretary of the N[o]nth congressional District for the Progressive Party. I do not know of anything that would be a greater aid to us at this time, and we intend to publish it and circulate it over the entire County and District. We feel that the fight we are making entitles us to make this request. We have a candidate for the Legislature from this district and have been promised some speakers of national prominence. In case you will be able to make any speeches this fall, we would be more than pleased to have you stop in Ashland this fall, and WM. Salisbury, Chairman 9th Congressional Dist. R.D. Davis, Jr., Sec'y. Progressive Party 111 Winchester Ave. Ashland, Ky., T.R. ,# 2. help us out. Kindly let me be advised as soon as possible in regard to our request. We realize we are asking quite a favor, but we feel justified in doing so by the great advantage we would derive therefrom. I am, sir, Yours very sincerely, R.D.Davis Jr. D/M.City of New York Chambers of Warren W. Foster Judge of The Court of general Sessions 32 Franklin Street, New York. August 15, 1913. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: Another state-Wisconsin-has passed a sterilization law, and I am sending you herewith a copy of it. This week's Outlook contains an editorial concerning myself, which I hope you will read. The Committee arranging Fusion did not endorse my candidacy, but put against me Mr.C. C. Nott of the District Attorney's office, who was the first one to attack probation, and Judge Wadhams, a fine fellow, but I am told entirely unacquainted with criminal law and penology. It is somewhat discouraging, is n't it? to find that political considerations always govern in such matters. With an assurance of my profound esteem and best regards, Yours truly, Warren W. Foster To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Texas City,Texas. 15th. Aug. '13. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York, My Dear Colonel Roosevelt, In the Fall of 1900 when you were giving campaign speeches in the west, you arrived in Deadwood, S.Dakota and were met by Capt. Seth Bullock.Almost immediately after stepping from the train, you shook hands with me, a kid of twelve years dressed in Rough Rider Outfit, and said "How do you do, my little man" and ever since the, I have been a Roosevelt man, the only Non Democrat in several generations of old Maryland and Virginia Democrats. However, that is not the purpose of my liberty in writing you at this time. The enclosed clipping is the reason. Just how much there is to be credited to this report, I do not know but I think the idea excellent and for that reason and the deep respect and admiration I have always had for you, I am writing to offer my services and myself to you, to be accepted or declined as your judgement sees fit.Doubtless,if you are contemplating the organization of such troops,your officers will be either friends of yours who possess the neccessary qualifications or men recommended to you by competent people.Also,a smattering of political men will have to be considered and taken in. But I feel sure that a few officers from the Regular Establishment will be acceptable. Being unknown to you,let me refer you to our mutual old-time friend,Seth Bullock.Also Eben W.Martin,M.C. from South Dakota and to Brig. General Clarence R. Edwards of the Army. My service consists of summers on ranchs in Dakota and Wyoming till I went to the Philippine Constabulary in 1908 and was sent south to the Moro Constabulary with station in the Sulu Islands.In reference to my service there,I am free to refer to General Harry H. Bandholtz,now enroute to the States. In 1911 I came home on leave,took the exam and got my commission in the Regular Army being assigned to the 23rd.Inft.,serving herein ever since. However,I am trying to get General Wood to let me transfer to the Field Artillery as I much prefer mounted service to foot service. I expect to hear from him about the end of the month. I would consider it an honor to be placed on your list of officers for officering the organizations you are supposed to be forming in this article and I am sure,in case of war the Department would approve of my going to the Volunteer Cavalry providing,of course,it's organizer asked for my assignment. Regulations require that officers from the Regular Establishment be given increased rank,as you doubtless are aware of already. I'm not what you wuld call a trained rider or marksman from either Texas or Arizona but I can ride with the rest o them,thanks to eighteen years in the Black Hills and Wyoming.And three years with native (Moro) troops in isolated stations in the extreme southern end of Moro land,P.I. have proved that I am no quitter. Therefore,Colonel Roosevelt,I wish to offer my self and my services to you in any undertaking you may see fit to go into,in the advent of war,either south or west.Or Far East. Trusting you will understand the spirit in which I am writing this and that I will have the honor of having my services considered acceptable, I am,Sir, Very respectfully yours, Hassy Gantz. Lieut. 23rd. Inft. Texas City,Texas. .Havers & Fagan, E. A. Havers, Prop. Eastman Kodak Headquarters, Photographic Supplies 83 Nassau Street Tel. 2864 Cortlandt. New York, August 15, 1913. Photo Printing, Bromide Enlarging, For Amateur and Professional Agents for the following CAMERAS: Kodak, Century, Graflex, Premo, Hawkeye, Etc., Etc. Stereopticons and Lantern Slides a Specialty General Sporting Goods Line Moving Picture Machines Headquarters for Souvenir Post Cards. Full Assortment of Ingersol Watches Catalogues on Application. Theo. Roosevelt Esq., The Outlook, New York, N. Y. Dear Sir: You will be interested to know that we are now prepared to supply complete Paget Color Plate Material. We regret that we have not printed literature as yet, but briefly stated the process is as follows: There are five items -- 1st A color Filter placed over the front of the lens. 2nd A special Color Negative Plate. 3rd A Taking Screen. 4th A special Color Transparency or Positive Plate. 5th A Viewing Screen. The Color Filter is placed over the lens and the Color Negative Plate is placed in any standard Plate Holder, placing in contract with and directly in front of this, the Taking Screen. After the exposure has been made the Taking Screen is set aside and after development a Monochrome Negative is the result. To insure prompt attention, address all Communications to the Firm Photo Printing, Bromide Enlarging, For Amateur and Professional Agents for the following: CAMERAS: Kodak, Century, Graflex, Premo, Hawkeye, Etc., Etc. STEREOPTICONS and LANTERN SLIDES a Specialty GENERAL SPORTING GOODS LINE MOVING PICTURE MACHINES Headquarters for SOUVENIR POST CARDS Full Assortment of INGERSOL WATCHES Catalogues on Application.Havers & Fagan, E. A. Havers, Prop. Eastman Kodak Headquarters, Photographic Supplies 83 Nassau Street Tel. 2864 Cortlandt. New York, T.R. -2- 8/15/13. Photo Printing, Bromide Enlarging, For Amateur and Professional Agents for the following CAMERAS: Kodak, Century, Graflex, Premo, Hawkeye, Etc., Etc. Stereopticons and Lantern Slides a Specialty General Sporting Goods Line Moving Picture Machines Headquarters for Souvenir Post Cards. Full Assortment of Ingersol Watches Catalogues on Application. From this Negative a Transparency is made and after registering with a Viewing Screen gibes the completed result. The great advantages are that no special chemicals are required, that instantaneous exposure may be given as the speed including the Taking Screen and Filter in front of the lens is equivalent to Wynne F. 24. Positively any number Color Positive Plates may be obtained from one Color Negative. Trusting that the above information may prove of material interest to you and hoping to be favored with at least a small order for a try-out Outfit, Yours very truly, Havers & Fagan. per Edwin. A. Havers To insure prompt attention, address all Communications to the Firm Photo Printing, Bromide Enlarging, For Amateur and Professional Agents for the following CAMERAS: Kodak, Century, Graflex, Premom Hawkeye, Etc., Etc. STEREOPTICONS and LANTERN SLIDES a Specialty GENERAL SPORTING GOODS LINE MOVING PICTURE MACHINES Headquarters for SOUVENIR POST CARDS. Full Assortment of INGERSOL WATCHES Catalogues on Application.[*[8-15-13]*] [CHATEAU FRONTENAC] QUEBEC My dear Col. and Mrs. Roosevelt, I have a plan by which I hope to make the education of American children at once interesting and pictorially in structive. I desire to give American children a fuller knowledge of the American Presidents & of their wins & of great events con nected with their tenure of office. To do this I intend to use full lengthfigures of the Presidents & their wives in connection with a game of questions regarding the events which signified their terms. Can you tell me where I can obtain full length portraits (sitting or standing) of all the American Presidents & their wives(or Mistresses of the White House?) I am an American my self, descended from very old Virginia families. I hope to succeed in my plans & am very enthusiastic over it. Very Sincerely (Mrs) Era Clyde Miller #38 Ste Anna St. Quebec Canada Aug 15 1913_ Col. Theo. Roosevelt The Outlook magazine New York city nyDear Sir, Yountville Cal August 15 13 I procured from photograper Washington DC a photo of you which was sent your secratory N.Y I hope you will indorse and send me at your earliest Convenience I hope you & Mrs R are well Resply JH Mitchell[8-15-13] ROOSEVELT CLUB HEADQUARTERS ROOM 452 UNION BUILDING TELEPHONE, BELL 803 OUR MOTTO: LAY HOLT, HANG ON AND HUSTLE RODNEY H. BRANDON, PRESIDENT THAD M. MOORE, SECRETARY STEPHEN METCALF, TREASURER ANDERSON, IND., ANDERSON TOWNSHIP VICE-PRESIDENTS Precinct 1-J. M. Forkner Precinct 2-Dan J. Dalton Precinct 3- John Sample Precinct 4-H. H. McKee Precinct 5-William W. Fadely Precinct 6-Henry Duncan Precinct 7-T.W. Jones Precinct 8-G. G. Vellum Precinct 9-Frank Hill Precinct 10-Frend Brown Precinct 11-John Blough Precinct 12-Alfred Turner Precinct 13-J. D. Crawley Precinct 14-Horace Bedford Precinct 15-Otto Vance Precinct 16-U. H. Merson Precinct 17-Bayard Hersberger Precinct 18-Clarence Smelser Precinct 19-E. M. Conrad Precinct 20-R. C. Smith Precinct 21-Homer Hedrick Precinct 22-George Hunter Precinct 23-William A. Agnew Precinct 24-Kenneth McMahan Precinct 25-J.S. Parker Precinct 26-J.J. Musser Precinct 27-O.L. Pierce Precinct 28-Harry Barnes Precinct 29-Barney Essington 218 Union Bldg 15 Aug. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I want to thank you for your very kind letter just received. We regret very much that you cannot be with us in the local campaign. I have severed my connection with Harvard where I have been associated with your class-mate Albert B. Hart, and in the future you may count on me as as your friend and worker in Indiana. Very Sincerely, Oswald RyanBuffalo Philadelphia W.A.Stone & Company Manufacturers, Selling Agents and Dealers Standard Connellsville Coke Bituminous and Anthracite Coal General Office, First National Bank Building Exclusive agents for Solon, Edna and Vulcan Mines All quotations subject to change without notice Uniontown, PA. Aug. 15, 1913 Monthly settlements by actual railroad weights by scales nearest loading point. We are not responsible for loss of coal or coke enroute, nor for damages from delays in transportation, strikes or other causes beyond our control. Mr Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay,N.Y. Dear Sir:- I take pleasure in forwarding you an invitation to attend the dedication of the Monument erected to the memory of Major General Edward Braddock. I sincerely hope you will be able to be present and would be pleased to have you stay with me at my home during your visit here. Very truly yours, W.A.Stone WAS/SCOPY EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE Spring and Macdougal Streets New York Editorial Offices August 15,1913. My dear Mr. Sloss Since you have undertaken to enter a new field of journalistic activity, it may be that a word from an editor who knows you on this side will serve as introduction on some occasion. It may easily be that you will come upon editorial or journalistic friends of mine in London. I am very glad to say for your use in such circumstances that I have valued our acquaintance for seven years, and that I have had sufficient opportunity to know the sincerity and competence of your work. I remember with pleasure our work together when you were managing editor and I was editor of Appleton's Magazine, and since then I know of the acceptability of your magazine and newspaper articles in many worthy quarters here. Your article on the coffee situation for us was a distinct success in the pages of EVERYBODY'S. I hope that you will have the best of luck in the London field. Yours very sincerely, (Signed) Trumbull White Editor. Mr. Robert Sloss, 104 Clement's Inn, London, W.C., England.[Enc in Sloss 3-2-15]J. A. WOODMAN WINTHROP CHAMBERS 7 WATER STREET BOSTON MASS., August 15th 1913 [Ack 8/26 E?a-15] Dr Lyman Abbott, Outlook, 34th Street, New York City, New York. My dear Sir, Having just returned from Australia with one of Americas best athletes I am told that our late President Roosevelt is contemplating going over there under Management of one H.D.McIntosh. If I were he I would carefully investigate the standing of said gentleman before closing with him. I have been there under his direction and have had to go to Law before I could collect what was due me. Not only have I been so treated but every other Showman has had the same treatment at McIntoshs hands. There is a very respectable firm called J & N Tait who handle such big attractions as Mr Roosevelt and no doubt they would be pleased to take the matter up with him. They have handled very successfully such people as Madam Melba,Madam Nordica and are now arranging for Harry Lauder to come there. Trusting this will be received in spirit given, I am, Faithfully Yours, J. A Woodman REPRESENTING SAM LANGFORD DAN (PORKY) FLYNN[8-15-13] Open all the year Hotel Cairo Washington, D. C. William Catto, Manager "Phoenix House" Mendham New Jersey Nahant, Mass., 191 [Enc in Abbott 8-15-13] Mr Lawrence Abbott The Outlosh H. YEnc in Abbott 8-15-13 [Speiden]Enc in Abbott 8-15-13 For Mr Lawrence Abbott. "The old man of Japan" as many friends now call me, as I landed with Commodore Perry U.S.N. at Kuri-hama Japan, July 14 1853 just 60 years ago, and am now the oldest living friend of the Japanese, in the United States, & more than any one else deeply regret the late unpleasantness between "California "and those wonderful people." - What has God wrought? William Speiden of 107 E 70th St. NY[Enc in Abbott 8-15-13] [Speide An exhibition of physical strength to Japanese wrestlers at Yokohama Japan. March 1854 Mr Lawrence Abbott with regards of August 10th 1913- [*William Speiden,*]Enc in Abbott 8-15-13 Return Receipt to William Speiden Phoenix House Mendham, New Jersey Receipt Desired Strictly Person will H6 Abb kindly see Importance. to H6 L pleasMiddletown Conn Aug 16/13 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir:- Mattabessett Grange has asked me to report on the question "are we justified in maintaining our numerous commissions." your friends in the Grange would be delighted to learn your views and I should feel highy honored to present them if you can spare the time Thanking you in any event I remain Respectfully yours. J. G. Baldwin. 305 William St.An Ad pays for itself by the results obtained The Reynoldsville Volunteer Prices right and products best in Job Work we do W. C. ELLIOTT, Editor and Proprietor Established May 16, 1878 Published Every Wednesday $1 a Year Strictly in Advance Reynoldsville, Pa., August 16, 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir: Will you kindly present the Reynoldsville Public School with a souvenir of your African trip or if you have more in your private collection to spare, one from the Rocky Mountains or elsewhere which you secured in one of your numerous hunting trips. A souvenir from Africa , other things being equal, would be very much preferred. I would suggest a fur, or horns, or some native impliment, or the like. If small, two or more articles would be very acceptable. The fact that it was a souvenir of one of your hunting trips would make it of historic value and would cause it to be kept and highly prized by those who have charge of the school in the future, while the same thing without such associations would be of far less value. We would also like to display with it a letter from you to prove to those who might otherwise doubt, that it was genuine. The souvenir would be placed in the corridor of the school in full view of all of the pupils of town and of the adults who go there to attend lectures, educational meetings and conventions, etc. The population of Reynoldsville is about 3,500, there are about 700 pupils, and the school property, which is magnificent, is valued at nearly $50,000. and the school district is out of debt. On the school house grounds are two cannons made in 1863, weighing 5 tons each from the Phila. Navy Yard. In the corridor is a powder tank from the hull of the Battleship Maine. A piece of china, used in the White House, has just been presented to the school. If you wish to grant the request I am making kindly let me know at your earliest convenience. I will then present the matter to the school board and at its next regular meeting thereafter it will accept the souvenir officially and the secretary will so notify you. You can then send the souvenir direct to the secretary, by express, charges collect. I Remain Yours Truly W. E. Elliott Aug 16, 1913. Colo. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Colo. Roosevelt,- Under seperate cover I am sending you a sketch which I copied from a picture of you. I am 13 years old and did my best. Respectfully yours, Chas. Kramer, 529 Angelique St., W. Hoboken, N. J. Aug. 16. 1913 My Dear Col. Roosevelt, I told my son Granville S. MacFarland whom you met at Dr. Bigelows, a short time since, that I was ashamed of him that he did not till you his mother was a Progressive, my purpose in writing to you is not simply to state my political convictions but rather to offer my service to the Progressive Party. I amaware there is a woman's corp but I do not care to work in this department, my plan would be, if I may suggest it to you, to have an appeal committee, stating the evils of the Trust; how they effect mothers who have growing sons, I should like to suggest the text 'Trusts harm mothers by the heart-strings". This was the subject of an article I wrote several years ago, for the Cambridge Democrat, It found great favor among prominent men and I was told that many of them kept the clipping in their vest pocket. I believe an appeal of this nature, if presented to the women's clubs of Mass, would have a good effect, if the ground has not already been covered. Faithfully yours C. A. Moe Farland 343 Harvard St. Cambridge Mass Fitch Home for the Soldiers, AND Soldiers' Hospital of Connecticut. Noroton Heights, Conn., Aug 16, 1913. "The" Citizen: June 18979 picked up at the shore here, two stones, one proved to be the heads of small water snake, changed to lime stone, and the other beautiful brown Jasper, shaped like slumber sock, with camel like hair of blues, and, at entrance for foot, elliptic of fine granules of white quartz, within this the Jasper as an egg. I had these mounted for scarf pins by Tiffiny & Co. Last Monday, about half mile to East, I picked up much larger snakes heads, changed to stone. Also stone that was the tooths of amphibious creatures similar to mans wisdom tooths, and, where broken from the jaw is agate, with form of man warming his hands at blazing fire, (side view) form T. Thursday picked up Jasper trihedron, kind of pea green, Oneview the head of bear, another crouched lion, another your faced brused, and, another the face all right. My name in Gaelic is Mat-pac-bhum, meaning strong like a bear. Patrick banished the serpent by removing the "egg" from the Druid Aller. This "Mick" returns to the "egg." Know nothing about spook or angel business. But all this is something more than accidential coincidence. You in the office of Dr. Abbott, years after I presented him carved cane. I asking Secretary Bryan to have "La Trinidad" pass through the Panama Canal, years after he had mailed me his photograph. Dr. Hine, father of Francis L. Hine, First National Bank, Wall St., New York, saying he could do nothing for my poor old mother 1859. "Frank" swelling out and saying the internal affairs of the bank is nobodys business. The Pujo Committee smashing things and their assets loads of gold bricks, millions of tons of confidence and bales upon bales of confidence. Year ago Sec. of State New York and the Agit Gen. informed me they knew nothing of Ringrose Flag. I sent to Gov. Hughes to be presented and used at launching of battleship New York. Mr. Justin said he knew nothing about the Flag but would make inquiry. Nothing doing. We have had enough of the (Vo) "nights of the golden horse shoe" and will now have days of the "American Beauty." New York will now get nothing. Will have my own celebration at the Isthmus and Tiffany pieces of silver will go to the Smithsonian Respectfully Mich. M. Mahon Citizen "The" Roosevelt, "Outlook" 287 Fourth Ave New York[*Armes*] [SOUTHERN LEAGUE OF Woman's National Wilson and Marshall Organization] DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DIVISION 2649 WOODLEY ROAD Aug. 17th 1913 WASHINGTON, D. C. [MRS. FRANK L. WOODRUFF. CHAIRMAN SOUTHERN LEAGUE MRS GEO. A. ARMES. President [CHAIRMAN] DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MRS. JOHN POOLE, TREASURER MRS. J. FAGG MORGAN, SECRETARY ADVISORY BOARD MRS. PERRY BELMONT MRS. HENRY D. CLAYTON MRS. PHILANDER P. CLAXTON MRS. HUBERT S. DENT. JR. MRS. CHARLES A. DOUGLAS MRS. DUNCAN U. FLETCHER MRS. WM. RANDOLPH HEARST MRS. RICHMOND PEARSON HOBSON MRS. GRACE PORTER HOPKINS MRS. DUDLEY M. HUGHES MRS. BEN JOHNSON MRS. WILLIAM A. JONES MRS. LUKE LEA MRS. NORMAN E. MACK MRS. JOHN F. SHAFROTH MRS. MORRIS SHEPPARD MRS. LOUIS P. SHOEMAKER MRS. WILLIAM ROBERT SMITH MRS. WILLIAM SULZER MRS. THEODORE TILLER MRS. BENJAMIN R. TILLMAN MRS. OSCAR UNDERWOOD MRS. FRANK L. WOODRUFF] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir– Not as the head of the organization I represent, but as a woman who respects order and dignity in our governing officials of State – I appeal to you, Come to the rescue of your grand old State of New York and untangle the chaotic and disgracefull condition of public affairs. You are the one man who can do this. Take a womans advice for we some times are gifted with intuition. Very sincerely Marie Armes (Mrs. George A. Armes)2909 M. St. Sacramento Cal. 8-17-'13 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay - Land Island. N.Y. Dear Sir and Comrade I took the liberty of sending in your name as a reference to an Accident and Insurance Co. on John. St in New York Cty. Seeing that your kindness had been the means of placing me in several responsible positions - in each of which I made good - I referred three people to you - I am employed as Watchman by "Libby McNeill and Libby" and they have suggested that I write you - asking if you have heard from these Insurance people and would you honor me by letting me know whether or not you have I have the honor to be your obedient servant - E.S. Kinkead (Cherokee Bill)Doniphan, Mo. 8-17-13 Hon Theodore Roosevelt Esq., New York, N.Y. Dear Sir:- Knowing you are on of the advisory committee of The American Game Protective And Propogation Association, I am asking you to place my application for a position as one of your game wardens before your board of directors. I have been for many years connected with the State Of Missouri in that capacity, and my office terminates today with the incoming of the new administration of game affairs. During the last two years, under Mr Jesse A. Tolerton, I had entire charge of the 14th Dist. and was able to break up all market hunting in the dist, a thing which all the large force formerly stationed there had been unable to do. I was continually in conflict with outcasts from Reelfoot and Big Lakes, but managed to break up their market shooting and netting activities in the great Little River overflow. In my Ozark mountain territory I manged also to have as much succes. I convicted many illegal hunters and stopped dynamiting in the hill waterways. My record will manifest that I had more convictions in the State for actual violations than nearly the entire force of fifty deputies put together. I attributed a great deal of my success to living knowledge of the conditions, the ability to get in alone to the wildest places, and more than all to handling the prosecuting atty's so they would enforce the law. This was the hardest task of all. It took lots of diplomacy and knowledge of political environments to force the prosecutors to do their duty. I am forty years of age, do not drink, am an excellent woodsman, either in mountain or swamp countries and know thoroughly the class with which I would have to deal with throughout the South and West. I refer you to Mr Tolerton, Ex Governor Hadley, E.T. Grether, Globe Democrat, St Louis, and Wm A. Bruette, American Field, Chicago, and many others. I thas been a life work with me-lne who understands wild life, and has made its study for twenty two years. Have written a great deal for sporting papers, The American Field, Forest and Stream ('Lock Laddie), and am author of A Tale Of A Quail, now appearing in Our Dumb Animals. I do not feel that I am unacquainted with you. At the risk of my position with the State, last September I was the only delagate that went from here to the Progressive Convention at the Jai-Alai Bdlg, St Louis, where I had the pleasure of hearing you speak on that especially hot afternoon. I carried all the proxies; for the other delegates backed out at the last moment. This is the only reason the Democrats give for not reappointing me; they acknowledge my services to the state, but realize it is impossible to swing me from the cause which only you so ably champion for us.2 I would be willing to accept a position in any territory, no matter how antagonistic to game protection, and would do my duty in ferreting out violations. I would, as I have done frequently, make arrests for sheriffs, where they fear to enforce game laws for political reasons or lack of sand. During my entire term of office I never lost a prisoner. I have arrested alone some three hundred, and at times in bunches of ten and fifteen in some of the worst violating sections. I know every bit of the southeast Missouri and northern Arkansas breeding grounds of the wooducks, how they are slipped into market, etc. It was through me the heronry in the Red Sea overflow of Black river was increased, and I point with pride to the fact that there is not a single plume hunter in the entire overflow. I hope you will give this letter your personal consideration, and if I am appointed I will do my utmost to merit your approval. Thanking you in advance, remain Very truly yours John B. ThompsonTHE MUSIC MASTER'S COURSE OF PIANO INSTRUCTION BY CORRESPONDENCE. ELMON ARMSTRONG & CO. LESSEES HENRY S. SAWYER SUPT. OF INSTRUCTION PHONE HARRISON 3006 CABLE GACOM The German-American Conservatory of Music Chicago Illinois 1808 REPUBLIC BUILDING August 18, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay New York Dear Mr. Roosevelt: We have decided to give one of our $75.00 scholarships (a complete Course of Instruction in our Conservatory - a complete education on the piano) to some deserving orphan boy or girl that you can recommend. We enclose the Scholarship marked Paid by you, sent with our compliments. All you need to do is fill in the name of the party and the address, send it to them and advise them to take the matter up direct with us and we will do the rest. We are enclosing stamped envelope and will be pleased to hear from you stating the name and address of the party, so it will confirm their claim when we receive it. The writer wishes to congratulate you on the splendid victory you achieved over the "muckrakers" in your Michigan case, and to express my great admiration and affection for our Greatest American Citizen. Wishing you success in all your undertakings, Yours truly, GERMAN-AMERICAN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC By E Armstrong Treasurer EA-GH[For eve see 8-18-13]CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION A SPECIALTY J. R. STEVENS CO. CONTRACTING BUILDERS ODD FELLOWS TEMPLE PHONE CANAL 2851 ALL KINDS RESIDENCE BUSINESS AND FACTORY BUILDINGS PAPER MILLS DISTILLERIES WAREHOUSES GRAIN ELEVATORS CINCINNATI Aug 18 1913 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt New York Esteemed Sir - Pardon the intrusion-- but in reading the Outlook of July 26th last - your "Autobiography"- I failed to see where and when the next installment of your story would appear. Now as I have been deeply interested- as have many thousands of others - in your life's story - I would thank you kindly to inform me where and when I may expect to see your next chapter and assure you of my deep appreciation of your reply at your convenience and pleasure. Yours very truly A. A. Gerard 106A Odd Fellows Temple Cincinnati O- We expect to see you actively engaged in the fight on "Tammany" this fall.TELEPHONE No. 178. Telegrams: 'BRITISH HOTEL, BANGOR' J. A. LANG, Proprietor. BRITISH HOTEL, BANGOR, N. W. August 18/13 Frank Harper, Esq., The "Outlook", New York City. Dear Mr. Harper: Im sure Mr. Roosevelt should wish to communicate with me in the near future, I beg to state that I shall sail from Southampton on September 3rd, on the S. S. "Olympia" of the White Star Line. A note sent to me via the New York pilot upon arrival - say September 10th - will enable me to stop over in the city, should Mr. Roosevelt desire me to call on himin person at that time. I am, Very truly yours John Sterett Gittings, Sr. Washington D.C. Aug 18th 1913 Mr Theodore Roosevelt I scarcely know how to begin this letter to you but will as a preface to it introduce myself as a skilled and educated mechanic and scholar. I have experienced the chagrin of being scoffed at by the ignorant who received their education in a ninty day business college and the other ignorant class who have suddenly become rich without any education at all, also by still another class, who pronounce themselves scientific men, or men of science. This latter class instructed us, a few years ago that aeroplanes heavier than air were an impossibility. During Columbus time there were scientists who affirmed that the Earth was flat, that iron ships would not float on water, because iron was heavier than water, that the telescope was impractical relative to celestial, but highly useful for terrestrial observations. We have such scientists, and such educated men today. I have here in this cityencountered men who pose as patent attorneys who reminded me of the professor of Padua who refused to look through Gallileo's telescope when he told him that there were mountains in the moon. The professor denied this but refused to look through the tube. There are Patent Attorneys in this city who, when I showed them my drawing, said that the scientists and Edison say that such a machine as I claim to have is an impossibility, and flatly refused to listen to any explanation. They shrugged their sholders and looked wise. I have constructed two such machines in Jacksonville Fla. very crudely and not fit for exhibition yet valuable to demonstrate the fact that I was generating immense power by the use of two natural laws acting in opposite directions and giving me motion. I could not make a perfect machine in Florida as there was no one there who could vulcanize rubber, nor could I find the necessary machinery by which means a good machine could be made. I destroyedportions of each machine, while other portions thereof I brought North as far as Knoxville Tenn. My machine is automatic and generates me one horsepower or a million dependent upon the size of the machine. No machine will cost more than a boiler would cost which would generate the same number of horsepower. There is hardly any friction to the operation of my device, but nothing but net power. Imagine two pully wheels connected with a very heavy belt, the descending part of this belt weighing one thousand lbs, and the ascending part nothing. The descending part at all times weighing the same viz, one thousand lbs while the other never contains any weight more than the rubberbelt. Now the way I do this I wish to explain to you, not by letter but verbally. After you understand the principle satisfactorely I desire that you pay for the construction of a machine large enough to operate a one horsepower dynamo. Such a machine especially the first will cost $45. If then this machine is satisfactory I wish to get patents in all foreign countries which willcost about $5,000 - This machine will displace steam for stationary work, but will not be of use for locomotive purposes, except where electricity may be used. There will be much less use for coal and fuel of all kinds. There will be no further use for boilers, Engines, Engineers firemen machinists - boilermakers, etc. The machine starts itself and never stops until she is worn out, but as there is hardly any friction it will last several thousand years. Now Sir I have nothing to sell and I will not accept any money from you until the machines makes it which will be very soon, as it will only take six days to make a machine in New York, and this machine can be placed on exhibition as soon as we have applications for patents in all countries of importance. I am not personally acquainted with you Mr Roosevelt but I have followed your political career and I know that your fertile mind will readily see much more clearlythe gigantic importance of this invention than I did at first sight. As far as my personality is concerned I will say nothing but refer you to Frank Tyree who I believe is still with you. He has known me in Huntington W VA since he first arrived there. I kept a jewelry store on 3rd Ave opposite the First Ntl Bank, and was president of the Ohio Valley Roofing Tile Co during seven years. Mr. Tyree and I were political enemies for a long time yet I will give him as reference though I still have a crow to pick with him. My feet would not fit into any ready made shoes of any of the political parties subsequent to the Buckner scism as I was all Altruist, though the Socialest party soon gained some prominence yet I never could join this latter party in consequence of their Initiative Referendum and recall. I considered this as placing the elections wholly into the hands of the capitalists since I always believed that if the capitalists were able to buy the votes of the wageearners they would also be able to buy their signatures to a patition, and when you professed progress andand opposed Mr Taft I followed your standard. I am well aware that the fight between conservatism and progress will wax stronger in succeeding years, as the labor classes are uniting against capitalism, and I further know that one democratic administration is sufficient to convince the worker that the democratic party is the empty dinner pail party, no matter how much good the party may have done. Then the party which can spend most money will most likely be successful as money rules the leaders more every year. This machine will produce us not-only millions, but I believe billions. It is destined to revolutionize an industrial system, and if you will join me and make the proper use of our rights we will be able to accomplish anything we desire to accomplish. If you will not do so I shall be obliged to sell all interest in it to some capitalist. I do not possess the means to exploit it, but I believe you do. In conclusion what I now ask is for an interview. If you grant this I will come to the place you designate and familiarize you with its merits. If you favor me with a reply please address EC Hoelsche 209 New Jersey Ave.Los Angeles [City High School District] [Polytechnic High School] 2973 Roxbury [Office of Principal] Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 1st 13 Dear Col. Roosevelt: As an American and a Progressive, here's hoping none of the Jungle, either of Arizona or of New York, gets you! You've broken so many precedents - may you yet smash the 8-year one, and be our next President. And the greatest thing ahead is for you to tie & ride the Supreme Court. No five men, irresponsible to the People, should be allowed to make our laws for us. That's oligarchy. Also, We need another Constitutional Convention! 1787 is a long while ago. Enthusiastically yours, Charles Edwin Locke 2973 Roxbury St.Little Rock, Arkansas. August, 18, 1913. Col. Theo. Roosevelt, New York, N.Y. Dear Sir: I am enclosing you a list of several tracts of timber that I would like to interest you in, either to buy or co-operate with me in finding buyers. I also have several large tracts of cut over land - 10 000 to 15 000 acres - that will make fine colonization tracts. These lands can be bought cheap. You have been in our state and know something about it. We think we have a great state - it is developing fast. We have room enough for thousands of farmers, and we think that their conditions would be bettered by their coming here. Arkansas can best the world on diversity of crops, cotton, corn, wheat, oats, rice, grasses of all kinds; and in fruits and berries there is none that can beat us. We have coal, mine, lead, bauxite in unlimited qualities. We also have a diamond mind; we hope yet to find silver and gold. Colonel, we have a great state and want you to know more about it, would be glad to have you as a land owner. Let me hear from you. Yours truly, [*H. A. Martin*] 923 West 7th Stree. Carl C. Ade Year of NineteenHundred and 13. 8th. Month. 18th. Day. Gov. Sulser. Albany. N.Y. Dear sir:- I am propted by emotion caused by the otrage committed in attempting to throw you out of office without a trail. It was committed not only on you, but on the citizens of the state, and the set proved beyond the doubt of the most ignorant, that the time is here when some setion must be taken if the people of this state are not to be a minister Russia under the complete control of Tammany and a Czar. And it is only because of the incomprehension by the public of the underground operations of Tammy, the pilferin of our public funds, etc., that prevents them from rising in a rebellion, marching to New York, burning the wigwam, and punishing the criminals therein. For the legislators who have cried "Crucify him" did not do so from their inner souls, but for two other motives; one, individual gain in favor form the powerful "rock crusher" and the other for excitement, a desire to have a hand in doing something improved. Pontius Pilate passed false judgment because he was feearful of the powers that were. Judas repented, and so will many of the legislators long to bring back their thirty pieces of silver and acknowledge their wrong doing. And I want to tell you, almost to a man. We are not positive of just how you have conducted yourself in every detail in the past, but we are sure that your acts since Governor have vindicated you, made right any past errors, and no braver man Glenn M Rees Rees & Ade Architects as Engineers 539-541-543 Granite Bldg., Rochester, N.Y. ever sat in a Governor's chair, for no Governor has ever stood up to fight against such odds and you have fought a good fight, championed a most just and noble cause, you have performed the duties of a faithful servant of the people and the general sentiment in the city is that you will continue to fight a good fight. There are two men in this state that will never be whipped. Sulver and Roosevelt; they might be overpowered and killed, but the can't be whipped. Don't give up, State Seal Governor; we believe you are the rightful holder and if the State militia eject you from office open an office in your residence and take the seal with you until the courts decide, and sentiment is too strong for any just court to decide against you. Trusting that this will do something toward your support, I am, Yours truly, GM Rees P.S. Although I am a Bull Mooser and did not vote for you, though if you run again for office, I will, for you are a real Bull Mooser, and when this is settled and you are through with the Governorship, either one way or the other, get in line, Governor, we need such men as you.[ENCL IN EES 8-19-13]Pleasantville, Westchester County, New York, August Eighteenth, Nineteen-Thirteen. Dear Mr Roosevelt;- At my request the Chairman of the Republican National Committee is preparing a signed statement of some two thousand words, which I will syndicate to five hundred newspapers for simultaneous publication on Sunday, August Thirty-first. This statement, probably in the form of a letter addressed to me (in response to the inquiry), will tell of the situation of the Republican Party throughout the country, and doubtless will go into detail for this state or that. I also expect that it will include a rousing appeal, a trumpet-blast to members of the Republican Party, to get them up on their toes, and filled with enthusiasm. I would be very glad indeed to have the several hundred newspapers print alongside this statement, a signed statement from you, telling of the situation of the National Progressive Party, what it is doing in one state or another, what you think its future policy and procedure will be, and its outlook. It is unnecessary to add that such a statement would have tremendous effect if it also included a powerful trumpet-blast to awaken Progressives, to inspire them, to make them realize that the ideals of their Party are living, and vital. To insure the statement reaching all of the smaller papers, in the far Northwest and far Southwest particularly, it is necessary for me to have the statement on Monday next, August Twenty-fifth.I would have to distribute it by mail, as the smaller country papers could not be expected to pay expensive telegraph tolls. I am handing this letter to Mr Harper, your secretary, and am explaining the importance of the matter to him, in order to releive myselfPage 2... Henry Rood to Mr Roosevelt, under date of August Eighteenth. of all responsibility in case its contents are not communicated to you promptly. With my independence of political thought, I could not in fairness to the people of the country, to the leader of the Progressives, or to myself, send out all over the United States a strong document from the Republican National Committee without giving the National Progressives equal opportunity to put forth, with equal force and prominence, whatever they may wish to say, at a time which I beleive is critical in the history of our political parties. I sincerely hope you will feel it desirable to send on such a signed statement as I have referred to. Should you do so, please send it in care of Mr Harper, at the Outlook office. I will be living out of town for the present, but he will know where he can reach me. In any event, kindly notify me whether or not you will send such a statement. Please notify me by night-letter, at Pleasantville, Westchester County, New York. And then, as requested, if statement follows, kindly send that in care of Mr Harper- our telegraph and mail facilities are not always efficient up here in the country. I am sorry to intrude on your vacation, and would not attempt to do so under ordinary circumstances. And I hope it has been a mighty good vacation. Sincerely Yours, Henry Rood Hon Theodore Roosevelt. Mr Harper, The Outlook, Fourth Ave. New York City.Palomas Land and Cattle Company Office Of The President H. W. Hellman Bldg. Los Angeles, California, August 18, 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, "The Outlook," New York City, N. Y. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: I have just returned from Mexico, and am sorry to say that I find conditions there gradually growing worse, with no prospects of improvement without a firm stand by some foreign country. In regard to the pig that I was going to send you, I find, after making a trip down the Rio Grande from Juraz, that the Federals and rebels have both visited that country and have killed every pig and sheep there was to be found. However, I got trace of some of them in the Southern part of the country, and when I left a few days ago, I started a man down there for two of them, and you can rest assured, my dear Colonel, that sooner or later you are going to get one of these animals that you did not think "was". I hope that you enjoyed your trip to the mountains, and that the Grand Canyon Cattle Company did everything that they could to make your stay there a pleasant one. Remember me, please, to your sons, and believe me, with kind personal regards, Very sincerely yours, HSSteplenson HSS:EFGEXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chas. H. Thompson Chairman P.O. Box 453 Montpelier M.L. Aseltine St. Albans E.L. Kelly Salisbury H. Nelson Jackson Burlington March M. Wilson Randolph Members State Committee First District Mrs. O.H. Rixford East Highgate Mrs. Guy B. Horton Burlington Members State Committee Second District Mrs. Juliet Rublee Windsor Mrs. George Ide Lyndon Progressive Party of Vermont Headquarters Montpelier Vermont Telephone 70 P.O. Box 453 National State Committeeman Charles H. Thompson P.O.Box 453 Montpelier STATE ORGANIZATION Chairman M.L. Aseltine St. Albans Secretary and Treasurer E.L. Kelley Salisbury STATE COMMITTEE Addison E.L. Kelly Salisbury Bennington W.H. Nichols Bennington Caledonia W.J. Aldrich St. Johnsbury Chittenden H.S. Howard Burlington Essex A.E. Parlin Island Pond Franklin Oscar A. Rixford East Highgate Grand Isle J.S. King Isle La Motte Lamoille B.C. Hawley Jeffersonville Orleans J.M. Blake Barton Orange March M. Wilson Randolph Rutland D.E. Martin Rutland Rutland F.L. Russell Shrewsbury Windham E.W. Gibson Brattleboro Washington A.W. Allen Barre Windsor Glenn Lathrop South Royalton DATE August.18.13 [[shorthand]] Mr. Frank Harper. New York City. My dear Mr. Harper. Am much obliged to you for forwarding my letter to Mr. Roosevelt. I am going down into the Maine campaign and shall be busy there until after Sept. I. when the Colonel comes back and gets cleared up somewhat kindly make [a] an appointment for me with him, any time will suit me that is convenient for him, and oblige. Yours very truly. Charles H. ThompsonIbis rue Hardy, Versailles 18th Aug, 1913, WS My dear Colonel, I have sent addressed to Mrs. Roosevelt for you, the proofs of that Diary kept by my mother during the Civil War — of which I have already spoken to you. It is to be published in October by Houghton Mifflin, but as you will be on your way to South America, I am going to ask if you would read the proofs before you go, & if you think the work justifies your interest — write a review for the Outlook & leave it with them for insertion at the time of publication. If you could do this you would help me materially, for this book is my principal hope for ready money — over & above the main consideration that it means a great deal to me. I think that its qualities of observation, balance, & humour willall appeal to you. Furthermore, it is, I believe unique in that it covers practically the whole war period, instead of being a fragment. And I guarantee its complete authenticity & the absence of retouches or improvements as I explain in my preface. I am coming over to the U.S. in October, to give some more lectures. I am looking forward to seeing you upon your return from South America in December. Ever affectionately yours, dear Colonel, WarringtonBooker T. Washington Principal Board of Trustees Seth Low, Chairman, Member of Investment Committee. 30 East 64th St,. New York, N.Y. W.W. Camphell, Vice-Chairman, Tuskegee, Ala. Warren Logan, Member of Investment Committee, 3 South William St., New York N.Y. R.O. Simpson, Furman, Ala. Robert C. Osden, 125 East 56th St., New York, N.Y. John C. Grant, 4651 Denxel Boulevard, Chicago, Ill., V.H. Tulane, 433 South Ripley St,. Montgomery, Ala, Belton Gilreath, Birmingham, Ala. Charles W. Hare, Tuskegee, Ala. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. A.J. Wilborn, Tuskegee, Ala. Charles F. Dole, D.D., Jamaica Plain, Mass. William J. Scnieeffelin, Member of Investment Committee 170 William St., New York, N.Y. Charles E Mason, 120 Franklin St., Boston, Mass. Frank Trumbull, Member of Investment Committee 71 Broadway, New York, N.Y. Theodore Roosevelt 257 Fourth Ave., New York, N.Y. Julius Rosenwald, Harvard St. and Homan Ave. Chicago, Ill. William M. Scott, 19th and Hamilton Streets Philadelphia, Pa. Emmett J. Scott Secretary Warren Logan Treasurer The Tuskegee Normal And Industrial Institute For The Training Of Colored Young Men And Women Tuskegee Institute, Alabama August 18, 1913. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: By this mail I am sending you a copy of the Negro Year Book. It is one of our annual publications. I think you will be interested in many of the facts relating to our progress which this book contains. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington, Principal. NH-Enc.[Ca 8-18-13] Application For Enrollment In The Music Master's Course Of Piano Instruction At Home Personal, Expert Instruction by Correspondence Paid for in full by Theodore Roosevelt. German American Conservatory Of Music By Elson Armetrang [?] Date__ The German-American Conservatory Of Music, Chicago, Illinois. I desire to make application by Enrollment in your Music Master's Course of Piano Instruction especially arranged for Home Study, complete in Fifty Two lessons. Is it understood that under the terms of this Emtillment you will furnish me with all lessons and lesson material, your wonderful invention THE MUSIC MASTER, a Metronome, text material, lesson sheets, exercise pamphlets, sheet music and all help and instruction I may need by personal letter. In consideration of this instruction and material furnished by you I promise to pay you $75,-sending you $5 with my Enrollment, $5 thity days from date on which I receive THE MUSIC MASTER and first lesson, and $5 a month thereafter until the full sum of $75 be paid. If I desire to pay early[?] will send you in addition to the $5 which will accompany my Enrollment Application, $62.50 and take advantage of the 10%discount allowed for payment in full within 30 days, making the net cash price to me $67.50. (1) Signature_ Street Number_ Post Office_Country_State_ Age (If over 18 say, adult)_ state whether you want this course for yourself or another_ (6) If for another,_His or her name in full_ Age_ Street Number (it being understood that the MUSIC MASTER and lesson are to be sent to this address)_ Post Office or R.F.D._ Box Number_ County_State_ Note:-If applicant be under 18 years of age, sign on line (6) and have responsible adult sign on line (1). Please use Money Order or Draft when remitting. Give two (2) adult references here: Name_ Address_ Name_ Address_ Important Note-We wish to call the attention of every prospective student to the fact that THE MUSIC MASTER'S Course gives only high grade, well accredited instruction. It gives you precisely the grade of work you would receive should you come to Chicago and enroll at a first class Conservatory charging from $6 to $10 for an hour lesson. Under THE MUSIC MASTER"S Instruction you pay $75 for the same results you would otherwise pay easily from $350 to $500 to attain. And your saving in time is as great as your saving in money. We ask you to give these statements full investigation and careful consideration. We seek to enroll students who have a sincere love of music, and an earnest desire to be able to play. What we undertake to teach, we can teach. The results we promise you, you can be certain of obtaining. In order that you may verify our statements we take pleasure in referring you to the magazines in whose columns our advertising appears. Both The Butterick Trio and The Ladies' Home Journal have investigated our claims and acknowledge that we can do what we say we can do. Ours is the only Correspondence Course in Music whose advertising The Butterick Trio has been willing to accept. Does not this speak well four our honesty and ability? The German-American Conservatory Of Music.[Enc. in armstrong 8-18-13] Read This Comparison Then Act The Old Way Lessons at a set hour. Teacher of no established reputation, as a rule. Practice in absence of teacher, with only memory as a guide-mistakes inevitable. Extraneous and unnecessary things taught, as result of a course not carefully worked out. Costs serval hundred dollars. Consumes several years. Results in mediocre attainment, usually, and in a mind trammeled with unnecessary knowledge. The Music Master Way Lesson whenever convenient. Teachers of national reputation. Practice with instructions always before you. A course carefully mapped out, studied over, revised, corrected, always being brought nearer perfection. Costs $75. Consumes one year. Results in high attainment and mind fresh and ready to pursue the study into higher branches. The Music Master's Course New-Different-Modern-Scientific "The Better Way To Study Music" Panola, Ala., 23rd May, 1913.- "I cannot begin to express in words the satisfaction and pleasure your lessons have given me. Your Correspondence Course is perfect, and is much the better way to study music. While I have several fine teachers, I have found it impossible to learn and remember as much in three lessons as I do in one from your Course." Adele G. Houston Elizabeth, N.J., 19th May, 1913.- "I Learned more in the first two MUSIC MASTER lessons than I did in a whole year with the previous teacher." Ernest Housley. Hampshire, Ill., 7th April, 1913. - "I think your way of teaching is the most complete of any I have seen." Margaret Peplow. Laurel, Miss., 24th March, 1913. - "The Music Master's Course is far ahead of any we have tried." Mrs. W.C. Chatham Everything Made Simple And Clear Ft. Mett, New Jersey, May, 1913. - "Two features of your Course appeal to me most strongly, the perfectly graded character of your studies making each step of advance easy; and the encouragement given in your personal letters." Walter Marvin, Chaplin, U.S.A. Goodell, Iowa, 21st May, 1913. - "The Clearness and simplicity of the Course is a pleasure in itself, to anyone desirous of learning to play the piano. The Music Master I consider a remarkable means of help in your method of teaching, and with Professor Sawyer's weekly personal letter, giving individual attention to the minutest details of the work, I cannot see how even a child could fail to learn to play the piano readily and without the usual drudgery." J.E. Marek, M.D. Martelle, Iowa, 21st May, 1913. - "The lessons are so easily understood that even a child can master them, and with the aid of The Music Master I do not see how anyone can fail to learn music." P.B. Waldin. Sign This Enrollment and Begin Your Music Study NowJohn Barrett Director General Francisco J. Yanes Assistant Director Pan American Union Union of American Republics Washington, D.C., August 19, 1913. The Pan American Union is an international organization and office maintained by the twenty-one American republics, controlled by a Governing Board composed of Secretary of State of the United States and the Diplomatic Representatives in Washington of the other American nations, administered by a Director General and Assistant Director chosen by this Board and assisted by a staff of statisticians, compilers, trade experts, translators, editors, librarians and clerks, and devoted to the development and conservation of commerce, friendly intercourse and good understanding among all the American republics. Dear Mr. Harper: Would it be inconsistent with the plans of Colonel Roosevelt for you to give me any information you could about his itinerary, including the actual date of his sailing from New York, what countries and places he proposes to visit, and how long he intends to be gone, in South America? I desire this information as an international officer and as the head of the Pan American Union, the organization of which the governments of the countries to which the Colonel is going are constituent members. As you may be aware, moreover, I have always been anxious that the Colonel should visit Latin America, and now that he has decided to go, I wish to assist him in any way that I can. Please be good enough to tell him upon his return that I am anxious to see him for a little conference before he starts on his journey. The experience I have had with those countries, especially as Minister to the Argentine Republic when he was President, and since then as Minister to Panama and Colombia, and as head of this organization, may enable me to make some suggestions that he would appreciate. With kind personal regards, I remain, Yours very cordially, John Barrett Mr. Harper, Secretary to Col. Theodore RRoosevelt, Outlook Office, New York, N.Y. /GH. Charleton Cowles, Jr. CHEMIST [1102 Main Street] Seaside Park , N.J. [Darby, Pa.,] Aug. 19, 1913. My dear ninth Cousin; No doubt you were never aware of my existence, for I am not the least bit famous. However, one afternoon, just after Admiral Cowles, your brother-in-law, sent my father a copy of our family tree, I found to my delight that you are my ninth cousin by marriage. I feel quite honored to be this close in relationship to our Countrie's greatest man. I am twenty four years old and graduated this last June from the Chemistry Department of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; then married a Jersey school teacher. We began at once to look for a position but without success. We wrote to several western manufacturing places and also placed my name ina N.Y. Chemist Club Agency. Not one position of any kind has been offered to me. I am very anxious to get out in the commercial world and would be very grateful to you if you could help me. I sincerely hope you will be interested and that I shall hear from you very soon. Sincerely yours, H. Carleton Cowles, Jr.Los Angeles Lodge No 386 Loyal Order Of Moose N. Banks Cregier, Dictator 632 H. W. Hellman Bldg. Ira K. Cummings, Secretary 111 West Third St. J.T. Bunn, Treasurer Bernard Mullen, Past Dictator C.C. Pierce Vice-Director A.T. Richardson, Prelate Trustees J.H. McClintock Frank E. Purcell Chas Pike Dr. Almo De Monco, Chief Lodge Physician Los Angeles August 19, 1913. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir and Brother:- The enclosed belt and buckle was sent you some time ago by Los Angeles Lodge #386 Loyal Order of Moose, but we returned unclaimed. Fraternally yours, in P.A and P. Ira K. Cummings Secretary. 218 McIntyre Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 19, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N.Y. Dear Sir:- I am writing you on behalf of the Neighborhood Mens' Bible Class of Pittsburgh, to ascertain whether it will be possible to obtain you sometime in the Fall, for the purpose of delivering a lecture, the subject to be left to your own discretion. The Neighborhood Mens' Bible Class is an undenominational organization about seven years old. As its name indicates, it is a community class made up of men from all churches, but meets in the eighth United Presbyterian Church, Perrysville Ave., Pittsburgh. The Instructor of the Class is the Rev. Jno. McNaugher, President of the United Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh. He follows the lecture method in his instruction in the Bible study, the present course being "Representative Bible Characters". The class has a membership of over 800 men, and meets every Sabbath afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. We have a through organization and a list of active committees, and try to make ourselves felt in the community when called upon to meet cases of need. It has been our custom to support an Entertainment Course during the winter, and as the time is now near for planning such course, I am writing you to ascertain whether it will be possible to secure your services sometime after Oct. 1 1913, and if so, wht the charge will be and what other expenses we would be obliged to care for. We would desire you to speak some evening during the week, in Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh, North Side, which has a capacity of about 1,000 persons. It is centrally located and would enable us to draw from the entire city and not be confined to a local community. Trusting we may hear favorably from you and if so, that it may be possible for us to arrange to have you come to Pittsburgh for us, I am, Yours truly, Geost Fostrnbacher [?] Chairman of Committee.William H. Crane Pres Milton D. Scott, Secy.-Treas. The Mellon Company Importers and Retailers Of Fine Dry Goods, Apparel & Millinery. Shoes, Home Furnishings. Thirty-NineDepartments. Oklahoma City, Okla. 8-19-1913 TMC New York Office Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Dear Sir:- In case war should be declared with Mexico and you lead an army, we would like to organize a troop of cavalry and join your regiment. We can get together a troop of men who have no fear, and their fearlessness combined with your leadership would make us invincible. We were talking to the boys last night about what we would do in case war is declared and they are all dead anxious to get up a troop and only one man will do for our Colonel and he is "Our Teddy". In case you organize a regiment you must not overlook us for you will not find a more loyal or hardy bunch of men. Trusting you will favor us with an early reply and assuring you our loyal support, we are Yours sincerely W.E. Hampton T.E. MillerFrostburg, Maryland Aug 19, 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir, I have written President Wilson offering him my services as chaplain in event of war with Mexico. I do not want the position unless war is declared. When we had our war with Spain I offered my service as chaplain but nothing came of it. When you were President you honored me with a nomination for a chaplaincy in the army but I was rejected by the Army Examination Board. I have always been your admirer and supporter and was delighted over your victory in the recent trial in Michigan. I am pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in this city and have been since my graduation from Drew Theological Seminary in 1898a member of the Baltimore Conference. I hold the Doctor of Divinity degree. I am a New England "Yankee" on my mother's side and my father was born in Belfast, Ireland. I have offered the President my services with an intelligent idea of what a [seriousness] serious thing a war with Mexico might prove to be. I have a wife and three children and fully realize that it would mean to leave them. I presume there are plenty of men in my profession who would be willing to remain at home in case of real war and the country may be in need of chaplains. I have no desire for the position in times of peace. I am 42 years old in good health and feel that I can stand what the average man can at least. Most respectfully yours Daniel N. Martin.S.G. MAYFIELD W.E. FREE Mayfield & Free Attorneys and Counsellors at Law Bamberg, S. C. Aug. 19th, 1913 Col. Thedore[sic] R. Roosevelt, New York City, New York. Dear Col. Roosevelt, I understand that you have organized a regiment of Rough Riders for Mexican service, if so, I would to be numbered as one of your men. You have forgotten me, but I had an interviewat[sic] the White House and wrote you after the battle of San Juan wishing you success as candidate for governor and trusting that you would be nom- inated for president all of which came true. Wire me if my application is acceptable and write par- ticulars as to equipment. it looks like war this morning. Very truly yours, [*signature*] S.G. Mayfield [*Glenn M. Rees School Architect and Htng Engineer 539-543 Granite Bldg., Rochester, N.Y.*] [*GMR*] their support. He is a good fighter and, it seems to me this is an opportune time to get him [on] thinking of coming over to our side where he realy belongs. Hoping that you may be able to do something with him I am faithfully yours Glenn M. Rees [*Year of Nineteen Hundred and*]13 8 [*Month,*] 19 [*Day.*] Co'l Rosefelt, Dear Sir, I am enclosing copy of letter sent to the Governor It was written with a view to bolstering him up, a little if needed, but especialy for the opportunity of putting the Poscript on, which you will note. I believe that he will be thoroughly sick of his party when he extracts himself & could be won over to our ranks. Cant you write him some encouragement without being quoted? He has thousands of friends but none take the trouble to apraise him of[FOR ENCL [??] SEE 8 -18 - 13]Chicago. Ill. Aug. '9-1913 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt; Dear Mr. Roosevelt, Many times in the past have I written to you -- Some how my conscience seems disturbed, where the real truth dawns upon my thinking mind realizing how many times since July 1 and previously, the silent threat no more Roosevelt--the people do not want the third term etc. etc. Many other peculiar and thrusting remarks.2nd glancing over the morning papers and seeing -- an article head Roosevelt. and Progressive - regarding a celebration and when I realize Roosevelt is not the candidate and they are putting another fence of trust around - their own - inefficiencies and the coolness put over any one advancing an idea along these lines - Beveridge seems to come close but I am not going to write this letter and deceive myself3rd Governor of a State close to our hearts - is, has, been - under influences that mean some thing to a few Feeling as I do - knowing as I do the true conceptions of their idea's - are bound to exercise these few words to the "Father of the Progressive idea - Some times my heart gives way - when realize the awful conditions prevailingP.S. note Progressive Club forms foundation of my suspiciousness4th in the women exercise of what consider poor judgement" - makes me sorry I have even 1/2 half interest in my goverment. Roosevelt on our ticket and for President - or other tickets can be used - as far as I am concerned. [Duma?] [Factive?] & Progressives lining up - does not go good with true Patriotic American citizen's -Pardon my sending this but principal first, last and forever-- Come out for President even if you must identify Republicanism--do not let small, and petty politics enter a large field Your friend Mrs L. Rutherford Chic. Ill 2954 N. Monroe St. INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT KELLY & NORIE-MILLER N.B. THORP UNITED STATES MANAGERS DEPARTMENT MANAGER GENERAL ACCIDENT FIRE AND LIFE D. C. SMITH & CO ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Ltd. GENERAL AGENTS OF PERTH SCOTLAND UNITED STATES OFFICES:55 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK WELLSOBORO, PA August 19, 1913 Mr. Frank Harper Secy. to Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, My Dear Sir;- I am indeed thankful for your kind letter of July 16, in reply to a previous one from me to T. R. I will heed the suggestion contained in your letter and drop a line at this time. As an ardent supporter of the Progressive cause, and one who has spent several days during the past few weeks in making a thorough convass of Tioga County in the interest of the Party relative to a recent Enrollment Act passed through the influence of the Penrose Gang at the recent Session of the Legislature. I take the liberty of asking our greatest champion of the People's rights Theodore Roosevelt to at some date in the near future to come into our County and addressing the largest audience he has ever addressed in a town of this size. This request may seem extravagant, but when You remember that this was the Banner County among the Rural district in the Banner state, added to the fact that this town is the home of State Treasurer, the Hon. Robert K. Young one of the most ardent Progressives, and the other fact this is the home or Mr. E. A. VanValkenburg Editor of the NORTY AMERICAN of Phila. It may not seem presump- tious As President of the Progressive League and one who is doing all in my power, event to sacrificing time and money knowing the sentiment of the Progress- over the County as well as any living man, and knowing that they are begging to have the Ex. President come among them I make this preliminary request. I am sure it will be followed by more urgent requests from influences higher up than your humble servent. I have no title of reputation of which to boast, but I have had reason to feel glad in a small way for the fact that only a few years ago I went before the voters of.[sic] Tioga County for the office of Treasurer against the Bosses without money or political pull and won out. The Gang who opposed me then know full well that I owe them nothing, and that the men who stood by me at that time are with me now. Mr. Frank Harper # 2 I trust that You will pardon this too long letter, and I will only add further, that if the Hon. Mr. Roosevelt will in his own good time drop me a line acknowledging my invitation, adding some word in his own good way for the encouragement of the members of our League I shall hold it in ines- timable value. Again thanking you for your kindness in answering my previous letter and apologizing for taking the liberty of writing at such length, I most sin- cerely beg to remain. Very truly Yours, [*signature*] D. C. Smith (P S) I trust that you will bring this to the attention of our friend T. R. when the time comes that he is home and a moment to spare. D. C. S. 449 Chocobueo Buenos Aires - Aug 19- 13 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City- My dear sir - I take pleasure in confirming my special to "The Sun" of today which read as follows - "The American Society of the River Plate through the Sun extends a most cordial invitation to Colonel Roosevelt to address the American Colony during his stay in Argentina."2 Many of the Americans here have been in foreign service for several years and have never had the pleasure of hearing you tho we have read your books, speeches and writings with the keenest interest. Very truly yours Frank N CrestT. A. WRIGHT, PRESIDENT. J. ALLEN SMITH, VICE PRES DON CARLOS ELLIS, 2ND VICE PRES. HU. M. JOHNSTON, 3RD VICE PRES. GEO. W. CALLAHAN, 4TH VICE PRES. S. V. CARTER, TREASURER. W. M. GOODMAN, DIRECTOR-GENERAL. SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 1913 THE NATIONAL Conservation Exposition Knoxville, Tennessee August 19, 1913. Mr. Frank Harper, 287 Fourth Avenue. New York, N. Y. My Dear Sir: I have not heard from you since receipt of your letter of August 4th, to which I replied on August 6th. If Colonel Roosevelt is to stop here on his way from Arizona, we ought to know it just as early as possible so that it may be properly advertised. Trusting that the matter may be handled satisfactorily, and that we may have the pleasure of seeing and hearing the Colonel, I remain Yours very truly, T. A. Wright Presdent. TAW.M1 Clark Street, Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 20, 1913. Col. Theor Roosevelt, Dear Sir: We have a fine boy and thinking so much of you, and being so impressed of your policy of a "Square Deal," we named our boy after you "Theo Roosevelt Bryant." Your courtesy is requested for an immediate reply. Sincerely yours, [*Mr. + Mrs. W. E. Bryant*]W. W. KINCAID, Pres. TRADE MARK Spirella REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. UNBREAKABLE UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN PATENTS ALLOWED. REPLYING ADDRESS EXECUTIVE OFFICES OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT M. M. BEEMAN, V.Pres.& Secy. The Spirella Company. INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA. MANUFACTURERS OF SPIRELLA Corsets, Stays and Hose Supporters. MEADVILLE, PA. U.S.A. J. H. PARDEE, Treas. CABLE ADDRESS SPIRELLA MEADVILLE FACTORIES: MEADVILLE, PA. U.S.A. NIAGARA FALLS ONTARIO, CANADA LETCHWORTH, (GARDEN CITY) ENGLAND August 20, 1913. My dear sir: Mr. Kincaid has requested me to send you a copy of one of our daily papers giving an account of his appointment as Chairman of the Cheque Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Kincaid has also requested me to say that inasmuch as a bill is likely to come before the next session of Congress toward taking steps to secure uniform legislation on cheques that he is sending you this paper giving such information as the committee has been able to gather concerning the subject, and shall be pleased to have you interest yourself in the matter. I remain, Very truly yours, T F Charlton (Private Secretary) *S* Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y.PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL COMMITTEE MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. O. K. DAVIS SECRETARY August 20, 1913. My dear Frank: I have a message from Mr. Yard, managing editor of the CENTURY, saying that he understands you have announced that the Colonel's CENTURY article is to appear in its September number. This will be in the October number. Yard has also heard that the McClure Syndicate are trying hard to get a statement from the Colonel for early use. I hope nothing of this kind is going to be done, as it would hardly be fair to the CENTURY people, especially in view of the price the CENTURY paid for the Colonel's article. There ought not to be any other statement from the Colonel for publication until after this CENTURY article has appeared. Please let me know if anything has been done about this, and if any statement has been prepared let us try to stop it. Faithfully yours, O.K.Davis Mr. Frank Harper, c/o The Outlook, New York, New York.Tigerville S.C. Aug 20th 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt New York City N.Y. Dear Sir: I am a lifelong Democrat, but I admire you so much that I voted for you both times you run for president and on your recommendation I voted for Mr. Taft. I do not wish to flatter you, indeed I am sure you can not be flattered, but I want to say to you, what I have said to my neighbors that you are the greatest man in America. I do not suppose that it will everbe my fortune to meet you and so I want you to know what one, at least, of the Common people think of you. Now to the point. I feel sure that we are going to have war with Mexico, and I am also sure that if war does come that you will be there. Now if such conditions do arise, I have a son twenty-three (23) years of age, that I want with you. When the time comes that you need him please let us hear from you. Wishing you great success in all your undertaking. I am yours very truly B. F. Neves.TELEPHONE {5741 5742 5743}SPRING T. DOUGLAS ROBINSON STATE CHAIRMAN Vote Under This Emblem National Progressive Party HEADQUARTERS NEW YORK STATE COMMITTEE 32 WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST NEW YORK 154 August 20th, 1913. Col. T. Roosevelt, Ganado, Arizona. My dear Uncle Ted:- You will remember the conversation I had with you before you left for the west, at which time you said you would speak once before leaving for South America, in cause I felt it important enough. The Court of Appeals situation is to my mind the most important one we have to face this fall, and I have called a meeting of the State Committee and a conference of Progressives to be held at Rochester on September 27th. I feel that it is absolutely essential for the sake of the party in this state that you address the meeting at that time on the judicial situation in this state. I am counting on you to be present at the meeting. Affectionately, T Douglas RobinsonTELEPHONE {5741 5742 5743}SPRING T. DOUGLAS ROBINSON STATE CHAIRMAN Vote Under This Emblem National Progressive Party HEADQUARTERS NEW YORK STATE COMMITTEE 32 WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST NEW YORK 154 August 20th, 1913. Col. T. Roosevelt, c/o Office of the Outlook, New York City My dear Uncle Ted:- You will remember the conversation I had with you before you left for the west, at which time you said you would speak once before leaving for South America, in cause I felt it important enough. The Court of Appeals situation is to my mind the most important one we have to face this fall, and I have called a meeting of the State Committee and a conference of Progressives to be held at Rochester on September 27th. I feel that it is absolutely essential for the sake of the party in this state that you address the meeting at that time on the judicial situation in this state. I am counting on you to be present at the meeting. Affectionately, T Douglas Robinson[*Spring - Rice*] BRITISH EMBASSY, [WASHINGTON.] Dublin NH Aug 20 1913 [*[20]*] Dear Mrs Roosevelt Are you really back? Do let us hear from you. We must meet. What are your plans? When is T R returning? I am all right now about going to see him as nobody cares a button what I do. Yours ever C A Spring Rice I do hope your journey was a success.GIFFORD PINCHOT 1617 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE WASHINGTON D C August 20, 1913 Mr. Frank Harper, Secretary to Colonel Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Mr. Harper: Your letter of August 13, enclosing one from Mr. David Keppel regarding Colonel Roosevelt's criticism of The Country Church, reached Washington after Mr. Pinchot had left for a fishing trip in Florida. He is out of reach of mail, but returns to Washington by September 15, when I will bring the matter to his attention. Sincerely yours, P. S. Stahlnecker Secretary.Form 168 WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT RECEIVED AT 172 Fifth Ave., N. W. 22nd St., New York ALWAYS OPEN 78NY Q 10 WASHINGTON DC AUG 20 1913 MR FRANK HARPER OUTLOOK OFFICE 287 4 AVE NY PLEASE SEND TWO COPIES OF ITINERARY VERY URGENT WIRE ANSWER J A ZAHM 9:52AM COSMOS CLUB WASHINGTON. D. C. August 20, 1913 Mr. Frank Harper, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City, My dear Mr. Harper:- I have just received your letter of the 19th instant, and as soon as I shall hear from Mr. Naon, who is in Buena Vista Springs, Pa., I shall write you. In the meantime, if you get any word from the Brazilian people, kindly let me know. As soon as everything is definitely determined about the boats, I will advise you. Yours sincerely, Fath. ZahmUNITED STATES PUBLISHING CO. PUBLISHERS AND MANUFACTURERS. 519 MAIN STREET. TELEPHONE CANAL 3726. CINCINNATI, O. August 21. '13. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir: Under another cover, we are sending you with our compliments, a copy of " Our Canal In Panama.", by Emory Adams Allen. We appreciate the fact that, in a large measure, the successful completion of the Canal is due to your efforts. This book is an attempt to popularize this great achievement, so potential for good to our country and to the entire world. Our idea is to sell it through the subscription trade. If you can, consistently, give us a few words of commendation, we would greatly appreciate the same. Very respectfully yours, United States Publishing CO, Per. E A. AllenAdolph Kanneberg Court Commissioner Henry F. Cochems Hubert O. Wolfe Kanneberg, Cochems & Wolfe Attorneys and Counsellors at Law Camp Building 82 Wisconsin St. Phone. Main 1463 Milwaukee Aug. 21, 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Colonel:- Enclosed please find bill sent us for copies of the deposition of William Hayes. Sincerely yours, H F Cochems 17[?]94[*8-21-13*] QUE TOUTES CHOSES SE FASSENT AVEC ORDRE 1 COR. XIV, 40. ABONNEMENTS France et Colonies Union postale Un an... 6 francs Un an... 7 francs Six mois 3 fr. 50 Six mois 4 francs La Bonne Revue fondée en 1905, parait le 15 de chaque mois, par livraison de 48 pages au moins. Elle est illustrée et intéresse tous les membres de la famille sans exception. C'est le seul périodique protestant français dans son genre. Spécimen gratuit sur demande. 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Allow me please such boldness which I am using towards you by this letter as an appeal. Your well known name is constantly reminded to us by mean of "The Outlook" which is kindly sent to our office in exchange for our modest periodical. We are very thankful for such a service, to Dr Abbott, and we are deriving much benefit in our litterary work out of its perusal. The appeal of which I feel bound to write these few lines, is concerning a special need we are encountering in our Work done here besides the litterary work of our periodical. We left our former place which is barred here above, [in order] to settle down in quite a new country in order to labour with the preaching of the Gospel of God amongst a large population who had not heard its true Sound. This whole departement of Les Basses Alpes has scarcely been touched until now, by any protestant Churches, and we greately felt our responsibilities towards our countrymen that are lying in the darkness of Romanism. We were [*in Jesus Christ. Can you help us honoured and esteemed Sir? Can you help La France towards the true Light?*] [*May the Eye of the Great God of all men look upon you and bless you. With respectful salutations and excuses for much boldness Yours truly Henri Coutesse*]wonderfully cheered in this attempt made last summer by mean of a moveable preaching Hall pitched on the main place of this city. Soon after our start, a good many people came and listened so eagerly to our message that we had evident proofs of God's leading in sending us here, many like wandering sheep, eagerly beseeching us not to leave them. We were enabled to open a hall at the end of September, and continue right through the autumn and winter, regular services, which were particularly encouraging although the roman Clergy was very angry against us. The workers have not only had the pleasure to preach to Good attendances, but to see already a good number of Souls coming out to prove the marvellous power that is still lying in the Name of Jesus for the salvation of sinners. We feel happy to serve them in this town of about 6000; which is the chief town of the department, and a centre for the visiting of numbers of Villages were there are absolutely no witnesses of the Gospel of Grace. We feel our responsibility also in the redeeming of an hour of Great liberty in religious matters, which is certainly allowed of the most High for the setting forth of His truths. But! -- (there is a "but"), we need sympathy and help to fulfil our Great work: And I have thought to send a supplication to you, as to a Gentleman of influence for the fulfilment of Good enterprises. Perhaps amongst your friends or acquaintances you meet during this periode of Summer holidays and travellings, there are truly kind hearted and sympathetic persons, who would gladdly send a subscribtion, a gift of some 100 dollars or some larger amounts which may be little for them, but a cause of abundant Joy amongst the angels in Heaven that are looking down from their High dwelling to the earth, in order to see what is done for the poor lost Sinners. For our work here in this place more workers are needed, colporteurs for the whole country around, nurses for the old and sick of which some already have accepted redemption through faithTHE ITALIAN SETTLEMENT OF THE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD GUILD W.E. DAVENPORT IN CHARGE 90 ADAMS STREET BROOKLYN, N. Y. Aug. 21, 1913 To the Editor of the Outlook, Dear Sir: Although an avid reader of everything relating to our metropolitan Italians I have never read an article dealing with the social phenomena of these people more inexcusably unjust both in its apparent assumption and declared conclusion than that in your issue of August 16th, unless it were an article with a nearly identical title and by a wholly identical author published by you some two years ago. In both articles Mr. White's assumption seems to be that a powerful association of criminals, termed by him the Black Hand, is operating widely and persistently throughout our great cities and perhaps peculiarly in our metropolitan district. We believe this conception to have no basis in fact and to have been long ago discarded by all experienced students of Italian social conditions. The late Lieut. Petrosino, for example, personally stated to me within a year of his death that although he had been for twenty-four years engaged in detecting Italian crime, and has been instrumental in convicting scores of murderers, he never knew of a single instance of more than three or four persons being associated in the perpetration of any murder, while the great bulk of felonies and homicides were the unpremediated result of disputes while at the gambling table or in disorderly resorts. Certainly it would appear that if there is reason for the belief that influential politicians have had the welfare of the Black Hand at heart, it is extraordinary that the facts are so difficult to secure and the evidence of any such THE ITALIAN SETTLEMENT OF THE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD GUILD W. E. DAVENPORT IN CHARGE 90 ADAMS STREET BROOKLYN, N.Y. 191 -2- condition so disputable and vague. But the most harmful and inexcusable thing in this article is its declared conclusion that "ninety-five percent of our Italian tradesmen, shopkeepers and unskilled workmen are paying daily tribute to the ex-convicts of the Mafia and Camorra". The writer has, for fifteen years, been a social worker in the heart of an Italian section and has collected statistics of ten thousand families resident in the district and cannot conceive of anything approximating the condition to which Mr. White refers. He is intimately acquainted with the home life and business affairs of hundreds of the Italian employes of our steamship lines, the Department of Street Cleaning, long shore laborers and those employed on the Ashokan reservoir and aqueduct. The butchers, bakers, fishmongers and shopkeepers of some thirty blocks are among his friends and acquaintances, and it needs no vigorous denial of any affiliation with the Black Hand on their part to assure him that not one in fifty is paying tribute any day in the year to any group, big or little, of ex-convicts here or in Italy. Tens of thousands of Italian young men, or lads, annually go out from our public schools to enter business careers or find factory employment. It may well be doubted if one half of one percent of them are conniving with the criminals of their district and they are the children of those unskilled laborers from the old land who are, as a class, singularly long-sighted, independent and self-maintained in their life here to affirm that more than nine-tenths of such persons are the dupes of convicted gangsters is wholly to misunderstand their true character and misinterpret the testimony which their general social and economic progress consistently supplies. Yours very Truly, W. E. DavenportHugh T. Halbert Clarence W. Halbert Law Offices of Halbert & Halbert Suite 203 Dispatch Building St. Paul, Minn. August 21, 1913. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, C/o Capt. J. C. Greenway, Bisbee, Arizona. Dear Colonel:- I would not disturb you at this time were it not for the fact that Mr. Joseph Elsinger, one of the most prominent Jews in the northwest, and who is one of the proprietors of the Golden Rule, the largest department store in Minnesota, is extremely anxious that you come to St. Paul at any time to suit your convenience during September to attend the opening of a Maternity Hospital for women and children. He has erected this hospital on a very unique and extensive scale. It is to be opened to all women, regardless of color, creed or nationality, provided they are poor and unable to pay their own expenses. He has also deeded 250 feet of ground nearby for a Home for the Aged Men and Women and has deeded a like amount within a block of these two homes for a Swedish Charity. He is one of the largest contributors for the Industrial School for the Colored People here, and his brother, who died several years ago, left a Will which is considered a model from the standpoint of broadminded and charitable bequests. In this Will, a bequest was made to nearly every charity is St.Paul, regardless of how and by whom it was operated. The Golden Rule, the store which Mr. Elsinger is one of the founders and proprietors of, has the unique distinction of being the first large department store in this country that has sold local assessment bonds over the counter. They bough $250,000 worth of St. Paul Hugh T. Halbert Clarence W. Halbert Law Office of Halbert & Halbert Suite 203 Dispatch Building St. Paul, Minn. August 21, 1913 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, #2 local assessment bonds and in each case disposed of them within two or three hours after the lot was secured. It is Mr. Elsinger's intention to erect a big tent and to invite the people of the Northwest to come to the opening of this splendid charity. He wants you to be present and to say a word in behalf of the charity to the people. Notwithstanding the fact that the building has been erected and is nearing completion, he has kept the matter so quiet that very few people know about the building. He is a warm admirer of yours and if you could possibly make arrangements to come here, I think you would do a great deal of good. It is expressly understood that there is no politics in it whatsoever. David Hinshaw of the National Progressive Committee has been doing some work throughout the State and Mr. Ellsinger took both of us out to see his undertaking. Mr. Hinshaw will bolster up this request and bear out the statements contained in this letter. In closing I want to tell you of the greatest loss that could ever come into a man's life, and which has just happened to us, in the death of our dear, sweet mother. During your trial at Marquette, she had me read all about the trial and sympathized with you throughout it all, and her face just lighted up with joy when I read of the final outcome. You will further be interested in knowing that through my interest in politics I invested in a large tract of land in the State of WashingtonHugh T. Halbert Clarence W. Halbert Law Office of Halbert & Halbert Suite 203 Dispatch Building St. Paul, Minn. August 21, 1913. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, #3. which has proven very valuable. Hoping that you have had a very enjoyable vacation and that if it is at all possible, you will comply with Mr. Elsinger's request and on your way home stop at St. Paul for a day and open this splendid charity. Sincerely yours, Hugh T. Halbert HTH-sHeadquarters of Voluntary Cavalry Office of Regimental Adjutant 3405 Newton St., Denver, Colo. Ack FH EW 9/15/13 August 21, 1913 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Tuscon, Arizona. Dear Sir and Comrade: I am instructed by Lieutenant Colonel Silvers to correspond with you in reference to our cavalry. It being now about one year since we organized, we believe that at the present time we could not find more than six troops, but those would all be ex-soldiers. We thought the matter over and believe that you could possible fix things ups so that we could put in those troops with the regiment that we understand that you are organizing. Hoping that you will understand my meaning and trusting to hear from you in reference to this, I am, Fraternally yours, John H. Karlberg Captain and Regimental AdjutantTelephone, St. Paul 5385 Archery Cameron New Attorney-at-Law 223 St. Paul Street Baltimore, MD. August, 21, 1913 Col. Theodore Roosevelt. c/o The Outlook. New York, N.Y. My Dear Colonel Roosevelt-, It is my very happy privilege to inform you that the Progressive Party of Maryland will have a candidate for every elective office in Maryland to be selected this fall. Those of us here in Maryland who are steadfastly allied with the Progressive Party are supremely confident that our cause will eventually prosper and our candidates have that serene feeling that if elected, they will owe allegiance to no one except the people who elected them. This feeling among candidates for office that they can freely exercise the duties of the office to which they are elected according to their own conscience is so good and so new that it is inspiring and a campaign becomes a happy experience rather than a trying ordeal. The people of the United States should always be mindful of the fact that they owe everlasting gratitude for this new order of things to you. I am a candidate for the LegislatureTelephone, St. Paul 5385 Archey Cameron New Attorney-at-Law 223 St. Paul Street Baltimore, MD. 2. In the Third District of Baltimore City on the Progressive ticket and as the people of Baltimore are mindful of the fact that they are untrammeled by political ties to cliques of politicians who give nothing to them in return for what they receive, I have great hopes of success. Hoping that you will soon honor us with a visit to this city, I remain Faithfully Yours Archey C. New.Central States TOLEDO, OHIO, INDIANA, MICHIGAN, ILLINOIS, KENTUCKY, WEST VIRGINIA 3rd Annual Ohio Printers' Trade and Cost Congress Terminal Exposition Bldg. Million Dollar Exposition Extraordinary Of Printers, Binders, Photo-Engravers' Machinery, Supplies and Equipment The Exposition General Committee Henry C. Vortriede Chairman Colby C. Hade Vice-Chairman Chas. N. Bellman Secretary Geo. W. Walbridge Treasurer Toledo, Ohio, September 1st to 6th, Inclusive, 1913 H.V. Buelow, Managing Director Toledo August 21, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Editor The Outlook, New York City. Dear Sir:- In connection with our Central States Expo and Printers Cost Congress, we will publish a daily evening paper (7 col. width, 8 pages) the same to be a daily report of convention proceedings. Lynotypes, presses, paper, etc. have been contributed for this purpose. May we presume upon your time to the extent of requesting an editorial contribution for publication in our "Expo News". Choose any subject you like and write as many words as you like. If agreeable, we would be pleased to receive copy the last of August so as to set it up for an early issue. The first number appears Sept. 1st. If this request meets with your approval would also be pleased to receive your signature in black ink on a separate sheet of unruled paper for reproduction as a out. With assurances of esteem, we are, Very truly yours, H. C. Vortriede Chairman, Printers Convention Committee.Ohio Printers' Federation J.M. Thomssen, President, The Western Methodist Book Concern, Cincinnati, Ohio Henry Clay Vortriede, First Vice-Pres., The Express Publishing & Printing Co., Toledo Ohio Albert Scholl, Second Vice-Pres., The Scholl Printing Co., Chillicothe, Ohio Chas. P. Carl, Treasurer, The J. B. Savage Co., Cleveland, Ohio R.T. Porte, Cincinnati. W. RT. Colton, Columbus. W.J. Bowers, Newark. Chas. F. McElroy, Cleveland Fred W. Haigh, Toledo Committees COMMITTEE ON COSTS R.T. Porte, Chairman, Cincinnati J. Howard Edwards, Youngstown Carl A. Jettinger, Delphos H. H. Stone, Marion Guy A. Fawcett, Beverly E.F. White, Cincinnati COMMITTEE ON CREDITS W.R. Colton, Chairman Columbus W.G. Exline, Cleveland Walt Parmenter, Lima D. Birkney Neil, Columbus Jos. Betz, East Liverpool Jos.Samuels, Cincinnati COMMITTEE ON TRADE RELATIONS W.J. Bowers,Chairman, Newark Chas. P.Carl, Cleveland Chas. N. Bellman, Toledo Fred. J. Heer, Toledo U.G. Conover, Coshocton R.R. Hardin, Cincinnati COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION Chas. F. McElroy, Chairman, Cleveland R.I. Clegg, Cleveland Geo. M. Gray, Fostoria J.H. Marquardt, Columbus C.U. Shryock, Zanesville John C. Ely, Jr., Dayton COMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATION Fred. W. Haigh, CHairman, Toledo H.H. Taylor, Akron H.J. Vortriede, Toledo Edw.T. Miller, Columbus W.H. Kussmaul, Granville W.F. Kroner, Cincinnati Convention Committee Henry C. Vortriede, Chairman, Toledo Chas. N. Bellman, Secretary, Toledo J.M. Thomssen, Pres. Ohio Printers' Federation. Methodist Book Concern, Cincinnati, O. C.P. Carl, Treas. Ohio Printers' Federation, J.B. Savage Company, Cleveland, O. Albert Scholl, Second V.-Pres. Ohio Printers' Federation, The Scholl Ptg. Co., Chillicothe, O. - Convention and Exposition Committees Ben Franklin Club of Toledo Exposition General Committee Henry C. Vortriede,Chairman Pres. The Express Pub. & Ptg. Co.,Toledo. Home Phone,Main 260. C.N. Bellman, Secretary, Franklin Printing & Engraving Co., Home Phone 7900 Colby C. Hade, Blade Ptg. & Paper Co., Toledo. Home Phone, Main 7500. Hugo V. Buelow, Managing Director, Terminal Exposition Bldg., Toledo. Home Phone, Main 6322. G.W. Walbridge, Treasurer, Treas., The Express Pub. & Ptg., Co. Toledo. Hotels and Transportation Committee Harry J. Vortriede, Chairman Pres. Ben Franklin Club, Toledo. Sec'y Express Pub. & Ptg. Co., Toledo. Home Phone,Main 260. Clyde W. Willard, Franklin Ptg. & Eng. Company, Toledo. F.A. Prince, Express Pub. & Ptg. Co., Toldeo. Thos. A. Wade, Vice-Pres. B. F. Wade & Sons Co., Toledo. Home Phone, Main 222. Harry R. Camp. Camp Printery, St. Clair St., Toledo. Home Phone, Main 1101. Anthony Kraus, Kraus & Schreiber, 124 Michigan St., Toledo. Home Phone,Main 424. Harry Tiedtke Ptg. Co., 448 Superior St., Toledo. Home Phone, Main 1410. Entertainment Committee Fred. W. Haigh, Chairman 223 Huron St., Toledo. Home Phone, Main 506. C.C. Hade, Blade Ptg. & Paper Co. Toledo. J.S. McMillian, Chief Noise, Order of P-I-C-A., Monroe, Mich. Otto M. Fehn, Sales Manager, Franklin Ptg. & Eng. Co., Toledo. Baartelle Hamilton, Studio Ptg. Co., Toledo. Newell B. Newton, N.B.Newton Company,232 Superior St., Toledo. Home phone, Main 15 W.C. Sanzenbacher, Hines Ptg.Company, 122 Erie St., Toledo. Home Phone, Main 4221. George W. Beatty, Mgr Central Ohio Paper Co., 1440 Nicholas Bldg., Toledo. O. Home Phone,Main 59. Earl H. Wade, B.F. Wade & Sons Company, Toledo. Martin Kelly, Mgr., C.H. Fuller Company, 724 Spitzer Blkg., Toledo. Publicity Committee Chas. F. Dowd, Chairman Aldrich-Dowd CO., Nasby Bldg., Toledo. Home Phone, Main 894. Fred W. Haigh, 223 Huron Street, Toledo. Home Phone,Main 506. Baartelle Hamilton, Studio Ptg. Company, Toledo. Home Phone, Main 3257. Don C. Sherman, Sherman & Stevens, 3234 Monroe St., Toledo. Home Phone, A-7082 H.R. Ickes, Express Pub. & Ptg. Co., Toledo. Mr E.A. Machen, Arkenberg-Machen Co., 329 The Nasby, Toledo. Home Phone, Main 5893. H.B. Ames, Ames-Kiebler Company, Toledo. Home Phone 552. E.R. Kelsey, Publicity Mgr. Toledo Railways & LIght Co., Toledo. Home Phone 7200. F.H. Aldrich, Aldrich-Dowd Co., Nasby Bldg., Toledo. G.L. Hand, B.F. Wade & Sons Company, Toledo Uniform Committee B.S. Hamilton,Chairman Studio Ptg. Co., Toledo. L.H.Roberts 328 Erie St., Toledo Souvenir Committee B.S. Hamilton, Chairman Studio Ptg. Co., Toledo. Austin Smith Ackerman Ptg. Co., Toledo. Clifford Stone Snowflake Bldg., Toledo. Registration Committee Don C. Sherman, Chairman 3234 Monroe St., Toledo. Louis Sanzenbacher Ames-Kiebler Co., Toledo. F.Z. Bennett Bennett Ptg. Co., Toledo. Harry Mugler L.H. Roberts, Printer, Toledo. Automobile Committee Marshall Bell, Chairman Bell Ptg. Co., Toledo. Charles Quetschke Standard Ptg. Co., Toledo. Clifford Ackerman Ackerman Ptg. Co., Toledo. Decoration Committee L.H. Roberts, Chairman 328 Erie St., Toledo. Don C. Sherman Sherman & Stevens, Toledo. John Wenzel The Art Press, Toledo. Marshall Bell Bell Ptg. Co., Toledo Reception Committee Don C. Sherman, Chairman, 3234 Monroe St., Toledo. Home Phone A-7082. Marshall J. Bell, M.J. Bell Ptg. Co., Snowflake Bldg., Toledo. Home Phone, Main 4253. Chas. Quetschke, Standard Ptg. Co., 412 Superior St. Toledo. Home Phone, Main 2061. Clifford Ackerman, C. Ackerman & Co., 222-224 Erie St., Toledo.Home Phone 3464. A.A.Paryski, Pub. Ameryka-Echo, 1140 Nebraska Ava., Toledo. Home Phone, Main 31x25. Fred Rausch, Wendt-Rausch Co., 125 N. St. Clair St., Toledo. Home Phone, Main 640. L.G. Medbury, Mgr. Peninsular Eng. Co., Snowflake Bldg, Toledo. Home Phone, Main 2898. John Suter, Hadley Ptg. & Paper Co.,Toledo. Home Phone, Main 765. A. Allen, Pres. Buckeye Eng. Co., 226 Superior St. Home Phone, Main 3754. Jos. H. Schreiber, Kraus & Schreiber, 124 Michigan St., Toledo. Home Phone, Main 424. J.A. Taggart, Advance Machinery Company, 325 Hamilton St., Toledo. Home Phone, Main 3759 Newell B. Newton, N.B. Newton Company, Toledo. Morgan Levi, Chicago Paper Co., 327 Nicholas Bldg. Home Phone, Main 1355. H.B. Ames, Ames-Kiebler Company, Toledo. H.R. Camp, Camp Printery, Toledo. Fred P. Thompson, J.W. Butler Paper Co., 712 The Nasby, Toledo. Gus Painschaud, Journal Typesetting Co., 219 MIchigan St., Toledo. Home Phone,Main 823. Robert Oatley, COmmercial Ptg. Co., 412 Monroe St., Toledo. Home Phone A-3458. Chas. H. Goodrich, Goodrich Printing Co., 109 Michigan St. Toledo. Home Phone,Main 7684. Fred. Wenzell, The Art Press, 215 Michigan St., Toledo. Home Phone, Main 5257. Fred. Z. Bennett, Bennett Ptg. Co., 1116 Adams St., Toledo Home Phone, Main 1150. Ray. M.Leeper, 912 Monroe ST., Toledo. Home Phone, Main 4451. Walter Rosengarten, Rosengarten & Co., Toledo. Baartelle Hamilton, Studio Ptg. Co., Toledo. Gus. Kaemline, Hines Ptg. Co., 122 Michigan St., Toledo Home Phone, Main 4221. Boosters Committee S. Evans Clark, Chairman U.T.A., Chicago, Ill. Karl S. Moening, Central Ohio Paper Co., Nicholas Bldg. Home Phone,Main 59. Guy E. Newark, Barnhart Bros. & Spindler, Columbus,O. L.F. Alexander, Golding Mfg. Co., Cleveland, O. W.J. Hogan, Queen City Printing Ink CO., Cincinnati. Morgan Levi, Chicago Paper CO., 327 Nicholas Building Toledo. J.F. Fitzgerald, Ault & Wiborg Co., Cleveland, O. L.E. Hodges, Mgr. Crescent Paper Co., Cleveland, O. R. Gano Koehler, Whitaker Paper Co., 1055 Spitzer Bldg., Toledo. H.F. Humphrey, Cleveland Paper Co., Box 408, Toledo. Fred P. Thompson, J.W. Butler Paper CO., 712 The NAsby Toledo. E.F. Potts, American Type Founders Co., 504 The Nasby, Toledo. Bernard O'Brien, Sinclair & Valentine Co., Dayton, O. Wm. E. Richards, Bingham & Richards Mfg.CO., Cincinnati. Albert Merki, SamBingham's Son Mfg. Co., Columbus. Chas. Salmon, Chas. Eneu Johnson. Cincinnati. Jas. Braden, Caxton Bldg., Cleveland. Carl A. Jettinger, Editor, Buckeye Printerdom, Delphos. Chas.F. McElroy, Sec'y Ben Franklin CLub, Cleveland. Roy T. Porte, Sec'y Ben Franklin Club,Cincinnati. W.R. Colton, Sec'y Ben Franklin Club' Columbus. J.C. Ely, Jr., Pres.Ben Franklin Club, Dayton. Wm. McCadden, Sec'y Ben Franklin Club, Zanesville. A.T. Patterson, Autopress Company, Chicago, Ill. D.L. Ballentine, Sec'y Detroit Allied Ptg. Trade Assn., Detroit, Mich. C.H. Spencer, Sec'y Ohio Select List, Newark. David P. Porter field, Sec'y Ben Franklin Club, Indianapolis, Ind. Julian Wetzel, Sec'y Ben Franklin Club Indianapolis, Ind. DeWitt Hand, B.F. Wade & Sons Company, Toledo. W.C. Langdon, Chatfield & Woods, Cincinnati. Robert Coleman, Bastian Bros., 917 Nicholas Bldg., Toledo.124 Seventh Street Portland, Oregon, Aug 21 --1913 Hon Theodore Roosevelt New York--N.Y. Here with kindly find "Poem". published in "Oregon Journal" Aug 17th 1913. If it appeals to you as a product of one of your many admirers, and you could so assure the writer, nothing in his possession, (save his wife and children) would be more appreciated than a personal letter from you to that effect & the "Buckeroo" is not "copy righted" and should you favor is with publication in the Outlook, it might be the means of helping an obscure author to bettering his condition, and only cost you the time and patience of a perusal of my very best effort (in brief.) to depict a "Buckeroo" as I have known him. Thanking you, and anticipating an early delivery of my poem and request to the waste basket I remain Yours very Truly Richard Carter Warinner P.S. Am enclosing stamp for return of printed matter RCWNew Albany, 2nd, Aug. 21, 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I am going to some plain truths about Indiana politics, and I hope you take my statements in the spirit in which they are conveyed. I have been a union printer for 23 years, and for the past several years have been active in 2 Indiana Republican State politics. I was on the stump for Beveridge in 1910, making labor speeches, and did like service for the Republican tickets, State and National, in 1912. It is to know you why I was follower if Beveridge in 1910 and not in 1912 that I am writing. My reasons are2 the reasons of all other Republican labor men in this state, and will in a measure explain the antagonism of a great many Democratic labor men toward the Progressive party as now constituted and managed. In the campaign of 1910 the Republican State Committee found it difficult - impossible - in the early stages to get labor speakers, and country chairmen were clamoring for them. The committee had several good men workings, but none could take the stump. Enthused with Beveridge's attitude on labor measures, particularly the child labor bill, in the Senate, I volunteered my service and was put to work. I worked3 hard and consistently. The last speech I made was at Elwood on the Friday night preceding election. I occupied the platform with Mr. Gifford Pinchot. We were the only speakers. When I arrived in Elwood I found that Mr. Pinehot was worn out, and he and the committee insisted that I make the principal speech, although I had received different instructions from the speakers' bureau. Finally I agreed to do the best I could. When I had finished, Mr. Pinchot, with glowing eyes, warmly congratulated me and gave me a hearty handshake. The Chairman and the Committee4 likewise were enthusiastic in their praise. I related this incident to show you I was doing something worthwhile. Other men - good men - were doing splendid work in a less spectacular way. While I was enthusiastic for Beveridge, I found during this time many things that did not look good to me. I found, for instance, that some of his most trusted friends were allied with union-busting organizations. These were labor men working for the Democrats and they were assiduously looking for something to use against Beveridge.5 Two or three weeks before election it was brought to my attention by a Democratic personal friend that A. M. Glossbrenner, manager of a notorious non-union Indianapolis printing office - Levy Bros. - was one of Beveridge's chief financial backers. There was an undercurrent of discontent about this, and this discontent was encouraged by the Democratic managers, I went to John Hays, secretary of the State Committee, and told him about it. He poo-poohed it and tried to lead me to believe that Glossbrenner had no connection with the campaign. Plainly stated, he6 lied to me, for I finally learned that Mr. G. was the chairman of the Finance Committee, which fact had been kept secret. In passing I may say that Glossbrenner was and is identified with the Typothetae and other labor crushers in this state. I kept after them to do something about the matter, but they stubbornly refused. Finally, on the Saturday preceding election, I called at headquarters with no special object in view, and found them wearing faces a yard long. I wanted to known what was the matter, and after7 much insistence Secretary Hays told me they had just received a letter on the official paper and under the seal of Typographical Union No. 1, of Indianapolis, over the signatures of the president and secretary, the former of whom was also president of the State Federation of Labor, demanding to know what the party intended to do about Glossbrenner, whom they charged with being the campaign manager for Beveridge (you will note they did not know his true status). State Chairmen Edwin M. Lee had already sent an evasive reply denying that8 Mr. G. was "campaign manager." In a flash I saw the probole outcome. I knew that the men who signed the letter were working in conjunction with the Democratic State Committee, and, the next day (Sunday) being union meeting day for No. 1, they would attempt to have the Union take some action, which would be of the highest importance, as No. 1 is the most influential local of any Craft in the state. I elicited a promise from Secretary Hays (Chairmen Lee was absent) that whatever I did in the matter would be backed up by the Committee. I was a member of No. 1 at that time, and by a little quiet work I learned that resolutions had been prepared condemning Beveridge. At the meeting on Sunday9 day these resolutions - they were stingers - were introduced. A Messenger had been designated to convey them to Democratic State headquarters, a block away, as soon as they were passed, and there were men at the latter place ready to see that they were immediately sent broadcast over the State. I made a fight on the resolutions, and my substitute motion that the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Union (who was a friend of mine) be sent to Republican State headquarters to adjust the matter prevailed. I was designated to accompany him. I promised the Union, on behalf of the Republican party of the State of Indiana, that if the matter was presented to the State Committee in a spirit of fairness and the square deal [the] it10 would be settled satisfactorily to all concerned. We waited on Mr. Lee and went into conference with him and Charles W. Miller, United States District Attorney. They promised that they would do the right thing by us and gave us a fatherly talk about their friendship for the Union. Parenthelically I may remark that it was Mr. Miller who since so bitterly and unfairly prosecuted the so-called dynamiters. When the Legislature met in the following January there were 40 Republicans out of 100 in the lower house and 20 Republicans out of 50 in the Senate. A lot of labor bills were introduced, the most important the child labor bill. The Manufacturers' Association, scab cigar workers, glass factories and canners11 made a bitter fight on it. When things got warm and it looked like defeat for the measure, it occurred to me that those 40 Republicans in the House, where the bill was, might be of great help to the measure. I offered my services to the officers of the State Federation of Labor (All active and prominent in the Democratic party), but they were reluctant to permit me to do anything. They were afraid the Republicans would get a little credit. Finally the president of the Indianapolis Central Labor Union, a Democrat who was at loggerheads with the Federation officials, sent me over to the legislature as his personal representative. (He got "hail12 Columbia" from the Democratic organization for this; he was a state voting machine commissioner.) I found the Republicans in an attitude of indifference because the child labor bill had been introduced as a Democratic measure. I went to Edwin M. Lee, State Chairman, and appealed to him for aid. He promised, but did nothing. I went to him repeatedly. He promised, but failed absolutely to deliver the goods, yet we were on record as in favor of that identical kind of legislation. Beveridge had presented it up and down the State, so had I and so had others. I went to Hays; he did nothing. Finally, without aid from the State Committee, the13 Republican Representatives were convinced of the expediency of voting for the bill. They bitterly arraigned Lee to me for his indifference and lack of enterprise. They said they could not find him - that they were left "without boat or oars." The bill went through the lower house without amendment because the Republicans lined up in favor of it, and for that reason alone, and Beveridge nor any of his damned four=flushing friends in Indiana are not entitled to any credit for the result. Lee never visited the Capitol during the session. When the bill reached the Senate it [got] again got stalled. It was hung up for a long time.14 Finally an officer of the State Federation of Labor came to me and asked me to help (I had been told by the president of the Central Labor Union to "lay away" for a while, as he was getting hell from the Democrats because he had me over there.) I went out to hunt up Lee. I could not find him. The case was desperate. Then I hunted for U. S. Dist. Atty. Chas W. Miller, recognized throughout the State as Beveridge's mouthpiece and one of his responsible managers (Beveridge had gone to Switzerland). I found Miller, after several visits there, in his office in the Federal building. He was doing nothing15 save twiddling his thumbs. Court was not session, and apparently he had nothing to do, yet he was "too busy," he was "no political boss," and any way the Democrats would have to shoulder the blame if the child labor bill was defeated. I demurred to the latter statement, and he said: "Oh, yes they will. It has been that way as long as the world has stood and it will be that way to the end of time." Then we had an argument which nearly ended in blows, and I made up my mind then and there that there was no further use to temporize with the Beveridge organization. Up to that time I had had16 nothing to do with the "standpatters". I went to them. They were suspicious at first, but eventually helped me. I went over to them, and will remain with them, as will every Republican labor man in the State who has taken an active part in politics in this state. We know what we want, and are going to have it or know the reason why. There wasn't a labor man on the stump for the Progressives in Indiana last fall, and there won't be in the future. When I was out for the Republicans I rammed it into the Beveridge crowd for their hypocrisy. I17 told the things I am telling you, and other things besides. I will do it again, and will pursue them into the jaws of hell itself if necessary to even matters and I will get plenty of help. To illustrate differences between the despised "standpatters" and your outfit in this state I will relate an incident that recently occurred. Sulzer nominated James M. Lynch, president of the International Typographical Union, for Labor Commissioner of the state of New York. Realizing that Tammany would18 doubtless oppose confirmation in the Senate, and wanting my friend, James M. Duncan, 58 Monroe Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., to succeed Mr. Lynch as head of the T. T. U., I got into communication with Joseph B. Kealing, Indianapolis, and had him prevail on William Barnes, Jr., to get the Republican Senators to line up for Mr. Lynch. As a result Senator Palmer, Republican leader, came out in a public statement in favor of Mr. Lynch. That is the [xxxx] difference.19 That is the "inside of the Cap", Kealing is a real politician and never turns down labor men. Now, Colonel, in conclusion I want to say that we haven't anything against you personally except the Harvester Trust, the Steel Trust and Mr. Perkins. They are labor crushers. We would like to see you make some of these friends of the "dear pee-pul." We realize [that you] are a good fighter, a good politician and believe that your heart is in the right place. We also realize that "politics is hell" and that a man20 has to do some apparently queer things in order to reach an objective that is meritorious in every way. I am sure that I have told you some things you never would have known had I not decided to write you. As I have said above, it is the "inside of the Cup." We Republican labor men in Indiana - and Democrats as well - cannot, will not, follow the lead of Lee, Glossbrenner, Miller et al. On the contrary, we want their scalps, and if it is within21 our power we will drive them out of politics. I have said. In all sincerity Joseph A. Wise 1638 Dewey Heights P.S. The above is not all— just enough to give you an insight to actual conditions.W. S. WOODWORTH ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 430 MAIN STREET NORFOLK, VIRGINIA August 21. 1913. TELEPHONE 6247 Honorable Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay New York, N. Y. My dear Colonel:- I trust sir that you are improving quite as much in health as you are in the hearts of your countrymen. Each day contributes its several proofs that a minority of the voters of this country committed an irreparable wrong against themselves and their country in electing this minority president. The only hope to be entertained at present is that the future may develop enough large Americans to make it impossible for any other than yourself to be nominated in 1916. You would be both pleased and impressed to note the change of sentiment in the South, especially among many of the younger men who boldly champion your cause, and who point to you as an intensely patriotic and able American. Nothing gave me more pleaure than to support you in your campaigns. That which I have done, and always enjoyed in the past. I am looking forward with pleasure to the coming campaign of 1916. at that time, and even now if it were possible I believe that you would be nominated and overwhelmingly elected. My support will always be yours, regardless of the name of the party which nominates you, for I am always for you first last and always. No doubt you remember me as being always your ardent friend since the time I was but a boy in the District Attorneys Office in Washington and in the same old building you had your offices as Civil Service Commissioner. My regard for you has alwaysW. S. WOODWORTH ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 430 MAIN STREET NORFOLK, VIRGINIA TELEPHONE 6247 been intensely loyal and even more if possible since you were so outrageously robbed by political ingrates all of whom had long lived on your political ingrates all of whom had long lived on your political bounty. Colonel I am anxious to be on your side of the firing line at all times and to serve anywhere I may be sent in your behalf. Trusting that I have not bored you with my professions of friendship and loyalty I beg leave to ever remain Yours most respectfully W.S. Woodworth[8-21-13] [Enc in Dagley 8-23-13]BULL MOOSE PARTY AGAINST MACHINE Meeting Called for Thursday by Chairman Edington. Will Makc Vigorous Fight for Law Enforcement. "To Discredit and Destroy the Hamilton County Political Machine" Is Purpose. The bull moose party in Hamilton county has determined to go after that political ring with hammer and tongs. A meeting of the Hamilton county executive committee of the progressive party has been called for 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Read house by Chairman J. E. Edington and Secretary C. A. Dagley. The avowed purpose of this meeting is to lay plans "to make a vigorous fight for the enforcement of the law in our city and county and to discredit and destroy the Hamilton county political machine." The following letter has been mailed to each member of the committee: "Dear Sir-As it is the prevailing opinion of the people in our city and county that there is now a 'strong and powerful ring' composed of prominent local politicians in both the old parties, uniting all their strength and influence in an effort to perpetuate 'machine politics' in Hamilton county and thereby keep themselves, their friends and 'heelers' in office and in control of the affairs of our city and county, we, as members of the progressive party, being citizens, responsible alike with all voters in Hamilton county for the good or bad government, as well as the enforcement or nonenforcement of the law in this city and county, believe it to be right and proper that the Hamilton county executive committee of the progressive party meet at the Read house next Thursday, Aug. 21, at 2 p.m., to outline and plan our work in the coming county election. "Inasmuch as the progressive party is 'first and last and all the time' opposed to 'ring rule' and machine politics, and further, the Hamilton County club, being a political organization, believing in clean politics, businesslike administration and the strict enforcement of the law, concede it to be our duty as members of the progressive party and citizens of this county, to make a vigorous fight for the enforcement of the law in our city and county and to discredit and destroy the Hamilton county political machine. "Trusting that you will be present at this meeting next Thursday at said place and time appointed, we beg to remain "J. E. EDINGTON, Chairman "C. A. DAGLEY, Secretary." Coalition Condemned. The coalition between the "regular" democrats in local politics and republican politicians in the formation of an "office trust" is especially condemned by the progressives. "As a sincere member of the progressive party, I believe in representative government, a government by the people and not a government by the politicians. Therefore, I am unalterably opposed to a bunch of politicians in Chattanooga, Nashville or Washington manipulating political deals that will keep the people from having a voice in the affairs of city, county, state and nation," said C. A. Dagley today. "Those affable and personally popular gentlemen and prominent local democrats and republican politicians at the city hall that have evidently combined their political machines to hand out the offices in our city and county, are my friends. However, what seems to be their ideal in politics, as I honestly see it, is not best for our city and county. "The progressive party in Hamilton county is a political organization, purposely and thoroughly organized to take part in the political affairs of city, county, state and nation. It is plain to see there is a field here for our work. "The antiring democrats have no organization; the 'stand-pat' element of the republican party cannot surely have a live organization, because last fall about twenty-five hundred voters of the Hamilton county republicans walked boldly and permanently out into the progressive party, and now it seems that Sheriff Conner and his machine, Mr. Springfield and his following, with Mr. Hays and Mr. Wassman and their close republican friends, have all joined forces with Senator Bass, Commissioner Betterton and the 'powers that be' in the councils of the local democratic party in Hamilton county. If this is as it appears to be 'by scratching the surface,' there are not enough 'stand-pat' warriors to successfully go up against the Hamilton county democratic machine. However, I believe by the time the people in Hamilton county that believe in law enforcement and resent machine politics get through with the present political ring next August it will 'look like thirty cents.' " LOCAL "PROGRESSIVES." Local "progressives" passed some excellent resolutions yesterday. They declared themselves opposed to all forms of lawbreaking and condemned as unworthy of public trust persons who refuse to observe their oaths of office in discharge of duties accepted by them as such officers. The progressives polled 2,500 votes in this county for Mr. Roosevelt. When the latter was police commissioner of New York City he vigorously enforced the Sunday liquor laws, although public sentiment was then against their enforcement. He obeyed his oath as a public official, and the result was excellent. He set a fine example in public administration in that office. If the local progressives will stand fast to their code of principles and make the attainment of decent conditions in the county their sole object, they will be a powerful factor in the county. [*[Chattanooga News]*] Progressives in Rousing Meeting Traffic and Barter in Public Offices Condemned. Resolutions Indicate an Active Campaign by Bull Moose. Executive Committee Plans to Place Regular Ticket in Field Soon. That another faction will be in the field to voice the sentiment of the people in the crusade against ring politics and lax law enforcement in Chattanooga and in Hamilton county, probably even extending its influence to statewide affairs, was substantially demonstrated at the Read house Thursday afternoon at an enthusiastic executive committee meeting of the local progressive party. For two hours the progressives informally discussed the evils of county, city and state politics. They denounced in no uncertain terms the reign of lawlessness and crime that has recently swept Chattanooga. Though no names were mentioned, the speakers scored the "barter and sale of public offices," the "corrupt political workings of the state and county machine," and the "greed and avarice that has prompted officials to resort to all means, fair or foul, to secure office, not as servants of the people, but for personal gain and opportunity to graft." Though primarily the meeting was announced as a gathering of the executive committee, so many other enthusiastic bull moosers made their appearance that the meeting was after a fashion converted into a mass meeting. At the opening of the meeting Squire J. H. Bright was chosen as presiding chairman. J. W. Eastman presented resolutions which, with slight alteration to emphasize the policy of the party, were unanimously adopted. The resolutions, as expressed by a member present, "are of such a nature as any self-respecting, law-abiding citizen, regardless of party, might indorse." When presenting the resolutions before the meeting, Mr. Eastman addressed the body spiritedly, setting forth his sentiments and belief of what the progressives should stand for and strive to accomplish in Tennessee. "The difference between progressiveness and the principles of the other parties,"states Mr. Eastman, "is in the fundamental ideal of government and human justice. It is our duty to educate the people to progress. As included in the resolutions that I have drafted, for six years the legislators of Tennessee have not been men enough to discharge their duties as servants of the public. They have hidden behind every pretence, and made themselves absolutely a disgrace to the community." Following Mr. Eastman, L. P. Barnes, though announcing himself as not a member of the of the progressive party but as a sympathizer, delivered one of the most rousing talks of the meeting. The words of the speaker displayed an exceptional grasp and understanding of state and national conditions. His talk was augmented by a remarkable vocabulary, which vividly served his purpose, gripping his hearers and winning for him at the close an enthusiastic outburst of applause. In conclusion, Mr. Barnes stated: "I am with you. You can put my name down on the list." This conversion to progressiveness marked one of the features of the meeting. Though gathered for no such purpose, the announcement was welcomed and served perhaps as the most significant demonstration of the spirit of the affair. As the meeting progressed several others were in turn heard, but, as there proved to be no dissension to the principles advances and only endorsement and general harmony, the meeting soon drifted into the transaction of business, eliminating debate. A motion was made and adopted that the executive committee purchase a stipulated quantity of progressive educational literature to be distributed in Chattanooga. A movement was also carried that the resolutions adopted at the meeting be printed and distributed among the local progressives and their friends, and that they also be published in the two Chattanooga papers, that the general public may understand the principles of the progressives. The executive committee was instructed to hold a closed meeting and set a date for a delegated meeting in the near future, at which a full ticket for the next election will probably be decided upon. Those present were J. E. Edington, W. W. Woods, J.O. Benson, C. R. Strong, Maj. McGuffey, Ben Beck, W. C. Schoff, G. A. Shipley, Mr. Smith, Mr. Davis, Fred Stephenson, J. H. Bragg, R. M. McNabb, Lon A. Warner, C. A. Dagley, C. H. Dyer, J. W. Eastman, W. M Finley and Dr. G. M. Hunt. Throughout the meeting was one more of indignation at the corrupt conditions that exist politically in Hamilton county than a political gathering. The sentiment of the party was emphasized as for upright government and reform. Resolutions. The following resolutions were adopted at the meeting: "Whereas, The progressive party has been organized to secure substantial justice to all persons, both those who toil and those who hold large property interests and "Whereas, There has, for six years, been a complete failure of the legislative branch of government in Tennessee, and as a result of this continued failure of the representatives, elected by the people, to observe their oath and discharge the functions of government there has grown up in our state, and especially in this community, a total disregard for law, with the result that within the last thirty days the community has been shocked by a reign of lawlessness, culminating in a succession of murders of a most atrocious character: "Whereas, The lawless character of the community is being augmented by the ease with which criminals have escaped justice, and whereas, these things tend to a total destruction of free government and destroy the security of life and property and ruin the reputation of the state as a whole and tend to destroy the moral fiber of the men who now are citizens and the youths who are attaining their citizenship. "In view of all these things, and as a serious protest against this condition, be it "Resolved, That we, members of the progressive party of Hamilton county, in convention assembled, do hereby unequivocally announce ourselves as opposed to all forms of law breaking, and condemn, unworthy of public trust, persons who refuse to observe their oath of office, and discharge the duties accepted by them as such officers. "We further denounce all political combinations that have for their end the barter and sale of public office for the benefit of the few who will to able to control a voting majority out of the two old political parties. Charging that these things are not only wrong in principle, but that as a result they tend to destroy all representative government, making the holding of office the principal object of their leaders and their principal business the barter and sale of suffrage. “Resolved, That we favor the enactment of an election law that will guarantee the right of equal and honest suffrage. Be it further "Resolved, That we favor the enactment and enforcement of a taxation measure that will secure an equal distribution of the burden of taxation. Be it further "Resolved, That it be the sense of this convention that we, free of any entanglements of any character whatever, nominate candidates for the county offices at the coming August election and support them on a platform of an equal enforcement of the law, and insist upon the discharge of their sworn duties. "That we further favor all legislation that will bring about the recall of all officers, both county, state and municipal, who shall prove themselves unfaithful to their oath of office. "We further request the support of all citizens who believe in the enforcement of the law in the coming campaign."[*Enc in Davis 9-4-13*] [*ca 8-21-13*]EASY TO GUESS VIEW OF COL. ROOSEVELT Interested Incident at Meeting of the Progressives Comes to Light. (By Lee L. Robinson.) Washington, Aug. 21. — The story is being told and retold in Washington of a meeting held not long ago in one of the prominent cities of the country to discuss the future of the Progressive, or Bull Moose, party. The real object of the gathering was to get expressions of opinion on the question of amalgamation with the Republican party. When the meeting was called to order and the roll called it was found that a number of men prominent in the affairs of the coun- try were on hand. One of them was a former President of the United States. It did not take long for the discus- sion to become very lively and one by one those present, with few excep- tions, among the exceptions being the former President, expressed them- selves as opposed to amalgamation. After practically settling the matter one of the numbers turned to the for- mer President and said: "Now, Colonel, what is your view of this question?" Thus addressed, the Colonel arose, sombrero in hand, showed his teeth and, with much emphasis, said: "As you gentlemen seem to have al- ready settled this question I do not see that it is incumbent on me, nor is it necessary, to say anything." With that he was gone, but, accord- ing to some of those present, it was very apparent as to where the Colonel stood on the question. And following this meeting the talk of the nomin- tion of Col. Theodore Roosevelt by The Republicans for President in 1916 began to be heard. The talk is grow- ing in volume every day. ROBERT PERKINS BASS, PETERBOROUGH, NEW HAMPSHIRE. August 22, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o Outlook, 4th Ave., New York City. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: I was disappointed not to see you before you went West and had hoped to get on to New York again prior to your departure, but was prevented by business here at home. I am extremely anxious to see you before you leave for South America and will come to New York on almost any day you name in order to do so. There are various matters in connection with the political situation in New England and elsewhere thatROBERT PERKINS BASS. PETERBOROUGH NEW HAMPSHIRE I am most anxious to go over with you. Some of them have come to my knowledge quite recently. I hope you have a fine time in Arizona. Cordially yours, Robert P. Bass RPB/BROBERT PERKINS BASS. PETERBOROUGH NEW HAMPSHIRE August 22, 1913. Mr. Frank Harper,, 287 Fourth Ave., New York city. My dear Harper: I am most anxious to see Mr. Roosevelt on his return to New York. can you tell me when he is expected back? Yours truly, R. P. bass B/B(1089) ESTABLISHED 1841 AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY FOREIGN DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF GENERAL MANAGER 65 BROADWAY, NEW YORK Cable Adress AMEXCO, NEW YORK--Lieber's Code GENERAL OFFICES: 65 BROADWAY, NEW YORK LONDON................{6 Haymarket, 84 Queen Street. LIVERPOOL...............10 James Street. GLASGOW...............3 West Nile Street. SOUTHAMPTON....... 25 Oxford Street. ROME............ 38-40 Plazza dl Spagna. NAPLES....................23-30 Via Vittoria. Genoa......................17 Piazza Nunziata. Copenhagen............8 Holmens Kanal. Christiania................8 Kirkegaden. Paris...............11 Rue Scribe. ...............54 Rue des Petites Ecuries. Havre.............43 Quai d'Orleans. Marseilles......9 Rue Beauvau. Berlin.............55 Charlotten Strasse. Hamberg.......9 Alsterdamm. Bremen.........8 Bahnhofstrasse. Antwerp........7 Quai Van Dyck. Rotterdam.....26a Zuidblaak. Shipping and Banking Correspondents at all Principal Cities and Ports of the Commercial World. General European Agents for Merchants Despatch and New York Central Lines August 22, 1913 Please refer to file 22-383, 861. [1] Editorial Department Aug 23 1913 To the Editor of the "Outlook", 287 Fourth Ave, New York City. Dear Sir:- Will you please be good enough to let us have, if at all possible, Mr. Carl E. Akeley's present address, as we are desirous [in] of getting in touch with him concerning a shipment which has arrived at this port for his account addressed in our care from Nairobi, Africa. Anything you can do to expedite matters will be greatly appreciated by, Yours truly, M. H. Berry General Manager ERP-m.Harry K. Daugherty Attorney-at-Law Grove City, Pa., August 22. 1913 191 Secretary to Mr. Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Sir: I am enclosing a letter to Colonel Roosevelt Which I hope you will try to get to the Colonel. I was a member of the Spanksh Treaty Claims Commission by appointment of Mr. Roosevelt and I am quite sure that he will be interested in the matter. I am, Very truly, H. K. DaughertyHarry K. Daugherty Attorney-at-Law Grove City, Pa., August 22, 1913. 191 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I am a candidate for the office of Judge of the Superior Court. Our primaries will be held on September 16, and will be conducted under our new Non-Partisan law. This means that the various names for this office will be submitted to over a million voters and the people will in reality have an opportunity to select their own Judges. This particular feature of legislation was obtained at the last session of the Legislature and it was a distinct victory for the anti-Penrose organization. Fifteen candidates are in nomination and two are to be chosen. I should like to have your support in the matter, but I dont know whether you are in a position to take part in the contest or not. Hoping that you are fully enjoying your vacation and with best wishes, and kind regards, I am, Very truly, Harry K. Daugherty (For enc see 8-22-13)HARPER CAMP BUCK MOUNTAIN POINT Camp 1913 August 22 Dear Colonel Roosevelt It is very good to think you are back again, or will be on Tuesday. I wish it were from the jungles of South America! I return September 2, so this Post to going to see you and leave you our plans for your farewell. Please do not make any speaking engagements for the municipal campaign until he has told you what we are planning. If your campaign in Arizona has given you as much energy as the Adirondacks have to me these things ought to have worked than usual. Yours sincerely Frances AkellorROBERT C. MORRIS. GUTHRIE B. PLANTE. Law Offices of Morris & Blante 27 Pine Street. New York. August 22nd, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook Co., 287 Fourth Ave., N.Y.C. Dear Sir:- The undersigned have constituted themselves a provisional committee for the purpose of organizing a committee to be known as the "Citizens' Whitman Committee." The undersigned proposed the organization of the "Citizens' Whitman Committee" for one purpose only, namely, to prepare and issue an appeal to the voters of New York Country irrespective of partisan affiliations, to vote for the re-election of District Attorney Whitman. It is proposed that the "Appeal" to be so issued shall be based upon the principle that Mr. Whitman's re-election, in view of the public service which he has rendered, is a fundamental, patriotic obligation of good citizenship. It is proposed to issue this "Appeal" in the form of a letter to the individual voter upon the letter head of the committee, over the signature of its Chairman, and in the form, also, of an "Address to the Public." It is proposed that a resume of the work done by the District Attorney, shall be either embodied in the "Appeal," or set forth in a pamphlet to be transmitted therewith. The undersigned earnestly request that you become a member of the proposed committee, and they will be greatly obliged if you will advise them (addressing Robert C. Morris, 27 Pine Street), whether you are willing to do so. The weight and authority of your name, as of the membership of the committee, is all that is asked of you. Very truly yours, Robert C. Morris Raihidge Colby Frederic R. Coudert[Ca 8 - 22 - 13] WESTERN UNION NIGHT LETTER THEO. N. VAIL. PRESIDENT Received at the Western Union Building, 195 Broadway, N. Y. Always open. [aug 21] Q 282 G 24 NL 6 EX Pittsburg PA 21 [X43 Ms] Editor of the Outlook NewYork City Kindly inform me of Col Roosevelt's postoffice address in the west answer by return wire at writer's expense Chas P Pearson 7744 Baxter St. [735Pz]COURT OF SPECIAL SESSIONS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ISAAC FRANKLIN RUSSELL CHIEF JUSTICE CHAMBERS OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE 32 FRANKLIN STREET NEW YORK August 22, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- Enclosed please find a news paper clipping, containing the address I had the honor to deliver at the laying of the corner-stone of our new court house. Sincerely yours, Isaac Franklin Russell[*FOR ENCL SEE 8-22-13*]Chama New Mex., Aug 22nd - 1913. Hon. Theordore Roosevelt c/o "The Outlook" New York. N.Y. Dear Sir:- I have heard from several sources, indirectly, that you were, or were contemplating, raising a regiment of cavalry for service in Mexico in the event of intervention. If this is correct would like to serve in your organization. Have served in Troop "G" - 2nd U.S. Cavalry, as Private, - Corporal and Troop Clerk and Sergeant, during our trouble with Spain. Yours very truly, R. S. Smylie. Jr.[8-22-13] S Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir - Knowing your interest in John Brown, the family of Rev. Samuel Poulter ask you to accept a copy of his memorial which voiced the feeling of the people of Worcestor, the "Heart of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts" in those days. Mr. Poulter fell in the "Battle of the Wilderness" in May 1864. I was 88 years of age Aug. 9. and fervently hope that I may be allowed to cast a vote for Theodore Roosevelt our "First American".the original memorial is kept by my daughter, Mrs William E. Chandler New York City - With highest regard, sincerely yours, Mary F. J. Poulter. 13664 Euclid Ave, E. Cleveland and O. August the twenty-second, 1913GRAND UNION HOTEL OPPOSITE GRAND CENTRAL STATION. FORD & SHAW Proprietors. New York, Aug 22 19 [*1913*] 402 W 56 St Hon Theo Roosevelt My Dear Sir It has occurred to me that you may need the services of some good man in your advertising department of your paper to solicit contractors from people who may be influenced by brains and ability I have earned as high as $10,000 a year for several years in soliciting business. I signed over four millions of real estate on the Catskill signed such signing contracts untto Ex Senator W. A. ClarkGRAND UNION HOTEL OPPOSITE GRAND CENTRAL STATION. FORD & SHAW Proprietors. New York, 19 Mrs. C P Huntington Fisher A Baker. Henry R Stokes. The late Edward King D O Mills Henry E Huntington Maxwell Evarte Col Henry W Sackett and many others. I might be of service to your paper Very Respy Yours, Theo Van Wyck 402 W 56 St NY[*[ENCL IN RUSSELL 8-22-13]*]New Home For Children's Court The corner-stone of the new court-house for the Children's Court was laid Monday on the old site of the College of the City of New York, at Lexington avenue and 22nd street, Manhattan. Borough President McAneny and a distinguished company attended the exercises. A brief address was made by Isaac Franklin Russell, Chief Justice of the Court of Special Sessions, by whose authority the Judges of the Children's Court are selected and assigned to duty in all the boroughs of the greater city. Chief Justice Russell spoke. in substance, as follows: "The Friends of the Children's Court in New York are now hailing with joy the dawning of a better day, Critics, who find delight in detraction and pessimistic reflection, have never tired of complaining about our narrow and dingy quarters in the old building at the corner of Third avenue and Eleventh street, quarters that have been many years outgrown. Meanwhile Mayor Gaynor and his associates in the Board of Estimate and Apportionment have poured funds lavishly out of the city treasure to meet the urgent necessities of a court which, whether from the standpoint of the number of cases on the calendar, the range and scope of its jurisdiction or the influence of its adjudictions on the character and conduct of citizens, is one of the most important tribunals in the world. Disputes of merchants over dollars are dwarfed into insignificance when compared with the solemn deliberations of this Court over the duty and destiny of the child offender. Under the enlightened administration now in charge of the city government Children's Courts have been introduced into every country in the greater city. Probation officers, men and women of high intelligence and approved integrity, taken from the civil service lists, well organized and directed by chiefs, both male and female, and representing all shades of religious belief, are now in sufficient numbers in all branches and divisions of the court. Veteran judges, who through years of experience in this unique branch of judicial service, have become recognized far and wide as specialists in children's cases, now give their entire time to the juvenile court. Of the ten thousand juveniles who first faced the judgement of this tribunal only eight per cent have ever reappeared, charged with delinquency. Appeals have been taken in cases that number less than a tenth of one per cent of those finally passed upon, a figure that is almost negligible. And now the hopes and dreams of years are approaching their fulfillment. To-day we lay the corner-stone of a new temple of justice, not a miserable and temporary makeshift, such as we often find, but a noble structure, commensurate with the wealth and importance of this imperial city, specially planned to meet the needs of a juvenile court, and solemnly dedicated to its holy ministries. ..Within its walls no child will be pronounced guilty of felony or misdemeanor, or receive the brand of a criminal. The language of the penal law, the jargon of the jailer, the shadow of the tombs, the manacles of the turn-key, none of these will terrify or torment the child offender. Instead, there will stand by his side, and sit over him in judgement, and follow him in punishment those who will minister to him in mercy, devoted men and women, who will feed the hungry, wash away the stains of cruelty an disease, and say a prayer for the sins of the souls. "Happy he, who, like the patriot, writes his epitaph on human hearts, or who, like the teacher, builds his monument in the brains of living men! So, too, is the memory of the just. This building, now new, will some day fall in the path of progress and the city's growth. The name of the architect, whose genius drew its fine lines and distributed its broad spaces, may perish in oblivion. But long as the truth of God endureth in this and other worlds the influence of those whose are to labor here for law and righteousness will abide in strength and venerable grandeur. "To-day, as we view these broad foundations and rising walls, we, the judges and officers of the Children's Court, pledge ourselves anew to the service of the city, its justice and its mercy, its charity and its humanity." [*Enc. in Daugherty 8-22-13*]HON. HARRY K. DAUGHERTY Candidate For Judge of Superior Court Hon. Harry K. Daugherty, of Grove City, on Tuesday filed petitions for a place on the primary ballot as a candidate for Judge of the Superior Court. Judge Daugherty was born in Mercer county in 1868 and was educated in the common schools and Grove City college. He was a professor in his home college for two years, resigned to study law and was admitted to the Mercer county bar in 1895. Served as an officer in the Spanish American War. Elected to the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1900 and reelected in 1902. Had important committee assignments, was active in Legislative duties and in 1903 was prominently mentioned for the Speake-ship. In 1903 was appointed by Attorney General Knox as Assistant Attorney in the defense of claims before the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, and acted in that capacity in Washington and Cuba until early in 1907, when upon the recommendation of Senator Knox, he was appointed by President Roosevelt a member of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission and remained with that body until it completed its duties. Judge Daugherty has been an officer and director of banks and has held other important positions of trust. In 1912 he was a candidate for National Delegate pledged to the support of Colonel Roosevelt but when a three cornered fight developed, he withdrew from the contest and thus insured the election of Roosevelt delegates from the district. To get on the State ticket it is necessary for a candidate to have petitions signed by the electors of the state at large and to have at least one hundred qualified voters in each of at least five counties of the state. Mr. Daugherty filed petitions as follows: Mercer 110, Butler 110, Venango 110 Allegheny 110 Beaver 110 and Lawrence 100.Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad Company H. M. Atkinson & E.T. Lamb, Receivers C. D. Bercaw Commercial Agent Cordele, GA. August, 23, 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Outlook, New York. Mr. Roosevelt:- The number on the Spanish-American is another splendid article. Yours very truly, C. D. BercawCharles J. Bonaparte Attorney at Law 216 St. Paul St. Baltimore August 23, 1913 Frank Harper Esq. 287 Fourth Avenue, New York. My dear Mr. Harper;- I know nothing of the present whereabouts of the gentleman you mention in your letter of the 18th inst., but will see if I can find out where he is. Many years ago I was brought in contact with a person of the same family name (I do not remember his Christian name) whose record left something to be desired. I do not know, of course, whether this is the same man, but, as there is a possibility that he may be, since the family name is rather unusual, I advise just a little caution in dealing with him. Of course, this suggestion is only for your own eye or the Colonel's. Believe me, as ever, yours most truly, Dictated. Charles J. Bonaparte J. A. BROWN ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW 526 EMPIRE BUILDING ATLANTA. GA. August 23rd 1913 Theodore Roosevelt, Ex. Pres.U.S.A., Oyster Bay, L.I., Dear Colonel:- You will see from the Daily Report enclosed you under separate cover that I have changed locality to practice law, I arrived here from Pontiac, Ill., on the 16th day of May, 1913. Find enclosed description of Atlanta by the Atlants Chamber of Commerce. Also find enclosed under separate cover views of the leading hotels etc., of Atlanta. With kind regards, I am, Very Truly Yours, J. A. Brown.C.N COTTON, PREST. R.B. LANIGAN, TREAS. M.J. GLIED, SECY. C.N. COTTON CO. Wholesale Dealers in INDIAN TRADERS' SUPPLIES & NAVAJO BLANKETS. WOOL HIDES, GOATSKINS, SHEEP PELTS. NAVAJO BLANKET WEAVER Gallup, New Mexico, August 23, 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt., Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Mr. Roosevelt;- We are enclosing herewith, five duplicate checks on luggage you left here with us to be shipped [62] Yours very truly, C. N. Cotton Co. [*JJ????*] JJK/A.C. A. DAGLEY REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE August 23ed, 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City, New York, My Dear Col. Roosevelt: Here-with please find clippings from the Chattanooga News, under date of the 21st, and 22nd. This information is sent you that you may see that we have some Progressives "for Principle," in Hamilton County. Again assuring you of continued Loyalty, I beg to remain. Very Truly Yours, C. A. Dagley Office In HOTEL PATTEN [*[For I. enc see Chattanooga News 8-21-13]*]I also suggest to obtain letters of introduction from the Y.M.C.A. in New York or in Washington, for the similar association in Montevideo, as much help can be afforded by this institution. If I could only know the matter upon which Mr. Roosevelt intends to speak in Montevideo I would be glad to write to the president of the Atheneum and also to that of "El Circulo de la Prensa", and asking them for a very warm welcome to him. Yours very truly, Carlos Maria de Pena Magnolia, Mass. August 23, 1913 Mr. Frank Harper Secretary to Mr. Roosevelt The Outlook - 287 Fourth Avenue New York City Dear Sir: Answering to your letter of the 15th & as far as I know, I can only tell you that from Sao Paulo the travelling may be of 12 hours, over the railroad from Rio to Porto Alegre. From Rio to Porto Alegre, via Sao Paulo there are 2652 Kmtrs.and it takes 96 hours. From Porto Alegre to Montevideo it takes 48 hours, starting from Porto Alegre every Tuesday at 6 a.m. I think there is a shorter line from Porto Alegre to Montevideo. That is from Sao Paulo via "Passo Fundo" to Rivera, Uruguay from there to Montevideo there are trains every day, but Tuesdays. For further information about this trip you may apply at the Brazilian Consulate in New York. I surely believe that a couple of days is a very short stay in a country where there are many things to be seen. Nevertheless, Mr. Roosevelt will be able to visit primary schools, secondary schools and University. Agronomy school and its industrial plants; packing houses, frigorifics; one or two of the nearest raising cattle farms; the Tablada (a cattle market); public charity buildings, harbour works; parks. Mr. Rossell's private zoological park & some private gardens & theatres, clubs, etc. He may deliver a speech at the Atheneum or in a theatre and I suggest to have an interpreter if he wishes his ideas to be appreciated, because few people can understand English there.[*9*] Western Springs, Ill., 8/23/13. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT AUG 26 1913 ACK. 8/26 NO ANS. ANS. BY Editors Weekly Outlook, New York. Dear Sirs:- Replying to your favor of 21st inst. in which you ask where the Roosevelt anti-Paine statement is to be found, would say that same is to be found on page 289 of Roosevelt's Life of Gouverneur Morris. It is as follows: "So the filthy little atheist had to stay in prison where he amused himself with publishing a pamphlet against Jesus Christ." Though it is true, as Mr. Roosevelt says, that any "bladder of dirty water" attack on Christianity is not the class of attack "that appeals to the sympathy of the onlooker, be he religious or otherwise", yet does that make an attack on Jesus or even disbelief in him as a Savior proof of atheism in the one making the attack or expressing or holding the disbelief? Was not Thomas Paine more probably a theist than an atheist? Does Mr. Roosevelt now count him a theist or an atheist —, and if the latter, why? Are Jews atheists? Are Unitarians atheists? Thanking you for your reply - I am - yours truly. J. M. McKinney.allow me, to tell you confidentially that I only arranged this by my friends near the emperor and the empress. The emperor then ordered to protect the birds. But - after a year they will find ways to prove to His Majesty" that we are "sentimentalists." and that birds abound - - till to the last one (Just the same story as the story of the American buffalo and north american egrett. [*I hope to send you soon some little work for the "Outlook". *] 23. August 1913. Professor C. G. Schillings Weyerhof, Gürzenich bei Düren (Rheinland) Germany Dear Colonel, My best thanks for Your kind intercession with the president Wilson. I got such a kind letter, which of course will be of great value for the influence of my new booklet about birds protection.-- (But I have bee ill flr about three months.) The kind letter from the president I only owe to You! The prettiest birds of the world can only be saved, as I wrote to Mr. Wilson, if the dealing of millinery is prevented. This millinery is a shame for cultivated nations and for the new century.- All the cultivated nations must defend the import of feathers and skinns of birds as well as the export from their colonies. Likewise the wearing of birds feathers, which are not allowed to be shot must be punished as well, as the possession of these birds or parts of them, for the feathers might stillbe smuggled. This is the term we must put, as we know how things stand. It will be allowed to wear ostrich feathers, feathers of poultry yard and feathers of game birds. All these are regularly reproduced, without extinguishing the birds. All other sorts of birds are without grace extinguished as the milliners ask them for the business now.- This is, what I wished to tell You, and so, please, use Your authority, to save the birds gf paradise at first, by making it impossible to import these to the United States! The most beautifull birds of the world are most in danger! Soon tere will not be any more of them, if they do not get protection. Please, do tell this to the Mister President. The birds of paradise, I mean, are in some Way so to say, a Symbol of the whole world ob birds and I regret to say, in this case a symbol of destruction by women! I thank You so much for Your kind words for my new booklet! I have got some other good fellow= labourers, so his Royal Highness the Prince of Hohenzollern cousin of the emperor. He speaks very strongly! My book shall try to bring on a new legislation. But the milliners, not only the german ones but the french, american and english too they all struggle against us with all means wether allowed, or not allowed. Therefore I want help! My new booklet ready, I hope the author of the Outlook will give some kind words to him! Perhaps I will have it translated intoo english for England and the U.S. Please, give my compliments to Your wife and Your family, with my best love and so much thanks I am, dear Colonel, Your most obedient C. G. Schillings I heard the milliners stopped the new bill in the Congress ?? For one year birds of paradise will further not be killed in Saman New Guinea (on the paper ! as we say in Germany") ButAddress State Department HOTEL POWHATAN as usual. PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE-EIGHTEENTH AND H. STREETS. N. W. WASHINGTON, D.C. August 24. 1913 My dear Colonel Roosevelt, I am lunching with Father Zahm and am delighted to make his acquaintance. He fully and heartily approves of taking Gittings along. We have been discussing this question in detail and the Father thinks he would be of great assistance. He is a photographer and incidentally knows all about motor boats - as he is thoroly at home on the water. He is very husky and would like no thing better than toHOTEL POWHATAN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE - EIGHTEENTH AND H. STREETS N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. to cross Portages with you - He is absolutely reliable and dependable. I have written to Montevideo and to various persons in Buenos Aires such as Nelson and Agustine Alvarez, as you suggested - I hope you received the extract from Alberdi but in case you did not herewith is the duplicate. Command me if I can do anything else for you. Very sincerely yours Charles Lyon Chandler I shall be in New York City about Sept. 13 and shall be very glad to come to Oyster Bay, as we suggested, if I can be of further service– [*[Cheatham?]*] [*(1)*] Little Rock Ark 8/24 1913 Hon Roosevelt Washington DC Dear sir as I wrote you in your last campaign & asked if you would put in your Platform that you would declair & Build the Temple as to the Lords will & required plan of the 20th centurey Revelation-but you failed to respond & it was withdrawn because of no time to put the Lords plans of requirement to the People--you know you Could not fail If you both hold of the Lords plan as the Lord requires of you to do If you will continue on as an ex & add this plan of the(2) Lords requirement to your platform that you will declair & [Build on] and have the Temple Built the Lord will not let you fail you can go through & not fail you I Know the Lord never lets no man fail to carry out his required plan If such partie takes hold of it & start you I know it would be a matter of impossibity for you to fail to carry out the Lords plan I can prove by the Bible clearly besides the Lord will give a special notice that it will understand by you & others fully to know it is his will[(3)] (2) for you to carry out his will in this. This years post was brought up in your Presidential administration but it was detained & could not get to you so it was not laid before you untill after your administration this matter got to Gov [G] Donaghey, while Gov & if you will go into details with him you can redily see at once the necesity of us adhering to the call of the Lord it is for the whole world awaiting your early reply Respt J M [Ch?ham] DD & Reasalen[?][(3)] (4) Dear Sir & Hon friend & ours as servants of the Lord in the 20th century Revelation for the Benefit to each & every thing living to each all is any nation and faith or otherwise to all the whole world as anything Revelation Prophet & DD & am authorized fully & without a waiver of a possibility of its being a mistake from the Lord that that Temple must be Built at washington it is a n[?]unds cause & a passion of the Lords & set forth & ordered to be done and is required to fail not & If you will & have the desire for the Presidential management in next term [the] to secure[(4)] (5) to have the Temple Built the Lords authorized authority is that on that Basis & Plan it being made Known that the Hon Theodor Roosevelt is prepared to put this in his Platform in case he is in disirous of runing for the next term of the Presidential & that if he comes out on this plea in his platform the Lords says & authorizes that Thodore Roosevelt be Elected to the Presidential Chair in next term so as to carry out the putting forth & declaring the Temple to be Built at Washington as a proposing the reception of the Lords Manifestation[5](6) in the 20th century & refine this earth & all that is [an] or isn't ask his will & to set forth & recreate the rain fall & the cyclone violations of Gods natural Laws of created form of such etc. to come [for] & to create all things of this earth so as to cause a more & a better earth of this in this life to be a promise etc. will be done by the Lord & is his promise to get the Temple declared is his requirement to us & as the presidential authority in the cause & effect to do this in according of their Laws etc. Respt [JM Chatham?] DD & Revealer (7) Read 3&4 Chap of Malachi you will find the prophecy of this by Malachi & its to be done in the 20 century the ashes of the Devil has only been under our feet only [18] 850 years & 850 years [out] is not long to wait the Lords provide but to wait the Lords required to take holt of & do his will it must start at first notice yours Respt JM Chatham D D Wheveder[?] If you have cost the little revolt I suit you I am side & have not its chaugh[?] of acting ality & will send you another yours Respt & truly for the whole world as a true[?] servant [??????] or do well & cost you &c[*ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA*] August 24, 1913 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Dear Sir, You have favored me during the past two years with three very courteous communications which I keep and prize. This fact and still more your wide interest and earnest sympathy in every matter of social justice, fill me with confidence in laying before you a request. It is this: That you kindly publish some strong article or a series of articles against the harsh, cruel, and bitterly determined breaking up and banishment of religious orders of men and women from France. No words will ever tell the pangs of the exiled, the works of charity and religion frustrated, the lives of virtue burned out of their course, the noble and holy championships violently torn asunder! I have met some of these exiles and grieved with them. You have perhaps read The Nun by René Bazin with its terrible tragic lesson. You appreciate, I am sure, the devotion which, no doubt, you experienced last year at the hands of the Sisters in Mercy Hospital, Chicago; and you feel, as few can, a "chivalrous indignation at any unjust interference with "such noble works and those who give their lives to them.[*ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA*] Thousands and thousands are to-day enduring the bitter consequences of this inhuman persecution, both in France and in all parts of the world. Ten of the seventeen thousand of my chosen Institute, the Brothers of the Christian Schools, are among the victims; naturally, therefore, these fifteen years past I have been keenly on the lookout for any means to get our rights and for a year I have thought of "bothering" you. Give this cause the powerful impulse of your pen and your name. I do not at all plead for re-establishment of the Napoleon - Concordat; though unjustly abrogated, we are better off without it and Catholic life in France is stronger now in its struggle and the independence of self-support. The liberty to do associated works of charity and religion — that's the object. We have it in our own land and can hardly conceive the slavery of its withdrawal. In this, at least, we are far ahead of "advanced" Europe. Anything you will do for this cause will not be in vain but will reach far and wide like "The Deceitful[*ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA*] Red Herring" and the Beveridge Anti- merger Article . Moreover it will line up closely with "Progressive" principles i.e. basing laws on human needs and aspirations and the highest human ideals. A friend of mine says the subject will not take because it is not timely (i.e. not in the lime light of the public attention) but I know that with Mr.Roosevelt quite the reverse has often been the case i.e. things have come into the lime light because he tackled them. Nor do I think you will reject it as a foreign subject for you have ever taken the complete and comparative view of the world and know well that the international spirit is growing more and more catholic, i.e. universal. Finally, I know that your attitude towards religion and social elevation is only the development of the true philanthropy of your dear father, and that your feeling towards Catholics who are Catholics is like that of George Washington himself expressed in his famous letter after the Revolution (of which I am happy to present you a copy.) I am also sending you an article formerly published in the London National Review by Count Albert de Mun. Thanking you in behalf of all interested for anything you may do in this good cause, and asking God to bless all your endeavors I am very sincerely yours Brother F. Cornelius, F. S. C.[For enc. see 8-24-13]Mandan. N.D. Aug., 24, 1913. Dear Mr Roosevelt.- I suppose you dont Rember me about ten (10) years ago you came threw mandan N.D. I was a little baby about 2 years old i am 12 years old now. I was up to the train with my mother. after you gave your speech and the train had started you was on the end of the train you trew off a nickel and said it is for the baby. my little brother picked it up and gave it to me.and I still have it and I wound give it. away for nothing. well I guess I will go out and saddle up the Horse and go Ridding with Love. Clyde Dow 310, 2 ave N. W. mandan N. Dak. P.S. I would like to hear from you. Clyde Dow.[*The National Progressive Republican League of the State of New York (INCORPORATED) State Headquarters SUITE 1005, 1006, 302-304 BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY Bureau for Literature and Speakers 1244-1246 THIRTY-NINTH STREET BROOKLYN, N. Y. President’s Office 424-426 SIXTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY Telephone 2799 Madison Square State Officers BELA TOKAJI, Brooklyn President Dr. E. Stagg Whitin, New York Vice-President Prof. Carlos C. Alben, Buffalo Vice-President George H. Furman, Patchogue Vice-President Prof. F. S. Hoffman, Schenectady Vice-President Prof. H. L. Fairchild, Rochester Vice-President Mayor S. A. Carlson, Jamestown Vice-President J. Philip Berg, Brooklyn Treasurer O. F. G. Megie, New York Secretary Executive Committee General Robert Avery Brooklyn C. F. Collier Albany Hugh R. Jones Utica George Munzinger Hudson Lucien Knapp Long Island City Dr. H. J. Burkhart Batavia Rev. Dr. James Berg Mt. Vernon Dr. S. F. Rogers Cohoes Neil Gray, Jr. Oswego J. F. Houchins Holley Charles J. Staples Buffalo Carl Lorentzen New York Knowlton Mixer Buffalo John C. Ten Eyk Yonkers W. W. Comstock West Chazy Ernest Bjorrum Ozone Park Victor Hugo Duras New York D. H. Cook Syracuse and the President, Vice-President and Treasurer, members ex-officio National Officers U. S. Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., Oregon President Congressman George W. Norris, Nebraska 1st Vice-President Governor Chase S. Osborn, Michigan 2d Vice-President Charles R. Crane, Chicago Treasurer A. W. Prescott Secretary Executive Committee U. S. Senator Moses E. Clapp Minnesota U. S. Senator Joseph L. Bristow Kansas Congressman E. H. Hubbard Iowa Congressman Irvine L. Lenroot Wisconsin Congressman William Kent California Gifford Pinchot Pennsylvania George L. Record New Jersey and the President, Vice-President and Treasurer, members ex-officio J. F. Houchins, President R. P. R. I. Orleans County, FEDERAL PHONE 89X HOLLEY, N. Y.*] Aug. 24" 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay N. Y. Personal; Dear Sir: I am a Republican. Ten years ago I called myself an independent Republican. Five years ago when the great "insurgent" movement doubled in your administration I knew at once that I too was an "insurgent" Republican. Today I am a Progressive Republican. What are you? I dont believe you would tell if you could nor could if you would. But good [lck] luck to you just the same. Sincerely, J. F. Houchins.8-20-12 [For enc see 2-6-13] The voice of the People demanding relief from unnecessary financial burdens is heard. The great Progressive Movement in national politics is the beginning of the answer. The demand will be kept up until the answer is complete and relief obtained thru popular government fully restored. This nation is thoroughly aroused. Its citizenship is determined that the LAW shall be created by the free and unfettered action of the Sovereign People, administered and enforced everywhere under our sacred Flag and in strict accordance with universal Human Justice. This is the true, the peculiarly American governmental ideal. Its surest hope of achievement is founded in the Direct Primary, the Bed Book of Pure Democracy. This achieved, we may then begin to build soundly, working in the Initiative, Referendum and Recall, the surest instruments to popular government now know. These, together with the Presidential Preference idea, have been adopted by six of our States and must eventually be applied in all. If it be true that "When ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise," then it must of necessity follow that "WHEN IGNORANCE IS A CURSE 'TIS WISDOM TO BE INFORMED." J. F. HOUCHINS. December 15, 1911.1913 Lewiston Me Aug 24th Hon Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir - I hope you will not be offended on receiving this letter. I am keeping in touch with things in the Third District, and have come to the conclusion. That the thing to do is for Ex President Roosevelt [to do is] to go down there and make 3 or 4 speeches. if that is done the district will go Progressive What with Boyan and other Big Guns of the Democrats the way seems to me is to fight them our our best men among the Progressives if you will take the lead I don't see how we can be beatenI have written to E.M. Lawrence the progressive candidate for Congress in the Third District We must make some Personal sacrifice to Win. Trusting you will see your way clear to help them out or in other Words help the progressives win I Remain Respectfully yours, M.A. Murphy 19 Webster Ln - Lewiston Maine [*[8-24-13]*] TÉLÉP. N. S. ROSNY S SEINE TÉLÉG. VILLA SARITA, ROLLEBOISE, PAR BONNIÈRES, SE1 O. My dear Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Smith and I are staying here with Herbert and Mrs. Ward and naturally we think and talk of you and now especially of your intended trip to South America and so we all send you our love and reverenceand our sincere and hearty good wishes for a delightful trip with the full enjoyment of all the honors which will come to you: and with full resignation to quote Nansen of the who was "brave" enough to stay behind Always and Ever Your devoted friends and admirers Dr Kinsore with Herbertward Larita L. Ward Josephine Hoprineon Smith. Aug 24/1913. [[shorthand]]Office of Superintendent of Almshouse. NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS. August 24, 1913. Dear Sirs:-- Can you tell me what became of the steamer built for Admiral Robert L. Peary to make his dash for the Pole in ? It has been said that she was sold to a N. Y. Wrecking Company and is in use in this part of the world and may call at this port in the course of time in pursuit of her business as a wrecker. Shall be thankful for any information you may be able to furnish me with in relation to the disposition that has been made of her and the name she goes under at this time. Yours respectfully, Robt. R. Jophaw. Col. Theodore Roosevelt.[*[8-24-13]*] [*ALGEMEEN HANDELSBLAD AMSTERDAM. HOLLAND 1705 21ST STREET WASHINGTON. D. C.*] Putnam Camp. St. Huberts P.O. Essex Co.N.Y. 24 August xiii. My dear Mr.Roosevelt, A few months ago I published a book,entitled "The Fall of the Dutch Republic".I did not wish to bother you with the work of an unt[ir]ried Author.Since however the American and the European Press has expressed its approval,I take the liberty of presenting you with a copy. It is a dreary story of national bankruptcy. The moral of the book however may interest you.The country of your ancestors went to ruin[t] through the same causes which seem to threaten the existence of many another prosperous nation. The checkbook became the Army - the Navy was neglected for dividends and the people as a whole became addicted to the fatal doctrine,that profits went before National Honor. I am,my dear Mr.Roosevelt, your obedient servant Hendrik Willem Van [?] [*signature*]Washington’s Reply to the Catholics, after the Revolution. Gentlemen: While I now receive with much satisfaction your congratulations on my being called to the first station of my country, I cannot but duly notice your politeness in offering an apology for the unavoidable delay. As that delay has given you an opportunity of realizing, instead of anticipating, the benefits of the general government, you will do me the justice to believe that your testimony of the increase of the public prosperity enhances the pleasure which I would otherwise have experienced from your affectionate address. I feel that my conduct, in war and in peace, has met with more general approbation than could reasonably have been expected; and I find myself disposed to consider that fortunate circumstance in a great degree resulting from the able support and extraordinary candor of my fellow citizens of all denominations. The prospect of national prosperity now before us is truly animating, and ought to excite the exertions of all good men to establish and secure the happiness of their country in the permanent duration of it’s freedom and independence. America, under the smiles of Divine Providence, the protection of a good government, and the cultivation of good manners, morals, and piety, cannot fail of attaining an uncommon degree of eminence in literature, commerce, agriculture, improvements at home and respectability abroad. If mankind became more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protection of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality; and I presume that your fellow citizens will not forget the patriotic part which you took in the accomplishment of their revolution and the establishment of their government, or the important assistance which they received from a nation in which the Roman Catholic faith is professed. I thank you, gentlemen, for your kind concern for me. While my life and health shall continue, in whatever situation you or I may be, it shall be my constant endeavor to justify the favorable sentiments which you are pleased to express of my conduct; and may the members of your Society in America, animated alone by the pure spirit of Christianity, and still conducting themselves as the faithful subjects of our free government, enjoy every temporal and spiritual felicity. [Enc. in Cornelius 8-24-13][Encl in Pierson 8-31-13] [8-24-13][*(The place is still called Roosevelt about 4 miles west*] [*Aug. 24- 1913.*] THE POST-STANDARD, SYR ROOSEVELTS FOUNDED CHURCH AT CONSTANTIA Trinity Episcopal Rich in Historic Interest ---Bishop to Officiate at 80th Anniversary of Consecration. Trinity Church at Constantia, founded by a member of the Roosevelt family and of which the former President was once a vestryman, the home of one of the oldest Episcopalian parishes in the United States, will celebrate the eightieth anniversary of its consecration next Sunday morning. [*(Aug 31st)*] The anniversary will be an event in the history of the little village on the edge of Oneida lake. For more than a century, or practically since the day the first rude house was erected on the site of the present village, the old church has played a prominent part in the life of the villagers and farmers for miles around it. It is expected that many prominent people from various cities in the United States, great-grandchildren of the original vestrymen, will attend. Rt. Rev. Charles Tyler Olmsted, bishop of the Diocese of Syracuse, will deliver the sermon and several soloists have been engaged. It will be the most important happening within the old structure since the day its completion was announced nearly a century ago. Ghosts Seen in Graveyard. The history of Trinity Episcopal Church of Constantia is part of the history of New York state. Strange things are told of it. Once ghosts prowled about its tangled graveyard, according to village tradition. Fantastic forms were seen flitting in and out of its doorway during the many years it stood bleak and deserted among its graves. It was conceived by a man who came into the wilds that bordered the lake, laden with gold brought from over seas. It was fostered by Nicholas I. Roosevelt and other men whose names are equally illustrious. The clerk who guards the parish books will tell you that hundreds of babes have been baptised at the font in the old structure and that throngs of youths and maids have joined hands before the timeworn rail. The well-worn road that winds into the little churchyard and the headstones that thrust themselves above the ivy tangle prove that the old parishioners sought the shadow of the church even in death. George Frederick William Augustus Scriba, whose great-grandson, George Frederick Scriba, still lives at Constantia, was the man who a century ago made the building of the church possible. Late in the eighteenth century Scriba, a nobleman from Holland, arrived in New York. He brought with him $225,000 in gold. Builds Mansion Near Lake. Scriba followed the Hudson to Albany and thence made his way to Central New York, finally arriving at a point on the north shore of Oneida lake, where Constantia now stands. Scriba was pleased with the place and shortly afterward obtained a patent from the government which gave him possession of a tract of land sixty miles long and forty miles wide. The city of Oswego now stands upon some of this land. In 1790 the adventurer built a mansion on the edge of a little creek and close to the lake. The Scriba house still stands and is occupied by the great-grandson of its builder. Many followers of the Church of England flocked to the vast Scriba estate and soon there was a settlement which was christened Rotterdam. The need of a church was keenly felt and for several years, until 1822, services were held in the Scriba mansion. The Roosevelt family lived near Central Square and all its members attended the meetings in the Scriba place, driving long distances through wooded country in order to do so. The family of Donald H. Orcutt, the progenitors of the Orcutts of New York city, also lived nearby. The Original Vestrymen. In 1820 the patron donated a tract of land a short distance from the mansion, to be used for church purposes. The original vestrymen were NIcholas I. Roosevelt , F. W. Scriba, Donald H. Orcutt, Curtis R. Cable, Burnet Dundas and Jacob and John Beebe. The church, its framework hewn from rough timbers was completed in 1822, but was not consecrated until several years later. Trinity Church of New York paid for its erection and Trinity Corporation still owns the property. According to the deed given by Scriba, the church property was to revert to his heirs if for any reason the building should be unoccupied for a period of twenty years at one time. As a result of this clause the historic building and its little graveyard nearly passed from the hands of the church a few years ago. In 1890 the church was closed because the congregation had dwindled away, and for nineteen years it remained empty. Its great door fell from the hinges and gaping holes appeared in the floor. Brambles and wild flowers ran riot in the graveyard and only the more pretentious stones could be seen from the roadway. The old building was slowly falling into ruin. Motorists would occasionally invade its silence, and on these occasions the old organ would be dusted and impious airs would desecrate the somber old structure. It was in 1908 that services in the church were resumed. The building was never rebuilt, but a few repairs were made. Painted Only Once. It stands now as it did nearly a century ago. Only once have its walls been painted, and that was many years ago. The winds from the lake have removed all trace of decoration and it is now as brown as mahogany. The church is half hidden in a cluster of giant maples. It has no steeples, but is crowned by a square belfry. Its doors and windows are rickety and so are its steps. Inside the old structure plain furnishings are still retained. There is a sweet-toned little organ bought before the Civil War. Cedric C. Bentley of Oswego, a lay reader, has charge of the weekly service. Fred Bentley of Constantia, who is 97 years old, has been the parish clerk for nearly half a century. Among the soloists who have consented to take part in the programme at the quaint old church next Sunday is Don C. Buell of New York city.847-17th. Avenue Denver Aug. 25th. '13 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt New York City. My dear Mr Roosevelt: - To those of clear political vision, the situation in 1914 will be Roosevelt and Bryan (if the Democratic platform counts for anything). Each day the members of both factions of the Republican party recognize nore fully the necessity of getting together and fighting the common enemy and should it be possible to be able to organize a National Committee of Progressive Republicans who have no political ambitions to gratify and the leader of all subsidiary organizations to be, as far as possible, men of the same character throughout the country, our victory will be assured. At the last election, in this state, there was formulated an agreement whereby the forces of both factions were to combine and support the same ticket and it been done, we would now have two senators at Washington. The political aspirations of our leaders at the very last moment defeated the plan and we lost the state. Costigan is, I believe, an earnest fellor and possesses much ability-outside of politics-, but his burning desire to sit in the U.S. Senate is the clutch that invariably slips into the wrong gear and the machine which he attempts to run develops no power. The Progressive Leagues which are being organized throughout the country are grand institutions because they make every member who is earnest and ardent feel that he sits "near to the throne," I believe, therefore, that only through the direct authority of the League, all work in each State should be performed and no club organized by politicians looking for office should be recognized. Clubs invariably evolve or degenerate into cliques to further the interests of individuals and the main objects of the outer organization is lost sight of by them and disaster is inevitable result. Costigan, Dodge, Vincent et al. organization a "C lub" in this City the other evening, officers and manned by ambitious statesmen (?) and the rules they adopted made Big Steve green with envy. If Progressive Clubs of this character be recognized and accepted by the League as factors in attempting to save this State, we will not succeed. The gentlemen mentioned may all be animated by honest impulses, but you know the old addage about the road to Hades. This is, in my opinion a very serious matter and which demands, speedy and vigorous investigation, to the end that all those who honestly enlist and fight in the Cause be not deceived, for the prosperity of the Nation is at stake and the happiness of the individual is involved. Very Sincerely Yours Franklin B. Bernard[Enc in Mastersow 9-1-13]847-17th. Avenue Denver Aug. 25th. '13 Mr. W.B. Masterson New York City My dear Bat: As there is a great deal of dissatisfaction among [the] all republicans here, progressive and otherwise, who have but one idea[l] in view and that is the defeat of the democratic party and at the same time are trying to get away from machine methods, I have been asked to communicate through you to the Colonel and present to him the exact conditions here. The chief objections being to the organization of clubs that are sure to run counter to the plans of the Leagues because the former are simply formed in the interest of political aspirants and we all know that if harmony does not exist in our own ranks we cant very well succeed. You know that I have no political ambitions whatever and I vote as I pray and I pray unceasingly for the defeat of the democratic party. I.N. Stevens and others asked me to write and suggest, (and all of which I urge as being the correct thing under the circumstances,) that The Progressive League be the Authority through, from and by which all things in the conduct of our campaign for the success of our party be done. I appreciate the perplexing, at times, conditions with which the Colonel is confronted, by reason of the complaints and petitions of "leaders" in the conduct of the affairs of our party, but I know that if he can be convinced that the persons who present plans and suggests are prompted only by a desire to succeed in party efforts, with no dark alleys attached, those are the ones that he will adopt. So if you will hand the enclosed to the Colonel and go over the same with him, you will oblige; and wishing you all the good things in this world, I am as ever Sincerely yours Franklin Bernard [*signature*][Enc in Masterson 9-1-13]Progressive National Committee OFFICE OF PROGRESSIVE SERVICE FORTY-SECOND STREET BUILDING FRANCES A. KELLOR, CHIEF OF SERVICE R. K. FORSYTH, GENERAL SECRETARY PAXTON HISSEN, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION DONALD R. RICHBERG, DIRECTOR, LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU 154 PROGRESSIVE SERVICE BOARD Frances a. Kellor Jane Addams Robert G. Valentine William Draper Lewis Samuel McCune Lindsay Gifford Pinchot George L. Record COUNCIL OF CHAIRMEN Frances A. Kellor Truxton Beale Paul U. Kellogg Henry Moskowitz Mary E. McDowell Mrs. Maud Nathan William L. Ransom Herbert Knox Smith Delos Wilcox Edith Ellicott Smith James R. Garfield George W. Kirchwey Woods Hutchinson EDUCATION COMMITTEE Samuel McCune Lindsay Mrs. Charles S. Bird Richard S. Childs John Dewey A. W. Erickson Willard E. Hotchkiss Will H. Irwin E. W. Kemmerer Carl Kelsey Samuel Merwin Paul Monroe C. A. Prosser A. Duncan Yocum Albert H. Yoder New York, August 25, 1913. Mr. Frank Harper "The Outlook," 287 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Harper: Of course, I am not sure that Colonel Roosevelt upon his return would be willing to go into the 3d Congressional District, Maine, and make one address. However, he stated to me, shortly after the campaign last Fall, that he did not expect to make any public addresses of a political nature for six or eight months. It is now nine months since the November elections, and in view of the fact that Colonel Roosevelt did not speak in Maine during the campaign, owing to the attempted assassination, and that this election is of national importance, bears directly upon the Massachusetts and less directly upon the New Jersey campaigns the coming Fall, I am in hope that Colonel Roosevelt may at least consider the proposition. There are three candidates in the field, namely; Mr. Pattangall, the Democratic candidate, Mr. Peters, the Republican candidate and Mr. E. M. Lawrence, the Progressive candidate. Both Mr. Gould and Mr. Haines, respectively candidates for the Democratic and Republican nominations seem to be greatly disappointed in not having received the nomination, and as I understand, owing to this fact, are quietly working for Mr. Lawrence. At any rate, there is a good deal of dissention in both the Democratic and Republican ranks. Mr. Lawrence is without social or business blemish as far as I can learn and is very popular in the District. I am receiving letters daily, stating that Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, Speaker of the House, Champ Clark, Secretary of Commerce, William C. Redfield, and several other Democratic candidates are to be in the District. The Democrats have at last realized that we are putting up a winning fight. From all accounts it would appear that we will run second, but considering the number of minor elections throughout the country at which we have run second to the Republicans, it is of vital importance that we win this Congressional fight. Of course, you realize what that would mean to our people throughout the country. Any Congressional victory would mean practically the same, but all the Republican speakers are Progressive National Committee OFFICE OF PROGRESSIVE SERVICE FORTY-SECOND STREET BUILDING FRANCES A. KELLOR, CHIEF OF SERVICE R. K. FORSYTH, GENERAL SECRETARY PAXTON HISSEN, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION DONALD R. RICHBERG, DIRECTOR, LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU 154 PROGRESSIVE SERVICE BOARD Frances a. Kellor Jane Addams Robert G. Valentine William Draper Lewis Samuel McCune Lindsay Gifford Pinchot George L. Record COUNCIL OF CHAIRMEN Frances A. Kellor Truxton Beale Paul U. Kellogg Henry Moskowitz Mary E. McDowell Mrs. Maud Nathan William L. Ransom Herbert Knox Smith Delos Wilcox Edith Ellicott Smith James R. Garfield George W. Kirchwey Woods Hutchinson EDUCATION COMMITTEE Samuel McCune Lindsay Mrs. Charles S. Bird Richard S. Childs John Dewey A. W. Erickson Willard E. Hotchkiss Will H. Irwin E. W. Kemmerer Carl Kelsey Samuel Merwin Paul Monroe C. A. Prosser A. Duncan Yocum Albert H. Yoder Page 2 . . . . . New York, August 25, 1913. Mr. Frank Harper. using with good effect the fact that we have not made good in the minor elections throughout the country. I am keeping separate Colonel Roosevelt's correspondence, and if you so desire, will return some of the letters. However, they have been of utmost value to the Speakers' Bureau and especially so to the Lyceum Bureau, serving as a fine entering wedge, that is gradually opening up the field. Please remind Colonel Roosevelt also of the letter of recommendation for Bainbridge Colby. Mr. Flowers, Director of the Lyceum Bureau, has already contracted fifteen engagements for Mr. Colby, forty for the Hon. Frederick Landis and a week for Senator Beveridge, but it is a question whether Senator Beveridge will accept. Very sincerely yours, [*E B Cochens*] Secretary, National Speakers' Bureau. EBC/JC 3 E. 119 St., New York, Aug, 25, 1913 Mr Frank Harper, Secretary to Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Dear Sir: Last June, you sent me an article written by Colonel Roosevelt for the school publication "About Twenty-seven" and enclosed the accompanying photograph. Will you kindly have the photograph autographed by Colonel Roosevelt, as I wish to keep it as a memento? Thanking you in advance for this favor, I am Respectfully yours, Henry Cohen Editor "About Twenty-Seven".JOHN WETHERILL C. A. COLVILLE WETHERILL & COLVILLE Indian Traders, Navajo Tribe Kayenta, Ariz., 8/25/13 Col. Theo. Roosevelt. Oyster Bay N. Y. Dear Sir:- Enclosed find our check for $40.00 in payment of horse purchased from you by Mr. Wetherill. Hoping that you had a pleasant trip home, with very nest wishes from us all, we remain, Very Sincerely, Wetherill and Colville Per. CAS [Colville]Aug 25th 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir A majority of the Progressive Party in the Greater New York would have preferred to run a straight "Bull Moose" Ticket, but if they did so, and Tammany won, the party would be blamed. We are a party of national principles and our followers amongst the laboring classes know little, and care little, about Municipal questions. We endorsed a ticket The best that a disinterest Committee could frame. I think if you would call on all the progressives who voted our tickett last year to put their cross, under the Bull Moose this year they would listen to you. Just two or three words. George E Devyr 70 Suydam St Brooklyn N.Y.[*[ca 8-25-13]*] Col Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay Long Island New York Esteemed Sir:- Read the inclosed clipping & note that the same kind of "Sordid Murder" flourishes in Phila., today unchecked, as when I made#2 my initial report to Ass't Dist Atty John M. Patterson the later part of Jan 1911, this report is complete & specific in detail and some day you will agree that in no instance have I been guilty of perjury or the slightest exagerotion.#3. My letters comprise a report on existing conditions as I found them, giving names dates & places, also witnesses names, residence & business address, and if a member of a club, the name of the same. Had Mr. Patterson been sincere & honest#4 he could have proven every statement I made or wrote to be correct, that he was criminally negligent, indifferent & not disposed to investigate in the proper manner has been obvious and apparent from the beginning.#5 Reverting to this latest death, kindly note that the house in which it occured is but a block & a half distant from the City Hall, also note the behavior of the policemen said to have been present. Coroner's Detective Frank Paul says that this woman#6 has been under surveillance for four years, what a terrible admission on his part of inefficiency, or worse. I dont believe a performer of such operations lives that could not be trapped & sent to jail within a couple of months, provided#7. the investigators were honest, determined & efficient. Permit me to venture an opinion which I tersely incorporated in a report to Ass't U.S. Attorney Jasper Yeates Brinton of Phila, Pa last April, to wit:—#8 That no lasting good will ever be effected by the Gov't or any other society not baring even the Church, unless some way is devised to divorce these criminals from their polotical allies, who provide protection and when#9 trouble does come, pulls the proper wires to quash the case or have it dropped or thrown out of court. Such criminals have no fear as long as their "Pull is O.K. at the Front". I believe that there always will be "Shift Women" I see no#10 remedy for such a condition and there will undoubtedly be isolated houses of ill repute. I also believe that "White Slavery, "Illegal Operations" & other kinds of crime that derive Protection from Politicians can be eventually eliminated.#11 I firmly believe that efforts at reform that do not first of all eliminate Polotics is worse than futile; the result of such efforts will simply be to pull a few brands from the fire, this will not diminish the fire in the slightest as numberless other brands will be forthcoming#12 I have the honor to remain Sir:— Yours truly, George Janvier Hamell P.O. Box 14, Brielle, New Jersey.[For enc see 8-25-13][*GLENN C. HAMMOND ROBERT M. SADD QUALITY SHOPPE MAKERS OF COUNTER SALESBOOKS LAUNDRY SLIPS MILK BOTTLE CAPS FOLDING PAPER BOXES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION NORWOOD, OHIO*] Aug 25/13 Hon Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y. I wish you to explain the diference between the Federal plan of Government and the Municipal plan as the Municipal is the one under which all Cities of Ohio are now governed We in Norwood have been through a campaign for a Commission form of Government & lost out. One of the strong statements of the opponents was that Norwood was now under the Federal plan. I contended it was not & while we lost out there are many who are now wishing to understand the question better: We of the Charter movement are making up an independent ticket & on non partisan lines. I am also mailing you a copy of the Norwood plan of Charter; an answer to the above question coming from you will be conclusive. Respectfully H Jay Hammond 4220 Main Ave. Norwood. Ohio.ISLAND OF MARTHAS VINEYARD Edgartown, Mass. Aug 25th, 1913. The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, Long Island. My dear Sir: In an argument recently the question arose as to whether or not the mountain lion or cougar, if not molested, would attack a man and whether also the cases, if such had occurred,were authentic I have taken the liberty of referring the question to you as an authority on the habits of this animal. Thanking you for the courtesy of a reply I am Very truly yours, James T. HananUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA COMMITTEE ON UNIVERSITY LECTURES ARCHIBALD HENDERSON C. W. BAIN W. C. COKER L. P. McGEHEE W. DEB. McNIDER CHAPEL HILL. N. C. August 25, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir:- For a good many years, I have been engaged in investigations of very extensive kind, preparatory to writing a biography of William Blount, of Tennessee. I have succeeded in getting together a mass of transcripts of mss. and documents. So far, I have been unable to locate the Blount mss. lent you by the Hon. W. D. Stephens of Los Angeles, Cal. — to which you refer in the preface of your "Winning of the West" (— the most prized work in my library —) and also in numerous foot-notes. After the lapse of a year, Mr. or rather Judge Albert M. Stephens of Los Angeles, Cal., the brother, I believe, of the Hon. W. D. Stephens, writes me that he can discover no trace of the Blount Mss. In a letter of August 11, 1913, he writes me: "I have been unable, after much search and inquiry, to find anything at all upon the subject." It may be that the Hon. W. D. Stephens presented the Blount Mss. to you, or through you, to some historical society - or collection. Or it may be that you took transcripts of the papers. Can you give me any information in regard to the Blount Mss. which might enable me to have access to them or to transcripts of them? I am greatly interested in Western history, being a direct descendant of Judge Richard Henderson, President of the Transylvania Company.3 As an historical student, I shall be most genuinely grateful to you for any aid you may give me in the above matter. Believe me, with high regard, Sincerely, Achibald HendersonERWIN A. HOLT BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA August 25th. 1913 Mr. Frank Harper, Private Sec. to Col. Roosevelt, the Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City My dear Mr. Harper:- The enclosed Philadelphia North American clipping is self-explanatory which is relative to JUDGE LINDSEY and I thought would interest you and others in the Outlook and you can show to the Colonel if it does not encroach too much on his valuable time. Would have written him myself but for this. You will be pleased to learn that the fund through this paper has almost reached the $1000.00 mark and is daily increasing. I wrote 15 persons in this State (both men and women) and several responded most beautifully. Doubtless I will be in New York about the middle of next month and if possible hope to get a handshake with the Colonel one of the days he is in the City. National Committeeman, Jas. N. Williamson Jr. (my Cousin) of this place will doubtless be there at the same time. With kind personal regards and all good wishes, I am, Very truly yours, Erwin A. Holt[*A POPULAR ILLUSTRATED LECTURE THROUGH AFRICA WITH ROOSEVELT BY J. ALDEN LORING FIELD NATURALIST TO THE ROOSEVELT-AFRICAN EXPEDITION OWEGO, N. Y.,*] August 25, 1913. [[shorthand]] My dear Colonel Roosevelt: If possible I should like to have you write the introduction to my boy's book before you start on your South American trip. If you will drop me a few lines saying when it will be convenient for you to look over the articles that have already been published, I will send them on. I would not think of putting you to the inconvenience of perusing them had you expressed the desire to do so. I trust that you had a pleasant trip through the Canyon and hope that I shall see you again before you to Sputh America. Very truly yours, J. Alden Loring [*signature*] Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N. Y.[*EDWARD STAATS LUTHER 247 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK*] August 25, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. My dear Colonel: On June 28 I wrote to you concerning plans I was making to go to South America in October for the purpose of exhibiting before Chambers of Commerce and like commercial bodies motion pictures of leading American industries. At the time I suggested that I would like to discuss matters with you with a view to having my operators take motion pictures of your South American trip. In this connection I stated that young Cummins, the "movie" who was with you on your last year's campaign, would be with me and that I would like to have him cover your trip. In reply, under date of June 30, I received a letter from Mr. Frank Harper stating that you were about to leave for the West but that if I still wished to see you on your return, I should write at this time. Hence this letter. I should like to see you at your earliest convenience so that I may go over the subject. Certain changes have become necessary in my plans and I have found that I cannot get my Chamber of Commerce exhibition tour in shape in time to send it along in October. However that will make no difference regarding the plans for young Cummins or for Senor Vicente Gonzales, who is to go also. I want to arrange to have Cummins take your entire trip, including your trip into the interior and I am prepared to enter into a contract with you, protected by ample backing, that will give you a financial interest in the feature film that will be taken. This film can be exhibited all over the United States and in foreign countries and should prove a big money maker. You would be protected and guaranteed to your complete satisfaction. If you will will let me know when I may call to go over details, so that you may have all the facts before you, I shall appreciate it. Sincerely, Edward Staats Luther [*signature*] ESL/MSPlatte River Placer Company LOCATION OF PROPERTY FAIRPLAY AND ALMA, COLORADO OFFICES {FAIRPLAY, COLORADO {DENVER, COLORADO, 822-826 ERNEST & CRANMER BUILDING {NEW YORK CITY, 49 BROADWAY W. J. MACCONNELL MANAGER Fairplay, Colorado, Aug. 25, 1913. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt New York City. My Dear Sir:-- As one of your supporters in the campaign last fall in this county and I guess the original Bull Mooser of this section I take pleasure in enclosing clippings from recent Denver papers for your perusal. It is my intention to keep the Bull Moose button and trust it may be an omen of victory for the Progressive Party in 1916. The writer is a native of New York state Watertown, where we have a mutual friend I think in your staunch adherent Mr. V. K. Kellog and will also refer you to another friend in the city Dr. Alvah H. Doty whom our friends the enemy treated so shabbily a year or two age. With best wishes for your future success, believe me to be, Yours Faithfully, W. J. MacConnell [*signature*] [*We need a complete turning over in this state,*]Form 2289 B. NIGHT LETTER THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on condition limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following Night Letter. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Night Letters, sent at reduces rates, beyond a sum equal to ten times the amount paid for transmission; nor in any case beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED NIGHT LETTER, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the condition named above. ROBERT C. CLOWRY, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT MS 172 Fifth Ave. N. Y. B12NY ED 99 NL OCEANPARK CALIF AUG 25-26 1913 COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, OUTLOOK OFFICE, NYD. IF YOU WILL BE KIND ENOUGH TO TELEGRAPH ME IN ONE OR TWO HUNDRED WORDS EXACT POINT OF YOUR EXCEPTION TO MY REFERENCE TO YOUR POSITION IN, JAPANESE ARTICLE I BELIEVE I SEE A CHANCE TO WORK IT INTO MY INDIAN STORY WHERE IT WILL HAVE ALL THE FORCE YOU COULD DESIRE IN THAT EVENT WILL ASK SULLIVAN TO SHOW YOU PROOF OF ARTICLE FOR CORRECTION HOPE YOU REACHED HOME SAFELY AND FEELING AS WELL AS YOU LOOKED AT WALPI BEST WISHES FOR YOUR SOUTH AMERICAN TRIP WILL MISS NO CHANCE TO KEEP YOUR MEMORY GREEN IN THE INTERVAL. PETER CLARK MACFARLANE. 1P.M AUG 26 J. T. MANGUM PASTOR M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH UNION SPRINGS, ALA. Aug. 25th 1913. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- The Methodsist Episcopal Church, South is going to establish a Mission Station in the Congo Belge this Fall and Winter under the direction of Bishop W. R. Lambuth. I am going as a volunteer to act as private secretary to the bishop and will do some hunting while in the country. We will be in the interior about six months. I shall sail from New York on October the Fourth and wish to know if you will grant me a short interview on the Third. I fear that you will leave for your trip to South America before that day and if not asking too much would be glad if you would give me some advice as to the best arms to take. I have a 351 Winchester a twelve gauge shoot gun and intend to take a rifle of smaller bare. My first interest in the trip is to trace insofar as I can the scources of the "Uncle Remus" stories. My interest in the African Folk-lore is intense. From childhood I have heard the old negrees tell these stories and I hope to find many of the originals on the Congo. With the highest regards and best wishes, Sincerely yours, J. T. Mangum Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, New York City.Quarryvilly R.D.4 Pa. August 25th, A.D. 1913? Col. Theodore Rosevelt My Dear Brother & Friend Inclosed with this letter is another one much longer & I confess is poorly written I am at present & under present conditions a very poor penman but I want to ask you that you will take your time to decipher it not reading too fast so as to get the spirit & intent of its contents as the Spirit of God Reveals it to you He (God) could make me do better If He wished too but He seeth & Knoweth & Doeth Best In all things & Has His Own Times & Seasons & we sometimes try to rush them. Nevertheless [the] there [is] are important universal Truths given forth therein and A Blessing & Great Compliment from Him to you. For Truly you are one of His great Characters that He hashas used Peculiarly for ages for Himself & I Hope & Pray if His will soon that He will give us an opportunity to see one another for I have something very Important to tell you (& your Colliges) that He even God Our Father The Holy Spirit By & through His Son Jesus Christ & Jehovah Messiah, gave me to give unto you One of these Truths is The particular Character that you are for Him now & In the Past and the place & vocation in His Hands that you are now filling Believe me your Brother & True Friend in The Lord Jehovah. Brother I need your Help & Encouragement in The Lord even as Daniel Did - Amen. This last sentence may have a tendency to Reveal the Character that you Similate one of the Greatest of mortal (Earthly) Kings that God created upon This Earth (World planet) so much so that He (Jehovah) called Him in a significant & Peculiar way My Servant and now Let us Fear not but Trust God Our Saviour & Re-3 Redeemer for In The Lord Jehovah is (Our) Everlasting strength Amen Your Friend A Brauch c/o C.B. Martin, M.D. Philadelphia P.A. P.O. Box University of Penna. [P.S.] P.S. if for any reason you do not care to Answer this letter or acknowledge Receipt thereof would you be kind enough to quote in any article that you might insert in The Philadelphia North American some sentences in my letter to you for instance Like This The Times of the Amorites is not (yet) For all" or any other that I may know that you received this Letter My Letters do not always reach their Destination & I do not always receive them either. Yours truly C.B. M.New Orleans, La., August 25, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L.I. Dear Sir:- As I am now in the United States on business, I desire to place myself at your service in connection with your trip to South America, and if you will advise me when it is convenient for you to receive me, I will be glad to call on you at your home, unless I am called back to Peru suddenly. When we first saw the cable news of your projected trip, we cabled you our congratulations and welcome. This cablegram was signed by the "West Coast Leader" and "Peru To-day", publications which I control. You may recall, perhaps, that on recommendation of Hon. Frank B. Loomis, I was in charge of the Italian Bureau in the Republican National Committee during the campaign of 1904, and that I have always been an ardent partisan of yours. I have been in Peru for the last five years and have built up a publishing business there, which controls three publications. My only object in writing is to offer my friendly assistance, in order to contribute towards the success of your trip, and I shall be glad to get your views and make any advance arrangements for you in Peru.Hon. T.R. #2. August 25, 1913. Kindly address your reply to my New York office, 20 Broad Street, in which City will be about the 2nd. or 3rd. of September. Yours very truly, John Vavasour Noel 20 Broad Street, New York. Telephone 1575 Rector Publisher of "Peru To-day", "West Coast Leader" and "Noticias". Special Correspondent in Lima for the N.Y. Herald, United Press, and other news agencies. Lindon Bates a rabid progressive and a good friend of mine is now in Peru -Standish, Mass., Aug. 25, [*1913,*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Sir:- Knowing your hatred of all forms of wrong, I sent a story based upon facts within my personal knowledge to the Collier's contest, supoosing that you and Miss Tarbell, of somewhat similar spirit in the matter of righting wrongs, were to be the judges of the merit of stories in the contest. While I can see the reasonableness of the spirit which led to the rejection of my story, I am yet puzzled how you and Miss Tarbell [*are*] to judge of the merit of stories in the contest. Shall I seem to be presumptuous in asking that I have the privilege of sending my story to you for examination and advice? It is with reference to the ministry and churches, and the matter of the age of the ministers. I will not trespass more upon your time in this communication, but shall be pleased if I can have your ear and thought. Sincerely yours, [*(Rev.) O. O. Ordway*] [*[ENCL IN RIEMEN SCHNEIDER 8 - 25 -13]*] [*[RIEMENSCHEIDER]*] Yorkville, ILI. [*Aug 28.*] 1913. Kaiser William, 2nd. Berlin Germany. Dear Sir- There is only one God and one Germany, But the German people do not appreciate that they live in the best ruling country that Gold Almighty has created. They have the best law that they can wish for, but still they are not satisfied. They [*talk*] about this wonderfull America and free republic where people get rich quick and everyone has a chance to be President, but what good does it do him to be rich without honor and truth. They do not realize that a family in Germany that has six acres of land and manage it well live happier than a man in America with a hundred acres. It is true that the last ten years the farmers have prospered and lots of them got rich, but such is only temperary. They do not realize that they build homes for the swindlers. Some of which appear as judges, some as lawyers, some preachers and some as the second Jesus, who will work them to any extent to get it away from them before death comes. if not that soon the lawyer sure looks out that a man who has to make a mistake so as to break it in court and before they are through with it the lawyers and judges get it all. If there is no will made they manage to get his estate one way or another. Every sensible man knows that no country exports the best people to a new country. The majority of the Americans are put together of foreigners who had no knowledge to any great extent, on the other hand there are lots of them who had to run from their own country and look for a new one. Some are anarchists, some swindlers, etc. who would not be allowed in a decent country. It stands to reason that these are generally the kind who study up a swindle of some kind and make it burdensome for the hard working man. The people in general talk about the big wages the working man gets but they do not tell how every thing is fixed to get it away from him again. He dont stand any show in law especially if he is a man of truth, if he can't pay the judge, the sheriff, and the lawyer on both sides more than the other fellow and can't visit the Mayor often enough there is no show for him, which we will illustrate in this following case. We hear the American people talk about the American swindle in court but the most of them have not the grit and knowledge to take it up and stay with them, but here is the best illustration in these books that ever was heard of in history. 1. When this man did this act it was right after a law affiar about the preacher's and the city Mayor's boys who I was compelled to bring before court. Right after this I was predicted that I should have my skull broke in, and it is true that the man who did this act is a great friend of the city mayor of Yorkville. It seems as though he was hired and payed, for his own Father felt great and said that he should go and do it again and tHey would pay it again. After he had done the act he ran into the Mayor's office or Place of business and reported what he had done, where- -upon the Mayor and Nading another ruler of the town looked through tHe window wiating for me to drag myself through the street. Instead of taking him and putting him to justice they laughed at me how beautifuly I was cut up, and gave him shelter. From there I went to the justice, swore out a complaint that this fellowcame after me in a public place and attacked me with a weapon which he pleaded guilty to. Instead of putting him under bonds according to the Amercan law, he fined him the cheapest cost the law calls for, for only laying a finger on a man with out even hurting. him, which is at the cheapest $3.00 and the cost $.85 which he payed and then went out and payed the sheriff a visit. From that time on I could not show my face, the people looked at me as the meanest man in town, and tried to scare me if I would not keep still by saying they would put me in the insane asylum, From that time on the officers of the town tried to put me in a bad light while the other fellow was the nicest man living because his Father was rich. They worked this case in such a crooked way in court that I am not afraid to bet $2.00 to $1.00 that the most crooked case ever put together can not beat this: one. My own lawyer Sears twisted every question to their advantage. The Doctor said that he could see no swelling. Wittnesses who I subpoened were not allowed to testify and it seemed that their wittnesses were well trained but to much burden was placed onto them and they bit off a larger piece than they were able to digest. THey show my hand in this man's face and I was after him all the time but still we did not get out of the center part of this large. shop. The best joke of all was that the defendant himself testifies . (the card table stands ten or twelve feet in from the door in a kind of a cut out to the right side of the shop) The trouble began there whereupon I stepped back into the center of this place, to which they all testified. Still he came there and attacked me. THis was after he promised me that I should feel sorry. .gAbstract Webers testimony No. 25.), Markles testimony on page 43 shows where I stood in the center. 2.(Lamp on 51), (Hill on 65 says they came closer). What did he come back for? If I was after him we would not have come closer, this would have happened outside. We will go back to 58$ Jones said they backed Neusiis out which sure was not necessary if I went after him outside. Take the whole story of every wittness and pach it together and it shows that I was always found in the center part. My good lawyer Sears could have been caught that bunch in their own trap, instead of doing so he tried to catch me. In his plea he told the Jury that I was to blame for it and there was no damage done to me but they should give him a lesson anyway, to which the defendant's lawyer replied that we sued him for five thousand dollars and now we say there is no damage done. He got his lesson in the Justice court, Didnot they make that fit pretty cute? Compare my testimony with Dr. Langhorst's and barber lutwigs and then turn to this crooked testimony of McLellands which will give your honor assurance that my story is correct. Then find on number 85, this great American Judge took it into his hands after all the testimony which shows that defendant attacked me first, he changed it and told the Jury that I assaulted him first. I wonder what the German people would say if they were treated like that in Germany. Here in America they call that smart and gentlemen like. there are the kind to be found in church, courts, politics and and in any place where they can shear the sheep and pull the wool over their eyes. They made it awful hard for me, they tried everything to prevent this to come before the people. I had to hire another lawyer to take up the case and we won after I had spent lots of money. The three Judges declared that there was no sign of any self defence in that case. He did it maliciously with out the slightest reason for it. They knocked out the Judges instruction, in fact they declared that I was right in every respect. Now we have to try the same thing over in the lower court, this is pretty close to five years and we haven't any Justice yet, only expense, a brocken nose and my skull broke in several places, as is visible in these small pictures. A man dont need any eyes he can feel my head at midnight and identify me where ever I go. As crooked as this game was worked and has been declared by the publice the biggest swindle they ever heard of. The states attorney has still grit enough to try every thing in his power to get defendant clear and get me into trouble. One of the county Judges used his influence to get the news papers to go against me. The sheriff and my own lawyer took money of me twice to pay expenses with. To my surprise I found that ten months after it was against me again. 3.The Mayor of the town or his place of business was used to hire my second lawyer away from me to come on their side. Is not that a beautiful set? No wonder that they got sore when a German who never had any shool in America caught them in their dirty play and show the people how crooked the law is worked. They get rich and do not need to work and the honest innocent working man is held down that he can just live and no further. That is the glory of America and such will happen to that beautiful Germany and every other great country as quick as they overthrow the kingdom. To give your majesty an idea why this was done I will tell of a little incident which happened before this deal. I had not been in America very long when I wittnesed a sight where a man got robbed and beaten out of his money under the same condition as I was slugged in the blacksmith shop and afterwards beaten in court. In that case there were some of the same fellows connected who are connected with my case. I was present at the time and was the only man who protested against it. For that act they took revenge on me and I could not get justice in America. If I took a hand in and and helped myself they call me smart but when I showed them that the right type of a German dont stand for such dishonesty they declared me crazy. This is my desire to come back once more to Germany to the great country which can never be beaten unless they make a free republice of it. The people ought to pray to God Almighty and thank him that they live in the best ruling country of the world. August Riemenschneider, 4. [*?*][*[8-25-13].*] [*[RIEMENSCHNEIDER]*] Yorkville, Ill. Aug. 25, 1913. Mr. Theo. Roosevelt Dear Sir, Here is an article that I am sure will deeply interest you and I would be greatly pleased and very much obliged to you if you would read this case and then write me if you ever saw a worse swindle than this. Look at my testimony "Abst. page 21," then compare it with Dr McLellan's testimony, starts at "Abst. page 39." Now turn to 40, how beautifully my lawyer examines that fellow and a little further on how he finishes. Then Markel's testimony starts at page 42. Lamp's starts at 50, but in neither one of them you don't need to go far before you have them in a trap without cross-examination. The whole bunch swore similar to this.[*[8-25-13].*] [*[RIEMENSCHNEIDER]*] In spite of such crooked stories as they gave my own lawyer told the jury that I was to blame for this and furthermore tried to prove by Dr. McLellan's story that I was not hurt This picture was taken after I was healed up. See what a gash it leaves on the top of my head. I couldn't hide that if I tried. Ever body could identify me by those marks. People talk about swindle but when they can put up such a swindle in open court and make it stick, that beats anything that I ever heard of. My lawyer is a republican and claims he is a great christian. He is master in chancery for Kane county and they tell me that he is the leader of the young men's christian association.[*[8-25-13].*] [*[RIEMENSCHNEIDER]*] After he had my money and had me stuck in court he made a motion for a new trial which is customary as your honor knows, but when the case was called the great christian lawyer didn't appear and I had to battle my own case. "Abst p. 87," will convince you of this fact. If I hadn't I would have been knocked out of existence in court. If you ever saw a surprised bunch you could have seen them at that time at the court house. I had to battle with that great republican judge and I showed him the impossibility of me having my hand in the defendants face under the circumstances. But he refused my plea for a new trial. Watch the instructions Page 85 which he gave for defendant. There was'nt any sign in the record which should call for[*[8-25-13].*] [*[RIEMENSCHNEIDER]*] such instructions. Take the whole as it is. It was a hold up from start to finish. That's the way that they have beaten the Indians out of their territory here in America and that's the way they hold court. They thought that I was a German and didn't understand the language but still they expect me to call them the honorable court. When I was a boy I was taught to speak the truth and stay by it. When I came to this country and took out my civilization papers I had to promise that I would uphold the laws of the United States and I have tried ever since to do so. I saw a case similar to mine where a man was robbed out of a thousand dollars by some of the fellows mentioned in this case. At that time I protested bitterly against it but still they got his money.[*[8-25-13].*] [*[RIEMENSCHNEIDER]*] From that time on they didn't leave a stone unturned in order to get me into trouble. We had evidence that this man was payed for this act but Sears wouldn't let it go in. When I hired another lawyer this bunch tried to scare me by saying that if I would not keep still they would put me in the insane asylum which gives me all the more courage to bring this before the people and especially before all the greatest men that the world possesses. I am ruined for ever in health to do much work. Any one who feels my head how it is crushed they wonder how I lived. I am willing to sacrifice all of my remaining strength to bring this before the people. As I know you are a particular friend of the German emperor and every man who stands for truth and facts, I implore you to send one of these copies[*[8-25-13].*] [*[RIEMENSCHNEIDER]*] to the Emperor of Germany. My great desire is to save the people from such dishonesty as is played here. I would like to translate this in the German language when I go over to Germany and teach them that America is a great rich country but it doesn't do the honest man any good. If they know a man is a couple hundred of dollars ahead these crooks put him through some kind of an operation. They either slug him or drug him or fix up some sort of a deal with which America is rich. The last of all is at the American court where they give him the rest. The way that this bunch runs court puts me in mind of the Becker bunch of New York only a little worse. It seams as if they were all connected in it. My lawyer and the sheriff worked together and made me pay bills for the[8-25-13] [RIEMENSCHNEIDER] other fellow and some of my own which I paid twice. To my great surprise ten months later when I had another lawyer examine the fee book it was still against me. When you talk about a rotten bunch I believe this beats anything you ever heard of. This all was done because they couldn't hire me to come on their side. They promised me once in election time that if I would not vote as they wanted me to they would as much as to say break me up and here you see the out come of it. The shows the ability of the great American court in improving the country. The State's Attorney was hired to go to Chicago to see if he could not get a case against me for sending this court record through mail. Another judge to watch the newspaper[8-25-13] [RIEMENSCHNEIDER] man in order to blacken me in the paper and wash the other fellow white. The same bunch tried to tell the ignorant people what great law and great men America has possessed. I sincerly believe that George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt are some of the greatest and noblest men that America ever had. But hasn't this bunch killed or tried to kill ever great man as soon as they see that they can't change them over on their side? Was there ever a man that they spoke so great of as Roosevelt when he was in the presidential chair the first time? But when they saw that he was a man who stood to the point of truth and honesty and could not be changed they tried to vote him out of existence. When that didn't work they tried to kill him.[*[8-25-13].*] [*[RIEMENSCHNEIDER]*] Under all these conditions shall we pray for them so they get stronger all the time and slug us again? I believe (believe) that it is almost impossible for the best man to pray for such a bunch any longer. I won the case back in the Appelate Court. Now the bunch try to scare me and think that they will win yet the next time. After we caught them in their own lies and there was nothing left for them the Kendall County officers still expect to save the slugger, but the secret is this. "His family is rich." I used to think that I could face every body with the truth but it seems as if it failed in this case. I would be very much obliged to you if you will answer my letter. Very Respectfully, A. Riemenschneider. Yorkvill Ills[For encl see 8-25-13][*Incoming corresp - from T R to his office*] Form 168 WESTERN UNION WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT RECEIVED AT 172 Fifth Ave., N. W. Cor. 22d St., New York ALWAYS OPEN A240NY MR 9 RG CHICAGO ILLS AUG 25- 1913 FRANK HARPER, ESQ OUTLOOK OFFICE COR 4TH AVE & 22ND ST., NY WILL BE AT OFFICE TUESDAY MORNING THE 26. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 147PM 56538 St Louis Mo Aug 25th 1913 Mr Roosefelt Dear Sir I hope I am not intruding in any way by takeing it upon myself to write you a letter of introduction. as a am a great admire of such a hero of nerve and courage, and a man for right and justice to all man kind, rich or poor black or white. I have been thrown in contack with a great many of our finest and richer people of this city also a great many of the poor also the good livers. as I am a poor woman myself working for a liveing trying to raise a large family. in the last years I have had dealings with many and all I have conversed with, think and feel [to] toward you and this great bull moose party as these words read in the composeing of this song. and we do [sh], know that you are the Origanator of this grand an noble party and under such a leader thay are sure to win. I want to get music set to these words and I want to hear of it being played forand near and on the streets and in every ball room. I would be so proud to think that I had composed something that would live forever. like John Brown body, and Sheridan march in honor of such a grand and great party as the Bull Moose party. please read carefully and see if you think it worthy of being played and sun in all parts of our grand and great country Very Respt Sarah Walker 4275 A Finney ave Rugby, N. Dak. Aug 20-1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay. L. I. Dear Sir: In one of your tales of ranch life and hunting you mention "Clarkes Crow". Would you kindly give me a description of this bird. Is it a crow or a magpie - and is "Clarkes Crow" its real name or a local name? I have never seen one - mounted or otherwise - at least not so named. Could you give me its scientific classification. I take it to be native to the mountains and forests of the west. Thanking you for any trouble you may take to enlighten me I remain Respectfully yours (Rev) Frederick G. Westphal T.A. WRIGHT PRESIDENT. J. WYLIE BROWNLEE, VICE PRES. DON CARLOS ELLIS, 2ND VICE PRES. HU. M. JOHNSTON 3RD VICE PRES. C. H. HARVEY, 4TH VICE PRES. S. V. CARTER, TREASURER W. M. GOODMAN, DIRECTOR-GENERAL. THE NATIONAL CONSERVATION EXPOSITION Knoxville, Tennessee SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 1913 August 25, 1913. Mr. Frank Harper, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your favor of 22nd inst. and from what you say fear that our proposition will not reach Col. Roosevelt before he leaves for the east. In the event it should, please have it reach him as early as you can and the proposition will be good to him any time between September 1st and October 31st, and so far as expenses are concerned will cover his trip here and return from whatever point he finds it necessary to go. Yours very truly, [*T. A. Wright*] President. TAW-m Enc. in Hamell 8-25-132 THE EVENING BULLETIN-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1913. WITNESS TO DEATH OF GIRL ARRESTED Colored Caretaker Says Policemen Caroused While Miss Dukes Lay on Deathbed DRANK BEER IN NEXT ROOM William James, colored, twenty-four years old, of 1308 Lombard st., who up until last Sunday was house man at 1512 Arch st., in the house in which Miss Meredith Dukes, of Selbyville, Del., died following an illegal operation said to have been performed by Miss May Simmons, was arrested this morning by acting Lieutenant Gregory, of the 15th and Vine sts. station as a material witness. James told the police that on August 13 while he was working about the house, a carriage drove up to the door, and Miss Simmons and a physician carried Miss Dukes into the house. He said the physician came every day to see the girl and that Miss Simmons stayed at the house and acted as nurse. The colored youth surprised the police when he told them that on the day the woman died, two policemen from the 15th and Vine sts. station came to the back gate at 1512 Arch st., and asked to see Harry Leisner, the proprietor. "He knows we are coming," one of the policemen is said to have remarked. "He told us to stop in and get some beer." "The policemen who were in uniform, then came into the house," said James, "and Harry too kthem into a room adjoining that occupied by Miss Dukes. The men laughed and sang all the afternoon, while Miss Dukes was in the next room moaning with pain. "I went to the room and told my employer the girl was dying, and he paid no attention to me. I told him I would write a postal card to the police, telling them what kind of a house it was, and Leisner pulled a blackjack from his pocket and chased me to 19th and Arch sts. "Miss Dukes certainly was neglected while she was in the house, and it is no wonder she died, with all the noise other persons in the house were making. There was a beer party in the room right over Miss Dukes, and, although I asked the people to stop the racket, they paid no attention to me. That night Miss Dukes died." Superintendent of Police Robinson said he would investigate the charges made against the policemen by James, and the youth will be taken to the 15th and Vine sts. station to-day to pick out the men he says were in the habit of attending parties at the Arch st. house. Superintendent Robinson said he would suspend the men if they are identified. Coroner's Detective Frank Paul said to-day there was no way to estimate how many operations had been performed by Miss Simmons,, who is under arrest. He said she had been under surveiliance for four years. Paul admitted that before the investigation is completed persons of social prominence in this city may be dragged into the affair, including several well-known physicians. He will confer with Coroner Knight and District Attorney Rotan this morning. At the conference the confession of Dr. Sommers, of 12th st., near Huntingdon, that he made out a certificate of death from intestinal inflammation for Meredith Dukes when he knew she had died from other causes will be considered. Mortality records at City Hall are being searched to check up on physicians who have treated patients of the accused nurse. 'I'M RUNNING CASE," DECLARES THAW (Continued from the First Page.) out of this," he said. "I have heard that an offer has been made to send extra police to guard the jail to see that the gunmen sent up by the New York State WAS STATE CAPITOL NOW CHEAP LAUNDRY Building Which Once Housed Colorado Assembly Recently 24 HOURS OF GRACE GIVEN TO MEXICANS (Continued from the First Page.) that Huerta has summoned General Geronimo Trevino from the State of Nueva Leon to the capital and that it is the Huerta intention of making Trevino pro- service has been made so mobile that on a few hours' notice it could start for any place its services were needed. This applies in general to the entire personnel of the corps, but more particularly to that portion stationed at Philadelphia. From that station the 1,000 marines in barracks there would be at their posts with all their paraphernalia in two hours after a call came. HUNGER STRIKE NOT NEW Practiced Centuries Ago in Ireland by Creditors Against Stubborn Debtors There's nothing new in the suffragette hunger strike, for it is a custom of great antiquity. One of the comparatively modern instances of this rebellion against the high cost of living was that of John Scott, in the sixteenth[ENCL IN ROBINSON 8-26-13] [8-25-13]CHICAGO DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, AUGUST 25. T. R. HERE; TALKS TO FOLLOWERS Roosevelt Decries Merger with G. O. P.; Scores Opposition to Woman Suffrage Brassed by the sun of Arizona, Col. Theodore Roosevelt arrived in Chicago today and passed on hour and a half in the city. In this short time the former president discussed politics, talked of his expedition to the Grand canyon and paid the suffragettes of Illinois a high compliment. After his arrival at the Dearborn street station Col. Roosevelt was taken to the Chicago Progressive club, 19 West Jackson boulevard, where he held a reception. "I have just come out of the desert," said Mr. Roosevelt, "and I do not know just what the national topics are. But I will say a few things about the progressive party and what its doctrines stand for. "No Merger with Republicans" "There was some talk about getting together with the republicans, I have been told since I came out of the Grand canyon. There is no getting together. If other parties wish to get together and accept our principles, we will be more than glad to take them in. The progressive part stands alone, and we will welcome anyone to join us." "I want to say that the women of this country have just as much right to vote as the men," continued Mr. Roosevelt, after he had been introduced to Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout and Mrs. Antoinette Funk, the Illinois suffragist leaders. "Many persons have said that if the power to vote is given women it will interfere with their domisticity. That is all tommy-rot. It is just as ridiculous to say that business will interfere with the man if he votes." No Attack on Judges Col. Roosevelt went on to outline the principles of the progressive party. "We stand for what is just and right," he said. "It has been said that I attacked the judges of this country. That is not true. I have said that if we find the judges are not upholding the laws of this land then we should have a right to recall them. The same principles apply to any other public servant. "It has been charged by the [?] interests of this country that our doctrines are not right. I say that neither the big nor the little business interests of our country should strangle and swindle the people whom they serve, but make fair and legitimate profit. "I believe that the big business men should serve the people and not swindle them." Before leaving for Oyster Bay on the Pennsylvania Limited at 12:40 p. m. Col. Roosevelt purchased four books. They were: "Inside of the Ropes," "Longhead," "Abysmal Brutus" and "Wild Hunting in China." A rich mahogany finish and a pair of spectacles which replaced his usual beribboned eyeglasses nearly prevented the colonel's recognition by a reception committee from the Chicago Progressive club, consisting of Thomas D. Knight, the president of the organization; Charles Thons, A. S. Musser, Charles J. Rybert, Julian Mason and Representative Emil J. Zolla. Wouldn't Have Missed the Dances After his greeting by the committee and his handshake with the engineer of the train, Col. Roosevelt declared his ignorance of current happenings. "I can have nothing to say about any situations now existing," he said. "I am just out of the desert and out of touch with any crisis." "How about knowledge of the Arizona snake dances?" he was asked. "I am No. 1 on snake dances," he replied enthusiastically, "but I haven't time to talk about them now." With this two sons, Kermit and Archie, he boarded the Broadway special of the Pennsylvania railroad at the Union station, on his way back to Oyster Bay. He expressed his regret at being unable to attend the progressive rally in Chicago next Saturday, and stated that he would probably prepare a letter to be read on that occasion.Form No. 44. NIGHT MESSAGE. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY, INCORPORATED 23,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This company transmits and delivers messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. 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NUMBER SENT BY REC'D BY CHECK 13 Fed 29 FEX RECEIVED at Oyster Bay. 8/26 190 13 Dated Gp New York 26 To Hon Theo Roosevelt ms. Is it possible for me to see you for half an hour between now and Saturday for an important business talk regarding subject we discussed at Oyster Bay Irving Bacheller, Hotel Manhattan [[shorthand]]ESTABLISHED 1841. American Express Company, FOREIGN DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF GENERAL MANAGER, 65 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Cable Address AMEXCO, NEW YORK—Lieber’s Code. (089) GENERAL OFFICES: 65 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. OFFICES IN EUROPE: LONDON 6 Haymarket, 84 Queen Street. LIVERPOOL 10 James Street. GLASGOW 3 West Nile Street. SOUTHAMPTON 25 Oxford Street. ROME 38-40 Piazza di Spagna. NAPLES 23-30 Via Vittoria. GENOA 17 Piazza Nunziata. COPENHAGEN 8 Holmens Kanal. CHRISTIANIA 8 Kirkegaden. PARIS 11 Rue Scribe. 54 Rue des Petites Ecuries. HAVRE 43 Quai d’Orleans. MARSEILLES 9 Rue Beauvau. BERLIN 55 Charlotten Strasse. HAMBURG 9 Alsterdamm. BREMEN 8 Bahnhofstrasse. ANTWERP 7 Quai Van Dyck. ROTTERDAM 26a Zuidblaak. Shipping and Banking Correspondents at all Principal Cities and Ports of the Commercial World. GENERAL EUROPEAN AGENTS FOR MERCHANTS DESPATCH AND NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES August 26, 1913. Please refer to File B-22-373,861. Mr. Frank Harper, Secretary, The OUTLOOK, 287 Fourth Avenue, NEW YORK CITY. Dear Sir:- , Your letter of the 25th inst., advising us of Mr. C. E. Akeley's address, has been duly received, and we thank you for same. Yours truly, M S Berrey. General Manager ERP-hPREACHING 11 A. M. AND 7:30 P.M. SUNDAY SCHOOL 10 A. M. CLASS MEETING 12 M. ALLEN C. E. LEAGUE 6 P.M. PRAYER MEETING WED. EVENING, 7:30 P.M. I. WILBER BESS, PASTOR A. M. E. CHURCH Osceola, Iowa...8/26th,........ 191.3. Col. Theodore Roosevelt Outlook Office. Dear Col; You are leaving Chicago as I am writting this letter which I hope you will have time to consider, I am a Colored man 33, years old, and I have a mission circuit out here in our church. I am married but have no children which is not up to your doctrin, but it is no fault of mine, -- But in short I am seeking a posission as I can not make a living out here in this work which I like so well but as I have no financial backing and as our church has no such department to look to I am obliged to give the work up. I can do most any thing and thought you might know of some firm who wanted a private officer, messenger or any thing that I can do. I would like to be with you on your trip to South America but of course you nodoubt would have any thing for me to do. What ever you can do for me will be highly Appreciated and will mean much to me, Trusting that you will have time to consider this letter, And thanking you in advance for what ever you can do, I am very truly yours, I. W. Bess "Walks and Talks" A Daily Letter of Comment By Julius Chambers [In its eighth year] CABLE ADDRESS : JAYSEABERS, NEW YORK TELEPHONE CONNECTION JULIUS CHAMBERS Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society ADVERTISING AND BUSINESS LITERATURE TRAVEL BOOKS: "The Mississippi River" "The Mediterranean" "A Happy Month in Jamaica" "Seeing New York" "The Alleghenies" NOVELS: "A Mad World and Its People" "On a Margin" "The Rascal Club" "The Destiny of Doris" "Lost in The Sargasso Sea" 312 West 109th St., New York. August 26, 1913. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: Welcome home. I have been saving the inclosed to send you. If I could have had your address in the desert, I would have sent it to you there. No acknowledgment is expected. Sincerely yours, [*Julius Chambers*] DAILY, SATURDAY AND MAGAZINE JOURNAL BUILDING 16-18 LISBON STREET H. M. DINGLEY, PRES. F. L. DINGLEY, TREAS. PULLEN, BRYANT & COMPANY FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES BOSTON OFFICE 1147 OLD SOUTH BUILDING NEW YORK OFFICE FIFTH AVENUE BUILDING CHICAGO OFFICE MARQUETTE BUILDING EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT FOUNDED LJC 1847 LEWISTON JOURNAL CO. LEWISTON, MAINE Aug. 26, 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, C/o The Outlook, New York, N.Y. Dear Colonel: I am glad to see that you are coming East. My judgment is that you were never more needed, for we are fighting the preliminary battles of 1916. You are aware that a hot struggle is on in the third Maine Congressional District. Our candidate for congress, Mr. Lawrence, is making a good canvas, and we are assisted by a number of representative progressives from outside, including Bonaparte, Garfield, Colby and Murdock. The old republican guard, who have run the republican party for years,are still in command. The republican candidate is Peters, a hawk hatched in Hale's nest. Peters has ice water where blood generally flows, and is personally weak in popularity, but able as a Tory lawyer. He and Governor Haines have betrayed state regulation of public utilities, and created a public utilities Tory court, corresponding to Taft's commerce court. The law has been held up for a popular referendum, and if we do our duty the law will fail and the public utilities court will be sent to the limbos. Peters led the fight for a Taft United States senator, Mr. Burleigh, .DAILY, SATURDAY AND MAGAZINE JOURNAL BUILDING 16-18 LISBON STREET H. M. DINGLEY, PRES. F. L. DINGLEY, TRKAS. PULLEN, BRYANT & COMPANY FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES BOSTON OFFICE 1147 OLD SOUTH BUILDING NEW YORK OFFICE FIFTH AVENUE BUILDING CHICAGO OFFICE MARQUETTE BUILDING LEWISTON JOURNAL CO. LEWISTON, MAINE T.R.-2- Now the Old Guard, on the stump and in their newspapers (and they've bottled up nearly all the newspapers of the State both democratic and republican, against the progressive party program) declare that Colonel Roosevelt will train in the next political struggle in the republican party. Of course, we declare that the progressive party has no use for either of the old parties, and that amalgamation of progressives with the republican party, nationally controlled by such as Penrose, is impossible. We expect to poll a large vote, but it is said that Bryan will come into the Third Maine District to arrest the detachment of progressive democrats from the democratic party. The democratic candidate for congress is a very able but thoroly unscrupulous and dangerous man. If we can get from the democratic party the real progressives, democratic, who have already broken with the democratic tag, we can elect Lawrence. The Peters republicans do not expect to win, but they hope to hold enough of their own party to defeat Lawrence, and are ready to deliver to the democratic candidate, Pattangall, votes enough to make sure of the democratic congressman, if they see danger of Lawrence, progressive, DAILY, SATURDAY AND MAGAZINE JOURNAL BUILDING 16-18 LISBON STREET H. M. DINGLEY, PRES. F. L. DINGLEY, TREAS. PULLEN, BRYANT & COMPANY FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES BOSTON OFFICE 1147 OLD SOUTH BUILDING NEW YORK OFFICE FIFTH AVENUE BUILDING CHICAGO OFFICE MARQUETTE BUILDING EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT FOUNDED LJC 1847 LEWISTON JOURNAL CO. LEWISTON, MAINE T.R. -3- getting a plurality. You will recall that in the last campaign the progressives were fooled, such as Burleigh and Governor Haines, professing to be for you, but instantly turning against you after Taft was nominated. Now that they are misemploying your name to the detriment of our cause, as in 1912, I beg you to come to the rescue. If you can spend one or two days in this state, addressing audiences in the third congressional district at pivotal points, we can elect Lawrence; we can call their bluff, and carry consternation in the rank of both the old parties, cooperating against rate regulation, and fooling the farmers with the same tariff bunkum that failed to work in 1910 and would have failed to work in 1912, if the progressives had maintained separate party organization. I exhort you by every consideration touching the future of the progressive party, to come to the rescue. On a straight ballot you could carry this state today 50,000 strong. It is not too much to say that the Old Guards of both parties are looking to the result of the Third-Maine District as a forecast or a foreboding of the trend of public sentiment. Can you not at once send to Maine your greetings to the progressives; wiring us touching your attitude inDAILY, SATURDAY AND MAGAZINE JOURNAL BUILDING 16-18 LISBON STREET H. M. DINGLEY, PRES. F. L. DINGLEY, TRKAS. PULLEN, BRYANT & COMPANY FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES BOSTON OFFICE 1147 OLD SOUTH BUILDING NEW YORK OFFICE FIFTH AVENUE BUILDING CHICAGO OFFICE MARQUETTE BUILDING LEWISTON JOURNAL CO. LEWISTON, MAINE T.R. -4- such terms as seem best to you. If this were an ordinary bi-election the occasion would not be so momentous. Please give this consideration and requests such attention as your judgment approves without delay. Faithfully yours, [*Frank L Dingley*] [*?shorthand?*] 226 FIFTH AVENUE New York, Aug 26, 1913 My dear Colonel, I have just read with pleasure your remiscences of '98, as printed in the latest "Outlook". I congratulate you on the vivid freshness of your memory after the lapse of so many years. You did well to enter at length into the matter of the so-called "round robin", since that is a point that has been distorted beyond all measure by your critics and by hidebound military men. It gave me special pleasure to note your generous tribute to the late Secretary Alger's ante bellum kindnesses to you, the more so since I once heard him denounce you as an ingrate. The vital lesson that you drive home all though this article has such direct application to the present Mexican muddle that I hope, almost against hope, that some of our people may profit by your preaching. You will have realized, by the way, that my gloomy forebodings from Mexico concerning Henry Lane Wilson's diplomatic talents have proved only too true. At the time I wrote you concerning him I was under the impression that you had sent him to Mexico. I have learned since then to my satisfaction that such was not the case. I hope I may have a chance to say goodbye to you before you sail for South America. I wish I were coming along. Faithfully yours, {*Edwin Emerson*] IMPORTERS & GROCERS. GENERAL OFFICES WHOLESALE & RETAIL 32-34 S. WABASH AVE. WAREHOUSE & DISTRIBUTION CENTER 114-116-118 MICHIGAN ST. NEAR RUSH ST. C. JEVNE & CO ESTABLISHED 1865 OTTO C. ERICSON PRESIDENT PHONE EXCHANGE CENTRAL 1234 AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES 41-143. 43-456. CABLE ADDRESS "JEVNE" OFFICE & SALESROOM CHICAGO. Aug. 26, 1913 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Dear Sir: Permit me to call your attention to the clipping enclosed which is of intense interest. Perhaps you are familiar with this project in Norway which means so much to the whole world in the scientific development of agriculture in the future. Will you pardon me if I make free to call your attention to a project now uppermost in many minds, that of reclaiming the waste lands of the Mississippi River and its Tributaries? This is not a new idea to you as I understand that you have advocated it. It has been estimated that the bottom-lands of the Mississippi Valley when reclaimed will support a population of some sixty millions of people. These lands are the richest in the world, possibly with one exception, that of the Amazon of South America, which, however, is unsuitable for white civilization. WAREHOUSE When the Panama Canal is finished millions of dollars worth of machinery, dredges, conveyors, locomotives, cars and track may be utilized in this reclamation project and we have down there an engineering corps such as has never been equalled in the world. To do this work by private or state capital as has been attempted heretofore is practically useless. Two millions of acres of this land is in the State of Illinois. A private syndicate is reclaiming five thousand acres of the Illinois River lands. The work that they started last Fall was washed away this Spring. The Army and Navy might be turned to good account in this project. The War Department should be charged with this work and military engineers now paid by the government might be employed. May I ask whether the same method of condemning land now employed by the railways in building new lines might not be applied to the reclamation, that is whether the land could be appraised at its present value, condemned for the purpose of improving it and when reclaimed and opened for settlement the original owner would be given the first opportunity to buy it from the government at its increased value. If he should not avail himself of his right of purchase it should be sold to now settlers on favorable terms. No speculation in such lands should be permitted. The profit to the government and to the people would be enormous.Second: Millions of Hydraulic-Electric Horse-Power would be developed in connection with damming the Tributary Rivers ad the Mississippi itself. The profit would be phenominal and beyond computations. Water could be dammed at certain points where the topography of the land would make it practical and the water could be utilized several times in its descent to the Sea. Third: When the river has been forced into a definite channel it will dig a bed for itself, and would initiate a navigable waterway as a by-product. Fourth: The loss of life and property by inundation each year would be prevented. The water supply of the entire valley could be controlled so that floods would be unknown, or practically so, and prevention of loss and property be periodic inundation of the land, would in a large measure offset the interest on the money expended in the reclamation. Fifth: Improvement in the climate conditions of the Mississippi Valley would be great. Swamp lands are breeders of malaria and other diseases and of poisonous insects destructive to man and beast. The task is a gigantic one but it must be done at some time and the time is now or will be as soon as the Panama Canal is finished.It is really a simple mechanical project but gigantic in its results. The Reclamation Bureau at Washington has expended something like $25.00 per acre in bringing water to certain arid lands of the West. Were the same amount of money to be applied to the Mississippi River Valley the sum expended would amount to $1,875,000,000.00 and the profit on the investment would be ten-fold and more when the benefits are considered. I can think of no greater life work than this. Respectfully submitted by [*Otto C. Ericson*] President, C. JEVNE & COMPANY. [*8/26/13*] 5 George Street, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. "Hon" Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir A great many things have happened since you went out west to Arizona Our old - Friend - Brackett has gone to the Bad intirey. For the dirty work He done for Boss Burner in Albany last year and for the dispizable work He is about to undertake before the impeachment Court - on the 18th inst. He has been promised the Appointment of Supreme Justice on the Court of Appeals. Another surprise is coming....... Mr. Frank A. Munsey last winter went back to the Republican Party, because He had a little money. Later on He went over to to the Democrats to help Tamany Hall. He will get even for what he lost last year for Tamany Hall forget the doe. He is against Mitchel for mayor. He is against Sulzer I dont wish to bother you but a great Many People have stopped the N. Y. Press for the Knickerbocker Press. The Boston Journal. The North AmericanThe Pittsburgh Leader and the Albany Knickerbocker Press are all good Bull-Moose Papers. I guess Mr President you have not got home any to quick. I am glad to hear that you are well and I hope you will continue to enjoy the very best of health. I remain your most obedient servant. C. H. Goss327 Lexington Ave N.Y. [*[8-26-13]*] Dear Col. Roosevelt: The time has come when we must complete the arrangements for the joint meeting of the Academy and Institute in Chicago November 13 - 15. Will you have the kindness to tell me whether your South American trip will prevent your participation. W. Garland, I believe, conveyed to you the invitation to speak at the banquetto be held on the 13" at which the presidents of the two organizations were to be except yourself the only speakers. We were hoping that you would then speak on the literature of the West. Under Garland's direction the programme promises to be one of exceptional interest. As I am charged with arranging for the speakers representing the Academy I shall be greatly obliged for a prompt response. I trust you have enjoyed your vacation as much as I have mine. Sincerely yours, [*[Johnson]*] R. U. Johnson Permanent Secretary Am. Academy of A. & L. I am writing this at Mattapoisett, Mass. August 26, 1913 but shall return to N. Y. in a few days.Mt. Vernon Chautauqua Association INCORPORATION AUGUST 8-17, 1913 Mt. Vernon, Illinois T. J. MATHEWS, PRESIDENT J. T. WHITLOCK, VICE PRESIDENT. O. M. WATER, SECRETARY. L. IRONS, TREASURER. T. J. MATHEWS, PROGRAM MANAGER. V. E. HUFFER, SUPT. OF GROUNDS. M. J. SEED, ADVERTISING MANAGER. August 26, 1913. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir: The prople of Southern Illinois, like those of every other state are very anxious to see and hear you. It occurs to us that there could be no other method of meeting and talking to the people of this country quite so convenient and effective as through the chautauquas, and that you might possible accept an invitation from us for next summer. So I am directed by our board to address such an invitation to you for any day from August 12 to August 16 that might be most convenient to you. During our assembly of 1912 we had the honorable Wm. J. Bryan. The gate receipts on that day were $1118. of which Mr. Bryan got half. We would be glad to make just such an arrangement with you and feel sure that the gate receipts on that occasion would be greater than any in our history. But it is not, we feel sure, the financials returns that would appeal to you so much so much as the gratification of pleasing the people who are looking to you as a leader and desire to come into closer personal touch with you. Two or three dates each in a half dozen states next summer in the chautauquas listening to messages from you would mean a great moral uplift to the people and for that reason alone might well be worth your while. Yours truly, The Mt. vernon Chautauqua Association, Per T. J. Mathews. Pres. Owensboro, Kentucky. Aug. 26, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir:- As to-day is beautiful and bright, I thought I would write to you. Before I go on with my letter I msut introduce myself first. My name is William R. Nichols. I am sixteen years old, and go to the Owensboro High School. Last year was my first year, and during the year I was called upon to write a imaginary story, which Iwrote. I took for my subject the following: "My Exploration and My Wonderful Trip to the African Forests with Teddy Roosvelt and Son." And that is why I am writing to you this day. Please give this story your careful attention. Do not think when you read this story that I aim to harm you, for I do not. I have been reading some of your good books, but the one that I find helpfulness is the one on Africa. Ihope my story will interest you greatly. The most interesting book you wrote was the books on "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, and the "Rough Riders. I hope you will live long enough to serve the United States again, as President. Oh, if I could have the sayso of who should be President, I would say let Roosvelt be President. Always what people want they cannot get. But the time will come when the Democrats cannot have all of the Pie. While I am not old enough to vote any ticket, I believed that one man should not have all of the Pie. The story I was telling you about is very simple. I will enclose the story as I wrote it. I will close for this time, hoping to hear from you soon again. Write as soon as possible. With best regards Iremain Yours Respectfully William Robert Nichols. P.S. My address is #404 West Fourth Street. Owensboro, Kentucky.THE EVENING MAIL BROADWAY AND FULTON STREET HENRY L. STODDARD EDITOR Aug. 26, 1913. Mr. Frank Harper, With Col. Roosevelt, The Outlook, 22nd St. & Madison Ave., City. My dear Mr. Harper: The Evening Mail has arranged with Mr. Travis D. Wells, the well known newspaper man, who is going to South America early in September to write a series of articles on South American topics for magazines and a syndicate of newspapers, to cover Col. Roosevelt's visit to the Latin American cities. Mr. Wells will send to The Evening Mail a number of mail articles covering Col. Roosevelt's public activities, and such news as justifies it by cable, and will also furnish us with photographs. These will be syndicated to cover Mr. Wells' and other expenses. Mr. Wells may be relied on to act with discretion, and will respect any wishes Col. Roosevelt may express relative to any portion of his trip that he may not care to have reported. Mr. Wells will meet Col. Roosevelt at Rio de Janeiro. Will you kindly bring this matter to Col. Roosevelt's attention at his convenience? Yours very truly, T. E. Niles Managing Editor.New Brighton S.I 8/26/13 Col Roosevelt Esq Dear Sir you will please pardon me for putting you to trouble but there is one thing I would like to ask you In 1898 I was on the U.S. yankee and was discharged Sept 2 and my papers call for 3-5s as I broke none of the rules and I have heard that in 1907 therewas some law passed that gave each of the crew some money my discharge calls or rates Ships Cook 4th Class and I would like to know if you would please let me know who I should write to so I can find out Thanking you in advance for the great favor I remain in Respt yours David a Ralston David a Ralston 356 Richmond Terrace S. I. NY To Mr. W. Strong[[shorthand]] [*WILLIAM L. RANSOM 154 NASSAU STREET NEW YORK CITY*] [*4150*] [[shorthand]] August 26, 1913. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- I have been very closely in touch with the municipal situation throughout. I know how much Mr. Mitchel desires your effective & hearty cooperation in the Fusion Campaign. I would be glad indeed to have opportunity to talk matters over with you at your convenience. Very truly yours, Wm L. Ransom Honorable Theodore Roosevelt.[*Copy Mr. Lincoln's letter to Horace Greeley Aug 22, 1862 mailed 9/1/13 EH MH*] MILLWOOD, VA., AUG. 26, 1913. COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, OYSTER BAY, N.Y., DEAR MR. ROOSEVELT: I am a regular reader of the OUTLOOK and of all your contributed articles. I know you are a great student of MR. LINCOLN. I, also, am studying his life. Several years ago I clipped a copy of a letter he wrote, and have since lost it and wish to restore it. I am writing to ask if you cannot assist me. The letter I refer to was a copy of a letter MR. LINCOLN wrote to HORACE GREELY, if I am not mistaken, in reply to sharp criticism which MR. GREELY had made of MR. LINCOLN for his delay and inaction in carrying out his policy toward the slaves, just after he became president. The letter was brief but brilliant, and filled with fine sentiment, high ideals, an admirable defense and couched in beautiful diction. I have seen the statement somewhere that a copy of this letter is posted in the halls of OXFORD, as an example of concise and correct ENGLISH. I know you are a busy man and have many demands made upon you by unreasonable people. However, I would certainly appreciate the favor if you would send me a copy of the above letter referred to, as I live in the small town of ONANCOCK, VA., and have not access to a public library or a life of LINCOLN giving the letter. Hoping that I am not unreasonable in my request, and thanking you in advance for the favor, I am, Yours very truly, L. M. Ritter. [*signature*]Western Review “THE FRATERNAL MAGAZINE” ASHLAND BLOCK CHICAGO August 26th 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir:- I had the honor to meet you personally a few times in 1888. I was then an Assistant Attorney in the office of the Attorney General for the Interior Department at Washington, D.C., and you were a member of the Civil Service Commission. Our interview related to the applica- tion of a friend of mine for appointment to the Railway Mail Service, which he received. I lived in Washington during the greater part of your incumbency of the Presidential chair, and while I saw you frequently, I had the pleasure of taking your hand only on occasion of public receptions at the White House, which I usually attended with the Companions of my Commandery of the Loyal Legion. Doctor W. T. Hornaday, of Bronx Zoo, is a long time friend I believe, of both of us. However, there is no possible reason why you should remember me personally, and I only at this time intrude myself upon your notice, to thank you for giving me some unexpected publicity as an author. The evening papers of Chicago yesterday, and the papers this morning, in giving the details of your short visit to this city, mentioned among other interesting things that you made the purchase of.four books at McClurgs, among these being Longhead, The Story of the First Fire, of which I am the author. While of course, this publicity for myself was unintentional on your part, and by no means expected, I still feel that I owe you thanks. I trust you may have found the story of at least moderate interest and I am sure that in reading you had no difficulty in discovering that it was not merely a story, but a history of progress made almost wholly by accident at a very early period in the existence of mankind, and that the germs of civilization were those implanted in human progress and have developed to the present conditions of the civilized world, and, perhaps, you may have concluded with me, that the discovery of the use and control of fire was the principle thing which led to social organization of any kind. If Long-#2 head interested you at all, it would greatly please me to receive from you a short autograph letter to that effect. The same publishing house - L. C. Page & Company of Boston - will bring out within a very few weeks, an Indian novel of which I am author, entitled Hawk, The Young Osage. It will be fully illustrated, and will in the form of fiction undertake to depict the daily life in an Indian tribe of the Middle West before such life was influenced by contact with the Whites. If this book is out before you leave for South America, I shall have great pleasure in sending you a copy with my compliments. I have always been a great admirer of your personality. Respectfully yours, [*C.st. Robinson*] CHR/e 917 Ashland Block, Chicago, Ill. [FOR ENCL SEE 8-25-13 8-20-13][*FRESNO REPUBLICAN PUBLISHING CO. THE FRESNO MORNING REPUBLICAN THE FRESNO WEEKLY REPUBLICAN PRINTERS PUBLISHERS BOOKBINDERS FRESNO, CALIFORNIA WESTERN UNION CODE*] [*Personal*] August 26, 1913. Mr. Frank Harper, c/o The Outlook, New York. Dear Mr. Harper: On my return from another vacation in the mountains I found your letter saying that you will transmit my telegram to Colonel Roosevelt whenever he can be located, but suggesting that in your personal view Lord Northcliffe may not be the proper person to make effective propaganda in behalf of the Exposition. I am very glad indeed of your suggestion, which I will transmit at once to President Moore of the Exposition. Your brief suggestion of yourself as "ambassador to your fellow Britishers", written at the bottom of the letter, will also go to his attention, and it might be entirely possible that in some capacity and on some occasion the suggestion might not be so rash, after all. Sincerely yours, Chester H. Rowell [*signature*] CHR:SR580 North Lake Avenue Pasadena, California Aug't 26, 1913 My dear Sir, Noticing in the paper reports of an interview with you in Chicago, in which you speak with appreciation of the Hopi Pueblo Indians of Arizona, I venture to send you today under separate cover a copy of a book of my authorship, lately published, entitled "The Indians of the Terraced Houses", dealing with the Pueblo Indians of our Southwest, including the Hopis. It has been my privilege during ten years' residence in the Southwest to see much of these interesting aborigines, and while of course their peculiar customs must naturally become modified as time goes on, it has seemed to me that the American people thro' government agencies are needlessly contributing to the disintegration of the remarkable native civilization which the Pueblos represent. I thinkit is not too late to save some of this, and the purpose of the book is to call attention once more - before it is absolutely too late - to the noteworthy and picturesque life of these Indians, and to enter a plea for the conservation, so far as yet may be, of the still existent remnant. Yours sincerely C. F. Saunders Hon. Theodor Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y.JOHN C. SHAFFER CHICAGO August 26, 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Colonel: I regretted very much being out of the city yesterday while you were here [or] I would have been greatly pleased to have called upon you. I expect I to be in New York some time next month and will drop in your office and see you for a few minutes. We have the Republican party in Louisville and Indianapolis whipped in the mayoralty contest and are now trying to get first place instead of being second. We have a good fighting show in Louisville to elect a Progressive for Mayor and a good prospect of being a close second in Indianapolis. The Democrats there are now in power both in local and state government. I enclose you an editorial from the Evening Post of today. I expect to publish this fall, in conjunction with the New York Mail, articles on your South American trip. Sincerely yours J C ShafferNIGHT MESSAGE [8-26-13] THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY MEMBER 19 SENT BY E D CHECK 56 MRR 8/26/1913 Dated New York NY 26 To Theo Roosevelt The sun is in receipt of following cable despatch from Buenos aires American society rivera plate through the sun extends most cordial invitation Roosevelt to address American colony while here cable answer if you will kindly wire the sun your answer to this invitation it will give us great pleasure to transmit same by cable to Buenos aires. Morning Editor The SunBURTON VANCE, Chairman CHAS, A. HESS, Secretary HEADQUARTERS PROGRESSIVE PARTY Fifth Congressional District, Kentucky HOME PHONE CITY 2584 HOTEL HENRY WATTERSON LOUSVILLE, KY. Aug. 26, 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt., Outlook Office., New York City, N. Y. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- I enclose you a copy of a letter which Mr. Harper kindly forwarded to you to Arizona but I presume it did not reach you as your return was earlier than we at that time anticipated. If it is at all possible, a speech from you here would be of inestimable value and we earnestly hope you can come. Yours very sincerely, Burton Vance[For encl see 8-13-13]PROGRESSIVE PARTY THIRD DISTRICT OF MAINE HEADQUARTERS 120 Main Street WATERVILLE, MAINE STATE ORGANIZATION CHAIRMAN IRVING E. VERNON, Portland DISTRICT COMMITTEE: Charles L. Morang, Ellsworth John F. Wood, Blue Hill George W. Heselton, Gardiner Dr. L. G. Bunker, Waterville Frank P. Pennell, Skowhegan Dr. Wm. M. Pulsifer, Skowhegan R. W. Rogers, Belfast Albion P. Goodhue, Belfast B. C. Bubar, Danforth Stanley Q. Grady, Eastport Roosevelt Passes Progressive Party. Albuquerque, N. M., Aug 24.--Col Theodore Roosevelt will not attend the Birthday convention of the Progressive party to be held in Chicago, Aug. 28. He so announced here, last night, on his way to New York. Aug. 26, 1913. Dear Colonel Roosevelt:- We wish you to understand our position here in the Third District at the earliest possible moment and we are forwarding this letter to Mr. Cochems to get to you as soon as you return from the west. We have an excellent candidate, a better organization than the two old parties, and all hands are hard at work. The Old Guard has its war paint on and is out in a life and death struggle. They began their campaign by representing that the Progressives were coming back in an amalgamation and that the Republicans in '16 would nominate you. You know the old story. This little headline in Burleigh's paper illustrates their kind of campaign with reference to you. We have met this onslaught and are very much alive. At present are running even with both of the other parties. It is a very important election for the east for it is fighting our campaign for next year now, also Bird's campaign in Mass. We earnestly hope you will at once talk this situation over in New York and give us your best judgment about coming here for one speech or for a letter to our candidate Hon. E. M. Lawrence of Lubec, Me. In case of letter send it to Mr. Emerson at Waterville at the earliest possible moment. He will do the rest. Garfield did us great good last week and we are flooding the district as best we can with speakers with little or no money but lots of enthusiasm. Bryan and Champ Clark are coming for the Democrats. The Republicans have advertised Borah and Cummins. Some doubt however, about their coming when they find that the Republican candidate is a typical representative of the crowd that threw the Republican party at the Chicago convention. As soon as you get this please telegraph Mr. Emerson what help and what kind of help you will think it best to give us. We need all we can get. The time is short. Election Sept. 8th. Very truly, I.E. Vernon Chairman. [*Dear Col - This is a [?] [?] Emerson*] [*Walter C. Emerson. Halbert P Gardner Member Natl Com.* ]Painter and Sculptor Graduate of Academies in Prague Vienna and Paris Geo W. Wartenberg [313 15th Street] 58 Lee Street, Milwaukee, Wis. Consultations, Estimates, Sketches and Models for Celebrations and Exhibitions Furnished High Class Work Exclusively 45 REMODELING AND REPRODUCING Crystal Cave, Tavern Inn Inferno Cavern, Jap. Tea Room Oriental Cafe, Clubhouse, Hotel Department Store, Mansion Dens Dining Rooms, Parlors, Foyers Vestibules, Halls, Fairs, Etc. EXCLUSIVE SPECIALTIES DESIGNING AND CONTRACTING Interior Decorating Periodical Style Mural and Fresco Painting Hand Carving and Panoramas Church, Theatre, R. R. Depots Assembly Hall Panels, Portraits Scenic Drapery and Illumination EFFECTS and NOVELTIES To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N. Y. AUG 26 1913 Sir:- I beg to call your attention to the enclosed resolution and petition, and to similar petitions which will now follow from all parts of the United States, requesting your kind support and favorable action for the International Peace Tribunal to be held in the United States in order to secure peaceful adjustment on the Panslavic controversy. The hopes of all patriots laying faith in a possible mediation and pacification policy are before you so that the fullest knowledge of the complicated problem may be obtained from all view points - in a neutral territory away from European spheres - and in order to arbitrate, remedy and adjust all wrongs, complaints and persecutions of centuries. As there are many millions of United States citizens of Panslavic descent, and rapidly increasing, we do appeal to you in behalf of the downtrodden Slavs of Austro-Hungary, the Balkans and of Prussia, and recalling valuable services rendered by those gallant Slavic patriots who voluntarily fought for the independence of the glorious United States in times of national distress. We appeal to right wrong, and we ask only Justice and to better the conditions of all downtrodden Slavs, who are undoubtedly and rightly entitled to the sympathy and consideration of every free and noble nation on the globe. The International Peace Tribunal as requested will benefit the interests of many millions of United States citizens, their welfare, industry and trade as well. It will undoubtedly prevent possible international troubles, uprisings and warfares, should ways and means be found to promote this most urgently wanted tribunal here under the auspices of our great country. Let your name be engraved upon the hearts of these downtrodden nations for whom we now plead. May I have the honor of knowing that I have your support and sympathy in my efforts. Yours very respectfully, Geo. W. Wartenberg Prest. Panslavic Alliance of America.The Boston Post ESTABLISHED 1831 E.A.GROZIER.EDITOR AND PUBLISHER BOSTON, MASS. Aug. 26, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y. My dear Col. Roosevelt:- The enclosed stories may interest you. Knowlee is trying sincerely the experiment of starting into the wilderness, naked, without food or implements of any kind, to prove that he can feed himself, clothe himself and after two months stay come out stronger and better than when he went in. It is a pretty good exposition of the strenuous life but Knowlee, although an artist by profession now, was always a lover of the woods and of animals and has had a great deal of hunting experiences. Yours very truly, Cohas. E. L. Wingate EDITOR SUNDAY POST. CELW/F[Ca 8-26-13] RECLAMATION OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY. Seventy-five million Acres of Land richest under the sun. Will feed sixty millions of People. 1st: Reclamation of Soil. 2nd: Production of Water Power. 3rd Elimination of Loss of Life and Property from Inundation.4th Waterway from Lakes to Gulf for Transportation of Raw Materials. 5th: Improvement of Climate Conditions. The Mississippi Valley contains an acreage of Areable Soil perhaps equal to the entire areable lands of Europe.[Enc in Ericson 8-26-13][ENCL IN ROBINSON 8-26-13]LONGHEAD, THE STORY OF THE FIRST FIRE. A few years ago the Western Review published as a serial and also in souvenir form, a story by Capt. C. H. Robinson--THE FIRST FIRE. It was republished--by permission--in two or three fraternal journals. Last winter the captain revised and extended the story, giving names to the characters--the Fireman is now Longhead and the Woman, Broken Tooth. More dialogue, more characters and additional progress appear. The story opens with man's first acquaintance with fire. Before that event mankind had been without clothing, habitations, weapons, implements, social organization, government, marriage or religion. For the most part a lonely wanderer seeking a precarious livelihood, killing small animals with a stone or club and devouring them raw. He had little language to communicate with others, and only his hands and feet as a defense against the fierce animals of the cave-period. But the advent of fire and a discovery by the woman of a method to perpetuate it, brought first weapons and implements, then cooked food, permanent habitations, co-operation, sociability, and finally the germs of government, marriage, family life and even religion. The new edition of Longhead, the Story of the First Fire has been published by L. C. Page Co., Boston: is well illustrated and in an attractive binding. The publishers say: "A Human Document of Prehistoric Times." "An Unusual Story."[*1*] [*Box 114*] Chateaugay Lake N.Y. Aug 27. 1913 Mr. Frank Harper Secretary Dear Sir. Your valued letter dated Nov. 18 1913 in answer to mine of previous date by direction of Order of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt was duly & appreciatively received I keep it in Redpaths Universal Illustrated History at Page 592 of IX. so showing showing the Presidents Conferance with the National Conferance Representatives with him from the two Beligerant Powers Russia & Japan waiting for the words wisely spoken by his arbitrationP.S. Sir Could you refer me to a First Class Lawyer to help conduct a Suit for personal damage against a Town in this part of New York state for Injury received by the Negligence of a Highway Commissioner and his employers leaving pieces of disseminated rock near the travelled track on which the writers carriage accidentally upset him producing the injury indicated by the picture inclosed2 skill which will endure as an Historic Signboard to the reading Public of Earths millions the Great & Humane work our Progressive American Theodore Roosevelt perfected in short meter I often turn to said reply to my letter with pride in Exhibiting the reply to my Friends. Thereby send my hartiest thanks to both Mr. Roosevelt & yourself Charles M. Arnold.[*Artz*] Congress Hotel and Annex N.M. KAUFMAN, PRESIDENT. Chicago, Aug 27'1913 Dear Colonel Roosevelt:- Replying to your favor of July 1, 1913 I will say that while I have sometimes remarked that, as the Neapolitans say "See Naples & die," it was a dream of mine to see New York & die, but I am convinced that I am too old & feeble to take the journy, not all it would imply. And I think it is hardly practicable for you to call upon me [?]Congress Hotel and Annex N.M. KAUFMAN, PRESIDENT. Chicago. 2. being trailed by newspaper men & I know what the signel would be for me. In March 1913, I copied from a western Magazine the enclosed poem (signed with initials) & have debated as to whom I might ask for an explanation of the 3.verse. I would infer that the choya was a species of cacti; if the author did not in a preceding line allude especially to man's "instinct to quench a thirst," & thenCongress Hotel and Annex N.M. KAUDMAN, PRESIDENT. 3 Chicago. writes "Add but the wisdom of the Desert Bird" &c. Once in my life, & years ago I applied to John Burroughs for information about a European bird, & he kindly sent me the details, & I had rarely thought of him, but as you so recently returned from Arizona, - as I understand, - may I apply to you? Very truly Victorine J. ArtzBURTON VANCE, Chairman CHAS. A. HESS, Secretary HEADQUARTERS PROGRESSIVE PARTY Fifth Congressional District, Kentucky HOME PHONE CITY 2584 HOTEL HENRY WATTERSON LOUISVILLE, KY. Louisville, Ky. Aug. 27, 1913 Col. Theodore Roosevelt c/o The Outlook Office, New York City. [[shorthand]] My Dear Colonel: Captain Fillmore Tyson, a member of our campaign committee will call on you while in New York on other matters of business, and will explain to you the necessity of your coming to Louisville before leaving for South America. We have nominated a splendid Legislative Ticket, and I feel sure several of the members of it will be elected at this November election, and that all of them will be elected if you can come to Louisville. In addition to our Legislative Ticket, we have a full City and County ticket to elect. I cannot urge upon you too strongly the necessity of your coming to Louisville to make a speech this Fall. Trusting that you will be able to do this much for the Cause, I remain, Very sincerely yours, W. F. AxtonForm No. 44. NIGHT MESSAGE. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 23,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Night Messages, sent at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to ten times the amount paid for transmission; nor in any case when the claim is not presented in writing within thirty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED NIGHT MESSSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. ROBERT C. CLOWRY, President and General Manager. NUMBER 18 SENT BY NY REC'D BY ED CHECK 50 Blue RECEIVED at 8/27/13. 190 Dated MD New York 27 To Mr Theo Roosevelt. My child wants to be named Theodore Bull Moose But will not without your consent because the father is great bull moose man. My address is seventy West Ninety Ninth st If you don't consent to this name I give you the privelege of choosing his name for us answer. Charles Berg.CIRCUIT COURT FOR HARFORD COUNTY John A. Robinson, CLERK BEL AIR, MD. August 27th 1913 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt New York City Dear Col. Roosevelt: I enclose a clipping from today's Baltimore "Sun". I don't believe it. I am but an humble private in the ranks, but if the General in Chief should ever from any cause be separated from the standard which four millions of people have placed in her hands, and no one is left to guard the sacred emblem, I would freely and gladly offer myself upon the altar of duty and fight to the last ditch. The Progressive Party must live. With highest regard Sincerely Yours Samuel W. Bradford P.S. You will remember meeting me in New York just prior to the Chicago Convention. SW.B.Elkton Md, R. D. Aug. 27" 1913. The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, My Dear Sir:- I have written you a letter & received answer from your Sec'y Mr. Harper. Under the circumstances I cannot take the refusal to have you lecture for us. If you see this with own eyes, I think you will be likely to grant my request. Our church at Summit Bridge Del, was burned by lightning July 24" We are trying to rebuild & if we could have you lecture for us either in2 Sep, Oct or Nov in the city of Wilmington Del, it would bring a large sum to us & thus help us over the difficulties. Now without any ceremony will you come? Do give us this service for you have lots of friends down this way. Yours &c, Rev. A. Burke, Wilm. County, Wilm. Dist.POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY POSTAL TELEGRAPH NIGHT LETTERGRAM COMMERCIAL CABLES NIGHT LETTERGRAM THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY (INCORPORATED) TRANSMITS AND DELIVERS THIS NIGHT LETTERGRAM SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS PRINTED ON THE BACK OF THIS BLANK. CLARENCE H. MACKAY, PRESIDENT. RECEIVED AT DELIVERY NUMBER INDEPENDENT COMPETITIVE PROGRESSIVE 4-383 113d ew 63 NL. 5 extra. Denver Cole aug 27-13 [*M13*] 145 EAST 23RD ST., N. Y. TELEPHONE 520 GRAM. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Care Outlook, Newyork, NY. Seventeenth Child just born to Mr and Mrs Frank Leblanc of Sterling Colorado. Fourteen living. Leblanc says he has hopes of becoming owner of quarter section in Legan County through gift from you, he claiming you made promise while president to any citizen who could point to such a splendid record. Would appreciate statement from you for Publication. H D Carbary, Managing Editor News Denver Cole. 1241a Urbana, Ill. Aug. 27 - 1913 Col. Theodore Roosevelt— "The Outlook" New York City N.Y. My dear Sir: I am sending you today a copy of my "Ten Songs" — simple things, but I trust in some degree worthy of the verses. I have been a Progressive — and an enthusiastic one — since the formation of the party; and I was one of a small group of Americans that cheered you upon your arrival in Budapest, Hungary, several years ago. I was studying music there at the time. I wish to tell you how I appreciate the work you have done, — are still doing — for the country; — and how much inspiration your example has been to me —. Sincerely yours Sol Cohen266 West 77th N.Y. 8/27/1913 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, LL.D. Oyster Bay, N.Y. My dear Colonel Roosevelt-- Frederick A. Ober, author, explorer and naturalist died the 31st of May last; some years ago you greatly honored the Mass.Agric.College by appointing its president on your original country life commission; the local alumni association of this institution of which Mr. Daniel Willard is president, proposes to publish a memorial to Mr. Ober; your own life has been so tremendously varied and effective that I happen to know that you are acquainted with Mr. Ober's work; I consider that [his] [*such*] work was even ahead of the normal trend of the times; it is said that he discovered more species of birds than any American since Audobon's era. Is it asking too much of you to request a brief testimony to the value of Mr. Ober's work. Incidentally let me add that a majority of the American people wish you were holding down your old job in the White House. Yours faithfully, John. A. Lewtt, [?] Sec'y M.A.C. Club of N.Y.confidential. 309 W. 97th St N. Y. Aug. 27, 1913 Hon Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir; I have long been convinced that perpetual political clubs and corporations which organize cliques, factions and gangs within particular parties and dominate them by controlling their funds etc, are an evil which should be abolished by law. Examples, Tammany and the Republican League which Matt Quay sought to organize country-wide. If the idea condensed to purity in politics Quay would have had nothing to do with it. I made a rough draft of an act which would extirpate Tammany and all such. But I am not now strong enough to fight;2) The reptile and Yiddish newspapers have all been bought by, or [?] within to Tammany and rottenness; so that there is no hope for progress and purity save by united action of clean, strong brave men, not Democrats or Republicans. Its a poor choice between Barnes and Murphy: and the one or two papers not attached to one or other of them are given over to their ambitions. I send you the draft in the hope that you will approve that principle [and] "throw your hat into the ring" and lead the people [for] to freedom from Tammany and such. Yours truly Chauncey N. Dutton. If you have no use for this please return.Form No. 44. Night Message. The Western Union Telegraph Company. Incorporated. 23,000 offices in America. Cable Service to all the world. This company transmits and delivers messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Night Messages, sent at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to ten times the amount paid for transmission; nor in any case when the claim is not presented in writing within thirty days after the message is filed with the company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED NIGHT MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. Robert C. Clowry, President and General Manager. Number Sent By Rec'd By Check 7 MC 17 RECEIVED at Oyster Bay Aug 27 1913 Dated MS New York 27 To Hon. Theodore Roosvelt ns Think strong statement doubly valuable if issued today as would probably influence decision of Whitman and McAneny. Norman Hapgood 1008 amTELEPHONE MADISON SQUARE 485 ERNEST HARVIER 1193 BROADWAY NEW YORK August 27, 1913. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: I was delighted to hear yesterday of your return and hope that your Western trip was in every way satisfactory. With us here, in a political way, it is the expected that has happened, a result which, as you know, I long foresaw and sough sincerely and assiduously to provide against. A trip of observation to the golden South Americas! Nothing could be finer for the foremost American! Yours faithfully, Ernest HarvierCarl Hauser P.O.B. 2152 Temple Court. [8-22-13] New York, Aug 27 1913 Dear Colonel: Having returned from an extensive trip to Europe, where I went to restore my impaired eyesight - without result, as my poor writing shows - I hasten to acquaint you with a matter that concerns you. Among the 20 cities I had visited I also came to Nürnberg, where I was met by Kommerzienrat Geo. Leykauf, whom I had the pleasure to introduce to you two years ago with 3 other members of our great brotherhood the Schlaraffia. You were kind enough to give each of those friends a copy of the Outlook your valued autograph and one copy for the Oberbürgermeister Von Schuh of Nürnberg. He appreciated the courtesy very highly andreciprocated by sending you a valued copy of the Golden Book of the city of Nürnberg, the receipt of which, as my friend Lay Kauf stated to me sadly disappointed, never was acknowledged... as a true friend of yours since 1886 I feel it my duty to inform you of this matter, because I don't want you to appear before any body in a questionable light. No doubt but that your reply may have gone wrong. Should you wish to write mayor Schuh, who is highly honored by the Prince Regent of Bavaria, I am at your service to translate your answer into German, but I think English will do. Hoping you are well and in good cheer, I remain, dear colonel your devoted old friend Carl Hauser Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster BayAnn Beach Hotel [8-27-13] Bath Beach, N. Y. Mr. Frank Harper, New York. Mr Dear Mr. Harper: Your kindly courteous note written to me for Mr. Roosevelt - was received and I really can't tell you just how much it was appreciated. I sent it on to Dick Flannigan with specific instructions to return it. I know he will feel very happy about it. Mr. Harper - I am sure you will realize that I am not daring to presume on the kindness of your note presume. This life of a Naval Officer's wife alone is not the most pleasant in the world. I assure you and when I am capable of earning my own living and keeping oneself occupied it seems cruel to think I can't see the great ones who could help me so. Please forgive this long tiresome letter - I wanted you to understand. All the love in the world to Mr. Roosevelt and my heart full of gratitude to you. Respectfully Virginia Keating Hazards. August twenty-seventh - '13to me - but I wonder if you will help one! I really am discouraged and only dare appeal to you because I am so. You know of course that the Fleet goes to Europe in October and my husband being a Naval Officer naturally goes too. Before I was married I was an actress for some seven years - playing only in the very best companies as leading woman but entirely in the West - I am absolutely unknown in the East - and I have positively gone over every inch of N. Y. (theatrically) and no results. I was wondering - Mr. Harper - if you could give me your card. With just a line to any New York Manager - whether you know him or not would make no difference, your name would be enough. It means so much to me - it will keep me occupied all the time my husband is away and until next June when he is due for shore duty. I know I am asking a very great deal of you - but if I had not tried so hard with so little results - believe me I should not dare to[*28-2-11-13 H.S.B.& CO. OVB OUR VERY BEST REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. M.I.RGTRDA 8447 OUR VERY BEST IS THE VERY BEST OFFICERS: A. C. BARTLETT, PRESIDENT. CHARLES H. 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As, of course, you know, if you felt it essential, I should come to New York at once to meet you, but, as I judge from your wire there is nothing of definite importance, I have followed my regular plan and come on to Chicago instead. I expect to attend a big progressive picnic here Saturday. As you perhaps know, I have been from Arizona to Maine during the past six weeks, and as far as my observation goes the general progressive situation is good. As we may expect, there seem to be some defections from the progressive cause, but most of these, however, are characterized as from the "Bags of Booty Brigade," as our friend Will White, of Kansas, I believe, characterizes them. I am much impressed with the good situation in Massachusetts, and it seems to me that the National Committee should lend very possible aid to Matt. Hale and his associates in the Bay State who are putting up a clean, aggressive fight for Bird. Personally Bird seems very strong among the clear-headed, thoughtful people of the state who are more or less independent in their political views, and if Foss runs independently, as I think he will - (by the way, I had two interesting interviews with him in Boston, one of which Matt Hale attended, and in which I did my best to foster an independent candidate idea) we have a most excellent chance of carrying Massachusetts, and the effect on the country of electing a progressive Governor in the conservative state of Massachusetts would be tremendously stimulating. They seem to be putting up a very fair fight in Maine, but the organization there does not seem to be as strong as in Massachusetts and I fear we cannot hope for as satisfactory results. In fact, it is evident to me wherever I go that the belief of the people generally in the progressive principles for which we stand is as strong as ever, but that to become a fully effective and growing party the organization work must be actively pushed throughout the country. On my return to Arizona with Jack Greenway, I shall do my best to stir up our people to the needs of a thorough going organization, -such an organization [*as*] shall be glad to give "ANY ARTICLE OF HIGH QUALITY SOLD TO A CONSUMER ADVERTISES, WITHOUT COST, EVERY OTHER ARTICLE WHICH BEARS THE SAME BRAND."--O. V. B.-2- publicity to its work, and not have to work through the hidden channels used by the old machines. I expect to be at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, for a couple of weeks before returning home, and shall be mighty glad to hear from you there, where I can be addressed care of A. C. Bartlett, Esq. With sincere regards, in which Mrs. Heard joins, and trusting you will remember us most kindly to Mrs. Roosevelt, believe me, Very sincerely, Dwight Heard Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York.Form 163 WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT RECEIVED AT 172 Fifth Ave., N. W. Cor. 22d St., New York Always Open B24NY ED 8 RA WASHINGTON DC AUG 27 1913 THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 287 FOURTH AVE, NYC MEET YOU FRIDAY 1130 SCRIBNERS. HELLER. 133PMSmithsonian Institution United State National Museum Washington D.C. Aug 27, 1913. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I have been working at my portion of the Life Histories all summer devoting all my time to the work but have failed to complete it according to the arrangements made before you went west. I have completed two thirds of the antelope portion and the accumulation and selection of the photographic prints. The antelope part is by far the larger owing to the great number of geographical races to be considered and the wealth of specimens to be examined. I fear my method of work is concerned with too much detail to allow much speed. I have taken my descriptions and data directly from the specimens as the published accounts are often megre and untrustworthy and I have in this way been able to correct some of the errors which are now current in the literature. My method has been to get all the specimens in the museum together and then compare them and determine their racial characters. Afterward I have gone over all the available literature and gottenSmithsonian Institution United State National Museum Washington D.C. together the records of distribution and the historical accounts of the species & races. Altho I have recognized many geographical races I have omitted many owing to the absence of specimens in any of the collections which I have examined or to the unsatisfactory nature of the descriptions of the original describer. The size of the work is exceeding expectations to a considerable degree. I have already sent to Scribners about 140 pages of antelope manuscript and now I have ready about 150 pages more and there are still to come about 100 pages. However I do not consider that I have gone into great detail with the work. Under each species or genus I have only described the coloration of one of the [sp] races completely and have merely given the distinguishing characters under the other races. I look forward to meeting you at Scribners on Friday in your natural condition of robust health. Faithfully yours Edmund HellerSIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS. JOHN J. FITZGERALD, N. Y., CHAIRMAN. SWAGER SHERLEY, KY. CHARLES L. BARTLETT, GA. JOSEPH T. JOHNSON, S.C. ROBERT N. PAGE, N.C. GEORGE W. RAUCH, IND. JOSEPH W. BYRNS, TENN. THOMAS UPTON SISSON, MISS. EUGENE F. KINKEAD, N.J. WILLIAM P. BORLAND, MO. GEORGE WHITE, OHIO. JAMES MC ANDREWS, ILL. BRYAN F. MAHAN, CONN. WOODA N. CARR, PA. FREDERICK H. GILLETT, MASS. JAMES W. GOOD, IOWA. FRANK W. MONDELL, WYO. CHARLES R. DAVIS, MINN. WILLIAM M. CALDER, N.Y. WILLIAM S. VARE, PA. WILLIAM H. HINEBAUGH, ILL. JAMES C. COURTS, CLERK. MARCELLUS C. SHEILD, ASSISTANT CLERKS. WILLIAM A. RYAN, COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, D.C., August 27, 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, The "Outlook", Office, New York City. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- I am enclosing you clipping from the Baltimore "Sun"which is self explanatory. Washington papers, and the unfriendly press somewhat generally have been printing similar statements. The little band of Progressive Congressmen of course have no reason to believe of all of all this stuff which has recently been published, about your seeking, or being willing to accept the Republican nomination in 1916. We feel that we are making substantial progress all along the line, and especially have we succeeded in organizing and maintaing a real, live, active Progressive Party in Congress. As you know we have already introduced many bills along the lines of the pledges in the Progressive National Platform; all of which we intend to urge vigorously at the regular session of Congress. In my own state of Illinois, I think I speak advisedly when I say the Progressive strength is crystallizing and gaining ground.SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS. JOHN J. FITZGERALD, N. Y., CHAIRMAN. SWAGAR SHERLEY, KY. CHARLES L. BARTLETT, GA. JOSEPH T. JOHNSON, S.C. ROBERT N. PAGE, N.C. GEORGE W. RAUCH, IND. JOSEPH W. BYRNS, TENN. THOMAS UPTON SISSON, MISS. EUGENE F. KINKEAD, N. J. WILLIAM P. BORLAND, MO. GEORGE WHITE, OHIO JAMES McANDREWS, ILL. BRYAN F. MAHAN, CONN. WOODA N. CARR, PA. FREDERICK H. GILLETT, MASS. JAMES W. GOOD, IOWA. FRANK W. MONDELL, WYO. CHARLES R. DAVIS, MINN. WILLIAM M. CALDER, N. Y. WILLIAM S. VARE, PA. WILLIAM H. HINEBAUGH, ILL JAMES C. COURTS, CLERK. ASSISTANT CLERKS MARCELLUS C. SHEILD. WILLIAM A. RYAN. COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON, D.C., Col. T.R.2. It has occurred to me that it might be advisable for you to write me a letter, which I might give to the press, on the subject of these newspaper articles such as I enclose. I am in a position to get very wide publicity for such a letter, and I feel sure just at this time it would stiffen the back-bone of the Progressives thruout the nation. Do you think this advisable? In the hope that you thoroughly enjoyed your trip to Arizona, and with kind regards and best wishes for your future, I beg to remain, Faithfully yours, W. H. Hinebaugh. (Enclosure)South Braintree, Aug. 27-1913. Mr. Roosevelt [[shorthand]] Dear Sir- I count it one of the rare pleasures of my life to have joined hands with you at the Newport Conference. I hope the enclosure will not seem too much of a liberty. Yours very truly Ever M. Holmes Mas. W. D.HH Dexter Street Waltham Mass August 27. 13 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay New York My dear Sir. Kindly accept as a present from a brother Progressive the enclosed ticket and souvenir fob for our outing of September 27th. You will no doubt remember that I wrote asking you to be our principal guest and address us for August 23d. You will notice by the ticketthe date has been changed, for no other reasons than to give us more time so as to make this occasion the best that shall be held in Massachusetts this fall in the interest of our state candidates espacially for Mr Bird our candidate for Governor You are I presume aware of the situation in this state and if so must understand the interest honest citizens are taking at this particular time. If reports can be relied on things look bright all along the line for our dear Mr BirdI want to tell you that we have'nt given up the hope of having you with us on that date, so I ask you in the name of thousands "I do not exaggerate" if there is a possibility for you to come, wont you accede to our earnest request and help us make Sep 27th a tremendous succis. Hopeing to hear from you favorably I am sincerely your friend Jude E. LeFevre P.S. Riverside Recreation Grounds are considered the finest in New England it can accomodate many thousands of peopleExcuse Pencil pls St. Louis, Mo. 8/27/13. Col Roosevelt. Oyster Bay N.Y. Dear Sir: There is a rumor hereabout that you intend getting up four regements of Rough Riders in the event of a war being declared between these United States of America and Mexico. That being a fact I would like to go along. I am too old for the regular army, but as lively as a cricket. can ride and shoot as well as ever. @ one time could not miss the Bulls Eye with Piston or Rifle no Rest off hand. Born and raised in the sunny South. My Father an Officer of high Rank in the conferacy a cousin of Brigadier Genl George E. Cricket of civil war fame! Give me a show and some of the Boys from lower Mississippi. They will back you2 up like they did Col Jeff Davis who turned the day @ Buena Vista Mexico 1836. they won the day with Old Jeff shot to Peices [pieces] refusing to go to the Rear. That is the place Genl Taylor shed tears & shook the hand of his Son in Law Jefferson Davis. Davis only had the 1st Mississippi Volunteers with Rank of Colonel. Respectfully Dan BW Williams St. Louis Mo c/o Mr Jac [Ryles?] or P.O. Box 786. ALDINE CLUB FIFTH AVENUE BUILDING NEW YORK August 27th, 1913. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: The Suffrage Study Club of Sea Cliff, which, as you perhaps know, is a very active organization and doing a great deal of good, are to have a big rally at a lawn party next Saturday afternoon at the Marden Farms, quite near the Sea Cliff station, and they are particularly anxious to have you introduce Dr. Anna Shaw who is to speak, and to say a few words, if you can. But they would be very much delighted, even if you do not make a speech, if you would just come and introduce Dr. Shaw. They will send an auto for you, if you desire, and even if you could not stay more than fifteen minutes, they would be very pleased to have you come. They would like to announce it in all of the country papers. If you could only drop in for a few minutes, it would really be a great thing for the movement. Mrs. Justice Townsend Scudder, Mrs. Laidlaw, Mrs. George D. Pratt, and Mrs. Green are among the many patroness of this affair, and many people are coming from a distance. They are expecting five or six hundred people. They have tried to get you on the phone but could not do so on account of your private wire. They have asked me to write you for them. We are glad that you have returned safely, and the officers of the Suffrage Club send their greetings and kindest regards. With cordial good wishes, Yours very sincerely, [*O. S. Marden*] OSM/RR [For Enc see 8-27-13]CITY OF NEW YORK Board of Aldermen CITY HALL August 27, 1913. GEORGE A. MORRISON ALDERMAN 59TH DISTRICT 912 STERLING PL. BROOKLYN Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. My dear Sir:- Pardon my disturbing you at this time, but I desire to ask you to assist me in my fight for good government and against the action of Mr. Kracke, leader of the Republican forces in the 59th Aldermanic District. The facts are as follows: Kracke and his Designating Committee in this district are composed mostly of officeholders and they refused to renominate me, for the following reasons: 1st- On account of my independence. 2nd- Because as Chairman of the Union League Club, I fought for you and kept the Taft sign from the Union League Club of Brooklyn, until our Committee disbanded. 3rd- Because I appointed Roosevelt men as election officials in my district. My record is as follows: I have served six years in the Board and have each term received honorable mention from the Citizens Union. Their report for this term states G. A. Morrison, 59th District, showed independence; has good record of votes. I might also say I have with my the following: The Women's Municipal League of Flatbrush Mother's Association Women's Temperance Union The Taxpayers' Association The Men's Clubs The Society of Crime The Sabbath Association and the prominent clergy of my district. May the Clergy have an interview with you or can we have a letter from you to the residents of my district in my behalf. It will certainly give me a tremendous vote and aid the great cause for good government and against Bossism. Yours very truly, George A. Morrison[*PENSION ATTORNEY PATENT ATTORNEY FOR A. Parlett Lloyd Company Registration No. 9661.*] [*C. & P ST. PAUL 3101*] LLOYD ODEND'HAL Attorney at Law, S. E. COR. ST. PAUL AND SARATOGA STS. BALTIMORE, MD. August 27, 1913. [[shorthand]] Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir:- I am a candidate of the Progressive Party for nomination to the House of Delegates, General Assembly of Maryland, from the First Legislative District of Baltimore City. I am Secretary of the Young Mens Progressive League of Maryland, heretofore the Young Mens Roosevelt League. I was registered as a Democrat at the time you entered the Republican Primaries. Since then, I have been fighting for you and for the Progressive Party. I do not consider the material loss I have sustained in the Progressive Cause a sacrifice, but a decided advantage. I respectfully call your attention to a news item appearing this morning on the first page of the Baltimore "Sun", to the effect that you will eliminate the Progressive Party and accept the Republican nomination again, provided the Republicans accept the Progressive Creed. The Progressives of Maryland have excoriated and expelled a former state chairman and other business politicians for violating their trust and their office, and have filled their places by appointing to office men who are not necessarily politicians, but who are loyal and true. We, Progressives, believe you to be a brave man and therefore, a true man. We cannot believe our Leader has deserted his standard on the eve of battle. I know you will not permit the above stated report to jeopardize our ticket the coming November election, and I most respectfully ask you to advise me in this matter. I will gladly communicate your answer to the five hundred stalwart young men of our League. Respectfully, Lloyd Odend'hal LO/-H. N. RICKEY PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER 206 PRESS BUILDING CLEVELAND, OHIO The Newspaper Enterprise Association NEW YORK BUREAU 319 WORLD BUILDING, NEW YORK CITY SAM T. HUGHES EDITOR Aug 27 th. 1913 My dear Col. Roosevelt, Yesterday I returned from Iowa to find that your secretary had returned to me the two books on West Virginia loaned me by Adj-Gen. Elliott. When General Elli ott loaned me the books he bade me send them to you whe-n I had used them in writing my mine war articles. It was while I was on my way to report the senatorial investigation of conditions in Paint and Cabin Creeks that it occured to me that you should have the books for a possible Outlook article:- hence Mr Mac millen sent them. I know these books to be of considerab le value because they are now hard to obtain and so return them by messenger. Tonight I leave New York to sail on the Franconia from Boston for a year abroad as foreign correspondent of this service. I wonder if you will be interested to know that I go, first, to the Pale of Settlement to study for a possible report how Russia treats the Jews. This is, of course, a dark secret lest I be deported too soon. I hope that all goes well with you. Believe me, Very sincerely yours, Mary Boyle O Reilly N. E. A. SAN FRANCISCO, 340 NINTH STREET WASHINGTON, 912 MUNSEY BUILDING NEW YORK, 319 WORLD BUILDING SAN DIEGO, SCRIPPS BUILDING LONDON, 179 TEMPLE CHAMBERS PARIS, 121 RUE MONTMARTRE BERLIN, ZIMMER STRASSE, NR. 77 TREASURER, PRESS BUILDING, CLEVELANDAug. 27th, 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, "The Outlook" New York, N.Y. Dear Sir; Having learned through an obscure newspaper, the Isle of Pines News, to be explicit, that you are forming another company of "Rough Riders" to invade Mexico, should the occasion arise, I am taking the liberty to ask you if it is a fact. If it is I should like Yours till the bell rings, Chas E. Perkins. 417 Blohm St. West Haven, Conn.to proffer the services of myself and companion. My chum is an ex cavalry-man and has seen active service in the Philippines. I am an ex navy quartermaster and have served on the flag bridges of Admirals Davis and Sebree. Service in Santo Domingo and Philippines. Both of us are qualified sharpshooters and received our medals and certificates during your administration. We are efficient riders and expect to do some free-lancing along the border very shortly but if there is anything in the rumor, we would rather follow the man who made San Juan famous, than all the "Gold Braid" in the States. Hoping that this will get past your secretary and receive your own perusal, I beg to remainTELEPHONE OFFICE: 114 HICKSVILLE RESIDENCE: 115-J HICKSVILLE NOTARY PUBLIC ROBERT SEAMAN REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE HICKSVILLE, N. Y. August 27th, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I am enclosing copy of report of the Primary Committee to the County Committee of the National Progressive Party in Nassau County, of nominees voted for at the Preferential Primary on August 22nd. Those receiving only one vote for County Treasurer, Comptroller and District Attorney, were not printed on the ballot, but written on by various voters in the County. At a meeting of the County Committee on the 25th inst., they voted to place in nomination the nominees who received the highest vote under the various County offices and Assemblyman. I am informed that the Democratic County Committee of Nassau County endorsed our nominee for member of Assembly on their ticket. Hoping you will approve of the nominations by the Progressives, I am. Very respectfully, Robert Seaman. Secretary Primary Committee.[FOR ENCL SEE 8-27-13]Brooklyn Aug 27/13 Hon. Theo. Roosevelt Oyster Bay Long Island My dear Col. I want to call your attention to the most contemptible action on the part of some of the Leaders in the Progressive Party of Brooklyn by which a deal was brought about, whereby the Hon. Norman S. Dike now a Judge of the County Court of Kings County and one of the most independent and fearless Judges on the bench and a terror to the Criminal Classes brought before him, was refused an endorsement by the Progressive Designating Committee, controlled by Ex Liut Gov. Timothy L. Woodruff. Mr. Fuller's Jr. name must be taken from the Progressive ticket and the name of Hon Norman S. Dike who is at present County Judge and who was designated unanimously by the Hopgood Committee of 107 be at once designated [by] and placed upon the ticket of the Progressive Party of Kings County Hoping you will attend to this at once and you will receive the blessings of every honest & intelligent Progressive in Brooklyn whose platform is honesty and a fair deal[ing].2 whereby Jesse Fuller Jr. who already had been designated by the Fusion Committees as Register of Kings Co. and who ran for Congress last year against the Hon. Wm. M. Calder on the progressive ticket was designated by the Progressive Candidate for the County Judge and who was afterward designated by the Democratic Organization as their Candidate for County Judge simply to repay Mr Woodruff in his deal for the placing of the names of the present Surrogate of Kings County Mr Herbert T. Ketchum who appointed John Macory "Chas F. Newplays right hand man Chief 3 Clerk of the Surrogate Court at a fat salary of $9000 per year upon the Progressive Tickets. Such actions as that will cost the Progressive ticket in Brooklyn thousands of votes, not only at this election when it is so important to overthrow Murphy and Tamany Hall but next year with a Governor at stake and 3 years from now when the National Government is at stake. I most respectfully ask that you take up this matter at once as it is of vital importance not only to the Progressive Party, but to all honest and intelligent Citizens in the Borough of BrooklynVery Sincerely Yours Henry A. Smith— Ex alderman & Candidate for Senator last fall on the Progressive ticket of H. D. Matthews Joris Brooklyn N.Y. [*[Henry A Smith]*]Form 2289 B. 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This is an UNREPEATED NIGHT LETTER, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. ROBERT C. CLOWRY, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT MS 172 Fifth Ave N.Y. A18NY HN 10 N.L. ALEXANDRIA BAY NY AUG 27 1913 MR THEO ROOSEVELT CARE THE OUTLOOK NY PLEASED TO LEARN OF YOUR SAFE RETURN FROM WESTERN TRIP. MR. AND MRS CHAS STEERN. 1A AUG 28Progressive Party of Vermont Headquarters Montpelier Vermont TELEPHONE 70 P. O. BOX 453 National State Committeeman CHARLES H. THOMPSON P. O. Box 453 Montpelier STATE ORGANIZATION Chairman M. L. ASELTINE St. Albans Secretary and Treasurer E. L. KELLEY Salisbury EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chas. H. Thompson Chairman P. O. Box 453 Montpelier M. L. Aseltine St. Albans E. L. Kelley Salisbury H. Nelson Jackson Burlington March M. Wilson Randolph Members State Committee First District Mrs. O. H. Rixford East Highgate Mrs. Guy B. Horton Burlington Members State Committee Second District Mrs. Juliet Rublee Windsor Mrs. George Ide Lyndon STATE COMMITTEE Addison E. L. Kelley Salisbury Bennington W. H. Nichols Bennington Caledonia W. J .Aldrich St. Johnsbury Chittenden H. S. Howard Burlington Essex A. E. Parlin Island Pond Franklin Oscar A. Rixford East Highgate Grand Isle W. A. Soule Alburg Grand Isle J. S. King Isle La Motte Lamoille B. C. Hawley Jeffersonville Orleans J. M. Blake Barton Orange March M. Wilson Randolph Rutland D. E. Martin Rutland Rutland F. L. Russell Shrewsbury Windham E. W. Gibson Brattleboro Washington A. W. Allen Barre Windsor Glenn Lathrop South Royalton DATE Aug., 27, 1913. Mr. Frank Harper, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. My dear Mr. Harper:- Unless something very unexpected happens you may tell Col. Roosevelt that I will be in his office at any time next Tuesday which will be convenient to himself. Trusting that Col.. Roosevelt had a most happy trip in the West, I remain Yours very truly, Charles H. Thompson. T/K.FOUNDED IN 1771 THE NORTH AMERICAN PHILADELPHIA August twentyseven, 1913 My dear Colonel: Welcome home! I confess your presence nearby strengthens us. I am sending you an article written for the North American and published in part in the Kansas City Star; Chicago Tribune and Boston Journal. You will remember Mr. Leach as Senator Quay's private secretary who was at National headquarters in the Harrison presidential campaign. Leach was the ablest lieutenant Senator Quay ever had. In many respects he was a better politician than Quay. His article has made a deep impression on the old-timers in this City. It came about the time your friendly reference to Quay appeared in your "Chapters of a Possible Autobiography" series. Just a line from you to Leach will be the best medicine the fellow could have at this time. Pardon the intrusion when I know how much you have to do, but - With best wishes, Sincerely, E. A. Van Valkenbg Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay.CURRENT OPINION FORMERLY CURRENT LITERATURE 134 W. 29TH STREET NEW YORK EDITORIAL ROOMS EDWARD J. WHEELER, EDITOR August 27th, 1913 My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I am happy to hear that you are back and I am delighted to find that the Republicans, coy though they pretend to be, would not be averse to your capturing the primaries in 1916. That at least I conclude from various discussions appearing in the SUN, GLOBE and other papers, As to myself I have made up my mind to leave politics and devote myself to literature until your call is sounded again for the second skirmish at Armageddon. I am thoroughly disgusted with local politics. For one thing I have no love for the Fusion ticket. I would be willing to go on the stump for a straight Progressive ticket, but the Fusion ticket, as constituted at present seems to me an abortion. Prendergast, the only Progressive on the ticket, is a man whom I subtley distrust. I think that at heart he is a self-seeker of the type of Governor Hadley. But, of course, I may be mistaken. In the Bronx where I live at present we had difficulty in preventing the Party from being sold out to Tammany Hall. Three out of five leaders had consented at a meeting to a fusion with the Tammany forces. One leader was not present at the meeting. The fifth leader, the County Chairman himself, strenuously opposed the fusion, but it appears that he himself three weeks ago previous to the meeting had attempted "to do business with Tammany." Mr. Schwaraler explained that he had negotiated with the enemy merely to sound them and to see how they [*"*] valued [*"*] our forces. I like to believe his explanation because he was the first man to raise a Roosevelt banner in 1912. Vreeland, Shohgut and Crane, leader of my own district, should be recalled and repudiated. All the members of the County Committee, of which I am one, received telegrams to meet their respective leaders shortly before the meeting of the designating committee and the plan proposed was put up to us. I was CURRENT OPINION FORMERLY CURRENT LITERATURE 134 W. 29TH STREET NEW YORK EDITORIAL ROOMS EDWARD J. WHEELER, EDITOR page two disgusted to find that a large number were perfectly willing to make such a deal because it assured them of obtaining patronage. We were told to sacrifice our personal prejudice in the matter. I said that I was willing to sacrifice my personal prejudice, but not the principles for which the Progressive Party stands. Let us, I said, rather take a back seat in the present election than roll in the gutter with Tammany Hall! With the help of Schwarzler and O'Gorman (a descredited erstwhile Democratic politician) we won out in the meeting of the designating committee. But it was evident that more than one-half of those present sympathized with Coroner Shongut, who was the Mephistopheles of this project. The air for months has been rife with rumors of scandal, bribery, treachery, dickerings and dealings. Under those circumstances I relinquished my original intention to run for the Assembly or the State Senate. I begin to realize more and more that you are infinitely greater than the Progressive Party, that great principles are embodied not in parties but in individual leaders. Politics has lost me and I shall again return to Parnassus. I think it is really very clever of you to escape from the mud-banks of small fry politics into the wilderness of South America, though I have a suspicion that you may yet have to lead the Rough Riders to Mexico. Don't trouble to answer this letter because I know how busy you are, but inasmuch as I promised you to take an active part in politics I feel as though I owed you an explanation as to why I have, more or less, withdrawn for the time being at least. Believe me, as ever, Faithfully and sincerely yours, George Sylvester ViereckForm 1765. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Washington, D.C. Aug. 27, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Ex-President, U.S.A., Oyster Bay, N.Y. Honorable Sir: From newspaper articles learned of your contemplated visit to South America, and, I being anxious to go along with you, take great liberty in writing you. The first thing I would like to say is, I am a great admirer of you and your doctrine for I have followed your every move since the Spanish War through the papers. I am a young man of color, 30 yrs. old with a fair knowledge of Spanish that acquired in Mexico and P.I. I served as Interpreter for U.S. Army in Form 1765. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. the P. I. during the insurrection and was honorably discharged, per expiration of term of service, from Troop "C," 9th U.S. Cavalry. I am now in the civil service in this city, but will resign in order to go with you. Now Colonel, if in any capacity whatever I can be placed, I'll gladly accept and moreover, I'll furnish satisfaction. Recommendations and my discharges will be furnished you if so requested. Thanking you in advance &c., I am, Very respectfully, M. B. Williams #619-14th St. N. W.NEW YORK BOSTON PARIS LONDON J. A. WOODMAN 7 WATER STREET ROOM 315 CABLE ADDRESS "MANWOOD" BOSTON, August 27th 1913 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Sir, A few days after you reached Arizona on your recent trip to that State, a series of stories were sent broadcast by different individuals saying that you had signed up to make a trip to Australia, the tour to be under the direction of one Hugh D. McIntosh, I haven't the least doubt but what this man McIntosh timed your arrival in Arizona so as to spring the stories when you were not very apt to see them. You will probably appreciate his object and if I am not greatly mistaken, promptly put an end to this fellows brazen campaign of misrepresented and self advertised affair at your expense. I will relate an experience I have had with this party which will show you how valuable his word is. I contracted with him nearly two years ago to take Sam Langford to Australia to engage in ten contests. He broke the contract after his eighth bout and I was obliged to bring suit and remain in that country a year longer than I anticipated in order to prosecute the suit. In the meantime McIntosh unloaded his business as an athletic promoter on a party named Baker. This unloading business availed him nothing as the Court decided he violated his contract and we were awarded satisfactory damages. McIntosh is somewhere in Europe now and from what I know of him and his methods its safe to say that he has by now announced in several languages over there that "Roosevelt the African lion hunter will tour Australia under the management of Hugh D. McIntosh" Not only does McIntosh claim to have signed you BOXING CATERER.NEW YORK BOSTON PARIS LONDON J. A. WOODMAN 7 WATER STREET ROOM 315 CABLE ADDRESS "MANWOOD" BOSTON, 191 (2) up forsuch a tour but also add that he is to pay you $2000 per week. I am writing you this foregoing knowing well your attitude towards people who fake and distort statements in the public press. I am enclosing copy of letter received from Mr. Abbott of New York, would go further in my letter but didn't want to intrude on your valuable time any more than was necessary to briefly state the facts, Faithfully Yours, J. A. Woodman Copy of Letter from Mr. Abbott. The Outlook New York August 26th 1913 Dear Sir, Your letter to my father Dr. Lyman Abbott has been received. In reply in my fathers absence I am seeing that you letter is turned over to Mr. Roosevelts secretary for such action as it may seem best for Mr. Roosevelt to take in the matter if he wishes to take any. Yours very truly, Signed Ernest H. Abbott P. S. I may add that although Mr. Roosevelt has received many invitations to go to Australia, he has as yet made no arrangements to visit that country. BOXING CATERER. ESTABLISHED 1896 The Bankers Magazine 253 Broadway, New York, U.S.A. Aug. 27, 1913- Frank Harper, Esq. Secy. Col Theodore Roosevelt New York, Dear Mr. Harper: Yours of the 25th has just reached me up in New Hampshire, where I am passing a few days. Just before leaving New York I completed the work of editing the campaign addresses, and submitted the manuscript to Miss Keller and Mr. Hibben. They both expressed satisfaction with the result. I then sent the manuscript to the printer, and am promised proofs not later[*ESTABLISHED 1846 The Bankers Magazine 253 Broadway, New York, U.S.A.*] than Sept. 15. Of course, the proofs will be submitted to Col. Roosevelt prior to publication. I thought it would be more convenient for him to pass on the proofs instead of the ms., and am hoping that the changes to be made will not be very great. The volume will run between 200 and 300 pps and may be readily sold for one dollar. While no definite arrangements have been made, I think I am safe in saying that the book will be brought out by the Progressive National Service. I shall return to New York Sept 5, and will then confer with you further. Sincerely yours, E. H. Youngman[8-27-13] Sheriff 373 William H. Weeks, Progressive 15 James P. Brown, Democrat 19 William P. Jaeger, Democrat 83 Stephen P. Pettit, Republican 1 Phineas Seaman, Republican County Clerk 365 Adrian H. Courtenay, Progressive 122 Thomas S. Cheshire, Republican County Treasurer 229 Daniel J. Hegeman, Democrat 185 C. Chester Painter, Republican 1 John H. Dennelley, Progressive 1 LeRoy J. Weed, Progressive 1 John B. Gilliar, Democrat 1 E. E. Bosca, Republican Comptroller 404 Charles L. Phipps, Republican 2 John Lion, Democrat 1 Smith Cox, Republican 1 James E. Baker, Progressive Sup't of Poor 418 James Duthie, Progressive 42 Claude C. Van Deusen, Republican District Attorney 438 James L. Dowsey, Progressive 43 Lewis J. Smith, Republican 1 John B. C. Tappan, Progressive 1 Charles N. Wysong, Democrat Member cf Assembly 364 LeRoy J. Weed, Progressive 98 George Wallace, Progressive 13 George L. Weeks, Progressive[ENCL IN SEAMAN 8-27-13]Enc in Marden 8-27-13 8-27-13Mrs Orison Smett Marden Marden Farms Sea Cliff Phone 644 Glen CoveMarion, Ky. Aug. 28th. 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir:- Corl. I am writing you to ask you to please Sir help me. I am here in Marion Serving a very poor church, The colored people here have two tobaco factories to depend on for a Support Stirring and packing in Hogg. These factories opened the last of Feb. and closed the first of May all through the winter and now they have nothing to do but wash and iron for a Support and cook. The get for a family's washing, 50¢ and for cooking $1.50 per week and at the present prices of every thing tho hardly make enough to Support themselves and they are not able to do any thing like Their duty toward the (over) Col. I am trying to stay here and do my my duty as a minister and a true progressive until conference, I really need help and I thought to write to you and explain my condition to you and I believe you will help me. I am sending you my registration blank That you may see I am a progressive. I have also sent my name to the National Committee in N Y City as a volunteer. And I am doing all I can for the party. Col. please help me The lord knows I need you help and what ever amount you give I will be So thankful to you we have had a druth for four (4) months last Thursday evening was the first time it had rained in 4 mo. The gardens and crops are all dried up. please help me and Send my registration slip back to me. Respt. yours W W. W. Atchison, pastor Stewarts Chapel Colored Methodist E. church Marion, Ky. "He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord." [*ack 8-1-13*] THE FIRS, REIGATE, SURREY, ENGLAND. [*31.*] [*Ack FH No 9/22/13*] August 28th 1913 [?shorthand] Dear Mr Roosevelt, I should be very grateful if you would favor me with a message for my book on "The Lesson of the Anglo-American Peace Centenary" to which the Duke of Argga, Mr Joseph H. Choate, Lord Heardal, Sir Killiam Crookes, Lord Roberts, Sir Frederick Pollock, Lord Cuzon, Dr C. W. Stiop, Sir George Reid, Prince de Cassano, Professor Henry Van Dyke, Lord Tennyson, Sir Walter Raleigh, Mr John A Stewart, Lord Shathcona, Sir Edmund Halker, Baron d' Estowmelles de Constant Sir David Gill Lord Charles Beresford, Sir Charles Lucas, Lord Desborough, Dr David Stair Jordan Baron de Forest, Admiral Jemanke, the Earl of Meath, Field-Marshal, Sir Lodgn Hood, Viscount Peel, the Earl of Dewbigh and other eminent men have already contributed. With much respect Oliver Bainbridge (Copy) J. Thompson Baker, 2d Dist. New Jersey HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON. August 28, 1913. General Samuel K. Sehwenk, New York City. My dear General:- I have just now received your letter of August 27th., isnt., transmitting a duly signed and attested copy of the preamble and resolutions adopted at a Regular Encampment of Cameron Post, No.79, Grand Army of the Republic, at their Headquarters, 301 Eighth Avenue, New York City, July 26, 1913, on the subject of admitting Confederate Veterans to the National Soldiers Home at Johnson City, Tennessee, suggested by Governor James M. Cox of Ohio. The nobility of spirit and the patriotic sensibility exhibited by the members of Cameron post, No. 79, Grand Army of the Republic, in their great act on July 26, 1913, is beyond praise; and is the final proof of the greatness of soul of the brave men who stood for the Union when everything was at stake. If I can in any way advance their high purposes and noble aspirations it will engage every resource at my command. Sincerely yours, J. Thompson Baker. [ENCL IN SCHWENK 9-8-13]Schnectady N.Y. Aug 28, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N,Y. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I have written and published "Larkin of Cotton Run", a simple story of outdoor life. Under another cover I am mailing you and advance copy of my book in the hope that you may find time to read it. Should you find such time and should you derive a tithe of the pleasure from so doing that I have had from the reading of one of your books, I shall indeed be pleased. Respectfully yours William Templer BeckerThe Balsams Dixville Notch, N.M. Dixville Notch, N.H. Aug. 28th 1913. My dear Mr. Harper, Archie New is all right, except that he is a little "troubled with youngness." He is a candidate for nomination in the Progressive primaries and I have no doubt of his nomination: personally. I see no hope for his election but I think he does and there is a bare possibility that circumstances may so develop as to give him a chance. It would have a good moral effect for the Colonel to drop him a line (which he would be sure to publish)to say in substance that it is very desirable in the public interest or young professional men like him to run for office, that all real believers in real Progressive principles ought to stand together now and frown down "amalgamators" and their works and that he cordially hopes as many worthy Progressive candidates, duly nominated as possible may be elected next Autumn. I return his letter, which (with yours of the 22nd) only reached me here late last evening, and I am, as ever, Yours Most truly, Charles J. Bonaparte. Frank Harper Esqr. 287 Fourth Ave. N.Y.THE PEARY ARCTIC CLUB. "To Reach the Farthest Northern Point on the Western Hemisphere ; to Promote and Maintain Explorations of the Polar Regions." PRESIDENT, THOMAS H. HUBBARD. VICE-PRESIDENT, ZENAS CRANE ORGANIZED, JANUARY, 1899. INCORPORATED, APRIL, 1904. INCORPORATORS: MORRIS K. JESUP. HENRY PARISH. ANTON A. RAVEN. JOHN H. FLAGLER. ROBERT E. PEARY, C. E., U. S. N. HERBET L. BRIDGMAN, Sec'y and Treas, "Standard Union" Building. Brooklyn-New York. New York. Aug. 28, 1913 Frank Harper, Esq., Secretary. 287 Fourth Ave., New York, N.Y. Dear Sir: In reply to your favor of yesterday, I respectfully return Mr. Topham's letter, Aug. 24th, to Col. Roosevelt, and copy ofmy reply to it, which will, I trust be acceptable. Yours very truly, H L Bridgeman Secretary and Treasurer.[FOR ENCL SEE 8-28-13]August 28, 1913 Robert R. Topham, Esq., Almshouse, New Bedford, Mass. Dear Sir: In reply to your favor of the 24th inst. to Col Roosevelt, forwarded to me for attention, the Peary Arctic Club sold their "Roosevelt" to the late John Arbuckle, and, so far as I am aware, the ship is the property of his estate and lying in berth of many months at the foot of Jay Street, Brooklyn. Any further information which may be desired or obtainable, is, at all times, at your service. Yours very truly, [Bridgeman] Secretary and Treasurer.[ENC IN BRIDGMAN 8-28-13]Santiago. Chile. August 28.13 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt New York City. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: I enclose a few lines on your trip to Chile - which will be fully appreciated by our people. I hope that you will receive them before you leave. I regret to hear that you are intending to stay in Chile only two days - that's what the Secretary of Foreing Affairs told me last night. That is too short you must make your stay longer, so as to be able to visit the South of Chile- it would take about four days altogether. When Mr. Brice came here he stayed a week and wrote a book. You can do more than that in the same time. Believe me truly yours George Astaburuaga25 August '13 Metropolitan Club Fifth Avenue & Sixtieth Street Dear Colonel Roosevelt My greetings on your return. I hope to see you very soon, and am happy to read that you are well and sun-burned and benefitted by your outing. I am off to Maine on Monday for two days in the 3rd Congressional Dist. campaign. I understand we have a chance. With best wishes always. Faithfully yours Bainbridge Colby To Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay[QUEENS COUNTY LEAGUE] [3409 JAMAICA AVENUE] [W. H. FLETCHER, PRESIDENT J. F. LINTON, VICE-PRESIDENT D. F. CONWAY, SECRETARY] [BOARD OF GOVERNORS DAVID P. LEAHY ARTHUR H. JAGGERS JOHN C. DODSON J. F. LINTON W. A. DEGROOT B. N. DAWLEY PRESTON A. VOUGHT F. P. WILDEROTER] [TELEPHONE 17 RICHMOND HILL] [RICHMOND HILL, L. I.] Aug 28 1913. My Dear Colonel: May I appeal to you to help the Progressives put one over in this political mess that is boiling in the city at present? Harry I. Huber, Progressive Dem., has been named for Boro. Pres. of Queens by the Progressives. The 107, at the suggestion of Mr. Williams, Rep., named Higbie, Rep. The Reps. of Queens (De Bragga and Burden) have joined with Cassidy and put up Smith, Dem., with shady record. The Dems. have named Connolly, present incumbent, worse than Cassidy, to my mind, because more educated (lawyer). Now, Huber can be elected if Higbie and Smith withdraw. Your friends in the 107 can influence Higbie easily enough, and the Rep. fusionists in Manhattan, and more particularly in Brooklyn, can influence De Bragga to take down Smith. In a straight fight between Huber and Connolly, Huber will win, giving the Progressives, whose candidate he is, one borough. Under any other conditions, Connolly will have a walkover. Beyond any possible advantage to the Progressive party is the fact that Huber is a high-class gentleman, a lawyer, and perhaps the ablest man ever named for the office in Queens County. Yours truly D. F. Conway 18 Glenada Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. P. S.—If you take up the matter, I will be pleased to send you some "dope" that should cause "Jake" Livingstone and De Bragga to listen to reason, if advanced by the "107" or yourself Jake & De B. are in "Cohoots."H. S. McCowan, PRESIDENT T. H. NEES, VICE-PRESIDENT P. M. TRAVIS, SECRETARY AND TREASURER Peoples Trust Company Without Banking Privileges OFFICES 214-15-16-17-18 LINZ BUILDING Dallas, Texas August 28th, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N. Y., My dear Sir:- I am enclosing you a little booklet which has appealed to many people, and it occurred to me that I should like to have you read it, if from your busy life you can spare fifteen minutes. Cordially yours, H. S. McCowan HSM-RW. Enc.PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL COMMITTEE MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. O. K. DAVIS SECRETARY August 28, 1913. My dear Colonel: Of course you have heard of the result in Arkansas. Murphy polled about 7,500 votes; Harry Myers, the Republican ex-friend of yours, something over 11,000; and Hays, the machine Democrat, about 53,000. I have not heard from Comer since the election, except a brief note enclosing a newspaper clipping giving a statement of the votes, upon which he did not comment. In view of his sanguine predictions before the election, I have felt that he was a good bit disappointed by the outcome, and it occurred to me that he also must fear that you and other of the Progressive leaders and members of the organization may feel similarly disappointed and also may feel that he had misled. It strikes me, however, that even though we ran third, and polled so few votes, it was a fight very well worth making, for only by the making of such fights can we secure the proper beginnings of an organization in the South and lead to the ultimate establishment of the Party there. All of which leads me to suggest that it would be a very nice thing, if you think it is within the length of the cable tow, to write Colonel Murphy a good letter, and also to sendColonel Roosevelt. - 2 - some word of encouragement to J. A. Comer, the State Chairman. You can address Comer at Little Rock, and I fancy a letter sent to Colonel Murphy in Comer's care would reach him promptly. I wrote Senator Dixon some time ago, asking him to write to both Comer and Murphy, but have not heard from him, and do not know whether or not he wrote. Faithfully yours, O.K. Davis. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, #287 Fourth Avenue, New York, New York.PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL COMMITTEE MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. O. K. DAVIS SECRETARY August 28, 1913. My dear Colonel: I hope you can find time to read the enclosed copy of a letter I have just written Walter Brown about the Virginia situation. We have a clean-cut bunch of young, fighting men, who are aimed directly at the best thing for the Party that can be done. They want to build up their organization and they want advice as to the best methods of working. I promised Wise I would write you at once about the matter, and I hope you can find time to give me your judgment. All things considered, we have come through the summer in very good shape. We are making a lively campaign in the Third Congressional District in Maine; have a good candidate to nominate in the vacant Baltimore District; and will make a lively fight in the First West Virginia District, where there is a vacancy. The line has stood up generally very well against the adroit assaults of the amalgamators. You, of course, know how the opposition has sought to make capital of your trip to South America, asserting thatColonel Roosevelt. - 2 - you have abandoned the campaign, and all that sort of thing. They have been very prompt to use the statement you made in Chicago as to the only means of getting together, claiming that this is an indication that you will be out for the Republican nomination in 1916. There is a good deal of talk going around here to that effect, and I find that a number of Republicans in the Senate are discussing it -- some of them hopefully, some of them fearfully. Borah told me the other day to tell you the next time I saw or wrote to you that "we are going to nominate him in 1916". Of course you had a great time in Arizona, and no doubt are now overwhelmed with work. I hope to have an opportunity to see you before fore you start for South America. I trust the CENTURY arrangement was satisfactory. Faithfully yours, O.K. Davis Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, #287 Fourth Avenue, New York, New York.[For enc see 8-28-13]PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL COMMITTEE Washington, D.C. August 28, 1913. Mr. Walter F. Brown, Chairman, Organization Committee, Progressive National Committee, 1007 Nicholas Building, Toledo, Ohio. My dear Mr. Brown: Mr. George N. Wise of Newport News, one of our energetic and enthusiastic friends in Virginia, was just in to see me about their situation. There has recently been a meeting of the state committee at Richmond, at which plans were made for perfecting an organization throughout the state, and a good deal of intelligent and valuable work was started. Wise tells me that they mean to nominate candidates for local offices in counties and cities wherever possible throughout the state this fall, and push the work of local organization as much as possible. There is a gubernatorial election, also, coming on and they are in a quandary as to whether to nominate a state ticket or not. If it is decided to nominate they will try to get a good candidate, but they are in difficulty about getting a good man who could afford the time and money to make the campaign, and I gather from what he says they would be just as well off if they did not attempt to make a state campaign. Wise is also a little anxious on the point that if they should nominate a state ticket hag might be handled very badly the canvassing boards. The Republican machine in Virginia works hand in glove with the Democratic machine, and Wise says our friends are somewhat fearful that the Democratic election officials would try to help the Republicans by returning a much larger Republican vote than outs. He says they are perfectly willing to make a fight and that they are not distressed of making a losing fight, as they have had plenty of experience in that, but they do not like to spread out the fighting line so thin as to make it appear that after all there was no real fight. He states they are certain of electing some men to the legislature and of electing some municipal and county candidates.Mr. Walter F. Brown - 2 - Wise came here as a member of the committee appointed at this recent state masting to consider this question. He wanted to get the view of the National organization. In a nut shell, their situation is practically this: That if the National Committee thinks it will benefit the National organization to have Virginia make a state campaign they will undertake it, always provided they can secure a satisfactory candidate for the governorship. If, on the other hand, the National Committee feels that a losing campaign in Virginia, where the danger of which I have spoken is liable to damage the National organization, they will not nominate a state ticket. I think they would a little prefer not to make the state campaign. I promised Mr. Wise to write you at once and get your judgment on the matter. Faithfully yours, O.K. Davis. co-New York Office. Colonel Roosevelt. [Enc in Davis 8-29-13]Lawrence L. I August 28, 1913 132 West 88[[?]] Street. My dear Mr Roosevelt I am glad you have returned, and I am delighted with your views in city politics I agree with you on everything as I read it in the morning paper. I like Mr Whitman I think him capable and honest he deserves credit for accepting the nomination for District Attorney I would like to have seen him nominated forMayor. I dont think he should accept the January nomination. A Bad Tree cannot bring forth Good Fruit. so it is with Tammany. Mr Whitman would poll as many votes without it. I think our whole ticket will be elected. If I can be of any service let me know. Always glad to hear from you Sincerely yours J Rhinelander Dillon Hon Theodore Roosevelt Oyster BayNIGHT LETTER THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY Incorporated 25,000 offices in America. Cable Service to all the world. This company transmits and delivers messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following Night Letter. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Night Letters, send at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to the amount paid for for transmission; nor in any case beyond the sum of fifty dollars, at which unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED NIGHT LETTER, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. Theo. N. Vail, President. Belvidere Brooks, General Manager Aug 28 / 13 Received at Oyster Bay G MC 113 nh 9 Ex Kansas City Mo Aug 27- Theo Roosevelt O Bay I am with you from tonight the Taft People have treated me rotten. I fought you as the regular republican candidate for Congress from the 3d District of Oklahoma and when the fight was over I found myself out in an open boat without a pair of oars to get ashore with. Dont go to South America. Stay at home Wilson message is certainly a wear one. I had short conversation with Genl Wood yesterday at Baltimore Hotel this city I know condition in Mexico possibly better than any man in existance Mrs Dixon is a belgian I am at your service. Faithfully Sargeant James A Dixon Jr. 216 - 23 Finance Bldg Kansas City MO. 74 6aJAMES R. GARFIELD ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 1029 GARFIELD BUILDING CLEVELAND August 28th, 1913. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave. New York City. Dear Theodore: Since seeing you I have a telegram from our friends in Maine, reading as follows: "Firmly believe if Colonel could come even for a day we could win. Explain to him by wire if you can exactly our situation as you see it. Know it would help. Old guard continues to misrepresent him and his attitude towards Progressive Party" I have written Emerson the Secretary of the Committee that I did not think it possible for you to go there, but I hoped that you would send them a letter. A letter from you to the effect that you desired the Progressive Candidate, Mr. Lawrence, elected, and that the statements of the Republicans regarding your attitude, is absolutely wrong, will be of material help. As I told you, Gussie Gardner was expected by the Republicans to go into the Maine District. He is posing as a Progressive, and hopes to obtain the nomination for Governor of Massachusetts on that score.Mr. Theodore Roosevelt No. 2 The Chairman of the Committee in Maine is I. E. Vernon, with headquarters at Waterville. Yours sincerely, James R. GarfieldTHE CENTURY CO. UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK August 28, 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: The last time we met you were kind enough to say that you wished I was with The Century Co. A month ago I joined the business staff here, and I am happier, business-wise, than I have been for many years. The most interesting and important thing we have on hand is to see that your fine message in the October Century reaches every substantial man and woman in this country. Sincerely yours, Rodman Gilder(Copy) Mr. Goulden. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Committee on Accounts. WASHINGTON. 180 B'Way, N.Y. City, Aug. 28, 1913. Genl. Samuel FK. Schwenk, 601 West 164th St., N. Y. City. My dear Comrade:- Your favor of the 16th reached me here this morning with enclosures as stated. I am in hearty sympathy with the action of Cameron Post No. 79 G. A. R. and will do everything in my power to further the matter. Kindly keep me in touch with the situation. With kindest regards, I am, as ever, Fraternally yours, J. A. Goulden.[ENCL IN SCHWENK, 9-8-13]Form No. 44. DAY [NIGHT] MESSAGE. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Incorporated. 23,000 offices in America. Cable Service to all the world. This company transmits and delivers messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Night Messages, sent at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to ten times the amount paid for for transmission; nor in any case when the claim is not presented in writing within thirty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED NIGHT MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. Robert C. Clowry, President and General Manager. Number 2 Sent by Rec'd By MC1 Check Received at Oyster Bay Aug 28 19[0]3[*13*] Dated Fr NY Aug - 28 - 1913 To Hon Theo Roosevelt ns George McAneny very anxious to see you when can it be Norman Hapgood 728aTHE INDIANA MFG. CO. OF FT. WAYNE THE WAYNE HOTEL Fort Wayne, Ind. Aug 28 1913 Mr Theodore Roosevelt Ex President United States Oyster Bay N.Y. My Dear Mr. Roosevelt I feel much steres over the weak position taken by President Wilson in his Mexico policy, in fact each and every thing he has taken up has been managed more like a school boy than anything else. I hear it on all sides we ought to have Theodore --- Roosevelt then we would then see something doing to say we all of us. It reminds me of a boy under taking to do a negroes work. I want to say we are with you heart - sol and my Heaven bless you and Keep you in the best of health and spirits Respectfully your O. M. Hartt 3201 Fairfield Av- For Wayne Ind. ESTABLISHED 1838 THE BOBBS-MERRILL*COMPANY PUBLISHERS***INDIANAPOLIS August 28, 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir: Mr. Herbert Quick has just informed us that he has sent you an autographed copy of his new work, ON BOARD THE GOOD SHIP EARTH. Once in a while there comes a book which stirs up a real discussion. If we may judge from the readers' reports on the manuscript, then Mr. Quick's ON BOARD THE GOOD SHIP EARTH is such a book. Certainly we have never before had a manuscript in our hands which received such extravagant praise and such violent criticism. It is an important book, big in theme, broad in scope, comprehensive in treatment: a storehouse of information given with a lively and holding interest. The book will surely create decidedly more discussion than anything we have ever published. On some of the subjects treated, we know you have decided opinions, and frankly, we hope you will have a hand in the discussion. After you have read ON BOARD THE GOOD SHIP EARTH, will you be good enough to write us frankly what you think of Mr. Quick's views. Whatever you say will be considered confidential and not for publication without your consent. What we should like is your real opinion of the book. Yours very truly, THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY. Herbert R. Hyman HRH-NBS3 52-50 m-41-42 KLAUBER BROS. & CO. MANUFACTURERS & IMPORTERS OF Embroideries, Laces, Neckwear & Novelties. BROADWAY AT 18TH STREET, New York. TELEPHONE 2200 2201 2202 2203 2204 2205 STUYVESANT. CABLE ADDRESS: KLAUBERIN, NEW YORK DICT. HL STENOG. M PARIS CALAIS NOTTINGHAM PLAUEN BRUSSELS BARMEN FACTOREIS SWITZERLAND ST. GALL. WEINFELDEN ALFRED, MAINE, U.S.A. Aug. 28th, 1913. Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Ave., City. My dear Colonel:- As a fellow progressive, it gives me great pleasure to welcome home, you our beloved great National Leader; although you will only be with us for about four or five weeks, I know in that time you will be able to teach half [talked] baked progressives what ticket they should vote in the coming municipal election, as at the present time I have all cause to feel great anxiety for the success of the Fusion ticket. Not alone do I think that the progressive vote is at the present time split, but also that of the independent voters. Permit me to compliment you most heartily upon your statement of yesterday about the Fusion ticket, also your cablegram to the Hon. Wm. A. Prendergast both of which I heartily approve of and know this action on your part has already added great weight and strength to this ticket. I have two matters which I believe to be of great importance to bring to your attention, one of them I believe will be a great asset to the interest of our party, the other matter, I believe would be the last slap necessary to overthrow Tammany Hall both in the City and State. My suggestions I could write to you, but it would take Hon. Theo. Roosevelt -2- several pages to do so, while if you will grant me the honor of an interview, it would only take me a few moments to bring the vital points of my argument before you. If however, you find that you cannot spare the time to grant me an interview, I shall be pleased to put my suggestion before you in writing. Believe me Faithfully yours, Henry g Levy 867 B'way.HUGH GORDON MILLER COUNSELOR AT LAW 220 BROADWAY. ST. PAUL BUILDING NEW YORK TELEPHONE CONNECTION August 26th, 1913 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 187 Fourth Avenue, New York City. My dear Colonel: When I was up in Maine last month opening the Progressive Campaign in the 3rd Congress District I promised to endeavor to aid in getting a helping hand in some way from you in that important Congress fight. It is needless for me to attempt to impress upon you the importance which time and circumstances lend the fight in this Maine District. I believe we have a good chance to carry that District and such a result will be far-reaching and worthy of our very best efforts. The two enclosed clippings indicate the situation. I hope you can find some way to help them. I think you would be justified even in running up there to lend a hand. The Maine Progressives feel that we would have carried the State had you been able to get there in person in the last National Campaign. Very sincerely, Hugh Gordon Miller 2 Enclos. [For the enc see 8-28-13 8-28-13]THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU 1403 F STREET WASHINGTON, D.C. August 28,1913 Dear Colonel: I hope you thoroughly enjoyed your western trip. I eagerly read such meagre details as the eastern newspapers published. I know the experience must have been interesting und life in the open beneficial. Enough time has elapsed to pass a candid judgment upon the Administration. Wilson is exemplifying in all his actions the correctness of your description that he belongs to the type that does good feebly. When he entered the White House, he announced that "pitiless publicity" would be the keynote of his administration. I have never known such secrecy, such a deliberate purpose to suppress information which the public ought to have. He declared that he was against the "secret caucus". Yet we find him not only approving but advocating it, both in connection with the tariff and with currency. Publicly he stands for Civil Service. But charges, no matter how trivial, against a republican office holder are sufficient for his dismissal and the appointment of a democrat, and it is generally understood in political circles that the way to get a job is to file charges against the incumbent. He claims to stand for civil service in the Diplomatic Corps. But most of the men who rose to missions from secretaryships, men who passed the examinations for the minor posts, have been displaced. He says he is for Civil Service also in the Consular Corps, but means are being sought to evade the regulations which you issued. In short, there is pretended recognition of merit while in reality2 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU 1403 F STREET WASHINGTON, D.C. the spoils system prevails. The burning question today, of course, is that of Mexico. While you were in the west, Ambassador Wilson was extremely anxious that I should telegraph you in defence of his attitude, which, of course, I did not do. I knew you would not make a public statement in reference to that situation. I need not repeat what Wilsen recommended, for you have read his views in the newspapers. He placed two alternatives before the administration, one the recognition of Huerta under certain conditions, the other military intervention. Wilson realized that both would be repugnant to the American people. Unquestionably it is true that the United States cannot set up standards for other countries, such as Wilson desired, but at the same time the note he struck, that of the rule of the people, was certain of and did have a popular response. He conceived rather a good program but failed miserably in its execution. In the first place, he selected for the mission a man absolutely without diplomatic experience and with no knowledge whatever of Latin Americans and their characteristics. In the second place, he failed to take advantage of the avenues of publicity to create a solid public opinion, which would have left no doubt in the mind of Huerta that the whole of the United States was determined that the ravishment of Mexico should cease. In the third place, at the very time he was sending Lind to Mexico City with demands certain of rejection, he was iterating and reiterating that under no circumstances would there be military intervention. He even went to the point, when there was a question as to Lind's reception, of ordering the New Hampshire, conveying the "Confidential3 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU 1403 F STREET WASHINGTON, D.C. Agent" to delay her arrival at Vera Cruz, thus displaying weakness. I know of no better time to have put into force your axiom: "Speak softly but carry a big stick". At the time of the dispatch of Lind, had the battleship fleet been assembled at Vera Cruz and all available troops concentrated on the frontier, the demonstration would have been sufficient in my judgment to have caused Huerta to comply with the American demands, or at least earnestly to have entered into negotiations with a view to an agreement. It would have been clear to him that unless he abdicated he would be thrown out of power, and he would have preferred to make terms in order to "save his face". All that Wilson has gained by his action has been to impress the world with the desire of the United States to restore peace and to furnish us with an excuse for sterner measures later on. In the meantime, however, as a result of the anti-American sentiment which has been created, there is grave danger of acts of violence, perhaps against some of our own officials, which will precipitate intervention. So far as Huerta is concerned, he has arrayed behind him the strong anti-American sentiment that prevails. Gamboa's note was certainly a gem of its kind, both in the way it grasps at the recognition accorded the Huerta government through the reception of "Mr Confidential Agent", and in its treatment of the situation and reply to the American demands. Had President Wilson and Mr Bryan been familiar with the Mexican Constitution, they would have seen that Huerta could not be a candidate to succeed himself; and if they had contented themselves with a demand that the Constitution should be observed, Huerta could have4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU 1403 F STREET WASHINGTON, D.C. done nothing else than agree. I em exceedingly pessimistic as to the outcome. The weakness which has been displayed, the failure to realize the difficulties of an armistice and an election, the ignorance of the constitutional requirements of Mexico condemn the Administration in the mind of every thinking man. But because of the character of the crisis, patriotism compels one to remain silent and as far as he can to uphold the President. The war in Mexico will continue with further destruction of life and property. Foreigners and their interests will suffer. Because of the power of the United States, the potential power, I mean, Foreign Nations doubtless will stand aloof from action themselves, though the time is not far distant when they will cease to be patient and forbearing. They are looking to us to settle the situation, and they must see that we are not effectively discharging the responsibilities imposed upon us by the Monroe Doctrine and our proximity to Mexico. And at this moment when we are involved in difficulty with the neighboring country, Japan is pressing the alien land question. Around these negotiations also have been drawn the veil of secrecy. From all I can gather, the two governments are in a deadlock. But Japan is insistent and apparently is determined that we shall give her citizens the recognition to which she believes they are entitled. I blame Mr Wilson for announcing several months ago that there would be no movement of ships which could be misinterpreted in Japan. You demonstrated in 1908 that the Pacific was as much the home waters of the United States as the Atlantic. He is trying to repair his mistake by ordering the Fleet to5 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU 1403 F STREET WASHINGTON, D.C. the Mediterranean, thus taking the Japanese in the rear, a wise move dictated by the General Board and of which there has been and ought to be no publicity. Had the fleet gone to the Pacific, say in compliance with invitations from South American countries, which readily could have been procured, I doubt if any trouble would have occurred. It is gratifying to know that Great Britain has been using her influence to prevent Japan from going too far, and the revolution in China also is absorbing much of the attention of the Tokyo Cabinet. But while Great Britain is serving us, the Senate is refusing to ratify the extension of the General Arbitration treaty of 1908. It also is holding up a similar extension of the Treaty with Japan. I imagine you read Bryan's incorporation of the Platt Amendment in the Treaty with Nicaragua. He did se without reflection and upon the suggestion of the Nicaraguan Minister. Thereby he gave the lie to his own attitude of opposition to "imperialism" and incidentally approved the policy you adopted with respect to Santo Domingo, and above all with Cuba. Personally, I favor this Nicaraguan adventure, believing that it would be productive of Central American Peace. It is, of course, bitterly opposed by Central Americans who resent the interference of the United States, particularly the Government of Guatemala. The majority of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee strongly object to this tremendous advance in American policy, especially upon the Monroe doctrine, and Bryan has been forced to request a postponement of consideration of the convention. Now as to internal affairs. Wilson has been able to impose his6 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU 1403 F STREET WASHINGTON, D.C. will upon the democrats in congress, in spite of the division of sentiment that prevails, so far as the tariff is concerned. Through the use of the caucus he forced the House to pass the tariff bill which he approved in advance. He will achieve the same end through the Senate caucus and by his clever charge of an "insidious" lobby. The revelations before the Investigating Committees conclusively support our charge of an "Invisible Government" controlling both of the Old Parties, and they should be used extensively by our orators and press bureaus. The tariff bill is a make shift, lacking any scientific principles, and unequal in its distribution of the burden of taxation. When it has been in operation a year, the people will see that it has failed to reduce the cost of living. They will conclude they have been buncoed again, and that is where we will reap advantage. So far us the Currency bill is concerned, it is in reality a bankers' measure, in spite of the Chicago Convention of Bankers, and it will be passed by the House. There is revolt among the Senate democrats, and there must be important concessions if there is to be any currency legisiation at all. I look for a bankers bill when congress has completed its work and put the measure up to the President for his signature. So far as politics are concerned, there is growing dissatisfaction with and criticism of the President. The reactionaries think he threw them down in connection with the tariff; the progressives feel they have been badly treated in connection with currency. Many of them do not like the dictation of the President, to which the country will not object. The majority are chagrined over the way in which they7 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU 1403 F STREET WASHINGTON, D. C. have been treated with respect to patronage. The President feels that if his administration is to be successful he must force action on the currency, thereby demonstrating his strength. The Senate wants to show him that he is not the legislative as well as the executive branch and is seeking to find a way of expressing their disapproval without incurring popular condemnation. Next winter when the trust question is under consideration, there will be further trouble. Wilson will seek further punitive legislation. I think, however, the country gradually is becoming convinced as to the wisdom of regulation of corporations. Bryan has subordinated himself completely to the President. The latter is secretly gratified at the loss of popularity of Bryan, due to his presence in California during the consideration of land law legislation, and to his Chautauqua "break" and support of MacReynolds in the Camminetti affair. I think the treatment of Willis Moore was shabby, though I deplore the taste that Moore exhibited. McAdoo, I do not believe, will be a success as Secretary of the Treasury. He has played cheap politics in several instances. Wilson, the Secretary of Labor, is a demagogue, and lost ground in making the Camminetti reques of MacReynolds. Daniels is endeavoring to Bryanize the Navy. The strong men of the Cabinet appear to be Garrison, Houston and Lane, and all are doing good. I could go on writing countless pages, but I imagine I have given you enough to show how I feel. With Regards, Faithfully, yours, Cal [*O'Laughlin*] The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, New York. P.S- Please give my warm regards to Mrs. Roosevelt. I hope she is in excellent health and enjoyed her trip thoroughly.THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU 1403 F STREET WASHINGTON, D.C. August 28, 1915. My dear Colonel: A plan is under way to have the Japanese and Korean governments invite you to visit their countries. The sponsors for the plan are the editors of the Mainichi Shimbun, of Osaka, who are close to the government. For years I was the correspondent of that paper. Shall I tell them to go ahead, or shall I head off the proposal? The Charge d'Affaires of Guatemala sounded me last night as to whether you would visit his country. He says the President and the congress will join in the invitation. The Charge is Mr. La Tour, who is a strong Roosevelt man and speaks with pride of a photograph you gave him and which hangs at the head of his bed. With regards, Faithfully yours, J. C. Laughlin The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, New York City.Standish, Mass., Aug. 28, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Sir:- I beg pardon for writing again, but I failed to m4ke myself clear apparently. I read many times the suggestions for the Colier contest. I did not expect that you would read my story in connection with the contest after its refusal, tho I was induced to write because you and Miss Tarbell were to be judges. I think I stated this fact, and also the character of my story. Probably you are not responsible for the failure of the concern to carry out the spirit of their suggestions as they made them known. What I wanted, was an examination of the Ms. by you and such suggestion as you could make to me, and I would appreciate it much. Other parties whom I did not desire to examine my Ms, did it, and I was lured wrongfully by unfair play. I protest against this. Sincerely yours, O. W. Dedway PLEASE read this when you have a little spare time. THE SHOE POLISH THAT SHINES UNDER RUBBERS "THE SHINE THAT WON'T COME OFF" UD-NIT TRADE MARK REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. CHARLES FRENCH PERRY BOX 91, BANGOR, MAINE Aug. 28, 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt New York, N. Y. Dear Sir:- While you were at the head of our nation, I did not dare to trespass on your valued time, and even now perhaps I am taking too much for granted that you can bother with so small a matter as my product. I should like mighty well to send you a box of UD-NIT and a T. M. C. Dauber, gratis, and have you thresh it out sometime when you are at home and the inclination is ripe. Of course you take your walks occasionally and there will be times when its not convenient to step into the Shoe Shining places for the regular polish, and to have one that LASTS, one that is different, might, I think, interest you. A trivial diversion is sometimes acceptable, and I can well believe that if this happens to hit you in the right mood, you would test it out to a finish. The motive in this matter is purely personal, I mean that I am not figuring for a testimonial (should I be fortunate to have one from you) to later have printed. No, I desire the plain facts as you find them by actual tryouts, and it will do stunts if you will do your part. I should value having a man who has done so many great things as you have find out by actual experience if my claims are not true. In addition to the account on page 7 of booklet herewith, is a more recent personal account of how UD-NIT lasts when properly applied to the shoes,- Polished Dec. 17th. Wore the shoes every day from that date (without rubbers) for a month. Then for two months more, every day UNDER rubbers. May 4th. took an 18 mile walk on dusty country roads. Thro' May and June exhibited them to dealers who were selling it, and on several occasions, wet my hands in water and rubbed all over a shoe, showed a clean hand, no smutting, then brushed to a shine and rubbed this with a cloth to a polish. Have worn them half a dozen or more times in the last two weeks and they look good enough today for several more days wear without any more UD-NIT. To maintain this condition I simply rubbed them a few times each day in use with a handful of old OUTING flannel, which took on an average of only TWO MINUTES in each 24 hours. Of course I have favored them as much as possible as I was out for a record, but during the two months UNDER rubbers, walking Sundays, covered 83 miles. The shoes are Cordovan (horse-hide, paid $8. for them) and it was some time before I got UD-NIT properly into the leather, but when I did it stayed. I have another pair, same kind of leather cost $6.50 that I took my 50 mile walk to Charleston and return, that today are in tip top condition and I cannot be accused of not walking some, in that pair. If you do not feel inclined to notice this, I shall not change my feeling toward you, things have happened, but I have not seen fit to alter my opinions much. Sincerely, Chas. French Perry 1000 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Penna., 28 August, 1913. Honourable Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City, My dear Mr. Roosevelt: Among the miscellaneous host of incipient writers who solicit your attention to their manuscripts, I doubt if there has been a playwright, still unrecognized, with the temerity to send you, uninvited, the script of his play. Mine is now on its way to you. To any query starting off with "Why?" I have an answer and an explanation. Copies of it are, of course, already in the hands of managers and agents. But-- before it meet with the hoped-for test of public presentation, I should value above every other, your opinion of its worth. The reason: My regard for your profound and comprehensive interests; and my esteem of you as the composite of our country's best. The play, "The Glory of Understanding", has for theme man's individualistic aspiration toward full self-expression; guided to success therein by the dictates of conscience.2 Will you scan it at your leisure, trusting to good faith that your complaisance will not be ill-advised or misapplied? Your approval and encouragement would be a beacon light to urge me on to fresh endeavor and to larger purpose. With sincere regards, I am, sir, Faithfully yours, W. Carl Raue [*signature*]GEORGE L. RECORD COUNSELLOR AT LAW COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING JERSEY CITY. N.J. August 28, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Outlook Office, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- In pursuance of my policy of keeping my point of view before your mind for consideration, I write you the results of some experience that we have had since you went West. In the Special Congress election in the Sixth Congressional District of New Jersey, we had our first test since last fall of the actual and relative strength of our new party, and the result is very disquieting. We put up Mr. Bailey, a business man, and there was no opposition at the primaries, but the primary vote was practically negligible, and in very many districts we did not even record a single Progressive vote. Mr. Osborne and Mr. Bailey and I then took the field for a two weeks' campaign in automobiles, spending all of each day in seeing the people, making noonday, afternoon and evening speeches in the open air in the larger places. There are few cities or large places in the district. Victor Murdock and five other different Congressmen came on at different times to help us. They talked the Progressive talk of last fall. Bailey, however, under our advice, came out squarely for government ownership and the principle of the land tax, and a proposition to abolish all indirectGEORGE L. RECORD COUNSELLOR AT LAW COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING JERSEY CITY. N.J. T. R. 2. taxes and administer the protective theory by a bounty. This radical talk astounded the Congressmen, and they went away rather dazed. I think the thing that impressed them most was the intense eagerness and interest displayed by the audiences when this kind of talk was put over. The indefiniteness of our existing platform as a guide to practical political action was shown by the fact that the Congressmen who came here did not agree among themselves as to whether they ought to vote for the Wilson tariff bill or against it. Some had done one thing and some another. Bailey stated that while he favored our plan of a tariff commission, if elected and forced to vote for the pending bill, he would vote for the Democratic bill rather than leave the Payne-Aldrich bill longer on the statute books. The result of the campaign was that the Democrats lost about 55% of last fall's vote, and the Republicans lost about 75% of their vote, and we lost 73% of our vote. The significant thing was that the vote for Bailey was almost literally confined to the places where we made our speeches, and where we did not go the vote was negligible. I am satisfied if we had not made this campaign the Progressive vote would have been practically annihilated. In passing I wish to call attention to the fact that while there is a headquarters spending a lot of money in New York, ostensibly for the fortunes of the Progressive Party, not one penny of assistance, not one document of any kind, andGEORGE L. RECORD COUNSELLOR AT LAW COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING JERSEY CITY. N.J. T. R. 3. not one speaker were we able to procure from then. I understand in the special election campaign now going on in Maine the Progressive leaders have had the same experience, and they feel as bitter towards our national headquarters as we do. I consider that the Congressional campaign in New Jersey was a critical battle, and if we had been practically destroyed in it, thousands of people who are on the fence would have considered that our campaign this fall would be a joke. As it was we saved our bacon, brought the thing off as a draw as between us and the Republicans, and can enter our fall campaign without sure defeat in advance. I enclose you a copy of a pamphlet which we who are backing Osborne for the Progressive nomination for governor have issued. I consider this the most intelligently radical political document ever put out in this country. I believe the Progressive Party has got to come to it if it is to live. Mr. Osborne and I have been all over the State of New Jersey in the last six weeks, speaking at noonday meetings and at outdoor meetings every night, and distributing this pamphlet of which we have already put out some fifty thousand. Several things have impressed me as a result of this experience. One is that in all of the thousands of these pamphlets that have been distributed at street meetings, after the meetings have closed IGEORGE L. RECORD COUNSELLOR AT LAW COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING JERSEY CITY. N.J. T. R. 4. have never seen a single one of these pamphlets on the ground. Practically every one has been retained and carried away by the audience. The next thing is the entirely respectful consideration which this platform has received from the press, particularly the country press, of the state. No one seems willing to attack it. I have been on the stump for twenty-five years, and I never have seen any such interest manifested in political meetings as is in evidence at these meetings which Osborne and I have addressed. This same tendency to treat the Single Tax with respect is apparent in other ways. Governor Stokes in commenting upon Osborne's platform and Colby's platform said that the Colby platform outside of its qualified admission of the soundness of the Single Tax principle was a conservative platform to which any Republican could subscribe, and that Colby's platform did not justify the continued division between Progressives and Republicans, but said that the Osborne platform, however, was a radical departure from Republican principles, and in commenting upon the Single Tax, which Osborne has been pushing to the front, he said that this was a new principle upon which the public was not informed, but which deserved careful consideration. In other words his political instinct kept him from attacking it, which he would have quickly done if he had as a politician felt that it was a weak position which Osborne had assumed. Since then another candidate for the Republican nominationGEORGE L. RECORD COUNSELLOR AT LAW COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING JERSEY CITY. N.J. T. R. 5. has come into the field, Judge Robert Carey of Jersey City, and Carey in his public announcement says that he will stand for a commission to investigate and report upon the effect of the Single Tax upon New Jersey, thus indicating that he is unwilling to attack it and feels the force of the principle behind it. These meetings frequently last over two hours in the evening, and people will stand up all that time taking in this radical doctrine. I have watched carefully to see if there should be any evidence of the loss of the farmer vote which you fear, and which I believe was probable at the beginning. So far as we can work it out from such knowledge as we can get, our tax proposal would result in a saving to the average working farmer in this state, but of course I anticipate difficulty in convincing him to that effect in the beginning. The most significant thing that has happened has been the coming to us of Democrats upon this issue. We are now beginning to get a real party in shape. We have met quite a number of Democrats of the radical type who have openly joined us upon our radical issue. I regard this as the most important thing of all. It is obvious to me that we can never build up a party as a mere faction of the Republican party, and we can never attract the Democrats as long as one of our great fundamental principles is in adherence to the protective theory to be administered through the medium of a tariff upon imports. The protective theory byGEORGE L. RECORD COUNSELLOR AT LAW COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING JERSEY CITY. N.J. T. R. 6 bounty will not prevent any radicals from joining us, but protection to be secured by a tariff upon imports where nobody knows who pays the bill and nobody knows how much the protected interests get, is a proposition so indefensible that I am satisfied we can never build a party as long as it remains one of our cardinal principles. At least we can never build a party that Democrats will help. At all events the radical fight is on in New Jersey, and all the powerful men in the party are taking it up. I should be glad to have you read with care the enclosed pamphlet, not only to have you examine and consider the soundness of the positions which we assume, but also because you are past-master of judging of the political effect of such action as we there take. The New York situation seems to me to lend force to my argument that we make no headway as a party until we become radical. Whatever credit or advantage comes out of that situation if Tammany is beaten will be reaped by Mitchell and his band of Wilson Democrats. He will two years or four years from now be the Democratic candidate for governor and our backing of him for a local office will help. In the meantime we will have four years of a so-called reform administration in which nobody will be allowed to steal anything in the way forbidden by the criminal statutes, but the Interborough will be allowed toGEORGE L. RECORD COUNSELLOR AT LAW COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING JERSEY CITY. N.J. T. R. 7 containue its huge stealings which are sanctioned by law and by contract. The people will be shamefully crowded in the Subway cars, overcharged for the service and plundered in their gas and electric light rates. Rents will steadily go up, and the benefits of the economical reform administration, if indeed they succeed in practicing economy, will all come in the enhancement of land values which will be reaped by one percent of the population in increased rents exacted from the other ninety-nine percent of the population. At the end of that time reform having spelled nothing of advantage to the mass will take a back seat for ten years, and the Tammany crew will come joyfully back into their own. This seems to me to be as sure as any future event can be. Good government such as is promised by the fusion movement so far as I can see has never spelled progress, and never can spell it, because it ignores the fundamental evil of our day, to wit, the plunder of the mass of the citizens of New York through the private ownership of public utilities, and through the private ownership of the land upon which the business of the town must be transacted. It is all a sham battle until we attack these two great city evils. I trust I may have an opportunity before you go to South America for a further discussion of these big questions. I am painfully aware that wisdom will not die with me, but I am only responsible for my vision such as it is, and I know thatGEORGE L. RECORD COUNSELLOR AT LAW COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING JERSEY CITY. N.J. T. R. 8. you as a wise leader are glad to have every angle of the problem brought to your attention. Very sincerely yours, George L RecordTHE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PORTRAIT PAINTERS 58 N. 57 NYC [EARL STETSON CRAWFORD, SECRETARY FOURTEEN WEST TWENTY-NINTH STREET] NEW YORK August 28/13 Dear Theodore I would be much obliged to you if you would give me a letter of introduction to The French Ambassador Mr. Jusserand. Not omitting to mention that I am the chairman, of The National Association of Portrait Painters. I wish to obtain some information from him, and possibly through him from the Minister of Fine Arts in Paris - for which city I am leaving on the 20th of Sept I see by the papersyou are leaving soon for South America. I hope you will have a pleasant and successful trip - and come back safe and well Yours sincerely S. Montgomery Roosevelt 58. W. 57th To the Honor Theodore Roosevelt. Oyster Bay.472 EAST EIGHTEENTH STREET, BROOKLYN. Aug 28 [1913] Dear Mr. Roosevelt At last you are back and as of old have struck the right note instantly. It will strengthen the cause beyond measure. I could name a dozen county committeemen right here who will be set right by it - and it was high time. If I may be permitted, may I suggest that at the right time and in your own way, you help us strike a blow at the Murphy- Barnes Assembly? Faithfully Edgar S. Shumway (N.Y. County Committeeman) [For Encl See 8-28-13]Paterson Daily Press The Sunday Chronicle The Press-Chronicle Company PATERSON, NEW JERSEY August 28th, 1913 Dear Colonel Roosevelt, The Fusion element in this city which is composed of Republicans, Progressives, Independents and some Democrats, has selected Mr. Robt H. Fordyce as its candidate for mayor but Mr. James G Blauvelt, a Progressive, has expressed his determination to run for mayor on an Independent ticket thereby dividing and distracting our forces and ensuring the election of the Democratic candidate. If Mr Blauvelt would withdraw, we can elect Mr. Fordyce and thereby greatly strengthen the Progressive party in Passaic County. Will you not endeavor to dissuade him from continuing in the field and express your sympathy with our Fusion movement as you have done with response to the same movement in New York. Yours Sincerely David Banks SickelsP.O. Box 45 Arendtsville, Pa. Aug 28 - 13. Theo. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island N.Y. Dear Colonel: Cannot the misleading confusion over the so called "Re- publican Progressives" and the "Roosevelt Progressives" be over- come by naming the Progressive Party and Ticket "The Washington Progressive". The uniting of the two words (Washington & Progressive) will doubtless offset any plans (in so far as names are con- cerned) the opposing party might attempt laying to mislead and confuse voters at the next election. Faithfully yours, E.T. Slaybaugh238 Linden Ave Brooklyn, N.Y. Aug 28th 1913 Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y. Dear Sir, It is with great satisfaction to read in the press of today your letter commending the selection of the Fusion Committee of 107. Your endorsement of the same will strengthen the Fusion ticket, and assures its success. Your influence might still be be bought in another direction, and to cause the desolution of the political copartnership between Ex-lieut. Gov Woodruff and the Tammy leader of Kings County. Woodruff the self styled Boss of the Bull Moose in Kings Co. has entered into a deal with Moose Organization of Kings to cause the withdrawal of Fuller, and to cancel the endorsement of the Democratic choice for Surrogate. In conclusion let me be frank with you, that while I was, and am still a great admirer of yours, I like your American gait, nevertheless I was not one of your supporters during the last presidential campaign. I have been an active Republican over 40 years, and while you differed with the leaders of Chicago, I claim you still belong to us. I have the honor to remain, Sincerely Yours Robert Spitzerwith McCooey the Democratic Boss of Kings Co. by which the Bull Moose Organization instead of indorsing the Fusion County Ticket in its entirety have endorsed the present Surrogate under whom McCooey is Chief Clerk drawing $9000 per year For this the Bull Moose solely through Woodruffs influence and command have caused the Democratic Organization to indorse their Candidate Jesse Fuller for County Judge thereby perhaps impairing the Election of one of the present County Judges Norman S. Dike, No better Judge ever graced the bench in Kings County. You, one of the foremost Americans of our time should compel the Bull105. Seventh Street, S. E. Washington D. C. August 28th 1913. Dear Sir. I feel that I owe you an apology for my failure to reply to your letter of May 20th last. I fully intended to answer from Charlotte, N. C. but was so very busy that the matter escaped my memory — may I hope that it is not yet quite too late to ask your pardon for my forgetfulness? I arrived in Washington, from Charlotte, yesterday, and learn from the papers that Colonel Roosevelt has just returned to Oyster Bay - I am, of course, mostanxious to see him before he again leaves New York, and shall feel infinitaly obliged to you if you will take the trouble to write me — here — saying what time you think will best suit his convenience. Your letter says — "Any Tuesday will be convenient," — but I realize that at this time, and after an absence, he is likely to be even more than usually busy. Will you, then, kindly inform me how long he expects to remain in New York? — I shall be there myself on Tuesday or Wednesday next, and would like to know if possible, the earliest date at which I may hope to see him - Thanking you in advance I am Yours Very Truly, (Mrs.) Charlotte M. Stanley - Mr. Frank Harper. The Outlook. New York -105. Seventh Street. S.E. Washington. D.C. August 28th 1913. Dear Colonel Roosevelt. Welcome home! I have just arrived here, and heard of your return. Dear President, you will let me see you, will you not, before you leave for Argentina? - Oh, do grant me a few precious minutes! - I have just written to Mr. Harper (as no doubt he will inform you), for information as to your stay in New York, and my desire to see you there. I shall be there, on the 3rd September, at No 98 Greenwich Avenue as before, andplease do let me know where I may see you. I am overjoyed that you have got back safe and well - I knew that the good God would watch over you. Anxiously hoping to hear from you, I am always, Sincerely and devotedly yours, Charlotte M. Stanley.EXCELSIOR STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER ALBANY August 28, 1913 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Colonel: Just a line regarding the struggle here to give the people of New York honest government. You have no conception of the obstacles in my way. Neither have you any idea of the difficulties that beset me. Often I am sick at heart; but then words of assurance like yours come to hand and I take renewed hope to go forward with determination - come what may. When the political boss found out that he could not control me, and make me a rubber stamp, he did everything in his power to destroy me politically. But I have no fear of the ultimate result. The truth will prevail, and right makes might. In the future as in the past, you and all my friends can rely on me to do my duty as I see the right, and God gives me the light, regardless of personal consequences. The grafters are hounding me. Mr. Murphy and his hirelings are traducing me, and trying in every conceivable way to get mid to throw at me.However, I can assure you there is little, or nothing, in the charges made against me. Most of the stuff Murphy and his agents put in the newspapers about me is baseless and pure fabrication. They know this, and they know it will not in the last analysis hurt me; but they also know it disconcerts me, and worries Mrs. Sulzer. When Boss Murphy told me he would destroy me if I did not do his bidding, I defied him to do his worst, and declared I would continue to do my best. No matter what becomes of me, the fight for good government will go on - and ultimately triumph. With the aid of the decent people of the State, I shall go forward. I cannot do otherwise. Of course I will be very glad to see you any time I can come to New York, or any time you can come to Albany. In this fight for good government we ought to stand together. With best wishes, and hoping to see you before long, believe me as ever, Very sincerely your friend, Wm SulzerHotel Knickerbocker 42nd Street At Broadway New York, Aug 28. 1913 James B. Regan My dear Colonel. I am now and will remain for a few days in the city, on my way home from my vacation trip. While here I would be pleased to pay my respects to you for a few minutes, if you will advise me at this hotel that it is convenient for you to do, and designate the time and place. Yours Very Truly Jacob Trieber, of Arkansas Col. Theodore Roosevelt New York1004 Myrtle Ave. El Paso, Tex. Aug. 28th 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay L. I. Dear Sir:- I take the liberty of sending to you something that was written a year ago and sent to your address at that time, as an effort to render some assistance in your campaign against Mr. Taft. Mr. O. W. Roosevelt did not find it available, as you will see by the inclosed letter dated Sept. 25th 1912. Hoping and believing that you will continue to exercise great influence in shaping the future of our country I trust that you will not regard this as an impertinence on my part. You are probably well informed in regard to events in Mexico as they have appeared to all the readers of the daily papers in the United States. But there has existed an undercurrent in all these affairs which is understood only by those who have thorough knowledge of the country, its people, and who have kept informed by reading the papers published in Mexico2 in the language of that country. The writer of this lived in Mexico many years, in some of the out-of-the-way places, and had learned the language of the people nearly forty years ago by studying it formally. This gave me the means of gaining information about the people at first hand, without the assistance of anyone else. My knowledge of the country covers the greater part of it, from the northern boundary to where it joins Guatemala. The occupation of mining brings one in contact with all classes of people. For the reasons given above I believe that I can write intelligently and truthfully about the affairs of Mexico. Also, I have been a resident of this city during the past five years, and witnessed the events which have occurred during that time. It is unfortunate that the majority of the people of the United States find so little time to give attention to the affairs of other countries. Yet it may occur that the affairs of our [neighbors] neighbors will seriously affect the future of our own country. The war of 1946-'47 did 3. certainly affect the destiny of the United States in a great measure. History may repeat itself. The situation in Mexico has become acute, and the events which have led up to the present state of affairs are very much misunderstood in the United States. The interference of Mr Taft and Mr Knox was most disastrous in its results. Soon after the trouble began in Mexico Mr. Taft made a bluff at intervention by sending an army of twenty thousand men to the Rio Grande. This bluff caused president Diaz to resign and leave the country rather than draw upon his people the evils of an invasion from the U.S. This gave to Madero full swing to manipulate the election in his favor, and he was elected in the same manner as Mr. Diaz had been elected a number of times. When Mr. Taft was about to go out of office his protegee, Mr. Madero was made prisoner by some revolutionists as he had been made president by revolutionists. It was then that Mr. Taft made his second bluff at interference by proposing to send an army to the border, presumably4. for the purpose of reinstating in office the man whom he had assisted before. This bluff was fatal and cost Madero his life. The writer does not believe that the death of Madero was ordered by Huerta or Felix Diaz. It was probably the act of some subordinate, done in a spirit of defiance, as a call to Mr. Taft's bluff. It is quite possible that Mr. Taft expected such a result when he made his threat of sending another army. It seems strange that he should expect anything else. It certainly removed a witness who might possibly have told some embarrassing tales about the actions of the last administration. What the result will be of the efforts of the present administration to interfere in Mexico remains to be seen. It is probably that the knowledge of the affairs of that country possessed by the men now at the helm is as superficial as that of nearly all of the people throughout the United States. When it is insisted that every country must have a constitutionally elected5. chief executive [it would be so] before there shall be any recognition of an existing government it would be well to learn something about that constitution and the methods it prescribes for changes of government. The people of the U.S. insist upon measuring everybody and everything with our own yardstick, and wish to make the inhabitants of all other countries happy according to the standard obtaining here. This may be benevolence, but it is not good sense. After nearly one hundred years of independence the greater part of the socalled republics which were spanish colonies are just as far from that ideal constitutional government as they were in the beginning. It should begin to dawn upon the mind of the most superficial observer that there must be some cause for this failure to measure up to the modern standard, and that this cause is inherent in the people themselves, and not due to any particular form of oppression. There are three notable exceptions to the rule. They are: the Argentine Republic, Chili and Costa Rica. 6. Those countries, like the United States, were settled by people from foreign countries, and the original stock found in those lands at the time of the arrival of people from Europe has almost entirely disappeared. Much has been said about Gen. Huerta as an assassin, and he has been branded as a traitor to his country and to his friend. It would take a long time and much space to show the true history of the Madero movement. It was far from being the spontaneous uprising of a downtrodden people to welcome their savior. There are some dark chapters to be written about, it and they will soon be known to those who read. The widow of Francisco Madero has told her story detailing the brutal assassination of her husband. She might have told some other things: the midnight attack on the train which carried Gen. Porfinio Diaz out of the country. Gen. Huerta, like a true and loyal friend, accompanied the deposed and exiled president to Vera Cruz with 7. as much of an escort as he could get for the purpose. This train was attacked, at the instigation of Madero and his friends; but the attack was repulsed by the forces under the command of Huerta. Had the attack succeeded, Gen Diaz with all the members of his family would have been massacred and Gen. Huerta would have shared the same fate. There are a few more things to tell which indicate that Mrs. Madero imitated the role of Carlota, who insisted upon accepting the crown of Mexico against the protest of Maximilian. Mrs. Madero was very much in evidence during the time that her husband was in this vicinity, and had more to do with the success of her husband than he himself. It is probable that it was also due to her efforts that it was attempted to blot out the name of Diaz entirely. It appears incredible that a man would give such evidence of petty spite. Pardon me for taking up so much of your time. It may be that the subject does not interest you very much. The8. paper I sent last year is out of date now on account of the defeat of Mr. Taft and the death of Madero. I send you this communication --- badly written as it is --- for you to make such use of it as you see fit. If some portions of this should serve to give some people a better understanding of things mexican I shall be well pleased. At the time of the first outbreak against Porfinio Diaz -- now nearly three years ago -- I wrote an article on the subject in which I stated exactly what would be the result of the overthrowing of the government of Pres. Diaz. That article was accepted by Mr. Chas. R. Field, of the "Sunset Magazine". Herewith I enclose his letter accepting the manuscript. I mention this to show you that this subject has been an interesting one to me from the beginning. I have the original rough draft of that still in my possession, as well as some few minor contributions to the papers. 9. Permit me to repeat that it is folly to hope for the establishment of a form of constitutional government resembling ours in Mexico. There is such a large proportion of the people who know nothing of a constitution, and know no country beyond the limits of their own village or district. Many of them resent, by force of arms, any attempt to interfere with their ancient customs and their government by hereditary chiefs. Taken all in all, the people of Mexico today present the most difficult problem in government, on account of their atavism. And it needs a strong hand to hold the reins of government. The Indian has resisted all attempts to modernize him, and we have the proof of this in other countries outside of Mexico. Again begging your pardon for having taken up so much of your valuable time I remain Yours very truly Julius Wagner, 1004 Myrtle Ave El Paso Texas. Hillsboro, Ore., 8/28/13 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, New York. Dear Sir:- Knowing that you have thought and studied much upon the question of Race Suicide and kindred subjects, I venture to ask a question of you, feeling that your answer will greatly assist me in the solution of a problem which is perplexing me. When a father and mother have all the children they can support and care for properly, what ought their attitude to be in the matter of sexual intercourse? Ought2 they to risk having children they do not want and cannot support, or ought they to use preventives? Or ought they to follow the method of total abstinence? What is the honorable thing to do? Does the Bible give any light on this matter, do you think? And can you refer me to any other strictly reliable book that would help me in dealing with my problem? It is such a weighty problem, and domestic happiness is so inseparably connected with its solution, and yet it is so hard for a person to find trustworthy3 help. A word form you will have much influence with me and will be gratefully received. Very respectfully yours, P. L. Weber Box 271 Hillsboro, Ore.[*Page 4255*] Congressional Record. SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. Vol. 50. WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1913. No. 99. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. THURSDAY, August 28, 1913. The House was not in session to-day. The next meeting will be Friday, August 29, 1913. SENATE. THURSDAY, August 28, 1913. The Senate met at 11 o'clock a. m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, D. D. CALLING OF THE ROLL. Mr. SMOOT. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of. a quorum. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will call the roll. The Secretary called the roll, and the following Senators answered to their names: Ashurst Bacon Borah Brady Brandegee Bristow Bryan Catron Chilton Clapp Colt Crawford Cummins Dillingham Fall Gallinger Hitchcock James Johnson Jones Kenyon Kern La Follette Lea Lippitt Lodge McCumber McLean Martin, Va. Martine, N. J. Myers Norris Oliver Overman Owen Page Penrose Perkins Poindexter Pomerene Reed Robinson Root Shafroth Sheppard Sherman Shively Simmons Smith, Ariz. Smith, Ga. Smith, S. C. Smoot Sterling Stone Sutherland Thomas Thompson Townsend Vardaman Weeks Williams Works Mr. McCUMBER. My colleague [Mr. GRONNA] is necessarily absent. Mr. SHEPPARD. My colleague, the senior Senator from Texas [Mr. CULBERSON], is unavoidably absent. He is paired with the Senator from Delaware [Mr. DU PONT]. This announcement may stand for the day. Mr. SMOOT. I desire to announce that the senior Senator from Delaware [Mr. DU PONT] and the junior Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. STEPHENSON] are detained from the Senate on account of illness. Mr. GALLINGER. I make a similar announcement concerning the junior Senator from Maine [Mr. BURLEIGH]. The VICE PRESIDENT. Sixty-two Senators have answered to the roll call. There is a quorum present. The Secretary will read the Journal of the proceedings of the preceding day. THE JOURNAL. The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. CORRECTION OF THE RECORD. Mr. LA FOLLETTE. Mr. President, I wish to note an error in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD in the proceedings of yesterday. On page 4237 the RECORD makes me say that the Wisconsin law taxes all incomes above $1,800 per annum received by an unmarried person. It should read "$800 per annum" instead of "$1,800." The VICE PRESIDENT. The permanent RECORD will be corrected. MEMORIALS. Mr. OLIVER presented a memorial of the directors and officers of the First National Bank of Swissvale, Pa., remonstrating against the enactment of legislation to provide for the establishment of Federal reserve banks, for furnishing elastic currency, affording means of rediscounting commercial paper, and to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes, which was referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency. Mr. ROOT presented a memorial of the De Laval Separator Co., of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and of the Iowa Dairy Separator Co., of Waterloo, Iowa, remonstrating against the placing of centrifugal cream separators on the free list, which was ordered to lie on the table. BILLS INTRODUCED. Bills were introduced, read the first time, and, by unanimous consent, the second time, and referred as follows: By Mr. McLEAN: A bill (S. 3056) granting an increase of pension to Annie M. Johnson (with accompanying papers); to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. LEA (by request): A bill (S. 3057) for the adjudication and determination of the claims arising under joint resolution of July 14, 1870, authorizing the Postmaster General to continue in use in the postal service Marcus P. Norton's combined postmarking and stamp-canceling hand-stamper patents or otherwise; to the Committee on Claims. AMENDMENT TO THE TARIFF BILL. Mr. HITCHCOCK. I desire to ask for a reprint as corrected of the amendment which I offered on yesterday providing for the taxation of trusts, by striking out, on page 2, line 21, the words "a year." The reprint is rendered necessary on account of the typographical error. The VICE PRESIDENT. The amendment will lie on the table and will be reprinted as corrected at the request of the Senator from Nebraska. NATIONAL CONSERVATION EXPOSITION, KNOXVILLE, TENN. Mr. LEA submitted the following resolution (S. Res. 175), which was referred to the Committee on Industrial Expositions: Whereas the National Conservation Exposition is to be held at Knoxville, Tenn., from September 1, 1913, to October 31, 1913, inclusive; and Whereas this exposition has for its purpose the emphasizing of the necessity for conservation of all natural resources of the country and the study of the best methods of forwarding this movement; and Whereas the officers of the said National Conservation Exposition have requested the honor of the presence of Members of the Senate of the United States at some time during said exposition, to be designated by the Senate: Therefore be it Resolved, That the President of the Senate be empowered to appoint a committee of seven Members which will accept this invitation on the part of the Senate and visit said exposition at some time to be agreed upon between the members of said committee and the president of the exposition. SUBJECT INDEX TO CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. Mr. LEA submitted the following resolution (S. Res. 176), which was referred to the Committee on the Library: Resolved, That the Committee on the Library be empowered and directed to cause to be made a subject index of the contents of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, in the nature of a digest reference of the speeches, debates, and subjects introduced into the RECORD, to be supplementary to the present form of index, to begin with the Sixty-second Congress and go back Congress by Congress to the beginning of the publication of the RECORD, to be printed for use as each Congress is completed. The index shall be by subjects, with the names of the Senators or Representatives who are the authors attached to each reference. That he shall also cause to be made and maintained a current subject index to begin with the Sixty-third Congress and go forward, to be in addition to the present form of index. That the committee shall employ for constructing such subject index a capable man with expert knowledge of public affairs and intelligent conception of the subject matter of legislation and discussion in Congress, who shall, when so selected, become an official employee of the Senate and go upon its rolls and be paid $3,600 per year for his services. That the subject indexer be furnished a suitable room or rooms, in the Capitol or elsewhere, furnished or equipped for his work and cared for, and he shall be entitled to a credit of $200 per year in the stationery room of the Senate for office stationery and supplies. PERSONAL EXPLANATION. Mr. POINDEXTER. Mr. President. I rise to a question of personal privilege. I send to the Secretary's desk and ask to have read a publication which recently appeared in a newspaper published in the city of Seattle, in the State of Washington. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will read as requested. 4247[*4248 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. AUGUST 28, The Secretary read as follows: POINDEXTER CLAN CLUTTERS PUBLIC OFFICE PAY ROLL---ALLEGED FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE GRABS ALL PATRONAGE FOR RELATIVES---TAKES CARE OF VIRGINIA---FAMILY ALSO GETS FAT PRICE FROM GOVERNMENT FOR ESTATE IN SOUTH---WASHINGTON SENATOR SOON AFTER BUYS IMPOSING HOME IN CAPITAL---GETTING VERY GOOD FOR THE POINDEXTERS. The Progressive Senator from Washington, MILES POINDEXTER, a supporter of conservation, unloads Virginia mountain land owned by his family on the Forest Service for $30,000. He buys an imposing home in Washington following this sale. POINDEXTER has no appointments for party supporters in his own State, but has put three brothers, one son, six cousins, and the wife of a seventh cousin on the Federal pay roll since he entered Congress. These relatives are: Ernest Poindexter. William Poindexter. Fielding L. Poindexter. Gale Poindexter. Eugene Poindexter. Carlton D. Poindexter. Robert H. Poindexter. Maj. Jefferson D. Poindexter. Mrs. Anna L. Poindexter. ----- ----- Poindexter. Samuel J. Graham. The unnamed Poindexter is on the navy-yard pay roll at Washington, D. C., and the son, Gale Poindexter, is a midshipman at Annapolis. The first three named are brothers of the Progressive Senator, the fourth is his son, and the seven last are cousins. Mr. POINDEXTER. Mr. President, this is the first time in more than four years' service in Congress that I have risen to a question of personal privilege. In general, it is not a good parctice to speak of one's private and personal affairs in public, for two reasons. First, it is an imposition on the public which has to listen, and, second, it is an embarrassment to the individual whose private affairs are exposed to the public gaze. I would not have doe so in this case, but for the fact that this libelous publication has been printed and reprinted throughout the Nation, and on account of its specific and circumstantial statements seems to receive more credence than such publications usually meet with. Furthermore, it involves a number of other people besides myself, who are outraged by the false statements made concerning them and who are entitled to have the matter corrected. There is also another reason, the more important one, perhaps, namely, that the honor of this great tribunal is itself concerned in the conduct of every Member of it. If the matter has been called to your attention you are entitled to know all the facts concerning it. I have too great a respect for the Senate of the United States even to pretend that I am indifferent to an attack upon the integrity or even the propriety of my conduct here. I have not asked that the entire article be read, as it is somewhat lengthy, but what has been read covers the essential points. The publication states that I have secured Government positions for 11 relatives, whose names are given, as follows: Ernest Poindexter, William Poindexter, Fielding L. Poindexter, Gale Poindexter, Eugene Poindexter, Carlton D. Poindexter, Robert H. Poindexter, Maj. Jefferson D. Poindexter, Mrs. Anna L. Poindexter, ------ ----- Poindexter, Samuel J. Graham. The truth is that I do not know Eugene Poindexter, Robert H. Poindexter, Maj. Jefferson D. Poindexter, Mrs. Anna L. Poindexter, or ----- ----- Poindexter. I have never had any correspondence with them or with anyone on their behalf, and never heard of them until my attention was called to the publication referred to. I do not know whether they are holding Government positions or not. If they are holding such positions I had nothing whatever, directly or indirectly, to do with the same. Of the others named---Ernest Poindexter, Fielding L. Poindexter, and Samuel J. Graham---Ernest Poindexter does not hold any Government position, and, as far as I am aware, never has held any, except that in 1900 he assisted in taking the Federal census at Walla Walla, Wash., which employment lasted for a few weeks. Fielding L. Poindexter is a first lieutenant, retired, in the United States Army. He was appointed second lieutenant after serving as a private in the Oregon Volunteers in the war in the Philippine Islands. He was highly commended for voluntarily exposing himself under fire in a special duty. After returning to this country and many years before I was a Member of Congress, and on account of the strong recommendations of his superior officers, he was commissioned a second lieutenant, and was later promoted first lieutenant and retired. Since then he has at various times been employed in active service as military instructor in certain schools and as recruiting officer at different points, and acted in both of these capacities long before I became a Member of Congress. Samuel J. Graham is a distant cousin of mine, but does not owe his appointment to me in any sense whatever. His home is in Pittsburgh, Pa. He was the leader of the Wilson forces in the primary campaign in western Pennsylvania, and later was one of the Wilson managers on the floor of the Baltimore convention. He is a gentleman of excellent character and a lawyer of ability. He owes his position to his own standing and to the support of influential Members of Congress from Pennsylvania and many other States. Carlton D. Poindexter I have had some correspondence with, and received a call from him on one occasion in this city. He lives in West Virginia, and is not a relative of mine unless it be that some centuries back we may have had a common ancestor. He had a clerkship under the Isthmian Canal Commission, which, I believe, was in the classified service and was given to him under the rules of that service after an examination. My impression is that he gave up the position some years ago, although I am not sure as to that. Gale Poindexter is my son. I notice the charge is made that when appointed to Annapolis he was accredited to the State of Washington. In view of the fact that he was born in the State of Washington and has lived there all his life, he being now 20 years of age, I know of no reason why he should not be accredited to that State. His mother was born and had lived all of her life in the State of Washington; his grandfather, Thomas Page, lived in Walla Walla and did his full share as a leader in peace and war to hold and develop that great valley; his great-grandfather, Joseph Gale, was a member of the first executive committee which governed the Oregon colony. Joseph Gale built the first ship that was constructed on the Pacific coast and navigated it from the Columbia River to San Francisco, where he exchanged it for cattle, which he brought back to the Willamette Valley. He was one of the great free spirits whose genius and courage put the Oregon colony on a substantial footing and laid the foundations for four Commonwealths of the Union. He was one of the noted "mountain men" who, always pressing forward, carried civilization inland from the Willamette Valley. Nevertheless the publication referred to intimates that his great-grandson, Gale, is an alien to that land. I think the editor of the publication has been in the State two years and, of course, may have some superior claims upon the State. This vicious libeler has live two years in the State of Washington and thinks he has now been there long enough to be the arbiter as to who should and who should not be accredited to the State. A short time ago this editor conducted a Democratic paper in this city, whence he went direct to conduct a standpat Republican paper in Seattle. He was a complete failure, for a reason indicated by his name---Bone---more Bone than otherwise, too much Bone. A failure elsewhere, he will be a failure in Seattle. We have come upon degenerate times and customs in some respects, but we have not yet become so wholly corrupt that a man without regard for truth or justice can make a permanent success in the newspaper business. It seems to be claimed that my son should not have been appointed to Annapolis at all. I was not aware that young men in this country were barred absolutely the opportunity of service in the Army or Navy because their fathers were in Congress. Perhaps, however, that is the case according to the very high standards of the newspaper referred to. My understanding has always been in regard to this and other similar matters, that the proper rule is that all should be treated alike; that there should be no favor or discrimination one way or the other. I think myself that discrimination one way would be as bad as the other way. I did not appoint my son to Annapolis. He was appointed by Representative WILLIAM L. LA FOLLETTE, however, at my and my son's suggestion and request. I suppose, however, that Representative LA FOLLETTE would not have appointed him except that in his judgment the appointment was proper and fair. At any rate, it was passed upon and acted upon not by myself but by Representative LA FOLLETTE, and it was for the very reason that I desired it to be so that I did not make the appointment myself. It is also true that at the same time, at Representative LA FOLLETTE'S request, I appointed Earl Chambers, of Spokane, to the West Point Military Academy. In this I also acted upon my own judgment as to the propriety of the appointment. In fact, as the record will show, I had previously appointed Earl Chambers to Annapolis, and he had failed in the entrance examinations, and could not be appointed to Annapolis by Representative LA FOLLETTTE, because he had passed the age limit for admission to that academy. I was so impressed, however, with his perseverance and excellent character and disposition that I was glad, not only on Representative LA FOLLETTE'S request but on my own account, to give him the appointment to West Point. I believe the only other person mentioned in the list of 11 "nepotes" mentioned by the paper referred to is my brother, William Poindexter, and out of the 11 persons named this is1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4249 the only one in regard to whom the allegation is true. I did appoint him to a position in the folding room of the Senate, and he filled the position for some time and did the work required, although recently he has been compelled by ill health to be absent, and is now in a hospital. The malice of the paper referred to is indicated by its repetition of the false statement after it had been informed of its utter falsity. In fact, the original publication shows on its face that the editor knew it to be false at the time it was published. For instance, it lists Maj. Jefferson D. Poindexter as one of the horde of relatives for whom it alleges I have obtained appointments, yet in the same article is the admission that the said Maj. Jefferson D. Poindexter---whom I do not know--- "entered the Government service without aid from the Progressive Senator." If there is any Senator in this body who can say that I have ever requested his support for a relative of mine for office, I would ask him to state it now or hereafter, so that it may be printed in the RECORD, where Mr. Bone can read it. I do not recall any such request. In the same article there is an insinuation that I had some corrupt connection with the sale to the Government of lands in Virginia in which I was interested. This is as utterly false as the statements referred to above. Of course, with the vindictiveness of this paper, if there is any record or proof to support their allegation that I "unloaded Virginia mountain land on the Forest Service," they will produce it. They have not produced it, because no such fact exists. The sale referred to was of a portion of the estate of my grandfather, Judge Francis T. Anderson, in Rockbridge County, Va. It was negotiated with the Forest Service by the executor of the estate, my uncle, Hon. William A. Anderson, of Lexington, Va. I did not suggest it to him, and had absolutely no connection with the matter from beginning to end. I had originally a slight interest in the land sold, but long before the sale had assigned that interest. In the search of this editor for misconduct I am charged also with the crime of buying a house. It is true that I have bought a small house at a modest price. Not a dollar of the money from the sale of the Anderson land in Virginia was invested in this house, for the very good reason, as stated above, that my interest in it was long before assigned to persons in the State of Washington, the details of which can easily be produced, if necessary. I will state, in addition, that I have never spoken or written a word to any Government official in regard to that sale. I only had a very slight interest in it---I think a forty-second interest. If this editor had broadened the scope of his investigation, he would have found that in my disreputable career this is not the only offense of this kind I have committed, but that at other times and places, in the last quarter of a century, in different States, both before and since I became a Member of Congress. I have been guilty of buying houses and paying on those in the State of Washington my share of the exorbitant taxes which the political ring, of which this newspaper is the principal exponent, has imposed upon the people of my State. The article which the Clerk has read is a criminal libel. Its malice is demonstrated by its repetition in the same paper, and by enlargements upon it in the most offensive form of which petty vindictiveness is capable. It is of the same class of weapons in common use by the criminal interests by which this interest-serving paper is controlled and in which it is a common partner. It is in the same class as murder by the robber syndicate of Alaska, kidnaping and assassination with dynamite and pistol by the franchise grabbers of San Francisco, and the bribery of judges and packing of juries in the State of Washington by the same railroad company which supplied the money for the purchase of this paper from its former owners. This ring and the interests they represent seem to want to make this a war of extermination. I often wonder if they imagine that in such a war they will be the ones who will survive. There can be only one kind of liberty in this country, and that is liberty subject to and regulated by law. It is singular that the proprietors of these property interests can not see that when they leave that safe highway there is no other way by which they may be saved. When they pack juries and corrupt elections, as they have done so often, they are striking at the foundations of their own castle. When they institute a war of fraud and slander and take up the torch and stiletto of the Mafia and Camorra they can not complain when the evil day comes. It is said that incendiary speeches, denouncing the flag and the law, were made recently in Seattle by orators of the so-called I. W. W.'s. Forthwith, in order to cure the I. W. W.'s of incendiarism and teach them to respect the law and honor the flag, a mob broke into the I. W. W.'s rooms and made a bonfire of their property. The mob was led by United States sailors and incited by the same type of paper of which I am speaking. It was a fine example of obedience to law and respect for the flag. Of course it will have the same beneficent effect that all such object lessons have. However, If I were leading or inciting the game of torches I should want to be sure that I lived myself in an asbestos house. "They who live by the sword shall die by the sword." It is our good fortune, however, to have our habitation in a land where public opinion is sovereign and just. We are members of a people who have decreed in their hearts that the law shall be supreme; that there shall be no discrimination as to persons, whether the disturber of the peace be a thieving corporation, an I. W. W. wind jammer, an incendiary mob, or a libelous newspaper. The ignorant and poverty-stricken alien who talks lawlessness should be punished, but for every year of his incarceration the bandits of big business and their literary prostitutes, like this man Bone, who act lawlessness, should serve 10 years in prison. A hired criminal libeler is in the same class as a hired murderer. Nothing would do this country more good to-day than that they and those who hire them should have a chance to learn what the flag really represents as it waves over a penitentiary in which they are confined at hard labor. Their present course illustrates that perfectly familiar but yet quaintly curious wise saying, "Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad." THE TARIFF. Mr. SIMMONS. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of House bill 3321. There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. 3321) to reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on the amendment proposed by the Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. LA FOLLETTE]. Mr. LA FOLLETTE. On that I ask for the yeas and nays, Mr. President. The yeas and nays were ordered. Mr. ASHURST. Mr. President, I ask that the pending question may be stated. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will state the amendment proposed by the Senator from Wisconsin, which is the pending question. The SECRETARY. The amendment is to strike out all after the word "exceeds" in line 19, page 165, all of lines 20 and 21, page 165, down to and including "$100,000," in line 3, page 166, and insert in lieu thereof the following: "$10,000 and does not exceed $20,000, and 1 1/2 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $20,000 and does not exceed $30,000, and 2 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $30,000 and does not exceed $40,000, and 2 1/2 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $40,000 and does not exceed $50,000, and 3 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $50,000 and does not exceed $60,000, and 4 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $60,000 but does not exceed $70,000, and 5 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $70,000 but does not exceed $80,000, and 6 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $80,000 but does not exceed $90,000, and 7 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $90,000 but does not exceed $100,000, and 10 percent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $100,000." Mr. SIMMONS. I suggest the absence of a quorum, Mr. President. The VICE PRESIDENT. The absence of a quorum being suggested, the Secretary will call the roll. The Secretary called the roll, and the following Senators answered to their names: Ashurst Bacon Borah Bradley Brady Brandegee Bristow Bryan Catron Chilton Clapp Colt Crawford Cummins Dillingham Fall Gallinger Hollis Hughes James Johnson Kenyon Kern La Follette Lea Lippitt Lodge McCumber McLean Martin, Va. Myers Nelson Norris Oliver Overman Page Penrose Perkins Poindexter Pomerene Ransdell Reed Robinson Root Saulsbury Shafroth Sheppard Sherman Shively Simmons Smith, Ariz. Smith, Ga. Smoot Sterling Sutherland Thomas Thompson Townsend Vardaman Walsh Weeks Williams. Mr. RANSDELL. I wish to announce that my colleague, the senior Senator from Louisiana [Mr. THORNTON], is unavoidably4250 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. AUGUST 28, absent on important business. I ask that this announcement stand for the day. The VICE PRESIDENT. Sixty-two Senators have answered the roll call. There is a quorum present. The question is on the amendment proposed by the Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. LA FOLLETTE], on which the yeas and nays have been ordered. The Secretary will call the roll. The Secretary proceeded to call the roll. Mr. ASHURST (when his name was called). Mr. President, I have been assured by leading members of the Finance Committee that the necessary alteration will be made in the present condition of the bill, so that incomes over $100,000 a year will be taxed properly. I vote "nay." Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, I do not know that I understood the Senator. Mr. LA FOLLETTE. The roll call is proceeding, as I understand. The VICE PRESIDENT. The roll call is proceeding. Mr. WILLIAMS. If the Senator from Arizona was in order, I am. Mr. PENROSE and other Senators. Regular order! Mr. WILLIAMS. I simply desire to say that nobody had a right to give such assurance. Mr. CHILTON (when his name was called). I have a general pair with the junior Senator from Maryland [Mr. JACKSON], which I transfer to the junior Senator from Tennessee [Mr. SHIELDS] and will vote. I vote "nay." Mr. DILLINGHAM (when his name was called). I have a general pair with the senior Senator from Maryland [Mr. SMITH]. As he is absent this morning, I withhold my vote. Mr. McCUMBER (when Mr. GRONNA'S name was called). My colleague is necessarily absent. He has a pair with the junior Senator from Illinois [Mr. LEWIS]. I will allow this announcement to stand for all votes during the day. Mr. McCUMBER (when his name was called). I have a general pair with the senior Senator from Nevada [Mr. NEWLANDS]. As he is absent, I will withhold my vote. Mr. OLIVER (when his name was called). I have a general pair with the senior Senator from Oregon [Mr. CHAMBERLAIN]. As he is absent, and not knowing how he would vote if present, I withhold my vote. Mr. REED (when his name was called). I have a pair with the senior Senator from Michigan [Mr. SMITH], which I transfer to the junior Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. GORE} and will vote. I wish to be permitted to say that I am voting under the impression and belief, which is very firm with me, that this matter will be further considered and will come up again. Under those circumstances I vote "nay." Mr. TOWNSEND (when the name of Mr. SMITH of Michigan was called). The senior Senator from Michigan is absent from the Senate on important business. He is paired with the junior Senator from Missouri [Mr. REED]. I desire to have this announcement stand for the day. Mr. SUTHERLAND (when his name was called). I understand the senior Senator form Arkansas [Mr. CLARKE] is not present. I have a pair with that Senator and therefore withhold my vote. Mr. THOMAS (when his name was called). I have a general pair with the senior Senator from Ohio [Mr. BURTON], which I transfer to the senior Senator from Louisiana [Mr. THORNTON] and will vote. I vote "nay." Mr. THOMPSON (when his name was called). With the assurance that I have received----- Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President, debate is not in order. SEVERAL SENATORS. Regular order! Mr. THOMPSON. I vote "nay." Mr. PERKINS (when the name of Mr. WORKS was called). My colleague [Mr. WORKS] is temporarily absent on official business. If he were present, he would vote "yea." The roll call was concluded. Mr. SAULSBURY. I am requested to announce that both Senators from Oregon [Mr. CHAMBERLAIN and Mr. LANE] are absent on official business. Mr. STONE. I transfer the general pair I have with the senior Senator from Wyoming [Mr. CLARK] to the senior Senator from Nebraska [Mr. HITCHCOCK] and will vote. I vote "nay." Mr. SMOOT. I am requested to announce that the senior Senator from Washington [Mr. JONES] has been called from the Chamber on account of public business. If he were present, he would vote "yea." Mr. FLETCHER. I am paired with the junior Senator from Wyoming [Mr. WARREN]. I transfer that pair to the junior Senator from Oregon [Mr. LANE] and will vote. I vote "nay." Mr. GALLINGER (after having voted in the negative). I inquire if the junior Senator from New York [Mr. O'GORMAN] has voted? The VICE PRESIDENT. He has not. Mr. GALLINGER. I have a general pair with that Senator. I transfer that pair to the junior Senator from Maine [Mr. BURLEIGH] and will allow my vote to stand. I have been requested to announce pairs between the senior Senator from Delaware [Mr. DU PONT] and the senior Senator from Texas [Mr. CULBERSON], the junior Senator from West Virginia [Mr. GOFF] and the Senator from Alabama [Mr. BANKHEAD], and the junior Senator form Wisconsin [Mr. STEPHENSON] and the senior Senator from South Carolina [Mr. TILLMAN]. The result was announced----yeas 17, nays 43, as follows: YEAS---17. Borah Brady Bristow Clapp Crawford Cummins Kenyon La Follette Nelson Norris Page Perkins Poindexter Sherman Sterling Townsend Vardaman NAYS---43. Ashurst Bacon Brandegee Bryan Catron Chilton Colt Fall Fletcher Gallinger Hollis Hughes James Johnson Kern Lea Lippitt Lodge McLean Martin, Va. Myers Overman Owen Penrose Pomerene Ransdell Reed Robinson Root Saulsbury Shafroth Sheppard Shively Simmons Smith, Ariz. Smith, Ga. Smoot Stone Thomas Thompson Walsh Weeks Williams NOT VOTING---35. Bankhead Bradley Burleigh Burton Chamberlain Clark, Wyo. Clarke, Ark. Culberson Dillingham du Pont Goff Gore Gronna Hitchcock Jackson Jones Lane Lewis McCumber Martine, N. J. Newlands O'Gorman Oliver Pittman Shields Smith, Md. Smith, Mich. Smith, S. C. Stephenson Sutherland Swanson Thornton Tillman Warren Works So Mr. LA FOLLETTE'S amendment was rejected. Mr. BRISTOW. Mr. President, I offer an amendment, which I send to the desk. The VICE PRESIDENT. The amendment will be stated. The SECRETARY. The Senator from Kansas [Mr. BRISTOW] offers the following amendment: On page 165, in line 6, before the figure "1," insert "1/2 of," and in line 18, before the figure "1," insert "1/2 of"; in line 19 strike out "$20,000" and insert in lieu thereof "$10,000"; in line 20 strike out "$50,000" and insert in lieu thereof "$20,000," and strike out the figure "2" and insert in lieu thereof the figure "1." On page 166, in line 1, strike out "$50,000" and insert in lieu thereof "$20,000," strike out "$100,000" and insert in lieu thereof "$30,000," and strike out the figure "3" and insert in lieu thereof "1 1/2"; in line 3 strike out "$100,000" and the period and insert in lieu thereof "$30,000 and does not exceed $40,000, and 2 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $40,000 and does not exceed $50,000, and 2 1/2 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $50,000 and does not exceed $60,000, and 3 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $60,000 and does not exceed $70,000, and 3 1/2 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $70,000 and does not exceed $80,000, and 4 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $80,000 and does not exceed $90,000, and 4 1/2 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $90,000 and does not exceed $100,000, and 5 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $100,000." Mr. BRISTOW. Mr. President, on yesterday I offered an amendment providing for a graduated scale, adding 1 per cent additional tax for each additional $10,000 of income, making the total tax 10 per cent on an income of $100,000. Objection was made to that by the Senator from Mississippi [Mr. WILLIAMS], in charge of this part of the bill, upon the ground that it would provide too much revenue, thereby giving us more money than is needed. To meet that objection, I have prepared an amendment which starts with one-half of 1 per cent on less than $10,000, and then adds, as an additional rate, one-half of 1 per cent for each additional $10,000 of income until $100,000 is reached, when the tax becomes 5 per cent, and all over $100,000 is taxed at 5 per cent. This would bring in approximately the same revenue as the provision in the bill. It is not as much money as I think we ought to raise from incomes. The tax is not as high as I think it ought to be, but it is higher on the large incomes than the present bill provides. Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President----- The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Kansas yield to the Senator from New Hampshire? Mr. BRISTOW. I do. Mr. GALLINGER. Do I understand the Senator to say that the aggregate amount collected under the provisions of this[*1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4251 amendment would be approximately the same as that collected under the bill itself? Mr. BRISTOW. Yes. Mr. GALLINGER. The only difference being that there is a larger percentage assessed on the large incomes? Mr. BRISTOW. And a smaller percentage on the small incomes. Mr. LODGE. It is better proportioned. Mr. BRISTOW. Yes; it is better proportioned. To illustrate: On an income of $10,000 the tax under this amendment will be $35, while under the bill it will be $70; on an income of $20,000, under my amendment it will be $135, while under the bill it will be $170; on $30,000, under my amendment it will be $285 and under the bill $370; on $40,000, under my amendment it will be $485 and under the bill $570; on $50,000, under my amendment it will be $735 and under the bill $770; on $60,000, under my amendment it will be $1,035 and under the bill $1,070; on $70,000, under my amendment it will be $1,385 and under the bill $1,370; on $80,000, under my amendment it will be $1,785 and under the bill $1,670; on $90,000, under my amendment it will be $2,235, while under the bill it will be $1,970; on $100,000, under my amendment it will be $2,735, while under the bill it will be $2,270. Under my amendment it will be 5 per cent on all incomes over $100,000, while under the bill it will be 4 per cent on all incomes over $100,000. As nearly as can be estimated, I think that the gross collection under this amendment will be about the same as under the bill Mr. SUTHERLAND. Mr. President----- Mr. BRISTOW. I yield to the Senator. Mr. SUTHERLAND. I call the attention of the Senator from Kansas to the fact, which he very well understands, that the number of incomes of $10,000 and less will be very much greater than those above that amount. I wish to ask the Senator whether he has taken that into consideration in making his estimate? Mr. BRISTOW. I have. Mr. SUTHERLAND. If the Senator will permit, it seemed to me, as I listened to the figures the Senator gave, that the amount of the assessment under his proposed amendment is not as much as the amount proposed by the pending bill until we reach the income of something over $40,000----- Mr. BRISTOW. Yes; $60,000. Mr. SUTHERLAND. Sixty thousand dollars, which would cause me to think that probably his amendment would not produce as much revenue as the proposed amendment of the committee. Mr. BRISTOW. Of course, it is impossible to tell, but the committee estimates that the large collection under the committee bill will be on the incomes ranging from $50,000 up. Under the estimate of the committee the incomes from $100,000 to $250,000 will bring $11,650,000, and the largest collection that will be made will be on incomes or more than $100,000. Mr. SUTHERLAND and Mr. BORAH addressed the Chair. The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Kansas yield, and to whom? Mr. BRISTOW. I yield first to the Senator from Utah. Mr. SUTHERLAND. I was going to make one other suggestion. Mr. BRISTOW. There will be just as much money collected under this amendment as under the law as proposed if any reliance whatever can be made upon the committee estimate as to the size of the income which will pay the greater amount of the tax. Mr. SUTHERLAND. As I understand this amendment, if it will raise as much revenue as that proposed by the committee I intend to support it, because I think it is a very much better arrangement than that proposed by the committee. As I said yesterday in speaking about the former amendment proposed by the Senator from Kansas. I think the proposition of the committee is altogether unscientific; the gap between $50,000 and $100,000 is too large a gap to make in arranging the graduated scale. I was going to suggest to the Senator from Kansas whether it would not be better if he would begin his assessment at half of 1 per cent on incomes between $1,500 and $5,000, 1 per cent between $5,000 and $10,000, and then on up. Mr. BRISTOW. I did not want to inject that element of discussion into this amendment. It is a separate proposition as to whether we are assessing a tax on low enough incomes. That is a different proposition from the graduation of the tax that is assessed, and there is a wide difference of opinion among those who favor an income tax as to the amount of exemptions. I did not want to involve that question in this amendment. Mr. SUTHERLAND. Then I make this suggestion to the Senator, in order that it may be certain that there will be as much revenue raised by this proposed amendment as under the bill: Would the Senator object to making the initial figure 1 per cent instead of half of 1 per cent, and then going up by steps of half a cent each time until we reach the $100,000 income, which would be taxed at the rate of 5 1/2 per cent? Mr. BRISTOW. I could not favor that because that taxes the man with less than $10,000 at a higher rate than the man with more than $10,000. I do not think that we ought to put a larger percent of tax on the man with the lower income. Mr. SUTHERLAND. It puts a higher tax all the way up the line. Mr. BRISTOW. But I have all that worked out. If I do that I will meet with the same objection that I met with yesterday in the first amendment, because that will raise a good deal more money than the present bill will raise. If you take that, then the assessment on $100,000 would be $32,020, which would be all right, and it would be $70 on the $10,000 man, and it would raise a good deal more money than the bill as it is presented to us. To satisfy Senators that this amendment will raise as much revenue as the bill as proposed I want to call attention to the estimate given in the report. It is estimated that on incomes above $50,000 there will be $45,000,000 collected out of the $70,000,000. The estimate of the committee is that there will be $25,000,000 collected on incomes less than $50,000 under the committee rates and $45,000,000 will be collected on incomes above $50,000. On every income on less than $50,000 I have reduced the rate. On most of the incomes above $50,000 I have increased the rate. The committee estimate here that $35,000,000, or half of the revenue from this income tax, will be collected from parties whose income is more than $100,000 per annum. If half of it is collected on incomes of more than $100,000 per annum on all those incomes, I add one additional per cent, making it 5 per cent instead of 4 per cent. Mr. BRISTOW subsequently said: I ask permission to have incorporated in my remarks a table showing the amount that would be paid on each one of the divisions suggested in the amendment I offered. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. SMITH of Georgia in the chair). Is there any objection? The Chair hears none, and it will be so ordered. The table referred to is as follows: Tax on incomes to $100,000. Revenue Revenue collected collected on maximum on maximum Incomes amount amount each each division¹ division² Up to $10,000 at 1/2 per cent $35 $70 From $10,000 to $20,000 at ½+½ per cent=1 per cent 135 170 From $20,000 to $30,000 at ½+1 per cent=1½ per cent 285 370 From $30,000 to $40,000 at ½+1½ per cent=2 percent 485 570 From $40,000 to $50,000 at ½+2 per cent=2½ per cent 735 770 From $50,000 to $60,000 at ½+2½ per cent=3 per cent 1,035 1,070 From $60,000 to $70,000 at ½+3 per cent=3½ per cent 1,385 1,370 From $70,000 to $80,000 at ½+3½ per cent=4 per cent 1,785 1,670 From $80,000 to $90,000 at ½+4 per cent=4½ per cent 2,235 1,970 From $90,000 to $100,000 at ½+ 4½ per cent=5 per cent 2,735 2,270 1 Proposed amendment. 2 Committee bill. Mr. BORAH. Mr. President----- The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Kansas yield to the Senator from Idaho? Mr. BRISTOW. I do. Mr. BORAH. I am not going to suggest to the Senator to amend his amendment and I am going to vote for it, but I want it understood that in doing so I do it as a concession to a situation. I am thoroughly of the opinion that when a man has an income of $20,000 there ought to be a different rate established from that which the amendment provides for. We must remember that in computing an income for the purpose of a normal tax there should be allowed as deductions, according to the amendment of the committee--- First, the necessary expenses actually paid in carrying on any business, not including personal, living, or family expenses; second, all interest paid within the year by a taxable person on indebtedness; third, all national, State, county, school, and municipal taxes paid within the year, not including those assessed against local benefits; fourth, losses actually sustained during the year, incurred in trade or arising from fires, storms, or shipwreck, and not compensated for by insurance or otherwise; fifth, debts due to the taxpayer actually ascertained to be worthless and charged off within the year; sixth, a reasonable allowance for the exhaustion, wear, and tear of property arising out of its use or employment in the business, not to exceed, in the case of mines, 5 per cent of the gross value at the mine of the output for the year for which the computation is made.*]4252 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. AUGUST 28, Mr. President, when you get a income of $20,000 with those exemptions and exceptions you have a vast estate behind you. Mr. CUMMINS. Mr. President----- The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Kansas yield to the Senator from Iowa? Mr. BRISTOW. I do. Mr. CUMMINS. I will say in regard to what has just been mentioned by the Senator from Idaho I suppose we must assume that these deductions will finally receive the approval of a majority of the Senate. But I desire to say now that in so far as I am concerned I shall insist that some of them ought not to be made, and when we reach that part of the bill I intend to offer amendments which will change the bill in that respect. There are some of these deductions which obviously ought not to be made in ascertaining net incomes. Mr. BORAH. Mr. President, the deductions will likely have the same place in the bill after we get through as what we find at present in the bill with reference to the rates. Mr. CUMMINS. I am afraid that is true, but I did not want it to be assumed so far as I am concerned that I believe the committee reached the right conclusion with regard to these deductions. Mr. BRISTOW. Mr. President, referring to the statement of the Senator from Idaho [Mr. BORAH], I agree with him. I do not think this tax is high enough. We tried yesterday to get an amendment that levied a higher tax than this. The amendment I offered yesterday imposed a tax of $270 on a man with an income of $20,000---I think a reasonable tax, certainly not excessive---and the amendment went up by steps until a man who has an income of more than $100,000 was assessed a little over $5,000 a year. I think that amendment should have been adopted, but it was defeated by the Senate by a very large majority. The Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. LA FOLLETTE] offered an amendment here this morning that has been voted upon and which has been defeated. That rate was slightly less on the smaller incomes than that which I offered yesterday, and it has been defeated. The argument made yesterday, and the only argument practically against my amendment, was that it would raise too much money. I do not think it would, but I meet that argument by offering an amendment which graduates it and makes the amount on an income of more than $100,000 pay a larger per cent of the tax in proportion than the bill at present provides on these incomes. Where we collect, according to this estimate, approximately half on incomes over $100,000 this amendment of mine would levy a tax of 5 per cent, 1 per cent more than the committee proposes. On the smaller incomes it levies a less tax. It graduates it, I think, in a better way. A may whose income is a million dollars will pay a good deal more tax under this amendment than under the provision of the Senate committee, and I think he ought to pay more. It does not jump from $50,000 to $100,000, but it goes up $10,000 at a step and adds one-half per cent for each step until we reach $100,000. Mr. GALLINGER. Will the Senate permit me? Mr. BRISTOW. I yield to the Senator from New Hampshire. Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President, I voted against the amendment that the Senator from Kansas offered, as well as against the amendment the Senator from Wisconsin offered, for reasons entirely satisfactory to myself. It seems to me that the amendment now offered by the Senator from Kansas is a very wise one, provided he is satisfied it will raise as much revenue as the provision in the bill. If I had my way about it, I would increase the rate for the lower salaries to three-fourths of 1 per cent in place of one-half of 1 per cent, making it quite certain that we would get more money from the large class of taxpayers who will pay on smaller amounts. But, however that may be, I am so impressed with the idea myself that the enormously rich men can well afford to pay a larger amount than is provided in the bill under consideration I have brought myself to the view that I can properly and safely vote for the amendment the Senator has proposed. Mr. BRISTOW. Replying to the Senator from New Hampshire, I will say that the estimate of the committee is that on the small incomes of less that $10,000 the collections will be only about $6,000,000. Under the 1 per cent on incomes less than $10,000 the committee estimates that at that rate the revenue will aggregate only about $6,000,000. Mr. GALLINGER. I had not looked at the report, and I am quite surprised to note that that is the estimate, because I had supposed it was very much larger. Mr. BRISTOW. While the committee estimates that on the incomes from $50,000 to $100,000 there will be collected $11,560,000, and between $100,000 and $250,000 they estimate $11,650,000. So on the incomes from which we are to receive the large returns this amendment of mine increases the rate. I think it will really collect more money than the proposed law if any reliability whatever can be placed on these estimates. Mr. LODGE. Mr. President, it has seemed to me in regard to the provisions in the bill, whether the House or Senate committee provision, the proportion is bad. If we are to have a graduated income tax it ought to be the first condition that it shall be properly proportioned. It seems to me, not only in the amendment but in the proposition of the House, it is ill proportioned, owing to the great gaps that are made and that it falls unduly hard upon the smaller or the more moderate incomes. I am speaking only of incomes subject to taxation. It seems to me also, as well as I can judge, that the amendment now offered by the Senator from Kansas will unquestionably raise more money than the one offered by the committee. Mr. BRISTOW. I think it will. Mr. LODGE. If we are to have a graduated income tax, this is much better proportioned and much better arranged than the others, and I propose to vote for it. Mr. TOWNSEND. Mr. President, my belief is that whatever amendment we propose should be offered on the supposition that it ought to be enacted into law. I have not knowingly voted for anything that I did not believe would make the measure better. I realized, of course, that amendments offered by the minority, whatever their merits, will be defeated. Yesterday I opposed what seemed to me to be an effort to increase the revenues above what it was clearly understood would be required for meeting the expenses of the Government. The Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. LA FOLLETTE] offered an amendment to-day which proposed to reduce the revenues to a considerable extent, as I understand the figures, below those which would have been raised by the amendment offered by the Senator from Kansas [Mr. BRISTOW] yesterday, and I could vote for it. The present proposition reduces it still more and brings the amount of the revenue to be derived practically to the same relative amount as that proposed to be raised by the bill. Therefore I shall vote for it. The think that I would do if I had the authority just now is this: I would take the duties off from certain noncompetitive articles that are shipped into the United States, because I know that in every such instance the tax levied is paid by the consumer without producing any good or benefit to anybody in the United States. I would take off those duties and so reduce the revenues provided in the bill, and I would make up the deficit this would create in the estimate made by the committee by increasing the taxes which are to be imposed upon incomes. I have no objection to increasing the rates provided they are equitably distributed. As I said yesterday, I should like to begin lower with a very small rate and increase it as the incomes increase. This plan of increasing the revenues from incomes while reducing in like amount the duties on noncompeting articles would maintain the equilibrium of the bill and at the same time present a proposition for which all who are in favor of proper income rates could vote without any question as to whether they are doing right or wrong. With me, income taxes are imposed for no other purpose than that of raising money to meet the expenses of government economically administered. I have had some talk with Senators this morning, and, as I understand, before this bill is disposed of a proposition will be presented to the Senate whereby we as Republicans can vote to remove what we regard as the unnecessary rates of duty and at the same time supply the amount of revenue thereby done away with by increasing the taxes on incomes. Mr. BORAH. Mr. President, I did not understand the statement of the Senator from Michigan as to what proposition it was that was going to be submitted to the Senate. Mr. TOWNSEND. A proposition to remove certain duties now imposed on noncompeting articles to be shipped into the United States and increasing the tax on incomes, so as to produce enough revenue from that source to offset the revenue that would be destroyed by taking off such duties from noncompeting articles. Mr. BORAH. Do I understand that we are to have a voice in taking those duties off and a voice in fixing the rates or graduating rates on incomes? Mr. TOWNSEND. There is no reason why it should not be done. Mr. BORAH. There is no reason why it should not be done, except the question of votes.1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4253 Mr. TOWNSEND. But we will have as many votes for such a proposition as we will have for the amendment now pending. We will have more votes for it. Mr. SMOOT. Mr. President, as nearly as I can figure, the amendment offered by the Senator from Kansas [Mr. BRISTOW] this morning will bring more revenue than the pending bill provides. I think also that the amount that has been estimated by the committee on incomes under $20,000 will be greater than the estimate shows. The estimate of the committee is based upon the amount collected during war times, when the last income tax was in force in this country, and the committee has taken the volume of business of that day and compared it with the volume of business to-day. Mr. WILLIAMS. That income tax was not repealed for some time after the war. Mr. SMOOT. I repeat, the committee has taken the volume of business at the time the income tax was collected and compared it with the volume of business of to-day, and compared the amount that was collected at the time that we formerly had an income tax with the amount that we shall collect under this bill. Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President, can the Senator from Utah state or can the Senator from Mississippi state the exact date when that tax was repealed? I know it was some time after the war. Mr. WILLIAMS. I am just trying to refresh my memory. It was quite a while after the war; I think about 1871. Mr. GALLINGER. About 1871. Mr. SMOOT. About 1870 or 1871, as I remember. Mr. WILLIAMS. I thought it was about 1871. So the standard taken was not altogether a war standard. It was after the war as well as during the war. Mr. SMOOT. That is true, but the income tax was collected until the time when the law imposing it was repealed. The estimate was made from the time that the income tax was first imposed until the time it was repealed. I believe, Mr. President, that the amount of income in this country to-day is in greater proportion to the business that is done to-day than the amount of the income during the sixties was to the amount of business that was done at that time. Mr. WILLIAMS. That tax was levied in 1862 and went into operation in 1863, I think. Mr. SMOOT. So, Mr. President, there is no question in my mind but what the amount will be collected that is estimated in the handbook furnished us by the committee. It is my opinion that it will be a great deal more than that amount. Mr. KENYON. Mr. President, I should like to ask the Senator from Kansas [Mr. BRISTOW] a question, to make the matter clear before voting. I understand under the amendment proposed by the Senator from Kansas incomes from $20,000 to $50,000 will bear a less tax than under the pending bill. Mr. BRISTOW. Yes. Mr. KENYON. What about those above that amount? Mr. BRISTOW. Above $60,000 they will bear a heavier tax. Mr. KENYON. From $40,000 to $60,000 is the rate practically the same as in the pending bill? Mr. BRISTOW. It is slightly less. Mr. KENYON. Is it substantially less for incomes from $20,000 to $40,000? Mr. BRISTOW. Under the amendment it is $35 on less than $10,000, and under the bill it is $70; on $20,000 it is $135, while under the bill it is $170. It then gradually goes up until it passes $60,000; then, when it gets up to $100,000, it is 25 per cent more than in the pending bill. Mr. ROOT. Mr. President, has the Senator from Kansas noted the probable returns from each class as he has figured it out? He mentioned some I noticed a little while ago. Mr. BISTOW. I have undertaken to make a comparison with the estimates made by the committee. My own judgment is that those estimates are not of very great value, because I think experience is the only thing that can inform us. The committee estimates that on incomes less than $10,000 there will be collected approximately $6,000,000; on incomes between $10,000 and $20,000 the committee estimates there will be collected approximately $7,500,000. That is under the bill as reported by the committee. On incomes from $20,000 to $50,000 the committee estimates that there will be collected $11,500,000, approximately; from $50,000 to $100,000 there will be collected $11,560,000; from $100, 000 to $250,000 there will be collected $11,650,000; from $250,000 to $500,000 there will be collected $6,743,000; from $750,000 to $1,000,000 there will be collected $9,190,000; on over $1,000,000 there will be collected $5,826,000. Those are the committee estimates. Now, I propose to increase the tax on the incomes that would make up about $45,000,000 of the $70,000,000. I decrease the tax on incomes that would make up $25,000,000 of the $70,000,000. On the larger incomes, as I have stated, the increase is 25 per cent over the pending bill and on the smaller incomes it is less than the rate in the pending bill. Mr. SUTHERLAND. The estimate made by the committee, which has just been read by the Senator from Kansas, is that there will only be $6,000,000 realized from the tax upon incomes under $10,000, which would be considerably less than one-tenth of the entire amount realized. To me that is a manifest absurdity. Outside of a few of the large cities of the country, such as New York, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia. I venture to say that there will be more than a fourth or a third of the amount derived under the income-tax provision of the bill from incomes under $10,000. In my own State, for example, I do not suppose there is a man in the whole State who receives year after year an income of $50,000, certainly not more than one or two; in fact, I doubt very much whether there are many who are receiving an income of more than $30,000 a year. The vast proportion of the people are receiving an income of less than $10,000; so that in a State like Utah and the adjoining States of Wyoming, Idaho, Kansas, and Nebraska, great agricultural States, I would imagine that anywhere from a half to three-fourths of the revenue derived in those States would result from the tax upon incomes of less than $10,000. To say, taking the country at large, that less than 10 per cent of the entire amount to be realized from the income tax will be derived from incomes of less than $10,000 is absurd. I think the amendment proposed by the Senator from Kansas will produce less, rather than more, income, and, while I intend to vote for it. I would much prefer that the Senator had begun at 1 per cent on incomes under $10,000, and risen by successive steps until he finally reached the amount of 5 1/2 per cent, instead of 5 per cent, on the larger incomes. Mr. SMOOT. Mr. President, my opinion is that it will clearly raise more, for the reason that during the years 1862 to 1870 or 1871, when the income tax was in force, there were very few individuals, institutions, or corporations in this country that had an income of $20,000 per annum, or even $10,000 per annum, while to-day there are thousands of them. It is that particular bracket of the income-tax provision which, in my opinion, is going to increase greatly the revenue received. Mr. SUTHERLAND. But this is not a tax on the income of corporations; the tax is on the stockholders of corporations. Mr. SMOOT. Yes; but the income of a corporation goes to the stockholders, so, of course, will amount to exactly the same thing in the end. I am only calling attention to the matter. The money made by these institutions goes to the stockholders, and there is no doubt that in this country to-day there are hundreds of thousands of well-to-do men, whereas in 1865, 1866, and during the years immediately following the Civil War there were but few of them. I believe that the committee's estimate on the first bracket is unreasonably low, and I shall be greatly surprised if instead of $6,000,000 under that bracket the amount collected will not be twenty or twenty-five million dollars. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment offered by the Senator from Kansas. Mr. BRISTOW. I should like the yeas and nays on the amendment. The yeas and nays were ordered, and the Secretary proceeded to call the roll. Mr. BANKHEAD (when his name was called). I transfer my pair with the junior Senator from West Virginia [Mr. GOFF] to the senior Senator from Louisiana [Mr. THORNTON], and will vote. I vote "nay." Mr. DILLINGHAM (when his name was called). I have a pair upon this question with the Senator from Maryland [Mr. SMITH]. If he were present I should vote "yea." In his absence I withhold my vote. Mr. GALLINGER (when his name was called). I transfer my pair with the junior Senator from New York [Mr. O'GORMAN] to the Senator from Maine [Mr. BURLEIGH] and vote "yea." Mr. TOWNSEND (when the name of Mr. JONES was called). The senor Senator from Washington [Mr. JONES] has been called from the Chamber on official business. If he were here, I am instructed to say that he would vote "yea." Mr. KERN (when his name was called). I transfer my pair with the Senator from Kentucky [Mr. BRADLEY] to the Senator from Nebraska [Mr. HITCHCOCK] and vote "nay." Mr. LEWIS (when his name was called). I am paired with the Senator from North Dakota [Mr. GRONNA].4254 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. AUGUST 28, Mr. McCUMBER (when his name was called). I have a general pair with the senior Senator from Nevada [Mr. NEWLANDS]. I will transfer that pair to the senior Senator from Washington [Mr. JONES] and vote "yea." Mr. REED (when his name was called). I transfer my pair with the Senator from Michigan [Mr. SMITH] to the Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. GORE] and vote "nay." Mr. THOMAS (when his name was called). I transfer my pair with the Senator from Ohio [Mr. BURTON] to the junior Senator from Oregon [Mr. LANE] and vote "nay." Mr. TILLMAN (when his name was called). I have a general pair with the Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. STEPHENSON] and therefore withhold my vote. The roll call was concluded. Mr. SUTHERLAND (after having voted in the affirmative). I have a pair with the Senator form Arkansas [Mr. CLARKE]. I voted without reflection. Observing that pair, I withdraw my vote. Mr. STONE. I have a general pair with the Senator from Wyoming [Mr. CLARK]. I transfer that pair on this vote to the Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. OWEN] and vote "nay." Mr. FLETCHER. I have a pair with the Senator from Wyoming [Mr. WARREN]. I transfer that pair to the junior Senator from Nevada [Mr. PITTMAN] and vote "nay." Mr. CHILTON. I have a general pair with the Senator from Maryland [Mr. JACKSON] and therefore withhold my vote. If permitted to vote, I should vote "nay." The result was announced---yeas 29, nays 36, as follows: YEAS---29. Borah Brady Brandegee Bristow Catron Colt Crawford Cummins Fall Gallinger Kenyon La Follette Lodge McCumber MCLean Nelson Norris Oliver Page Penrose Perkins Poindexter Root Sherman Smoot Sterling Townsend Weeks Works NAYS---36. Ashurst Bacon Bankhead Bryan Chamberlain Fletcher Hollis Hughes James Johnson Kern Lea Martin, Va. Martine, N. J. Myers Overman Pomerene Ransdell Reed Robinson Saulsbury Shafroth Sheppard Shields Shively Simmons Smith, Ariz. Smith, Ga. Smith, S. C. Stone Swanson Thomas Thompson Vardaman Walsh Williams NOT VOTING---30. Bradley Burleigh Burton Chilton Clapp Clark, Wyo. Clarke, Ark. Culberson Dillingham du Pont Goff Gore Gronna Hitchcock Jackson Jones Lane Lewis Lippitt Newlands O'Gorman Owen Pittman Smith, Md. Smith, Mich. Stephenson Sutherland Thornton Tillman Warren So Mr. BRISTOW'S amendment was rejected. Mr. McCUMBER. Mr. President, I offer the amendment which I send to the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment will be stated. The SECRETARY. On page 165, line 6, after the word "tax," it is proposed to strike out all the words down to the word "All," on line 3, page 166, and to insert in lieu thereof the following: Where such income amounts to $1,000 and less than $5,000 the rate of taxation shall be one-tenth of 1 per cent; where such income amounts to $5,000 and less than $10,000 the rate of taxation shall be two-tenths of 1 per cent; where such income amounts to $10,000 and less than $20,000 the rate of taxation shall be three-tenths of 1 per cent; where such income amounts up to $20,000 and less than $30,000 the rate of taxation shall be five-tenths of 1 per cent; where such income amounts to $30,000 and less than $50,000 the rate of taxation shall be seven and one-half tenths of 1 per cent; where such income amounts to $50,000 and less than $100,000 the rate of taxation shall be 1 per cent; where such income amounts to $100,000 and less than $500,000 the rate of taxation shall be 2 per cent; where such income amounts to $500,000 and less that $1,000,000 the rate of taxation shall be 3 1/2 per cent; where such income amounts to $1,000,000 and less than $10,000,000 the rate of taxation shall be 5 per cent; where such income amounts to $10,000,000 and over the rate of taxation shall be 7 1/2 per cent; except as hereinafter provided. And a like tax shall be assessed, levied, collected, and paid annually upon the entire net income from all property owned and of every business, trade, or profession carried on in the United States by persons residing elsewhere. Mr. McCUMBER. Mr. President, it is quite evident that no two Senators will agree upon the number of steps in the sliding scale in this bill, and it is equally true that no two of them will agree upon the ratio of rate for each particular step. I have an abiding conviction, based upon my idea of the rights and obligations of citizenship, which is entirely out of harmony with the provisions of the bill. I regard it as at least a species of tyranny when any one person or number of persons have authority to impose a tax upon others in the payment of which tax they are to take no part. I believe every American ----- 1 ----- citizen, according to his means, should pay his proper proportion of the taxes necessary to run the Government. I appreciate the fact that if we made the steps too low the cost of collection in some instances would be considerably greater than the amount we would receive from the tax. Therefore I recognize the necessity of several steps in an ascending scale. But if I have an income of $2,900 a year and the Senator at my right has an income of $20,000 a year, I can hardly see that I have an inherent right to vote a certain rate of tax upon him while i will not be called upon for 1 cent. I think I ought to pay my proportion of it according to my ability. Therefore in formulating this amendment I have taken a much lower sum for the beginning, namely, $1,000, the same amount of income that is adopted as the first rung in the ladder in the legislation of the State of Wisconsin. I seek by this amendment to accomplish another thing, which I think very proper to be done. In the first instance, I make the rates very much lower upon the small incomes and very much higher upon what we might call the excessively great incomes. I obtained my table from a source entirely independent of the report of the committee. The table which I purpose to introduce as a part of my remarks I obtained from the department. Let me make a statement to show just what the result of this amendment would be. There are about 5,000,000 persons in the United States who have incomes of from $1,000 to $5,000 per annum. I make the rate of taxation for those persons only 1 mill, which would produce $15,000,000. There are 200,000 persons in the United States who have annual incomes of from $5,000 to $10,000. I make the rate of taxation upon those incomes in this amendment only 2 mills, which would bring a revenue of about $3,000,000. There are 100,000 persons who have incomes of from $10,000 to $20,000. I make the rate in that case 3 mills, which would give us a revenue oof $4,500,000. There are about 75,000 persons who have incomes ranging from $20,000 to $30,000. I make the rate 5 mills on that class of incomes, which would realize $9,375,000. There are about 21,000 persons who have incomes of from $30,000 to $50,000. I make the rate 7 1/2 mills upon those incomes, which would realize $6,320,000. There are about 10,000 persons who have incomes of from $50,000 to $100,000. I make the rate 1 per cent upon those incomes, which would produce $7,500,000. There are about 2,000 persons who have incomes of from $100,000 to $500,000. With a rate of 2 per cent we would realize upon those incomes revenue amounting to $12,000,000. There are about 500 persons in the United States who have incomes ranging from $500,000 to $1,000,000. With a 3 1/2 per cent rate upon those incomes we would realize $13,125,000. There are about 100 persons in the United States who have incomes ranging from $1,000,000 to $10,000,000 a year. With a 5 per cent tax upon those incomes we would realize $2,500,000. Finally, there are about 20 persons in the United States who have incomes of $10,000,000 and over. With a 7 1/2 per cent tax on those incomes we would realize $1,500,000. This would give us, in the aggregate, $74,820,000. It would realize something more than would be realized under the bill as it is proposed, and the burden would be very much lighter, indeed, upon those with the smaller incomes and very much heavier upon those with the very large incomes. Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President----- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from North Dakota yield to the Senator from Mississippi? Mr. McCUMBER. I do. Mr. WILLIAMS. The Senator has said that his amendment would produce a revenue of $74,000,000, which he states would be larger than the revenue which it is estimated the provision of the bill will produce. He is mistaken as to that. He is making an estimate per annum, and he is comparing it with an estimate for 10 months in the case of the provision of the bill. Mr. McCUMBER. It is estimated that this amendment would produce about $75,000,000; so upon a 10-months' basis it would produce about the amount which would be produced by the bill. I realize the fact that no amendment to the bill can possibly be adopted, and I do not want to take up the time of the Senate in a call of the roll upon my amendment; but I will submit it, and will ask that the table which I send to the desk may be made part of my remarks. The PRESIDING OFFICER. In the absence of objection, it will be so ordered.1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4255 The matter referred to is as follows: Amount of Income. Number of taxable persons. Per ct. Rate of tax. Amount to be realized. $1,000 to $5,000 5,000,000 0.001 $15,000,000 $5,000 to $10,000 200,000 .002 3,000,000 $10,000 to $20,000 100,000 .003 4,500,000 $20,000 to $30,000 75,000 .005 9,375,000 $30,000 to $50,000 21,000 .007 1/2 6,320,000 $50,000 to $100,000 10,000 .01 7,500,000 $100,000 to $500,000 2,000 .02 12,000,000 $500,000 to $1,000,000 500 .03 1/2 13,125,000 $1,000,000 to $10,000,000 100 .05 2,500,000 $10,000,000 and over 20 .07 1/2 1,500,000 Total 74,820,000 Mr. BORAH. Mr. President, I understand that the Senator who offers the amendment does not propose to have a roll call upon it; therefore I wish to say just a word on the subject. As I understand the amendment, it reduces the exemption in the bill form $3,000 down to $1,000. I desire to go on record as being opposed to the amendment. As I have discussed the matter heretofore, I shall not state at length why I am opposed to it. Suffice it to say that in this country, in my opinion, a man who has an income of no more than $1,000 has paid his proportion of taxes until you reach a sum considerably above $1,000. I know that we contend upon this side of the Chamber that a protective tariff does not visit the consumer with the tax. That is not always or wholly true. In addition to that, however, we have our internal taxes or excise taxes; in addition to that the tax which is now levied upon corporations, and which is largely passed over to the consumer; and in addition to that taxes are covered by rents and prices and passed over to the consumer. Suppose a man with a family of three or four children, upon whom devolves the obligation of educating and clothing them, finds at the end of the year that he has $1,000 out of which to send two or three of his girls or two or three of his boys to college. In what position is he to meet the situation---to train them for citizenship and to prepare them for the duties of life? So far as I am concerned, after men of that class have paid the tax which they must pay in this country by our indirect method, I am in favor of relieving them from any further payment until they can fully discharge their duties to their families and meet the obligations of citizenship. I might extend these remarks, but I wish to go on record against the amendment. There is an inevitable and unconquerable disposition in our taxing system to hunt the low man, and it always gets him at last. Mr. McCUMBER. I think it is worth the one dollar that a man with a net income of a thousand dollars would have to pay to become and remain in every respect a full citizen of the United States, shouldering his responsibilities with his duties. I think the man who has an income of $5,000 a year can well afford to pay $5 of that and become a part of the taxable resources of the country. I do not think it is going to injure him in any way. But I do believe there ought not to be one class of citizens that is taxed and another class that is free from taxation. Mr. BORAH. Mr. President, there is not one class of citizens whom we tax and another class whom we relieve from taxation. So long as we have the mixed system of taxation which we have in this country that can not possibly be true. There is no man in this country outside of an insane asylum or a poorhouse or prison who does not pay taxes. I do not care what his vocation may be or how humble he may be, he pays a tax, and in a large number of instances he pays 10, 15, or 20 per cent of his income as a tax. So long as we have the mixed system of indirect taxation and the direct tax, the excise tax, there is no possibility of any man escaping the responsibility of taxation of this country. Especially is there no possibility of the man of limited means escaping. Not only does he pay taxes on consumption, but if he has a little property it is all in sight and never escapes. Mr. McCUMBER. There is not any question about one thing, that he has a voice in fixing a tax which he pays no part of, an d I do not think that that is in conformity with our general ideas of the rights and obligations of citizenship. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the amendment offered by the Senator from North Dakota [Mr. McCUMBER]. The amendment was rejected. No. 99------2 Mr. POINDEXTER. I offer an amendment which I ask may be read. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment will be read. The SECRETARY. On page 166, line 3, after "$100,000," insert: "and 10 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $500,000 and does not exceed $1,000,000, and 20 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $1,000,000." Mr. POINDEXTER. Mr. President, it seems to me that the principal vice of the bill, as far as this phase which we are now discussing is concerned, is that the principle of graduation upon which the income tax is based stops before it reaches the excessive fortunes. In other words, an income of $500,000 or of $1,000,000 would be required to pay the same income tax as that of $100,000. The object which I have to the amendment just introduced by the Senator from North Dakota [Mr. McCUMBER], and which caused me to vote against it, was not only that which was stated by the Senator from Idaho [Mr. BORAH], that it reduced the exemption to a lower amount than in my judgment it should be reduced to, but also because it lowered the rate of taxation upon incomes---which the Senator from North Dakota seemed to refer to as small incomes, but which I regard as large ones--- ranging from $100,000 to $500,000 a year. Mr. President, the incomes in this country over $500,000 per annum and over $1,000,000 per annum are not the result of the accumulations of steady industry on the part of their possessors. In almost every case the incomes are upon fortunes which have been acquired by special privilege of one kind or another. Of these special privileges one of the most far-reaching, in my judgment, in bringing about such accumulations has been a discrimination and special favor in transportation rates, by which the public utility of transportation has been used to benefit certain industries and certain individuals in preference to the general public, with the result that in many instances private monopolies have resulted. I will mention one other special privilege----it might be called such----which has been one of the most potent causes in making possible the excessive incomes I refer to. In passing I will say that i have not so much objection myself to the existence in this country of such incomes as to the manner in which they have been acquired. I do think, however, that a just system of taxation should proceed with its graduation scale to a point where there is a difference made between an income ranging around $100,000 and one ranging around $1,000,000 a year. As I started to say, another one of the opportunities which have enabled their possessors to obtain such incomes has been the acquirement, through special favors, of the natural resources of the country---gifts of lands; sometimes the acquirement of vast areas of public land or of valuable elements in the public land by illegitimate means; sometimes by what might be justly denominated as fraudulent means; sometimes through a careless policy of legislation in former years, when resources were more abundant in comparison to the demands upon them. Some of these incomes were acquired in a perfectly legitimate way, but without effort and without labor by the owners' good fortune in coming into the possession of great mines of precious metals. It seems to me that a fortune acquired in such a way, not only on account of its size but on account of the easy and sometimes the illegitimate manner in which it has been acquired, can very justly be called upon to pay a much larger proportion of the burdens of government than other fortunes. Mr. President, the objection which was made by the Senator from Mississippi [Mr. WILLIAMS] to all these propositions to increase the tax on the largest incomes I do not think offers any obstacle to the adoption of this or similar amendments. His objection is that no calculation has been made as to the amount of revenue which would be received, and that we ought not to levy this tax until we know the amount of revenue and whether or not we need the revenue. It is impossible, in the first place, Mr. President, to know from the information which we have---and I doubt whether it could be obtained---the amount of revenue which would be received by the Government from an increased income tax upon the excess of incomes over $1,000,000. I do not think it is material. Whatever amount of revenue may be derived from that source will be based upon a just principle of taxation--- and it is always within the power of the Government to remit from its revenues by legislation, which can be enacted at any time, if we are receiving a surplus, revenues which are paid upon the necessities of life, revenues which are a burden upon people who have a harder struggle for existence than those who are receiving an income of $1,000,000.4256 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. AUGUST 28, We could remit some of those taxes---which are nothing at all but taxes, especially according to the theory of the Senator from Mississippi, but which are called revenue duties---upon the necessities of life. There is always on opportunity to do that. As some one has already said this morning, we can not know to what extent we ought to do it to offset the effect of these amendments until the amendments have been put into operation and we have learned by experience. This amendment ought to be adopted, because there is no danger that the Government will be injured by any revenue, whatever it may be, that will be received from it, and because whatever revenue is received is received upon a just principle of taxation and from property which can most easily afford to pay it, and which, upon the other hand, requires and receives more of the care and the expense of government than other portions of the national wealth. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment proposed by the Senator from Washington [Mr. POINDEXTER]. Mr. CRAWFORD. I ask for a reading of the amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment will be again read. The SECRETARY. On page 166, line 3, after "$100,000," insert the following: And 10 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $500,000, and does not exceed $1,000,000, and 20 per cent per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $1,000,000. Mr. POINDEXTER. Mr. President, I make the point of no quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Secretary will call the roll. The Secretary called the roll, and the following Senators answered to their names: Ashurst Bacon Bankhead Brady Brandegee Bryan Catron Chamberlain Chilton Clarke, Ark. Crawford Fletcher Gallinger Gore Hitchcock Hollis Hughes James Johnson Kenyon Kern La Follette Lea Lewis Lodge McCumber Martin, Va. Martine, N. J. Myers Nelson Norris Oliver Page Penrose Perkins Poindexter Pomerene Ransdell Reed Robinson Saulsbury Shafroth Sheppard Sherman Shields Shively Simmons Smith, Ariz. Smith, Ga. Smith, S. C. Smoot Sterling Stone Sutherland Swanson Thomas Thompson Townsend Vardaman Walsh Weeks Williams Mr. TOWNSEND. The senior Senator from Washington [Mr. JONES] has been called from the Senate on official business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Sixty-two Senators have answered to their names. A quorum is present. Mr. POINDEXTER. I ask for the yeas and nays on agreeing to the amendment. The yeas and nays were ordered, and the Secretary proceeded to call the roll. Mr. CHILTON (when his name was called). I make the same announcement as to my pair that I made on the former vote. Mr. GALLINGER (when his name was called). I transfer my pair with the junior Senator from New York [Mr. O'GORMAN] to the junior Senator from Maine [Mr. BURLEIGH] and vote "nay." Mr. Kern (when his name was called). On account of my pair with the Senator from Kentucky [Mr. BRADLEY] I withhold my vote. Mr. LEA (when his name was called). I am paired with the senior Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. LIPPITT]. If I were at liberty to vote, I would vote "nay." Mr. LEWIS (when his name was called). I again announce my pair with the senior Senator from North Dakota [Mr. McCUMBER]. Mr. REED (when his name was called). I wish to announce my pair with the Senator from Michigan [Mr. SMITH]. I therefore withhold my vote. Mr. SAULSBURY (when his name was called). I have a general pair with the junior Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. COLT]. I therefore withhold my vote. If I were at liberty to vote, I would vote "nay." Mr. THOMAS (when his name was called). I transfer my pair with the senior Senator from Ohio [Mr. BURTON] to the junior Senator from Oregon [Mr. LANE] and vote "nay." Mr. TILLMAN (when his name was called). I again announce my pair with the Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. STEPHENSON], and withhold my vote. The roll call was concluded. Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (after having voted in the negative). I have a pair with the junior Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. OLIVER]. In his absence I withdraw my vote. Mr. BANKHEAD. I transfer my pair with the Senator from West Virginia [Mr. GOFF] to the Senator from Louisiana [Mr. THORNTON] and vote "nay." I desire the announcement of this transfer to stand for all votes to-day. Mr. BACON (after having voted in the negative). I inquire whether the senior Senator from Minnesota [Mr. NELSON] has voted. The PRESIDING OFFICER. He has not. Mr. BACON. Then I withdraw my vote, as I have a general pair with that Senator. Mr. SAULSBURY. I transfer my pair with the junior Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. COLT] to the Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. OWEN] and vote. I vote "nay." Mr. FLETCHER. I transfer my pair with the senior Senator from Wyoming [Mr. WARREN] to the junior Senator from Nevada [Mr. PITTMAN] and vote "nay." Mr. CLARKE of Arkansas (after having voted in the negative). I observe that the junior Senator from Utah [Mr. SUTHERLAND] has not voted. I therefore withdraw my vote. The result was announced---yeas 12, nays 41, as follows: YEAS---12. Borah Brady Bristow Clapp Crawford Cummins Kenyon La Follette Norris Perkins Poindexter Sterling NAYS---41. Ashurst Bankhead Brandegee Bryan Catron Clark, Wyo. Fletcher Gallinger Gore Hitchcock Hollis Hughes James Johnson Lodge Martin, Va. Martine, N. J. Myers Overman Page Penrose Pomerene Ransdell Robinson Saulsbury Shafroth Sheppard Shields Shively Simmons Smith, Ariz. Smith, Ga. Smith, S. C. Stone Swanson Thomas Thompson Townsend Vardaman Walsh Williams NOT VOTING---42. Bacon Bradle Burleigh Burton Chamberlain Chilton Clarke, Ark. Colt Culberson Dillingham du Pont Fall Goff Gronna Jackson Jone Kern Lane Lea Lewis Lippitt McCumber McLean Nelson Newlands O'Gorman Oliver Owen Pittman Reed Root Sherman Smith, Md. Smith, Mich. Smoot Stephenson Sutherland Thornton Tillman Warren Weeks Works So Mr. POINDEXTER'S amendment was rejected. Mr. BRANDEGEE. Mr. President, I have made no remarks upon these various amendments to change the provisions of the income tax as found in the bill. I desire to state very briefly the reason why I have voted against most of the amendments, and I shall probably continue to do so. This is a bill entitled "An act to reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government." These amendments have had no such proper consideration, in my opinion, as would justify me in voting for any one of them. It may be that one or another of them would provide a more equitable or more satisfactory system of taxing the incomes of both corporations and individuals, but I do not think in the passage of a tariff bill we should attempt to utilize it as a vehicle to float through any propositions to tax corporations out of existence or to penalize the rich or to reduce swollen fortunes or to accomplish any other collateral purpose, no matter how desirable. I am perfectly satisfied that if it shall be the settled conviction of the majority of the people of the country that the tax as provided by the committee should be changed, there is sufficient time in the future to overhaul entirely the proposed income tax in the light of the way the present provisions may operate and with much better satisfaction both to us and to the country. The amendment just offered, which proposed to tax incomes over a million dollars 20 per cent, I could not possibly vote for I have heard of collecting tithes, but I have never heard of collecting fifths of the incomes of people. Without going into or criticizing the details of the various amendments I simply think it is better to try the plan as proposed by the committee in its general features, and then having established the principle of an income tax, go about amending it as the necessity of the occasion in the future may warrant. Mr. CRAWFORD. Mr. President, yesterday evening before the Senate adjourned I offered an amendment the purpose of which was to distinguish between what in England are called earned incomes and unearned incomes. That amendment was not acted upon. I am not going to press it at this time, but in connection with it I want to call attention to the report made 1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4257 in the English Parliament in 1907 after a very thorough investigation of the whole subject. England has had an income tax, as I understand it, for three-quarters of a century, and from time to time, as the system has been evolved, they have improved it, enlarged it, and extended it. Within the last two or three years, under the ministry in which Lloyd George has been so active, they have thoroughly overhauled it and extended its provisions in many ways. In this report in 1907, which was an exhaustive one, after a thorough investigation, they find that this distinction should be made: Differentiation between earned and unearned income. They find that it is practicable to observe that differentiation in the income-tax system. I want to put into the RECORD what Mr. Asquith said in commenting upon it, because it is so well said and is so brief and simple, and it relates to a matter of the utmost importance here. In discussing it he gives this example. He says: Comparing two individuals, one "who derives, we will say, £1,000 a year from a perfectly safe investment in the funds perhaps accumulated and left to him by his father, and, on the other hand, a man making the same nominal sum by personal labor in the pursuit of some arduous and perhaps precarious profession, or some form of business," he maintained that "to say that those two people are, from the point of view of the state, to be taxed in the same way is, to my mind, flying in the face of justice and common sense." I believe that that simple statement finds a response in the judgment of every man. Why not in this bill and in establishing this system here start right upon that question? Here is the question of making property, capital, and investment contribute its share of taxes; on the other hand, here is the question of how far shall we go in putting a tax upon energy, industry, and service given to society by men who are engaged in practicing professions or in following other useful vocations in life. We are putting them all together, and making one levy, one rate, upon them all; in other words, we are putting a tax upon personal service rendered to the home, the family, and the community and which earns an annual income. The income may be precarious and vary from one year to another and end when that life of the person ends who is earning it. We are putting that class of incomes in the same class with rents from great structures, inherited, perhaps, by some child of fortune, that are a lifeless species of property. England differentiates between these classes of income. Why should not we? Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President– The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. LEA in the chair). Does the Senator from South Dakota yield to the Senator from New Hampshire? Mr. CRAWFORD. I do. Mr. GALLINGER. This is an interesting phase of the discussion, Mr. President, and I desire to ask the Senator from South Dakota how it would work. Supposing a man were in receipt of $3,000 from investments which his father had made possible and he likewise was in receipt of $3,000 from the practice of his profession, would there be a differentiation in that? Mr. CRAWFORD. Oh, certainly. The distinction is made between the earnings from a man's professional services and the earnings from his investments. They have all that worked out in England. Mr. GALLINGER. Would he be exempt on the $3,000 which he earns from professional services under those circumstances? Mr. CRAWFORD. I am not saying that. I think the fault in the amendment which I offered yesterday was that it went too far in making exemptions. In England they are not exempt above a certain rate, but they discriminate in their favor. So, if the Senator will permit me, I shall offer a resolution which I ask to have read and ask to have it considered in connection with my amendment, which I admit is faulty in that respect. I should like to have the Senate consider both the amendment and the resolution together and take such action as it may think best. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Secretary will read the resolution proposed by the Senator from South Dakota. The resolution (S. Res. 177) was read, as follows: Resolved, That the Committee on Fnance be directed to investigate and ascertain the difference in character between income immediately and directly derived by an individual from the carrying on or exercise by him of his profession, trade, and vocation, and income derived from his property of investment of capital, and to report an amendment which will make a just discrimination in the rate of levy in favor of incomes immediately and directly derived from the exercise of a profession, trade, or calling, as compared with income derived from property and capital investment. Mr. CRAWFORD. Mr. President, of course I am not dogmatic enough to undertake here to say what this difference should be and what this rate should be; but I am offering this resolution so that it may come before the Senate for the purpose of having this question, which I think has fundamental justice at the bottom of it, receive the consideration that I think it should receive here and have the investigation to which I think it is entitled. Therefore I submit the resolution. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The resolution will be printed and lie on the table. Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, do I understand that the resolution is to lie on the table? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair understood that that was the request of the Senator from South Dakota. Mr. CRAWFORD. No; I did not ask to have the resolution lie on the table; I asked to have it take the usual course. I presume, if objection is made to it, it will have to be printed and go over. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from South Dakota make a request for unanimous consent for the present consideration of the resolution? Mr. CRAWFORD. Yes; I ask unanimous consent for the present consideration of the resolution. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Dakota asks unanimous consent for the present consideration of the resolution which has just been read. Is there objection? Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes; I object, Mr. President. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Mississippi objects, and the resolution will be printed and go over. Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, I want to say a few words in this connection, so as to explain why I have objected. IN the first place, I do not see any necessity of any investigation to determine an abstract question, which every man can determine for himself, as to whether this distinction ought or ought not to be made. SO far as I am personally concerned, I am opposed to it. Of course, it would be a very nice thing for the Members of the two Houses of Congress to make that distinction, as about nine-tenths of them are lawyers and get their incomes from their profession, but I do not see why a man who is in a profession should have his income exempt any more than a man who is carrying on a farm or a factory. The other day some one said something about some surgeons who made an immense amount of money each year by their great skill and genius, who lived like princes and saved nothing. Mr. CRAWFORD. Mr. President, will the Senator permit me to interrupt him? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Mississippi yield to the Senator from South Dakota? Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes. Mr. CRAWFORD. The Senator is assuming that the amendment makes a difference between professional men and men following a trade or men cultivating farms. It makes none whatever. It includes professions, trades, and vocations– all three. Mr. WILLIAMS. Then, whom would you leave to be taxed? Mr. CRAWFORD. Property, capital, investments; and not human exertion and human energy and huma service. I do not say they should be exempt. I have said that my amendment went too far in that respect, and I say that there should be a differentiation in favor of energy and service of the man who is doing something and where the earning depends entirely upon his personal exertions– that there should be a differentiation in favor of that source of income as against the income derived from capital and property. Mr. WILLIAMS. The Senator the other day referred, as an illustration, to some brilliant surgeon or some one who made an immense income every year, but lived like a prince and had nothing left. There might be another surgeon who made the same amount of income who would have better sense and instead of living like a prince might invest some of the income in land or in city property or in bonds or in stocks. So the effect of it would be to tax a man who was thrifty, industrious, frugal, and saving and exempt the fellow who spent all his income and never invested anything. I do not see for the life of me why any man who earns $50,000 a year or $20,000 or $10,000 as a great surgeon or as a great lawyer should not thank God for the possession of that much and be willing to contribute of that a small amount for the support of the Government. You are taxing men in proportion to their ability to pay, not in proportion to their ability to save or to invest. Mr. CRAWFORD. Mr. President, that is simply wiping out the discrimination– and it is one of the subjects of actual, active, growing interest in this country– between the burden that should be imposed upon property, upon capital, and that which should be imposed upon the character of service that is so closely linked with humanity that you can not separate it. You can not judge a thing by stating an extreme case. After three-fourths of a century and at a time when the most popular ministry that was ever in control of the Government of England, the one which has reached out and reached into the hearts of the masses to a greater extent than ever before, led by Lloyd4258 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. AUGUST 28, George, makes this discrimination; the Senator from Mississippi thinks it is wrong in principle. I believe it is right. Mr. WILLIAMS. Money is as much property as is anything else, and when a man earns $20,000 in money during a year he has got that much property. Mr. BRANDEGEE. Mr. President, I realize that, as the Senator from South Dakota [Mr. CRAWFORD] has stated, the amendment which the Senator submitted yesterday is not strictly the pending amendment, I assume, for action at the present time. Mr. CRAWFORD. No. My statement was that I had offered a resolution. I do not know whether the Senator was here at the time, but the resolution has been read and laid over. Mr. BRANDEGEE. I was here. Mr. CRAWFORD> The two are simply related to this subject, and so I thought it would not be improper for the Senate to say whether they should not direct the Committee on Finance to consider the questions there suggested and report to the Senate whether such a discrimination in favor of vocational income as against property income should not be observed in this bill. I realize that the amendment which I hastily drew yesterday where the exemption was made broader than it ought to be is imperfect; I was conscious of the fact that it was imperfect at the time, but it was introduced to get the subject before the Senate. Now, as it is made a little more appropriate for the general consideration by the resolution which I have introduced, I prefer to have the two considered together. Mr. BRANDEGEE. I do not at all, as I think, misunderstand the situation. I understand it exactly at the Senator from South Dakota has stated it. In conversation with the Senator yesterday afternoon I stated that I thought the amendment was not as carefully drawn as the Senator himself would like to have it, and he said that it was hastily prepared and simply designed to bring the general subject matter to the attention of the Senate, which has been accomplished. Now, I will read the amendment in order that here may be in the RECORD, in connection with the remarks upon this subject, the text of the matter we are discussing. The Senator's amendment reads: Provided further, That in computing net income under subdivision 1 of paragraph A of this section there shall also be deducted the amount, if any, which is claimed and proved by any individual to have been immediately and directly derived from the personal exercise by him of a profession, trade, or vocation. I think there is a good deal to be said in favor of the contention of the Senator– which is also sustained by the works of British origin upon the subject to which he has referred– that a great income or any income derived entirely from the efforts of those who have gone before– which cost the present beneficiary no effort or labor of any kind– should bear a larger proportion of the burden of taxation than the income derived from the personal effort of the beneficiary in possession of the income. The amendment of the Senator, of course, as I think he will recognize, and as I am firmly convinced, would, if passed as drawn, exempt absolutely all income derived from the effort of anybody. I mean to put it just that broad, because the amendment provides that there shall be deducted from the amount anything which is proved by the individual "to have been immediately and directly derived from the personal exercise by him of a profession, trade, or vocation." Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, will the Senator pardon a question? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from COnnecticut yield to the Senator from Mississippi? Mr. BRANDEGEE. Certainly. Mr. WILLIAMS. A thought occurs to me which makes me ask the question. Take my salary as a Senator, or the salary of the Senator from Connecticut. Would or would not that fall within this description? Would that be derived from a profession, or trade, or vocation, or would it be connected with what the Senator calls "dead property," or where would it come in? Mr. BRANDEGEE. I think there is a twilight zone about such a question. It would depend, perhaps, upon whether the Senator would consider himself to be a professional politician or a statesman; I do not know. Mr. WILLIAMS. Really, I consider myself a statesman' but that is an income derived in the manner described in the amendment of the senator from South Dakota, and it would be exempt under that very amendment. Mr. CRAWFORD. Mr. President, will the Senator permit me? Mr. BRANDEGEE. Certainly. Mr. CRAWFORD. That language is identically the same as the language in the income-tax law of Great Britain, except that, based upon it, they levy a lower rate on such incomes instead of exempting them. The amendment which I drew, instead of differentiating in favor of a lower rate, I admit went too far in exempting them; but the language "claimed and proved by any individual to have been immediately and directly derived from the personal exercise by him of a profession, trade or vocation" is literally copied from the clause in the English statute as it appears in Prof. Seligman's book. Mr. WILLIAMS. That does not help it, so far as this question is concerned. Mr. CRAWFORD. It helps it in this way, that it is being successfully operated in England, and Prof. Seligman says in his conclusion that after years of evolution the British system is the most perfect income-tax system in the world, and that while in Gladstone's time, a generation ago, it created hostility and bitterness, now it is accepted everywhere and will remain for all time. Mr. WILLIAMS. Whether it is the English law and whether or not the English law is a good law is not relevant to this question. The question is whether we want to start a system of taxation in this country that will exempt the incomes of lawyers, doctors, politicians, and others– all incomes that come directly from personal services, whether for the Government or for somebody else. Mr. CRAWFORD. I should like to ask the Senator if he seriously asserts that politicians have an income? Mr. WILLIAMS. Well, after they get through with the year they have not much left. [Laughter.] Mr. BRANDEGEE. No net income. Mr. WILLIAMS> But they have at least had a salary and an opportunity to have an income. Mr. BRANDEGEE. Mr. President, as usual, I seem to have managed by skillful interference to have projected myself in between two fires or between the upper and the nether millstones and to occupy the floor simply in the capacity of a yielder. I do not disagree with the Senator from South Dakota at all, and, if I had been allowed to continue consecutively, I would have stated long since, I think, everything that he has stated. I understand perfectly well that the language which he uses in his amendment exempts incomes made by the exertion of personal effort, whereas the equivalent law in Great Britain simply imposes a lower rate of tax upon them. I started to say that I had, so to speak, considerable offhand sympathy, without having had a chance to give it any mature consideration, with the idea that the two incomes were so essentially different in character, especially in consideration of the sympathy we have with people who have to strive and work in order to live, as differentiated from those who, so to speak, are born with a gold spoon in their mouths and are simply living on the efforts of their ancestors– that I have considerable sympathy with the idea that there ought to be a difference at least in the rate of taxation. I am simply calling attention to the fact that the amendment of the Senator from South Dakota will exempt entirely from taxation every income derived from personal effort, because the expression "profession, trade, or vocation" includes every possible line of human effort. The amendment would exempt everything that was made by a stock gambler or a gambler in the wheat pit. It would exempt– Mr. WILLIAMS. If the Senator will pardon me, there would be one thing, and one alone, that would not be exempt under it, and that would be an inheritance or a legacy. The idea of taxing inheritances and legacies has much soundness in it, as distinguished from income which one acquires by his own labor; but that is to be reached by an inheritance and legacy tax and is reached in nearly all countries in that way. That would be about all that would be exempt under that amendment, and inheritances and legacies are already quite generally taxed. Mr. BRANDEGEE. Mr. President, what I said was that the amendment exempts absolutely everything that a man makes for himself. Of course, it would not exempt a legacy which somebody else made for him and gave to him. If a man's occupation or vocation– for vocation means nothing but a calling– if his calling or occupation were that of a financier it would exempt everything he made by underwriting and by financial operations in the course of a year that would be the product of his effort. Nothing can be imagined that a man can busy himself about with a view of profit which the amendment as drawn would not utterly exempt. I know that it is the intention of the Senator from South Dakota not to seek to do that, but simply to impose a different rate of taxation. In addition to what i have already said, it occurs to me that it is not, and probably would not be, the perfectly simple question that at first blush it may appear to be, to wit, to arrive at a proper differentiation of the various merits of the different 1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4259 kinds of professions, trades, and vocations, in order to ascertain at what rate they should be taxed. The country doctor works hard and makes very little compared with his efforts, and the efforts of the clergyman more or less of a philanthropic character and he generally gets low pay. Many people would want to tax them at a lower rate than they would tax the income of the great corporation lawyer or of the financier. So that even the products of the individual efforts of various men among themselves might, in the opinion of a legislative committee and of a Congress, require various shadings of taxation. Whether there could be an agreement ultimately about a matter of that intricate character I do not know; but I am quite willing, although I do not suppose the committee would care to enter upon the investigation now- I am quite willing at the proper time to vote for the resolution requesting the committee to consider the question, and I will do so without any intention of being offensive to the committee or of asking them to consider anything out of their jurisdiction or that ought not to be considered at this time. I assume, however, that the committee would not have either the time or the inclination, perhaps, to take it up now, but simply to show the interest that I take in the subject and as an evidence of some degree of faith at least in the idea of trying to see if anything possibly could be evolved out of it, I should be happy to vote for the resolution introduced by the Senator from South Dakota. Mr. LODGE. Mr. President, the income tax as a mode of taxation is well recognized by all economists as open to two very serious objections. One is the failure to differentiate between unearned and earned incomes. The other is the ease of evasion. It is one of the easiest taxes in the world to evade. It falls with absolute certainty very largely on trustees, who have to make returns, who in a majority of cases represent women and children, and who can not evade such a tax. The evasions of the income tax in England to-day are very large. The tax also falls with full force upon the people who are the most honest in the community, while the shifty and dishonest escape. In a world, it has all the objections that arise to any tax which in its nature is easy of evasion. The other objection about earned and unearned incomes can be partially met, if not wholly overcome. At least it is so thought in England, and I am not sure that we may not be able to learn something from considering the systems of taxation of other countries, although my friend the Senator from Mississippi does not seem to think so. Speaking broadly, I believe it may be said that all economists recognize that a tax imposed upon the earning capacity of a community is not theoretically the best tax. It is inferior, for example, to the inheritance tax, which does not place a burden upon earning capacity and is certain of collection, owing to the fact that an inheritance has to pass through probate offices and requires the assent of the Government before it can be distributed. A burden on the earning capacity of a community is a very serious thing. The earring capacity of a community, which is the motive power of prosperity, is something which it is desirable under every civilized government to encourage. It is not wise to throw too heavy a proportion of the burden upon the earning capacity of any community. The men who draw the load should not be overweighted or disheartened. England has finally met this difficulty in a degree at least by differentiating between the tax derived from earned income and the tax derived form unearned income; and I think this point will have to be considered by us if we have adopted the income tax, as I believe we have, for a permanent source of national revenue. I think we must try to make the burden fall more heavily upon the income which is not earned than upon that which is earned, and the income, so called, which is not earned is very large, so large that there need be no fear of an insufficient return. Mr. WILLIAMS. Does not the Senator momentarily lose sight of the fact that property is taxed in all the States? Mr. LODGE. I understand that. Mr. WILLIAMS. there is another consideration, too. The very people who will evade an income tax are for the most part not those who derive an income from rents or from other property, such as bonds or stocks. Everybody knows what a dividend is, and everybody knows what a rent is; but lawyers, doctors, and other people have uncertain incomes known only to themselves, so that there is naturally in the very working of the law when men are not fairly honest- the fairly honest man is going to act the same way in both capacities- already a discrimination against the man who has the property. He has to pay State and county taxes upon his property, so that the man whose property consists in dollars which he earns in a year is the least taxed of all men. Mr. LODGE. The Senator, of course, understands that I am not advocating the exemption of earned incomes, but only that a heavier burden should rest on the unearned that on the earned income. Mr. President, there is another question raised by the income tax, as provided for in the bill, which is to my mind far graver than that of differentiating between the earned and the unearned income, and that is, making the exemption limit so high. I think a high exemption is vicious in principle if it is made for any reason except that at the exemption point you go beyond the possibility of profitable collection. In theory, at least, everybody should pay his share of taxes, especially in a popular government. I know well the great objection to making a lower exemption that that established by this bill. The fatal objection is that to do so is unpopular. But i believe in the long run it will be seen that it has the best and only enduring grounds of popularity, which is justice. of course the men of small earnings and small incomes pay taxes to the Government of the United States in the indirect form, and one great objection to indirect taxes, so excellent economically, is that people do not realize fully that they are paying them. The tax which the man pays over the counter is the one he realizes. When he walks up to the tax gatherer in his town and finds that his rate has been raised he takes an interest in the administration of the business of the town. But as to the indirect tax, the tax that the man pays on alcoholic liquors, if he chooses to drink, or the tax that he pays on tobacco, are not only indirect but voluntary taxes, and he does not know, as a matter of fact, whether he pays them or not. He pays them, but he does not feel them. The difference, moreover, between what one man consumes and what another consumes in the way of food and drink and tobacco and raiment is not very great, of the power of consumption of the individual can not vary very largely, and he who lives and chooses most expensively pays most in taxation. But this tax which we are now imposing for the first time is a direct tax; and this country has hardly known direct taxes except in times of war. A man who has $1,000 income per annum and pays, as proposed by the Senator from North Dakota, $1 a year as income tax to the United States Government is not, I think, bearing too heavy a burden, but he is realizing what his Government is doing, which is of enormous value and makes him thereby a better citizen. He realizes that he is responsible for the Government as never before. There has been no greater misfortune to this country than what we have seen in every great city, and that the men who pay no taxes spend the revenues. The result is inevitably extravagance and corruption. Men are always ready to spend some one else's money. Look at the history of our municipal governments. They are not a subject of pride to any American. But if every man in those communities had paid his tax, if it was only 5 cents, and if he knew that if the money was extravagantly spent it might be 10 cents, he would have had more care about spending the public money, about the men he elected, and about the administration of his local government. One great reason for the extravagance we have had in our National Government, in my judgement, arises form the fact that almost all our revenues have been raised by indirect taxation. I want the man with $1,000 to pay his dollar or his 50 cents or his 25 cents, if you wish- I do not care how small you make it- so that he may keep his eye on the National Government in Washington. If you make the man contribute out of his pocket to the maintenance of the Government and know that he is doing so, he will take the interest he ought to take. He will watch his Representatives and Senators; he will look at the national appropriations. In my judgement it tends to good government, to greater economy in expenditures, to less waste of money, to the expenditure of money in such a way as to secure the best return. I believe, moreover, that it is in accordance with every sound historic traditional American doctorine that I have ever learned in the history of the country, and I think it is as sound a doctrine now as it ever has been, that every man should pay his share for the support of the Government which he helps to create. I am not oblivious to the fact that many of those who can best afford to pay have escape and are escaping their share of taxation. We know that this evil exists everywhere, form our towns to our Nation. But that does not after the principle that every man, no matter how trifling his contribution, should pay his share of the expense of carrying on the Government that supports and protects him. This brings me to the other important in the consideration of the imposition of an income tax. The Senator from4260 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. August 28, Mississippi [Mr. Williams] said yesterday- and I was extremely glad to hear him say it, because I think it touches a very vital question- that when taxes were imposed simply to take money form a man because he was rich, and for no other reason, the party that would do it would cease to be the Democratic Party and would become a party of communism, and perhaps something worse. It will be an evil day for us when we enter on confiscation of property under the guise of taxation. What we want to do is to raise money for the support of the Government in such a way that we shall make those pay most who can best afford to pay. I know that we are far short of that standard now. But I remember that among the many wise things Mr. Lincoln said was this: That you could find fault with any tax as to its incidence, as to those who escaped it, as to its unfairness, as to its burdensomeness, but that if we stayed talking about it until we got a perfect tax we never should raise any revenue at all. No tax can be perfect; but it should be the effort of the Government and of the taxing power to impose the tax, if it be an income tax, so as to raise the revenue in the largest proportion form those who can bear it best. ut let us beware how we enter upon taxing on the group that we want to punish somebody because he has money. If he has earned his money improperly and unlawfully, by oppression and extortion, he is a subject for punishment under other laws. That is a question of the method of accumulation, as the Senator from Mississippi said yesterday. But to have the Government undertake, for vindictive reasons, to punish a man simply because he has succeeded and has accumulated property by thrift and intelligence and character, or has inherited it honestly under the law, is entering upon a dangerous path. It would convert this tax from the imposition of a tax to the pillage of a class. That I think is a very dangerous ground to enter upon. Very rich men, large properties, are no new thing in the world. You have but to turn to the history of Rome at the time when it passed through the form of a republic to the form of an empire and see the enormous properties which were then held by single individuals. You can read of it in Cicero's familiar letters to Atticus, who was one of that class. There were enormous fortunes then; there have been enormous fortunes under every commercial civilization from that day to this. What distinguishes our time is the colossal size of the fortunes which have been accumulated in this country, because we have had the greatest opprunities, larger than exist anywhere else. But huge fortunes- huge beyond anything the world has ever dreamed of hitherto- have these days been amassed everywhere. Undoubtedly they constitute, in some ways, a menace to free, orderly, constitutional government. They are often grossly amused. They arouse evil passions. Undoubtedly they are a danger. But the danger is one that is not going to be successfully met by allowing a spirit of vindictiveness to endter in, and to say broadly that a man, whether innocent or guilty, must be punished through the taxing power of the Government for merely possessing property. Make him bear his fair burden, by all means. I would put the burden especially heavily of the income that is unearned; but I would not set a class apart and say they are to be pillaged, their property is to be confiscated, in order to gain, perhaps, for myself or my party a brief and fleeting popularity. We shall thereby come too near to that which proved the downfall of the Roman Republic, when the one cry for the man who chose to raise himself above his fellows and to gain great power with to promise, "Panem et circenses." The man who would the bread and the games was the man who attained power, and it is easy to drive men to this if they. have to choose between that and ruin. I do not want to see that class built up in this country. I do not want to see its members forced into that position by being hunted like wild beasts. I want, just so far as intelligence and ingenuity can do it, to impose this direct tax so that it will fall most heavily on those best able to bear the burden; but I want it done in order to raise revenue for the Government of the United States and for no other purpose. I do not want it done in a spirit of hatred to a man merely because he happens to have money. I know the present tone its that any man who has money is prima facie a criminal and that any man who has been successful in any ways falls under suspicion. But there has been in this country for many years, and there is to-day, in my judgement, a great dal of honest success honestly won. There have been great fortunes honestly made and wisely and benevolently distributed. I do not believe Americans of that class are all gone. I think this country is full of honest men making large incomes in business or at the bar or elsewhere, and making them honestly and fairly. I think they are entitled to the fruits of their success, and they as a rule bear the burden of their duty to the community generously and well. It will be an ill day for this country when we raise the cry that success honestly won is to be punished; that money honestly gained is the badge of criminality; and that we are to go to the people of the United States in the search for popularity, and say to them: "Follow us. We will plunder the people who have got the money. You shall spend it, and it will not cost you anything." That is a dangerous cry to raise in any country, for when you unchain that force you can not ell you it will stop, and in your eagerness to destroy property and rob men of hope and ambition you may bring your boasted civilization down in ruins about you. This Government was founded in justice and I believe in the individual man. Of that Thomas Jefferson was the great apostle. I believe we are trenching on very dangerous ground when we assume that if a man was succeeded, if a man has accumulated wealth honesty and fairly, therefore he ought to be brought to the block and punished for the mere fact that his brains and his character and his work and his self-control have enabled him to rise. Success used to be held out as the prize for every American boy. Now we are holding out to him the suggestion that he can not reach success without pursuing devious ways, and that if he does attain success, if he does amass a fortune, he is to be an objet of suspicion to all his fellow men. Let us impose our tax in the best and justest way we can. Let us do it in such a way as to make those pay most who can best pay. Let us do it to raise revenue. Do not let us do it in order to gratify hatred and malice and all uncharitableness. Mr. BORAH. Mr. President, in my judgement if anyone should undertake to organize a movement in this country for the purpose of attacking a man simply because he was successful, or discriminating against a man or men because they were successful or because they were the possessors of wealth. he would find himself in a very short time the most unpopular man in America. I do not know, from my limited reading, of a country in the world where there is so little feeling against a man, simply because he possesses wealth, as in this country. I do not know of any country where the people are so tolerant of success, and are always so willing and anxious to congratulate a neighbor or a friend upon his success, as here in this country. I do not believe it is popular in this country to take the opposite view, and to assail wealth because of its existence, or to assail a man excuse he has been successful in gathering wealth. I think the Senator form Massachusetts has pictured a condition which does not exist in this country at all. He has painted in lurid and fretful outlines a scene wholly unknown to American life. I do not believe there is any feeling upon the part of the people which would encourage men to gather about one who is following the course he has indicated men might be following now for the purpose of securing popularity. But every time there is an effort upon the part of anyone to bring the men of means and of great wealths within the rule that obtains with reference to all other men, the cry of the demagogue is raised, and the men who undertake to do it are immediately assailed as appealing to popular prejudice. It is an old cry. Unusable to meet the agreements of justice, unable to confute the logic of quiet, they draw their phylacteries about them and proudly withdraw from the demagogue and the shouting populace. The effort to bring into subjection and under the rule and control of the law those who have obtained such power and such influence as, in many instances, to enable them to ignore it, immediately leads many people to suppose that it is being done solely for the purpose of popularity rather than for the purpose of enforcing the law as to all men, rich or poor, great or small. I do not know of anyone who has ever advocated an income tax or an exemption upon the theory of punishment, or upon theory that some should pay taxes and others should not. The men who have given their lives to the study of this questions, who do not deal with the populace, who do not deal with popular prejudice, who ask no favors at their hands, who seek no votes form them, will be found to sustain the position of those who advocate a reasonable exemption in an income-tax law. I challenge the Senator from Massachusetts and those who view the matter as he does to point me to a single great publicist or writer upon this question who does not bear out the statement I have made. The income tax had its impetus not with men seeking popular favor but in a thorough, conscientious, persistent investigation upon the part of those who have gone to the source of information and have studied the statistics which are available from almost all the countries of the world. I could quote many,1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4261 but I am going to quote a short paragraph from one who occupies a most eminent position in one of the great universities of this country, and who, I presume, cares as little about popular favor as any man who could possibly be called into this discussion. He says: Under existing conditions in the United States the burdens of taxation, taking them all in all, are becoming unequally distributed, and the wealthier classes are bearing a gradually smaller share of the public burden. Something is needed to restore the equilibrium; and that something can scarcely take any form except that of an income tax. In the State which the Senator who has just spoken has the honor to so ably represent it was discovered a few years ago that the assessed valuation of all the real estate amounted to $2,000,000,000, while the valuation of all the personal property in the State, according to the assessment, amounted to only $500,000,000. In other words, as I stated yesterday, this class of property escapes taxation in spite of all the ingenuity of man to bring it within the law, and an honest effort to make it bear its proportion of the burden is not to be whistled down the wind by the assertion that those who advocate it are appealing to popular prejudice. I seek to punish no man because of his wealth. I honor the man whose genius, coupled with honesty, gathers well of this world's goods. But I would count myself recreant to the public service if I did not seek to so shape the laws of my country as to mete out to him the same obligations as rest upon the unsuccessful or the penniless. It is not demagoguery; it is the fundamental but forgotten principle upon which this Government was established. Two or three very large estates have been probated within the last three months in a single city of the United States, one of which was probated for $87,000,000 and the other two for $100,000,000 each. What percentage of their income or what rate of tax did they pay to the National Government? Every man should pay a tax to his government. Of course he should. To state that is to state a rule as fundamental as the Ten Commandments. But does not every man in this country pay a tax? Does anybody escape it? The only logic of the Senator's argument is finally to accept direct taxation, exclusively and alone, as a means of raising taxes. When we shall adopt a system of direct taxation, exclusively and alone, I will join the Senator from Massachusetts in putting the exemptions down to a very low figure. But I insist now, as I have insisted before, that so long as we raise seven-eighths of our revenue by another method and only one-eighth by direct taxation, it can not be said that any man is escaping taxation. Neither can it be said that in giving a reasonable exemption we are exempting a class, for that class supposed to be exempted have already paid more than their proportion. The Senator cited the case of city governments as extravagant. Do they have a system of indirect taxes to any extend? Who operates and runs, and who is responsible for, these extravagant city governments? Take the city government of New York. Notwithstanding its great extravagance, as exhibited by the figures which I read in the New York Sun a few days ago, does anybody suppose that the men who are really managing the business affairs of New York are the poor people upon the streets, to whom the Senator refers as the authors of extravagance? Certainly not. The men who are operating and managing the business affairs of the city of New York are, in a large measure, of the same class of men for whose protection the Senator pathetically pleads. There is sufficient incentive to economy upon the part of the men of ordinary means in this country by reason of the taxes he already pays. Where does the demand for increased expenditures come from? Has any Senator undertaken to satisfy himself from when arise these demands for increased expenditures? Do they come from the man upon the street or upon the farm or in the shop or the man of limited means? When there is a cry to raise salaries or to build embassies or to increase expenditures in one way or another, form when comes the support? The great support comes nine times out of ten, from those whose properties are paying practically no tax at all to the National Government. There is little disposition to extravagance upon the part of the masses. They are not asking for such expenditures, nor have they shown any disposition to increase expenditures and put the burden of the increase upon the wealth of the country. I have seen no disposition of men of small means to vote taxes. I have always noticed that in matters of local expenditure, in matters of new taxes, in matters of creating new offices, that the general voter is very slow. Extravagant demands have come from those who feel that however great the burden they will pay no more out of their abundance than their neighbor pays out of his less fortunate allowance. It is not necessary, Mr. President, to add something more to the burden of the man in the field or shop in order to interest him in the question of economy. The effort of those who have been here advocating the proposition of a reasonable exemption and a reasonable graduation is based not upon the design to punish but is based upon the principle which is the foundation of all just taxation, that men shall pay in proportion to their ability to pay. Will the Senator form Massachusetts or anyone else undertake to demonstrate to me that the wealth of this country is paying as much tax to the support of the National Government in proportion to its property and its income as the one who it is said we are appealing to for popular favor? Will they take the statistics of the past which may be gathered and undertake to show that he is not now meeting more than his proportion of heavy burden? Until they do that their mouths are closed and they are estopped from challenging the good faith of those who advocate a reasonable exemption in this kind of taxation. After a man pays the tax which he must pay on consumption, then give him a chance to clothe and educate his family and meet the obligations of citizenship and preparation of those dependent upon him for citizenship before you add any additional tax. That is the basis of this exemption, and it is fair and just to all and toward all. Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, I want to express the hope that we may now go with the bill. This is a purely academical discussion which has been taking place between the Senator from Massachusetts and the Senator from Idaho, and is expecially academical at this time. They may be great merit in the argument of the Senator from Massachusetts some of these days, but not now. The reason why there is not great merit in it now is because while it taxes these people with indirect taxes of various sorts these things should be left for some day, when the good day comes---the golden day---when there will be no taxes upon consumption at all except upon whiskey and tobacco and wine and beer and things that are considered harmful, and no import duties at all except countervailing duties to offset them, and when everybody will pay in proportion to his income. It might then be well to reduce the exemption or to do away with it, so that a man with $5,000 would pay his $50, or whatever it was, and the man with $500 would pay his $5, and the mane with $50 would pay his 5 cents, and the man who got but 5 cents would pay his 1 cent, and call it the people's pence, like Peter's pence, and let everybody pay his share. But it is absolutely academical at this moment. It is not doing any good to carrying on the legislation of the Senate, and it can not be even intelligently discussed until we get into an entirely changed condition of things. So I ask that we may go on with the bill. Mr. WARREN. Mr. President, I wish to ask a question, not of an academical nature at all. And if the Senator is not too much in haste I want to say, before I ask the question, that I am one of those who voted for a constitutional amendment to enable the Government, without fear of former constitutional limitations, to provide for an income tax. I was one of those who then believed and I am one of those who now believe that an income tax should be altogether, or, if not altogether, pretty much retained as a reserve resource. I am one of those who believe that customs duties and the internal-revenue taxes ought to support the ordinary expenses of the Government. I think they should be so levied as to harm nobody and to protect and encourage industrial pursuits, in order to enrich and not impoverish the people; and the matter of an income tax could be lying back in reserve, with the necessary macLinery ready, if you please, so that in time of war or great stress we could immediately, as the Senator from Mississippi has said, enlarge and provide the necessary additional revenue. But there are some questions which arise in my mind; it may be because I have not yet sufficient grasp of the bill. I recall with regret that one of the matters which has been before this body and before the other body ever since I can remember, and then some, is the election of Senators by the people. Finally, after years and years of struggle and debate and profound consideration, we legislated, and almost within the twinkling of an eye we are in the midst of trouble in the matter of knowing how to apply that measure to existing circumstances or knowing exactly what the law means. There is an eminent man rapping at the door here for a seat in the Senate; he is worthy in every way; and the live question is, Under what circumstances and under what interpretation of the law can we permit him to take his seat? With that election-of-Senators law which we have just enacted with so much care and which caused us to listen hours and hours to constitutional speeches upon the matter, we are hung up in the air by a seemingly sim- 4262 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. AUGUST 28, ple matter following a happening that may occur again at any moment in the death of a Senator and the filling of a vacancy. Now, we may meet some very awkward situations in doiong real business under this proposed income-tax tariff law unless we most carefully perfect the measure before its passage. The other day I happened to be doing some business with the president of a trust company. My connection with that company had been where they had acted as trustee for bondholders of certain small corporations which others, with me, had bonded, and while it did not come up in the nature of a complaint the president nonchalantly asserted that unless the pending bill is changed in some manner he feared it would be very awkward in its application to trust companies and to those who have the distribution of money collected for the coupons on bonds, and so forth. For instance, as he said, his company collected or paid a great man : coupons on bonded companies. Mr. WILLIAMS. Bonds payable to bearer? Mr. WARREN. Sometimes they are registered and sometimes they are payable to bearer. They are issued or indorsed both ways, as the Senator knows. A man up in Washington or Oregon sends down the coupons here, and, as we understand the law, we shall be compelled to enter upon our books collections as an account, with names of all collections and payments, and if we do that it means 30 or 40 or more extra clerks; we must then notify the parties in interest that the money is there. Then we shall have to have proof from him that it is duly accounted for in the way of an income tax, or else we shall have to subtract and pay here and enter up accordingly on our books. Have the Senator and those who work with him thoroughly canvassed that situation? They did very much for it. I do not say they have not, but I want to know whether they have. Mr. WILLIAMS. I think we have. Mr. WARREN. I want to say to the Senator that it seems to me the way to correctly figure out a bill is just along a proposition of that kind of how it will apply absolutely in actual business. All of us remember the old farmer saying that "the proof of the pudding is in chewing the string." The Senator can see what an awkward situation there might be if somebody sends down a little package of coupons to be collected and intended to be applied to paying an obligation of his own, and he had to be hung up until he could go before some United States officer and make proper affidavit and have proper papers executed and sent down here at an expense perhaps that would eat up a large portion of that income. Mr. GALLINGER. I will ask the Senator if coupons of that nature are not usually sent through the banks? Mr. WARREN. They are often, but in that case I can hardly see how it makes any difference. Somebody must be responsible to the Government. It may be the trust company in New York, it may be in Chicago, or it may be nearer home. I am only raising this inquiry for the purpose of ascertaining whether that side of the equation has been fully considered. If not, I hope it may be. Mr. WILLIAMS. In answer I will say to the Senator it gave us a great deal of trouble and it gave those in the House a great deal of trouble. We were faced with the question of being certain that they got the revenue, and we were also faced with the question of deducting at the source, which is the cause of all the trouble, of course. We adopted that system because we discovered that in Great Britain and elsewhere without raising the rate it increased the revenue very much, and also there were less evasions under it. We adopted generally the principle of deducting at the source. Mr. WARREN. The Senator will see that if it should be necessary for the banks and the trust companies to carry a line of accounts open, purposely for this, and employ more help for doing this business, it would be a larger thing than a great inconvenience to the owners of such securities, because the collecting agents would seek compensation for extra services. Mr. WILLIAMS. That is very true; it will increase the amount of bookkeeping by paying at the source. It is unfortunate, but it can not be avoided. Mr. WARREN. Can the Senator avoid all the delay? Mr. WILLIAMS. The tax is paid at the source. Then if the taxpayer is not subject to the tax he makes a statement to that effect before the tax is actually paid if he chooses, or the company could make it for him, or if it is paid before any statement is made, then he becomes entitled to a refund of it upon a proper showing in another clause of the bill. Of course, you can not have an income-tax law upon the principle of deduction at the source without throwing some extra burdens upon the people who pay the tax and have the people make a statement to the other people as to what they have done. To that extent the complaint is just, but it is unavoidable. ----- 2 ------ Mr. WARREN. I think I see in this explanation of the Senator a good deal of delay and a good deal of expense. Is the Senator quite sure that the subcommittee has exhausted all its resources in reducing that to a plainer mode of handling? Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes. Mr. WARREN. Because if everyone must wait until the proper proof is presented and all these records are to be made. I can see that on a 4 per cent bond or a 3 1/2 or 5 per cent bond a very large percentage is going to come out of the income, and it goes not into the Government's hands, but into expenses. Mr. WILLIAMS. I was trying to find the provision here. I can not lay my hand upon it right now, but when we do get to it I will explain it fully to the Senator. I should like to read it now. Mr. WARREN. I hope the Senator may, before the bill passes, give it further consideration. Mr. WILLIAMS. That matter has had our full consideration. We had hearings upon it which lasted quite awhile. It gave me personally a good deal of trouble and embarrassment, and it did to the committee. Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. President, I appreciate the difficulty in which the Senator from Mississippi finds himself in framing what would be entirely satisfactory to those interested in the trustee, and I think he is entirely correct in saying that in many of these things a workable or more perfected form of the law will not be had until we have tried it a while. I am not disposed to be at all critical in the matter. Mr. WILLIAMS. Just one word. The Senator from Wyoming will find what I was referring to is in paragraph D of this section. Mr. WARREN. I understand. Mr. WILLIAMS. It begins on page 172, at line 17. I think if the Senator will read that entire paragraph he will find the matter about as well taken care of as is possible with the limited ability of anybody to entirely avoid the absolute impossibility of throwing some extra labor upon those who must make the statements in order to pay at the source. Mr. WARREN. I notice with pleasure this change from the original bill, but I hope the Senator will again still further elucidate it. Mr. SHERIDAN. Mr. President, the discussion originally began on the amendment offered by the Senator from South Dakota [Mr. CRAWFORD], as I remember. I wish to recur to that for a brief moment. The criticism in the application of the principle embodied in that amendment is that it taxes the thrifty and exempts the prodigal. The same criticism I am aware, and I know it is one of the difficulties, would apply to the savings of any active person. If the savings be out of property income there would be at the end of the year a surplus derived from that income, and that in turn invested would become principal; the principal would produce in turn income, and so on, indefinitely. The earnings of any person from any occupation or profession would, if not spent in like manner, become principal. If by professional effort any person should earn a given sum annually and he spends half of it, he saves the other half. The half so saved in turn becomes principal. That principal is property. The savings from the income by professional effort or by any form of skilled labor or unskilled by hand becomes property. At the end of any given period that saving is a principal, and any income derived from it is an income from property, not an income from the earning capacity or the personal ability of the taxpayer in question. So, in every instance it comes finally to the same result. I can see no criticism in the application of the principle embodied in this amendment because of that reason. I believe in the classification that we have to make it is a just classification to distinguish between those who have incomes from fixed investments of property and those who have incomes from earning capacity. That is the point involved in the amendment offered by the Senator from South Dakota. That distinguishing difference consists in the source of the income. The one is a stable, fixed investment in the form of property, either in the form of credits or in the form of tangible property, either merchandise or realty, or any of the different forms that personalty assumes. Those investments that produce an income from a property source I think are properly to be distinguished from those arising from the earning capacity of the individual. A public officer, an employee, one who earns by professional ability, an architect, a musician, a lawyer, a doctor of divinity, a doctor of medicine, all are earning because of their personal ability. I think the distinguishing line is as indicated in the amendment. When there is a perfect Government tax rate it will be very low or reduced to a point where none of us will complain. Every taxpayer is an involuntary victim of the necessities of 1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4263 government. That will continue until the time when government has become so perfected that a large portion of our expenses will be rendered unnecessary. That is a good ways off. We will have to perfect human nature, and that is so far away that it is purely an academic question. Here are the percentages on the estimates made by the report of the Senate Committee on Finance. If postal receipts be excluded, it is some $716,000,000 at present on the estimate and on the actual collection of revenue. The greater part of the Government income is from internal revenue and is in the nature of a direct tax, because it operates directly to increase the cost of the commodity. The internal revenue on this estimate will be 41 per cent of the total income for the fiscal year ending the 30th day of June, 1914. Our customs duties will be 37 per cent, our income-tax revenue will be not quite 10 per cent. The corporation tax will be 5 per cent. Our income from the sales of public lands and from miscellaneous sources of all kinds constitute the other 7 per cent, making a total of 100 per cent, aggregating about $716,000,000. The rest of the $996,810,000 of the governmental income of the next fiscal year consists of $280,000,000 estimated postal receipts. So under this proposed plan of taxation there are now on the estimate barely 10 per cent to be raised by an income tax. That is a very small part. I think yo might justly increase within certain limits of the classification the taxes to be levied, and you might decrease appropriately the income derived entirely form the earning capacity or, in other words, the personal efforts of the ability and industry of those who earn the income. Mr. WILLIAMS. Now, Mr. President, let us go on with the bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The reading will proceed. The SECRETARY. The bill has been read down to the middle of line 13, on page 167, where the committee proposes the following amendment. On page 167, line 13, before the word "bequest," to insert the word "gift," so as to read: B. That, subject only to such exemptions and deductions as are hereinafter allowed, the net income of a taxable person shall include gains, profits, and income derived from salaries, wages, or compensation for personal service of whatever kind and in whatever form paid, or from professions, vocations, businesses, trade, commerce, or sales or dealings in property, whether real or personal, growing out of the ownership or use of or interest in real or personal property, also from interest, rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any lawful business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever, including the income from but not the value of property acquired by gift, bequest, devise, or descent. The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was, on page 167, line 18, after the word "contract," to insert "or upon surrender of the contract," so as to make the proviso read: Provided, That the proceeds of life insurance policies paid upon the death of the person insured or payments made by or credited to the insured, on life insurance, endowment, or annuity contracts, upon the return thereof to the insured at the maturity of the term mentioned in the contract, or upon surrender of the contract, shall not be included as income. Mr. CUMMINS. Mr. President, before we go further with the bill I want to make a suggestion to the Senator from Mississippi [Mr. WILLIAMS]. I make it through the medium of an amendment, which I now propose. I move that all that part of paragraph marked "B," under subdivision 2, on page 167, down to and including the word "descent," in line 13, be stricken out. I want the Senator from Mississippi, the committee, and indeed all the Senators on the other side of the Chamber to understand that I offer this amendment in a friendly spirit. I am quite as much in favor of the income tax as any of them can possibly be. It ought not to be forgotten, however---and I am now speaking to the lawyers on the other side; I want to make a lawyer's argument and not to raise at this moment any question of policy---that the authority of the Congress of the United States with regard to this subject is not unlimited. Our power is not like the power which Great Britain exercises over the subject. It is not like the power which the several States exercise over the subject. It is a power granted in article 16 of the Constitution, and I will read it: Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. Our authority is to levy a tax upon incomes. I take it that every lawyer will agree with me in the conclusion that we can not levy under this amendment a tax upon anything but an income. I assume that every lawyer will agree with me that we can not legislatively interpret the meaning of the word "income." That is purely a judicial matter. We can not enlarge the meaning of the word "income." We need not levy No. 99-----3 our tax upon the entre income. We may levy it upon part of an income, but we can not levy it upon anything but an income; and what is an income must be determined by the courts of the country when the question is submitted to them. I think there can be no controversy with regard to those propositions. I am very anxious that when this bill shall have passed it may be effective, that its operation may not be suspended or delayed through a resort to legal tribunals. Mr. FLETCHER. Mr. President----- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Iowa yield to the Senator from Florida? Mr. CUMMINS. I yield to the Senator. Mr. FLETCHER. I should like to inquire whether the Senator means to state that Congress can not by statute define what shall be regarded as an income tax? Mr. CUMMINS. I do not think so, Mr. President. The word "income" had a well-defined meaning before the amendment of the Constitution was adopted. It has been defined in all the courts of this country. When the people of the country granted to Congress the right to levy a tax on incomes, that right was granted with reference to the legal meaning and interpretation of the word "income" in legal procedure. If we could call anything income that we pleased, we could obliterate all the distinction between income and principal. Whenever this law comes to be tested in the courts of the country, it will be found that the courts will undertake to declare whether the thing upon which we levy the tax is income or whether it is something else, and therefore we ought to be in the highest degree careful in endeavoring to interpret the Constitution through a statutory enactment. Now, let us see. Subdivision 1 says: That there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid annually upon the entire net income--- And so forth. That is a declaration which is fair, which is constitutional, which is complete. If we wanted to do it, we could levy a tax upon the gross income. The bill chooses to levy the tax upon the net income; and that is entirely within our power, because, as I said before, we can diminish the operation of the Constitution; that is to say, we need not levy the tax upon the entire income; but we can not enlarge the operation of the Constitution and levy a tax upon anything but income. Therefore, it seems to me that the bill ought to continue throughout its length in the language with which it begins, namely, that we levy a tax upon the entire net income of the citizen of the United States who fall within the provisions of the bill. With these observations in view, I want to read that part of the bill which my amendment seeks to eliminate, on page 167. It is as follows: B. That, subject only to such exemptions and deductions as are hereinafter allowed, the net income of a taxable person shall include gains, profits, and income derived from salaries, wages, or compensation for personal service of whatever kind and in whatever form paid, or from professions, vocations, businesses, trade, commerce, or sales or dealings in property, whether real or personal, growing out of the ownership or use of or interest in real or personal property, also from interest, rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any lawful business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever, including the income from but not the value of property acquired by gift, bequest, devise, or descent. Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, I want to offer an amendment at that point to cure a defect. After the word "sales," in line 6, there ought to be a comma. Mr. CUMMINS. I do not, of course, found my amendment upon any omission of that kind. Mr. WILLIAMS. I merely want first to perfect the language, if there is no objection. Mr. BRANDEGEE. Right at that point---if the Senator from Iowa will pardon me---if the Senator from Mississippi inserts a comma after the word "sales," he does not intend---- Mr. WILLIAMS. It reads, "business, trade, commerce, or sales"---- Mr. BRANDEGEE. It reads "sales or dealings in property." Mr. WILLIAMS. It refers to profits derived from any sort of sales---profits derived from "sales or dealings in property." Mr. BRANDEGEE. Why have the words "in property" after "dealings" and not after "sales"? Mr. CUMMINS. Mr. President, I hope the amendment suggested by the Senator from Mississippi will be allowed without any controversy, because my amendment is not involved nor does it concern that correction. The VICE PRESIDENT. By unanimous consent, then, the amendment proposed by the Senator from Mississippi will be agreed to. Mr. CUMMINS. It will be observed that here is an attempt Mr. President, to define the meaning of the word "income," to 4264 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. AUGUST 28, describe its scope, to determine its effect. I reiterate that the attempt will be ineffective and may be exceedingly dangerous. Great Britain might employ such words as these in modificaiton or explanation or enlargement of the word "income," because Great Britain has no constitutional restriction upon her Parliament. A state might use these words with perfect property, because a State has a right to include whatever she likes within the meaning of the word "income"; but the Congress has no right to employ them, because the Congress can not affect the meaning of the word "income" by any legislation whatsoever. The people who have granted us the power to levy a tax on incomes, and it will always be a judicial question as to whether a particular thing is income or whether it is principal. Mr. LEWIS. Mr. President, knowing the Senator from Iowa to be an excellent lawyer, will he give me his views on this point: Does the Senator contend that the word "income," therefore, as stated in the Constitution, must be construed to mean what it meant and was understood to mean at the date of its adoption as part of the Constitution? Mr. CUMMINS. I do not so say. What I have said is, however, that it is not for Congress to interpret what it means; it is for the courts of the country to say, either at this time or at any other time, what it means. If it were within the power of Congress to enlarge the meaning of the word "income," it could, as I suggested a moment ago, obliterate all difference between income and principal, and obviously the people of this country did not intend to give to Congress the power to levy a direct tax upon all the property of this country without apportionment. Mr. LEWIS. Then, assuming that the matter would have to be determined finally by the court, which concession we all must make, would the SEnator's legal mind revert to the theory that the court, then, would have a right to define the word "income" to mean whatever was understood judicially by "income" at the date of the adoption of this act? Mr. CUMMINS. i do not accept that at all, because it is entirely beyond the domain of Congress. In 1789, I believe, the people of this country gave Congress the power to regulate commerce among the States. It is not within the power of Congress to say what commerce is. "Commerce" may mean a very different thing now as compared with that it meant in 1789; it has broadened with the times; the instrumentalities have changed with the course of years; but Congress can not make a thing commerce. The court must declare whether a particular regulation is a regulation of commerce, and in so declaring it defines for the time being what commerce is. Why, Mr. President, should Congress attempt to do more than is declared in the first section of the proposed bill? It is right; it is comprehensible; it embraces everything-no, I will withdraw that; it does not embrace the full power of Congress, because Congress can levy a tax upon gross incomes if it likes; it may diminish the extent of its taxing power or not exercise it all; it may exclude certain things from the taxing power that it might include; but it can not change the character of the taxation; and when it is declared in the first lines of this bill that a tax is levied upon the entire net income of all the citizens of this country, we have exercises all th power we have. If we desire to limit ourselves to net income, we can not define "net income"; we can not say what shall be included in income and what shall not be included in income. We are only preparing ourselves for deli, for disappointment, and possible defeat if we endeavor to interpret the meaning of the word "income." Mr. SHIVELY. Mr. President- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Chilton in the chair). Does the Senator from Iowa yield to the Senator from Indiana? Mr. CUMMINS. I do. Mr. SHIVEY. I can readily agree with the Senator that the courts will finally give a definition of "income"; but that does not prevent Congress from limiting the application of the word in legislation. Mr. CUMMINS. Not at all. I have so said. Mr. SHIVELY. If the Senators will observe the words 'Except as hereinafter provided" in the first subdivision of this section- Mr. CUMMINS. I have not sought to strike out any part of the limitations save the gift, devise, bequest, or descent, and I do not think there is any man in America, were it not for what precedes those words, who would contend or could contend taht a gift or devise or bequest of property or property coming to one by descent is income. I never heard of it being so construed, and it is not possible that it could be so construed. It would not have been put in there were it not for the attempted enlargement of the word "income" contained in the previous part of the paragraph. Mr. WILLIAMS. How does the Senator thing that is an attempt to enlarge it? Tell us specifically to what words the Senator refers. Mr. CUMMINS. Mr. President, if it has not that effect, or attempted effect, it can have none. It is certainly not an attempt to limit or to restrict the meaning of the word "income"; and if it has not the effect or if it is not thought or if it was not in the mind of the person who drew it to enlarge the meaning of the word "income," then the draftsman of the bill has offended against the first principles of the legislation by incorporating language that is absolutely meaningless. Mr. WILLIAMS. Now, if the Senator will pardon me a moment- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Iowa yield to the Senator from Mississippi? Mr. CUMMINS. I do. Mr. WILLIAMS. It was not the intent there to enlarge or to stretch the meaning of the words "net income," which is the income referred to here, and not gross income at all. Mr. CUMMINS. I have not said it was gross income. Mr. WILLIAMS. The Congress in undertaking to specify what it proposes to tax does undertake neither to enlarge nor to restrict the meaning of the words "net income," but to define their meaning for the purposes of this bill, for the purposes of this taxation. It may be that a court might come to the conclusion that Congress had wrongfully defined the term. If so, the court will correct the definition, and if the court corrects the definition, then this bill will be to that extent altered or changed; but the contention is that this is a correct definition of the articles which, under a bill seeking to tax net incomes, will be taxed. The question I asked the Senator was in what respect he thinks that this definition enlarges the meaning of the words "net income" or restricts them, either? Mr. CUMMINS. Mr. President, as I remarked before, if these words qualifying, modifying, and explanatory are not intended either to enlarge or to restrict, they are entirely useless, I think, however, with deference- Mr. WILLIAMS. Does the Senator think it is useless in a tax bill to try to define the thing you propose to tax? Mr. CUMMINS. Mr. President, I do think in this instance that it is worse than useless; I think it is dangerous, and I will proceed to show why. Mr. SIMMONS. Mr. President- The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Iowa yield to the Senator from North Carolina? Mr. CUMMINS. I do. Mr. SIMMONS. I readily agree with the Senator in his contention that we have no authority to tax anything except income, and I readily agree with him that, in the last analysis, the court must decide what is income and what is not income; but before the court can get jurisdiction of that question, there must be a levy; there must be an assessment; there must be an attempt to collect. I can see no other way in which the court could possibly acquire jurisdiction. So that before the matter can ever reach the court there must be some one who will decide the question of what is "income." Mr. WILLIAMS. And describe the property to be levied upon. Mr. SIMMONS. And, as the Senator from Mississippi very properly says, describe the property to be levied upon. The Senator from Iowa says, as I understand him, that it is not competent for the Congress to define what is income and what is not income. Then, the only conclusion form the Senator's argument is that we ought simply to levy a tax against incomes and stop. Suppose we should do that, who then can decide the question of what is income and what is not income, seeing that the question must be decided before the court can acquire the jurisdiction to determine the question of whether or not the thing taxed is income? Are we to leave it to the officers of the taxing branch of the Government to determine what is income? Are we ourselves to hold that we have not the authority to define the word, but that the officer of the law has the authority to define and determine it? It seems to me that is what the Senator's arguemnt would lead to. I may be mistaken about that; he may have some way in his mind by which we could reach a determination of what is income otherwise that through the definition of Congress or through the decision of the officer of the law, but I can not myself see how we would select the things upon which this tax is to operate except through a definition of the word "income" by Congress, or a definition of the meaning of that word by some subordinate officer of the law. Mr. CUMMINS. Mr. President, the difficulty with the Senator from North Carolina is that he does not distinguish between a requirement in the law for a return to an administrative officer of the various matters included within this paragraph and a declaration that the income shall include these things. Mr. SIMMONS. Yes; I do. The Senator is mistaken.1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4265 Mr. CUMMINS. Mr. President, there is a very great difference. I agree with the Senator from North Carolina that it is quite within the province of Congress to require the citizen to make a return, including his gains and profits and income from his sales and dealings of all kinds. That is entirely within our power; but it is not within our power to declare that these things shall be included in the income MR. SIMMONS. The Senator is mistaken when he says I have not considered that. I have considered that as the third alternative. If Congress has not the power to decide, if the officers of the law charged with enforcement of the law have not the power to determine, then the only other person who could have the power is the man who is to pay the tax. Would not the Senator's position, therefore, force him into the attitude of maintaining that the proper person, in the first instance, to determine what is income and what is not income is the man who pays the tax, and, next, the court? Mr. CUMMINS. I do not think so, Mr. President, nor do I think my suggestion leads to that result. I have no doubt about the power of Congress in requiring those who are to make return to include their gains and profits and their dealings of all kinds, and from that return I have no doubt that it is within our power to give to the taxing officer the right to discover the amount of the net income, and, if his judgment be wrong, the taxpayer can question it, and finally the court must determine it. That is not what is sought to be done in this paragraph. We are attempting to define what "net income" is and of what it is composed, and what we may lawfully tax. But I want to read now what this means– Mr. SIMMONS. Before the Senator leaves that point, does not the Senator think that it would be a great deal better for us, in the first instance, to indicate as best we can what the legislative judgment is as to what constitutes "income" and require the taxpayer to account for his income upon all of those particular things? If we make a mistake and include in our designation of what is "income" something which is not income, but is property, then, of course, the court would come in and settle that controversy. Does not the Senator think that is better than to leave it to the taxpayer to determine in the first instance what is "income," and then leave it to the officer to correct him if he should make an error, and bring it to court in that way? Mr. CUMMINS. Mr. President, I do not think it is better. There is just this difference between the two courses: The course suggested by the Senator from North Carolina will end, if Congress makes a mistake, in the declaration that the law is unconstitutional and of no effect. Mr. SIMMONS. Why, Mr. President– Mr. CUMMINS. Just a moment. The other course will end in a correction of the report of the individual taxpayer, and the law will continue to be enforced according to the Constitution. Mr. STERLING. Mr. President– The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Iowa yield to the Senator from North Dakota? Mr. CUMMINS. I do. Mr. STERLING. I should like to ask the Senator from Iowa if the courts, in construing the word "income," would not take into consideration the usual and ordinary signification of that word? Mr. CUMMINS. I have no doubt of that, Mr. President. Mr. STERLING. And the court would have recourse to a standard dictionary, would it not, in construing that word? Mr. CUMMINS. Unquestionably; and not only so, but to the common acceptation of the word and to the judicial opinions, of which there have been very many, in which the word has been considered. Mr. STERLING. If in the definition of the word "income" as given in a standard dictionary the words "gains and profits" are also given as synonymous with the term "income" would there be anything wrong in the use of those words in the section to which the Senator refers? Mr. CUMMINS. I do not think there would be, although they would be wholly unnecessary. But, of course, the point I make has no reference to the use of the words "gains and profits." Mr. CHILTON. Mr. President, will the Senator allow me? The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Iowa yield to the Senator from West Virginia? Mr. CUMMINS. I do. Mr. CHILTON. I agree with the Senator that the Congress can not add to nor take from the word "income"; but it seems to me the Senator has done injustice to the very language of the bill. Mr. CUMMINS. I have not pointed out my objection to the clause I am seeking to strike out, for I have not been permitted to advance that far. Mr. CHILTON. Well, so far as the Senator has gone. Let me offer this suggestion: On page 167, beginning in line 3, it is provided that the "income derived from salaries, wages," and so forth, shall be included. It has to be income before it can be taxed, no matter how it is derived. We could say that only income from salaries or income from property or income from interest should be taxed. We have simply mentioned certain things; but they must be income before they can be taxed. We use the very language of the Constitution. Mr. CUMMINS. Of course, if that be true, Mr. President, then it is simply saying in another way that these words are entirely meaningless and useless; and I have never favored the introduction of words that can have no other effect than to confuse, even though they have no material bearing. The Senator from West Virginia [Mr. CHILTON], however, is not, as I view it, quite accurate when he says that "income" as used in this paragraph necessarily means such income as gains and profits, in view of what is subsequently found in the paragraph. Now, allow me to read a little further: Or from professions, vocations, businesses, trade, commerce, or sales or dealings in property, whether real or personal, growing out of the ownership or use of or interest in real or personal property. I was led to offer this amendment largely on account of a colloquy I had with the Senator from Mississippi [Mr. WILLIAMS] the other day, who seems to have become indifferent and who does not regard the matter as worthy of his attention or presence. I recall, however, the Senate to the colloquy that I mentioned a moment ago. I asked this question: The Senator from Mississippi must certainly understand what I am trying to say. If applied to a general business, in which purchases and sales take place and gains and profits are reckoned, I can very well understand that the Senator from Mississippi is right, under the language of this bill. But suppose 10 years ago I had bought a horse for $900, and this year I had sold him for $1,000, what would I do in the way of making a return? Mr. WILLIAMS. I will tell the Senator precisely what he would do. Mr. CUMMINS. I mean, what would other men do? Mr. WILLIAMS. I know; but what I mean is precisely what the Senator would do, or precisely what he ought to do. He bought the horse 10 years ago and sold him this year for a thousand dollars. That thousand dollars is a part of the Senator's receipts for this year, and being a part of his receipts, that much will go in as part of his receipts, and from it would be deducted his disbursements and his exemptions and various other things. Mr. CUMMINS. Would the price I paid for the horse originally be deducted? Mr. WILLIAMS. No; because it was not a part of the transactions in that year; but if the Senator turned around and bought another horse that year, it would be deducted. Mr. CUMMINS. Mr. President, the answer of the Senator from Mississippi has disclosed very clearly the weakness that I have been attempting to point out. I am not quite sure, Mr. President, and I do not assert, that these modifying, qualifying, and explaining phrases will render the effort of Congress unavailing. I do not assert that they must necessarily be construed as unconstitutional. I do assert, however, that we are putting the law in a jeopardy which may easily be avoided. If the answer made by the Senator from Mississippi to the question I propounded day before yesterday is correct, then the law is unconstitutional. Then there is an effort here to convert what is obviously principal into income, and it was because the distinguished Senator from Mississippi held that view of the paragraph that i introduced the amendment that is now pending. I do not intend to continue the argument further. I will only say that I believe the words that are used here can perform no useful function. I believe that in describing what is to be taxed the words "net income" are as comprehensive and as complete as any words that can be found in the English language, and therefore that we ought not to imperil or hazard the bill by attempting to emphasize them or to explain them or to enlarge them. If the Senate will return to the paragraph immediately before this– and it is typical of two other provisions in the bill, I think– it will be seen that there is an effort to declare that undivided profits in a corporation shall be reckoned as income of the shareholders. In my opinion that can not be accomplished in any such way. The undivided profits are not the property of the shareholder, from a legal standpoint. Although he may be in part the equitable owner of all the property of the corporation, he is no more the equitable owner of the undivided profits than he is the equitable owner of a share in all the property of the corporation. I agree that there ought to be some way of reaching these undivided profits; but just so surely as you attempt here to broaden the meaning of the word "income" so as to make it include property that belongs to a corporation which it might distribute to its shareholders but4266 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. AUGUST 28, which it has not distributed, you will imperil the bill and meet disaster when you come to enforce it. I pass now from the legal question to another subject that is closely associated with it, and I reach a question of policy. I come to the part of the committee amendment on page 169. I grant that here we are within the field of complete authority, so far as Congress is concerned. Congress can deduct from an income, in order to reach a taxable part of the income, anything it pleases. It can deduct a quarter of it, or it can deduct a half of it, or it can deduct all of it. This, therefore, does not relate to the constitutional authority of Congress. I read from the committee amendment: That in, computing net income for the purpose of the normal tax there shall be allowed as deductions: First, the necessary expenses actually paid in carrying on any business, not including personal, living, or family expenses. I have no objection to that, although I think there will be vast difference of opinion in regard to the construction or meaning of the word "personal." Second, all interest paid within the year by a taxable person on indebtedness. I have objection to that. This whole paragraph is framed upon the idea that the capital of the individual must be protected intact, must be preserved; that he can use any part of the income he likes for the repair of the capital with which he entered the year and have it deducted from the income. The principle is wrong. It ought not to be in any income-tax law. It is not a part of the purpose of an income-tax law to guarantee that the capital shall be maintained. If the capital is lost, there will be a diminished income the following year upon which to levy the tax; but the taxable income should not be depleted by withdrawing from it a sum sufficient to maintain the capital, unless the income arose out of a business in which the capital was employed. Third, all national, State, county, school and municipal taxes paid within the year, not including those assessed against local benefits. There can be no objection at all to that deduction. Fourth, losses actually sustained during the year, incurred in trade or arising from fires, storms, or shipwreck, and not compensated for by insurance or otherwise. This deduction is partly right and partly wrong---partly so wrong that it is utterly indefensible. Suppose I earned $20,000 a year in the practice of my profession, and during the same year I speculated upon the Board of Trade in Chicago and lost $20,000. I would not be taxable at all under this provision. Mr. WILLIAMS. How does the Senator arrive at that conclusion? Mr. CUMMINS. Simply because I have lost $20,000 in trade, and it would not be compensated for by insurance. Mr. WILLIAMS. Does the Senator call speculation in future trade? Mr. CUMMINS. Certainly it is trade. Why, the very organization through which it is carried on is called a board of trade. It is trade in the most literal sense of the word. Mr. WILLIAMS. It is no more trade than betting on a horse race. Mr. CUMMINS. I say it is trade. The Senator from Mississippi says it is not. But suppose I had bought 10,000 bushels of cats from a farmer and had lost $5,000 on it. That would be trade, would it not? I was not including the speculating or the gambling idea in the suggestion I made a moment ago. But it is trade as pure and simple as any other form of business; and yet because I had lost a part of my capital in doing a business that was entirely disconnected with the profession out of which I earned my income, I could use a part of my income to repair my capital and deduct it in my return. There is no equity in it. There is no reason in it. There is no principle in it. As it seems to me, we ought to confine losses in business or in trade to the losses in the business or the trade out of which the profit or the income is made; and we ought not to permit an income derived from one source to be used for the purpose of paying derived from one source to be used for the purpose of paying either debts or losses incurred in some entirely distinct business or trade. Mr. BRANDEGEE. Mr. President---- The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Iowa yield to the Senator from Connecticut? Mr. CUMMINS. I do. Mr. BRANDEGEE. I wish to ask the Senator whether, in his opinion, the profits of speculation would be a part of the income which should be taxed? Mr. CUMMINS. Undoubtedly; unquestionably. Mr. BRANDEGEE. Then why should not the losses incurred be deducted? Mr. CUMMINS. There is no more doubt about it than that two and two make four. I assume that the Senator from Mississippi was not serious in the comment he made. Mr. BRANDEGEE. My inquiry is, If the profits made from the speculation which the Senator from Mississippi thinks would not be trade would be a legitimate object of taxation as income, why would not the losses incurred in the same speculation be a legitimate deduction from income? Mr. CUMMINS. They should be if the business, being reckoned up at the end of the year, shows a profit. Then it becomes a part of the income and should be taxed. If it shows a loss, there would be no income arising from it, and it should not be taxed. But it is proposed here that if one is engaged in that sporadic business in which so many Americans are engaged, and in which so large a part of our incomes are dissipated, he can take the profit or the income he has from some other vocation or profession or trade and use that profit or income to make good his losses in the speculation or trade to which we have referred. Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President, if the Senator will permit me, departing form the argument as to the purchase of stocks in the market, how would it be if a man legitimately bought, say, railroad stocks? As an illustration, not long ago the stock of the Boston & Maine Railroad Co. was selling at over 200 a share. To-day it is selling at 63. Suppose a man bought a thousand shares of it at the former price; would the loss he sustained be a proper deduction? Mr. CUMMINS. Undoubtedly, if it could be called "in trade." The general purpose of this paragraph is to insure the capital of the person, so that at the end of the year the capital will be as great as it was at the beginning of the year. There are exceptions to that here; but that is the general idea of the paragraph, and it is a false idea in the preparation of an income-tax law. Mr. SHIVELY. If his losses were actually greater than his gains, there would be no net income. Mr. CUMMINS. Yes; that is true. That is, if a man had $100,000 of property at the beginning of the year and it was destroyed in some fashion or other, or if he embarked it in a venture of any kind and lost that property, even though he had an income of $100,000 from some other source, he could take the income from the other source and repair his losses of capital and have no income. That is the purpose of the paragraph. If you think that is right, you have expressed it very well. Mr. SHIVELY. Let us take the illustration the Senator has just used. Suppose he has $100,000, half of which is embarked in buying and selling grain and the other half in buying and selling live stock. Suppose in the grain business he loses $5,000 during the year and in the live-stock business he gains $5,000 during the year. Would the Senator say there was any net income? Mr. CUMMINS. I think there would not be. Mr. SHIVELY. Then I do not understand the objection of the Senator to this particular clause of the bill. Mr. CUMMINS. The objection is this: In the case just put by the Senator from Indiana, here is a business in which a man is engaged. At the end of the year it is to be ascertained whether there is any net profit growing out of the business. Of course all the losses are considered, all the gains are considered, and the result determines whether there is any income from the business. But I put the case again: Suppose I am not in business at all, but I have $100,000 a year coming to me from the rent of property. I take $100,000 and invest it in a mine in Utah, and during the year I reach the conclusion that the mine is not worth anything. I deduct the $100,000 form the $100,000 of rent I have received, and the result is that I am a man without an income. If that is the real purpose of the framers of the bill it is exceedingly well phrased. Mr. SHIVELY. You would be without a net income for that year, of course. Mr. CUMMINS. I did not suppose it was intended to do anything of the kind. In the case I have just put I did not suppose it was intended to guarantee a man's capital and to repair all the losses he might sustain in any venture into which he might enter. I do not believe that is a fair foundation for an income-tax law. Mr. SHIVELY. But, Mr. President----- Mr. CUMMINS. If the Senator will permit me to proceed just a little bit further, he will see the full scope of my views. Mr. SHIVELY. Very well. Mr. CUMMINS. We then come to debts.: Fifth, debts due to the taxpayer actually ascertained to be worthless and charged off within the year. 1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4267 Suppose 10 years ago a man had given me his note for $100,000. I had thought it to be good. I had carried it as a part of my principal, a part of my property. This year I have an income of $100,000 arising from the practice of the law or from rents or anything else. I discover this year that the man who made that note, who has had nothing to do with my income, who has not contributed in any way toward it, who is not in any way interested in the business out of which my income arises, has become bankrupt and that he never will pay the note. I am permitted by this bill to deduct $100,000 from my income, and again I am a man without an income, although I had just as much income as though the man had remained solvent. I have simply lost a part of my capital or property, and it is proposed here to repair that loss by deducting its amount from my income. I do not mean now, of course, that it is repaired in the sense of being made good, but it is repaired to the extend of not making me pay a tax upon the income. Mr. WILLIAMS. Will the Senator permit me to make a suggestion? Mr. CUMMINS. Certainly. Mr. WILLIAMS. A part of the Senator's confusion of thought grows out of the fact that he forgets that in all book-keeping there is a debit side and a credit side. A man would have counted among his credits this note that he thought was good, and that would go in as a part of his gross income. Now, mind you, I say "gross income." Then he ascertains that it is worthless, and this provision permits him to charge it off and deduct it; that is all. It is just like the Senator's horse illustration the other day, which proceeded upon the idea that a man did not keep any books, and that, when he got a thousand dollars for a horse, in rendering his return for the receipts of $1,000 he did not also debit himself with the fact that he had lost the horse. It was the profit involved in the horse trade that was taxable, not the total receipts for the horse. Here you are making a serious argument that we should not permit a man to strike off a worthless note after he has made return of all his bills payable as part of his income, or the things that constitute a part of his income. You are really altogether losing sight of the fact that there is another side to the ledger. Mr. CUMMINS. No, Mr. President; I am not. I am not in the least confused about bookkeeping. Mr. WILLIAMS. Any man would have a right to strike off that note if he had put it on the other side of the ledger. Mr. CUMMINS. Of course profits do not consist in the difference between the amount of assets and the amount of liabilities. A man might have $100,000 of assets and but $10,000 of liabilities, and not have any income at all. The Senator from Mississippi apparently forgets the way in which people arrive at their profits or their losses. Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President, I had supposed, from a casual reading of the bill, that the loss had to be sustained during the year; but I infer from what the Senator says that it may date back. Mr. CUMMINS. Oh, it may date back indefinitely. Mr. GALLINGER. As an illustration, a man abandons his profession, as I abandoned mine, and turned over my books to a collector, and he reports to me during the next year that he find $6,000 uncollectible. Would that enable me to come here and say that I had sustained that loss under the terms of the bill? Mr. CUMMINS. Certainly. Mr. GALLINGER. I think that is extraordinary. Mr. CUMMINS. The difficulty is, if I may again remind the Senator from Mississippi about bookkeeping, that this provision has in view men who are carrying on a business such as merchandising or banking or manufacturing. Those are the conditions which are really covered, and accurately covered. I have not a word of objection to the bill as it relates to such enterprises. But when you come to apply the bill to nine men out of ten who will be called upon to pay a tax under it, it is not accurately adjusted to their affairs, nor is it expressed so as to do justice to their affairs. When you come to profits and losses and incomes, you can not group all the individuals of this country under one rule. You must make some allowance for the differences which exist in the way in which they earn their incomes and in the way in which they expend their incomes. I proceed one step further: Sixth. A reasonable allowance for the exhaustion, wear, and tear of property arising out of its use or employment in the business. That is another effort, of course, to maintain the capital intact; but see what endless difficulty you will confront in its administration. A farmer in my own State, we will say, has an income of more than $3,000. In making up his account he must determine, if he can, to what degree the soil which he is cultivating has been exhausted, and somebody will have to make him an allowance for the depreciation caused by the exhaustion of the soil. That is true with regard to every kind of property. While there is a certain justice in doing that and it will be done among concerns which do keep an account of depreciation, and which do charge up every year a fair percentage of depreciation, and in that way reach the amount of their profits, so that they will have no difficulty about it, the ordinary man will find it impossible to apply this clause to his affairs. There ought to be a better considered provision to take care of the great multitude of the people, nine-tenths of the people who must pay and will pay the tax under this bill when it becomes a law. Of course, as to mines a maximum of depreciation has been fixed. I have no objection at all to that. But I could stand here and mention a hundred instances of depreciation which it will be mention a hundred instances of depreciation which it will be utterly impossible to ascertain or apply under this provision. I say this without the least feeling against the provision. I would vote for it just as it is if I had to, and it were separated from the rest of the bill, so strongly am I in favor of levying duties upon incomes. But when we are beginning this system it seems to me we ought to begin it in the best possible way. I shall have something more to say at a later time with regard to the latter part of this paragraph when we come to consider the payment of the tax at its source. I am in favor of that principle; but there are a great many things here that it seems to me will make the bill utterly unworkable, and instead of simplifying the collection of the tax they will complicate it, and possibly entirely defeat it. There is one thing in regard to this provision that I might as well say while I am on my feet, and it constitutes the real fundamental defect in the bill, so far as principle is concerned. I will point it out now, and at a later time I will point it out again. The bill provides, substantially, that those who have incomes of less than $3,000 shall not pay a tax. I am satisfied at the present time with that limit, and I would not vote to reduce it at this time. But there is incorporated here a provision for taxing the earnings of corporations. I have no objection to that, but the men and women in this country who have an income of less than $3,000 a year and who derive all of it or a part of it form the dividends of corporations which are taxed are compelled to pay the income tax exactly as though they had an income of more than $3,000 a year and who derive all of it or a part of it form the dividends of corporations which are taxed are compelled to pay the income tax exactly as though they had an income of more than $3,000 a year. It is unjust, it is unequal, and it ought in some way to be remedied. We have assumed here that a man might well take his first $3,000 and use it for the general purposes of life, for the training and education both of himself and family; but with respect to every one of them who derive a part of their income or all of it form the dividends of corporations they are compelled to pay this tax, are they not? Mr. WILLIAMS. How are they compelled to pay it? Mr. CUMMINS. They are compelled to pay it because the corporation pays the tax on the entire income of the corporation, and that reduces the dividends paid to these people by just the amount paid in the way of the income tax. Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, the Senator's answer to my question has disclosed what I wanted to bring out. In other words, instead of meaning that the bill taxes those people, he means that the corporations are able to shift their tax. Mr. CUMMINS. So they are. Mr. WILLAIMS. I should like to know if there is a tax in the world, except a poll tax, that cannot be shifted. Mr. CUMMINS. The Senator from Mississippi has misunderstood me. of course, the corporation very often passes on its entire tax. That unfortunately is true. I do not know of any way in which to prevent it. I am not complaining at this moment of the tax that is passed on. I am complaining of this. As an illustration, suppose I stand with an income of less than $3,000. It is the policy of this bill that my income shall not be diminished by a tax levied by the General Government. If I have that income as an employee of the corporation, it goes free. It is not affected by any tax levied upon the property of the corporation. I get my pay and I am permitted to spend it in the way that seems to me wise. Now, suppose that I have an income of $2,900 form the same corporation, derived as dividends on stocks that I hold in the corporation, the 1 per cent less than I would have received if the tax had not been levied. Mr. WILLIAMS. It is taken form the dividends by whom? Mr. CUMMINS. It is taken from the dividends necessarily by the corporation. It is first taken form the corporation y the Government. Here is $100,000-4268 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. AUGUST 28, Mr. WILLIAMS. That is just what I said a moment ago. The corporation shifts the tax. Mr. CUMMINS. No: here is $100,000 which the corporation has earned and is applicable to the payment of dividends. We will suppose that it is the entire net income of the corporation. It is to be distributed among its stockholders, but before it is distributed 1 per cent is deducted and paid to the Government of the United States, and therefore 1 per cent less then would have been paid to me is paid to me, It is all that I am entitled to. Now, I make no objection to the payment on the part of the corporation, but I do say we ought to provide some way in which the man who has an income of less than $3,000 should not bear that tax. Mr. WILLIAMS. How can you do that? Mr. CUMMINS. There are two or three ways in which it can be done. It can be done either through segregation by the corporation under proper provisions, or it can be done by adding to the bill a paragraph that, in the case of every man whose income is derived in whole or in part from the dividends of a taxed corporation and is less than $3,000, upon application to the Government the Government will reimburse him for the deinction that has been made from his part of the earnings of the corporation. It can be done in either of those ways, and will be if justice prevails. tut I had not intended to enter upon that subject. I have it very much at heart, and when we reach that part of the bill I intend, if I can, to offer an amendment that will set forth my views with regard to that particular matter. Mr. SUTHERLAND. Before the Senator leaves the matter of a cerporation tax, I wish to say that I think perhaps most of the States in the Union in one form or another impose a tax upon corporations as such. It is not always measured by the inceme. Sometimes it is measured by the amount of the capital stock. It is measured in various ways; but it is a special tax upon the corporation, because it is recognized that the right to do business in corporate form is a very valuable right and that it is more beneficial to the stockholder in the great majority of cases to have an investment in corporate form than it is to have it in some individual form. New, I ask the Senator whether or not a tax of this kind, although it is imposed by the General Government, can not be justified upon the same theory that it is a tax upon the franchise of the corporation, upon the right of the stockholders to do business in a corporate form, which is a valuable right. Mr. CUMMINS. I am not complaining of the tax upon the corporation; I have always thought there was a better way of reaching that result; but I am not concerning myself about it now. I want to remind the Senator from Utah that we establish a policy here that the men who get less than $3,000 ought not to pay any part of this income tax either nominally or actutliy. That proceeds upon the theory that they can make better use of their incomes than to pay the expenses of the Government of the United States. Now, it does not make any differ- ence whether the incomes are derived from the stocks of corporations or whether they are derived from salaries from corporations, the men who get the money need the money just the same, Mr. SUTHERLAND. Mr. President, there is this difference: The man who derives an income from an investment in a corporation gets it with less effort than he does if he has to work for it. He has the advantage of having his money in a corporation which has certainly very valuable rights. For example, he has one of the most valuable rights, namely, that he can not be sued beyond the extent of his investment in the corporation. He can not be held responsible for the debts of the corporation as he could be if it were a partnership or in some other form of association. Mr. CUMMINS. I think that consideration does not enter the question I am discussing at all. Suppose one man gets $2,850, we will say, as dividends from a corporation. Another man gets $2,900 as rents from real estate. Out of the former there has been taken 1 per cent. Out of the latter there is taken nothing. I assume that the labor of receiving it is not much greater in one case than in the other. It matters not that the corporation may have a valuable franchise; however valuable it was, its dividends did not result in giving this particular man more than $3,000, and therefore he ought to be ab'e to hold his place among the untaxed. I have consumed much more time than I intended, Mr. President, and I apologize for it. I rose simply to suggest the desirability of removing from this paragraph some dangers “ which I think are in it and the removal of which would not weaken it in the slightest degree, but rather fortify it against assaults that may hereafter be made upon it. Mr. SUTHERLAND. Before the Senator takes his seat, he referred to another paragraph, and if I understand it I entirely agree with the Senator's position. It is the clause on page 169: Second, all interest paid within the year by a taxable person on indebtedness. If I understand that, it would result in this sort of a situation: Here is one man, for example, who has purchased a home. He has given a mortgage upon it for its price or a large part of it, and is paying, let us say, $1,0C0 in interest. Under this bill that would be deducted from his net income. But if his neighbor has rented a house, and instead of virtually paying what the first-named man does in the form of interest he pays directly $1,000 rent. He gets no deduction whatever, and yet the situation of the two is to all intents and purposes precisely the same. One has made a purchase and is paying interest which virtually amounts to rent. The other has not made a purchase, but pays the rent direct. One gets the exemption and the other does not. Mr. CUMMINS. I think the conclusion of the Senator from Utah is correct. It is simply another illustration of the fact that the bill was composed to meet the conditions of organized business, such as merchants and manufacturers, and is not well fitted to meet the situation as it actually exists. I do not intend to call for the yexs and nays upon my amendment. I know how futile it would be, and I have no desire to inconvenience the Senate. I offered it because I wanted to make my own position in the matter entirely clear. Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, I will ask for a vote. The VICE PRESIDENT. ‘The question is on agreeing to the ~ Sep proposed by the Senator from Iowa [Mr. Cum- MINS]. The amendment was rejected. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the amendment of the committee, on page 167, lines 18 and 19, inserting the words “or upon surrender of the contract.” The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment of the committee was, on page 167, after line 19, to strike out the following: That in computing net income for the purpose of the normal tax there shall be allowed as deductions the necessary expenses actuaily incurred in carrying on any business, not including personal, living, or family expenses; all interest accrued and payable within the year by a taxable person on indebtedness; all National, State, county, school, and municipal taxes accrued within the year, not including those assessed against local benefits; losses actually sustained during the year, incurred in trade or arising from fires, storms, or shipwreck, a rot compensated for by insurance or otherwise; debts actually ascertained to be worthless and charged off during the year; also a reasonable allowance for the exhaustion, wear and tear of property arising out of its use or employment in the business, but no deduction shall be made for any amount of expense of restoring property or making good the exhaustion thereof for which an allowance is or has made; no deduction shall be allowed for any amount paid out for new buildings, permanent improvements, or betterments, made to increase the value of any property or estate; the amount of income received or payable from any source at which the tax upon such income, which is or will become due, under the provisions of this section, has been withheld for payment at the source in the manner hereinafter provided, shall be deducted; but in all cases where the tax upon the annual gains. profits, and incomes of a person is required to withheld and paid at the source as hereinafter provided, if such annual income, except that derived from interest on corporate or United States indebtedness. does not exceed the rate of $4,000 per annum, or if the same is uncertain, indefinite, or ir lar in the amount or time during which it shall have accrued, and is not fixed or determinable, the same shall be included in estimating net annual income to be embraced in a personal return; also the amount received as dividends upon the stock, or from the net earnings of any corporation, joint- stock company, association, or insurance company which is taxable upon its net income as hereinafter provided shall be deducted. And in lieu thereof to insert: That in computing net income for the purpose of the normal tax there shall be allowed as deductions: First, the necessary expenses actually paint in carrying on any business, not including personal, living, or family expenses: second, all interest paid within the year by a taxable person in indebtedness; thirst, all national, State, country, school, and municipal taxes paid within the year, not including those assessed against local benefits; fourth, losses actually sustained during the year, incurred in trade or arising from the fires, storms, or shipwreck, and not compensated for by insurance or otherwise; fifth, debts due to the taxpayer actually ascertained to be worthless and charged off within the year; sixth, a reasonable allowance for the exhaustion, wear, and tear of property arising out of its use or employment in the gross value at the mine of the outpost for the year for which the computation is made: Provided, That no deduction shall be allowed for any amount paid out for new buildings, permanent improvements, or betterments made to increase the value of any property or estate; seventh, the amount received as dividends upon the stock or from the net earnings of any corporation, joint-stock company, association, or insurance company which is taxable upon its net income as hereinafter provided; eighth, the amount of income, the tax upon which has been paid or withheld from payment at the source under the provisions of this section: Provided, That whenever the tax upon the income of a person is required to be withheld and paid at the source as hereinafter required, if such annual income does not exceed the sum of $3,000 or is not fixed or certain or is indefinite or irregular as to amount or time of accrual, the same shall not be deduced in the personal return of such person. 1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4269 Mr. STERLING. Mr. President, I do not rise to propose any amendment, but simply to make a suggestion called out by a statement made by the Senator from Iowa [Mr. CUMMINS]. It is in regard to the exemptions on account of losses incurred in trade, and so forth. The question was raised as to whether it would include losses in speculation on a board of trade. I am inclined to think that under the definition of "trade" it would include losses thus sustained, and the question is whether we want to exempt losses thus incurred. I call the attention of the Senator from Mississippi simply to the definition of the word "trade," so that he will see how the proposition stands: Trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills, or in money; but it is chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, either by wholesale or retail. And so forth. It seems to me that under this very broad and comprehensive definition it might include trade on a board of trade and the exemption would pertain to a loss sustaine on a board of trade. If the language could be qualified by some such expression as "losses incurred in legitimate and ordinary trade pursued by the party," or equivalent words, it seems to me that it would be better than the broad expression used. Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, all net income comes from a comparison of receipts and losses. There can be no other way of arriving at a net income except by comparing gains and losses. If a man lost a certain amount of money during the year, no matter how he lost it, he ought not to be compelled to put it in as a part of what he still has. If two men bet upon a horse race, so far as that is concerned, during the year and one of them lost $100 and the other gained $100, the man who has the hundred dollars would have to take heed of it in computing his net income, and the man who lost it would take heed of the loss in computing his net income. So far as I can see, you can not arrive at net income except by taking what comes in and what goes out. Mr. STERLING. But, if the Senator will permit me– Mr. WILLIAMS. Allow me to add just this: I think this language would have been more easily understood if, instead of using the word "deductions" here, we had used what it really means, namely, that in computing net income for the purpose of the normal taxpayer he shall be allowed to return such and such things. I think that is where the confusion comes in, if I understand at what the Senator is aiming. Mr. STERLING. This is the way in which it occurred to me: Here is a man who, under the protection of the Government, has an enormous income for which he would be taxable under this proposed law, but he squanders all that income or more in speculation, in illegitimate trade on the board of trade. The question in my mind is whether he ought to have the privilege of deducting from his income the losses thus sustained. Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, a squandered income is no income. If it was squandered during the year of the computation, it does not make any difference how the man lost it. Take this sort of a case, for example: The Senator from South Dakota and the senior Senator from Iowa seem to be worried a good deal about the losses of a man in something else. The Senator from South Dakota seems to have the idea in his mind that if a man was both a farmer and a lawyer he ought to keep two separate income accounts, and that what he lost as a farmer ought not to be charged up against what he gained as a lawyer, or vice versa, as well as I could understand him; and he seems to be very much worried about a part of a man's capital, if it were lost, being permitted to be charged off. Now, take this sort of a case: I am practicing law, let us say, and I get $10,000 during the year from that practice, and during the same year I lose $5,000 in my agricultural pursuits. My net income, therefore, so far as that is concerned, is $5,000. Suppose that my house, which is worth $5,000, burned down; suppose the house burned by no fault of mine; that I Had no insurance upon it; and I take my $5,000 and pay it out during that identical year to build a new house. If all three of these things happen in the same year, I have no net income at all; nor ought I to be charged with any. Mr. STERLING. Mr. President, I grant that in the case supposed by the Senator from Mississippi he should not be charged with any net income, because his losses were sustained in a legitimate business– in a commendable business. But in the other case the loss has not been sustained in that kind of business at all; but, whether a man having earned $10,000 as a lawyer or as a physician, should be allowed to offset against or deduct from that income of $10,000 that which he has lost in speculation on a board of trade, is the question. Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, the object of this bill is to tax a man's net income; that is to say, what he has at the end of the year after deducting from his receipts his expenditures or losses. It is not to reform men's moral characters; that is not the object of the bill at all. The tax is not levied for the purpose of restraining people from betting on horse races or upon "futures," but the tax is framed for the purpose of making a man pay upon his net income, his actual profit during the year. The law does not care where he got it from, so far as the tax is concerned, although the law may very properly care in another way. Mr. STERLING. If the Senator will permit me, suppose a man has made $10,000 legitimately in a legitimate business or profession; the inspector or collector knows that; and a tax is levied because of that income, or it is attempted to be levied, and the man says "I lost $10,000 in a poker game," what then? Mr. WILLIAMS. Suppose, in other words, that at the time the computation of his tax takes place he has not a red cent of profit or income during that year, no matter how it occurred? Mr. SMOOT. Some one must have won what the other man lost in the poker game. Mr. WILLIAMS. By the way, it is suggested to me that one man has gained what the other has lost, and that the winner might be taxed on his winnings, so the Government would not lose anything. Mr. WEEKS. Mr. President, I should like to ask the Senator from Mississippi to give me his opinion on a case which I will put to him. Suppose a man has a hundred thousand dollars in stocks, which are worth par; that they are selling at that price; and a dividend of 5 per cent is paid on them; in other words, he gets $5,000 income from his investment, he earns $5,000 from his personal efforts during the year, and his income is $10,000 for that year; then suppose his stocks depreciate in value $10,000, has he any net income for that year? Mr. WILLIAMS. I never thought about that, but I do not think that cuts any figure because the depreciation in the value of the stock is not like a depreciation by reason of the wear and tear arising out of the use of property. A man's income would still remain an income regardless of the value of his property. My plantation this year might yield me, say, $3,000, and next year the same plantation might yield me $4,000 or $2,000; my income would be measured by what the plantation yielded me and not by the value of the plantation. Meanwhile the property might go up in value or it might go down in value. That would have nothing to do with the income, nor would the value of your stock in the market have anything to do with the dividends which you receive upon your stock. While I am talking upon that subject, there is another point that occurs to me, and that is what the Senator from Iowa [Mr. CUMMINS] went over a few moments ago. If the Senator from Iowa can invent any way under the sun of preventing the shifting of taxation, he is the wisest man who has lived since Solon died. The Senator seems to think that you ought to give a bounty to people who have less than $3,000, provided their income comes in the shape of dividends in corporations, because when the corporation was taxed the corporation reduced the dividends. It may be that the corporation did, and it may be that it did not, but I am going to suppose first that it did. Suppose it did shift the tax in that way, do you imagine that the man who works for a salary for that corporation will not have a part of it shifted on him, too, in the way of not raising his wages as much as they otherwise would have been raised? Do you suppose that the merchant or the lawyer who pays the income tax is not going to make it up somehow in the price of his goods or in the price of his services, if he can do it, if the demand and supply of the market for the goods or for his peculiar sort of ability enable him to do it? And absolutely it is proposed to give the man with less than $3,000 a bounty because a corporation has shifted its tax to him. Mr. WEEKS. Now, I want to submit an additional inquiry to the Senator from Mississippi, relating to the case which I have already submitted to him, and that is: Suppose at the time those stocks were selling at 10 per cent below what they were selling for the previous year, I sold them for $10,000 less than they were priced at the year before, is that to be deducted from my income? Mr. WILLIAMS. I think not. That is a mere change of capital and principal from stocks into money. Mr. WEEKS. It seems to me that it would be deducted. Mr. WILLIAMS. Do you mean that in casting up your accounts and arriving at your gross income, you do not count that? Of course, you would count it as you would count any money that you got from any source, but you would charge against it also what was regarded as the value of the stock.4270 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. AUGUST 28, Mr. WEEKS. It seems to me, Mr. President, that it would be a shrinkage of my principal; and, under the reading of this bill, I am not sure but what that loss of principal could be deducted against any income, so that there would be no taxes. Mr. WILLIAMS. Under what clause of the bill? What provision of it do you mean? Does the Senator refer to the depreciation clause? Mr. WEEKS. Yes. Mr. WILLIAMS. Oh, no. It says: Sixth, a reasonable allowance for the exhaustion, wear and tear of property arising out of its use or employment in the business. That could not possibly refer to stocks. Mr. CUMMINS. Mr. President, in response to the suggestion just made by the Senator from Mississippi, let us see how we stand. He says that a man at the end of the year sits down to make up an account to see whether or not he has any net income. If he is a merchant, he takes an inventory of his goods; if they are worth less than they were the year before, they are marked down, and the market value of that property is entered upon the books in order to show whether or not he has made a profit during the year. According to the Senator from Mississippi, the same thing would happen with a lawyer. He sits down at the end of the year and puts on one side of the account all he has taken in, all his profits, and he puts on the other side all his losses. If his losses are to be reckoned in the same way that the merchant's losses are reckoned, then, of course, the depreciation of all the property that he may own, if there be a depreciation, must also be entered upon the books. That shows, Mr. President, that, while the Senator from Mississippi is right with regard to ascertaining the profits and net income of business, he is not right, and the bill does not adjust itself to the ascertainment of net income of individuals who are not in what is ordinarily known as business. Mr. WILLIAMS. What is the Senator complaining of---that they can not charge off anything to depreciation account, while the merchant can? Mr. CUMMINS. I do not think they ought to be permitted to charge off depreciation of their property. Mr. WILLIAMS. Well, this is a different proposition. I supposed that probably the Senator thought the lawyer also ought to be allowed to do it, and that we also should be allowed to charge the depreciation in our mental faculties, which would be pretty hard to estimate. [Laughter.] Mr. CUMMINS. I am not. I am speaking against the principle. Mr. WILLIAMS. I do not know but that the Senator is right about the general idea that no depreciation ought to be allowed to be deducted. There may be something in that suggestion, but it has been almost the uniform policy of all income-tax laws to permit it. Mr. CUMMINS. I simply want to record my protest against that principle. Mr. STERLING. I offer the amendment which I send to the desk. The VICE PRESIDENT. The amendment will be stated. The SECRETARY. On page 169, line 15, it is proposed to strike out the words "in trade" and insert "by the taxpayer in the pursuit of any ordinary and legitimate trade or business." Mr. STERLING. If the amendment were adopted, the provision would read: Losses incurred by the taxpayer in the pursuit of any ordinary and legitimate trade or business. Mr. WILLIAMS. In other words, you are going to count the man as having money which he has not got, because he has lost it in a way that you do not approve of. Mr. SMOOT. Mr. President, I should like to ask the Senator what becomes of the man who is a broker and whose whole business is dealing upon the stock exchange? Does the Senator think that he ought to be taxed upon his income; ad, if so, should not that man be allowed to deduct whatever loss he may incur in that particular line of business? Mr. STERLING. I think so, because I think the business of the broker, as a general proposition, is a legitimate business; but the amendment would exclude losses sustained in stock and grain gambling; that is the idea. Mr. SMOOT. The Senator differentiates, then, between the broker who does nothing else but follow that business and the man who does it "on the side"? Mr. STERLING. Oh, no. A man may occasionally engage in the brokerage business, and, taking a particular deal, it may be perfectly honest and legitimate; or he may be a regular broker engaged continuously in a business which is legitimate. My only object in suggesting this amendment is to prevent, if it can ----- 3 ----- be done, what might be termed the setting off of a loss in a strictly gambling operation. Mr. McCUMBER. Let me ask the Senator a question right there. If the successful party in the gambling operation---and I always supposed that what one man loses the other man gains in a straight gambling contract---makes $10,000, would not the Senator charge it up to him as taxable income? Mr. STERLING. I do not know but that I would; and I do not think there would be any injustice or wrong in doing so. Mr. McCUMBER. Very well. Then, if the Senator taxes him once upon that, why should he seek to tax that same $10,000 twice, both to the man who lost it and to the man who gained it? Mr. STERLING. The same supposition might be made in other cases, so far as that is concerned. You do not always avoid double taxation. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the amendment proposed by the Senator from South Dakota [Mr. STERLING]. The amendment was rejected. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question recurs on the amendment reported by the committee. The amendment was agreed to. The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the Committee on Finance was, in section 2, page 170, at the beginning of line 22, to strike out the letter "C."; in line 25, after the word "possessions," to strike out "the principal and interest of which are now exempt by law from Federal taxation," so as to read: That in computing net income under this section there shall be excluded the interest upon the obligation of a State or any political subdivision thereof, and upon the obligations of the United States or its possessions; also the compensation of the present President of the United States during the term for which he has been elected, and of the judges of the supreme and inferior courts of the United States now in office, and the compensation of all officers and employees of a State or any political subdivision thereof. The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was, in section 2, page 171, after line 6, to strike out: D. That there shall be deducted from the amount of the net income of each of such persons, ascertained as provided herein, the sum of $4,000; Provided, That only one deduction of $4,000 shall be made from the aggregate income of all the members of any family composed of one or both parents and one or more minor children, or husband and wife, but if the wife is living permanently apart from her husband she may be taxed independently; but guardians may be allowed to make deduction in favor of each and every ward, except that in case where two or more wards are comprised in one family and have joint property interests the aggregate deduction in their favor shall not exceed $4,000; and And insert: C. That there shall be deducted from the amount of the net income of each of said persons, ascertained as provided herein, the sum of $3,000, plus $1,000 additional if the person making the return be a married man with a wife, living with him, and being herself not taxable under the income-tax law, or plus the sum of $1,000 additional if the person making the return be a married women with a husband living with her and being himself not taxable under the income-tax law; but in no event shall this additional exemption of $1,000 be deducted by both a husband and a wife. If the person making the return shall be a married man or a married woman there shall be an additional exemption of $500 for each minor child living with and dependent upon the taxable parent, but the total exemption on account of children shall not exceed $1,000: Provided, That the additional exemption or exemptions for children shall operate only in the case of one parent in the same family, and that the total exemption on account of children shall apply to a widow or a widower with a minor or dependent child or children: Provided further, That where both parents are taxable under this act because of having more than $3,000 of net income each the exemption on account of the children hereinbefore provided for shall not apply to either. Mr. BRISTOW. I call attention to the words beginning in line 25, on page 171, reading: Plus the sum of $1,000 additional if the person making the return be a married women with a husband living with her and being himself not taxable under the income-tax law. Does that presume that a married woman with an income has a husband whom she has to support and therefore there ought to be an exemption because of that burden upon her? Mr. WILLIAMS. It presumes that where she has the money she ought to pay the tax. The object of it, Mr. President---not to follow up the form of the Senator's question, which would lend me into digressions---was simple this: The House framed its bill upon the theory that $4,000 was a reasonable amount, in its opinion, for an American family to live upon, with a proper standard of living, and that a sum below that ought not to be taxed. When it came to us in that shape we concluded that that was true if you were going to take the family as a basis. The House bill provided that the husband and wife should be taxed as one. We provide that the man and woman shall be taxed just as if they were two men or two women. Then we give this $1,000 additional to make the family exemption $4,000; but if both husband and wife are taxable, each has an 1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4271 exemption of $3,000 already, and therefore we do not give two taxable persons, being man and wife, in one household the $1,000 additional exemption. They have $6,000, to wit, $3,000 apiece. That is the reason that was put there. Mr. BRISTOW. I do not think the Senator fully understood just what my objection was. Mr. WILLIAMS. Possibly not. Mr. BRISTOW. I believe that if the man has a wife to support the exemption on the married man should be a thousand dollars more than on the unmarried man, but I do not believe the woman ought to have an exemption of a thousand dollars more because she happens to have a husband. I think the husband ought to be able to take care of himself. Mr. WILLIAMS. I think she needs it a lot more than he does. Mr. BRISTOW. It seems to me the Senator is encouraging indigent husbands. Mr. WILLIAMS. No; no more than I am encouraging indigent wives. Mr. BRISTOW. I do not agree with the proposition announced by the Senator. Mr. WILLIAMS. My object is to give the family $4,000 in any event where a man and wife are living together as man and wife, but I did not want to give them $7,000. If both of them are taxable persons and each one had a right to an exemption of $3,000, if I had given the additional $1,000 that family would have gotten $7,000 of exemption. In other words, in addition to $3,000 to each as a person, they would have received $1,000 as a family. Mr. BRISTOW. My view of the matter, I take it, is different from the Senator's view. Where the husband has an income of $4,000 I think no attention should be paid to the income of the wife, I do not care what it is; and if her income is $3,000 I do not believe she ought to have an additional $1,000 exempted because she happens to have a husband. I am opposed to permitting the wife to deduct the extra thousand dollars because of the presumption that she has to support her husband. Mr. WILLIAMS. We did not put it upon the ground that the presumption was that she had to support her husband, nor did we put the additional exemption of a thousand dollars in the husband's case on the ground that a family in any event, if either of them is taxable, ought to have an exemption a thousand dollars greater than a single parent not in a family. In other words, we have tried to make the family the basis of the tax. Mr. BRISTOW. Mr. President, in order to express my views I move to strike out of the amendment on page 171 all of line 25 after the word "law" and the comma, down to and including the word "wife," in line 4, page 172. That will strike out the part of the amendment which permits the wife to deduct from her net income a thousand dollars because she happens to have a husband. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is upon agreeing to the amendment proposed by the Senator from Kansas to the amendment of the committee. The amendment to the amendment was rejected. Mr. NORRIS. Mr. President, I move to strike out, on page 172, the last two words of line 7 and all of line 8, being the following words: But the total exemption on account of children shall not exceed $1,000. I should like to inquire of the Senator from Mississippi why, in the opinion of the committee, the exemption of $500 for each minor child supported by the head of the family, who has the income, should be limited to two? What is the theory of the committee---that the man with two children should be entitled to $500 exemption for each one of them, and the man with three children should not be entitled to any more of an exemption? Mr. WILLIAMS. Of course when you take an arbitrary line to stop or start with, in the case of anything, it is utterly impossible to give a logical reason for it, except that we wanted to limit somewhere the amount of exemptions to which the family would have a right; and it was thought that a thousand dollars was enough, in addition to the $4,000, to constitute the exemption on account of children. In other words, if a man had $3,000 a year that was exempt, and then had another thousand dollars on account of the fact that he was married, making $4,000, and then had another thousand on account of the fact that he had children, that would be $5,000, which was as much as we cared to have exempted from taxation to any one family. It is possible under this bill that a family might have $6,000 exempt; but, if so, it would be because the husband was a No. 99-----4 taxable person with an income of over $3,000, and the wife was a taxable person with an income of over $3,000. I will say to the Senator in all frankness that as far as I am personally concerned I should not object if the exemption from taxation were $500 for each child, with a limitation larger than this, but there must be a limitation somewhere. Surely, if a man happened to have 10 children, you would not want to give him an exemption from taxation of $5,000 on account of the children; because the Senator knows, as I do, that the expense of taking care of a family does not grow in arithmetical proportion with the increase in the number of children. It is not much more expensive to take care of three or four children in a family than tot take care of two, because the maintenance of the husband and the wife and the household expenses and a great many other charges are in common in both cases. But we thought we ought to fix a limit somewhere; and the committee, as well as the Democratic Party in conference assembled, concluded that a thousand dollars was a sufficient amount to allow for exemptions on account of children. Of course I could not give any logical reason why you should stop at two any more than at three, or at three any more than at four; but the business reason which we had in mind was about what I have stated. Mr. NORRIS. Mr. President, I am very much obliged to the Senator from Mississippi for his very candid explanation. I believe the Senate committee has improved upon the House bill in this particular respect, at least. It appeals to me that the man who is married and has a wife ought to have a greater exemption than the unmarried man. It appeals to me that the man who is raising children ought to have more of an exemption than the married man who is not raising children. So in this particular part of the bill the theory upon which the committee acted has always appealed to me, with the one exception of this limitation. The Senator knows, and it is common knowledge, that the ordinary family of the ordinary person has, and ought to have, more than two children. There ought to be encouragement given for larger families than two children, at least. If $10,000 is a sufficient exemption for an entire family, the Senator could meet the difficulty by making the amount of exemption for each child a less amount than $500. It seems to me there ought to be no limitation, however. It is not very much of a concession if you concede that much to the men and the women who are raising families and perpetuating the race and continuing the stability of the country. If there is to be an exemption, it seems to me that the man who is raising four or five children is more entitled to it than the man who is raising only two. I do not believe the Senator's argument is well founded as far as this particular limitation is concerned. As far as I am concerned, I should like to take off the limitation entirely. But if you do not feel like taking it off entirely, as my amendment would, at least extend it to the ordinary-sized family that we would like to see and do see exist in the ordinary run of life. Mr. OLIVER. Mr. President----- The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Nebraska yield to the Senator from Pennsylvania? Mr. NORRIS. I yield to the Senator. Mr. OLIVER. I will add to what the Senator says that this concession amounts to only $5 a year for each child, and I do not think $5 is too much bounty or premium to offer for each additional child. In fact, I think it would be good policy for the Government to offer more than that to encourage the propagation of liberal-sized families throughout the land. Mr. NORRIS. I believe that is right. Mr. WILLIAMS. In other words, stop race suicide; but let us do it in a separate bill. Mr. NORRIS. The Senator knows that particularly on that subject it would be difficult to get a bill this far along in the parliamentary situation. Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes. Mrs. NORRIS. The opportunity is here, now. If it is right to do it, let us do it. Here is the place, and this is the time. Mr. WILLIAMS. Seriously, Mr. President, and laying aside----- Mr. NORRIS. I want to say to the Senator that in offering this amendment I am serious. Mr. WILLIAMS. Oh, I know the Senator is; but I meant "being serious." Mr. NORRIS. I am serious, and I think the Senator ought to be. Mr. WILLIAMS. When I say "seriously," I mean that I intend to be serious, not that the Senator does. He is always serious. But, seriously, this exemption was not put here for 4272 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. AUGUST 28, the purpose of encouraging families to have children. It was put here because we thought a man with two children to take care of ought not to be taxed at the same rate as a man without children. Mr. NORRIS. Then why tax the man with three children the same rate as the man with two? Mr. WILLIAMS. We were trying to adapt the tax to the ability of the taxpayer, and not using it as a means to encourage large families, nor do I think this would be precisely the right bill in which to include any provision for that purpose. It may be that the Senator is right, and that the exemption ought to extend to three children or to four. Certain it is that families with only two children can not increase the population of any country, nor add strength to the State of which they are citizens. But we have it this way, and we have stopped at $1,000; and I think everybody will admit that whether a man has two children or three of four this exemption helps him by keeping him to this extent from being taxed under the bill. Mr. NORRIS. Mr. President, I look at the matter on this theory: I am not advocating giving a premium for families of any particular size. I do not want to apply any other rule of that kind. I simply think the man with three children can not afford to pay the tax as well as the man with two. You have made an exemption for children because it is harder for a man with a family of children to support to pay the tax than it is for the other man. Every time you tax him, and curtail his ability to support his family, he does just that much less, and must do just that much less, for the family. In the case of the family of more than two children, you are depriving them of some of the luxuries and some of the necessaries of life which you are not taking away from others. I congratulate you on extending liberal exemptions to the family of two children; but for the same reason that you did that you ought to make the same exemption for the man who has three or four children. Certainly there is no justice, it seems to me, in stopping where the committee did. Mr. WILLIAMS. We had to stop somewhere. I know one man who has 17 children. Mr. NORRIS. I think we ought to let nature take its course, and not make an arbitrary stop. I ask for the yeas and nays on my amendment. The yeas and nays were ordered, and the Secretary proceeded to call the roll. Mr. CHILTON (when his name was called). I announce my pair as on the former votes, and withhold my vote. Mr. BRYAN (when Mr. FLETCHER'S name was called). My colleague [Mr. FLETCHER] is absent on public business. He is paired with the junior Senator from Wyoming [Mr. WARREN]. Mr. LEWIS (when his name was called). I am paired with the junior Senator from North Dakota [Mr. GRONNA], and therefore withheld my vote. Mr. REED (when his name was called). I am paired with the Senator from Michigan [Mr. SMITH]. I transfer that pair to the Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. GORE] and vote "nay." Mr. THOMAS (when his name was called). I transfer my pair with the senior Senator from Ohio [Mr. BURTON] to the junior Senator from Neveda [Mr. PITTMAN] and vote "nay." Mr. WARREN (when his name was called). I am paired with the senior Senator from Florida [Mr. FLETCHER]. I therefore withhold my vote. The roll call was concluded. Mr. LEA. I am paired with the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. LIPPITT]. I transfer that pair to the junior Senator from Mississippi [Mr. VARDAMAN] and vote. I vote "nay." Mr. KERN. I am paired with the Senator from Kentucky [Mr. BRADLEY] and withhold my vote. Mr. CLARKE of Arkansas. I ask if the junior Senator from Utah (Mr. SUTHERLAND] has voted? The VICE PRESIDENT. He has not. Mr. CLARKE of Arkansas. I withhold my vote. Mr. STONE. I have a pair with the Senator from Wyoming [Mr. CLARK], and will have to withhold my vote. Mr. CHILTON. I transfer my pair to the junior Senator from Tennessee [Mr. SHIELDS] and vote "nay ." Mr. GALLINGER. I have a general pair with the junior Senator from New York [Mr. O'GORMAN] , which I transfer to the junior Senator from Maine [Mr. BURLEIGH]. I vote "yea." Mr. WARREN. I announced a pair with the senior Senator from Florida [Mr. FLETCHER]. I transfer that pair to the senior Senator from Connecticut [Mr. BRANDEGEE], so that the senior Senator from Florida will stand paired with the senior Senator from Connecticut. I vote "yea." Mr. DILLINGHAM. I am paired with the Senator from Maryland [Mr. SMITH] on this and all other questions which arise on the bill. I make this announcement for the day. For that reason I withhold my vote. Mr. LA FOLLETTE. I wish to announce that the junior Senator from Minnesota [Mr. CLAPP] is unavoidably absent from the Chamber this afternoon. If he were present, he would vote "yea." The result was announced - yeas 27, nays 34, as follows: YEAS — 27. Borah Fall Nelson Sherman Brady Gallinger Norris Smoot Bristow Jones Oliver Sterling Catron Kenyon Page Townsend Colt La Follette Penrose Warren Crawford Lodge Perkins Weeks Cummins McLean Poindexter NAYS — 34. Ashurst Johnson Ransdell Smith, Ga. Bacon Lane Reed Smith, S. C. Bankhead Lea Robinson Swanson Bryan Martin, Va. Saulsbury Thomas Chamberlain Martine, N. J. Shafroth Thompson Chilton Myers Sheppard Walsh Hollis Overman Shively Williams Hughes Owen Simmons James Pomerene Smith, Ariz. NOT VOTING — 34. Bradley du Pont Lippitt Stephenson Brandegee Fletcher McCumber Stone Burleigh Goff Newlands Sutherland Burton Gore O'Gorman Thornton Clapp Gronna Pittman Tillman Clark, Wyo. Hitchcock Root Vardaman Clarke, Ark. Jackson Shields Works. Culberson Kern Smith, Md. Dillingham Lewis Smith, Mich. So Mr. NORRIS's amendment to the amendment of the committee was rejected. Mr. LODGE. I suggest, in line 6, on page 172, to strike out the word "minor." I think it is a hasty conclusion to infer that a minor child is a greater burden or expense upon the parents than a child that is not a minor. I think that is an erroneous deduction. Mr. WILLIAMS. It is based upon the theory that the law compels the parent to take care of the minor child, and I think the law in taxing the parent ought to have some regard to that obligation. Mr. LODGE. But, in line 7, it reads "living with and dependent upon." If the child is living with and dependent upon — Mr. WILLIAMS. There was an amendment to be made. I think that is a misprint. It ought to read "each minor child of the taxable parent." The language "living with and dependent upon" was, I think, stricken out, but we will examine into it and we can take it up again. If I am right about it, I think that the language "living with and dependent upon" was stricken out, and it was left to read "each minor child of the taxable parent." Mr. LODGE. The language is "child living with and dependent upon," and even if it were not a minor child of course the child is a charge upon the parent. Mr. WILLIAMS. I will tell the Senator how it happened. It was at one time proposed to say "each child under 18," and then it was suggested there might be daughters over 18 still dependent upon the family. So that language was put in. They were called minor children, and necessarily under 21 years. The legal obligation stops at 21 and of course the exemption ought to stop at that age. Mr. GALLINGER. In lines 12 and 13 the words "living with and dependent upon" are dropped out. Mr. WILLIAMS. I will take the matter up, and if I find out that I am wrong about It I will bring it up again. Mr. LODGE. If I may make a suggestion to the Senator, I think the words "living with and dependent upon" are a better definition than the word "minor," because we know in many cases there are children of delicate health or perhaps crippled who are dependent upon the parents and live with them long after they are 21. Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes; that is true; but the legal obligation to support them ceases at 21— Mr. LODGE. The legal obligation ceases. Mr. WILLIAMS. And of course the principle lying under exemption ceases. The language "living with" ought to be stricken out, anyhow. It might happen, for example, that a child, for many reasons conceivable, might be living with a grandparent or living with an uncle or somebody else. My impression is that we struck out the words "living with and dependent upon" and just left it to read "minor child." Mr. OLIVER. Mr. President, I notice in lines 12 and 13 it reads "that the total exemption on account of children shall apply to a widow or a widower with a minor or dependent1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4273 child or children.” Therefore, it seems from the language employed that if a married couple have children they must be minors, but in the case of a widow or widower the limitation of age is entirely stricken off. Mr. WILLIAMS. The Senator’s suggestion would be perfectly just if it. were not the fault of the printer. Instead of “or” it ought to read “and.” I was expecting when we got to it to make that change, so as to read “with a minor and dependent child or children.” Mr. OLIVER. It is fortunate that there is a printer. Mr. WILLIAMS. I will make it now. In line 12 the word “or” ought to be “and.” I move that amendment to the amendment. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the amendment to the amendment of the committee. Mr. JONES. I understood the Senator to say that the question was to be considered whether it should be limited to minor children of a certain age, under 18 or 16. Mr. WILLIAMS. There was a proposition at one time to limit it to 18, upon the ground that a boy of 18 ought to be out making his living. Then it was suggested it might not be a boy; it might be a girl. So, finally, it was put that way. Mr. JONES. It occurred to me that some limitation of that kind ought to be made. There are many families where there may be a couple of boys 18, 19, or 20 years of age who make a living for themselves, and I suppose generally they do. Yet here the parents get an exemption on that account. Then, on the other hand, there is a family of four or five children under 7 or 8 years of age, who make nothing for their support, and the parents get no greater exemption for those than the family does for the grown-up boys who are barely under 21. Mr. WILLIAMS. Anybody seeking faults with a tax bill can always find them. Mr. JONES. It seemed to me that it would be a much more equitable arrangement to specify minor children under a certain age. In the pension laws we recognize a limitation on minor children. Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President, I rose to suggest to the Senator that we probably have passed hundreds, certainly scores, of private pension bills giving a pension to deformed children and children sick from birth, regardless of their age. Mr. JONES. Yes; that is true, but—— Mr. GALLINGER. We have passed hundreds of them, and it seems to me that if this was made to read “dependent children,” without any reference to age, it would be better. Mr. JONES. I merely make that suggestion. I do not think I shall offer any amendment, but it seems to me that that change should be made. Mr. WILLIAMS. I thought if it read “dependent children ” a great many children might be crowded in, and we had to fix some way to meet the conditions. Mr. JONES. Why not provide that there shall be so much exemption for each child under 16 years of age, like we allow a widow in a pension case? Mr. WILLIAMS. That would not be just to the girls in the family. Frequently there are unmarried girls who can not support themselves. The exemption ought to apply to them until they are 21. In other words, it ought to apply until the legal obligation of the parent to support ceases. If the Senator wants to find a logical point, the logical point is that the exemption shall cease where the legal obligation to support ceases. Mr. JONES. Of course the exemption covers children who are capable to care for themselves; it becomes more than a matter of relief to the parent; it becomes a matter of favor. Mr. WILLIAMS. It is a relief for the parents because of the legal obligation. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair understands that the amendment proposed by the Senator from Mississippi is to change the final word “ or,” in line 12, to the word “ and,” so as to read: Shall apply to a widow or a widower with a minor and dependent child or children. Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes. The amendment to the amendment was agreed to. Mr. GALLINGER. Does the Senator propose to strike out the words “ living with and,” at the beginning of line 7? Mr. WILLIAMS. No; I ask to take that back and see what we have done. My impression is that it was stricken out. Mr. GALLINGER. Very well. Mr. SIMMONS. The committee will examine it. Mr. WILLIAMS. I do not mean to recommit it, but I wanted merely to assure the Senate that I would look into that matter. The Secretary continued the reading of the committee amendment, as follows: Provided further, That where both parents are taxable under this act because of having more than $3,000 of net income each the exemption on account of the children hereinbefore provided for shall not apply to either. Mr. JONES. I wish to ask the Senator another question. The amendment now reads “ with a minor and dependent child or children.” Does that mean that there may be an exemption on account of one child as a minor and another child over age but dependent? Mr. WILLIAMS. No; it is minor or dependent child or minor and dependent children. Mr. JONES. What is the significance of the word “dependent” there? I understood the Senator to say a moment ago that if the child was a minor of course the parent had a legal obligation to support it. Mr. WILLIAMS. If the Senator will notice above, in line 7, he will see the language “living with and dependent upon.” If the Senator had done me the honor to have listened to me, he would have heard me say that I thought in caucus or in committee, one or the other, we had stricken out that language. If it was stricken out in the one place, it was stricken out in both. My recollection is that it was stricken out, but if it is to be left in one place of course it is to be left in the other. Mr. JONES. I heard the Senator make that remark, but do I understand now it is to be left in, or is the Senator—— Mr. WILLIAMS. I will examine it and find out whether it is to be left in and what we did with it. Mr. JONES. Is it not the Senator's idea that the word “ dependent ” was left out? Mr. WILLIAMS. That is my recollection. Mr. JONES. Then the Senator will bring the matter to the attention of the Senate again? Mr. WILLIAMS. I will, provided it was left out. Mr. JONES. But if it is to be left in, the Senator will let it go without any suggestion. Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes. Mr. JONES. I should like to have the Senator bring it to the attention of the Senate if he concludes that it is properly left in, because I think it ought to be left out or else we ought to understand whether the word “dependent ” means something more than mere minority. Mr. WILLIAMS. The Senator a moment ago was talking about the wrong of the exemption on account of 16 or 17 or 18 year-old children who are not dependent. Mr. JONES. Certainly. Mr. WILLIAMS. And now, if I understand him, he is objecting to keeping the word “ dependent” in the bill. Mr. JONES. No; I want to know whether it means something or not when it is left in the bill, and I want to know if we leave it in whether it means that if the parents have one minor child and then another child who is not a minor, but is dependent on them, they get an exemption for both. Mr. WILLIAMS. Undoubtedly it means that in order to have the exemption the child must be a minor and dependent. It is left in the bill and it says so. Mr. JONES. I do not think that is what it means. I do not agree with that construction. I think if the Senator leaves the words “minor” and “dependent” in, it would be construed to mean one minor child and one child that was dependent because he was—— Mr. WILLIAMS. It could not possibly be so construed, because that is not the language. Mr. JONES. Does the Senator mean that the minor child must be disabled in order to enable the parent to secure an exemption? Mr. WILLIAMS. No; I do not. Mr. JONES. Then, what does the word “dependent ” mean? Mr. WILLIAMS. It means dependent for support upon the taxpayer. Mr. JONES. Does that mean actually dependent? Mr. WILLIAMS. In other words, where the child or children are not making their own living. Mr. JONES. But suppose a 20-year-old boy is making his living but is living with his parents? Mr. WILLIAMS. Then, if this language means anything at all, there will be no exemptions on his account. Mr. JONES. That is what I want to get at. In other words, the word “ minority” does not procure the exemption, and the parent, in order to get the exemption for a minor child, must show that that child is actually dependent on him and is not making a living for himself? If that is what it means, that is what I wanted to understand. Mr. WILLIAMS. That is what it says. It says minor and dependent child. Mr. JONES. Yes. I had understood, however, that it was the Senator’s contention that the fact of. minority was the basis4274 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. August 28, for the exemption. If the other contention is the understanding of the Senator, that is what I wanted to know. Mr. SHIVELY. The Senator from Washington can easily conceive of a case where there may be a minor child with an absolutely independent fortune, in which event the parent would not have the benefit of the exemption. Mr. JONES. What I wanted to understand clearly was whether or not that was the intention of the language here. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the amendment reported y the committee, beginning in line 20, on page 171. The amendment was agreed to. The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the Committee on Finance was, on page 172, line 17, before the word "said," to insert "D. The"; in line 18, after the words "income of," to strike out "such" and insert "each"; in the same line, after the word "person," to strike out "for the year ending December 31, 1913, and for each calendar year thereafter; and on," and in lieu thereof to insert "subject thereto, accruing during each preceding calendar year ending December 31: Provided, however, That for the year ending December 31, 1913, said tax shall be computed on the net income accruing from March 1 to December 31, 1913, both dates inclusive, after deducting fix-sixths only of the specific exemptions and deductions herein provided for. On"; page 173, line 9, after the word "having," to strike out "a net" and insert "an"; and in the same line, after the words "income of," to strike out "$3,500" and insert "$3,000"; on page 174, line 2, after the word "individuals," to insert "Provided, That a return made by one of two or more joint guardians, trustees, executors, administrators, agents, receivers, and conservators, or other persons acting in a fiduciary capacity, filled in the district where such person resides, or in the district where the will or other instrument under which he acts is recorded, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, shall be a sufficient compliance with the requirements of this paragraph"; in line 15, after the word "annual," to insert "or periodical"; and in line 17, after the word "person," to insert "deduct and withhold from the payment an amount equivalent to the normal income tax upon the same and," so as to read: D. The said tax shall be computed upon the remainder of said net income of each person subject thereto, accruing during each preceding calendar year ending December 31: Provided, however, That for the year ending December 31, 1913, said tax shall be computed on the net income accruing from March 1 to December 31, 1913, both dates inclusive, after deducting five-sixths only of the specific exemptions and deductions herein provided for. On or before the 1st day of March, 1914, and the 1st day of March in each year thereafter, a true and accurate return, under oath or affirmation, shall be made by each person of lawful age, except as hereinafter provided, subject to the tax imposed by this section, and having an income of $3,00 or over for the taxable year, to the collector of internal revenue for the district in which such person resides or has his principal place of business, or, in the case of a person residing in a foreign country, in the place where his principal business is carried on within the United States, in such form as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall prescribe, setting forth specifically the gross amount of income form all separate sources and from the total thereof, deducting the aggregate items or expenses and allowance herein authorized; guardians, trustees, executors, administrators, agents, receivers, conservators, and all persons, corporations, or associations acting in any fiduciary capacity, shall make and render a return of the net income of the person for whom they act, subject to this tax, coming into their custody or control and management, and be subject to all the provisions of this section which apply to individuals: Provided, that a return made by one of two or more joint guardians, trustees, executors, administrators, agents, receivers, and conservators, or other persons acting in a fiduciary capacity, filed in the district where such person resides, or in the district where the will or other instrument under which he acts is recorded, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, shall be a sufficient compliance with the requirements of this paragraph; and also all persons, firms, companies, copartnerships, corporations, joint-stock companies or associations, and insurance companies, except as hereinafter provided, in whatever capacity acting, having the control, receipt disposal, or payment of fixed or determinable annual or periodical gains, profits, and income of another person, subject to tax, shall in behalf of such person deduct and withhold form the payment an amount equivalent to the normal income tax upon the same and make and render a return, as aforesaid, but separate distinct, of the portion of the income of each person from which the normal tax has been thus withheld, and containing also the name and address of such person or stating that the name and address or the address, as the case may be, are unknown. The amendment was agreed to. Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, I want to offer the amendment at this point to cure an oversight in the bill. After the colon following the word "unknown," on page 174, line 24, I move to insert the following language: Provided, That the provision requiring the normal tax of individuals to be withheld at the source of the income shall not be construed to require any of such tax to be withheld prior to the date of the passage of this act. Then, Mr. President, following that amendment, the provisio in line 24 should read "Provided further." Mr. BORAH. Mr. President, as I understand, the Senator from Mississippi a day or two ago asked that a provision of the bill back on page 166 should be recommitted to the committee for further consideration. Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes. Mr. BORAH. I should like to have that portion of the bill which deals with the subject of relieving corporations from withholding the money due upon bonds to go with that provision, because they will both have to be considered together in a large measure, as I understand. Mr. WILLIAMS. I do not see why they should both to go together. Does the Senator mean the amendment which I have just offered? Mr. BORAH. No; not this particular matter; but you have a provision in the bill relieving the payment at the source with reference to bonds, have you not? Mr. WILLIAMS. Is the Senator referring to the provision in line 6 and 7 on page 170? Mr. BORAH. No; I am not referring to that. I will call the Senator's attention to the express provision when we reach it. Mr. WILLIAMS. Very well; that will probably be better, if we have not reached it. Mr. BORAH. I expected to leave the chamber, but I will remain here until it is reached. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on the amendment proposed by the Senator from Mississippi [Mr. Williams]. The amendment was agreed to. The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the Committee on Finance, was, in section 2, paragraph D, page 174, line 25, after the word "exceeding," to strike out "$3,500" and insert "$3,000"; on page 175, line 1, after the word "required," to insert "Provided further, That any persons carrying on business in partnership shall be liable for income tax only in their individual capacity, and the share of the profits of a partnership to which any taxable partner would be entitled if the same were divided, whether divided or otherwise, shall be returned for taxation and the tax paid, under the provisions of this section, and any such firm, when requested by the Commissioner of Internal Revue, or any district collector, shall forward him to a correct statement of such profits and the names of the individuals who would be entitled to the same, if distributed"; in line 12, after the word "persons," to strike out "liable only" and insert "liable"; in line 13, after the word "tax," to insert "only"; in line 18, after the word "provided," to strike out the semicolon and the words "and the" and insert a period; in the same line, after the word "provided," to insert "Any person for whom return has been made and the tax paid, or to be paid as aforesaid, shall not be required to make a return unless such person has other net income, but only one deduction of $3,000 shall be made in the case of such person. The"; after the word "it," at the end of line 24, to strike out "and may increase the amount of any list or return if he has reason to believe that hte same is understated: Provided, That no such increase shall be made except after due notice to such party and upon proof of the amount understated; or if the list or return of any person shall have been increased by the collector, such person may be permitted to prove the amount liable to be assessed; but such proof shall not be considered as conclusive of the facts, and no deductions claimed in such cases shall be made or allowed until approved by the collector" and insert "If the collector or deputy collector have reason to believe that the amount of any income returned is understated, he shall give due notice to the person making the return to show cause why the amount of the return should not be increased, and upon proof of the amount understated may increase the same accordingly," so as to read: Provided, That in either case above mentioned no return of income not exceeding $3,000 shall be required: Provided further, That any persons carrying on business in partnership shall be liable for income tax only in their individual capacity, and the share of the profits of a partnership to which any taxable partner would be entitled if the same were divided, whether divided or otherwise, shall be returned for taxation and the tax paid, under the provisions of this section, and any such firm, when requested by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, or any district collector, shall forward to him a correct statement of such profits and the names of the individuals who would be entitled to the same, if distributed: Provided further, That persons liable for the normal income tax only, on their own account or in behalf of another, shall not be required to make return of the income derived form dividends on the capital stock or from the net earnings of corporations, joint-stock companies or associations, and insurance companies taxable upon their net income as hereinafter provided. Any person for whom return has been made and the tax paid, or to be paid as aforesaid, shall not be required to to make a return unless such person has the rent income, but only one deduction of $3,000 shall be made in the case of any such person. The collector or deputy collector shall require every list to be verified by the oath or affirmation of the party rendering it. If the collector or deputy collector have reason to believe that the amount of any income returned is understated, he shall give due notice to the person making the return to show cause why the amount of the return should not be increased, and upon proof of the amount understated1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4275 may increase the same accordingly. If dissatisfied with the decision of the collector, such person may submit the case, with all the papers, to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for his decision, and ay furnish sword testimony of witness to prove any relevant facts. The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was, in section 2, paragraph E, page 176, line 20, after the word "made," to insert "by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue"; on page 177, line 5, before the word "provided," to strike out "above"; in the same line, after the word "for," to insert "in this section or by existing law," so as to read" E. That all assessments shall be made by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and all persons shall be notified of the amount for which they are respectively liable on our before the 1st day of June of each successive year, and said assessments shall be paid on or before the 30th day of June, except in cases of refusal or neglect to make such return and in cases of false or fraudulent returns, in which cases the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall, upon the discovery thereof, at any time within three years after said return is due, make a return upon information obtained as provided for in this section or by existing law, and the assessment made by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue thereupon shall be paid by such person or persons immediately upon notification of the amount of such assessment; and to nay sum or sums due an unpaid after the 30th day of June in any year, and for 10 days after notice and demand thereof by the collector, there shall be added the sum of 5 per cent on the amount of tax unpaid, and interest at the rate of 1 per cent per month upon said tax form the time the same became due, except from the estates of insane, decease, or insolvent persons. The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was, in section 2, paragraph E, page 177, line 19, after the word "including," to strike out "lessees or"; and on page 178, line 2, after the word "exceeding," to strike out "$4,000" and insert "$3,000," so as to read: All persons, firms, copartnerships, companies, corporations, joint- stock companies or associations, and insurance companies, in whatever capacity acting, including mortgagors of real or personal property, trustees acting in any trust capacity, executors, administrators, agents, receivers, conservators, employers, and all officers and employees of the United States having the control, receipt, custody, disposal, or payment of interest, rent, salaries, wages, premiums, annuities, compensation, remuneration, emoluments, or other fixed or determinable annual gains, profits, and income of other person, exceeding $3,000 for any taxable year, other than dividends on capital stock, or from the net earnings of corporations and joint-stock companies or associations of subject to like tax, who are required to make and render a return in behalf of another, as provided herein, to the collector of his, or, or its district, are hereby authorized and required to deduct and withhold from such annual gains, profits, and income such sum as will be sufficient to pay the normal tax imposed thereon by this section, and shall pay to the officer of the United States Government authorized to receive the same; and they are each hereby made personally liable for such tax. The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was, in section 2, paragraph E, page 178, line 13, after the word "tax," to strike out: In all cases where the income tax of a person is withheld and deducted and paid or to be paid at the source, as foresaid, such person shall not receive the benefit of the exemption of $4,000 allowed herein except by an application for refund of the tax unless he shall, not less than 30 days prior to the day on which the return of his income is due, file with the person who is required to withhold and pay tax for him, an affidavit claiming the benefit of such exemption; nor shall any person under the foregoing conditions be allowed the benefit of any deduction provided for in subsection B of this section unless he shall, not less than 30 days prior to the day on which the return of his income is due, file either with the person who is required to withhold and pay is due, file either with the person who is required to withhold and pay tax for him a true and correct return of his annual gains, profits, and income from all other sources, and also the deductions asked for, and the showing thus made shall then become a part of the return to be made in his behalf by the person required to withhold and pay the tax, or such person may likewise make application for deductions to the collector of the district in which return is made or to be made for him. And insert: Provided, That landlords are to make their own returns and tenants are exempt from the provisions of the foregoing requirement except when, in the case of individuals, trustees, and other noncorproate owners, the terms of the lease require the tenant to pay State and municipal taxes and assessments against the property, the cost of maintenance, repairs, and insurance, in which case tenants are authroized and required to deduct the tax out of the gross rental in the manner above prescribed. Where the owner is a corporation the tenant shall not be required in any case to deduct the tax upon the gross rental, the corporation itself being required to make the return and the statement of the deduction. If the person receiving such payment of more than $3,000 per annum is also entitled to deduction under the second paragraph of subsection B which reduce his aggregate income so as to entitle him to exemption from the normal income tax, or reduction of the amount subject to the tax, he may receive the benefit of such exemption, or reduction, either by filling with the person required to withhold the tax and pay it to the Government, not less than 30 days prior to the day on which the return of his income is due, an affidavit claiming the benefit of such exemption, and a true and correct statement of his annual income from all other sources, and of the deductions claimed, which affidavit and statement shall become a part of the return to be made in his behalf by the person required to withhold and pay the tax, or by making the application for the exemption to the collector of the district in which return is made or to be made for him, and proving to the satisfaction of the collector that he is entitled to the same. The amendment was agreed to. Mr BORAH. Mr President, the next paragraph is one to which I referred, which I should like to have passed over until the committee reports upon the paragraph on page 166. Mr. WILLIAMS. Let the Secretary read it. The Secretary read as follows: Where under the terms of a contract entered into before this act takes effect the parent to which the taxable person is entitled is required to be made without any deduction by reason of any tax imposed, the obligor shall not be compelled to make such deduction or withhold the income tax, but shall give notice to the collector of the payment made, or to be made, as part of the return which he is required to make, and the said sum shall in that case, for the purposes of this act, be computed as a part of the income of the taxable person. If the obligor fails to give such notice he shall be personally liable for the income tax if the same is not paid by the taxable person. No such contract entered into after this act takes effect shall be valid in regard to any Federal income tax imposed upon a person liable to such payment: Provided further, That if such person is a minor or an insane person, or is absent from the United States, or is able owning to serious illness to make the return and application above provided for, the return and application may remade for him or her by the person required to withhold and pay the tax, he making oath under the penalties of this act that he has sufficient knowledge of the affairs and property of his beneficiary to enable him to make a full and complete return for him or her, and that the return and application made by him are full and complete. Mr. WILLIAM. I should like to hear what it is that the Senator has in mind. Mr. BORAH. What I said was that I should like to have that part passed over until the committee reports upon the provision upon page 166. Mr. WILLIAMS. Why should this go with that? Mr. BORAH. Of course, the latter part of this has nothing to do with that; but there is one view of the matter on page 166 which I think might have a good deal to do with it. I do not know what the report of the committee will be upon it. Mr. WILLIAMS. I do not see that one of these things is connected with the other. The clause to which the SEnator refers is one intended to meet the case of contracts where the corporation undertakes to pay the tax, like the Steel Trust, for example, the Carnegie stock, and all that. This substantially leaves the question to be determinable at law. It exempts the cpororation form being compelled to make the deduction, but makes it give notice to the collector of the tax. In that case the collector will compute the interest as a part of the income of the taxable person. But it is followed by this: If the obligor fails to give such notice, he shall be personally liable for the income tax if the same is not paid by the taxable person. If a corporation having that sort of contract wants to keep its contract, all it has to do is to fail to give the notice and go ahead and pay the tax; and if there is going to be a lawsuit about it, the United States Government wants the taxable person- in the illustration I have given, Mr. Carnegie- to pay his tax. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the to the amendment of the committee. Mr. WILLIAMS. I will say that I do not think the two things are indissolubly tied to one another. If the Senator desires it is to go over for some reason, of course I am perfeclty willing that it shall go over; but I am not willing that it shall be recommitted. Mr. BORAH. I am not asking that it shall be recommitted, Mr. WILLIAMS. Very well; then the Senator simply wants it to go over. In that event it will be passed over; certainly. I owe an apology to the Senator. I misunderstood what he wanted. The VICE PRESIDENT. Let the Chair understand the matter. Does the amendment go over before it is agreed to, or after? Mr. BORAH. Before it is agreed to. Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes; before it is agreed to. Mr. SIMMONS. Why may not the amendment be agreed to now, with the understanding that it may be called up again if the Senator desires? Mr. BORAH. I have no objection to that. I simply made the suggestion which is usually made here. I have no objection if it is to be reconsidered if we desire to reconsider it. Then let it be adopted. The amendment was agreed to. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will make a note that the amendment may be reconsidered if desirable. The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the Committee on Finance was, on page 181, line 16, after the word "bonds," to strike out the comma and insert the word "and"; in the same line, after the word "mortgages," to insert "or deeds of trust"; in line 17, after the word "other," to strike out "indebtedness" and insert "obligations," so as to read: Provided further, That the amount of the normal tax hereinbefore impsosed shall be deducted and withheld from fixed and determinable annual gains, profits, and income derived from interest upon bonds and mortgages, or deeds of trust, or other obligations of corporations. 4276 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. August 28 Mr. GALLINGER. I will call the Senator's attention to the fact that after the word "associations," in line 18, page 181, the word "and" should be inserted. It becomes necessary from the fact that the language on the next line has been stricken out. Mr. WILLIAMS. The Senator is right about that. That was brought about by striking to the subsequent language. The VICE PRESIDENT. The amendment will be stated. The SECRETARY. On line 18, page 181, before the words "insruance companies," it is proposed to insert the word "and." The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment of the Committee on Finance was, on page 181, line 19, after the words "insurance companies," to strike out "and also of the United States Government not now exempt from taxation"; in line 22, before the word "subject," to strike out "$4,000" and insert "$3,000"; in line 24, after the word "income," to insert "and paid to the Government"; an don page 182, line 13, after the word "exceed," to strike out "$4,000" and insert "$3,000," and as to read: Joint-stock companies or associations and insurance companies, whether payable annually or at a shorter or longer periods, although such interest does not amount to $3,000, subject to the provisions of this section requiring the tax to be withheld at the source and deducted from annual income and paid to the Government: and likewise the amount of such tax shall be deducted and withheld form coupons, checks, or bills of exchange for or in payment of interest upon bonds of foreign countries and upon foreign mortgages or like obligations (not payable in the United States), and also form coupons, checks, or bills of exchange for in payment of any dividends upon the stock or interest upon the obligations of foreign corporations, associations, and insurance companies engaged in business in foreign countries; and the tax in each case shall be withheld and deducted for an in behalf for any person subject to the tax hereinbefore imposed, although such interest, dividends, or other compensation does not exceed $3,000. The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was, at the top of page 183, to insert: All persons, first, or corporations undertaking as a matter of business or for profit the collection of foreign payments by means of coupons, checks, or bills of exchange shall obtain a license form the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and shall be subject to such regulations enabling the Government to ascertain and verify the due withholding and payment of the income tax required to be withheld and paid as the Commissioner of of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall prescribe: and any person who hall undertake the collect such payments as aforesaid without having obtained a license therefor, or without complying with such regulations, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and for each offense be fined in a sum not exceeding $5,000, or imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. The amendment was agreed to. The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment was, on page 183, line 21, after the word "return," to strike out "any person for whom return has been made and the tax paid, or to be paid as aforesaid, shall not be required to make a return unless such person has other net income, but only one deduction of $4,000 shall be made in the case of any such person" and insert "under rules and regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury." Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, that ought to be "to be prescribed." I move to amend the amendment by inserting the words "to be." The VICE PRESIDENT. The amendment to the amendment will be stated. The SECRETARY. On page 183, line 25, before the word "prescribed," it is proposed to insert "to be." The amendment to the amendment was agreed to. The amendment as amended was agreed to. The next amendment was, on page 184, after line 3, to insert: The provisions of this section relating to the deduction and payment of the tax at the source of income shall only apply to the normal tax hereinbefore imposed upon individuals. The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was, in paragraph F, page 184, line 12, after the word "penalty," to strike out "not exceeding $500" and insert "of not less than $20 nor more than $1,000"; in line 13, after the word "person," to insert "or any officer of any corporation"; and in line 18, after the word "exceeding," to strike out $1,000" and insert "$2,000," so as to make the paragraph read" F. That if any person, corporation, joint-stock company, association, or insurance company liable to make the return or pay the tax aforesaid shall shall refuse or neglect to make a return at the time or times hereinbefore specified in each year, such person shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $20 nor more than $1,000. Any person or any officer of any corporation required by law to make, render, sign, or verify any return who makes any false or fraudulent return or statement with intent to defeat or evade the assessment required by this section to be made shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding $2,000 or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court, with the costs of prosecution. The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was, in paragraph G, page 185, line 2, after the word "organized," to strike out "but"; in line 4, before the word "upon," to insert "then"; in line 4, after the word "income," to strike out "arising or"; and in line 5, after the word "accruing," to strike out "by it," so as to read: G. (a) That the normal tax hereinbefore imposed upon individuals likewise shall be levied, assessed, and paid annually upon the entire net income arising or accruing form all sources during the preceding calendar year to every corporation, joint-stock company or association, and every insurance company, organized in the United States, no matter how created or organized, not including partnerships; but if organized, authorized, or existing under the laws of any foreign country, then upon the amount of net income accruing from business transacted and capital invested within the United States during such year. The amendment was agreed to. The reading of the bill was resumed, and the Secretary read to line 11, page 185, as follows: Provided, however, That nothing in this section shall apply to labor, agricultural, or horticultural organizations, or to mutual savings banks not having a capital stock represented by shares, or to fraternal beneficiary societies, orders, or associations operating under the lodge system. Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, on line 11, page 185, after the word "system," there ought to be an amendment made to carry out the purpose of the bill. It says: Fraternal beneficiary societies, orders, or associations operating under the lodge system. It appears form the same information I have recently received that the insurance branch of the Masonic fraternity does not operate under the lodge system, although, of course, the fraternity itself does. I ask that this part of the proviso may be held open for the purpose of an amendment. I have not yet had a chance to consult the committee about it. The VICE PRESIDENT. The proviso, beginning on line 7, page 185, and going down to line 11, will be passed over. The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment was, on page 185, line 19, after the word "charitable," to insert "scientific"; and on line 21, after the word "individual," to insert "nor to business leagues, nor to chambers of commerce or boards of trade, not organized for profit or no part of the net income of which inures to the benefit of the private stockholder or individual; nor to any civic league or organization not organized for profit, but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare," so as to read: And providing for the payment of life, sick, accident, and other benefits to the members of such societies, orders, or associations and dependents of such members, nor to domestic building and loan associations, nor to cemetery companies, organize and operated exclusively for the mutual benefit of their members, nor to any corporation or association organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, or educational purposes, no part of the net income of which inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or individual, nor to business leagues, nor to chambers of commerce or boards of trade, not organized for profit or no part of the net income of which inures to the benefit of the private stockholder or individual; nor to any civic league or organization not organized for profit, but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare. The amendment was agreed to. Mr. HITCHCOCK. Mr. President, I have an amendment which I should like to offer and have read at this point. The VICE PRESIDENT. The amendment will be stated. The Secretary. After the first paragraph in section G, page 186, it is proposed to insert the following proviso, to come in after the word "welfare" in line 2: Provided, That whenever a corporation, joint-stock company, or association shall produce or sell annually one-quarter or more of the entire amount of any line of production in the United States open to general manufacture of production the rate of tax to be levied, assessed, and paid per annum upon the entire net income of such corporation, joint-stock company, or association arising or accruing form all sources shall be as follows: A. If its production or sale be one-quarter and less than one-third of the total amount of any line of production, its annual tax shall be five times the normal tax hereinbefore imposed, to wit, 5 per cent. B. If its production or sale be one-third and less than one-half of the total amount of any line of production, its annual tax shall be ten times the normal tax hereinbefore imposed, to wit, 10 per cent. C. If its production or sale be one-half or more of the total amount of any line of production for the whole country, its annual tax shall be twenty times the normal tax hereinbefore imposed, to wit, 20 per cent on its entire net income accruing from all sources. The words "line of production" above used shall be construed to mean any particular article or any particular commodity, or to mean any class of articles or commodities ordinarily manufactured in conjunction with each other form the same or similar materials; but no line of production shall subject a corporation to any additional tax imposed by this paragraph unless said line of production amounts to at least $10,000,000 a year, nor shall this additional tax provided for in this paragraph apply to corporations, joint-stock companies, or associates employing less than $50,000,000 capital represented by stock or bonds, or both. In the levying and collection of the tax authorized in this paragraph the findings of the Secretary of Commerce as to the annual production and sale by corporations, joint-stock companies, or associations shall be taken as prima facie evidence; and whenever those findings show that a corporation, joint-stock companies, or associations, directly or indirectly, the same line of production of the subsidiary concern shall be added to that of the controlling concern; and whenever it appears that two or more corporations, joint stock companies; or associations have stockholders in common to the extent of 50 per cent in either, each shall pay the rate of tax that would be levied if the two concerns were united and their product combined.1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 4277 Mr. WILLIAMS. If the Senator from Nebraska wants to be heard upon this amendment, as a I apprehend is the case--- Mr. HITCHCOCK. Yes, sir; it is. Mr. WILLIAMS. It is 6 o'clock now, and I will yield for a motion to go into executive session. EXECUTIVE SESSION. Mr. HITCHCOCK. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of executive business. The motion was agreed to, and the Senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business. After 8 minutes spent in executive session the doors were reopened, and (at 6 o'clock and 10 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, Friday, August 29, 1913, at 11 o'clock a. m. NOMINATIONS. Executive nominations received by the Senate August 28, 1913. AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY. Henry Morgenthau, of New York, to be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Turkey, vice William Woodville Rockhill, resigned. COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS. Zach L. Cobb, of Texas, to be collector of customs for the district of El Paso, in the State of Texas, in place of Alfred L. Sharpe, resigned. 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To the Vice President and each Senator, Representative, and Delegate there shall be furnished two copies of the daily RECORD, one to be delivered at his residence and one at the Capitol.[Encl in Poindexter 8-14-14]Eng in Marrin 9-25-13 8-28-13Enc in Morton 9-25-13 8-28-13 [8-28-13] The Resilient Turk How the Turks Rave Rallied from Their Defeat and Regained Their Lost Ground By George Marvin [Profiting by the break-up of the Balkan Confederation and the present helplessness of Bulgaria, the Turks have reoccupied Adrianople, their ancient capital, and a large strip of the territory north and west of the boundary decreed by the Peace of London. It has been reported that a body of Ottoman troops, variously estimated as between 250,000 and 400,000 men, is already in possession of land which has been formally recognized as part of Bulgaria, but which was only wrested from Turkey by the Allies and the Powers after a four months' protraction of a disastrous war in other respects concluded in December. At the head of this army and the Ottoman Government is an administration frankly committed to a military policy and only sustained in office on that basis. Enver Bey, the moving spirit of Young Turkey, is in command of the Adrianople garrison. Moreover, Turkish diplomacy cynically believes that there is not sufficient unity in the so-called Concert of Europe to make the use of force by the Powers in favor of Bulgaria probably or even possible. Bulgaria alone is now, of course, incapable of recovering territory which she has won by her recent brilliant campaign in Thrace. The most startling change of this Balkan kaleidoscope is this quick recovery of "the Sick Man of the East," and it is difficult for us, who merely read about it, to understand how it came about. Mr. Marvin explains it as due to the indomitable spirit of the Turks and gives some interesting illustrations from his observations of their behavior under defeat not many months ago. Our readers will recall Mr. Marvin's article on "The Chronicles of the War" in our issue of June 19.- EDITOR.] "And the Bulgar horse shall neigh at the gates of Edirneh," ran the ancient Slav prophecy which came true when Adrianople fell in the early springtime and the desolation which used to be Thrace was drawn by the Peace of London within the borders of greater Bulgaria. It was a very brief neighing. The Bulgar horse is limping round his home paddock now and 250,000 Turks, back again behind the gates of Edirneh, are asking him and impliedly the Powers, too, what they are all going to do about it. Sic transit gloria Balkani! Only a few weeks ago the black-browned Bulgar held the center of the stage. He appealed to our astonished imaginations the way the inscrutable Tap did after mukden. The efficient ferocity of his fighting had never been equaled, his was the dominant note in a new world peer of confederated states born full-statured out of blood and fire; dressmakers in Paris and New York began to copy and adopt his apparel. And the once terrible Turk. Nearly everyone who thought of him at all was, either contemptuously or compassionately, sorry for the Turk. Never was a nation so thorny beaten, smashed, denationalized- thus went current and careless thinking. There was the picture of the carrion Ottoman pitchforked clear and forever out of Europe, as he presumably had most richly, and for a long time, deserved. Or, more truly, as Sabatier drew him in L'Illustration, the fezed Muhammedan, gigantic against the smoke of battles and burning cities, his head turned back a little wistfully over his shoulder towards lost Rumeli, stept gravely across the Bosphorus into Asia. Now the truth of the matter is that if you know the Turk even a little you can't be altogether sorry for him. You may conceive a feeling of commiseration for him subjectively, but objectively it simply won't take effect. And anything in the nature of contempt for a first-class Muhammedan I do not believe can be intelligently entertained. The race, the creed, are too vital for sympathy, too aloof, undismayed, unconvinced, unconvincable. All thru the recurrent disasters of the war, against the evidence of events, this native resiliency of the Osmanli seemed to flicker, and flare out now and then, and to prevail. The soul of it was in the soldiers' voices. At sunset every night in peace of in war, the Ottoman army observes an invariable custom, required by the reglations and hallowed by centuries of warlike tradition. In barracks or in the field the troops are paraded. The bugles blow a call something like "taps," the "good- night" of our army. And then, after the last note of the bugle, the whole regiment or battalion sings out in a wild shout, Padishaim chok yasha-a-a-a!* prolonging the last syllable with a rising inflection in a kind of cheer. The first time I heard that yell was on *"Long live our Padishah (Sultan)." 497[Enc in Marvin 9-25-13] 8-28-13 498 THE INDEPENDENT [August 28 a rainy evening in the Dardanelles as our Austrian steamer was slowly kicking its way thru Turkish mine fields in the wake of a puttering little guide boat. Leaning over the rail I was watching the drab shore slip past, less than a quarter of a mile away, when suddenly across the water came the call of bugles blowing their wild Levantine taps form some masked fort. Then what must have been at least a thousand invisible men let drive all together with that clamoring shout-"yasha-a-a" echoing out thru the drizzle, sage and thrilling, and lighting up the bleak shores of the straits as if with fire. That was in November. Afterwards, while living in Constantinople, I used to hear that same yell nearly every evening, for there was a big barracks down under the hill where the bugles were going all day long for one thing or another. On the walled road which runs along the upper side of the Petits Champs de Morts groups of people used to stop and watch the magnificent way the sun sometimes went down over Stamboul. Greek priests and beggars, derby-hatted Europeans, soldiers, shrouded women, a turban here and there-they made a quaint silhouette picked out black against the splendor. Below them groves of cypress tress, their summits touched with color, pinnacled up out of the shadows as if from mysterious gardens. At such times, just as the sun dipt into the Marmora, came the bugle-call from the barracks with the long cheer on the end of it. And always, in spite of the valedictory time of day and the funeral cypress trees with thousands of crows going discordantly to roost among their branches, in spite of the battles that had been lost and the cities that had fallen since first I heard it in November, that mighty cheer had never a note of defeat in it. Rather it made me imagine what it must have been in other days to hear and see hordes of Janissaries come over the walls of doomed Christian towns. What an extra vindictive bite it must have now, if one could hear the regiments of Enver Bey's garrison singing it out these summer evenings form Adrianople across the dusty trenches where, so recently, the ever-victorious Bulgars lay! The psychology and personality of the Turk are pretty generally misunderstood or only dimly comprehended at long range. Among all those who went out to record his passing last winter there were few who did not grow to like him. Even while witnessing his deserved disasters one felt as much admiration as pity for him. Condemn his lack of system, his shiftless unwillingness to take thought for the morrow, his inability to learn from experience;-"The Turk," Major James says, "left to himself, has not sufficient administrative faculty to work a windmill"- you may condemn all his shortcomings, but you can't help acknowledging his patience and courage, his indomitableness in defeat. An alien in race, speech, and religion, there is nevertheless a human charm about the Turk's very inconsequentiality, in his gipsy traits which have made, and will always make, him at heart a nomad. Even before internecine strife among the Balkan Allies relieved the pressure upon a supposedly demoralized Ottoman Government, it was difficult to find signs of a national chastening in Turkey. The people seemed impervious to defeat. Neither officially on the part of Kiamil's or, later, Shefket's Government, nor in the variously inspired Turkish journals, nor in the every day life of the people in the capital or in the country districts of Anatolia where I traveled, could I discover any marked traces of dismay, any sense of national disaster. The Osmanli high and low were either entertaining a total misconception of what had actually taken place or they had already resigned themselves to the irrevocable past and unforeseeable future in the true spirit of Islam. As a matter of fact both surmises were correct for the masses of the people, altho we must attribute a more intricate state of mind to the group of men and fanatics who were endeavoring to steer the water-logged ship of empire into calmer waters. Some of the substratum of this apathy, this pervading complacency of spirit, was a matter of flat ignorance. Especially since this was often evident in Constantinople, must it have been more prevalent still in outlying vilayets of Anatolia (A. M.) and Syria. For example, my kavass one day overheard some Turks talking together onEnc. in Marion 9-25-13 8-28-13 1913 THE TURK 499 board the small steamer in which we were ferrying across the Bosphorus form Galata to Scutari. Our course lay thru the imposing fleet of foreign men-of-war lying at anchor of Top-haneh, the enormous German "Goeben" leading a column of twelve gray ships which flew astern the ensigns of the seven most important European nations. And one Turk, if you please, was explaining to his neighbors that these were the prizes already captured form the enemy by the glorious Ottoman Navy! In Brousa, only a day's journey from Constantinople, I talked thru an interpreter with several Ottoman subjects who then (in February), four months after the Peace of Lausanne, believed they were still at war with Italy; in Smyrna, where mail-carrying steamers come and go almost every day, I was informed by different authorities that the real reason for continuing good order thruout Anatolia lay in the belief, by the great bulk of the Muhammedan population, that the war was turning in favor of Islam. Among those believers perhaps, after all, there may have been some prophetic souls. From these strata of the Sultan's subjects the bulk of the army was then, and is now, drafted. In this hazy but sanguine temper the second and third reserves were recalled to the colors. Very little news sifted back form the front, from the theater of events wherever it was:-Tchatalja, Gallipoli, Adrianople. Much of the printed news could not have been rightly interpreted even where it could be read. The tales the wounded told did not carry far because, in the first place, as a Red Crescent surgeon said to me with justifiable exaggeration, "There are no wounded." Thus the attitude of the army, as a stubborn flood tide now flows back into Thrace, in spite of treaties, across the desolation left by the spring ebb, is not hard to understand. Coming from recruiting grounds of faith and ignorance your true Osmanli is, besides, as natural a fighting man as is the Japanese and, like all good fighting men, he never know when he is beaten. Most certainly he does not know that he has been beaten. On top of the substratum of ignorance and Muhammedan resignation to fate we find, then, also a brave and blind obstinacy in the army. Of these ingredients the national resiliency is made. With all of this in mind think of some 400,000 of these combactative Moslems far to the north and west of the boundary decreed by the peace of London, once more in possession of Adrianople, their most cherished city, and then you may see how far away hovers still the peace of southeastern Europe. But when all is said and admitted about the way the Turkish nation in general met and ignored defeat- and seems to the ignoring treaties- the way the Turks individually took their dark hours remains, at least to one observer, far more impressive. Generalities, however shrewd, about Ottoman traits leave you cold. But the spectacle of those traits exemplified in suffering men and women is unforgettable. It was always very difficult for me to rehabilitate out of refugee camps, cholera barracks, and the silent aisles of hospitals, any conception of the Terrible Turk. And even if those old tales be true- it is astonishing how the bottom falls out of some of them- even if the Turks be all that they have been destructively painted, almost we can forgive them for the terribleness of their victories and reprisals because of their uncomplaining gentleness and courage in adversity. From Thrace last spring more than 200,000 refugees fled southeastward ahead for the armies to Constantinople and across the Bosphorus into Anatolia. From Macedonia 40,000 more trekked southward to Salonica and other Aegean ports, many of them to be transported thence to Smyrna and the hinterland of Aidan. It looked a sad and dreary migration, this drift of war wreckage, telling for away in quiet waters of the violence and destruction of the northern storm. To a European nothing seemed sadder in their plight than the wholesale breaking up of families. The men of these families who have survived, and may yet survive, the battles, sieges, fortunes, and epidemics of possibly more war will only by luck ever see their wives, their parents and children again. For in disposing of refugees the Ottoman Government has kept no record of where the different groupsEnc in Martin 9-25-13 8-28-13 500 THE INDEPENDENT August 28 have come form or whither they have gone. No registration exists, no means of identification or tracing. Yet what impressed me most about these homeless exiles, after having seen several thousands of them in European and in Asiatic Turkey, was their imperturbability, their quiet cheerfulness, and their good looks. The pity that charitable foreigners instinctively felt for them was in one sense really wasted. It was natural to attribute to them a deep sense of bereavement. The tragedy of their lives seemed overpowering. But in talking with them you found almost no trace of mental suffering, of regret, no anguish of irretrievable loss. Of course a people as reserved as Mohammedans would be slow, even in distress, in letting a foreigner know their real feelings, and getting at an alien state of mind thru an interpreter is always unsatisfactory. Consequently I was much strengthened in my own conclusion by the corraborative statements of Greeks, Armenians, and even of English-speaking Turks. Like most Mohammedans, and like all Muhammedan Turks, these refugees live only in the present. What they feel strongly are the material wants of the present; food, clothing, fire. The past with all it held for them of contentment, of familiar surroundings, of recent dismay and terror, is buried. Of what the future has in store for them seemingly they wonder not at all. Into the Universe, and why not knowing Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as wing along the waste, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing. It seemed very wonderful to me to find among these people the realization of what Islam needs to them; to find Kisment being lived open-eyed and with a smile: to meet the proof that a nation of nomadic Tartars has not changed in kind during all these centuries they have camped on European soil. As i have said before, these traits, especially thus seen, have a charm. Undoubtedly they have hindered the Osmanli, as they have hindered other nomads, form maintaining themselves permanently in established communities; unquestionably they have brought about his failure in competition with nations which systematically take thought for the day after tomorrow. But they bring the Turk to some of the elemental experience of life most becomingly. Because of them he "greets the unseen with a cheer" in battle or, smitten down by cholera, with an unfaltering prayer. And because of them he undergoes the "bludgeoning of chance," privation, loss, if not always with a joyful spirit, at least with rare fortitude and absence of outcry. There are ever so many things the matter with the Turk, but in distress there is something very throbbed about him "and the missis and the kid." And what splendid women and children they were! When you thought of all they had been thru: of long flights over quagmire roads in open carts, of encampments in rain and wind, of hunger and thirst, and then long journeys packed like cattle on transports or freight cars - the wonder was that any of them had survived to take up new lives. The children swarmed: cheeks like russet apples and big, untroubled, black eyes, very dirty, and very healthy. They represented the survival of the superset, little Josephs and Josephines in their wadded coats of many colors, making a sunshine in cold bare halls and rooms, and taking the solemnity from dim mosques. Adversity had plucked away yashmaks form the patient faces of their shy mothers; rarely if ever before was so much Turkish felinity unveiled. But the revelation was also a great surprise. Not the soft faces of playthings confronted a new lift of exile, but rather types like the women of Lombardy, strong, hardy, firmly drawn, colored as if by the sun and wind, deep-eyed, vital. As I saw thousands of these people continuing to thrive uncomplainingly under conditions which would have destroyed a steam-heated are it was difficult to understand why they had to go or how a nation made of such stock could be decadent. In the hospitals and cholera camps I got in other ways the same unforgettable impression of the Turks which I heard in their sunset cheer and recognized among their lost women and children. There the soldiers who sauntered in and out of battle bore what they had to bear quietly or wandered on out of life unper-[*Enc. in Marvin 9-25-13 8-28-13*] 1913 THE LAST FORTRESS 501 plexed. They were like big children to care for, but they were men-patient, grateful, and unafraid- when it came to standing pain or dying. There was one soldier in the Tashkishla hospital at Pera whom the Red Cross tried particularly hard to save. I tell his story because it seems very typical. His regiment was one of those strangely unfit Anatolian levies of middle-aged men and boys which the Turkish mobilization plans had thrown into Thrace, insufficiently officered or provisioned, to stop the pick of the Bulgars. He had been hit in the leg by a piece of shrapnel at Lule-Bourgas and the wound, which if properly treated in a field hospital might not have proved serious, had been allowed to go a week without any medical attendance. By some miracle he had got into the Tchatalja lines and had been sent from there on one of the hospital trains into the city. When the surgeon saw him he shook his head, but the boy's native vitality-he was only eighteen years old- pulled him thru blood poisoning, and he hung on day after day, getting weaker and weaker from the slight internal hemorrhage of a wound that would not heal. Finally an operation was performed in the forlorn hope of mending the frayed arteries and thus saving him. But he did not survive it. The soldiers in the ward where he lay were in charge of an old Armenian nurse who spoke Turkish perfectly. She had had all the care of this boy and he, with the others, had grown accustomed to listen and to look for her coming as the bright times in their long, dreary days of suffering. Just before he died he asked that the nurse be brought to him, and when she had come and knelt at his bedside he said to her softly, "I go now," and then, very faintly, "I shall listen for your footsteps." New York City. The Last Fortress By Willard A. Wattles So you have come a-courting, boy, with bonnet in your hand And all the little juggler tricks that women understand; You swear your love is true, lad, and bend your knee so low; And tho I will not have you, sir, I cannot say you no. Go off and win your spurs, boy, and then come back to me; I'll never take a lady's page to tend the hearth with me. Now, don't go to whimpering, but set your teeth and win; And when you come a-knocking next, mayhap I'll let you in. I love a flashing rapier that glances in the sun, A bronzed and battle-sabered cheek that tells of ramparts won, A coal-black stallion's ringing feet and straining nostrils wide, And strength to swing a battle-ax as fast and far we ride. There is no lady in the land, tho fair and proud she be, Who would be flattered by a boy, for all his courtesy; But if a knight-at-arms should come with sheltering blade and shield, There is no lady would not rise and feel her proud to yield. There is no lady rich and grand who would not leave her bower To share with love a soldier's cloak and midnight's darkest hour; So when you come from conquering, perhaps I may adore you Unless a fairer, bolder lad should win my heart before you. Amherst, Mass.Enc in Marvin 9-25-13 8-28-13 [Enc in Marvin 9-25-13] INDEPENDENT OPINIONS It is not enough that we have readers who find fault with our politics, our religion and our literary taste, and who challenge the correctness of our geography, history and spelling, but we cannot even make a harmless remark on the relative weediness of weeds without being contradicted by somebody who evidently has intimate personal acquaintance with that disreputable class of the vegetable kingdom. He wants, apparently to start a voting contest on the worst weed. Perhaps our readers will think that he has maligned crabgrass. Even witchgrass may have its admirers or at least defenders. But our correspondent is greatly mistaken if he thinks that we are going to settle the question personally by weeding out his onion patch for him. Let every man tend to his own garden, said the philosopher. Nor do we contemplate going into the business of cultivating Rumex acetosa, altho it may well be that such an occupation would pay better and be free form certain annoyances attaching to the editorial position. I have derived genuine pleasure and amusement form your editorial "Sorrel" in the August 14 number of THE INDEPENDENT: pleasure, for it is well written, and amusement that so good an editorial writer should class sorrel with witchgrass as a necessary and inevitable weed. I agree with you that witchgrass is facile princeps for cussedness among weeds, and in some soils inevitable. Sorrel, on the other hand, is only a symptom and easily eradicable without the use of a grasshook and hoe. Sorrel thrives only in new soil, or in soil that has been allowed to become too acid. An application of slaked lime for several seasons will absolutely banish it. If you insist on having your soil acid, set it out in the cultivated sorrel (Rumex acetosa), "sour grass" or "grass," as it is called by gardeners, which grows to a hight of twelve to sixteen inches with leaves two to three inches broad, and which sold at wholesale in Wallabout Market during May, June and July for form $1 to $1.50 a barrel. I am sure I do not know whether the revenue to be derived from the culture of the latter equals that you derive from fighting the 502 former and writing editorials about it, or not. Verb. sap. sat. In reality, I am writing this to record my vote for second place in cussedness among weeds in favor of summergrass or crabgrass. It is even now sending up its red spikes filled with seeds to torment the gardener next summer. I think all market gardeners in this vicinity will vote with me. Fortunately it does not flourish in all soils. If you will drop over here some day soon, I will set you to weeding a patch of small onions for sets next spring, and after an hour's work I think you will vote with me. M.B. LAMBERT. Jamaica, New York. THE RECORD OF A PEN. In our issue of July 24, W.J. Ghent discussed and compared the various makes of fountain pens in the market. His remarks elicited a reply form a pen which had been in active service for half a century. It occurs to me that it may interest you to know I am writing this with a gold pen point purchased of Sidney Rider in Providence, Rhode Island, in September, 1863, and it has done all my writing as a busy high school and academy principal, a university professor and a pastor since its purchase. This includes seven books, about 200 magazine articles and innumerable letters. In 1898 I wearied of using it as a dip pen and L.E. Waterman put it into one of his best fountain holders and it has worked perfectly since that time. I wonder if any gold pen has a better record? LA ROY F. GRIFFIN. Westwood, Massachusetts. We wonder too. One of the New York papers has offered a prize to the commuter who has traveled most miles in the course of his daily journeys to and from the city, and the total mileage of the competitors is being compared and computed. Such a competition might be held for fountain pens were any mathematician competent to calculate, for example, the number of miles this pen point has traveled in the busy hand of the Rev. Mr. Griffin. That it is in good workable condition in spite of the nearness of its golden anniversary, we can see by the handwriting. What puzzles us[ENCL IN SHUMWAY 8-28-13]BROOKLYN. THURSDA DR. E. S. SHUMWAY OUT FOR POUNDS Bull Moose Committeeman From 18th A. D. Finds Little Opposition. APPEALS TO INDEPENDENTS. Efficient, Honest and Non-Partisan in His Work. Dr. Edgar S. Shumway, Bull Moose County Committeeman from the Thirty-ninth Election District of the Eighteenth Assembly District, is working hard for the nomination of Lewis H. Pounds for Borough President on the fusion ticket. Dr. Shumway has polled by mail the Bull Moose of his own Election district and has found only one who has expressed opposition to Mr. Pounds. In an effort to reach independent voters Dr. Shumway to-day issued the following statement: "Should men direct their own politics-- choose their own Governors? "Do you realize that the most important part of the process is the selecting of candidates? "Because of absorption in personal affairs, men have left this to 'leaders,' sometimes the 'boss.' "No matter how high the principles of the rank and file of any party, unless these men are willing to give a little thought to questions of their own government, they, and no one else, make the 'boss' essential. "We have striven to build up a party in which every member shall have as potent a voice as any member. Do you believe in that principle? "It will never work unless you are willing to think for yourself in politics as elsewhere, and to express your thoughts, so that they can be carried out. "Any other course involves leaving matters to a few, who will act, leaving you merely the privilege of ratifying their acts by your vote. "That is 'machine politics," and you are responsible for it. So do not blame 'the boss'; he has to do it because you won't. And it would cost one cent--for a postal card. "All this is trite enough, but note a present application. "You have watched the efficient, honest, non-partisan work of the Department of Public Works under Lewis H. Pounds, now Borough President. You think it would be wise to continue him in office, rather than to trust a new, possibly inefficient, possibly partisan, certainly inexperienced man. But you are doing nothing. "While a Republican or Democrat should write his leader, can you do nothing? "Write at once to the Progressive County Committeeman of your Election district. If you don't know the local representative, write Timothy L. Woodruff, 198 Montague street. It will cost you one cent, and be worth to you more than a hundred votes on election day. So-called 'leaders' are really followers of public opinion when you let them know it."Enc in Miller 8-28-13From POST Address: Boston, Mass. Date ______ Established: MAINE ON VERGE OF HOT FIGHT National Orators in Triangular Battle for Congress AUGUSTA, Me., Aug. 24.—With orators coming from every section of the United States and State politicians working as they never have before, the contest in the third congressional district to elect a successor to the late Forrest Goodwin of Skowhegan promises to be the liveliest Maine has ever had. The election is to be held on Sept. 8. The candidates are John A. Peters of Ellsworth, Republican; Edward M. Lawrence of Lubec, Progressive, and William R. Pattangall of Waterville, Democrat. NOTED ORATORS DUE Among the orators enlisted for the Democratic candidate are Frederick W. Plaisted erstwhile Governor; Representative D. J. McGillicuddy, United States Senators Charles F. Johnson and Obadiah Gardner, Mayor Elmer E. Newbert of this city and Niles L. Perkins, city treasurer of Augusta; Representatives A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania, Cullop of Indiana, Rainey of Illinois, Carlin of Virginia, Dixon of Indiana, Harry St. George Tucker of Virginia and State Representative Keegan. Governor Cox of Ohio has been asked to join in the campaign, and it is hoped to get Speaker Champ Clark. The wires have been kept hot in the last few days in an effort to get Mr. Bryan for a flying trip of one day through the district. Progressives' Plans The Progressives emphasize the fact that they have Albert A. Beveridge of Indiana. He is to spend two days, Sept. 5 and 6, in the district, and will speak in eight places. Other Progressives are James R. Garfield of Ohio, Charles J. Bonaparte of Maryland, J. J. Fitzgerald of New York, Charles H. Thompson of Vermont, Frank H. Haskell of Portland, George C. Webber of Auburn, Albert Averill of Oldtown, the Rev. Henry E. Dunnack of this city, Halbert P. Gardner of Patten and Alton C. Wheeler of South Paris. The Progressives hope to have Victor Murdock of Kansas, Walter M. Chandler, Hugh Gordon Miller and Bainbridge Colby of New York, Joseph Walker of Massachusetts and N. Winslow Williams of Maryland. Among other speakers are the Rev. H. H. Hull of Islesboro, Roland Jones of Winthrop, Charles D. Keene of Portland, Cecil Daggett of Waterville, Ellsworth E. Peacock of Readfield, the Rev. L. H. Clark of West Gardiner, Dr. Robert H. Wiseman of Lewiston, Arthur L. Thayer of Bangor, Clifford McGlauflin of Portland, the Rev. C. G. Mosher of this city and Walter C. Emerson of Portland. Will Aid G. O. P. Among those outside the State who have offered their services in aid of the Republican candidate are United States Senators Borah of Idaho and Cummins of Iowa, Samuel W. McCall of Massachusetts, McCumber of North Dakota, Campbell of Kansas, Augustus P. Gardner of Massachusetts, Kelley of Michigan, Willis of Ohio and Hill of Connecticut. Other Republican speakers are William T. Cobb, erstwhile Governor of Maine; Scott Wilson of Portland, H. C. Buzzell of Rockland, Senator Frank L. Dutton of this city, Cyrus N. Blanchard of Wilton, Roy Marston of Skowhegan, Augustus Simmons of North Anson, Dr. W. W. West and Carleton Doak of Belfast, Elmer P. Spofford of Deer Isle, the Rev. R.B. Matthews of Ellsworth, John E. Nelson and Judge Benedict F. Maher of this city, Fred L. Mason of Ellsworth, Edward F. Merrill, W. Folsom Merrill, A. K. Butler, Percy A. Smith and S. J. Walton of Skowhegan, Edward Hinckley of Fairfield, Ashley St. Clair of Calais, A. L. Robinson of Portland, E. C. Plummey of Bath, Judge Benjamin F. Cleaves of Biddeford, B. W. Blanchard, Taber D. Bailey and Reuel Robinson of Camden. Battle In Five Counties The counties in the district are Somerset, Kennebec, Waldo, Hancock and Washington. Pattangall was opposed in the primary by S. W. Gould, Peters by Roy Haines. Pattangall not only received the highest total vote but he was accorded a support which, for the extent of its geographical distribution, was a surprise even to his warmest friends and supporters. His majority was more than 1900 votes, Kennebec and Washington supporting him overwhelmingly, Somerset and Waldo being for Gould, and the Hancock county vote rather evenly divided. Letters sent out from Portland, which is outside of the third district, trying to infuse the liquor question into the campaign have had a negative effect on the voters. The Democracy is opposed both in the Republican and Progressive camps by old campaigners. Governor William T. Haines has been a participant in the Peters conferences, both prior to the primaries and since that time, and the Republican machine is in better condition than since 1910. Walter C. Emerson of Portland and Oakland, one of the brightest of the younger politicians, is in charge of the district headquarters of the Progressives in Waterville.enc in Miller 8-28-13 8-28-13JOURNAL. Pages. 4 O'clock Edition. Price 2 Cents. All Sold. No More Brady War Books THIRD DISTRICT CAMPAIGN OPENED BY PROGRESSIVES FRIDAY AT BLUEHILL Hugh Gordan Miller Delivered Stirring Address on Principles of the Party. Town Committee and Members Making Vigorous Fight. BLUEHILL, Me., July 5 (Special).— In 1912 this was a Progressive town. Anyone disposed to question that statement is respectfully referred to the records of the last November vote. As it was then, so it is today! Those who desire to question this last proposition should have been here on Friday—the Glorious Fourth. When you find a town, the size of this turning out the audience like that which greeted Hugh Gordon Miller of New York, when he opened the third district congressional campaign of this year here on that day, on a holiday and a hot one, as was that, then the right to question the town's party preference disappears. Bluehill is Progressive! A few hard shelled old-timers who haven't yet learned that there was an election last November are not admitting this. No one expects them to. When the republican party and the democrat party neither have a candidate on the ticket these men will be saying: "Oh, there's nothing to this progressive movement; they'll all be back in the republican ranks next election [Continued on second page.] YACHT CLUB SAILS FOR CAMDEN TODAY Hazy Skies but Cool, Light Breezes for Eastern Yacht Club. BOOTHBAY, Harbor, Me., July 5. —Under hazy skies but with light, cool breezes, the Eastern Yacht Club left at mid-forenoon to-day for the Western Penobscot with a prospective harbor for the night at Canden. The racing portion of the fleet was given a thirty-three mile run outside of the Bantam and old Man Ledges with a finish off White Head The race was started shortly after 10 o'clock In the meantime the cruisers led by the Caravel Haleyon, went thru [?]a[?]n Island passages and threatened the ledges of Davis Strait It was a beautiful day in Muscongus Bay, altho the Camden hills were shrouded in smoke from numerous forest fires in Southern Maine. A number of yachts in the cruising division stopped for lunch at Port Clyde. where their lockers were well stocked with lobsters and fish from this old seaport. [Continued on fifteenth page.] DESPERATE FIGHTING WITH THE BULGARIANS VIENNA, Austria, July 5.— Desperate fighting has been in progress since yesterday near Veles (Koprili) according to the Sofia correspondent of the Nue Freie Presse, who says the Bulgarian troops repulsed the Servian southern wing with heavy losses and expects to occupy Veles shortly. The same correspondent telegraphs that a great battle extending over an area of fifty miles is being fought to the north of Saloniki where 80,000 Greeks are opposed to 1000,000 Bulgarians. The Bulgarians since Monday last had made a number of minor attacks with the object of inducing the Greeks to take the offensive. The bait was taken and the battle begun. The result is expected to be a deciding factor in the Greek and Bulgarian campaign. The strategy of the Bulgarian commanders forced the Greeks to abandon several fortified positions near Saloniki, Langasa Lake and Beshik Lake. The Greeks are now threatened by an outflanking attack from a column of 30,000 Bulgarians advancing from the south of Tahynos lake. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 5.—The Ottoman government has not yet decided what action it will take in view of the Balkan situation, but the opinion prevails here that Turkey will not allow the opportunity to escape obtaining some material or moral benefit from the clash between the Balkan allies. BELGRADE, Servia, July 5.—Bulgarian troops have attacked Zayaetchar, a Servian frontier town, according to reports just received here. A serious engagement is expected during the day. The newspapers state that the Bulgarian troops have been driven from the fortified positions they had taken up on the left banks of the rivers Bregalinitza and Zhelenitza after their first defeat. Large numbers of prisoners were taken by the Servians. SALONIKI, July 5.—The Greek troops today captured from the Bulgarians the small town of Lahana, on railroad from Saloniki to Serres. It is considered the most important position in the vicinity and the key to Serres, which lies about 20 miles to the northeast. The losses on both sides were considerable. DAVID BAYTON IS DEAD. FALL RIVER, Mass., July 5.—David A. Brayton, jr., for 32 years treasurer of the Durfee Mills and prominent in banking and textile circles in this city, died early this morning, after a brief illness. He was 58 years of age. Mr. Brayton was vice-president of the First National bank, a director in the B. M. C. Durfee Safe Deposit & Trust Co., Sagamore Manufacturing Co, and Fall River Mutual Insurance Co. He leaves two brothers, John J. and Dana A. Brayton, and a sister, Miss Elizabeth H. Brayton. MUST NOT INSULT STARS AND STRIPES WASHINGTOwN, July 5.—Two incidents involving desecrations of National flags which marked celebrations yesterday are expected to form the subject of complaints to the state department, tho so far nothing has been heard from them. The affair at Winnipeg, Man, involving the trampling of an American flag at a British parade probably cannot be made the basis of an official protest for reason that international law does not guarantee the protection of flags of a foreign country except where they are displayed over the official buildings. At the incident at Tucson, Ariz., however, where the flag over the Mexican consulate was torn down, the State Department probably will feel obliged to request the local authorities to make a proper apology and amends to the Mexican consul, if that can be done without involving any official recognition of the Huerta government, which appears to be the great apprehension of the State Department at this juncure. TUCSON, Ariz., July 5—The hauling down yesterday of the Mexican flag flying over the consulate of Alexandro Ainslie was today made the subject of a report to the Mexican embassy at Washington. Consul Ainslee also made a formal protest to Major Hoffman. Prominent Mexican residents here are formulating a protest to be sent to the State Department at Washington. On the morning of the Fourth, the Mexican flag was removed and the American banner hoisted in its place. It was said today that small boys made the exchange, encouraged by men. The consul asked the civil authorities that the miscreants be punished. LAKE TOXAWAY, N.C., July 5.— Compulsory education of children in the public schools and the enactment of more advanced child labor laws, were the principal matters adopted yesterday by the South Carolina Cotton manufacturers' association. Criticism of the method of running of the mills was said to have inspired the action. COURT SQUARE, AUBURN, ME. YOUNG MEN THE attention which we give to an ac. count is not measured by the amount of money deposited. We especially invite young men to open accounts with this bank and assure them of every service which an up-to-date bank can extend. Both checking and savings accounts are received, interest being paid on the latter. NATIONAL SHOE & LEATHER BANK - CAPITAL & SURPLUS - $300,000.0033. PIAZZA DEL POPOLO, 3 ROMA Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. August 29, 1913 I should feel greatly honored if you would allow your name to figure as Honorary President of the "World Conscience" Society, the purpose of which is to organize an international sympathy for the realization of a world centre of communication. Hoping for a favorable reply, Yours very truly, Hendrik Christian AndersenTHE LOUISVILLE HERALD The Best in Kentucky JOHN C. SILAFFER EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Aug. 29. 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City. Dear Col. Roosevelt, A month or so age, in reply to a letter from me, you were so kind as to express interest in my forthcoming book "The Progressive Movement," which will be the first attempt, I think, to put in easily available form the principles and program of our party. As a text book for the rank and file I am hopeful it will be of real service. I have interested Miss Kellor and Mr. Hibben, of the Service, in the book, and page proofs are being sent them by the publishers Small, Maynard and Co. They are also being sent to you, and I hope you will write for me a dozen lines of approval before you leave for South America. I know you are tremendously busy, but I know also your almost limitless capacity for work and your remarkable gift for getting to the heart and value of a thing almost instantly. Because of this I venture to press my request upon you in the belief that a few words of approval from you will win a wider audience for the book and that a wider audience will mean more accomplished for the cause. I hope you are going to be able toTHE LOUISVILLE HERALD The Best in Kentucky JOHN C. SILAFFER EDITOR AND PUBLISHER give us one day in Louisville before you leave. The prospect here is hopeful beyond my most sanguine expectations of a month ago. A visit from you, I believe, would make Progressive victory certain in November. This city is a Roosevelt city. With every assurance of esteem and regard, I am, Yours faithfully, S. J. Duncan-Clark Associate Editor The Louisville Herald.P.O. Box #287 Providence R.I. Aug 29 " 1913 Theodore Roosevelt Esq Sagamore Hill N.Y. Dear Sir: It is thought that you can accomplish nearly everything, therefore I ask for a few minutes of your thoughts and a little advice. I seek a position where my knowledge of French, German & Chinese, and a good knowledge of the Far East would be of value. I have tried by all methods I could think of to obtain one, without success. Will you please be kind enough to suggest an original method. Yours very truly T. B. DawsonThe Examiner Printing House Publishers of The Lancaster Examiner Daily and Semi-Weekly Printers and Binders Magazine, Book and Job Work Achey & Gorrecht, Prop’rs. - - 7 and 9 North Queen Street Lancaster, Pa., Aug. 29, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear sir:- Enclosed herewith is the first page of the New Era of August 27. The marked publication headed "T. R. Stirs Bull Moose," while plainly a cheap trick to deceive and disorganize the Progressives, if permitted to stand uncontradicted, may prove the deciding factor here in the approaching election in November. Last year we polled over 10,000 straight Progressive votes to the 12,000 of the Republican party. With better organization, many accession to our ranks and the moral effect of having almost succeeded in defeating a Machine thought to be impregnable our prospects for November are exceptionally promising if we can continue the confidence of the people in the Progressive cause. A few words for publication from you in relation to the matter would firmly anchor such confidence and stir the great army of your admirers in this county to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. Trusting we shall hear from you soon, and with best wishes I have the honor to remain Very sincerely yours, W. Frank Gorrecht Editor "The Examiner." [*Enclosure*]Mr. Graham and myself, Sincerely yours, Mary Auti[?] Graham Box 195. Hartsdale, N.Y. Aug. 29, 1913. My dear Colonel Roosevelt,- I am only too proud to be included photographically in your book, on terms of perfect understanding, I shall forward the desired photograph to Macmillan's at once, and when the book comes out I shall forward the desied photograph to Macmillan's at once, and when the book comes out I shallturn the pages without reading till I came to that very picture, or I am very much mistaken about my feelings. Since circumstances provided me with an excuse for writing to you at this time, I cannot refrain from expressing my utter delight in your last autobiographical article in the Outlook. In our house, we have been saying of the successive instalments "This one is the best yet!" But now this last one — it really reaches a climax of excellence! Its directness, its humor, the inevitableness of its moral - they are entirely yours. I wish I could make all your enemies read your autobiography. You would then have the whole world for your friends. With best wishes for your every enterprise, fromProgressive Service National Progressive Headquarters FORTY-SECOND STREET BUILDING PROGRESSIVE SERVICE COMMITTEE FRANCES A. KELLOR WM. DRAPER LEWIS SAMUEL MCCUNE LINDSAY JANE ADDAMS R. G. VALENTINE GIFFORD PINCHOT GEORGE L. RECORD COUNCIL OF CHAIRMEN MISS MARY MCDOWELL HENRY MOSKOWITZ PAUL U. KELLOGG GEORGE W. KIRCHWEY DELOS WILCOX MRS. MAUDE NATHAN WILLIAM L. RANSOM HERBERT KNOX SMITH TRUXTON BEALE ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE PROGRESSIVE CLUBS HON. THEODORE ROOSEVELT HARVARD, HONORARY PRESIDENT RALPH SAMUEL DARTMOUTH, SECRETARY JULIA KNAPP WELLESLEY, TREASURER MRS. CHAS. S. BIRD FOR WOMEN'S COLLEGES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FRANKLIN P. ADAMS, UNIV. OF MICH. HON. ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, DE PAUW HON. R. R. FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA PROF. ALBERT B. HART, HARVARD WILL IRWIN, LELAND STANFORD DR. HENRY MOSKOWITZ, C. C. OF N. Y. GIFFORD PINCHOT, YALE DONALD RICHBERG, CHICAGO UNIV. MRS. ARTHUR SCRIBNER, BRYN MAWR NEW YORK CITY, August 29th, 1913. Frank Harper, Esq., c/o The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. Dear Mr. Harper: As you will see by this letterhead, Colonel Roosevelt is Honorary President of our Association of Collegiate Progressive Clubs. Mr. Ralph Samuel, the Secretary, is planning a vigorous campaign for next year in the Colleges where we have no representation as yet. To aid him in this, he is preparing the copy of a sort of bulletin which he intends to distribute towards the middle of the collegiate year. This bulletin will contain articles by Walter Weyl, Alice Carpenter, I hope Senator Beveridge, myself, and others, expressing in a brief way what the Association expects and plans to do. Mr. Samuel desires, very naturally I think, a paragraph or so from Colonel Roosevelt to include in this bulletin. I should be glad if you would suggest this to Colonel Roosevelt at some convenient moment before his departure. Mr. Samuel would also like to meet Colonel Roosevelt for a moment or two some morning when he is in town. As Mr. Samuel has volunteered his work and has been a very active and capable worker for the cause, I should think that this might be arranged. Will you be good enough to take it up with Colonel Roosevelt? Sincerely yours, Paxton Hilbur Director, Bureau of Education. PH.HDJr.August 29, 1913. Mr. J. S. Billig, 241 E Hanover St., Trenton, N.J. Dear Mr. Billig:- Colonel Roosevelt has referred in your letter to him of the 24th to me for reply, and I take pleasure in sending you under separate cover a batch of literature that the Progressive National Service has issued since its inception. While I think you will be interested in reading all of it, I wish to call your attention to the platform of the party - "A contract with the people." This I trust will enable you to "hold up your end of the argument." Very truly yours, Francis A Kellor Chief of Service FAK/CMP Copy to Mr. Frank Harper.magazine presented here. If you will give me as soon as possible your standpoint on the question of this international project, I shall be exceedingly grateful to you. I am yours obediently Adolf Lapp Dr. phil. ADOLF LAPP FRANKFURT A. M., WAIDMANNSTR. 13. 29 August 13. [*36.*] [*ack 9/18/13*] [[shorthand]] Dear Sir. In the New Year of 1914 there is to appear from a great German publishing house a new magazine, the International Review, whose task it will be to make a literary equivalent for the Interparliamentary Conference, and by the exact[s] and widest possibly reaching presentation of the intellectual and economic tendencies of all nations, to aid in the comprehension and solution of all political and unpolitical problems. The I. R., under the conduct of national editors, will appear simultaneously in a English, German and French edition, with identical contents, except for the part devoted to belles lettres, and will represent in a perfectly disinterested and impartial way the political, cultural, and economic interests of each nation. Thus in the political section of the I. R. all present and [main] concrete questions of internationalimportance - as, for example, the armament question, war and peace questions, problems of nationality, international law, commercial, and tariff questions, the principle of world-post, standardisation, the question[s] of a world speech, the question of foreigners at the universities, etc. - will be talked over, and in the form of free discussion, an authentic and universal orientation over by given by the professional and most prominent politicians of all nations (parliamentarians, diplomatists, historians, and political authors). In this sense the International Review will be a worthy equivalent for the Interparliamentary Conference. The cultural and economic section of the I. R. will support the international understanding spheres outside the range of politics. The most significant and typical representatives of literature, learning, art, artistic crafts, industry, techies, and commerce - in fact, all significant departments of culture and economics - will come into this section of the International Review. To avoid a superfluous burdening of the section devoted to literature while keeping the contents of the magazine as rich as possible, each edition of the I. R. will contain only the [freign] foreign belles lettres in faultless translation by the best authors. First class reproductions of the masterpieces of painting and sculpture will be subjoined to the single numbers as supplements, and without compulsory sequence. I have taken the liberty of giving you this short view of the purpose and task of the International Review so that you may be able to decide wether you will grant to the new magazine your moral support, and eventually your occasional or continuous cooperation, in prospect. That the I. 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An illustrated semi-monthly Sunday-School paper. Barnens Tidning. An illustrated semi-monthly Sunday-School paper. Swedish. 1114 Newport Ave. Chicago, Ill. [Rock Island Ill]. Aug. 29, 1913 The Outlook. New York, N.Y. Gentlemen:- May the undersigned ask you where if anywhere photographs of our beloved and highly esteemed former president Theodore Roosevelt can be purchased. I long for some characteristic poses of him and have cut some out of magazines, but I wonder if better ones can not be had of the man I adore more than any other man now living. Col. Roosevelt is and has for years been my idol. Very respectfully, Fredrik LarssonTHE BUFFALO CLUB 1867 August 29th, 1913. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- I am glad to see that you have returned In common with nearly every one I meet, I am appalled at the weak policy of the present Administration with respect to Mexican affairs, and it seems to me an opportunity is afforded for you to speak or write on the subject and give expression to the sentiment of the large body of Americans who, I think, believe in a more vigorous policy and that we should peremptorily demand adequate protection for the lives and property of American citizens, and if the de facto government is unable to afford it, that we should take all necessary steps to furnish it ourselves, even to the extent of invading Mexico. When the presence of the missionaries of the civilized world in China caused the Boxer uprising, the Powers, including the United States, did not summon the missionaries home, but they invaded China and gave them protection where they were and levied the expense on the country.With respect to Mexico no one claims that the Americans, who have made lerge investments there and who are sojourning there, are responsible for the various revolutions, and yet, they are notified by this Administration to abandon their homes and property without any assurance that this Government will compel Mexico to indemnify or will indemnify them itself. The only possible explanation of this course, as I view it, consistent with patriotism, is an intention on the part of the Government, after our people are induced to leave Mexico, to invade Mexico or to demand indemnity; but that would involve deception with respect to the plan and purpose of the Administration. Possibly it is too early for those who do not agree with the Administration to oppose its plan, but with respect to that you are the best judge. Faithfully yours, Frank [C?]. Laughlin. [Laughlin] Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York.August 29, 1913 Hon Theodore Roosevelt - Oyster Bay Honorable Sir: On account of your absence from New York of late I doubt if you are familiar with the facts stated in the Editorial of the Brooklyn "Standard Union" which I enclose The Tammany leader of Brooklyn - McCooeyhas within a few days past named Jesse Fuller, Jr - on the Tammany ticket here for county judge - Mr. Fuller having already been named by the "Bull Moose" party for the same position - Mr. Fuller as you are aware, no doubt, is not a Democrat [and] but is a member of our party This is a disgraceful bargain and should be repudiated by the party of which you are the leader. I am but an humble member of the Progressive party but I know that our organization cannot live down a coalition to elect a Tammany Surrogate in Brooklyn With respect - I am your servant Edward M. C. Hamilton Brooklyn, N.YDevon 8/29th - 1913. Dear Col. I enclose a squib. I perpetuated last fall, I send you the original, It [its] reflects my sentiments then, & I have not altered my opinion since; while not too optimistic still I believe that the Inscrutable hands us opportunities when the hour of fruition arrives and the hands upon the dial of human destiny slowly moves toward coming events, The past has shown us that you were betrayed, not defeated & the present clearly demonstrates that those who most bitterly opposed you are being retired to enjoy the limbo of an outraged people's forgetfulness The future will vindicate your policy, & restore to you the sceptre of authority over the affairs of a Nation of the greatest people the ordination of Divine Providence has placed upon the earth to champion the inalienable rights of man and Sir, it is no flattery for me an humble citizen & follower of your teaching to say that there throbs within your breast the loftiest sentiments of honor, duty, & rectitude your character is above reproach & the whole world can proudly & truthfully stand up & exclaim "Ecce Homo." I have the distinguished honor, of subscribing myself with progressive fealty, Sincerely Yours Robt. Willis Martin Devon, Penna[For enc see 10-13-12][[shorthand]] UNITED STATES SENATE, PRESS GALLERY, WASHINGTON, D. C., August 29 , 191 [*[1913]*] Dear Colonel Roosevelt:- In some correspondence that passed between us a few months ago you expressed the wish that sometime I happened in New York you would be glad to have me call and talk over political matters with you. Privately in my work here in the Senate I have heard some things that I believe would interest you relating to the general political outlook and especially as to yourself and your plans for [191 6] 1916. I do not want to obtrude when you are busy but if you find that before you depart for South America you will have a few minutes or half an hour I will be glad to time a visit that I contemplate making to New York to meet your convenience and call. You would be surprised to hear what these Republican senators are saying about the necessity or their willingness that you should lead on a platform or your own making. Only this morning Senator Wesley Jones,(Wash) told me that there was but one thing in your platform of last year that could be questioned by Republicans and that was the recall of judicial decisions. Of course, this was more or less of a private talk. Kenyon told me that it looks as if after all , you might be the only man to unite the party and save it and Borah observed on a [su] suggestion I made that I believed the Republicans would nominate you if you would take it, that it might be the "best solution of the problem." Mr. A. C. Campbell, assistant attorney General under your administration and President Taft's now in Wyoming practicing law said nothing was talked in the West politically but that you would be nominated and elected. I am not promoting anything. But I thought these things would be of interest to you. You need not reply to this preamble as I feel you must be very busy. Mr. Harper may let me know anything of importance you may wish to communicate. Faithfully, Jamy A. MathewsTREASURY DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON, August 29, 1913. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I feel sure that Mr. McAdoo will appreciate very much yours of the 26th, which arrvied during his absence in New York. Very truly yours, Byron R Newton Private Secretary. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City.Form G. 9 B. 30.9 Deutsch-Atlantische Telegraphen-Gesellschaft. (GERMAN ATLANTIC CABLE COMPANY) TWO DIRECT CABLES FROM GERMANY TO NEW YORK. EXCLUSIVE CONNECTION WITH THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY "VIA EMDEN-AZORES" Received at 944 BROADWAY OPP. FLATIRON BLDG. TEL. 2291 GRAMERCY AUG 29 1913 [*SZ*] M. Subject to terms and conditions at back hereof, which are ratified and agreed to. 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Un der Witergabe an andere Linien ist die Gesellschaft nicht [besc?inkt,].TELEPHONE, ORCHARD 1401 Cable Address: "DYFOLK" N. Y. OFFICIAL ORGAN of the FEDERATION of AMERICAN ZIONISTS THE ORDER SONS OF ZION and ORDER KNIGHTS OF ZION DAILY EDITION OF Dos Yiddishe Folk (THE JEWISH NATION) PUBLISHED AT 142 HENRY STREET DURING THE SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST CONGRESS IN VIENNA, AUSTRIA. FROM SEPTEMBER 2nd TO SEPTEMBER 9th, 1913. REACHES NEARLY EVERY JEWISH HOME in the UNITED STATES AND CANADA New York, August 29, 1913. 191 217 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Sir: During the week of the Eleventh International Zionist Congress, which will open in Vienna September 2d, 'Dos Yiddishe Folk,' the weekly organ of the Zionist movement, will appear daily and publish special cables on the proceedings of the Congress and articles on the Zionist movement generally. We should be very glad to receive from you and to publish in our paper a few words of comment on this movement for the creation of a national home for the Jewish people on their ancient soil. Thanking you for your courtesy in the matter, I am Yours respectfully, Bernard G. Richards Editor Special Editions.Douglas Robinson, 14 Wall Street Cable Address, "Ryraport," New York. New York Aug. 29, 1913. Dear Sir:- I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of August 28th, enclosing Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons' account, together with cheque to Colonel Roosevelt's order for $100.54, which sum has been deposited to the credit of his account. Yours very truly, Douglas Robinson S Frank Harper, Esq., #287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. S[*Form 44. NIGHT MESSAGE THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY Incorporated. 23,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This company transmits and delivers messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Night Messages, send at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to ten times the amount paid for transmission; nor in any case when the claim is not presented in writing within thirty days after the message is filled with the company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED NIGHT MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. ROBERT C. CLOWRY, President and General Manager. NUMBER SENT BY REC'D BY CHECK*] 11 MC 29 GEx [*RECEIVED at*] Oyster Bay Aug 29 [*19*][0]13 [*Dated*] D Chicago Ill Aug 29 [*To*] Hon Theo. Roosevelt Ns. Press desires copy of your message early Saturday for Sunday bull dog editorial Kindly wire same by night letter if convenient Chas J Ryberg Chairman 1205 City Hall Square Bldg.[*GEORGE W. RYDER, PROP. TELEPHONE WEST 222 Dupont Riding School 1135 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE. Washington, D.C.*] August 29 [*191*]3 Theodore Roosevelt Esq Dear Sir I am inclosing for your perusal and thought and experience. I had about one year or perhaps a trifle more before you left the White House I have many times tried to make up my mind to write you on this very important subject but each time failed; but just the other day I had a few of the odds struck off and decided to mail you one first because it vitally concerns not only yourself but the whole world. I need not introduce[*GEORGE W. RYDER, PROP. TELEPHONE WEST 222 Dupont Riding School 1135 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE. Washington, D.C., ______ 191__*] myself for you have known both Mrs. Ryder and myself many years We had the pleasure of instructing those of your family who have since grown to manhood & womanhood I would add that the third person seen in the dream was Wm. Taft and every thing I saw has taken place. if you should wish to know any further about this I will willing to tell. I beg to remain respectfully Geo. W. Ryder[FOR ENC SEE 8-29-13]CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS PUBLISHERS FIFTH AVENUE AT 48TH STREET NEW YORK August 29, 1913 Dear Colonel Roosevelt: In pursuance of our conversation to-day, I take pleasure in sending you, with our compliments, a copy of Eder's "Colombia", which has just been received from the other side. I find that a copy of Bishop's book on Panama was sent to Mrs. Roosevelt at Mr. Bishop's request, but if you would like a copy for personal use we should be much pleased to send you one. I am Very sincerely, Arthur H. Scribner To Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.CALAVERAS CORPORATION 1016-1019, HEARST BUILDING SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. TELEPHONE SUTTER 2613 August 29, 1913 Col.Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Sir: People must ask a good many favors of you, but mine is a little out of the ordinary, and you may have time to oblige me. I am a nephew of Col. H.W. Wessells, Retired, who was once with the 2nd U.S. Cavalry. I have lately come into possession of his service sabre, which I value highly as a souvenir, for he carried it through the Spanish war, and afterwards in the the Philippines. He, though a Major at that time, was, I believe, in command of the 2nd Cavalry at the charge of San Juan Hill; and I would like to know definitely whet position his regiment occupied in that charge, and just what work this sabre accomplished. A personal word from you about his connection with that battle would be greatly appreciated. I have not been able to find in the histories at my disposal any reference to the 2nd Cavalry, except an allusion to "some colored troops", who aided in taking the position. Your well-known interest in historical matters is my apology for trespassing on your time. Yours very truly, F. H. SeelyS. SCOTIDAS A. STOICOS OYSTER BAY CANDY KITCHEN MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE CANDIES AND FINE ICE CREAM TEL. 218-R OYSTER BAY OYSTER BAY, N.Y., Aug. 29 1913 The Honorable Theod. Roosvelt Oyster Bay. L.I. Dear Sir: I have follow you almost in every state you have gone but I could not get permision to see you in refference to that lawer of chicago Mr. E.F. Tompson which case I belive I have wrote you few years ago and also have sent you the receipts which I have paidhim and in your aswor you stated that you have returned the same to me but I did not received them. I am here in Oyster Bay and carry all the nesaocery papers with me I wish you would make an appointmen when I can come and see you. Hoping you will answer me in this mather as soon as it is convenience to you. Remain yours Thomas Vernakes O/C Oyster Bay Candy KitchenImporters & Grocers. C . Jevne & Co. Otto C. Ericson President [*General Offices Wholesale & Retail 32-34 S. Wabash Ave. Warehouse & Distributing Center 114-116-118 Michigan St. Near Rush St.*] [*Phone Exchange Central 1234 Automatic Telephones 41-143 43-546 Cable Address "Jevne"*] [*Office & Salesroom*] Chicago Aug. 29, 1913 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Dear Comrade: I am sure you will be interested in my old friend's letter, Mr. O.C. Ericson, and I regret very much we could not see you for just a few moments when you passed through Chicago, as I had almost guaranteed him we might do without intruding. Wishing you good health now and always, I am Sincerely yours, O.W. Wallis P.S. You are the means to accomplish this as you [did?] the Panama Canal. W. [*Warehouse*]COPY WARNER SUGAR REFTNING COMPANY C. B. Warner, Vice Prest. & Treas. 79 Wall Street New York August 29th 1913 To Whom it May Concern:- The bearer, Maurice Brennan, has been in the employ of this Company for the past six months as Assistant Secretary, and in this capacity has evidenced much interest in his work and has been found competent, efficient and conscientious. The position is more or less one of trust and he has filled it to very good advantage. He is sober, punctual, honest and industrious and the writer can recommend him cheerfully to anyone to whom he may offer his services. He leaves of his own accord. Yours, etc., C. B. Warner Vice Prest. & Treas.[Enc. in Brennan 6-5-14]Form 168 WESTERN UNION WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT RECEIVED AT 172 Fifth Ave., N. W. Cor. 22d St., New York ALWAYS OPEN A437NY MR 16 X WASHN D C AUG 29-1913 MR. FRANK HARPER, OUTLOOK CO., 287 FOURTH AVE., NY. CAN SPEND WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY NIGHT WITH COLONEL IF CONVENIENT ENGAGED HERE UNTIL THEN WIRE ANSWER. J. A. ZAHN. 524P[8-29-13] E N S EARTH This represents a dream seen three times in quick succession by the writer. The figure above is that of "President Roosevelt" taking up the entire heavens the head apparently pointing southward, holding in his right hand a book. "The arms and legs or what ever they might be termed, owing to their peculiar shape" are pointed toward the four quarters of the heavens. The features were very distinct, in the third view of the above phenomenon the face had changed and was directed earthward, a slight expression of a smile was noticeable. The attention of those standing about was drawn to the figure, by the seer and by way of explanation said, that it portended some great event. Before the disappearance of the third view the seers attention was drawn to the earth and their seemed to be the most frightful battle going on, all nations being represented. Friends standing by were told that it was the beginning of the GREAT BATTLE of ARMAGEDDON. REV. CHAPTER 16. VERSE 16[*[ENCL IN RYDER 8-29-13]*]Dixville Notch, N. H. Aug 30th, 1913. My dear Mr. Harper, Just after writing you yesterday, I received the enclosed letter from Mr. J. Stuart MacDonald, our State Chairman, in which I have marked a passage of interest to you. I am strongly inclined to believe that your Mr. Goutee is the man I had in mind; at all events, if Mr. M. is right, he seems to be a stick of the same cutting. Please return me Mr. MacDonald's letter, and believe me, as ever, yours most truly, Charles J. Bonaparte [*Frank Harper Esqr. 287 4th Ave. N.Y.*]CABLE ADDRESS: "BOURNECHAD" WILLIAM M. CHADBOURNE ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW MUTUAL LIFE BUILDINGS 32 LIBERTY STREET NEW YORK August 30, 1913. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: In view of the turn that events have taken, your decision to take no further part in the fusion proceedings has, I think, been amply justified. You gave the right counsel. Whether or not this counsel is taken, right thinking people will know that you did your duty. If you are requested, as no doubt you will be, to urge the candidacy of certain men for the Progressive nomination for the Court of Appeals, I sincerely hope that you will refuse to allow yourself to be drawn into this controversy. It is not at all improbable that you will be asked to support Mayor Gaynor for chief judge. Apart from the consideration I have already mentioned, Gaynor will not, I think, accept the nomination, and if he were to be a candidate for the Court of Appeals, I think there would be very strong opposition to him among the Progressives. While Gaynor is no doubt a man of extraordinary ability, he was considered, while on the bench, a judge of ungovernable temper, and was disliked by members of the bar. Again, there are incidents in his career which have never been satisfactorily explained. Whether we elect them or not, I think we Progressives can at least nominate men of the highest type. You will, it seems to me, have at Rochester onT. R. - 2. September 27th, an opportunity for an epoch-making sppech, and I feel that you must save yourself for that occasion. You were so good as to suggest yesterday at the Harvard Club that Mark Sullivan and I see you in the course of a week or ten days about the speech. I shall be only too glad to do so and shall promise you some suggestions. Hoping that you will pardon me for sending this note to your house, which the urgency of the situation seemed to warrant, believe me, Sincerely yours, William M. Chadbourne Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, New York.(Copy) COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY. House of Representatives U. S. WASHINGTON, D. C. August 30th, 1913. Commander Samuel K. Schwenk, 601 West 184th St., New York City, N. Y. My dear Commander Schwenk:- I beg to acknowledge receipt of your kind letter of August 27th, enclosing resolutions passed by Cameron Post No-79, Grand Army of the Republic, on July 26th. I Rave read your Letter and ‘me resolutions both very carefully, and they have touched me deeply. It is a beautiful sentiment indeed, wrapped up in these resolutions. They exhibit the truly noble spirit of the grand men who fought for the Union more than fifty years ago. These resolutions show that the saviours of the Union are as generous and magnaninous in peace as they were brave and patriotic in war. Please say to the veterans of Cameron Post that I will do whatever I can to see that the necessary legislation is enacted to accomplish the purposes of these resolutions. Also say to the veterans for me that I hold myself in readiness at any time, either at Washington or in New York, to serve them in any way to the fullest extent of my ability. With kind regards and best wishes, I am, Very truly yours, Walter M. Chandler.[ENCL IN SCHWENK 9-8-13]J. Robert Crouse Nela Park Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio, August 30th, 1913. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Outlook Publishing Company, New York, N. Y. My dear Sir:- Permit me to invite your attention and yourself to a meeting at Association Island, N. Y., September 3rd to 6th, 1913, which merits your consideration. The program enclosed speaks for itself. It is intended to be highly inspirational and educational, along broad lines, to the leaders in our great industry. The attendance - approximately 150 - will be made up of the Presidents of Electrical Associations and Societies, both National and State, and the officials of the larger Electrical Manufacturing Companies and Central Stations. Our Island - one night's ride from New York - is a very unique and interesting place of the outdoor hearty sort that appeals to you. We should be pleased to have you as our guest during as much of the meeting as possible - particularly our program dates, September 4th and 5th. Kindly wire me at Association Island, via Watertown, N. Y., if your engagements will permit of your acceptance, and we shall be delighted to arrange all other details for your comfort and pleasure. Will be pleased to see you in New York or vicinity, Tuesday, to give you any further information. Very cordially yours, J. Robert Crouse JRC/F P.S.: Am sending you, under separate cover, a souvenir book and program of meeting prepared by Elbert Hubbard, who will be with us. Also personally autographed letter of Mr. Edison and an album of views, which will give you an idea of our Island.J. Robert Crouse Nela Park Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio, August 30th, 1913. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Sir:- Permit me to invite your attention and yourself to a meeting at Association Island, N. Y., September 3rd to 6th, 1913, which merits your consideration. The program enclosed speaks for itself. It is intended to be highly inspirational and educational, along broad lines, to the leaders in our great industry. The attendance - approximately 150 - will be made up of the Presidents of Electrical Associations and Societies, both National and State, and the officials of the larger Electrical Manufacturing Companies and Central Stations. Our Island - one night's ride from New York - is a very unique and interesting place of the outdoor hearty sort that appeals to you. We should be pleased to have you as our guest during as much of the meeting as possible - particularly our program dates, September 4th and 5th. Kindly wire me at Association Island, via Watertown, N. Y., if your engagements will permit of your acceptance, and we shall be delighted to arrange all other details for your comfort and pleasure. Will be pleased to see you in New York or vicinity, Tuesday, to give you any further information. Very cordially yours, J. Robert Crouse JRC/F P.S.: Am sending you, under separate cover, a souvenir book and program of meeting prepared by Elbert Hubbard, who will be with us. Also personally autographed letter of Mr. Edison and an album of views, which will give you an idea of our Island.[For enc see 8-30-13]Harry K. Daugherty Attorney-at-Law Grove Gity, Pa., August 30, 1913. 191_ Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I thank you for your letter and greatly appreciate the kindly sentiment conveyed though you cannot take part in the primary. Your position is absolutely clear to me, but you have been exceptional in politics, and I knew that your participation in this contest would most assuredly land me a winner. In addition, I did'nt know, but what some Progressive leader in the state might get you interested in some other candidate, without your knowledge of my candidacy. Hoping that you have a safe and pleasant trip to South America, and with best wishes and kind regards, I am, Sincerely yours, Harry K. DaughertyForm No. 44. NIGHT MESSAGE THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 23,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Night Messages, send at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to ten times the amount paid for for transmission; nor in any case when the claim is not presented in writing within thirty days after the message is filed with the company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED NIGHT MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. ROBERT C. CLOWRY, President and General Manager. NUMBER 8 REC'D BY MC CHECK 125 RECEIVED at Oyster Bay Aug 30 1913 Dated Islip NY 30 To Col Roosevelt I have sent the following prepaid telegram to the present address of Col Thomas W. Larson of Boston who is now in Oregon your suggestion to raise a fund to help governor Sulzer and smash tammany Hall is splendid put me down for 25 dollars let all arise to the aid of the governor you Col Larson lead the charge up and over the breastworK[*Form No. 44. NIGHT MESSAGE. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 23,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. 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NUMBER SENT BY REC'D BY CHECK RECEIVED at 190 Dated To*] of the wig wam we will follow with fixed Bayonets and give them Cold Steel now forward Singed John C Doxsee Col Roosevelt you hunter of Big game What is the matter why dont you get after that Tammany Tiger now is the time kill him let the country hear that big Holland Rifle of your speak your friend John C Doxsee 03 sclSIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS. HENRY D. CLAYTON, ALA., CHAIRMAN. EDWIN Y. WEBB, N.C. CHARLES C. CARLIN, VA. JOHN C. FLOYD, ARK. R. Y. THOMAS, JR., KY. H. GARLAND DUPRÉ, LA. WALTER I. McCOY, N.J. JOHN W. DAVIS, W. VA. DANIEL J. McGILLICUDDY, ME. JACK BEALL, TEX. JOSEPH TAGGART, KANS. LOUIS FITZHENRY, ILL. JOHN F. CAREW, N.Y. JOHN B. PETERSON, IND. ANDREW J. VOLSTEAD, MINN. JOHN M. NELSON, WIS. DICK T. MORGAN, OKLA. HENRY G. DANFORTH, N.Y. L. C. DYER, MO. GEORGE S. GRAHAM, PA. WALTER M. CHANDLER, N.Y. J. J. SPEIGHT, CLERK. COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U. S. WASHINGTON, D.C. August 30, 1913. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Care The Outlook, New York City. My dear Col. Roosevelt: I have a letter seeking certain information concerning the late Sergeant Hamilton Fish, Jr., of your late regiment. I thought perhaps you would permit me to trouble you in this regard, as you might be able to suggest to me the names of some of his relatives whom I can write to for the information desired by Mr. Finke. Assuring you that your consideration of this request will be appreciated by me and the members of Camp Hamilton Fish, Jr., U. S. W. V. of the City of St. Louis, and asking you to kindly return to me the enclosed letter to me with your reply, I beg to remain, Yours very respectfully, L. C. DyerTelephone, Bryant 3879 A CHILD CAN RIDE HIM EATS FIRE - NOTHING ELSE PERSONAL The Chemic-Industrial Company Capital $500,000 Suite 904, Longacre Building 1476 Broadway, Cor. 42nd Street New York City Aug. 30, 1913 Dear Sir:-- It is readily possible for you to effect the redemption of the people of Greater New York--forever, let us hope--from "Tammany" and all that that malodorous name stands for. It will require some sacrifice on your part, but I believe you capable of far greater self-sacrifice for less cause. It is evident that Prendergast and McAneney desire to accept nominations on the Gaynor ticket. This is not unfortunate but fortunate for the cause of good government, if the situation be properly handled. It is to be hoped that such nominations will be tendered and that they will accept. Both are foul with Interborough graft. If they accept Gaynor support, Mr. Mitchell will not only be free to accept the nomination on the Independence League ticket, but is in duty bound to do so. Such an adjustment of the situation would well-nigh insure the success of the men who ought to be elected on the Fusion and Independence League tickets, if the positions far which Prendergast and McAneney stand are properly filled on the latter ticket. Here is where you can clinch matters, insuring the triumph of decency and good government: You should consent to stand for the position of Comptroller, on the Independence League ticket, yourself with the private understanding with a very small circle of the leaders--not more than two or three-- that you are to be at liberty to resign soon after the election--when it is safely assured that such a man as you may choose will be put into the vacancy thus created. This would require you to defer your departure for South America for 60 to 90 days, doubtless, and will, of course, subject you to renewed broadsides of ridicule and vituperation from those whom you will be instrumental in overthrowing. But the basis of the abiding love and confidence held for you by so great a majority of the American people is your recognized sincerity of self-sacrifice when such is demanded and your ability to rise above and ignore the villification of those whose opposition is the best endorsement an honest man can secure. The redemption of the millions of the citizenry of this great city from the bonds of graft, villainy and infamous politics is worth all it will cost you. Such an occasion would be worthy a Quintus Curtius. It may well win all that will be required of Theodore Roosevelt. The acceptance by Mr. Whitman of the endorsement of Tammany and of all others that may endorse him is not a political mistake. It is good politics to play these various factions so as to permit the people to win once in a while. Most of the time they are played for the people to lose. For more than forty years--much of the time in commanding positions on Western newspapers, the writer has been an earnest and loyal Republican. The developments of the past few years promise that the time is not distant when the people will recognize the soundness of George Washington's earnest admonitions in regard to partisanism; will come to recognize it as the civic crime inclusive of all crimes against the populace; that fealty to Part-y is--and continually has been--treason to People. Your most powerful influence ought to be directed toward hastening this awakening. The present situation in New York City offers you a golden opportunity. May that true Wisdom which is truly Divine in all its manifestations, guide and impel you in this matter. Sincerely your friend, JW Gregory 1476 B'way Col. T. Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL SPECIALCITY OF NEW YORK Chambers of Warren W. Foster Judge of The Court of General Sessions. 32 Franklin Street, New York. August 30, 1913. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: Judge Foster, who is away over Labor Day, and to whom I have mentioned your letter over the telephone, has asked me to send you a statement from The Globe bringing to public attention some of the things Judge Foster has done and which he thinks and hopes you will find of interest, and to say to you that he appreciates very much your kindly attitude toward him and that he will much appreciate whatever you may do for him. With great respect, Yours truly, George Gruber Secretary. To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long island, New York.SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM WASHINGTON D.C. Aug 30, 1913. My dear Colonel Roosevelt, I am glad that the date for the completion of the Life Histories has been delayed until December first. This will enable me to get my data from the specimens instead of depending largely upon the literature and what I already have in mind. At the rate I am doing the work I feel sure it will be completed by the first of November. I find it getting less difficult as the work proceeds owing to greater familiarity of the requirements. I will give the exact data in detail regarding each specimen as you suggested so as to make the work more accurate and intelligible. I have enclosed a diagram of my idea of the evolution of the Boridae for your approval. This one has been more carefully drawn and the spaces between the connecting lines of the various subfamilies represent the degree of relationship of the groups. This arrangement has been changed as regards its two sides slightly over the one in the manuscript but the succession remains the same. I see no objection to placing the Boridae or buffalo first[*SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM WASHINGTON D.C.*] as is usually done and following by the antelope groups as here outlined. Placing the buffalo or oxen within the antelope groups however emphasizes the absence of any zoological significance to the term antelope. My linear arrangement differs somewhat from that usually adopted as well as by having two groups raised to subfamily rank which are treated simply as genera in the others. I hope you will make any changes in the succession in which you feel desirable. I am not attached strongly to any particular arrangement but have made some changes in the usually accepted one because my conceit led me to believe that I had as much inside information regarding the relationships of antelopes as the original authors your present arrangement on succession subfamilies had. Faithfully yours Edmund HellerPROGRESSIVE SERVICE BOARD Frances A. Kellor Jane Addams Robert G. Valentine William Draper Lewis Samuel McCune Lindsay Gifford Pinchot George L. Record COUNCIL OF CHAIRMEN Frances A. Kellor Truxton Beale Paul U. Kellogg Henry Moskowitz Mary E. McDowell Mrs. Maud Nathan William L. Ransom Herbert Knox Smith Delos Wilcox Edith Ellicott Smith James R. Garfield George W. Kirchwey Woods Hutchinson Progressive National Committee OFFICE OF PROGRESSIVE SERVICE FORTY-SECOND STREET BUILDING FRANCES A. KELLOR, CHIEF OF SERVICE R. K. FORSYTH, GENERAL SECRETARY PAXTON HISSEN, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION DONALD R. RICHBERG, DIRECTOR, LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU EDUCATION COMMITTEE Samuel McCune Lindsay Mrs. Charles S. Bird Richard S. Childs John Dewey A. W. Erickson Willard E. Hotchkiss Will H. Irwin E. W. Kemmerer Carl Kelsey Samuel Merwin Paul Monroe C. A. Prosser A. Duncan Yocum Albert H. Yoder New York, August 30th, 1913. Frank Harper, Esq., c/o The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. Dear Mr. Harper: Following my conversation with you the other day over the telephone, in regard to the statement which the Progressive National Service was giving out to the McClure Syndicate through Mr. Rood, I am enclosing herewith a copy of that statement. You will see, I think, that it in no way conflicts with Colonel Roosevelt's article for Century. This statement will appear in next Sunday's Times also. Sincerely yours, Paxton Hissen Director, Bureau of Education. PH.HDJr. Enc.Newberry SC Aug 30th/13 Esteemed Sir Some Time since I saw an "add" in the "Post" in which an offer of $25000 - [was] Twenty Five Hundred dollars, was offered for the best, - "Short Story" to be published in one of the "Womans Magazine" -Stating that you and some library lady would be the judges - As soon as I saw your name, in connection with same I made up my mind to give a little of the history of my boyhood days There is no effort, on my part,- to dip into the high-flown literature of the present, just a samplerecounting, of things, just as they happened. I'm an old man now, and like all Carolinians (South) am a "Democrat" But, that does not keep me from, holding an exalted opinion in Theodore Rosevelt -, among which facts, that make opinion, is Supreme Confidence in the results of your deliberations I have lost the advertizement - and have been unable to get on track -- So, if it be true, that you are to be one of our Judges, I am putting an "Old Rebels" hopes into your competent hands I have the honor to subscene[?] my self Francis W. Higgins Box 105. Newberry . S.C. To Hon Theodore Rosevelt U.S.A.[*Form No. 44. NIGHT MESSAGE. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 23,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. 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NUMBER | SENT BY | REC'D BY | CHECK*] 25 54 [*RECEIVED*] at 241PM 8/30/13, [*190*] [*Dated*] FD NY 30 [*To*] Col T Roosevelt Am correcting stories printed this morning apparently reporter's confusion with another conference and another discussion dont know how they learned I saw you at all if you think anything more should be said than covering paper's carry can you wire or telephone me at Ritz Carlton tried to telephone you but wire reported down. Geo McCanery,MINISTRO ARGENTINO WASHINGTON,D.C. August 30, 1913. Dear Mr. Harper: I take pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of your kind letter of the 29th instant, and shall be very glad to be in New York on Friday September 5th, to take lunch with Mr. Roosevelt, and to go over with him, in full, the entire matter of his visit to Argentina. I shall appreciate very highly the picture of Colonel Roosevelt which you say are sending me, and thanking you for your very kind attention to my wishes, I remain, Faithfully yours, R.S. Naón Mr. Frank Harper, Secretary, "The Outlook," 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City.Westchester County National Bank, Peekskill, N.Y. CORNELIUS A. PUGSLEY, Prest. FRANK M. DAIN, Vice Prest. GEO. A. FERGUSON, Cashier. FRED J. PUGSLEY, Asst. Cashier. August 30, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. My dear Col. Roosevelt:- I am informed that a committee will wait upon you to extend an invitation to speak at a gathering of the Westchester-Putnam Country Life Association on September 13, If your engagements will permit, I am sure you would receive a warm welcome from those who will be present on that occasion, and who would be delighted to listen to you on the questions of conservation in country life. I enclose, herewith, a clipping which may give you some information in regard to the society. With kindest regards, I am Very sincerely yours, C. A. Pugsley Prest. Aug. 30, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosvelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir: This will introduce to you, Rev. R. L. Davidson, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Sedalia, who is a thorough Progressive and teaches the principles by precept and example. Rev. Davidson is one of the best speakers in the State; a man who has had varied business experience, which combined with his ability, gives him a wonderful influence with men. In the few months that he has been in charge of the First Baptist Church he has more than doubled the attendance in the Sunday School and in church. He is an enthusiastic organizer of rare ability. With sentiments of the warmest feelings of interest in the Progressive principles, I am, Respectfully, O Robbins Chairman City CommitteeNIGHT LETTER THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY Received at Oyster Bay Aug 30 [1913] 6 MC 64vh Herkimer NY 29 Theodore Roosevelt Ns I dont see what I can do I have kept entirely out of the fusion situation all designating meetings have been held and the only way to change the party ticket now is by the dielination of those designated and the filling of their places by the Committee on Vacancies advise you standing pat on your statement already issued will call you Tuesday @ J Douglass Robinson 1030amChic. Ill. Aug. 30, 13— Colonel Theodore Roosevelt: Dear Mr. Roosevelt, Do not be surprised at any thing I do. But believe me the late situation of the ever evil one - is about and doing their sly game - and strong incentives and good and grand people - with the "Principle" can and are being used to gather up the money end of it. Mr. Roosevelt a certain Govenor holding the strong points - in the way of2nd letting a game "go to suit the trickster - if the time comes - and it is to come believe me - But Mr. Roosevelt. a certain man in Progressive Club of course" - (Progressive party) - he with the manager of a certain Gov - has had and have in their possession a letter - photographed - they paid $4.00 to get same photographed - then planed to gather up the balance of evidence - "But some how3rd and through some unforeseen power - this party who had those written documents" & "court records" can so substantiate as well - presumed to be held from giving them over - So the photographed letter seemed to have played an important part in the last general election. Looking over the situation and the evidence has it has been - given unto me on July 8= 1913 - I see how Easy - this source one could have attained a certain4th position - such as Campaign Manager attribute this photographed letter - there swing & fully realizing these points - such as do not boost Roosevelt I felt the Coalism - was of a nature fitted to this story brought to me - Mr Roosevelt I organized a Club " of my own - Business Manager & Treasurer - called it - Women Fellow Citizen Club - & started out to interest the voter" one member seemed impress with the platform - and sought my advise - & comfort=5th result= the information contained in this letter - and the truth dawned on me - Leaving the situation and returning to the city Election Chic - is to have - I acquainted myself with facts by association with some - Sullivan Duncen - has been clearly allied for some few year - Harrison & Hearst are now - "was. Dunn & Harrison Hearst" - So the progressives have allied with O'Hara - Wood faction" - still - Sullivan Darnery has "Busses" up for Mayor Republican Lornier factions" From Hale Thompson Sweitzer" is to run on Regular6th Democratic ticket' — this out of the ordinary" — but I see it is a stall. Sweitzer is Sullivan Brother-in-law. Progressive ticket has been altered Merriman has run & placed him self – Independent – & was so elected — still has the Progressive platform — of every demonstration — causes — a combination of Whiskey Trust & Brewery interest on the Deneen Sullivan faction – & Regular Republicanism and the Independent. takes in or is so trying the foreign element. Our garbage question here is a pure sample7th of same & employs foreign born - but under city rule" then knowing the photograph letter realizing - one progressive has it - & this Regular Democrat - has also - but the Democrat was to be mayoral candidate fails to produce - Thus far - So perhaps", Some other side light= comes out on that fare I know= Mr. Roosevelt= on the Progressive Ticket can defeat the presidential Democratic ticket - This must be from all appearance - Clark8th Mr. Roosevelt — not at the head of the ticket — Roosevelt platform is in oblivion= positively agreed on by all concerned— A political faction created in Democracy by a big Democrat, called Independent By not allowing Bryan to get in on it - but some one say Hearst that can be defeated - still get some force - can split the Republican & Democratic vote create an avalanche for Theodore Roosevelt= Beveridge would be a good man for youto you with - and some system could be exercised to eliminate the force used to make Roosevelters keep still - platforms will not hold water if we lose the incentive to create, I firmly believe Roosevelt was elected in our last campaign some thing is brewing. Mr. Roosevelt Silence the inefficient and produce the good work Wish I could scribe - like I feel and talk - but I sound the Principle. Sincerely Mrs. Kathryn RutherfordPersonal EXCELSIOR STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER ALBANY August 30, 1913. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. My Dear Colonel Roosevelt: Just a few lines to say I wish you could make it convenient to come to Albany and take dinner with us and spend the night at the house, so that I could talk over with you the struggle I am making to resist the seizure of the State of New York by those who have and would prostitute its government for private gain. When Mr. Murphy and his allies found out they could not make a tool of me, they blocked my every step toward good government. Of course, these men could defeat my appointments to this end; they could strangle my recommendations for legislation - like direct nominations; they could shut off my funds for graft investigations; and they could obstruct, in many ways, my efforts for honest government; but one thing they could not stop - and that is the machinery of justice which I had set in motion against the criminals throughout the State who have robbed the taxpayers of millions upon millions of dollars. There was only one way to prevent me from sending these thieves to the penitentiary - and that way was to impeach me, and get me out of my office. So the boss in desperation employed a band of adventurers and criminals to bring baseless charges against me upon which they thought they could railroad me out of office with the consent of the recreant legislators owned and controlled by Mr. Murphy and the powerful special interests behind him.Much of the plot has been revealed. The rest of it will be laid bare before Grand Juries. The political conspiracy to destroy me will fail, and the conspirators will be punished if the taxpayers will stand by me in my efforts t to serve them. I have been flooded with letters and telegrams, and I feel sure that the eyes of the people are open, in spite of certain newspapers which are misrepresenting me in order to befog the real issue - which is: "Shall the State of New York be honestly governed; or shall it be governed by Mr. Murphy - for the grafters and the special interests?" [If I had obeyed "orders", and called off the prosecutions of Mr. Murphy's grafting friends, I could have had anything I wanted. I was impeached by the use of promises and intimidation, because I would not stop the machinery of justice. I was impeached because I would not violate my oath of office to the people of the State of New York.] The facts will all come out in the end. When the people fully understand the truth, I have no fear of the outcome so far as I am concerned. With best wishes, believe me Very sincerely your friend, Wm Sulzer[*EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chas. H. Thompson Chairman P.O. Box 453 Montpelier M.L. Aseltine St. Albans E.L. Kelley Salisbury H. Nelson Jackson Burlington March M. Wilson Randolph Members State Committee First District Mrs. O.H. Rixford East Highgate Mrs. Guy B. Horton Burlington Members State Committee Second District Mrs. Juliet Rublee Windsor Mrs. George Ide Lyndon Progressive Party of Vermont Headquarters Montpelier Vermont TELEPHONE 70 P.O.BOX 453 National State Committeeman CHARLES H. THOMPSON P.O. Box 453 Montpelier STATE ORGANIZATION Chairman M. L. ASELTINE St. Albans Secretary and Treasurer E.L. KELLEY Salisbury STATE COMMITTEE Addison E.L. Kelley Salisbury Bennington W.H. Nichols Bennington Caledonia W.J. Aldrich St. Johnsbury Chittenden H.S. Howard Burlington Essex A.E. Parlin Island Pond Franklin Oscar A. Rixford East Highgate Grand Isle W.A. Soule Alburg Grand Isle J.S. King Isle La Motte Lamoille B.C. Hawley Jeffersonville Orleans J.M. Blake Barton Orange March M. Wilson Randolph Rutland D.E. Martin Rutland Rutland F.L. Russell Shrewsbury Windham E.W. Gibson Brattleboro Washington A.W. Allen Barre Windsor Glenn Lathrop South Royalton DATE*] Aug., 30, 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. [[shorthand]] My dear Colonel:– It is with regret that I am writing you that I cannot be in New York City next Tuesday as we had planned on. As you know the contest in the third district in Maine is a very important one to the party in New England and it is being run on a plan of mine. Both Mr. Kelley and myself have been in Maine off and on and they feel that I ought to be in Maine next week, as I have just received a wire that Champ Clark is going up into Maine and campaign against us, and the situation is rather critical taking into consideration our apparent loss of ground in the Massachusetts campaign. I have partially agreed to speak at the Michigan State meeting on September 8 which falls, I believe, on Monday. If you are to be in New York and have any leisure on the following Friday, Sept. 12, I will come back from Detroit that way. Trusting that you will understand the importance of the Maine matter and excuse me for not being in New York on Tuesday, I remain Yours very truly, Charles H. Thompson.[*signature*] T-K.Hotel Knickerbocker 42ND STREET AT BROADWAY New York, JAMES B. REGAN Aug 30, 1913. My dear Sir, I am in receipt of your form of yesterday, in which you state Col. Roosevelt will see me Friday next at 12:45 or between 3 and 4. I will honor myself by calling between 3 and 4 o'clock of Friday, and pay my respects to him. Respectfully Yours Jacob Frieber. Mr Frank Howser Frieber 329. North 3d. St. J. R. W. Camden New Jersey August 30th 1913 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt New York My Dear Sir I wrote you from here on June 10th. and have been expecting and wanting a reply until now. as I am about leaving here for a second "around the world" Trip. I have been traveling about the world the most of the time since 1903. I have a list of Friends and acquaintances that I mail post- cards to. when traveling. of views of the different cities and countries I am in. I have put Mrs. Roosevelt on this list. and shall send2 J. R. W. her these views. When I send to others. I am going to try to interest her. with these pictures of some of the countries she may not have seen. On my return from this Trip. (Which will likely be in May next) I would be pleased to hear from. and meet you. I sail from New York on the Steam Ship Baltic. of the White Starline. on Sept 4th. will send a map of my route. Yours very Kindly John R. WatsonAmerican Central Insurance Company IN SAINT LOUIS W. H. WEIGHTMAN, RESIDENT AGENT, Mound City, Mo. Mound City, Mo. August 30th, 1913. Hon. Theodore Roosvelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir:- In a chautauqua address at this place the Hon. Duncan McKinley ex-congressman of the state of California made the assertion that during the difficulty over the question of Japanese "Boys" attending SanFrancisco Schools immediately after the Earthquake disaster you completely ignored the California delegation and never held any conference with them until the Board of Education of that city decided to discontinue school rather than have the Japanese associate with white children. Many of our citizens doubted the correctness of this statement and respectfully request a line from you relative to the matter. Yours very truly, W. H. Weightman Chautauqua Secretary.[*[ca 8-30-13]*] ASSOCIATION ISLAND MEETING - SEPTEMBER 3 TO 6, 1913. PROGRAM Mr. J. B. McCall, Chairman Subject Speaker Session (1) Government in relation to Business Wm. D. McHugh, Omaha Nebraska. Afternoon Session Sept. 4, 1913. (2) Distribution of Electric Energy - Present and Future. Samuel Insull, Pres. Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago, Ill. Afternoon Session Sept. 4, 1913 (3) Future Technical Development in the Electrical Business. Dr. Chas. P. Steinmetz, General Electrical Company, Schenectady, New York. Evening Session Sept. 4, 1913. (4) State Commission Control. John H. Roemer, Chairman, Railroad Commission of Wisconsin. Martin S. Decker, Chairman, Public Service Commission, Second District of New York. Evening Session Sept. 4, 1913. (5) Society for Electrical Development. Henry L. Doherty, Pres. H. L. Doherty Company, New York. Afternoon Session Sept. 5, 1913. (6) Principles of Re-sale Control. F. P. Fish, Boston, Massachusetts. Afternoon Session Sept. 5, 1913. (7) Financial Outlook. Frank Vanderlip, President, National City Bank, New York. Evening Session Sept. 5, 1913. (8) Favorable Conditions for Labor. Dr. Thomas Darlington, Secretary Welfare Committee, Iron & Steel Institute New York. Evening Session Sept. 5, 1913. (9) Presidential Addresses. J. B. McCall, President, National Electric Light Association. A. W. Berresford, V. P., representing C. O. Mailloux, President, American Institute of Electrical Engineers. *George H. Harries, President, American Steel Railway Association. Norman Macbeth, V. P., representing Preston Millar, President, Illuminating Engineering Society. Evening Session Sept. 5, 1913. or Morning session Sept. 6, 1913. S. O. Richardson, Jr., President, Manufacturers' Club. Franklin Overbagh, Secretary, Electrical Supply Jobbers' Association. Ernest McCleary, representing Ernest Freeman, Pres., National Electrical Contractors' Association. F. E. Watts, Jupiter of Jovian Order. *Acceptance not yet received[Enc. in Crouse 8.30.13][*ca 8-30-13*] ASSOCIATION ISLAND MEETING - SEPTEMBER 3 TO 6, 1913. PROGRAM Mr. J. B. McCall, Chairman Subject Speaker Session (1) Government in relation to Wm. D. McHugh, Afternoon Session Business Omaha Nebraska. Sept. 4, 1913. (2) Distribution of Electric Samuel Insull, Pres. Commonwealth Afternoon Energy — Present and Future. Edison Company, Chicago, Ill. Session Sept. 4, 1913. (3) Future Technical Develop- Dr. Chas. P. Steinmetz, General Evening Session ment in the Electrical Electric Company, Schenectady, Sept. 4, 1913. Business. New York. (4) State Commission Control. John H. Roemer, Chairman, Evening Session Railroad Commission of Wisconsin. Sept. 4, 1913. Martin S. Decker, Chairman, Public Service Commission, Second District of New York. (5) Society for Electrical Henry L. Doherty, Pres. H. L. Afternoon Session Development. Doherty Company, New York. Sept. 5, 1913. (6) Principles of Re-sale F. P. Fish, Boston, Massachusetts. Afternoon Session Control. Sept. 5, 1913. (7) Financial Outlook. Frank Vanderlip, President, Nat- Evening Session ional City Bank, New York. Sept. 5, 1913. (8) Favorable Conditions Dr. Thomas Darlington, Secretary Evening Session for Labor. Welfare Committee, Iron & Steel Sept. 5, 1913. Institute New York. (9) Presidential Addresses. J. B. McCall, President, National Electric Light Association. A. W. Berresford, V. P., representing C. O. Mailloux, President, American Institute of Electrical Engineers. *George H. Harries, President, American Steel Railway Association. Norman Macbeth, V. P., representing Preston Millar, President, Illumin- Evening Session ating Engineering Society. Sept. 5, 1913. or S. O. Richardson, Jr., President, Morning session Manufacturers’ Club. Sept. 6, 1913. Franklin Overbagh, Secretary, Elec— trical Supply Jobbers' Association. Ernest McCleary, representing Ernest Freeman, Pres., National Electrical Contractors’ Association. *Acceptance not yet received[Enc. in Curse 8-30-13]COPY. 30th August 1913. HOLMAN HUGHMAC SYDNEY Owing premature publication here Reid Commissioner interviewed me suggests non-political public men each state invite them Commonwealth can endorse Roosevelt anxious come McIntosh[*[ENCL IN McINTUSLY 7-20-13*][*[Encl in McIntosh 9-20-13]*] [*[8-30-13]*] [*[8-30-13]*] [*32*] THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY ATLANTIC OCEAN MACKAY COMPANIES SYSTEM VIA BAMFIELD. 1, Northumberland Avenue, W.[?] 30 AUG 1913 DUPLICATE. [*10*] [*5 15a*] Handed in at Sydney on 30th at 12 50 pM. [50125] Hughmac Cecilia Ldn Federal decline shall I invite holmanTHE OGDENSBURG NEWS OGDENSBURG, N.Y. Aug. 31 1913. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York, My dear Col. Roosevelt: The Democratic candidates for member of Assembly in both districts of St Lawrence declined their designation yesterday and in both districts the Democrats have endorsed the Progressives, We stand a beautiful chance of electing both of our members. I am a great believer in the old [?] saying "Ask and you will receive, knock and it will be opened unto you'! Now, do you think it could be possible for you to come to Ogdensburg one day of our fair in the fourth week of September and deliver an address? It would be the greatest [?] the Bull Mooses ever had up North. The Ogdensburg Fair and Horse Show is the greatest fair in the State2 excepting the State fair. This year such men as Alfred G. Vanderbilt of New York Clifford Sifton of Ottawa and others of that character are to exhibit their thoroughbreds here, so you can see that we have some fair. If you should consent to come I am certain there will be from 30,000 to 40,000 people here to see and hear you. It will be the greatest day in the history of the Ogdensburg Fair. Then see, how much good you could do our cause. It would be phenomenal if the Bull Mooses could elect two assemblymen from rock-ribbed Republican St Lawrence. Just think last year you polled over 5,000 votes in this county and one of the worst bosses ruled counties in the State. The Republicans only have 2,800 plurality and they ought to have had over 9,000. Our candidate in this district is James H Lytle of this city, one3 of its finest citizens, popular and liked by everybody. His opponent on the Republican ticket is Frank L. Seaker, the present member. He voted last winter for statewide direct primaries and against Sulzer's impeachment. He has made many friends by defying the local bosses. They did not dare to oppose him. He will get I think many Democratic votes but on the other hand the Republican bosses and their friends rather than to perpetuate him in power will secretly vote for Lytle. There you are. The Progressive sentiment is growing by leaps and bounds. The disgraceful condition in the state, making us the laughing stock of the civilized world, is turning thousands of people to our party. Only yesterday, a prominent local Democrat said to me "that editorial you had on Roosevelt that he is the only man in the state that can bring order out of chaos was going same in a Democratic newspaper, but4 it was right." And so they talk. If you could only come up here before you leave on your South American trip, you would do us a world of good. You can leave New York at 9:30 at night arrive here at 8:40 in the morning, returning at night arriving in NY the following morning. We will give you a great reception if you come. We have such a splendid opportunity to win this year and send two fine men to the Legislature, is what makes me so anxious. I am a great believer in you and as I said once before, I will follow where you lead. Hoping that you can find it possible to spend one day at the Ogdensburg fair I am, Sincerely Your friend Chas H. Clark, City EdCleveland Ohio August 31, 1913 To Theodore Roosevelt - Mailed to you yesterday to Outlook office in Oyster Bay, letter of importance; which I trust may have your attention tomorrow. Signed J Robert Crouse Telegram received by; - William[*Phoned 258pm*] [*Form 44 NIGHT MESSAGE THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD*] [*[8-31-13]*] [*This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. 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VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER NUMBER SENT BY REC'D BY CHECK *] 9 Aid 20 [*RECEIVED AT*] 8/31 [*191*]3 [*DATED*] Cleveland Ohio 8/31 [*TO*] Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay Mailed you yesterday to Outlook office and Oyster Bay letter of importance which I trust may have your attention tomorrow J Robert CrouseBut is not the country throwing the responsibility, largely, on the shoulders of the teachers and instructors of discipline & preparation in educational matters? Are these teachers mostly women adequately compensated — are they given more pupils to instruct than can be thoroughly drilled?— of course our colleges take students not up to standard but are the standards too high — Aug. 31 [*13?*] My dear Col Roosvelt The Editor says. The secondary schools because of pressures by colleges for high Exam standards in other branches fail oftimes to properly prepare in English in the schools. This statement bristles with controversy — as a rule do they not have ample time but do parents see that this time is properly used - In many instances they are not qualifiedthe colleges for this session, horrible, certainly only as a measure - I hope you may have a say— The Humanities have been neglected — How can you have good English with out a grounding as a genuine rule? I am with respect Carter H Fitz-Hugh Your last article in the Outlook if I may say so was Excellent. I hope the "League" will call attention to it. What of the German at 18 or 19 years. The comparison is not in our favor but their discipline is maintained Do you think the Edition of the "Journal" has the pluck to tell the parents what their responsibility is — and when we fully discharge it the number of well prepared students will largely increase — it does not seem fair to me "to knock"GRAND UNIION HOTEL OPPOSITE GRAND CENTRAL STATION. FORD & SHAW. Proprietors New York, Aug. 31st, 1913 Bro. Marsh, Please hand the enclosed clipping to Col. Roosevelt at your convenience, it might be interesting to him. I am going to try to get out to see you, very soon. Yours T. M. Pierson. R/R To Mr. Roosevelt sincerely yours A Lue 9/1/13[*[For encl see Pierson 8-24-13]*]Litchfield, Conn. August 31, 1913 [shorthand] My dear Chief. Would you please let me know when I can see you in New York. I am now here for a month - or less - prior to returning to Constantinople to present my letters of recall and leaving the service of the government. I would be much gratified if I could seeyou - I wish to ask your advice on a scheme I have in mind to carry out - if I can. My wife joins me in very kindest regards to Mrs Roosevelt Your sincerely devoted W.W. Rockhill[*[8-31-13]*] [*[Enc. in West 9-30-13]*] WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM WESTERN UNION THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT RECEIVERS NO. TIME FILED CHECK SEND the following Telegram, subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to B2NY ED 75 GOVT THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON DC AUG 1 1913 "BOYS' LIFE", THE BOY SCOUTS MAGAZINE 200 FIFTH AVE NYC. MY WARMEST GREETINGS TO THE BOYS ON THEIR RETURN TO SCHOOL. MAY THE YEAR BRING THEM EVERY GOOD THING AND STRENGTHEN THEM IN ALL THE IDEALS OF THEIR SERVICE. IT IS A PLEASURE TO ME TO BE THEIR CHIEF BECAUSE I KNOW THAT GOOD CITIZENS WITHOUT NUMBER WILL COME OUT OF THEIR RANKS TO COUNSEL AND SERVE THE COUNTRY WE LOVE. 1040AM Woodrow Wilson[Enc in ? 9-30-13] [8-31-13] right, self-reliant and to BE PREPARED in all emergencies, and under all circumstances to do the right and creditable thing, being guided at all times by their own individual conscience, which reason of the scout principles, it is aimed to in a broad and patriotic fashion THINGS TO REMEMBER 1. In organizing, begin on a small scale. Do not undertake a greater task than you can do easily with credit to yourself and the boys. It is better to begin scouting with a few older boys, giving them careful training in the principles of the movement, so that they in turn may render some assistance in promoting the work among other boys 2. Do not enroll boys under 12 years of age They will not stick, but will only lessen the interest of the older boys, who need what scouting can give them. The scout idea is a comprehensive plan of activities to enlist the interest of the older boys. 3. Do not undertake at the beginning to the boys everything there is in scout craft. Work out your own plan with the boys from time to time, always reserving something of interest for the next meeting. 4. Do not fail to impress upon the boys the importance of the scout oath, laws and requirements for the various degrees. While there is some danger in the examinations so hard as to discourage the class of boys that need the work most, yet you must guard against any tendency to make the tests too easy. 5. The primary object of the Boy Scouts is not military, but peace por md? and educational char- acter-building for good citizenship. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS The Headquarters of the Boy Scouts of America is in the Fifth Avenue Building, No. 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City. For Bulletin on Organization or additional information, address James E. West, Chief Scout Executive. 20 Information Bulletin April 1913 Scouting for Boys THE BOY SCOUT SCHEME What it is! What it is not! The Boy Scouts of America NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 200 Fifth Ave. New York City [*8-31-13*] [*Enc in West 9-30-13*] Officers of the National Council Honorary President · Hon. WILLIAM H. TAFT Honorary Vice-Pres., Col. THEODORE ROOSEVELT President · · COLIN H. LIVINGSTONE WASHINGTON., D.C. 1st Vice-President · · · B. L. DULANEY BRISTOL, TENN. 2nd Vice-President · · MILTON A. McRAE DETROIT, MICH. 3rd Vice-President · DAVID STARR JORDAN STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CAL. Chief Scout · ERNEST THOMPSON SETON COS COB, CONN. National Scout Commissioner DANIEL CARTER BREAD FLUSHING, L. I., N. Y. National Scout Commissioner Adj.-Gen. W. VERBECK ALBANY, N. Y. National Scout Commissioner Col. PETER S. BOMUS NEW YORK CITY Treasurer · · · GEORGE D. PRATT BROOKLYN, N.Y. Members of the Executive Board COLIN H. LIVINGSTON, Chairman Daniel Carter Beard Col. Peter S. Bomus B. L. Dulaney Lee F. Hanmer George W. Hinckley John Sherman Hoyt Milton A. McRae William D. Murray George D. Pratt Frank Presbrey Edgar M. Robinson Mortimer L. Schiff Ernest Thompson Seton Seth Sprague Terry Adj.-Gen. William Verbeck JAMES E. WEST · · Chief Scout Executive The Boy Scouts of America. ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF SCOUTING Like many other things showing permanence and power, the scout movement can be traced back to widely separated sources where constructive ideas came to boy workers and were tested with varying degrees of success. In America there have been a number of organizations, methods, plans, and principles that have proven effective. In Great Britain Lieut.-Gen. Sir Robert S. S. Scouting Baden-Powell became the organizing In England genius who took freely, as he himself says, the ideas and methods of American workers and compacted them together with his own conceptions into the scout scheme. He did this so successfully that the enrollment of British boy scouts soon grew into the hundred thousands, with the emphasis not on the military side, but on peace virtues and an interest in the trades. Then the movement spread to Germany, France, Italy, Australia and New Zealand; to Canada and the United States; to South American Republics; in short, almost the World Wide world over; and everywhere it has shown ready adaption to new fields and nationalities. In Germany the boys have engaged in the work with such enthusiasm and in such numbers that the Prussian and Bavarian authorities are giving the movement financial aid. But it has been left to the United States to show what the system of scouting can accomplish when it returns to the land in which the larger number of its working ideas and principles originated. While the number of boy scouts enrolled throughout the world is estimated at not less than two million, it has attained its greatest growth in the United States. The emphasis and 3[Enc. in 9-30-13] [8-31-13] ideals of the movement belong here also to the highest plane-that of efficient citizenship, service, and character-building. "THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA," the name under which the movement in the United States was incorporated, February 8, 1910, has as its Honorary President, the Hon. William H. Taft, President of the United Sates, and Col. Theodore Roosevelt as its Honorary Vice-President. Associated with these in approval and promotion of the movement are the eminent citizens from all walks of public life who are members of the National Council and of the Local Councils in the cities and towns of the whole country, and a host of others who earnestly co-operate in the work. WHY THE MOVEMENT IS NEEDED There is a call for the scout movement because the boys in our modern life, and especially in our cities and villages, do not have the chance, as did the boys of the past, most of whom grew up in the country, to become strong, self-reliant, resourceful and helpful, and to get acquainted with nature and outdoor life, without special guidance and training. Therefore, this movement brings the boys together in patrols and troops, and seeks to cultivate in them courage, loyalty, patriotism, fellowship, self-control, courtesy, kindness to animals, usefulness, cheerfulness, cleanliness, thrifty, purity and honor. It believes that with such training, America boys will, as men, be leaders in progress, peace, and all things right and good. RELATION TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS In its relation to other organizations, scouting is a movement rather than an organization; for it is the desire of the promoters of the Boy Scouts of America to supplement rather than supplant the activities of other organizations, by 4 widening, deepening, and vitalizing every point of contact which the other organizations seek with the boy's life. Indeed, the experience has almost been universal that these other organizations welcome the formation of boy scout patrols in their membership, and social and religious leaders of boys state that scouting widens the scope of their influence. Whenever these organizations form one or more troops to carry out the program of the Boy Scouts of America, such organizations is in honor bound to have their troop and its Scout Master conform to the regulations made by the National Council as well as the Local Council, if there be one, or cease to use the official insignia and name of the Boy Scouts of America. Organizations confirming to the official regulations and standards of the movement are invited to designate one of their trustees or governing body to serve as a member of the Local Council. THE SCOUT OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE As an organization, the scout movement is neither military in through, form, or spirit, although it does install in boys the military virtues, such as, honor, loyalty, obedience and patriotism. The uniform, the patrol, the troop and the drill, are not for military tactics; they are for the unity, the harmony, and the rhythm of spirit that boys learn in scouting. It is in the wearing of the uniform and doing of things together, as scouts, that they absorb the force and the truth of the scout law which states: "A scout is a friend of all, and a brother to every other scout." The movement stands for patriotism, the patriotism that causes the boy to love his country, and instead of boasting about it, serve it by being a good citizen. The movement aims to supplement the various 5 [*[8-31-13]*] [*[Enc. in West 9-30-13]*] existing educational agencies, and to promote the ability in boys to do things for themselves and others. It is not the aim to set up a new organization to parallel in its purposes others already established. The opportunity is afforded these organizations, however, to introduce into their programs unique features appealing to interests which are universal among boys. The method is summed up in the term Its Aim Scoutcraft, and is a combination of observation, deduction and handiness, or the ability to do things. Scoutcraft includes instruction in First Aid, Life Saving, Tracking, Signaling, Cycling, Nature Study, Seamanship, Campcraft, Woodcraft, Chivalry, Patriotism and other subjects. This is accomplished in games and team play, and is pleasure, not work, for the boy. All that is needed is the out-of-doors, a group of boys, and a competent leader. "Something to do, something to think about, and something to enjoy with a view always to character building; for manhood, not scholarship, is the first aim of education." COMMUNITY VALUE The promotion of the boy scout movement has been recognized as a community asset. It is the community's opportunity to reach the boy for good citizenship. The organization of the Local Council and the progress of its activities, as related to scouting, is evidence to the boy who knows the scout program, that the Reaching community is interested in him; not the Boy only interested in his education (compelling him to attend the public school in order that he may be properly trained for his citizenship duties later on), but interested in his play also, when that play wholesomely and happily contributes--as it does in the scout program-- to his physical, mental and moral development. 6 The Local Council through scouting, makes an asset of the boy; it makes him co-operative with the community's interest; it places a value on the minority years of his citizenship life; He is an it gives him something to do. It Asset teaches him to do things for himself; it makes him self-reliant, courageous, and manly; and the community's interest in the healthful, normal, moral development of the boy, as such, holds out to him its laurel wreath of approval and works with him. Statistics give convincing evidence that the minority years of a boy's life are the most impressionable years i- his citizenship training, and that boys are in greater danger of being lost from good citizenship in their minority years than in the years after they have attained Scouting their majority. Scouting begins with Age a boy when he is twelve years old -- in the school period of his life, thus making it possible for the Local Council to ascertain the number of boys in the community who are eligible to become scouts, and who would be benefited by the scouting program. THE THREE CLASSES OF SCOUTS The Boy Scouts of America after meeting certain requirements are first enrolled as tenderfoots. Other examinations must The Three be passed before they can be promoted Degrees to second-class scouts, and still harder tests must be met before they can graduate into first-class scouts. The requirements of the tenderfoot, second-class, and first-class scout are as follows : To become a scout a boy must be at least twelve years of age and must pass a test in the following: 7[8-31-13] [Enc in West 9-30-13] Requirements for Tenderfoot 1. Know the scout law, sign, salute, and significance of the badge. 2. Know the composition and history of the national flag and the customary forms of respect due to it. Tenderfoot Badge 3. Tie four out of the following knots: square or reef, sheet-bend, bowline, fisherman's, sheepshank, halter, clove hitch, timber hitch, or two half hitches. He then takes the scout oath, is enrolled as a tenderfoot, and is entitled to wear the tenderfoot badge. To become a second-class scout, a tenderfoot must pass to the satisfaction of the recognized local scout authorities, the following tests: Requirements for Second-class Scout 1. At least one month's service as a tenderfoot. 2. Elementary first aid and bandaging; know the general directions for first aid for injuries; know treatment for fainting, shock, fractures, bruises, sprains, injuries in which the skin is broken, burns, and scalds; demonstrate how to carry injured and the use of the triangular and roller bandages and tourniquet. Be Prepared Second-class Scout Badge 3. Elementary signaling: Know the semaphore, or American Morse, or Myer alphabet. 4. Track half a mile in twenty-five minutes; or, if in town, describe satisfactorily the contents of one store window out of four observed for one minute each. 5. Go a mile in twelve minutes at scout's pace -about fifty steps running and fifty walking, alternately. 8 6. Use properly knife or hatchet. 7. Prove ability to build a fire in the open, using not more than two matches. 8. Cook a quarter of a pound of meat and two potatoes, in the open, without the ordinary kitchen cooking utensils. 9. Earn and deposit at least one dollar in a public bank. 10. Know the sixteen principal points of the compass. To become a first-class scout, the second-class scout must pass the following tests: Requirements for First-class Scout 1. Swim fifty yards. 2. Earn and deposit at least two dollars in a public bank. 3. Send a receive a message by semaphore, or American Morse, or Myer alphabet, sixteen letters per minute. 4. Make a round trip alone (or with another scout) to a point at least seven miles away, going on foot or rowing boat, and write a satisfactory account of the trip and things observed. 5. Advanced first aid: Know the methods for panic prevention; what to do in case of fire and ice, electric and gas accidents; how to help in case of runaway horst, mad dog, or snake bite; treatment for dislocations, unconsciousness, poisoning, fainting, apoplexy, sunstroke, heat exhaustion and freezing; know treatment for sunburn, ivy poisoning, bites and stings, nosebleed, earache, toothache, inflammation or grit in eye, cramp or stomach-ache and chills; demonstrate artificial respiration. Be Prepared First-class Scout Badge 9[*8-31-13*] [*Enc in West 9-30-13*] 6. Prepare and cook satisfactorily, in the open, without regular kitchen utensils, two of the following articles as may be directed: Eggs, bacon, hunter's stew, fish, fowl, game, pancakes, hoecake, biscuit, hardtack or a "twist," baked on a stick; explain to another boy the methods followed. 7. Read a map correctly, and draw, from field notes made on the spot, and intelligible rough sketch map, indicating by their proper marks important buildings, roads, trolley lines, main landmarks, principal elevations, etc. Point out a compass direction without the help of the compass. 8. Use properly an axe for felling or trimming light timber; or produce an article of carpentry or cabinet-making or metal work made by himself. Explain the method followed. 9. Judge distance, size, number, height and weight within 25 per cent. 10. Describe fully, from observation, ten species of trees or plants - including poison ivy - by their bark, leaves, flowers, fruit or scent; or six species of wild birds by their plumage, notes, tracks or habits; or six species of native wild animals by their form, color, call, tracks or habits; find the North Star, and name and describe at least three constellations of stars. 11. Furnish satisfactory evidence that he has put into practice in his daily life the principles of the scout oath and law. 12. Enlist a boy trained by himself in the requirements of a tenderfoot. NOTE.- No deviation from the above requirements will be permitted, except in extraordinary cases, such as that of physical inability and the written consent of the National Headquarters must be obtained by the recognized local scout authority. THE SCOUT MOTTO. The motto of the Boy Scouts of BE PREPARED, which means that the scout is always 10 in a state of readiness in mind and body to do his duty. THE SCOUT OATH Before he becomes a scout a boy must promise: On my honor I will do my best: 1. To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the scout law; 2. To help other people at all times; 3. To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. When taking this oath the scout will stand, holding up his right hand, palm to the front, thumb resting on the nail of the little finger and the other three fingers upright and together. THE SCOUT SIGN The position of the hand just described, under the scout oath, is the scout sign. The three fingers held up remind him of his three promises in the scout oath. THE SCOUT SALUTE When the three fingers thus held are raised to the forehead, it is the scout salute. The scout always salutes and officer. THE SCOUT LAW There have always been certain written and unwritten laws regulating the conduct and directing the activities of men. Laws of Honor All nations have such laws coming down form past ages. The Japanese have their Bushido or laws of the old Samurai warriors. During the Middle Ages, the Knights of King Arthur and various crusading orders, such as the Knights Templar, developed in Europe and the Holy Land the laws of chivalry. In aboriginal America, the Red Indians had more or less fixed tribal customs; likewise the Zulus, Hindus, and the later European nations have their ancient codes. The following laws, which relate to the Boy Scouts of America, are the latest and most complete 11[*8-31-13*] [*Enc in West 9-30-13*] These laws a boy promises to obey when he takes his scout oath. 1. A scout is trustworthy. A scout's honor is to be trusted. If he violates his honor by telling a lie, or by cheating, or by not doing exactly a given task, when he is trusted on his honor, he may be directed to hand over his scout badge. 2. A scout is loyal. He is loyal to all to whom loyalty is due : his scout leader, his home and parents, and his country. 3. A scout is helpful. He must be prepared at any time to save life, help injured persons, and share the home duties. He must do at least one good turn to somebody every day. 4. A scout is friendly. He is a friend to all and a brother to every other scout. 5. A scout is courteous. He is polite to all, especially to women, children, old people and the weak and helpless. He must not take pay for being helpful or courteous. 6. A scout is kind. He is a friend to animals. He will not kill nor hurt any living creature needlessly, but will strive to save and protect all harmless life. 7. A scout is obedient. He obeys his parents, scout master, patrol leader, and all other duly constituted authorities. 8. A scout is cheerful. He smiles whenever he can. His obedience to orders is prompt and cheery. He never shirks nor grumbles at hardships. 9. A scout is thrifty. He does not wantonly destroy property. He works faithfully, wastes nothing, and makes the best use of his opportunities. He saves his money so that he may pay his own way; be 12 generous to those in need, and be helpful to worthy objects. He may work for pay but must not receive tips for courtesies or good turns. 10. A scout is brave. He has the courage to face danger in spite of fear, standing up for the right against the coaxing of friends or the jeers or threats of enemies; defeat does not down him. 11. A scout is clean. He keeps clean in body and thought; he stands for clean speech, clean sport, clean habits; and he travels with a clean crowd. 12. A scout is reverent. He is reverent toward God. He is faithful in his religious duties, and respects the convictions of others in matters of custom and religion. THE SCOUT'S RELIGION Non-Sectarian The Boy Scouts of America maintain that no boy can grow into the best kind of citizenship without recognizing his obligation to God. The first part of the scout's oath or pledge is therefore: "I promise on my honor to do my best to honor my God and my country." The recognition of God as the ruling and leading power in the universe, and the grateful acknowledgement of His favors and blessings is necessary to the best type of citizenship and is a wholesome thing in the education of the growing boy. No matter what the boy may be--Catholic, or Protestant or Jew--this fundamental need of good citizenship should be kept before him. The Boy Scouts of America, as an organized body, therefore, recognize the religious element in the training of a boy, but it is absolutely non-sectarian in its attitude toward that religious training. Its policy is that the religious organization or institution with which the boy scout is connected shall give definite attention to his religious life. If he be a Catholic boy scout, the Catholic Church of which he is a member is the best channel for his 13 [*8-31-13*] [*Enc in West 9-30-13*] Open to All training. If he be a Hebrew boy, then the Synagogue will train him in the faith of his fathers. If he be a Protestant, no matter what denomination of Protestantism he may belong, the church of which he is an adherent or a member should be the proper organization to give him an education in the things that pertain to his allegiance to God. The Boy Scouts of America, then, while recognizing the fact that the boy should be taught the things that pertain to religion, insists upon the boy's religious life being stimulated and fostered by the institution with which he is connected. Of course, it is a fundamental principle of the Boy Scouts of America to insist on clean, capable leadership in its scout masters, and the influence of the leader on the boy scout should be of a distinctly helpful character. MERIT BADGES When a boy has become a first-class scout he is in line for further recognition in scouting through what are known as the "Merit Badges." "These Badges, however, cannot be awarded to any boy who has not qualified as a first-class scout. They are intended to stimulate the boy's interest in the life about him and are given for general knowledge. The wearing of these badges does not signify that a scout is qualified to make his living by the knowledge gained in securing the award." The following is a list of the badges that are awarded, the requirements for obtaining which are published in the Scout's Official Handbook: Agriculture Business First Aid Angling Camping First Aid to Animals Archery Carpentry Forestry Architecture Chemistry Gardening Art Civics Handcraft Astronomy Conservation Horsemanship Athletics Cooking Interpreting Automobiling Craftsmanship Invention Aviation Cycling Leather Working Bee Farming Dairying Life Saving Blacksmithing Electricity Machinery Bugling Firemanship Marksmanship 14 Masonry Photography Sculpture Mining Pioneering Seamanship Music Plumbing Signaling Ornithology Poultry Farming Stalking Painting Printing Surveying Pathfinding Public Health Swimming Personal Health Scholarship Taxidermy HONOR MEDALS Court of Honor The National Council awards an honor medal to any scout who is instrumental in saving life, according to the risk involved, the medal presented to be bronze, silver or gold. The facts are all investigated by the Court of Honor of the Local Council and are presented in the form of affidavits to the National Court of Honor which decides upon the proper medal to be awarded. LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS The Patrol and Troop Boy Scouts are organized into patrols and troops. A patrol consists of eight boys, one of whom becomes patrol leader, and another assistant patrol leader. A troop consists of three or more patrols, preferably three, as a Scoutmaster can do better work with a small group of boys than with a large one. How to Become a Scout If the boy wants to become a scout he must do one of two things; he must find a patrol that he can join, or he must start one. If obliged to start one, he must first find a man who is willing to be the Scoutmaster of the patrol, as there can be no patrol without a Scoutmaster. For further details as to organization of a patrol, he should write to National Headquarters. The Scout's Official Handbook In order that the work of the Boy Scouts throughout the country may be uniform and intelligent, the National Council has prepared an Official Handbook. This has been compiled with great care, and written by experts. It is the scout's text-book, and gives the best explanation of scouting that 15[*8-31-13*] [*Enc. in West 9-30-13*] a boy can have. This book may be purchased at any local book-store, or will be sent to any address postpaid for 30 cents. The Scoutmaster The scout master is the adult leader of a troop, and must be at least twenty-one years of age. He should have a deep interest in boys, be genuine in his own life, have the ability to lead, and command the boys' respect and obedience. He need not be an expert on scoutcraft; a good scout master will discover experts for the various activities. His certificate is granted upon the recommendation of the Local Council. A registration fee of twenty-five cents is charged to partially cover the cost of issuing the certificate. Scoutmasters' application blanks may be secured from the National Headquarters. The Local Council In towns, cities and villages, the Local Council through the Scout Commissioner and other officers, its Court of Honor and various committees, deals with all local affairs of the organization. This Local Council receives its credentials or charter from the Executive Board of the National Council, and is given full authority within is territory. Its officers, Executive Board and Scout Commissioner, correspond in office and duties to those of the National Council. A bulletin on Organization has been prepared, designed especially to help communities in the local organization of the Boy Scout Movement, and can be procured upon request from the National Headquarters. The Scout Commissioner The Scout Commissioner is elected by the Local Council. He is the ranking officer of the district, the recognized authority in leadership of all Scoutmasters within his jurisdiction. At all general meetings or conferences of Scoutmasters, he is the presiding officer. He is the one to direct their work as a whole; he keeps the organization aggressively at work, 16 and through him Scoutmasters in the field report to the Local Council. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION National Council The Boy Scouts of America is promoted and governed by a group of men called the National Council. This National Council is made up of the leading men of the country, and it is their desire that every American boy shall have the opportunity of becoming a good scout. Duties The National Council holds one meeting annually, at which it elects the officers and the members of the Executive Board. It copyrights badges and other scout designs, arranges for their manufacture and distribution, selects designs for uniforms and scout equipment, issues scout comissioners', and scout masters' certificates, and grants charters for Local Councils. A WORLD TO THE PARENTS Co-operation of the Home The parents, as a rule, welcome heartily any outside interest in the boys. They may hesitate until convinced of the value of that interest to the boys themselves, but once satisfied on that point their only reason for hesitation will probably be the expense. They should understand in the first place that no uniform or equipment is necessary. It is, of course, desirable, but, according to the rules of the organization, every boy who wishes to have a uniform is encouraged to earn the amount of money necessary to secure it. When parents realize the educational value of the training boys get in scouting, they usually become enthusiastic supporters of the movement, and their enthusiasm is bound to increase as they witness the character development under scouting ideas and ideals. They see how the boys' powers of observation are quickened, how they learn to do things for themselves, how they learn thrift and economy by being 17[*8-31-13*] [*Enc in West 9-30-13*] obliged to earn their own money, how they gain new ideas of personal relationships through the "good turn daily," how in every way scouting contributes to their physical, mental and moral development, and their sanction and approval follows as a matter of course. EQUIPMENT For the convenience of the boys who wish to secure a uniform or other equipment, the National Council has made arrangements with certain manufacturers to furnish such equipment as may be desired. These manufacturers are given the privilege of using for a limited period an imprint of the official badge as an indication that the Committee on Equipment is willing to recommend the use of that particular article, the prices quoted on all articles to be the same in all parts of the country. TWO CAUSES OF CONFUSION American Boy Scouts Two important factors have caused utterly wrong impressions to be spread throughout the country about the Boy Scouts of America. The first is the confusion of the Boy Scouts of America with the organization known as the American Boy Scouts. The two organizations are entirely different in aims and activities. The American Boy Scouts which was promoted under the auspices of William Randolph Hearst of the New York American, is distinctly military in its operations. The methods of some of its officers caused Mr. Hearst to resign. The ideals and activities of the Boy Scouts of America are for peace-scouting and the building up of body, mind and character. In almost every instance, investigation has shown that the opposition of the Labor people and Socialists has been based upon false impressions of the Boy Scouts of America, obtained form groups of small boys carrying rifles and identified with the American Boy Scout Movement. The rifle is not part of the equipment of the Boy Scouts of America. 18 Obsolete Literature Another cause for confusion, was the unfortunate publication in the book temporarily used as a manual for the Boy Scouts of America of two of the laws form the English Manual which were objectionable to the labor organizations, as well as to the leaders of the scout movement in this country. This mistake was most natural. In the effort to meet the urgent demands of the boys in all parts of the country clamoring for literature on the scout movement, a book was hastily prepared for temporary use and parts of the English Manual which did not conform with American conditions, were unintentionally reprinted without revision. As soon as attention was invited to this material, although any alterations involved considerable expense, the Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America directed that the plates of the book be changed as soon as practicable. Commands Universal Support These laws were changed to read as follows" "A scout is loyal. He is loyal to all whom loyalty is due, his scout leader, his home and parents and country." And the other one was changed to read as follows: "A scout is obedient. He obeys his parents, Scoutmaster, Patrol Leader and all other duly constituted authorities." Surely no patriotic American citizen, whether a member of a Labor Union or affiliated with any other organization supporting American institutions, and truly interested in American boys, can seriously object to these scout laws as modified. In this as in all other matters, the leaders of the scout movement have endeavored to show that the scout movement is designed for American boys, rich or poor, and its plan is to make them strong in character as in body. The members of the National Council are backing the scout movement, because they wish to train the boys of our country to be honest, up- 19[*8-31-13*] [*Enc in West 9-30-13*] THE NEW YORK TIMES. SUNDAY, AUGUST 31,1913. BOY SCOUTS PROVE PRACTICAL VALUE OF THEIR CAUSE Records Just Collected Show the Organization Helped 5,000 Cases at Gettysburg Encampment and Include a Long List of Heroic Rescues. Boy Scouts at Gettysburg Doing Red Cross Work. THREE years have passed since the Boy Scouts of America were incorporated, organized on a national basis, and set in motion throughout the country. Today there are 300,000 Scouts, with more than 7,000 business and professional men giving their time and services as Scout masters; and the lads in their well-fitting uniforms are familiar figures in almost every American community. From the very first these lads have been taught to carry out their motto, to "Be Prepared"- no matter what the emergency, no matter what the crisis they face. They have learned, also, that the Scout's oath includes the obligation to do at least one good turn each day to somebody else. They have been taught how to stand, walk, run, properly; how to develop lung capacity, how to eat and what to eat; the clothing best suited to growing boys, habits of personal cleanliness in body, mind, spirit. They have been taught how to build and care for fires in the open, to build shelters, to find their way through unfamiliar territory by the sun and the stars; to swim, dive, rescue drowning persons, cope with fires, administer first aid in accident cases of all kinds. And now, at the end of the first three years, when the whole country is asking whether all this effort and thought has had practical results, the chief scout executive, James E. West, in charge of the National Headquarters, New York City, has had his files examined at my request in order that readers of THE NEW YORK TIMES may see for themselves some of the practical results of all the training, education, and inspiration since 1910. "It is easy to gather almost any number of definite instances of practical service that Boy Scouts have rendered." says Mr. West, "but equally important are results to the Scouts themselves, results that are invisible, perhaps, so far as the casual observer is concerned, but yet are of great importance to the country. A Habit Worth Acquiring. "The Scouts are built up physically and are given keen interest in matters that their fathers, as a rule, never were taught! but to my mind the great thing is that all this Scout training cannot fail to merge bodily strength, mental alertness, and courage with the ideals of protecting the weak, helping the dependent, and doing a good turn every day. Think of the cumulative effect on the average boy's character of carrying out that last rule, that provision of the Scout's oath that he must take. To do a good turn daily for weeks and months soon becomes a habit, and a habit worth while." A surprising amount of information as to the work of the Scouts has been gathered form various parts of the country by Mr. West's staff at headquarters; so much, in fact, that it is possible within the limits of a single newspaper article to print merely representative examples of the Scouts' activities in one direction or another. And even under such restrictions it is necessary to make selection of only recent achievements. At the Gettysburg encampment, for example, early in the Summer, 500 Boy Scouts were present, to aid in any way called upon. The lads, from 14 to 17 years of age, met every incoming train which brought veterans and visitors to the great battlefield. They acted as guides to the old soldiers, wrote letters for them, did all sorts of errands, carried food and water to veterans too old or too frail to leave their tents, and on several occasions the youngsters in uniform gave a hard thrashing to roughs who came to Gettysburg on excursions and amused themselves by annoying and frightening young girls who were unprotected. The Boy Scouts did more than this at the encampment. One night two of them, while on patrol, stumbled upon the body of a veteran lying on the ground in the woods. Quick examination showed that he was suffering from exhaustion. First aid was immediately given, and, when he was restored to consciousness, he said he had lost his way in the darkness, and had vainly tried to find his comrades. As soon as he had been carried to a field hospital a silent alarm was rushed through the encampment ordering the Scouts to assemble instantly. As one patrol after another reported on the run, they were told off in this direction and that, with complete system, and thorough search was made all that night of the Helping an Exhausted Veteran. woods, bushes, and byways of the battlefield. Before daylight came, says the official report, the Boy Scouts had found and restored more than one hundred visiting veterans who had lost their way, become confused, and fallen to the ground exhausted and unable to call longer for help. When the Scouts reported for duty at Gettysburg, among the first to arrive there, about 100 were assigned as assistants to the Red Cross surgeons; and the official records of the surgeons in charge show that these lads administered first aid in more than 5,000 cases requiring it. One of the surgeons writes, in his report, that the extraordinarily low rate of mortality at Gettysburg was due to the care and attention the visiting veterans received; and, he adds, "without the Boy Scouts, on duty day and night, such care would have been impossible." Boy Life-Savers. All this means, of course, that before the lads could administer first aid, or make systematic search of the enormous battlefield, or know how to save persons from drowning, to care for fractured limbs, fight fires, or help preserve order, they must have had thorough instruction, and they must have learned the lessons of self-control, instant obedience, and quick command of a serious situation unexpectedly arising. And it is just such special training that the Scouts receive, training impossible to give the average lad in the average American home. As may be seen the following definite examples gathered from many parts of the country, the Boy Scout is able to grapple with unexpected and dangerous conditions at an instant's notice. Take the matter of life-saving, for which merit badges are given. There are on record scores, if not hundreds, of cases in which Boy Scouts carried out their motto to "Be Prepared," and have saved persons from drowning, and have resuscitated others. Instruction in swimming and in resuscitation commences as soon as the Scout receives his uniform and is regularly enlisted in his local troop. In Philadelphia recently six young men were sinking in an overcrowded rowboat on the Schuylkill River, when discovered by Boy Scouts of Troop No. 90 of Philadelphia, out on a hike under leadership of Orlando Crease and Joseph Hyde. Instantly young Crease and young Hyde took in the situation, shouted commands to the best swimmers with them, and put out from shore in their "war canoe." They got to the rowboat and were able to save five of the six men, but could not get the sixth. William Duffer, a scout of Washington, D. C., and only 14 years old, was standing on the deck of the steamship Charles H. Werner, surrounded by several other passengers, when one of them, a young woman, attempted to leap from the deck to the wharf and fell into the water. Young Duffer is not an expert swimmer, but he had learned to "Be Prepared." and without an instant's hesitation he went over after the girl, caught her after she had sunk twice, and held her head above the water until men arrived from shore in a small boat. She was unconscious when carried to a yacht close by, where a physician attended her. In her struggles to save herself she had grasped Duffer by the throat, and would have succeeded in pulling him down had he not learned through Scout training, how to break the strangle hold of a drowning person. Here is another case, from Minneapolis, reported to Scout Headquarters but a few days ago. A Minneapolis Boy Scout on going to Lake Calhoon saw two young men lifting out of the water a boy who was apparently drowned. They laid the body on the shore, and a crowd of bathers immediately surrounded it, all greatly excited, and none knowing what to do. The Scout rushed to the spot, and by reason of his training was able to take command of the situation. He kept his head started in on standard methods of respiration, and finally restored the lad to consciousness and life. Here is a case from Yazoo City, Miss., which happened during the recent Chautauqua sessions, and showed young Abbey Magruder to be worthy the name of Boy Scout. When another boy fell from a ferryboat on which Magruder was a passenger, and had already sunk beneath the surface, Magruder dived after him and, after a hard struggle, brought him out safely and disappeared without the slightest idea that he had done anything out of the ordinary. A few days later the same Scout was able to resuscitate another who had been almost drowned. A Scout at Chicoro, Penn., so modest that his name has been withheld, recently jumped into the water after two companions who were trouble from a swift current, or cramp, or other cause, and who were sinking for the second time. In their struggles the drowning boys pulled the Scout to the bottom of the river; but he doggedly brought them to the surface, had the presence of mind to deal each of them a stunning blow between the eyes, and then, while they were helpless, he was actually able to bring both of them in safety to the shore. In other ways than saving life are Boy Scouts of service. When William W. Tomlinson disappeared from his uncle's home, in Oronoque, Conn., word was sent to all the Scout Masters in America, asking them to start a search; and to-day there are 300,000 Boy Scouts, scattered from ocean to ocean, trying to find the missing man. Several weeks ago 14-year-old Frank Mills left his father's home, in Iowa City, to go out into the country and seek work during the hot weather. Nothing was heard from him, and not long afterward his distracted father sent to every Boy Scout troop in the United States an appeal to help him find his son and a card bearing a picture of the lost lad and a description of him. Scouts have been ever since on the lookout for him. In the interests of a grief-stricken mother, the Boy Scouts of America offered their services to organize a country-wide and careful search for Charles Ludington of St. Paul, who disappeared from his home several weeks ago. Some little time ago Boy Scouts of Germantown, a suburb of Philadelphia, were called upon to search their territory for a missing man, who later was found lying dead in a clump of bushes. The work was done systematically and with the utmost thoroughness. In other ways than those noted above have Boy Scouts showed practical results. When New York City set apart a week in which to clean up the town, 1,500 Boy Scouts co-operated with the Street Cleaning Department and the Department of Health in undertaking to collect waste paper, garbage, and rubbish of all kinds from the streets of the east side and other congested localities. Armed with brooms and brushes, the Scouts rid cellars of rubbish, tall flat buildings of dirt, made intelligent use of disinfectants, climbed fire escapes, and even went to the extent of scouring dirty, greasy ironwork. They cleaned up courtyards, back yards, and corners full of dirt under front stoops, and put gutters in condition to carry off water. Under direction of Scout Masters and Patrol Leaders this disagreeable and necessary work was done without demur-and done successfully. In Weir, Kan., the other towns of the Sunflower State, Boy Scouts are reported as crusading in the annual campaign against the detested house fly; and once on the firing line, so to speak-perhaps "swatting line" would be more nearly exact-they showed what they could do. They were not satisfied until they had the enemy in full retreat, and the campaign was a great success excepting from the flies' standpoint. Then they went even further, did these energetic young Scouts of Kansas. Following the plan outlined in Weir, they undertook a general cleaning up of the entire city, dividing it into districts, a squad of Scouts covering each district. After the cleaning-up the Scouts bought wire-netting; from a local druggist they obtained wooden yard sticks which had been used for advertising purposes, and with this material they made fly swatters which were distributed free of charge to every single residence in the community. They also raised funds for constructing a large number of fly-traps, which were soon distributed about the streets, and finally, largely through the efforts and example of the Scouts, the City Council adopted as a local ordinance the anti-fly rules of the State Board of Health, which require the removal of all refuse at least once every ten days from April to November, and that every repository in which flies might breed be covered and properly cared for. In Sioux City, also, the Boy Scouts instituted a fly campaign similar to those taken up elsewhere, and have been able to interest so many people that the city is reported as practically free from flies. The Scout Master at Flanagan, Ill. adopted a novel plan, it is reported to headquarters, when he organized his troop. A reward of $1 was given each week to the scout who killed the largest number of flies during the week. In addition to a hustling, effective campaign against a dreaded enemy of mankind, the Scouts regularly attended lectures and learned about diseases for which the fly is responsible. Scouts Fight Tuberculosis. Glen Ellyn, near Chicago, reports that its campaign against flies was aided to a marked degree by the Boy Scouts, who wrote to all residents of the village urging them to make use of fly traps, and inclosed pamphlets issued by the Chicago Health Department on "Fly Hints to Householders." The fight against tuberculosis has been aided by Boy Scouts in many cities and towns. In Newburyport, Mass., for example, the Scouts gave active assistance to the local Health Department, and, under advisement by the Scout Master there, lectures regarding tuberculosis were given children in the schools and an exhibit of tuberculosis facts and figures was opened for the public. One of the newest lines of community service by Boy Scouts is that furthering the movement to protect fish and game whenever necessary. In New Jersey, especially, this work has been pushed. The plan is to take advantage of the knowledge of Boy Scouts in wood and stream protection and to give them special instruction in the provision and operation of fish and game laws. Every Scout in this work is invested with certain police power, and in effect they constitute an amateur force of game wardens. The Scouts are to be taught the proper way to secure evidence and the nature of the evidence necessary. Scout Commissioner George H. Neidlinger of New Jersey has been mapping out details during the past few weeks, and has been aided by officials of the State. Boy Scouts of Dallas, Texas, are reported to have inaugurated a "backyard contest," which has attracted attention in the community and which teaches modern methods of intensively growing small fruits and vegetables. Headquarters in New York reports that Thomas Clark has been awarded a gold medal and a fountain pen for being the most careful and successful gardener in Dallas Troop No. 23. Word has reached headquarters from Cumberland, Md., that Boy Scouts have offered to do police duty in discovering insanitary places in and around that city, and reporting them to the health officer, so that he may inspect them and have them remedied. It is said that the Scouts, keenly interested and going here and there as boys will, have done more efficient work in this direction than the police themselves. When Great Barrington, Mass., completed its new library building, and faced the task of removing to it the thousands of books from the old structure, local Scouts volunteered to carry out this service, and did so with a vim. Since early last Spring scouts in Westerly, R. I., have waged unceasing war against the brown-tail moth, which for years has been a pest in certain parts of New England. After exterminating clusters of the caterpillar nests which they found by systematic searching along the roadsides, the Scouts made war on moths that had come to maturity and destructive capacity. Protecting Animals. Wichita, Kan., reports about forty Scouts detailed to look out for violations of the humane law, under special instructions from the official in charge of its public administration. When one of the lads sees a person beating a horse, maltreating a dog or otherwise acting cruelly to animals, he goes to a telephone, notifies the proper authority, and the matter is immediately investigated. The results are said to be excellent. Cases where Boy Scouts of America have helped to fight forest fires are numerous, and the National Headquarters, through its monthly magazine, is now starting a series of articles of special instruction, written by Superintendent Porter of the Philadelphia Department of Public Safety, telling Scouts how to prevent and how to extinguish fires of all kinds, how to rescue persons in burning buildings, and how to handle those injured by flames or overcome by smoke. THE BARITONE'S RONDEAU To the best-looking Soprano Contralto in the choir. Week after week, each Sunday, fair or foul; While passing motors barbarously howl; While hymn or sermon comes to bore or thrill, At thy sweet countenance I gaze my fill Across the chancel. Never shall I growl At this routine: at voices harsh or shrill. What though I sing my part with little skill, I quite ignore the choirmaster's [?] Week after week! Then, having doffed my badly fitting cowl, With wistful steps about the place I prowl For fleeting word with thee, Though well or ill. Long may I sit and muse upon thee still Like some demure, infatuated owl Week after week#25E. Grove St. Middleboro, Mass Aug. , 1913 Dear Mr. Roosevelt; I am thirteen years old, a suffragist, and a great admirer of you. I started a girl's Suffrage Club and there was quite a piece in the paper about it. I am terribly sorry you didn't get the presidency, but try try again. I heard you speak at Middleboro and you made a good speech. Papa was for you I'm glad to say. I bought a Roosevelt banner and hitched it on my bicycle everybody in town about knows I'm a suffragist and for you. You have a great many admirers here. I wanted to send you something but I don't know what to send so I guess I can only send my admiration. Admiringly, Catherine Bates[*[August 1913]*] The Workers at Tuba O ye that are Workers at Tuba, Afar from the travels of men, With hearts that are weary and listless, Press on and take courage again! The toil of your hands may seem futile,- Long hours and little to pay - But the grim disappointments and failures Are a part of the work of the day. Years ago, when a People before you Crossed the desert in search of a home They recked not of hardship or failure As they faced the long winters to come. They worked for the joy of the working, They labored for children unborn - As they ploughed up the earth into farmland, And planted the furrows with corn. Your Lombardy poplars and orchards Commemorate hours of toil; And the land that was desert and barren Is rich with the fruit of the soil. Ye toil not for kith or for kindred Ye sow that the Redman may reap, But the ultimate service ye render Depends on the courage ye keep.for the children with whom ye have labored by the sweat of your brow and your brain, Turn back to the filth and the squalor of the primitive hogan again. Your field - to bring order from chaos - Your orchard - to foster with care The slow growing young tree of knowledge, For the hope of the Redman is there. Be patient - a wonderful harvest May grow from the seeds ye have cast, And a tribe fighting ignorance & sickness May rise up - awakened at last! Be patient - ye workers at Tuba Look up and take courage - 'Tis morn Lo, the orchards are heavy with fruitage And the fields are a golden with corn! Fran Dwight Franklin August 1913[*[Enc in Franklin 10-28-13]*][*[Aug -1913]*] Allen House F.N. LORD, Prop. Honesdale, Pa., Aug 191 My Dear Mr. Harper: I am anxious to go over with the Colonel his recent attacks on me in Denver by E. K. Whitehead & one woman disguised as "The Womans Protective League". It is the most infamous malignant being thing yet started against me. I will be at Imperial Hotel N.Y. Aug 28 from 11 to 3 & again there on 29 & 30th Aug when I go to see Van Valstenberg of Phila & on to Washington D.C. 31st & Boston Sept 1stAllen House F.N. Lord; Prop. Honesdale, Pa.,.....191 2 to speak to the women's Progressive Organization & then to Denver - due there Sept 4 or 5th Court opens 8th. I will not be in NY again till Dec holidays. If convenient I would like to explain the whole matter to the Col. Whitehead is the Boss Evans tool who so viciously attacked Col R. & said he was "a murderer at heart etc. Drop me a line that I may receive at Imperial Hotel on arrival 28th Aug. Sincerely Ben B Lindsey[*Ca Aug ? 1913*] Wyncote, Pa., Sunday. Dear Harper: I spent Friday evening and Saturday morning with Mr. Perkins and the people at Progressive headquarters, getting material for the story. Got along pretty well, although material isn't as available as I had hoped. Will you please send me, by return mail if possible, an outline of the President's (natural!) that is, the Colonel's plans after October 4? Perhaps something of the sort has been published in the Outlook and has escaped me. If so, please send that. I want to know what he is to do and who is to do it with him. This will help out a lot. Do you know of any new or any unpublished and interesting pictures of the Colonel? I went over the stock of Underwood and Underwood, but found little of interest. Thank you very much for sending me the proof of the Century story. Sincerely yours, Henry B. Needham. Mr. Frank Harper New York City.[*CA AUG 1913*] Colonel Roosevelt- If the Progressive Party is to win in Massachusetts it will only be if you are good enough to come and speak for it. I say this after three weeks. return temporarily. And N.Y. City the same - the Argentine Republic - must realize how important it is to the country that you stay here, till these two crises be part - Had I the Time & strength for a monograh upon conditions here, it would be sent broadcast. Very truly yours, Emma Toussaint- [*203 Aspinwall Ave. Brookline - Mass.*][LA 8-13] The Flag of the U. S. A. Mrs. Candace Johnston McEwen. We love our flag of the U. S. A. and her honored statesmen true, Who have stood at the helm of the ship of state and guarded the red, white and blue. May they ever keep the standard high so the world will always say She stands for liberty, honor and right She's the flag of the U. S. A. Our gallant sons of long ago were courageous brave and true, Who fought and gave their lives to save The Star Spangled Banner for you. Our boys in blue are just as true but we must not forget The blood of our grand old fore-fathers Still lingers with them yet. Let each and all of us in our land Honor the Red, white and blue By living pure and noble lives to God and our country be true So when we receive the bugle call, to the better land to go The stars will be waiting us in our crown That we loved in our flag below. May the blessing of God forever rest on every star and stripe, And may the nation's motto be: "no ware with lose of life."; May she symbolize a world-wide peace as she proudly floats above; Till every nation will banish war and don the robe of love. Chorus. U. S. A. the land of the good and free, No place on earth like the one of my birth the garden of Eden to me. U. S. A. let us loyal good citizens be, And always be true to the Red, white and blue of our glorious U. S. A.[*Enc in Joy 2-26-17 Ca August 1913*]It is obvious that this Association can only aid and co-operate toward the desired end, AND THAT UPON ALL THE PEOPLE, and especially upon the Officials of each State and County and upon the inhabitants thereof within the borders of which is designated by these resolutions a section of the LINCOLN HIGHWAY, does rest the patriotic Burden of Establishing, Broadening, Straightening, Maintaining and Beautifying such HIGHWAY, to the end that it may become an appropriate Memorial to the Great Martyred Patriot whose name it bears. by Henry B. Joy 1913 From The Lincoln Highway Proclamation DATE TO AID IN PROCURING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CONTINUOUS CONNECTING IMPROVED HIGHWAY FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC, OPEN TO LAWFUL TRAFFIC OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, WITHOUT TOLL CHARGES, AND TO BE KNOWN IN MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, I DESIRE TO BECOME A SUSTAINING MEMBER OF THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION, AND AGREE TO CONTRIBUTE THE SUM OF $5.00 ANNUALLY TO THE MAINTENANCE OF THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION. ENCLOSED HEREWITH IS THE SUM OF $5.00 FOR MY FIRST YEAR MEMBERSHIP. NAME ADDRESS NOTE: SUSTAINING MEMBERS ARE ENROLLED UPON THE RECORD OF THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION; RECEIVE SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP CARDS YEARLY UPON PAYMENT OF DUES, AND ALL LITERATURE, LOGS AND MAPS PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION DURING THE YEAR, GRATIS. ALSO BEAUTIFULLY ENAMELED SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP PLATE IN THREE COLORS FOR THE RADIATOR OF THEIR AUTOMOBILE.I Am the Unimproved Highway By H. G. Andrews. COPYRIGHT 1917 BY WILLIAM PENN HIGHWAY ASS'N I am the unimproved highway. My name is Mud. The feet that patterned in primeval slime gave me birth. Unchanged while the ages passed I have endured. Time has but served to increase my infinite variety. Earth born, and without a soul, yet have I lived. From the beginning I have been man's enemy. A dust-colored python am I, stretching my length across the hills, waiting my time to crush endeavor. I have snared caravans that left bleaching bones in lands now desert. Empires have fallen because of me. I have turned victories into routs; I have trapped mighty leaders and have crushed armies. I am without faith; and those who trust me I deceive. To-day I am fair to look upon; to-morrow a steaming bog. I add Difficulty to Distance. With Isolation do I conspire to unjoint the endeavors of men. I tug at the wheels of the grain art that bread may be dear. I hamper those who would feed the race. I am an enemy of church and school. I mire the healer on his rounds and delay his coming that little ones may die. I am a disrupter of Home. I speed the first-born to the cities when I am fair to see; and when he would return I face him with my forbidding depths. I am minister to Bitterness; and lay a tax on all the world. There are none who live who do not pay me tribute. When me sloughed with a crooked stick, I was there. When the ancients covered me with stones, I slipped away to other lands. I am the oldest Lie that lives to-day. Men count me cheap. i know the price they pay who count me so. i am the highway- the unimproved highway. My name is Mud. A Highway with a Personality By Austin F. Bement, Secretary. The Lincoln Highway Association I am the product of centuries, the realization of a thousand dreams, the culmination of ten thousand efforts, the work of a million hands. I stand for progress, I represent human advancement, I typify civilization. Were it not for what I express, mankind would revert to barbarism. All the longing and striving of ages is summed up in me. I am the result of a fundamental need; the savage sought me and yet the highest civilization cannot do without me. I am a product of the past, an ideal of the present, the ambition of the future. I am an evolution; my past no man can trace; my future no man can picture. An ocean of blood has been shed along my course, that I might come into being; my desert silences have heard the dying prayer of thousands of my progenitors. I have culled form the advancing hosts of a nation in the making the worthless chaff of the unsound and the inferior. The icy gullies of my mountain passes and the withering heat of my western deserts have tried men's souls and bodies, but those who conquered me have found a nation and a home, and I am the servant of my conquerors. I carry the burdens of a continent; I distribute the fruits of its fertile fields and abundant valleys and the products of its countless industries. I represent the unity of the nation that bore me and I promote the welfare and happiness of its inhabitants. I aid the education of its youth, the intermingling of its teeming population, the better understanding of its widely separated sections. I unite the oceans; I connect twelve great sovereign commonwealths' I am the backbone road of the Republic, the inspiration for a million miles of inter-connecting branches. Into me has been breathed the personality of twentieth century America. I am worth of my namesake- like him I am the product of adversity- the ideal of a new race. I am the Lincoln Highway. DATE___ TO AID IN PROCURING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CONTINUOUS CONNECTING IMPROVED HIGHWAY FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC, OPEN TO LAWFUL TRAFFIC OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, WITHOUT TOLL CHARGES, AND TO BE KNOWN IN MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, I DESIRE TO BECOME A SUSTAINING MEMBER OF THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION, AND AGREE TO CONTRIBUTE THE SUM OF $5.00 ANNUALLY TO THE MAINTENANCE OF THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION. ENCLOSED HEREWITH IS THE SUM OF $5.00 FOR MY FIRST YEAR'S MEMBERSHIP. NAME____ ADDRESS____ NOTE: SUSTAINING MEMEBRS ARE ENROLLED UPON THE RECORDS OF THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION, RECEIVE SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP CARDS YEARLY UPON PAYMENT OF DUES, AND ALL LITERATURE, LOGS AND MAPS PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION DURING THE YEAR, GRATIS. ALSO BEAUTIFULLY ENAMELED SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP PLATE IN THREE COLORS FOR THE RADIATOR OF THEIR AUTOMOBILE. With the authority in plan and the power to execute of the great Napoleon, the Lincoln Way might be creditably planned and executed with dispatch from the beginning. The idealists who have energetically pressed forward the great project of a Lincoln Highway from coast to cost have accomplished wonders towards crystalizing a nation-wide demand for the consummation of such a great and desirable project. None know better than those who will assume to select the route that it is not done with Napoleonic authority or power. The force behind the decision will be only the wisdom of it, which it is hoped will give the selection of route the force, because it is believed that the route of the "Lincoln Way," wisely chosen, will have behind it the patriotic force of the whole people. The decision must be confined to one permanent road across the country to the constructed first, no matter how desirable others may be and actually are. Such has become the basic principle guiding the Lincoln Highway Association. [*by Henry B. Joy 1913*] FROM THE APPEAL TO PATRIOTSWith the authority to plan and the power to execute of the great Napoleon, the Lincoln Way might be creditably planned and executed with dispatch from the beginning. The idealists who have energetically pressed forward the great project of a Lincoln Highway from coast to coast have accomplished wonders toward crystalizing a nation-wide demand for the consummation of such a great and desirable project. None know better than those who will assume to select the route that it is not done with Napoleonic authority or power. The force behind the decision will be only the wisdom of it, which it is hoped will give the selection of route the force, because it is believed that the route of the "Lincoln Way," wisely chosen, will have behind it the patriotic force of the whole people. The decision must be confined to one per- Sustaining Member's Application Date TO AID IN PROCURING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CONTINUOUS CONNECTING IMPROVED HIGHWAY FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC, OPEN TO LAWFUL TRAFFIC OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, WITHOUT TOLL CHARGES, AND TO BE KNOWN IN MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, I DESIRE TO BECOME A SUSTAINING MEMBER OF THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION, AND AGREE TO CONTRIBUTE THE SUM OF $5.00 ANNUALLY TO THE MAINTENANCE OF THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION. ENCLOSED HEREWITH IS THE SUM OF $5.00 FOR MY FIRST YEAR'S MEMBERSHIP NAME ADDRESS NOTE: SUSTAINING MEMBERS ARE ENROLLED UPON THE RECORDS OF THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION; RECEIVE SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP CARDS YEARLY UPON PAYMENT OF DUES, AND ALL LITERATURE, LOGS AND MAPS PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION DURING THE YEAR, GRATIS. ALSO, BEAUTIFULLY ENAMELED SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP PLATE IN THREE COLORS FOR THE RADIATOR OF THEIR AUTOMOBILE.[*handwritten* "Also This. Address to state Governors 1913 [*underlined*] "] The Appeal to Patriots With the authority to plan and the power to execute of the great Napoleon, the Lincoln Way might be creditably planned and executed with dispatch from the beginning. The idealists who have energetically pressed forward the great project of a Lincoln Highway from coast to coast have accomplished wonders towards crystalizing a nation-wide demand for the consummation of such a great and desirable project. A committee of these idealists, after energetically and at their own personal expense pressing the propaganda to national fame and interest, decided to increase the force, behind their efforts, enlist the financial aid of others, and thus develop a stronger public interest and support of the work. After much a deliberation they decided to centralize and organize the head- quarters at a convenient center. Route investigations began. All data was studied. Climatic conditions considered. Routes possible and impossible were traveled and details care- fully noted as bearing on the ultimate decision which the Lincoln Highway Association was organized to make, as to what route would in its judgement be the most practicable to become the great Lincoln Memorial Highway. The Lincoln Way so selected, if done wisely, will be great. None know better than those who will assume to select the route that it is not done with Napoleonic authority or power. The force behind the decision will be only the wisdom of it, which it is hoped will give the selection of route the force, because it is believed that the route of the "Lincoln Way," wisely chosen, will have behind it the patriotic force of the whole people. The appears of the sections have been heard. The arguments of all interests have been and are being weighed. Shall the Lincoln Way be marked on the map from large city to city? Shall it be from point of interest to point of interest? Shall it be a highway from New York to San Francisco, as direct as practi- cable considering the limitations by Nature in the topography of the country? See America first! With all our force we endorse that sentiment! But a transcontinental highway the wound from large city to large city, from one wonder of nature to another, would indeed be a devious and winding journey in this great America of ours. It becomes plain that the decision on such a complicated route could not be arrived at in generations. No concentrated effort could be gained for the execution of the work. It becomes plain that the scope of the work must be within the practicable. It must be such as to immediately upon presenta- tion gain your support and mine. The decision must be confined to one permanent road across the country to be constructed [*italized*"first"], no matter how desirable others may be and actually are. Such has become the basic princibable guiding the Lincoln Highway Associa- tion. [*handwritten* ???] Proclamation [*italized*] of the Route [*italized*] of the Lincoln Highway As Issued September 1913 [*italized*] and The Address [*italized*] of the Conference [*italized*] of Governors As Delivered [*italized*] at Colorado Springs Colorado August 1913 J.R. I wrote this in 1913 [something 0,000] Seak this [e] world around JM The Proclamation of the Route of the Lincoln Highway Whereas The purpose of this Association is to immediately promote and procure the establishment of a continuous improved highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, open to lawful traffic of all descriptions and without toll charges, and Whereas Toward the end of accomplishing this purpose elaborate research and investigation has been prerequisite to crystalization of opinion before intel- ligent and wise decision could be reached, and Whereas This Association expressly desires to impress upon all the people that it fully acknowledges that a public declaration by it of a route is of no force or effect except as it shall be wise and practical, and being so, meet with the approval of the people for such a useful and enduring memorial, and Whereas It is obvious that this Association can only aid and co-operate toward the desired end, and that UPON ALL THE PEOPLE, and especially upon the offi- cials of each State and County and upon the inhabitants thereof, within the borders of which is designated by these resolutions a section of the Lincoln Highway does rest the patriotic burden of ESTABLISHING, BROADENING, STRAIGHTENING, MAINTAINING, AND BEAUTIFYING such Highway to the end that it may become an appropriate memorial to the Great Martyred Patriot whose name it bears, and Whereas Our chief step toward the desired goal is to crystalize in the public mind the practical wisdom of the Route selected; therefore, be it recorded here: FIRST-That in general it has been for nearly a century and is today the main Overland Trail and that part lying West of Chicago is known by that historic name. SECOND-It is the most direct and most practical route as to grades, curves and general topography. THIRD-It is to the greatest extent improved and marked throughout its length. FOURTH-It is capable of being established as a fitting memorial highway at the least cost, and Whereas It is now proper to declare the results of deliberation and inspection in the hope that the wisdom and care in selection may insure united sentiment, and with the prayer that this record will appeal to the hearts of all patriotic Americans to the end that plans and activities toward construction may go immediately forward; therefore, be it Resolved That the Lincoln Highway now is and henceforth shall be an existing memorial in tribute to the immortal Abraham Lincoln. Done by The Lincoln Highway Association Inc. DIRECTORS R. A. Alger Carl G. Fisher Alber J. Beveridge A. Y. Gowen R. D. Chapin Henry B. Joy Emory W. Clark A. R. Pardington Paul H. Deming F. A. Selberling John N. Willys By HENRY B. JOY. President CARL G. FISHER, Vice-President A.R. PARDINGTON, Vice-President EMORY W. CLARK, Treasurer HENRY E. BODMAN, Legal Counsel FRANK H. TREGO, Engieer[CA AUG 1913] THE PEORIA PROGRESSIVE BULLETIN VOL. I PEORIA, ILLINOIS, AUGUST, 1913 No. 3 ARTHUR H. SHAY Progressive Candidate for Nomination for Judge of Supreme Court Arthur H. Shay, of Streator, Ill., one of the leading attorneys of La Salle county, is a candidate for the Progressive nomination for judge of the supreme court for the fifth judicial district. He should receive the endorsement of the progressives at the primary. The party is fortunate that it can present the name of a candidate of the high standing and exceptional qualifications of Mr. Shay. He is a man in the vigor of life, being 42 years of age. His practice of law extends over a period of twenty years, the character and magnitude of which place him among the foremost attorneys of his section of the state. He has steadfastly refused ever to be a candidate for political office, and yielded only when the progressives of Streator, desirous of placing in the field a man of the highest standing and character, drafted him to run for the office of city attorney, to which he was easily elected. His candidacy for the supreme court is not prompted from selfish reasons of personal gain, for the income from his practice is now greatly in excess of the salary paid supreme court judges. He is the candidate for the progressives because he is the type of man progressives demand for their candidates. He fully measures up to that standard. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, as well as various fraternal and social organizations. He is a man of integrity, ability, and the professional equipment and experience to qualify him completely for the position of justice of the supreme court. The Candidate of the People!The Peoria Progressive Bulletin 2 Action of Streator Progressives Endorse Arthur H. Shay as Candidate For Justice of Supreme Court. "Whereas, Prominent members of the progressive party in LaSalle county and elsewhere have prevailed on Mr. Arthur H. Shay, our fellow townsman, to become a candidate in the Fifth judicial district to fill the unexpired term of Judge Hand, of Cambridge, who lately resigned his place on the supreme bench of Illinois; therefore be it "Resolved, By the progressive party in Streator, at a meeting called to consider the matter, and in the absence of our esteemed fellow citizen, Arthur H. Shay (who is with his family in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at this time), that we appreciate this great compliment so worthily bestowed on him and that we are a unit in doing all in our power to promote his candidacy, and with this in view, we deem it in order to make the following statement: "Mr. Shaw is forty-two years of age, is a graduate of Northwestern University of Law of Chicago, and has for twenty years been engaged exclusively in the practice of his profession. His practice has assumed large proportions and is of a varied character, involving some of the most important litigations in Northern Illinois. We who have lived near him and have known him intimately from his earliest years, beg to assure the progressives and others who may become interested, that Mr. Shay is a man of public spirit and of the strictest integrity and has won the universal confidence and respect of all who know him, is an untiring worker and is a man of wide legal learning. "We are proud of his acquaintance, his citizenship among us and his friendship, and have the utmost confidence that if elected to the high office of supreme justice his work as such will reflect only honor on those who cast their vote for him, and to him it will be a just reward due to honorable living, untiring industry and faithful devotion to his profession. He is in the best of health and in the prime of life, with no wasted years behind him, and we believe that if he is elected and lives the allotted time of man, he will be reckoned among the great jurists of his age. "In speaking thus highly of him, we are confident that we have said nothing that the strictest investigation will not confirm, and have not prophesied or promised more than he will perform." SUFFRAGE VOTE IN ILLINOIS The Hearld-Transcript said recently that "In none of the elections held in Illinois since July 1st have women shown any special interest in their newly acquired rights." At that time several elections had been held in which the women participated. In Mount Vernon the women out-voted the men, and their candidate for mayor was elected. In Carthage a total of 972 votes was cast, of which 432 were female votes. In Springfield there was an election for park trustees in which the women could not vote. Incidentally there was at the same time a vote on a small and unimportand bond issue upon which the women could vote and 112 of them did vote. In Peoria Heights a total of 108 votes was cast in the primary election. Of this number the women cast 34 votes. "Tried in the balance and found wanting," is the way the H.-T. describes the participation of the women in this election. In its effort to ridicule and belittle the women, the republican organ sneeringly calls attention to the fact that only 34 of the 400 women in the village availed themselves of the privilege of voting. It carefully refrained from mentioning the fact that out of the 600 men in the village only 74 voted. This attempt of some kid reporter to be smart and hold the women of the Heights up to ridicule should be resented by every serious minded woman. The stand-pat organ follows up this line of treatment editorially. When it charges the women with being "obessed with the idea that women in the aggregate are more honorable or patriotic than men," it does the women a rank injustice. So far as we know, no such claim has ever been advanced by the women, and no such argument was ever offered for giving them the right of suffrage. The demand for suffrage was the demand of simple justice. The H.-T. indulges in another baseless assumption not backed up by the experience of other states and one for which the H.-T. has no ground except its own unfriendliness, when it says, "We may be sure that when elections become acute the less desirable women will be first and last at the polls." Thus the women, in their very laudable efforts to educate and prepare themselves for this new duty, need expect no fair treatment, may look for no encouragement or support from papers of the H.-T. stripe. The women may now expect to come in for their full share of abuse and ridicule from unfriendly newspapers. Dr. Cadmus spent a few days in Peoria recently. He is making a trip over the coast states in the organization work of the party. He reports that the progressives of the west are determined and enthusiastic and that they have cut loose from the old parties for good. The progressives of Lynn county, Iowa, celebrated the anniversary of the party on August 5th at Cedar Rapids. George Fitch was among the list of speakers for the occasion. Five hundred progressives gathered for the celebration and Mr. Fitch says that they are a live and enthusiastic crowd. A NON-PARTISAN JUDICIARY. There are at present four republicans and two democrats on the supreme court bench of Illinois. Should another republican be placed there? The judiciary is the one institution which above all others should be strictly non-partisan and should represent all parties. The voters of the Fifth judicial district will have an opportunity to make the high court more thoroughly representative of the people by electing a progressive member. The political complexion of the court would then be four republicans, two democrats and one progressive. Does not this distribution meet with the approval of all fair-minded and patriotic citizens? To increase the present republican membership to five would certainly not be a move in the direction of a genuinely non-partisan court. So long as our judges must be elected by political parties, the only way to give the court a non-partisan character is to see to it that all parties are represented. A vote for the progressive candidate will help to bring about this much desired condition. RESOLUTIONS Resolutions adopted by progressives at judicial conference of county chairmen and congressional committeemen, held in Peoria on July 31st: "Whereas, Through the resignation of Justice John P. Hand from the supreme bench of Illinois it has become necessary for the people of the Fifth judicial district to choose a supreme justice to fill his place; and "Whereas, It is of transcendant and overwhelming importance at this particular period of political advancement that members of the judiciary, above all others, shall be men of deep and practical sympathy with the trend of modern social and humanitarian legislation; and "Whereas, The progressive party favors the election of judges in all judicial departments who have kept step with legislative needs and who will not form the last bulwark against the popular demands for a condition in which human rights are pre-eminent; therefore be it "Resolved, That the progressive party of the Fifth judicial district, through its county chairmen and other representatives, assembled in conference, declare its intention of putting into the field a candidate who shall measure up in beliefs with modern governmental thought of the people; and be it further "Resolved, That we hereby pledge to such candidate our united and enthusiastic support and call upon all progressives to lend their aid in the campaign now undertaken."