Volume 72 March 29, 1907 to May 22, 1907 SERIES 272last page indext 8 22 29 48 53 67 100 127 134 164 170 176 188 200 219 241 254 262 281 314 327 345 361 367 381 387 398 412 422 430 442 453 462 482 485 495 End Secretary of State 76-140-310-464 " Treasury 80-472 " War 94-164-139-165-173-189-190-238-369-433-452 " Navy 92-467-476 " Interior 90 " Agriculture 88-138 " Com. Lab 82-351-434 Atty. - Gen 78-128-258-274-372-479 Postmaster General 84 Interstate Com. Comm. 53-412 Civil Service Comm 110 Canal Comm See Gaethals AB Abbott. Rev. Dr. Lyman 16-36-154 Anderson. Charles W. 172 Allen. Frederick J 327 Adams. E.L. 375 Abernathy, John R. 477 A B Baker, Ray Stannard 2 Ballinger, Richard A. 9 Bowker, R.R. 33 Beveridge. Senator 34-219-287-365-418 Butler Mich Mur. 74-130-301-368 Bland J. Edward 75 Busse. Fred A. 183 Bales Hon. Arthur 204 Buttrick, Rev. Dr. Wallace 206-302 Brown, W.C. 222-336-377-422 Brown, Arthur J. 228 Bingham, Theo A. 230 Bell. Gen. J.F. [23] 240 Baldwin E.F. 250 Brown. Geo. R. 282 Barnes. Mr Mrs. Wm 284 Bishop Jos B. 293 Burlingham, Chas. C. 315 Bryce. James British Ambassador 346 Baldwin. Wm H. 375 Boardman. Miss 375 Brennan. P.J. 375 Burgess. Bishop Fredk 391 Brann, Father Henry A. 393 Burkett. Sen. E.J. 436 Broward, NB. 487 Blanchard, Newton C. 481 Burke, John 481 Brazilian Ambassador 485-497CD Carter. Gov. Geo. R. 37-116-131 Carnegie. Andrew 56-113-132-234 Clary, M le Conte 144 Coolidge, Archibald Cary 205 Curry. Capt Geo. 225-356 Clarkson. James S. 270 Connolly. James B. 280 Cutler, John C. 312 Cummins Gov. A.B. 316-354-481 Cronin. John J 364 Cook, Geo. W. 375 Chamerlain. Geo. E. 397-481 Cromer. Lord 402 Cabot, Arthur T 426 Century Assn. 431 Converse Rear Admiral 476 Cobb, Wm T. 481 Crawford, Geo. J. 481 Campbell, Thos. M. 481 Conway, J. Monsure 484 C D Dodge. Grenville M. 17 Dewey. Admiral Geo. 27 Davis. Sam P. 70 Dolliver. Sen 159 Dodd. Geo. A. 186 de Constant Baron d'E. 147 Dodge. Cleveland H. 195 Dietrick, Frank S. 220 Davis, Howland 232 Delwrey, L.A. 265 Day, Mrs. Wm R. 277 Dawson. Wm M.O. 279 Dolan T.J. 304 Daniels, Wm P. 360 Dustman, F.L. 367 Downey, Wm F. 375 Drummond. Mrs. S.K.W. 417 Dickema, G.J. 463 Deneen, Chas. S. 481 Davidson, J.O. 481 EF Ely. Robert Erskine 24 Evans. Wm T. 126 Edwards. Brig. Gen. Clarence R 224 Eustis. Miss 235 Eustis. Mrs. Wm C. [350] 349[?] Evans. Rear Admiral R.D. 370 Emerson. Edwin 415E F Fraser. Donald W. 22 Fairbanks. Chas W. 137-163-193-244 Fuller, Hector 223 Fincke, F.G. 321 Francis, Chas. S. 334 Frick. H.C. 387 French Ambassador 407 Fisher, Irving 410-413 Folk, Joseph W. 481 Frantz, Frank 481 GH Goethals, Geo. W. 1-33 German Ambassador. The 31-486 Gillett. Gov. J.N. 35 Gibbons, Cardinal 47 Grant Robert 149-266 Grosscup, Peter S. 185 Gorgas. Wm C. 218 Goodwin, Rev. Wm A.R. 243 Griscom, Lloyd C. 254-332 Gamble, Robert J 278 Gardiner Robert H 288 Grey, Lord 291 Gleaves, Albert 303-331-332-333-334-335 Greenway, John C. 396 Guinan, Mary 412 Goodwin E.F. 435 Governors of States 482 Gaff, Mrs. Thos. T. 487 G H Harlan. Richard D. 12 Howze. Lt. Col. Robt L. 63 Hitchcock, Hon. E.A. 65 Hunter. C.E. 66 Henry. Guy V. 118 Hollis. Edwin C 171 Horstman, Bishop I.F. 203 Huidekoper, Miss E.G. 204 Hall, Bolton 217 Hurlbut, Dean B.S. 239 Harlan, John M. 276 Higgison, H.L. 295 Hagerman, Gov. H.J. 308-338 Heney, Francis J. 326 Henry. John S. 358 Hornaday. Wm J. 363 Hague. Mrs. Arnold 375 Hamilton, Ian 403-490 Harlan, James S. 424 Hooker, EH. 431 Hughitt, Marvin 432 Halsey, Miss Jane 466 Hundley, Oscar R. 475 Hoch, Edward W. 481 IJ Ireton, Robert Emmett 207 I I J Jenks. J.W. 18 Jones. Thos. G. 26 Jenkins J.J. 125 Jones. Miss Alice 133 Jordan. Whitman H. 178 Jaxon, Honore 259 Jones. Thaddeus W. 337 Johnson, Robert U. 352 Jusserand, J.J. 407 KL Kennan. Mrs. Geo 32 Knapp. Martin A. See Int. Com. Comm. Kibbey. Joseph H. 202 Knox P.C. 298-420 Kent. Edward 311-423 Keen. Ed. L. 314 Keogh Martin J. 324 Kober, Dr. Geo. M. 375 Kittredge Senator 396 Kinnicutt, Mrs. Francis 390 K L Lodge. Mrs. H.C. 6 Lodge. Senator 49-53-101-145-201-500 Lambert. Dr. Alex 52-236 Long. Chester J 54-216 Lee, Arthur 102-489 Landon. F.G. 112 Lilley. M.E. 115 Lowell, A. Lawrence 150 Longworth, Nicholas 160-227-464 Lane, William C. 184 Legg. Chester Arthur 255 Lounsbury. T.R. 323 LaFarge. Mrs. C. Grant. 347 Long. Hon. John D. 389 Lyon, Cecil A. 405 Lee, Miss Alice 483 MMc Matthews, Brander 15-392-443 Murphy, Edgar G. 73 Martin, T.C. 175 Morton, Paul 197-233 Melvin, Hon. Henry A. 213-474 Magoon, Chas. E 237 Mulholland, John 272 Moody, Wm H. 381 Moseby. E.A. 412 Mason's School Miss C.E. 466 Moore, John J 481 M Mc McGaffey, Ernest 166-211-249-292 McBee. Silas 174-442 McCumber. P.J. 196 McCaskey, Maj. Wm S. 264 McKelway, St. Claire 299 McRae, Milton A. 314 McClintock, Walter 349 McKinlay, Whitefield 375 Mc Neill, Chas. P 21-53 Noyes. Frank B. 23 Nutter. Chas R. 46 Nevin, Arthur 348 Norman, Sir Henry 361 Nabb. Miss E. C. 466 Nabuco. Joaquim 485-497 Nagel, Charles 498 N ON O Opdycke. L.E. 384 Oliver, F.S. 430 O O O O PQ Platt. Senator 4-13-200 Pardee, Gov. Geo. C. 71 Putnam, Herbert 87 Patterson Senator 105 Penrose Senator 122 Paine, Ralph D. 157 Pritchett, Henry S. 177 Pollard, Charles Louis 242 Porter, Robert P. 253 Pagan, Oliver E. 355 Parsons. Herbert 362 Parsons. T.C. 375 Potter, Bishop H.C. 380 Punnett, Mrs. L. Gertrude R 382 Pringle. John D. 394 Pinchot, Gifford 427 Patter, M. 427 Pitcher, Major John 429 Page, Mrs. Thos. N. 450 Patterson, M.R. 481 P Q Qu Qu Qu Ross Edward A. 123 Robb. J. Hampton 161 Reid. Whitelaw 162-306-331 494 Robb. Chas. H 168 Roche, James Jeffrey 176 Ridder, Herman 181 Raines. John 221 Rose, U.M. 231 Riis. Jacob A. 248 Rush. Capt. Richard 294 Reynolds. James Brown 373 Roulhae, Thos. R. 478 Roosevelt, Kermit 10, 119-155-246-267-318 378-447-470 Roosevelt, W. Emlin 69-214 Roosevelt, Mrs. Geo. W. 182 Roosevelt, Theodore Jr. 445 Roosevelt, Robert B. 486 R SR S Smith C.H. 7 Speyer. James 25 Shaw, Dr. Albert 40-117-151-212 Stickney, A.B. 45 Swanson, Claude A. 51 Sullivan John S. 55-421 Stillings, Chas. A. 96 Sullivan. Jonas E 109 St. Herbert Club of France 144 Scribners. 166 Sayre, Francis B 167 Stimson, Henry S. 169 Sims. E.W. 180-257-285 Smith, B.F. 188 Stewart, Phil. B. 191-263-437 Schneider. R.B. 215 Schiff. Jacob H. 245 Saint-Gaudens, Homer 251-408-441 Scheffner, Corrie 283 Seligman, Isaac N. 290 Sternberg Gen. Geo. M. 375 Siddons Fredk L. 375 Sleman. John B. Jr 375 Sims. Lt. Comdr Wm S. 388 Spalding Bishop JL. 401 Sloan. A.K. 419 Stockmen of Wyoming 427 Storey, Harry 444 Sullivan, Mark 454 Sheldon, Geo. L. 481 Sternburg, Baron 486 Slocum, Clarence Rice 496 T U True, Chas. H. 72 Trevelyan, Sir Geo. Otto 134 Tuckerman. Paul 198-269 Thurman, Allen W. 286 Taussig, F. W. 296 Taft, Henry W. 325-425-468 Takahira, Kogoro. 328 Tower, Charlemagne 333 Trucans, C. J. 350 Thompson, David D 385 Tucker, H. St. George 499T U U UV W Van Fleet, Wm. C. 152 Von Brusen, Arthur 297V W Welling, Richard 14 Wheeler, Wm R. 19-20 Whitridge F.W. 28-170 Wister, Owen 30 Wetter, Emil C. 50 Williams, John S. 67-473 Walcott, Chas. D. 68-98 Wheeler, Benj. Ide 100 Wendell, Berrett 148 Wadsworth Martha B 158-187 Washburn, C.G. 179-208 Willis, H.C. 209 West, Roy Owen 256 Ward, Chas. Willis 271 Whitfield, A.H. 289 Warren, Edbert, K. 31-113 Wight, Pearl 322 Winthrop, Beekman 345 Wadsworth, W.A. 353 Woodward, S.W. 375 Wheelan, F.H. 416 White, Henry 143-335 White, W.A. 399 White, White W W W W W Wyoming Stockmen 427 YZ Yorkes, John W. 39 Y Y Y YY Z Z1 March 29, 1907. My dear Colonel Goethals: Please note the enclosed. I feel rather deeply about this matter of Gray. I should be very much obliged if you would have him reinstated and then let him stand or fall on his merits. I can not help feeling that he was discharged because he spoke to me while I was on the Isthmus. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Lieut. Colonel George W. Goethals, Chairman, Isthmian Canal Commission, Culebra, Canal Zone. Enclosure. 2 Personal. Private March 30, 1907. My dear Mr. Baker: I am genuinely imprest with your article on the Atlanta riots. It helped me in more than one way to a clearer understanding of the situation. Some time I should like to see you. I have been really deprest over this Brownsville Texas business--not so much by the attitude of the colored troops themselves, altho that was sufficiently onerous, but by the attitude taken by the enormous majority of the colored people in regard to the matter. I had never really believed there was much justification for the claim of the Southern whites that the decent Negroes would actively or passively shield their own wrongdoers; or at least I had never realized the extent to which the statement was true; but this Brownsville business has given me the most serious concern on this very point. If they were white troops I do not believe that at this moment any human being would be maintaining their innocence, and indeed I doubt very seriously whether the incident could have occurred exactly as it did occur if they had been white troops. But as it is, with a few noted exceptions the colored people have made a fetich of the innocence of the troops and have been supporting in every way the political demagogs and visionary enthusiasts who have struck hands in the matter of their defense. 3 -2- Foraker, for instance, is an able man, and it is simply not supposable that he seriously questions the guilt of the Negro troops, both of those among them who are actively concerned in the shooting and the attendant murder, and of the others who were accessory before or after the fact. Whether he, as I am personally inclined to believe, championed the cause of the colored troops merely as an incident in his campaign against me because of our fundamental disagreement on the question of the control of corporations, or whether, as is possible, he did it simply as a political move to secure the Negro vote--for it is impossible to admit that he could be sincere in any belief in the troops' innocence---the fact remains that the overwhelming majority of the colored people have stood by him heartily and have been inclined to lose sight of every real movement for the betterment of their race, of every real wrong done their race [in]by peonage [and in]or lynching, and to fix their eyes only upon this movement to prevent the punishment of atrociously guilty men of their race. Senator Clay, Clark Howell and two or three others have given me substantially the view of the Atlanta riot which you give; but you work out features of it as to which I had been entirely ignorant, and I was particularly glad to see them. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Ray Stannard Baker, The American Magazine 141 Fifth Avenue, New York.[*4*] March 30, 1907. My dear Senator Platt: I do not know what can be done about that Commission; and [I?] [and before I?] do not know that anything can be done for Senator Hill. There is no appropriation for the commission, and I have put on people already in the Government service, with one or two exceptions, all men who could afford to pay their own expenses. The commission is now complete and I do not know whether it would be praticable to have any other men added in any position whatsoever in connection with the commission. I have of course a very high regard for Senator Hill and would be glad to do what you request if it were at all in my power. A suggestion has been made to me to add Mr. Edward H. Butler, of Buffalo, to the 5 commission, and I [wanted to do that] would have done as [?????], but it it not seem possible. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T.C. Platt, U.S.S., 2 Rector Street New York.6 March 30,1907. Mrs. H.C. Lodge, Touraine Hotel, Boston, Mass. We are thinking of you with deep affection and sympathy, and are still earnestly hoping. THEODORE & EDITH. 7 March 31, 1907. My dear Mr. Smith: I hate not to do anything your association requests, but I fear it will be simply impossible for me to speak as you so kindly suggest. It is not as if I had anything new to say. I send you a volume of my Presidential addresses and ask you to turn to pages 473, 557 and 561. If you will also look at my last two messages to Congress (also enclosed) you will see in the two speeches and two messages that I have said about all I would say if I spoke now. As I said to your body the other day, I have already exprest again and against my carefully thought out beliefs. I am more firmly than ever convinced that these beliefs are wise and that the policy I recommended in my messages at the opening of each of the last regular sessions of Congress must be carried out. Just at [*8*] the moment I do not see that I have much to add to what I have already said and I think that what has occurred since I wrote the two messages in question merely illustrates in striking fashion the desirability of the course I therein outlined. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. C. H. Smith, President, Illinois Manufacturers Association, The Marquette Building, Chicago, Illinois. Enclosures.9 March 30, 1907. Sir: You are hereby appointed a member of the commission on the public lands created October 22, 1903, and designated to be chairman of said commission. I enclose herewith a copy of the original letter creating the commission and appointing the members thereof. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr Richard A. Ballinger, Commissioner of the General Land Office, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. Enclosure. 10 March 31,1907. Dear Kermit: After a week of hot spring weather we have for Easter Sunday, I am sorry to say, a rather cold rain. I am up to my ears in work, and have not been able to ride since you left; tho I have had two or three afternoons on which I was able to play tennis. Blessed Archie is running all around the house again. He at once wrote a long picture letter to his beloved friends, the crew of the Sylph, thru Ohio and received from Obie a really nice letter in return. Quentin is in abounding health and as quaint and funny as ever. Poor Ted has been laid up for three days. Not merely the railroad presidents but very good people generally have been wild to have me speak on the railroad situation, so as to see if I could not lighten the strain on the business situation. I have been much inclined to yield to their requests, but when I wrote out my speech I began to feel that I was simply repeating what I had already said, so I lookt up some of my old speeches and really I have so completely covered the ground that I gravely question whether I will try to say anything about it now. I do not like to seem to talk just for the effect upon the stock market. What I have to say must be said with a view to permanent policy; and I do not see what particular good would come just at this moment from my re-11 -2- reiterating what I have said so many times before. You do not know how proud I was of the way you learned to jump during your holiday this year. I was mighty glad you had the experience with Mr. Bacon's huge Irish hunter, for it is a good thing to have difficult horses to deal with at times. The pictures of you on Roswell going over the stone wall and the rail fence have come out very well indeed. I do not mean that they were as clear cut as they should be, but they showed you sitting well down in the saddle in a way that was mighty nice. Your loving father, T.R. Master Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts. The grounds are now putting on their green of spring; the blossom trees are in bloom; perhaps the most beautiful spot at the moment is around the north formation, with its white Magnolias, its pink of the flowering peach, and the yellow of the forsythia. Mother and I took a walk and found many early flowers along Rock Creek.12 April 1, 1907 My dear Dr. Harlan: I hate not to do as you request, but I am very much afraid that I shall have to ask you to use only the letter I sent President Needham, which has already been printed in one of your circulars. I am sure you will appreciate the reluctance with which I say this, because you know the multitude of letters like this I am asked to write and the impossibility of my doing so. With real regret, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Richard D. Harlan, George Washington University Washington, D.C. [*13*] April, 1, 1907. My dear Senator: I have your letter of the 30th ultimo. I doubt whether such a commission as you mention is to be formed. When I next have the chance of seeing you or Frank I will give you one or two reasons why the State Department is not inclined to feel that the gentleman named should go on the commission even if formed. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T. C Platt, 2 Rector Street, New York, N.Y. 14 April 1. 1907. Dear Dicks; That is a striking fact and I thank you for bringing it to my attention. With warm regards, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Richard Welling, 2 Wall Street, New York, N. Y.15 April 1. 1907. Dear Brander: It is horrid to have to refuse the request for even a "pair of old pants," but I do not think it best that just at present I should say anything more about the simplified spelling. I am using it myself. I used it for the Nation until Congress stopt it. Then I accepted an election on the Simplified Spelling Board. Now I do not think it wise for me to talk about it any more. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Brander Matthews, 681 West End Avenue, New York, N. Y.16 April 1. 1907. My dear Dr. Abbott: I have your letter of the 30th. I am very reluctant to come on to New York to speak at that banquet. don't you think that a letter would do just as well. If I am not mistaken Mr. Bryan has also been asked to speak at the banquet, and several others. I doubt if I care to speak at all, but certainly if I did speak it would be on Monday night with Root and Hughes. But I am very doubtful if I can do even this. I look forward to seeing you on the 8th. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 17 March 31, 1907. My dear General: I thank you heartily for your letter. I send you a little volume of my speeches for 1905. Will you look at page 473, 557 and 561? Don't you think I cover the ground pretty fairly? With warm regards, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Enclosure.18 April 1, 1907. My dear Professor Jenks: I hereby appoint you a member of the commission in accordance with the provisions of the act of February 20, 1907, entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States." I have notified Senator Dillingham of your appointment and he will inform you when the commission will meet. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Professor J. W. Jenks, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.19 April 1. 1907. My dear Mr. Wheeler : I hereby appoint you a member of the commission in accordance with the provisions of the act of February 20, 1907, entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States." I have notified Senator Dillingham of your appointment and he will inform you when the commission will meet. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. William R. Wheeler, C/o Holbrock, Merrell & Stetson, Oakland, California.20 April 1, 1907. My dear Mr. Wheeler: I am exceedingly pleased that you accepted. It was an act of exceeding public spiritedness, and I thank you for it. I am dependent for accomplishing good work upon the readiness of men like yourself to help me, and I very much appreciate it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. William R. Wheeler, Care Holbrook, Merrell and Stetson, Oakland, California. [*19*]21 April 1, 1907. My dear Mr. Neill: I hereby appoint you a member of the commission in accordance with the provisions of the act of February 20, 1907, entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States." I have notified Senator Dillingham of your appointment and he will inform you when the commission will meet. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Hon. Charles P. Neill, Commissioner of Labor, Department of Commerce and Labor. 22 April 1, 1907. My dear Mr. Fraser: I have your letter of the 29th ultimo and was glad to hear from you. You have got the right spirit in you. I notice that you misspell some of your words, badly. Now I am no friend of the present system of spelling, but it is obligatory on you to spell correctly if you are to enter West Point. So brush up on that subject and do your best. It behooves you to do well as representing that great body of American citizens of whom I and all other Americans are so proud - the non-commissioned officers of the army and navy - of whom your father is one. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Donald W. Fraser, Fort Adams, Rhode Island.23 April 1, 1907. My dear Mr. Noyes: I have your letter of the 30th ultimo. I would not be able to answer you offhand on the matter you refer to, partly because the bear is not yet dead and I do not want to divide his skin too far in advance! Is there any chance of your being in Washington soon? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Frank B. Noyes, The Chicago Record-Herald, Chicago, Illinois.24 April 2, 1907. My dear Mr. Ely: I have your letter of the 30th ultimo. I fear it will be impossible for me to come on to speak, as I had hoped. My work continues very heavy here. I shall write, however, at some length. It was a very real pleasure to see your body the other day and talk with you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert Erskine Ely, The National Arbitration and Peace Congress, 19 West 44th Street, New York.25 April 2, 1907. My dear Mr. Speyer: That is a very admirable memorandum of yours. I have taken the liberty of sending it to Cortelyou, and shall afterwards go over it with some of the Interstate Commerce Commissioners. I am afraid I shall have to write a letter to the National Arbitration and Peace Congress. I do not believe it will be possible for me to get away or to prepare a sufficiently elaborate speech for that day. With great regard, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. James Speyer 24 Pine Street, New York, N. Y.26 April 2, 1907. My dear Judge Jones: Whomever I decide to appoint judge, whether Mr. Hundley or some one else, I shall request him to behave in the matters of patronage just as you have done; that is, to keep in every worthy man and to appoint purely with an eye to the candidate's efficiency. Never have the least hesitation in writing me. It is always a great pleasure to hear from you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Thomas G. Jones, U. S. District Judge, Montgomery, Alabama.27 April 2, 1907 My dear Admiral; I enclose a note from your sworn supporter, my naval aid, Commander Key. Would you be willing to let me glance at Admiral Brownson's letter? With great regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Admiral George Dewey, U.S.N. President General Board, Mills Building, Washington, D.C. Enclosure.28 Personal. April 2, 1907. Dear Fred: Many thanks for your letter of the 1st instant. When I make my speech about railroads it will simply be in the ordinary course of my speech-making; that is, in some set speech, as my Harrisburg speech last year or my muck-rakers speech. I have never said, or thought or dreamed of saying, that the Government ought to ascertain the valuation of railroad properties as the basis for fixing their rates. Incidentally, and from time to time, I have no doubt the values of most railroad properties will be obtained. The Northern Pacific, for instance, has just formally offered its own value in evidence before the Interstate commerce Commission, and I suppose the Interstate Commerce Commission will now have to examine into it. But I have never regarded the talk about the physical valuation of the railways as of any real importance from the standpoint I had in29 view; but if (for your sins) you were so unwise as to read my past messages, you would see that I had repeatedly advocated having just such a law for the supervision of railroads as we now have in the national banking law for the supervision of banks. If you at any time have any leisure, come down here and I will show you the rough draft of what I have been thinking of saying. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. F. W. Whitridge, 59 Wall Street, New York.30 April 2, 1907. Dear Dan: Will you go down with me to the Jamestown Exposition, leaving here the evening of April 25th? If you care to, come on and spend a day or two with us before or after the trip. At any rate, do come for the trip if you can. I think it would do you good. We expect to spend the 26th and 27th at the Exposition and in its neighborhood. Give my love to Mrs. Wister and tell her that I hope she will make you come because it will do you good. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Owen Wister, 328 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia31 April 2, 1907. Dear Speck: The matter you sent me from Japan is of real interest and I thank you for it. I am so glad that, as Root tells me, we have at least broken ground so to speak on our tariff agreement. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Baron H. Sternburg, The German Ambassador, Washington, D.C.32 April 2, 1907. My dear Mrs. Kennan: I was much interested in Mr. Kennan's piece, which I had already read; but I was even more interested in what it now turns out was your piece. I had no idea it was by you. I think you have struck the heart of the matter. Every courtesy and consideration should be shown by American and Japanese for one another; but in the interest of their good feeling it is not wise that great masses of either should go to dwell in the lands of the other. With high regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. George Keenan, Hotel Westminster, Irving Place & 16th Street, New York, N. Y. 33 April 2, 1907. My dear Colonel Goethals: The writer of the enclosed is a responsible man. I suggest that you have a very careful investigation made as to whether there is not foundation for the complaints. I am inclined to think that there is, all the congressmen on this election express [??] with the concerning. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Lieut. Colonel Geo. W. Goethals, U.S.A., Chairman, Isthmian Canal Commission, Culebra, Canal Zone. Enclosure. The enclosure is a letter from R.R. Bowker concerning criticisms of the commissariat, Isthmian canal.34 April 2, 1907. My dear Senator: After most carefully going over the situation with Secretary Cortelyou from every standpoint, as well as certain other men here, it was deemed imperative that if Commissioner Yerkes was to be allowed to leave a Kentuckian should be put in his place. I told Mr. Cortelyou that if we went out of Kentucky I wanted to appoint your man, Miller; but it does not seem to be possible to go out of Kentucky at this time. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Albert J. Bevridge, U. S. S. Indianapolis, Indiana. 35 April 2, 1907 My dear Governor: That is an awfully nice letter of yours, and I thank you for it most heartily. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. N. Gillett, Governor of California, Sacramento, California.36 April 2, 1907. My dear Dr. Abbott: I find I can not in person to the peace conference. I shall write at some little length. If you do not mind, I shall quote that excellent advice of Saint Paul that you give in your letter. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*16*] Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York.37 April 2, 1907. My dear Governor: You are to proceed in immigration matter exactly as you have hitherto proceeded. From the information I have received from Mr. Sargent, the action that you have been taking in Hawaii is proper in every way, and no action under it need be changed in consequence of the Attorney General's opinion. The only question that might arise is if the money that was contributed was from corporations and not from individuals. But as I understand your letter, it is individuals who contribute, as individuals and not as corporations. This being so, I have nothing to say except to go on , precisely as you have been doing, carrying out the instructions of Mr. Sargent, who informs me of his entire satisfaction with and approval of the action of the Territory in38 connection with securing the desired immigrant, With all regard, believe me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Hon. G. R. Carter, Governor of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.39 April 2, 1907. My dear Mr. Yerkes: I accept your resignation with very real regret. You have been the kind of public servant that it is a pleasure to have in public office. Your services have meant a pecuniary loss to yourself, but they have been of incalculable gain to the public. With all good wishes for you and yours, believe me, Always your friend, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John W. Yerkes, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Treasury Department.[*40*] April 3, 1907. My dear Dr. Shaw: You know how sincerely I believe that your magazine generally stands for moral betterment all around. I was really shocked to see in it the last paragraph but one by Dr. Cronin in his article on "The Doctor in the Public School." Dr. Cronin may not be consciously immoral; but if so, it is an unwarranted compliment to speak of his intellect as half-baked. He is not to be excused for writing in a great periodical in such fashion. The ordinary individual thinks so little on these questions that it is pardonable for him to think in confused fashion even on such an elemental proposition as this; but the man who affects to instruct others in matters of moral and hygienic reform must be expected to exhibit at least the rudimentary intelligence and morality necessary to prevent his saying what the Doctor has here said. He states clearly that it is an erroneous idea to assume that the average American family should have a larger number of healthy children than the present birth-rate shows. If he were fit to write on any such subject he would, before making such a statement, have studied the vital statistics of, for instance, a State like Massachusetts, which show that there the average native American family of native American descent has so few children that the birth-rate41 2 has fallen below the death-rate. This of course means race suicide; and even Dr. Cronin ought to understand that if, after a while, there are no children to go to school, the question of their health in school would not be even academic. His statement that "physical defects go hand in hand with a large number of children, both in the rich and in the poor," is simply not true, as he could tell at a glance by looking up, for instance, the fact that athletes are most apt to be found in fair-sized families. I am not speaking now of families of inordinate size (tho even as to such, the high standard of health and strength among the French Canadians, for instance, is astonishing), but of those of half a dozen children or thereabouts. Let him look up any serious statistics, or study any author worthy of reading on its subject at all, including Benjamin Franklin, and he will see that in the ordinary family of but one or two children there is apt to be lower vitality than in a family of four or five or more. All he has to do if he doubts this is to study the effects of the marriages with heiresses by the British nobility. He advocates "a little study of sociology" in others. He needs himself a little study of the most primary and elementary kind; and in the beginning he needs to learn a little arithmetic. The question at issue is not between having a "few perfect children" and "a dozen unkempt degenerates; " it is between having in the average family a number of children so small that the race diminishes, while , curiously enough, the physique in such case likewise tends to fall off, and the reasonable growth which comes42 3 when the average family is large enough to make up for the men and women who do not marry and for those that do and have no children, or but one or two. He quotes the statistics for Berlin. Let him study them a little more; let him study other statistics as well; let him turn to any book dealing with the subject, if written by a man capable of touching on it at all (as, for instance, let him turn to page 162 of Finot's "Race Prejudice," which I happen at the moment to be reading) and he will see that in cities like Berlin the upper classes, the wealthier classes, tend to die out, precisely because of the low birth-rate to which he points with such fatuous approval. The greatest problem of civilization is to be found in the fact that the well-to-do families tend to die out; there results, in consequence, a tendency to the elimination instead of the survival of the fittest; and the moral attitude which helps on this tendency is of course strengthened when it is apologized for and praised in a magazine like yours. It is not the very poor, it is not the people with large families, who tend to read articles by Dr. Cronin in magazines like the Review of Reviews; it is the upper class people, who already tend to have too few children, who are reached and corrupted by such teachings. I have spoken strongly because I feel strongly. Our people could still exist under all kinds of iniquities in Government; under free silver, under official corruption, under the rule of a socialistic proletariat or a wealthy oligarchy. All these things would be bad for us, but the country could still exist. But it could not continue43 4 to exist if it paid heed to the exprest or implied teachings of such articles as this of Dr. Cronin's. These teachings give a moral justification to every woman who practices abortion; they furnish excuses for every unnatural prevention of child-bearing, for every form of gross and shallow selfishness of the kind that is really the deepest reflection on, the deepest discredit to, American social life. There are countries which, and people in all countries who, need to be warned against a rabbit-like indifference to consequences in raising families. The ordinary American, whether of the old native stock or the self- respecting son or daughter of immigrants, needs no such warning. He or she needs to have imprest upon his or her mind the vital lesson that all schemes about having "doctors in public schools," about kindergartens, civic associations, women's clubs, and training families up in this way or that, are preposterous nonsense if there are to be no families to train; and that it is a simple mathematical proposition that where the average family that has children at all has only three, the race at once diminishes in numbers, and if the tendency is not checked, will vanish completely - in other words, there will be race suicide. Not only the healthiest but the highest relations in life are those of the man and the woman united on the basic of full and mutually respecting partnership and wise companionship in loving and permanent wedlock. If thru no fault of theirs they have no children, they are entitled to our deepest sympathy. If they refuse to have children sufficient in number to mean that the race goes forward and not back, if they refuse This must mean on an average form among the families which are not from natural causes childless or limited to a less number than four.44 5 to bring them up healthy in body and mind, then they are criminals; and Dr. Cronin's article is an incitement to much criminality. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Albert Shaw, Editor, Review of Reviews, 13 Astor Place, New York.45 April 3, 1907. My dear Mr. Stickney: Your letter of the 2d instant is interesting. Now, can you give me any specific recommendations as to a change in the law? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. A. B. Stickney, 31 Nassau Street, New York, N. Y. 46 April 3, 1907. My dear Nutter: I am really obliged to you for sending me that report of the examinations in English. I shall read it with pleasure. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles R. Nutter, St. Botolph Club, 2 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts.47 April 3, 1907. My dear Cardinal Gibbens: I have your letter of the 2d instant recommending the appointment of George Merrick Tisdale for an appointment at large to the Naval Academy. I will at once take up the case and see if I am able to make the appointment. As you know, my dear Cardinal, these appointments are made by me competitively among the sons of army and navy officers and of a few enlisted men, and I have to compare the claims of each one on his merits, as far as I can get at them, as compared with the various others.Thus where two or more candidates are recommended for the same year by you or anyone else these very men compete with one another, so to speak. I try in each case to follow a certain kind of rough [????ltion], giving the preference first to the boy whose father was killed in the service, or whose48 father died of disease contracted in the service in the Philippines or Cuba for instance; then to the boy whose father has performed very conspicuous feats in the service; then to the boy who has had a long line of ancestors in the service, &c., &c. But of course it is not possible to make any of these rules hard and fast. I try to do [????????cial] justice. With high regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Cardinal Gibbons, Baltimore, Maryland.49 April 4, 1907. H. C. Lodge, Hotel Touraine, Boston, Massachusetts. As we have had no news we cannot help hoping that all is going well. Your letter has just come but you must not think of bothering to write us. We hardly dare to think of Nannie. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. (President's private acct.)50 April 4, 1907. My dear Mr. Wetten: In reply to your letter I enclose a telegram which you may read at your banquet. Very truly yours, Wm. Loeb Jr. Secretary to the President. Mr. Emil C. Wetten, President, Hamilton Club, Chicago, Illinois. Enclosure. April 9, 1907. Mr. Emil C. Wetten, President, Hamilton Club, Chicago, Illinois. Thru you I extend to the members of the Hamilton Club my heartiest good wishes for the success of the evening. The Club stands for sound public morality in the present no less than in the past, and all good citizens must wish it well. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.51 April 4, 1907. My dear Governor Swanson: I have just received your exceedingly kind letter containing the very attractive invitation to Mrs. Roosevelt and myself. I wish we could accept, but we have planned out literally every hour of my time, and I simply dare not make another engagement. You see, we can be away for but a limited period from Washington, and even absence for that limited period will mean that I shall have much work to catch up. With hearty thanks to Mrs. Swanson and yourself, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Claude A Swanson, Governor of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. 52 April 4, 1907. Dear Alex: That is awfully good of you and there is no place I would like more to stay than at your house, but I am not going on to that dinner. You are a trump. With warm regards to Mrs. Lambert, believe me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Alexander Lambert, 36 Kast 31st Street, New York. 53 April 4, 1907. Hon. H. C. Lodge, Boston, Mass. It is dreadful beyond words. We can not express our sympathy and love. Theodore and Edith. [*49*] April 4, 1907. Hon. Martin A. Knapp, Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission, and Hon. Chas. P. Neill, Commissioner of Labor, Chicago, Ills. Am greatly pleased and heartily congratulate you both. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.54 April 4, 1907. Private My dear Senator: I am glad to hear what you write and look forward to seeing Curtis. You send good news. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Chester I. Long, U. S. S. , Medicine Lodge, Kansas.55 April 4, 1907. My dear Mr. Sullivan: I have received your letter of the 2d instant and will look up the case of your nephew at once. You understand that I can not act in a case like this without considering what the precedent will be that will be created by my action. Until I hear from the Secretary of War I can not give you a more definite answer. It was a pleasure to hear from you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John L. Sullivan, The Ten Eyck, Albany, N. Y.56 April 5, 1907. My dear Mr. Carnegie: I much regret my inability to be present with you. Mr. Root will speak to you at length, and no man in the country is better fitted than he to address you on the subject you have so much at heart; for no man has in keener or more practical fashion, or with a nobler disinterestedness of purpose, used the national power to further what I believe to be the national purpose of bringing nearer the day when the peace of righteousness, the peace of justice, shall obtain among nations. In this letter of mine I can do little more than wish you and your association Godspeed in your efforts. My sympathy with the purpose you have at heart is both strong and real, and by right of it I shall make to you some suggestions as to the practical method or accomplishing the ends we all of us have in view. First and foremost, I beseech you to remember that tho it is our bounden duty to work for peace, yet it is even more our duty to work for righteousness and justice. It is "Righteousness that exalteth a nation," and tho normally peace is the handmaid of righteousness, yet, if they are ever at odds, it is righteousness whose cause we must espouse. In the second place, I again earnestly ask that all good and earnest men who believe strongly in this cause, but who have not themselves to bear the responsibility57 2 of upholding the nation's honor, shall not by insisting upon the impossible put off the day when the possible can be accomplished. The people of the world have advanced unequally along the road that leads to justice and fair-dealing, one with another (exactly as there has been unequal progress in securing such justice by each within its own borders); and the road stretches far ahead even of the most advanced. Harm and not good would result if the most advanced nations, those in which most freedom for the individual is combined with most efficiency in securing orderly justice as between individuals, should by agreement disarm and place themselves at the mercy of other peoples less advanced, of other people still in the stage of military barbarism or military despotism. Anything in the nature of general disarmament would do harm and not good if it left the civilized and peace-loving people, those with the highest standards of municipal and international obligation and duty, unable to chuck the other peoples who have no such standards, who acknowledge no such obligations. Finally, it behooves all of us to remember, and especially those of us who either make or listen to speeches, that there are few more mischievous things than the custom of uttering or applauding sentiments which represent mere oratory, and which are not, and can not be, and have not been, translated from words into deeds. An impassioned oration about peace which includes an impassioned demand for something which the man who makes the demand either knows or ought to know can not, as a matter of fact, be done, represents not gain, but loss, for the cause of peace; for even the noblest cause is marred by advocacy which is either58 3 insincere or foolish. These warnings that I have uttered do not mean that I believe we can do nothing to advance the cause of international peace. On the contrary,I believe that we can do much to advance it, provided only we act with sanity, with self-restraint, with power; which must be the prime qualities in the achievement of any reform. The nineteenth century man, on the whole, a real and great advance in the standard of international conduct, both as among civilized nations and by strong nations towards weaker and more backward peoples. The twentieth centruay will, I believe, witness a much greater advance in the same direction. The United States has a right to speak on behalf of such a cause, and to ask that its courage during the half dozen opening years of the century be accepted as a guaranty of the truth of its professions. During these six years we can conscientiously say that without sacrificing our own rights we have yet scrupulously respected the rights of all other peoples. With the great military actions of the world, alike in Europe and in that newest Asia which is also the oldest, we have preserved a naturally self-respecting and kindly friendship. In the Philippine Islands we are training a people in the difficult art of self-government with more success than those best acquainted with the facts had dared to hope. We are doing this because we have acted in a spirit of genuine disinterestedness, of genuine and single-minded purpose to benefit the islanders - and I may add, in a spirit wholly untainted by that silly sentimentality which is often more dangerous to both the subject and the59 4 subject than downright iniquity. In Panama we are successfully performing what is to be the greatest engineering feat of the ages, and while we are assuming the whole burden of the work, we have explicitly pledged ourselves that the use is to be free for all mankind. In the islands of the Caribbean we have interfered not as conquerors, but solely to avert the need of conquest. The United States army is at this moment in Cuba, not as an act of war, but to restore Cuba to the position of a self-governing republic. With Santo Domingo we have just negotiated a treaty especially designed to prevent the need of any interference either by me or by any foreign nation with the international affairs of the island, while at the same time securing to honest creditors their debts and to the government of the island an assured income, and giving to the islanders themselves the chance, if only they will take advantage of it, to achieve the internal peace they so sorely need. Mr. Root's trip thru South America marked the knitting together in the bonds of self-respecting friendship of all the republics of this continent; it marked a step toward the creation among them of a community of public feeling which will tell for justice and peace thruout the western hemisphere. By the joint good offices of Mexico and ourselves we averted one war in Central America, and did what we could to avert another, altho we failed. We have more than once, while avoiding officious international meddling, shown our readiness to help other nations secure peace among themselves. A difficulty which we had with our friendly neighbor to the south of us, we solved by referring it to arbitration at The Hague.60 5 A difficulty which we had with our friendly neighbor to the north of us, we solved by the agreement of a joint commission composed of representatives of the two peoples in interest. We try to avoid meddling in affairs that are not our concern, and yet to have our views heard where they will avail on behalf of fair-dealing and against cruelty and oppression. We have concluded certain arbitration treaties. I only regret that we have not concluded a larger number. Our representatives will go to the second peace conference at The Hague instructed to help in every practicable way to bring some steps nearer completion the great work which the first conference began. It is idle to expect that a task so tremendous can be settled by an one or two conferences, and those who demand the impossible from such a conference not only prepare acute disappointment for themselves, but by arousing exaggerated and baseless hopes which are certain to be disappointed, play the game of the very men who wish to conference to accomplish nothing. It is not possible that the conference should go more than a certain distance further in the right direction. Yet I believe that it can make real progress on the road towards international justice, peace and fair-dealing. One of the questions, altho not to my mine one of the most important, which will be brought before the conference, will be that of the limitation of armaments. The United States, owing to its peculiar position, has a regular army so small as to be infinitesimal when compared to that of any other first-class power. But the circumstances which enable this to be so are peculiar to our case,61 6 and do not warrant us in assuming the offensive attitude of schoolmaster towards other nations. We are no longer enlarging our navy. We are simply keeping up its strength, very moderate indeed when compared with our wealth, population and coast-line; for the addition of one battleship a year barely enables us to make good the units which become obsolete. The most practicable step in diminishing the burden of expense caused by the increasing size of naval armaments would, I believe, be an agreement limiting the size of all ships hereafter to be built; but hitherto it has not proved possible to get other nations to agree with us on this point. More important than reducing the expense of the implements of war is the question of reducing the possible causes of war, which can most effectually be done by substituting other methods than war for the settlement of disputes. Of the other methods the most important which is now attainable is arbitration. I do not believe that in the world as it actually is it is possible for any nation to agree to arbitrate all difficulties which may arise between itself and other nations; but I do believe that there can be at this time a very large increase in the classes of cases which it is agreed shall be arbitrated, and that provision can be made for greater facility and certainty of arbitration. I hope to see adopted a general arbitration treaty among the nations; and I hope to see The Hague Court greatly increased in power and permanency, and the judges in particular made permanent and given adequate62 7 salaries, so as to make it increasingly probable that in each case that may come before them they will decide between the nations, great or small, exactly as a judge within our own limits decides between the individuals, great or small, who come before him. Doubtless many other matters will be taken up at The Hague; but it seems to me that this of a general arbitration treaty is perhaps the most important. Again wishing you all good fortune in your work, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Andrew Carnegie, President, The National Arbitration and Peace Congress, New York, N.Y.63 April 5, 1907. My dear Howze: I have your letter of the 3rd instant and am glad you wrote me so frankly. I had begun to grow a little impatient with the pressure that was being brought to bear upon me on your behalf, and I happen to know that the high officers of the War Department were impatient also. I believe you are one of the best officers in the service; otherwise I should not have done for you what I have done. Mr. McKinley appointed you to a field command of volunteers on my recommendation. You then won your promotions strictly on your own merits. If I were not President and a war arose I should at once apply for permission to raise a [battalion] of cavalry; in that case I should at once make you my senior brigadier general - a test as64 to the way I regard you. Because of my feeling for you I appointed you in Porto Rico and I have since appointed you to your present position in West Point, in each case upon my own initiative and in each case against the protests of the War Department that I was jumping you over the heads of others. Under the actual circumstances I do not regard it possible to put you in as brigadier general at this time. I very much doubt if you would be confirmed if I nominated you. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Lieut. Colonel Robert L. Howze, U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.65 April 5, 1907. My dear Mr. Hitchcock: I have your letter of the 3rd instant. That is very kind of you, and I appreciate it. I have turned the letter over to Taft at once and will obtain a report from him. Give my warm love to Mrs. Hitchcock. With heartiest good wishes, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Hon. E. A. Hitchcock, St. Louis, Missouri.66 April 5, 1907. Dear Comrade: I have your letter of the 1st instant. I am afraid it is out of the question for me to attend another reunion at this time, certainly not while I am President. I wish it were possible. With great regret, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. C. E. Hunter, President, Rough Riders' Association, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 67 March 5, 1907. My dear Mr. Williams: I sincerely thank you for your letter and appreciate it. With great regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John S. Williams, Richmond, Virginia.68 April 5, 1907. My dear Mr. Walcott: I accept your resignation as Director of the United States Geological Survey to take effect on May 1st. I have appointed the successor whom you recommended, but I do not know that any man can quite do the work that you have done. The only consolation about your leaving is that in the Smithsonian Institution you will again do a work which, as far as I know, no other man in this country could do quite as well. With all good wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles D. Walcott, Director, United States Geological Survey, Washington.69 April 5, 1907. Dear Emlen: I do not think there is anything to find out about that matter. I think that Mr. Cortelyou will communicate with you or some one of your colleagues if there should be any necessity for action. The position Fitz Gerald applied for is covered by the civil service rules and he must enter as others enter. As for the Harriman matter and its upsetting of Wall Street, I can only say that as long as creatures of the Harriman stamp continue at the head of affairs there will always be the chance of the upsetting of Wall Street. I was not altogether sorry that the opportunity came to smash him. With love to all. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. Emlen Roosevelt, 33 Wall Street, New York.70 April 5, 1907. My dear Mr. Davis: I have your letter of the 31st ultimo. Give my warm regards to the Governor. He is a man who never goes back on his word. I have not the vaguest idea what are the positions or what are the vacancies in the customs service in San Francisco, and whether there are any to which I could make appointments. Won't your get Mrs. Shaw to send me a statement giving me her qualifications, and just what it is for which she applies? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Sam P. Davis, Editor, The Daily Appeal, Carson City, Nevada.71 April 6, 1907. My dear Governor: It was awfully nice of you to telegraph me and I genuinely appreciate it. Thank you heartily. With warm regards to Mrs. Pardee, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. George C. Pardee, Oakland, California.72 April 6, 1907. My dear Mr. True: I have received your letter of the 3rd instant concerning your Civil War record, and have read it with interest. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles H. True. Norton, Kansas. 73 April 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Murphy: I am in receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant. I will certainly adopt your suggestion as to publishing the endorsers of Mr. Hundley. You really puzzle me. Mr. Bush, for whom I have a great regard, has assured me that the objections to him are political where they do not represent reasons for personal dislike, and he thinks he is the very best Republican I can appoint. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Edgar Gardner Murphy, P. O. Box 347, Montgomery, Alabama.74 April 6, 1907. Dear Murray: I have your letter of the 5th instant. I am glad you told me the truth about that interview. I rather wish it could have been corrected, but I suppose it is hardly worth while. I look forward to seeing you in May. With warm regards to Mrs. Butler, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbus University, New York75 April 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Bland: I have your letter of the 3d instant. I regret I am not able to be present to pay honor to the memory of my valued friend, the late Senator Alger. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. Edward Bland Senator Chamber, Lansing, Michigan76 April 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Secretary: The National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials has, at my request, brought together valuable data concerning the character of the coal being supplied for use by the government, and also the equipment installed in the different government buildings. You will please have the proper representative of your department meet with the representatives of the Advisory Board, the other departments of the government who have to do with the purchase of coal supplies, and a few of the larger coal operators, for a conference to consider (1) the purchase of coal on a more equitable basis, and (2) using it with higher efficiency in heating the government buildings. This conference will be held in the office of the Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department at 2 o'clock.77 Wednesday afternoon (April 10). Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of State. 78 April 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Attorney General: The National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials has, at my request, brought together valuable data concerning the character of the coal being supplied for use by the government, and also the equipment installed in the different government buildings. You will please have the proper representative of your department meet with the representatives of the Advisory Board, the other departments of the government who have to do with the purchase of coal supplies, and a few of the larger coal operators, for a conference to consider (1) the purchase of coal on a more equitable basis, and (2) using it with higher efficiency in heating the government buildings.79 This conference will be held in the office of the Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon next (April 10). Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, Attorney General.80 April 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Secretary: The National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials has, at my request, brought together valuable data concerning the character of the coal being supplied for use by the government, and also the equipment installed in the different government buildings. You will please have the proper representative of your department meet with the representatives of the Advisory Board, the other departments of the government who have to do with the purchase of coal supplies, and a few of the larger coal operators, for a conference to consider (1) the purchase of coal on a more equitable basis, and (2) using it with higher efficiency in heating the government buildings. This conference will be held in the office of the81 Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon next (April 10). Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Geo. B. Cortelyou, Secretary of the Treasury82 April 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Secretary: The National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials has, at my request, brought together valuable data concerning the character of the coal being supplied for use by the government, and also the equipment installed in the different government buildings. You will please have the proper representative of your department meet with the representatives of the Advisory Board, the other departments of the government who have to do with the purchase of coal supplies, and a few of the larger coal operators, for a conference to consider (1) the purchase of coal on a more equitable basis, and (2) using it with higher efficiency in heating the government buildings.83 This conference will be held in the office of the Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon next (April 10). Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Oscar S. Straus, Secretary of Commerce and Labor.84 April 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Postmaster General: The National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials has, at my request, brought together valuable data concerning the character of the coal being supplied for use by the government, and also the equipment installed in the different government buildings. You will please have the proper representative of your department meet with the representatives of the Advisory Board, the other departments of the government who have to do with the purchase of coal supplies, and a few of the larger coal operators, for a conference to consider (1) the purchase of coal on a more equitable basis, and (2) using it with higher efficiency in heating the government buildings.85 This conference will be held in the office of the Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon next (April 10). Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. G. V. L. Meyer, Postmaster General86 April 6, 1907 My dear Mr. Putnam: The National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials has, at my request, brought together valuable data concerning the character of the coal being supplied for use by the government, and also the equipment installed in the different government buildings. You will please have the proper representative of your department meet with the representatives of the Advisory Board, the other departments of the government who have to do with the purchase of coal supplies, and a few of the larger coal operators, for a conference to consider (1) the purchase of coal on a more equitable basis, and (2) using it with higher efficiency in heating the government buildings.87 This conference will be held in the office of the Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon next (April 10). Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Herbert Putnam Librarian of Congress88 April 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Secretary: The National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials has, at my request, brought together valuable data concerning the character of the coal being supplied for use by the government, and also the equipment installed in the different government buildings. You will please have the proper representative of your department meet with the representatives of the Advisory Board, the other departments of the government who have to do with the purchase of coal supplies, and a few of the larger coal operators, for a conference to consider (1) the purchase of coal on a more equitable basis, and (2) using it with higher efficiency in heating the government buildings.89 This conference will be held in the office of the Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon next (April 10). Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture.90 April 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Secretary: The National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials has, at my request, brought together valuable data concerning the character of the coal being supplied for use by the government, and also the equipment installed in the different government buildings. You will please have the proper representative of your department meet with the representatives of the Advisory Board, the other departments of the government who have to do with the purchase of coal supplies, and a few of the larger coal operators, for a conference to consider (1) the purchase of coal on a more equitable basis, and (2) using it with higher efficiency in heating the government buildings.91 This conference will be held in the office of the Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon next (April 10). Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. James R. Garfield, Secretary of the Interior. 92 April 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Secretary: The National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials has, at my request, brought together valuable data concerning the character of the coal being supplied for use by the government, and also the equipment installed in the different government buildings. You will please have the proper representative of your department meet with the representatives of the Advisory Board, the other departments of the government who have to do with the purchase of coal supplies, and a few of the larger coal operators, for a conference to consider (1) the purchase of coal on a more equitable basis, and (2) using it with higher efficiency in heating the government buildings. This conference will be held in the office of the93 Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon next (April 10). Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. V. H, Metcalf, Secretary of the Navy.94. April 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Secretary: The National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials has, at my request, brought together valuable data concerning the character of the coal being supplied for use by the government, and also the equipment installed in the different government buildings. You will please have the proper representative of your department meet with the representatives of the Advisory Board, the other departments of the government who have to do with the purchase of coal supplies, and a few of the larger coal operators, for a conference to consider (1) the purchase of coal on a more equitable basis, and (2) using it with higher efficiency in heating the government buildings.95 This conference will be held in the office of the Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon next (April 10). Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Robert Shaw Oliver, Acting Secretary of War.96 April 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Stillings: The National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials has, at my request, brought together valuable date concerning the character of the coal being supplied for use by the government, and also the equipment installed in the different government buildings. You will please have the proper representative of your department meet with the representatives of the Advisory Board, the other departments of the government who have to do with the purchase of coal supplies, and a few of the larger coal operators, for a conference to consider (1) the purchase of coal on a more equitable basis, and (2) using it with higher efficiency in heating the government buildings.97 This conference will be held in the office of the Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon next (April 10). Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Chas. A. Stillings, Public Printer. 98 April 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Walcott: The National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials has, at my request, brought together valuable date concerning the character of the coal being supplied for use by the government, and also the equipment installed in the different government buildings. You will please have the proper representative of your department meet with the representatives of the Advisory Board, the other departments of the government who have to do with the purchase of coal supplies, and a few of the larger coal operators, for a conference to consider (1) the purchase of coal on a more equitable basis, and (2) using it with higher efficiency in heating the government buildings. [*68*]99 This conference will be held in the office of the Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon next (April 10). Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.100 April. 6, 1907. My dear Wheeler: Thank you in the first place for the information about Van Fleet, which was very satisfactory; and then for your very clear statement as to the corruption in San Francisco. It is, as you say, a grizzly situation. I am genuinely sorry that Schmitz should be so involved in it. With hearty regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, President Benj. I. Wheeler, University of California, Berkeley, California.101 April 8, 1907. Hon. H. C. Lodge, Hotel Touraine, Boston, Mass. Indeed no circumstance of trial or pain is lacking and it seems empty on our part to so much as telegraph how keenly we feel for you and especially for dear Nannie. THEODORE and EDITH ROOSEVELT (President's private acct.) 102 Personal. April 8, 1907. My dear Lee: Many thanks for your long letter. Archie is now all right. He was dangerously ill. You handled the Swettenham matter just as was necessary. To my immense amusement Swettenham himself has now turned into a most agreeable professional lover of America! The Secretary of the Navy and various Senators made a stop at Jamaica on a trip on the Dolphin recently, and they could not speak too highly of Swettenham's cordiality! I shall take the liberty of telling Admiral Davis what you so kindly say of him. I am sure, my dear fellow, I need not say to you, what you, with your admirable sense of humor and broad-mindedness, already realize, that the Swettenham incident was fundamentally really a comic incident, and that, I regret to own, there are any number of Swettenhams in the American service who want but the chance to develop their peculiar talents. When our general James H. Wilson, a good old boy in some ways, was holding a high command in Cuba under President McKinley, he made on address in which, apropos of nothing whatever, he stated that he regarded with the utmost suspicion England's professions of friendship for the United States as long as she would not give up Canada!103 2 Bryce has started out well . Whether we can get a general treaty settling the questions between Canada and the United States, I do not know. I should tremble about laying such a treaty before the Senate, not because I think the President is better than the average Senator, but because the President looks at things from the national standpoint and the Senator naturally looks at things from his own special standpoint and therefore may at any time vote to reject a treaty which is greatly for the national good as a whole because there is some special interest in his locality which is hurt. Moreover, this same particularism is shown by Canada. You know what you found about the Newfoundland fisheries question, for instance. Still, while I am President I think I can guarantee that there will be no trouble of a serious nature between our two countries. I am much interested in what you tell me about Ware, the editor of the Morning Post, and am greatly amused to find the impression the Burgess incident made. The Roosevelt Chair at Berlin was founded by James Speyer, who is by birth a German. Nicholas Murray Butler, who is an awfully good fellow, and heartily friendly to England, but also very friendly to Germany and a great admirer of the Kaiser, nominated Mr. Burgess. I had no more to do with the choice of Mr. Burgess than, for instance, with the choice of Mr. Wendell or Mr. Coolidge, who have delivered on successive years similar lectures in Paris, but who have shown much more tact and judgment. Burgess is an interesting fellow104 3 but very crotchety, and is a political opponent of mine, tho our personal relations have been excellent. He is a man who has done a great deal of historical work, some of it bright and suggestive, and much of it hopelessly wrong-headed. Among other things he has always been violently against me on the Monroe Doctrine, and he selected- of all times in the world - his first lecture as an opportunity to state his radical dissent. It was exceedingly foolish, and brought down upon his head the almost unanimous and vigorous disapproval of the American press; and while of course he had no connection with the Government, the State Department immediately stated that he had no such official connection and that his sentiments were entirely disapproved by this Government. Give my warm regards to Mrs. Lee. Do you ever see Oliver, the man who wrote the life of Hamilton? I had hoped that he would be over here this spring and that I would see him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Arthur Lee, 10 Chesterfield Street, London, W.105 Personal. April 8, 1907. My dear Senator: That is a very nice article of yours and I thank you sincerely for it. It seems to me that the letters of mine to Mr. Harriman in the fall of 1904, all of which were at once made public upon the publication of the Webster letter, leave the case pretty clear. On October 14th I wrote Harriman, explicitly stating that there was no need of his coming down here because what I had to say would keep until after election. Of course this is incompatible with the supposition that what I wanted him to do was to subscribe funds for the election. As you point out, there was no lack of money whatever during the last two weeks of the campaign. As a matter of fact, Harriman, who lies about private conversations just as he swindles in railway transactions, came to see me simply to ask me to secure money and other assistance for the State ticket in New York. He stated that he had subscribed a hundred thousand dollars to it himself, but that he did not feel that all of this should be permanently his own loss. He urged me to have Cortelyou and Bliss turn over all the money possible to Odell, and urged Depew's appointment because certain financiers whom he named would subscribe heavily if Depew were to be taken care of, and, as he explained, Odell had decided that Depew could not be reelected Senator. I told him I would of course be very glad to do all I could for the State campaign, tho I did not think I could appoint either Depew or Hyde, and explained that I was being approached, as he was approaching106 2 me, from very many different States on behalf of the several State campaigns, but that I would communicate with Cortelyou and Bliss and request them to give all the aid they could to the New York State campaign. My memory is that I communicated only with Cortelyou; as I do not think I communicated with Bliss directly at all except as to one contribution, which I insisted should be returned - the history of which I shall give you in full on some occasion when I see you. In what I said and in what Mr. Cortelyou said we were both of us scrupulously careful not to say that no money contributions had been made to the campaign fund by corporations. At the time it was legal for corporations to contribute. They had contributed in 1892, in 1896 and in 1900. They had contributed chiefly to the Democratic campaign fund in 1892, chiefly to the Republican campaign fund in 1896 and 1900. They contributed to both funds in 1904. The subsequent revelations convinced me that corporations should not be allowed to contribute, and this was why I advocated the law which you were instrumental in passing thru Congress forbidding it being done. In my answer to Mr. Parker you will remember that I explicitly stated that such contributions had been made to both campaign funds, and Mr. Cortelyou specified that the amount contributed to the campaign fund (from individuals and corporations together) was about half of that contributed in 1896. Mr. Parker's allegations did not refer merely to contributions; contributions were of course freely made to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars to his own campaign fund. His assertion was that these contributions to the Republican campaign fund were extorted by threat or107 3 by promise of some consideration on our part. This was a lie; and it seems to me that even the most rudimentary intelligence would prove to any man who has followed the legislative and the executive action of the past two and a half years in reference to the Standard Oil, the Harriman people, the sugar trust, the tobacco trust, and so forth, and so forth, that no human being and no corporation had gained immunity of any kind in the matter of wrong doing, so far as this administration is concerned. I am quite content to be judged by the adage "By their fruits shall ye know them". The real trouble with Harriman and his associates is that they have found themselves absolutely powerless to control any action by the national government. There is no form of mendacity or bribery or corruption that they will not resort to in the effort to take vengance. The Harriman-Standard Oil combination and the other owners of predatory wealth hate me far more than they do those who make a profession of denouncing them, because they have learned that while I do not attack them in words as reckless as those often used against them, I do try to make my words bear fruit in deeds. They have never before been obliged really to reckon with the federal government. They have never before seen practical legislation such as the rate bill, the beef inspection bill and the like become laws. They have never before had to face the probability of adverse action by the courts and the possibility of being put in stripes. Such being the case, and inasmuch as they have no moral scruple of any kind whatsoever, it is not to be wondered at that they should be willing to go to any length in the effort to reverse the movement against them. By reading the108 4 New York Sun and similar papers we can get a clear idea of the extent to which they will go in that portion of the press which they control. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T. M. Patterson, Denver, Colorado. Enclosure. 109 April 8, 1907. My dear Sullivan: That is an awfully nice letter of yours and I very genuinely and deeply appreciate it. My dear fellow, if by the close of my term I can feel that men of your stamp regard me as a decent American who has represented their kind of Americanism, and whom they are content to accept as having been their kind of President, why there isn't any other possible reward that I would care a snap of my fingers for. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. James E. Sullivan, 21 Warren Street, New York, N. Y.110 April 6, 1907. Gentlemen: The National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials has, at my request, brought together valuable data concerning the character of the coal being supplied for use by the government, and also the equipment installed in the different government buildings. You will please have the proper representative of your department meet with the representatives of the Advisory Board, the other departments of the government who have to do with the purchase of coal supplies, and a few of the larger coal operators, for a conference to consider (1) the purchase of coal on a more equitable basis, and (2) using it with higher efficiency in heating the government buildings.111 This conference will be held in the office of the Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon next (April 10). Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt The Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C.112 April 8, 1907. Dear Landon: In one way I am sorry to have you leave the service, of course. But in another way I am glad. I do not believe that a man of your power and force is as useful in the diplomatic service as he is in the active work of making home politics decent. You have made just the choice I would have made myself. With all good wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Francis G. Landon, Second Secretary , The American Embassy, Vienna, Austria.113 April 8, 1907. My dear Mr. Carnegie: I trust you received the letter I wrote you for reading at the Peace Congress. If not, will you wire me? It is a pleasure to hear from you and I quite agree with you as to the program for the next five weeks, and thereafter! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 2 East 91st Street, New York.114 April 8, 1907. To the Secretary of War: I have detailed General S. B. M. Young to take charge of the Yellowstone Park. Theodore Roosevelt 94115 April 8, 1907. My dear Congressman: That is a very nice letter of yours and I sincerely appreciate it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Mial E. Lilley, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.116 April 8, 1907. My dear Governor: Thank you for your letters. I have taken steps about the District Attorney forthwith. I am mighty pleased with the way you have handled the Japanese business, and much amused at some of the comments which you describe. Wishing you all good luck, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*37*] Hon. G. R. Carter, Governor of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.117 April 8, 1907. Dear Doctor: That is a mighty nice and good-natured answer of yours to my letter. I think it astounding that in such a review, where you deal with such a multitude of questions, it should be so rare as to be well-nigh unknown for you inadvertently to let anything get in that ought not to appear. The reason I wrote 40 you is because I have so profound a belief in the educative quality, and perhaps especially the moral educative quality, of the magazine. I shall be much pleased to see Stead. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Albert Shaw, Review of Reviews 13 Astor Place, New York, N. Y.118 April 8, 1907. My dear Captain Henry: I have just learned that you have won the military steeple chase in France. I am mighty well pleased to hear of it, and congratulate you. I like to hear of our American officers being able to do things like this. With best wished, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Captain Guy V. Henry, U.S. A., Care War Department.119 April 7, 1907. Dear Kermit: We have been having the funniest weather imaginable. When I last wrote you it was almost summer heat, with the magnolia and other trees in bloom, and the grounds around the White House lovely in consequence. Then there came s frost which withered the magnolias right up. After two or three cold days it became warm 10 again, and then suddenly yesterday afternoon there came a little snow squall - thruout which, by the way, the French Ambassador, Mr. Pinchot, Mr. Garfield and I played four sets of tennis. Today there was a cold rain, and I suppose some more damage done to the flowers. On Friday Ted and I went out with Captain Lee and nice Mrs. Wadsworth for a ride. I took both horse over all the jumps excepting that five foot three brush hurdle; and Ted took both of them over that. Neither of them refused a single jump, altho, rather curiously, Roswell once while I was riding him over the four foot heavy timber hurdle took off too close and too carelessly, rapped his legs heavily, and in consequence stumbled so when we landed that I thought it possible we might come down. The stone wall both the horse jumped again and again just like birds.120 -2- Mrs. Wadsworth tried to get a lot of photographs, but as the sun was not good I do not know how well they came out. It is the greatest pleasure to me to hear comments of all these people on the way you and Ted ride and about how well you sit your horses over these high jumps. We have had rather a tragedy about Pete. He has killed four squirrels. Dr. Rixey, who is a philosopher, insists that it is all right and proper as it shows that the squirrels were getting so careless that something was sure to kill them anyhow; [and] but it makes both Mother and me rather melancholy. On the other hand. Pete loves us so and is such a ridiculously affectionate, fighting bulldog that we have not the heart to get rid of him. Evidently you and Ted and Lee and Mr. Bacon care the only men who jump that very high hurdle. I had some lovely rides with Mother, she on Audrey; but she will never like Audrey as much as if she was smaller. During the five weeks that have elapsed since Congress closed I have been having a rather vivid time; first, because of the trouble in Wall Street, and then over the muss with Harriman. He is a scoundrel, and I was not at all sorry to get a chance to hit him on the jaw. I am pegging away at four or five speeches I have to make. I hope to get them practically finished before we go down to the120 -3- Jamestown Exposition. If I succeed, then I will be able to take a little rest in May and by mid-June. I hope to get to Oyster Bay and have a really good time - not that I am not having a first-class time now, by the way! Your loving father, Master Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts122 April 8, 1907. My dear Senator: I thank you for your telegram. I notice in the papers that you contemplate soon coming to Washington. When you do I shall go over the matter with you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Boies Penrose, U. S. S., Philadelphia, Pa.123 Personal April 8, 1907. My dear Mr. Rose: I have been much interested in your article and was greatly amused at the complete misinterpretation of it. The two sentences you quote express freely my conviction. I do not think that families of fifteen or twenty are possible or just in a high civilization; but, as you say, what is needed is to standardize a family of from four to six; while if the middle class generally grows to accept the one-child or two-child ideal, it means that the middle class generally would be practically extinct in a couple of generations. I have not a doubt that , as you suggest, there is deliberate design in the efforts made to quote you and everyone else who can be quote as antagonizing me upon some point or other. The Harriman-Standard Oil interests will do literally everything they can to break me 124 down. They have grown accustomed to, and regard with indifference, attacks upon them of so loose or so extreme a nature that they can not possibly be translated from words into deeds. What they really must object to in me is that I do not promise too much, [and then] but by executive action, and so far as possible by legislation, actually fulfill what I do promise. With great regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Edward A. Ross, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.125 April 8, 1907. My dear Mr. Jenkins: I thank you for your letter. I quite agree with you as to the legislation which we must put thru next winter, and I need hardly say I shall welcome any suggestions you make at any time. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John J. Jenkins, M. C., Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.125 April 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Evans: I have just been over to see the fifty specially selected painting by American artists which you have so generously given to the nation. I feel that action such as yours works in direct and practical fashion to encourage the development of American art and to foster its appreciation. I am particularly gratified at seeing such a gift come to Washington. You doubtless know that Mr. Freer's noteworthy collection of paintings has also been deeded to the nation. Your gift, taken together with what has already been done, will form the corner-stone for a National Gallery of Art in the nation's capital. in my judgment, a building to harbor this national gallery has become a necessity. In the case of the Freer collection the generosity of the donor provided for its housing, but127 it is impossible that this should be ordinarily the case. An adequate building must be provided so that there may be incentive for gifts such as that of the Harriet Lane Johnston collection and yours. I very earnestly hope that Congress will at a very early date provide an adequate building for a national art gallery. With renewed thanks, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. William T. Evans, Montclair, New Jersey.128 Personal April 9, 1907. My dear Bonaparte: I am very anxious to appoint that colored man, Tyler, one of the Auditors of the Treasury Department. He is, as you know, a very fine fellow, and on many accounts it would be advisable to make the appointment as soon as possible. Now , William W. Brown, in whose place I desire to appoint him, is an old soldier, a good lawyer, and Cortelyou informs me is one of the best men he has under him. I would therefore particularly like to give Brown a position he especially desires - that of special counsel, at a salary of four or five thousand dollars, in your Department. He is now receiving a salary of four thousand dollars as Auditor.129 He is an excellent man and one whom Cortelyou has found he can trust. I should think that he would do excellent work in connection with the trust cases and could be used to advantage as an accountant. I am anxious to make the appointment at the earliest possible moment. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, Attorney General.130 April 9, 1907. Dear Murray: I have your letter of the 8th. I could not come on; and, really, I do not think If I could it would have any effect upon those Wall Street stories. The Harriman episode has no doubt stirred things up in New York. So it has in the rest of the country; and greatly to my advantage. I wish I were able to come on but it is out of the question. I have written a letter to be read at the Peace Congress. [*74*] Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.131 April 9, 1907. My dear Governor: I have your letter of the 25th instant and am very sorry at what you write me. Of course if you feel that you ought to go out, that is all there is to it. Under such circumstances don't you think Atkinson would be willing to take your place? I haven't an idea whom else to put in. Outside places are not common, and I simply do not knew whether a chance for a vacancy which would appeal to him will occur. With all good wishes, believe me, [*116*] Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. G. R. Carter, Governor of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.132 April 9, 1907. My dear Mr. Carnegie: This is to introduce to you Miss Alice Jones, the daughter of former Senator Jones, of Nevada. Miss Jones has an entirely disinterested desire to secure a great monument by MacMonnies to celebrate international peace. MacMonnies' name can be coupled with that of Saint Gaudens. They are the two Americans whom I am almost inclined to say the present generation will be most indebted to for whatever of future life it has; for they are really great artists, great sculptors. According I venture to ask of your courtesy that you consent to listen to Miss Jones. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 2 East 91st Street, New York. [*113]133 April 9, 1907. My dear Miss Jones: I have your letter of the 5th instant. I do not think I have ever before given a letter of introduction to Mr. Carnegie. I do this in your case because of the reasons I mention in the letter itself. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Alice Jones, Care Thomas D. Rambaut, Esq., 27 William Street, New York. Enclosure134 Personal April 10, 1907. My dear Sir George: I thank you much for the way you handled the Swettenham business. You may be amused to know that the unfortunate Swettenham has seen a great light, and that when recently the Secretary of the Navy with some Senators stopt at Kingston, Swettenham was not only cordial, but really charming, and they all came away delighted with him. Fortunately, the incident is over without any trouble having resulted. I can not too strongly express my full realization of the fact that there are plenty of the Swettenham type in the American public service. For instance, there was General James H. Wilson, a fine old cavalry commander in the Civil War, when President McKinley put in the Governorship of a [friend] in Cuba; and while holding that position he announced in a public speech that he could not really regard England as friendly to the United States unless she would give up Canada! Do you know Negris' History of Julian the Apostate? Julian's career has always been a [puzzle] to me, and I was particularly interested in seeing it treated by an Italian of Negris' type. By the way, while I knew that one of your diplomatists, Rennell Rodd, was a poet, I did not realize that he was a historian until the other day Mrs. Roosevelt presented me with a couple of volumes of his on those curious135 2 Frankish principalities which existed in Greece for a couple of centuries as the sequence of the Fourth Crusade. It has always been to me an interesting episode in history, altho it led absolutely nowhere,and as far as I can see had almost no practical effect whatever - beyond fixing in the minds of Chaucer and his contemporaries the idea that feudal titles sat naturally on the heroes of old Greece. Politically, we have had rather a stormy winter. I do not admire as a type the big American money-maker. I admire him very much when he builds a railroad or constructs a great series of locks or improves a river or does something of that kind; but as a speculative stock gambler, and especially when he comes too near the line which divides the gambler from the swindler, he is not an attractive national type. Moreover, while there is a good deal to be said for an ancient aristocracy with a high sense of duty, there is very little to be said for an exceedingly individualistic plutocracy. Of course, in what I am saying allowance must be made for many exceptions; but as a rule the American who has made most money has made it with but little sense of any moral responsibilities as to the methods of making it, and his sons and daughters tend to make a rather unattractive idle class. Taking them together, parents and children, they are not Americans apt to make one feel proud of America from any standpoint. Yet in the effort to do away with the abuses of wealth, it is always necessary to be on guard against the sinister creatures - the people who in more exciting times136 3 would be the Marats and Heberts and would find their profit in mere destruction. I take much comfort from the writings of Burke, and perhaps no less from Morley's admirable sketch of Burke - I think I prefer the one he wrote forty years ago to that he prepared for the English Men of Letters of the English Statesmen series. With great regard, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Wallington, Cambo, Nort humberland, England.137 April 10, 1907. My dear Mr. Vice President: It was exceedingly kind of you to think of writing me, and I was naturally very much pleased with what you had to say. I look forward to being your guest on Decoration Day. With warm regards to Mrs. Fairbanks, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice President of the United States, Indianapolis, Indiana.138 April 10, 1907. My dear Mr. Secretary: In accordance with your suggestion I have submitted the matter concerning the proper labeling of whisky under the pure food law to the Department of Justice. I enclose the Attorney General's opinion. I agree with this opinion and direct that action be taken in accordance with it. Straight whisky will be labeled as such. [*88*] A mixture of two or more straight whiskies will be labeled Blended Whisky or Whiskies. A mixture of straight whisky and ethyl alcohol, provided that there is a sufficient amount of straight whisky to make it genuinely a "mixture," will be labeled as compound of, or compounded with, pure grain distillate. Imitation whisky will be labeled as such. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture.139 April 10, 1907. Taft, Havana. I approve. Theodore Roosevelt. Official. [*114*]140 April 10, 1907. To the Secretary of State: In reference to the confidential correspondence with Governor Swettenham submitted to you by the British Embassy, I have a couple of suggestions to make as to additional action beyond that you have already taken. I understand you have kept copies of the statments of the Colonial Secretary and of the Deputy Inspector-General of Police announcing that they requested Admiral Davis to land sailors and marines. I suggest that you keep a copy of the first four lines of Governor Swettenham's despatch of January 28th and of the first ten lines of his letter of January 18th. In his letter he states that he had telegraphed to the British Minister at Havana for an extra supply of lint, bandages and wool and that "the Consul at Havana invited the assistance of the American Governor, who with great prompitude induced the American Admiral to send on a torpedo boat with the supplies." This is a true statement which he has corrected and falsified in his cable of January 28th, which runs in part as follows: "I requested British Minister at Havana to supply bandages and wool for aid to sufferers. The United States Government, uninvited, sent a torpedo boat without wool, &c." The latter telegram, by the way, [were] it not offensive would have acomic side to it; for the implied complaint is the same as if Governor Swettenham141 -2- complained that some stranger had rescued his wife from a burning building without having been introduced to her. Indeed, this was substantially the Governor's attitude thruout. I also call your attention to his letter of January 28th. It is no concern of ours that he should assail his own government for judging him on a newspaper statement while at the same time admitting that this newspaper statement was in every essential true. But this letter I regard as distinctly offensive to Admiral Davis. In his telegram received by the Secretary of State for the Colonies on January 23rd he stated that he acted "in order to save the face of the Admiral". In his telegram received on January 29th he states he acts "out of consideration for the Admiral." In this letter he distinctly states that the Admiral landed working parties on the 18th in defiance of his (the Governor's) request. He speaks of the fact that "the Admiral apologized for the neglect of his promise about the salute," and he makes a most disagreeable slur at the officers and men of the American fleet as desiring "to be conspicuous in succoring Kingston." I feel that this letter should be sent to Admiral Davis for full comment; or at least he should specifically answer the statements made therein. I have done everything in my power to make matters easy for the British Government in this affair; but I have not the slightest intention of permitting a record to be made which will seem to show that Admiral Davis was in the wrong and Swettenham in the right, or that the American Government is in any way to blame. These letters to and from Swettenham have been142 -3- gathered and printed, in permanent form, by the British Government. I feel that we should in the same way gather and print that is [????] in permanent form, all of the reports of Admiral Davis and of the other officers in reference to the Swettenham affair, so that we can have them to use if necessity arises. Factional unscrupulousness is not confined to opposition parties in England, and I am well aware that the British Government does not wish to agitate the matter and that it is only its factional opponents who, for unworthy reasons, are endeavoring to do so. But while I am delighted to be just as considerate of the British Government and of the feelings of the British people as is possible, I can not sanction such consideration being shown at the expense of our own officers and enlisted men of the squadron that went to Kingston on an errand of mercy. Swettenham's conduct has been preposterous from every standpoint. Our men acted admirably, and it would be a gross injustice to permit the record to be falsified. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*Only this morning I had written Trevelyan that the Swettenham business was over! [The] British will be pudding-[headed] fools if they revise it.*] Correspondence all returned with this letter.143 April 9, 1907. My dear White: I thank you for your interesting letter, but I am very sorry to hear that Mrs. White has not been well. She was so kind to Mrs. Roosevelt's sister at the time of Archie's sickness, and we both much appreciate it. I have accepted the invitation to join the Saint Hubert Club of France, and enclose my acceptance. You gave me exactly the information I wisht about our visitors. Personally I think you have behaved just as you ought to have behaved in the matter of the acceptance of the orders, and I am glad that you intend to take the position you outline in reference to orders for American citizens. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*76*] Hon. Henry White, The American Ambassador, Paris, France. Enclosure144 April 9, 1907. My dear Sir: I accept with great pleasure the honorary membership in the Saint Hubert Club of France which you so kindly offer me. I very heartily sympathize with all forms of manly outdoor sports, and with the efforts to preserve the wild creatures of the fields and of the forests; and therefore I am in hearty sympathy with the purposes of your club. I venture to send you a book I wrote a year ago called "Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter." May I thru you extend to the club an expression of my profound appreciation of its courtesy? With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt M. le Comte Clary, President, Saint Hubert Club of France, 21 Rue de Clichy, Paris, France.145 Personal April 10, 1907. Dear Cabot: As far as I know there is not the slightest intention on Evans' part to retire. If he does, I have notified the General Board that I intend to put Harry in his place. But you absolutely astound me by saying that Dewey said that all the Naval Board favored Harry succeeding Evans. Did Dewey tell you this? As a matter of fact, Dewey has urged me in the strongest terms to retire Harry and put Goodrich in his place, saying that Goodrich was a much better man than Evans and a very much better man than Harry and the only man who ought to have that squadron. I was told that this was the view of the Naval Board, too, and I summoned the Naval Board together and went over it with them. They were for the most part very reluctant to express their opinions, Dewey being the one man who was entirely [*101*]143 [?] bold, and he being outspoken almost to the point of violence, as I have before described. They made definite charges about Evans' handling of the fleet, and by innuendo or indirection against Harry's handling of his squadron. I had Metcalf look into the matter personally, and he reports to me that Evans has done his work well and that those under him have done their work well, and that the Board, or the Dewey side of the Board (which, curiously enough includes Sims) was entirely in error in the view that they took. I came to the conclusion that there had been a regular intrigue started against Evans and Harry, Dewey being the instrument of it, but Goodrich probably inspiring it. I may add that it was exposed to me by Will Cowles, who has been an ardent champion of both Evans and Harry. This is for your own information merely. Ever yours, T. R. [*We have nothing ???; ?? suppose Eza ????? ?? the war; and can it lend to think of ??????*] Hon. H. C. Lodge, 60 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.147 April 11, 1907. My dear Baron: I reenclose Campbell Bannerman's letter, with the three letters of introduction, all of them to mighty good fellows. I was so sorry that I forgot to have you see the old nurse, Mame. I hope, my dear fellow, I need not say how much we all enjoyed having you at the White House. I was so glad to have you see my family - and I wish I was to see yours! With great regard, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Baron d'Estournelle de Constant, Care Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Enclosures Enclose (unsealed) letters of introduction to Judge Lowell, Judge Grant, and Barrett Wendell; also letter from H. Campbell Bannerman.148 April 11, 1907. My dear Wendell: You already know Baron d'Estournelle de Constant. He is as good a fellow as I know, and i am anxious, if he visits Boston, that he shall see the really rational people, and not what I might call the lunatic friends of peace. With great regard, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Berrett Wendell, Esq. , 358 Marlboro Street, Boston, Massachusetts149 April 11, 1907. My dear Judge Grant: Permit me to introduce to you Baron d'Estournelle de Constant, one of the best fellows I know. He is here in connection with the international peace meeting. With great regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Robert Grant, Probate Court, Boston, Massachusetts.150 April 11, 1907. My dear Judge Lowell: Permit me to introduce to you Baron d'Estournelle de Constant, one of the best fellows I know. He is here in connection with the international peace meeting. With great regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. A. Lawrence Lowell, 171 Marlboro Street, Boston, Massachusetts.151 Personal. April 11, 1907. My dear Dr. Shaw: These photographs did not come out very well, but I send you four of them: one of them of me jumping over four-foot rails; one of them me jumping over a three- foot-eight-inch wall; one of them of me with my orderly sergeant. McDermott (who was with me in the San Juan fight); and one of them of me with my eldest son, Ted, and my military aid, Fitzhugh Lee. I also send you two of Ted jumping the wall and fence. [*These you shall want!*] Do you think you can reproduce them? It was a great pleasure seeing you here. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Albert Shaw, Editor, Review of Reviews, 13 Aster Place, New York. Enclosures. [*117*]152 April 11, 1907. My dear Judge: I have your letter of the 5th instant. When it was alleged to me that charges would be made against you I of course held up your appointment until the charges could be received; but when the charges simply took the shape of stating that it was believed you would be subservient to certain interests, it was difficult for me not to write with impatience to those making them; for in the first place my personal knowledge of you was quite sufficient to give me an entire confidence in your standards and in your ideals of public service, while in the next place the testimony of those best fit to speak about you was something of which you have a genuine right to feel proud. My dear Judge, you can hardly imagine what a pleasure it was to me to appoint you.153 With all good wishes, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William C. Van Fleet, United States District Judge, San Francisco, California.154 April 10, 1907. My dear Dr. Abbott: That was very nice in you to have changed that paragraph. It never occurred to me that you would be able to do so when I spoke to you. I has already read with great interest " The Function of the President," and of course with hearty agreement. It was awfully nice having you at dinner the other evening. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, 123 East 78th Street, New York.155 April 11, 1907. [*119*] Dear Kermit: Robinson's letter and poem have come and I send them back. I like the poem, even tho I do not understand every word of it. Leffingwell, Lingard and Clavering are not real characters at all. They are simply like the various individuals mentioned in "The Children of the Night." The pictures of Ted and myself jumping did not come out well, but I send you two or three. I think I shall got some professional photographers to go out with us and take some pictures. I wish you were here to be taken also. It has been quite cold weather - almost frosty - but today is clear and Mother and I are going for a ride. Spring has come, even if it is cold, and the hyacinthe have been put along the walls of both the east and west terraces (or wings, or whatever you call them) and I always stop and smell the[m] flowers as I walk to and from my office. (The excitement over the conspiracy, and the dinner at which Senator Penrose got drunk and exposed it. Mr. Loeb being present, and all the rest, seems to be dying out. In New York, - or at least in the New York clubs and the big business houses generally - feeling was against me, and in the rest of the country it was for me.) On the whole I156 2 think the fight has been a distinct advantage to me. Foraker is leading the fight against Taft, and incidentally against me, in Ohio, but I believe that his teeth are pretty well drawn nationally, altho locally he may cause trouble. I thought Nick's interview on behalf on Taft admirable from every standpoint. I continue rather irritatingly at work , because I want to prepare the speeches I have to deliver in the near future and it is not very easy to do so. Do tell the Rector when you see him how deeply I appreciate what he has done about Archie. I shall see Mr. Sidwell and tall over the matter with him. Archie will speedily be able to begin a couple of months' work. Your loving father, T. R. Master Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts. Enclosures157 Personal. April 10. 1907. My dear Paine: I shall read "The Greater America" with real interest, and I look forward to receiving the book on the old-time ships and sailormen. I am sure I shall like "The Greater America." You cover just the ground that I think ought to be covered. Good luck to the junior! With many thanks, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Ralph D. Paine, 345 Essex Street, Salem, Massachusetts.158 April 11. 1907. My dear Mrs. Wadsworth: I am very much obliged to you for those photographs. I do not suppose they are quite as good as they might be if the light was better, but I think they are very interesting anyhow - especially of Ted jumping on Audrey. Somehow his light breeches caught the light. How well he sits! We will take another ride anyhow, and if you do not object I will get a professional photographer to come out and photograph all of us. Can I have [*an extra] set? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Martha Blow Wadsworth, 1801 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington.159 April 11, 1907. My dear Senator: I am sorry to say that before your letter was received the appointment of Mr. Kingsbury Foster of New York, had already been decided upon. I will go over the matter with you in the full when I see you. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. P. Dolliver, United States Senate.160 April 11, 1907. Dear Nick: Now that your interview is out I have gone carefully over it ans it seems excellent from very standpoint. I wish the professional Taft leaders - so to speak - had your sanity and judgment. From this distance Foraker's speech does not strike us as very telling, but of course I know nothing of its effect in Ohio. With love to Alice, Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Hon. Nicholas Longworth, First National Bank Building, Cincinnati, Ohio.161 April 11, 1907. My dear Mr. Robb: I have your letter of the 9th instant. Unfortunately, the President does not know the dean of Westminster. He takes pleasure, however, in forwarding to you a note to Ambassador Reid, who will see that you are properly vouched for to the Dean, With high regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Wm. Loeb Jr. Secretary to the President Hon. J. Hampden Robb, 23 Park Avenue, New York, N. Y. Enclosure.162 April 11, 1907. My dear Mr. Ambassador: This is to introduce an old and valued friend of mine, Mr. J. Hampden Robb, of New York. He wished to assure an interview with the Dean of Westminster. Can you secure it for him? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Whitelaw Reid, American Ambassador, London, England.[*163] April 11, 1907. My dear Mr. Vice President: I forward to you the enclosed invitation. Of course I can only make one speech at Indianapolis. My understanding from the [local] committee when they called upon me to extend the invitation was that the Memorial Day exercizes were to be held in connection with the dedication of the General Lawton statue, and with this understanding I accepted the invitation. I should assume as a matter of course and speaking myself as a Spanish War veteran, that the Grand Army would be given "the right of the line" in the Memorial Day exercises in connection with the General Lawton statue. General Lawton himself was a Grand Army man. There is a Grand Army post [named after] him. After fighting in the big war he then held a high command in the little war. (I and a number of others served in this same little war, and our only complaint was that there was not enough to go around.) General Lawton was killed in the Philippines upholding the honor of the American flag. I feel that it would be a most unfortunate thing, reflecting honor upon no one, to have an undignified squabble mar the solemnity of the Memorial Day exercises. Can not you get the committee together and insist that the Grand Army, the Spanish War veterans, the citizens - all of [*137*]164 -2- them - shall come to an agreement, and that the Memorial Day exercises, like those held all over the country, are held at Indianapolis at the time of the unveiling of the Lawton statue when I as President, shall make the Memorial Day address? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles W.Fairbanks, Vice President of the United States, Indianapolis, Indiana.165 April 11, 1907. My dear Mr. Secretary: Congressman Tawney has suggested that the Isthmian Canal Commission might like to consider whether it would not be profitable to dispense with the audit on the Isthmus, and also whether there should not be a Government audit of the disbursements of the railroad company. Would it not be well to have the Commission write to Congressman Tawney on the subject? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War.166 Personal April 11, 1907. Gentlemen: May I thru you convey my thanks to Mr. Ernest McGaffey for the copy of "Outdoors" I am really glad to see it, and it seems to me even better in book form than it did as I first went over the sketches. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons. 158 fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.167 April 12. 1907. My dear Mr. Sayre: My father woree a beard, and a profile of me would not be any use for his head. But I deeply appreciate the desire that your uncle had and your kindness in carrying it out, and I should like to see my father's head in such a mosaic, for he was worth it! I will see if we have any profile picture that I can get you. With great regard, believe me, Sincerely, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Francis B. Sayre, Williamstown, Massachusetts. P.S. I send you a photograph of a painting of my father. Perhaps that will do. Will you return it to me when you are thru with it? Enclosure.168 Personal. April 12, 1907. My dear Judge; I am very much obliged for the maple sugar and maple syrup. All the family will greatly appreciate the gift. With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles H. Robb, Associate Justice, District Court of Appeals, Washington, D. C.169 April 12, 1907. My dear Stimson: I have your letter of the 11th instant enclosing copy of Judge Hough's remarks. I congratulate you, and I would like to congratulate Judge Hough on saying what so emphatically needed to be said. Good for you!. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Hon. Henry L. Stimson, Untied States Attorney, New York.170 April 12, 1907. My dear Whitridge: [*28*] Curiously enough I have heard from one or two railroad men quite strongly in favor of the valuation of railroads by the National Government. Of course the only objection to this (while I do not myself think it important save from the standpoint of the railroads themselves, and while I have never thought of demanding it) is lest it should be misconstrued. Ten States have already by law provided for the valuation of the railroad properties within their limits. In my judgment twenty or thirty more will follow suit; and if so, in a couple of years we shall see the railroads clamoring for a valuation by the National Government, so as to put a stop to the chaotic conclusions drawn from the thirty or forty conflicting valuations of the State Governments. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Frederick W. Whitridge, 59 Wall Street New York, N. Y.171 April 13, 1907, My dear Adjutant Hollis: I have your letter of the 12th instant. I very deeply appreciate the election to honorary membership in the Captain Allyn K. Capron Camp and gladly accept. With all good wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Edwin C. Hollis, Adjutant, Olean, N. Y.172 April 13, 1907. My dear Anderson: Mr. Loeb has shown me your letter of the 12th and I must send you just a line to express my deep sympathy for you in view of the dangerous sickness of your wife. I very earnestly hope that she will soon be better. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles W. Anderson, Collector of internal Revenue,' New York.173 Personal April 13, 1907. [*165*] My dear Mr. Secretary: I send you the enclosed, which explains itself. It does show to my mind that there is real need for the kind of work Bishop has been doing with the returning Congressmen and others. Either Bishop, or if not Bishop, some one else of his capacity, should be kept at intervals long enough in Washington to be able to furnish the fullest information wherewith to refute matters like this. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, The enclosure is an offer from N.Y Herald to sell to newspapers a 4000 word story, with cuts, of conditions on the Isthmus; very unfavorable account.174 Personal. April 13, 1907. My dear Mr. McBee: I thank you for your letter and the editorial, both of which were interesting. I am interested in your being asked, under such circumstances, to go to London. May all good fortune be with your, Sincerely yours. Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Silas McBee, Editor, The Churchman, 47 Lafayette Place, New York. 175 (COPY) April 13, 1907. My dear Sir: I heartily congratulate you on the opening of the building of the Engineering Societies. The building will be the largest engineering center of its kind in the world. It is indeed the first of its kind, and its erection in New York serves to mark and emphasize the supremacy which this country is steadily achieving thru her proficiency in applied science. The whole country is interested in the erection of such a building, and particularly of course all of those who follow either the profession of engineering or any kindred profession; and in no branch of work have Americans shown to greater advantage what we like to think of as the typically American characteristics. With all good wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Mr. T. C. Martin, 114 Liberty Street, New York, N. Y.176 April 13, 1907. My dear Roche: I am sincerely grieved to hear that you are not well. I at once took up your letter with Assistant Secretary Bacon, and he says he believes some transfer can be arranged. Of course it is impossible to answer definitely at the moment, because we do not know who would be willing to make the exchange, or when a vacancy would occur if no one is willing to exchange, but I think it can [???]. With great sympathy. Sincerely your, Theodore Roosevelt, Hon. James Jeffrey Roche, American Consul, Genoa, Italy.177 April 14, 1907. My dear Mr. Pritchett: Have you any suggestions for me to make on the subject of industrial training? If so, I should particularly like to hear them. I am to speak on the matter soon. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, 542 Fifth Avenue, New York.178 April 13, 1907. My dear Mr. Jordan: I am sincerely obliged to you for your letter. You give me just the suggestions that I wisht to have, and I believe that I shall use substantially all of them - certainly most of them - in my speech. With regard, and renewed thanks, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Whitman H. Jordan, New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y.179 April 13, 1907. Dear Charley: I wish I could accept, but it is out of the question. I can speak but once in Massachusetts this year, and that is on Pilgrims' Monument day. Will you express my great appreciation of the invitation and my regret that I can not accept? When are you to be in Washington? I want to talk over the tariff with you, and to talk over Taft also. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Hon. C. G. Washburn, 314 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. 180 April 14, 1907. My dear Mr. Sims: I congratulation you most heartily. It is a great triumph. What an admirable judge we have in Judge Landis! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Hon. E. W. Sims, United States Attorney, Chicago.181 [*Personal.*] April 14, 1907. My dear Mr. Ridder: I am not to be in New York next week. I wish it were possible for me to be present at the Sigel monument dedication, but I don't see how I can possibly make another engagement of any kind or sort. I have once spoken in Saint Louis at a memorial meeting for General Sigel. I should gladly speak again if it were a possible thing for me to do, but as President, as I know you will understand, it simply is not possible for me to speak at all the places I would like to. especially as I have to try as far as may be to preserve some rough geographical balance in the matter; nor do I like to speak more than once in memory of anyone of our brave soldiers because I am [unable?] to speak in commemoration of so many of them. With regret that I can not write you more favorably, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Herman Ridder, Post Office Box 1207 New York.182 April 15, 1907. Mrs. George W. Roosevelt, American Consulate Brussels Deep soul sincere sympathy. THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Official)183 Personal April 15, 1907. My dear Mr. Busse: Many thanks for your letter of the 13th instant. No one was more interested then I in your candidacy. I wish you all possible good luck as Mayor. I have great confidence in your successor and can only say that I hope he will do as well as you have done. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Fred A. Busse, Postmaster, Chicago.184 Confidential April 15, 1907. Dear Lane: One of the difficulties of our position is the demand of educated Cubans that we stay in Cuba. I have no question that the great majority of the best, most intelligent, and most thrifty and industrious Cubans wish us to stay. Nevertheless, it is not a thing we can do. They Cubans are entitled to at least one more trial for their independent Republic. Exactly what the conditions of the trial or trials shall be, I can not yet say. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. William C. Lane, Librarian, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.185 April 15, 1907. My dear Judge Grosscup: I thank you for your letter. Your suggestions are valuable, and I believe in one of my speeches I shall be able to work most of them in. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Peter S. Grosscup, U. S. Circuit Judge, Chicago, Illinois.186 April 15, 1907. My dear Colonel: It was a very real pleasure to me to be able to appoint your boy. With warm regards to Mrs. Dodd, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Lieutenant Colonel George A. Dodd,. U.S.A. , Headquarters, Northern Division, Chicago, Illinois.187 April 15, 1907. My dear Mrs. Wadsworth: Thank you very much for the map. I shall show it to Mrs. Roosevelt at once. I shall get a set of the photographs and send them to you as soon as they come. Faithfully yours, [*158*] Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth, 1801 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C..188 April 15, 1907. B. F. Smith, President, Board of Control. It is a pleasure to open the Masonic Fair and to wish it good luck. THEODORE ROOSEVELT 189 April 16, 1907. [*173*] To the Acting Secretary of War: Direct Officer at Treadwell, Alaska, to report in person to Governor Hoggatt at Juneau for duty with his troops in case the Governor deems it necessary for the protection of life and property on Douglass Island. Direct officer at Fort Seward, Alaska, to report to Governor Hoggatt by telegraph and hold himself and troops in readiness to go to Douglass Island if governor so directs. Theodore Roosevelt 190 Personal April 16, 1907. My dear Mr. Secretary: I an rather imprest by the enclosed copy of the Havana Daily Telegraph, especially by the paragraph I have blue-penciled. I think we ought to take advantage of our intervention to put the Cuban Government on as solid a basis of good legislation as possible. I enclose you a memorandum of Conant's which I will go over with you. [*189*] Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War. Enclosures191 Personal April 16, 1907. Dear Phil: I have your telegram of the 15th instant. Hagerman is a good fellow, but has made an impossible Governor. He finally committed an antic in connection with ratifying a grossly improper acquisition of public land which, if I did not know him, would make me feel absolutely certain that he was corrupt, and which, if I let it go unpunished, would mean that I could not hold any other Government official in [New Mexico] to accountability for anything he did hereafter. I shall put in his place Captain George Curry, who has been for six years in the Philippines, and is one of the very best men I know anywhere. A very competent New Mexican man who has been backing Hagerman wrote me: "My impression is that Mr. Hagerman has incurred the enmity of certain people by assuming to do his duty as he saw it. My further impression is192 that Mr. Hagerman is not only absolutely ignorant of things and conditions in New Mexico, but has no knowledge whatever of the people, and hence he has made many mistakes in his administration." Both impressions are substantially correct. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. P. B. Stewart, Colorado Springs, Colorado.193 April 16, 1907. [*163*] Dear Mr. Vice President: Thank you for your letter. This is first rate. I feared that to publish my letter would merely cause additional talk. I think that if necessary you should insist upon the G. A. R. being given their full share in the Lawton memorial exercises. It seems to me that both the Lawton and the Grand Army people should be told that unless they compose their differences I shall not come to Indianapolis at all, but will speak in some other city on that day. It is not only undignified but absurd to lower the importance of such a day by a squabble which can not possibly reflect credit upon any of those engaged in it. In especial I feel that the Spanish war veterans ought not to insist upon anything that will seem to cast a slight upon the veterans of the Civil War. I am one of the Spanish war194 men myself, and I would be the first to acknowledge as a matter of course that both because of their age and because of the infinitely greater nature of the war, our claims must not be put forward against the claims of the Civil War veterans. With warm regards to Mrs. Fairbanks, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*After you lunch, I want to go quietly to the country to place a*] Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks, [*wreath on ????*] Vice President of the United States, [*?????'s*] Indianapolis, Indiana. [*memorial Don't make this public. The Spanish war men should remember that any celebration on Memorial Day must be [primarily] a Grand Army celebration.*]195 April 16, 1907. Dear Cleve: I have your letter of the 15th instant. I will gladly give a reception to the delegates of the International Y. M. C. A. at The White House on Tuesday, November 26th, at 2:30 P.M.; but I have spoken so often to Y. M. C. A.'s that I cannot possibly speak again. That is a mighty interesting letter of Mott's, and I am particularly pleased to see it. I return it herewith. With regard, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge, 99 John Street, New York, N.Y. Enclosure. 196 April 16, 1907. My dear Senator: I have your letter of the 15th instant concerning the claim of the Samina Bay Company of Santo Domingo. I will take the matter up with the Secretary of State, altho my understanding is that it is a very old claim that has already had the consideration of the Department. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. P. J. McCumber, United States Senate.197 April 16, 1907. Dear Paul: That is a characteristically nice letter of yours and I thank you for it. I thought of [????] your father and you as I was writing that Arbor Day letter. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Paul Morton, President, Equitable Life Assurance Society, 120 Broadway, New York.198 April 16, 1907. Dear Paul: That is an interesting article and I had already seen it. The writer, however, shows a preposterous ignorance of some of the features which he is writing about. For instance, he speaks of "the very serious injury that must accrue to American trade, prosperity and progress if the policy recently pursued by the administration is continued." Of course, if he knew anything about the subject he would know that no human being who is both intelligent and honest dreams that the present administration will for one moment cease to pursue the policy it has been pursuing; and no one but a fool or a knave will attribute any of our business troubles to this policy. Mr. Harriman's antics in the financial world have caused more trouble to the railways and to solid business than anything the demagogs in all the States combined have been able to do 199 in recent years, and the most powerful corrective of the mischief which Mr. Harriman has caused is to be found in the action of the national administration. Moreover, the point you mark at the end of the article, in which he speaks about American railways having kept down their capital expenditures, seems ludicrous when we compare it with his silence on the subject of such actions as that of Harriman in the Chicago and Alton matter and the like. In short, while the article contains some good sense,it contains some folly quite as great as any uttered by the wildest anti-corporation demagog to be found in any legislature. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Paul Tuckerman, 59 Wall Street, New York.200 April 16, 1907. [*13*] My dear Senator: I have your letter of the 15th instant in reference to the application of Tarler. I do not believe that at this time any more New Yorkers can be appointed in the diplomatic and consular service. We have had great difficulty in bringing up the quota of the different States. I have had to refuse request after request - some of them as you will remember being endorsed by you - to appoint New Yorkers to secretaryships of legations and to consulships. I regret that at present there is not a chance of appointing another New Yorker. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T. C. Platt, U.S.S., 2 Rector Street, New York, N.Y.201 April 17,1907. Hon. H. C. Lodge, Hotel Touraine, Boston,Mass. Our whole hearts go out to you and to dearest Nannie. THEODORE and EDITH. [*145*]202 April 17, 1907. My dear Governor: I have your letter of the 12th instant, with enclosure. The course you have taken seems to be entirely proper. I feel that you should first use the local forces and should not ask for regular troops until the situation is such that you feel that there will be serious jeopardy to the interests of law and order by any failure to demand them. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Joesph H. Kibbey, Governor of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona.203 April 17, 1907. My dear Bishop: I have your letter of the 15th instant and it was a pleasure to hear from you, it is always a great pleasure to see you. Now about Mr. Kenehan. I have sent your letter to Secretary Cortelyou. I had not heard that there was a proposal to change Collector McCord. It is hardly necessary to say, my dear Bishop, that anything you say in behalf of any man will carry great weight with me. With high regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Bishop I. F. Horstmann, Cleveland, Ohio.April 17, 1907. My dear Mr. Bates: In response to your favor of the 15th instant I take pleasure in sending you, for delivery to Miss Huidekoper, an acknowledgment of the book which you refer. Sincerely yours, Wm Loeb Jr Secretary to the President. Hon. Arthur L. Bates, M. C., Meadville, Pa. Enclosure. April 17, 1907. My dear Miss Huidekoper: Permit me to thank you for sending me a copy of the Biography of H. J. Huidekoper. I appreciate your kind remembrance. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss E. G. Huidekoper, Meadville, Pa. 204205 April 17, 1907. My dear Coolidge: I shall read your article with genuine interest. Let me say at this time that I have heard from every quarter of the admirable work you did in France. With warm regards, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Archibald Cary Coolidge, c/o Munroe & Cie., 7 Rue Scribe, Paris, France. 206 April 17, 1907. Confidential. My dear Doctor: This is confidential. Dr. Knapp has sent me some things he thinks I might say when i speak on agricultural training. The good Doctor's excellence in deed is matched, unfortunately, by an inability to write or talk about what he has done. He does not give me anything I can use. Can not you send me two or three pages of the things you think I ought to say on the subject of agricultural education? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Dr. Wallace Buttrick, Secretary, General Education Board, 54 William Street, New York, N.Y.207 April 17, 1907. Personal. My dear Mr. Ireton: I appreciate your editorial and I appreciate as much you very kind and friendly letter. If you ever come to Washington, let me have the chance of seeing you. I should value the opportunity. With regards and thanks, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert Emmett Ireton, Associate Editor, Wall Street Summary, 54 Broad Street, New York, N.Y.208 Personal April 17, 1907. Dear Charley: That is such nice letter of yours that I must write to say so. I am mighty glad at the way you feel about Taft. Of course I do not wish to dictate the nomination. Taft or Root , or any man as good as either, will do for me - but at present it looks to me as if Taft was the man we ought to unite on. Of course this is [???]. (As for myself you are are entirely right. I have never for a moment altered my views as to the wisdom of my declaration after the election of 1904. It is time for some one else to stand his trick at the wheel.) I am particularly pleased at having you, with your judgment and surroundings, feel as you do about my policies. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. C. G. Washburn, Worcester, Massachusetts. 209 Personal April 17, 1907. My dear Mr. Willis:: Your kind letter and the very kind offer of Mr. Swaggart put me in a quandary. I am deeply touched by the thoughtfulness of Mr. Swaggart and by the spirit which prompted his kind offer of the horse, and no praise could appeal to me more than the praise he gives me of desiring to execute all the laws of the United Stated without regard to the financial or social condition of the parties interested. I feel as much beholden to Mr. Swaggart as if I were able to accept the gift. But I now have all the horse in my stable that I can take care of or use. I have two saddle horse of my own, and on Monday was out exercising them over some moderate jumps with my boy Ted. I shall send Mr. Swaggart some photographs taken of the horses as they jumped. Each member of the family now has his or her 210 horse. and we really could not use another. If I have a large stable; or, in other words, if I were a man of such means as to enable me to provide suitable accommodation and care for as beautiful a horse as the one offered me, I would accept it; but I simply have not the ability to take proper care of it. will you give my warm regards to Mr. Swaggart and all his family, and accept my appreciation of your courtesy? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. H. C. Willis, Pendleton, Oregon.211 April 17, 1907. My dear McGaffey: I send you the book, with which i am really delighted, and i shall prize your autograph on it. give my warm regards to your charming wife. Naturally I was much pleased with your political views. I have a real horror of Hearst. Wall Street regards me as a radical, so violent as to be almost a lunatic; but in reality my horror of the Wall Street man of the E. H. Harriman type is no greater than my horror of the demagogy of the Hearst of his recklessness in stirring up evil and exciting class hatred. I hope it will not be very long before I have the pleasure of seeing you and Mrs. McGaffey. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Ernest McGaffey, 599 West Melrose Street, Chicago. 212 April 18, 1907. My dear Shaw: Would you insert at the end of my footnote in that letter of mine then following: "Professor Edward A. Ross, of the University of Wisconsin, has put the matter concisely as follows: "The type to be standardized is not the family from one to three, but the family of four to six. The one-child or two-child ideal growing in favor with the middle class would, if popularized, hurry us to extinction." I hope you can get this in, as I think it quite important; for Ross has place the matter just as it should be placed. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Albert Shaw, Review to Reviews, 13 Astor Place, New York, N. Y. 213 April 18, 1907. My dear Judge Melvin: I thank you for your letter of the 14th instant enclosing your admirable circular. Now about what Mr. Scanlon told you: Can he give me any information upon which to base that statement? Personally I do not believe there is the slightest justification for it, particularly because I have myself been thru the Yellowstone Park in the spring, going everywhere under circumstances which would enable me to tell at once if there had been any slaughter of elk by anybody in the Park, and I have never come across a single carcass of an elk that had been shot; but if Mr. Scanlon has any facts I am anxious to know it. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Henry A. Melvin, Grand Exalted Ruler, Benevolent Order of Elks, Oakland, California. 214 April 18, 1907. Dear Emlen: While I am President I do not think I had better make that application. I could not tell exactly what twist would be given to it. I am delighted you can go with us on our trip at the end of May. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. W. Emlen Roosevelt, 33 Wall Street, New York. N. Y. 215 April 18, 1907. My dear Mr. Schneider: I have your letter of the 16th. Don't you think that it would be better on every account not to stir up Mr. Mathew's case any further? It does not seem to me that anything is gained by it. I have heard some severe criticism of the effort to have him made internal revenue collector. At any rate, do not take any definite steps until I have a chance to go over the matter with you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. R. B. Schneider, Fremont, Nebraska.216 April 18, 1907. Dear Senator: I have your letter about Mr. Albert A. Richards. I am sorry to say that there is not any immediate prospect of a vacancy. You can hardly imagine the difficulty I had in arranging even for Tyler's appointment. Every one of the auditors is an efficient man, and Secretary Cortelyou is very loath to displace any of them. I see no immediate prospect of a vacancy. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Hon. Chester I. Long, U.S.S. , Medicine Lodge, Kansas.217 Personal April 18, 1907. My dear Mr. Hall: Many thanks for your note. I should like to see your book, as i am especially interested in trying to get people "back to the land." It is always a pleasure to hear from you. With regard, believe me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Bolton Hall, 83 East 61st Street, New York, N. Y.218 April 19, 1907. My dear Dr. Gorgas: If ever there was a man who won his position strictly on his merits, you are the one. I am mighty glad to hear how well you think the new organization in doing. With all good wishes, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel William C. Gorgas, U.S.A. Isthmian Canal Commission, Ancon, Canal Zone219 April 19, 1907. Dear Senator: It was my fault as much as yours that you stayed late. I enjoyed seeing you. Do send me those pirate stories by Fuller. With great regard, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 34 Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, United States Senate.220 April 19, 1907. My dear Judge Dietrick: I have your letter of the 15th instant. It was a very real pleasure to appoint you, and the only reward I care for came from the appointment itself. With all good wishes, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Frank S. Dietrick, United States District Judge, Boise City, Idaho.221 April 19, 1907. Dear Senator: I have gone carefully over the case of young Clements with the Secretary of the Navy, and I am happy to say the Secretary of the Navy, and I am happy to say the Secretary feels that the punishment was excessive and that he should not be turned out of the navy. He should have some punishment, of course, and he must realize that having gotten into this scrape it is doubly incumbent upon him to avoid all suspicion of wrongdoing hereafter; but the Secretary feels, and so do I, that the extent of the wrong-doing was not sufficient to justify ruining the boy's career and taking him out of the navy. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Raines, Senate Chamber, Albany, N. Y. 222 April 19, 1907. My dear Mr. Brown: I have just seen a portion of your speech at the opening of the Chamber of Commerce in Buffalo, and with the extract that has come to my notice I heartily agree. Would it be convenient for you to come here Wednesday morning of next week? There is one point - that of the valuation of railroads - concerning which I should like to obtain your views, as there are such very conflicting opinions about it. Sincerely yours, Theodore yours, Mr. W. C. Brown, Senior Vice President, N. Y. Central, Grand Central Station, New York, N. Y.223 Personal April 19, 1907. My dear Mr. Fuller: I thank you much for the copy of "Indiscreet Letters from Peking." It is a most interesting book. Is it meant to be literally true? It offers some unpleasant reading. Where is the author now? I should like to meet him. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Hector Fuller, Literary Editor, The Washington Herald, Washington, D. C.224 April 20, 1907. My dear General Edwards: Enclosed I send you a letter from the President to Captain George Curry, which please forward to him, together with the two telegrams which I also enclose. Please cable Curry that the President has appointed him Governor of New Mexico and that letter from the President follows. Very truly yours, Secretary to the President. Brig. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, Chief of Bureau of Insular Affairs, War Department Enclosure. 225 April 20, 1907. My dear Captain Curry: I have announced your appointment as Governor of New Mexico. I should like to have you take is as early this summer as is convenient; but I shall arrange to have the Secretary of the Territory act until you are ready to assume your duties. All I have to ask of you is that you give an absolutely honest and common-sense administration. There has been great difficulty in New Mexico in the past, and there have been some very questionable transactions. Many people accused Governor Hagerman of crookedness. This I do not believe. I think he is an honest men and I think that he did some excellent things; but he fells under some very unfortunate influences, and I must admit that one of the transactions in which he took part was of such a character that if I did not know him personally it would be impossible for me to 226 believe that he was actuated by straight motives; and the net result of what he has done has been to plunge the affairs of the Territory into such a tangle that I am quite at a loss to know how to discriminate between those man who are decent and those who are not. I look to you to help me out. With all good wishes, believe me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Captain George Curry, Care of Bureau of Insular Affairs, Was Department. 227 April 20, 1907. Dear Nick: Your letter of the 18th instant received. Of course you can show this letter to Charlie Taft. Your arguments seem to me to be strong. At any rate let nothing be done until Bill comes back and has a chance to go over everything. I quite agree with you that Bill's support must come from popular sentiment. I shall ask him to see you and go all over the situation with his supporters of every shade of opinion before he takes any overt action whatever. Love to Alice. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Nicholas Longworth, M. C. Cincinnati, Ohio. 228 April 18, 1907. My dear Dr. Brown: I have your letter of the 19th instant. It would be out of the question for this Government to ask any King to visit this country. In the first place, I could not do it without the authority of Congress and in the next place It would establish a most undesirable precedent, in my judgment, even if congress should itself take the action. I was much interested in your article in the last Outlook. I was shocked on reading the other day, in a book by an English military officer of long residence in India, the approval of some as gross actions in the way of insolence and brutality toward natives by English officers as I have ever read. What surprised me was not that such action should occasionally occur, but that this officer of 229 high rank should gleefully recount them as being unobjectionable, and indeed humorous. Naturally, this is for your own information merely. You speak as if some of our representatives in the East were still of an unsatisfactory character. If so, we do not know of their existence. Will you give me any facts that you have as to any of our present men being of an unsatisfactory type? With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Dr. Arthur J. Brown, Secretary, Board of Foreign Missions, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York.230 April 20, 1907. My dear General: More power to your elbow! You seem to be making good in every way. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Brigadier General Theodore A. Bingham, U.S.A.,retired, Police Commissioner, 300 Mulberry Street, New York.231 April 20, 1907. My dear Mr. Rose: I have your letter of the 17th instant. I am very sorry to hear of your sickness. I look forward to seeing you the middle of May. With all good wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. U. M. Rose, Little Rock, Arkansas.232 April 20, 1907. My dear Mr. Davis: I have received your letter of the 19th instant. I do not quite understand that clipping. Apparently you mean that State supervision in Massachusetts is not working well. Is that so? I had always supposed that Massachusetts was a model in these matters. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Howland Davis, Post Office Box 607, New York.233 April 20, 1907. Dear Paul: Yes indeed, that photograph makes me feel like dropping my present job to go in for sensible recreation! Faithfully yours Theodore Roosevelt [*197*] Hon. Paul Morton, 120 Broadway, New York, N.Y.234 April 20, 1907. [*132*] My dear Mr. Carnegie: I have turned your letter of the 19th instant at once over to Root. He will take a keen personal interest in The Hague Conference, and I know that all that he can do will be done to achieve results therefrom. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 2 East 91st Street, New York.235 Write this out by hand My dear Miss Eustis: The Hoppin John was delicious. The whole family have reveled in it. It reminded me of Aikon, and my dear Miss Eustis I was touched and pleased at your thoughtfulness in sending it to us. It was very nice seeing you the other day. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Miss Eustis, Care Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis, 1611 H Street, Washington, D.C.236 April 20, 1907. Dear Alex: Unfortunately, every room at The White House is full until the afternoon of May 6th. Then, or after then, we shall be very glad to have you. I do not think [*52*] I can take that walk on Sunday. There are sure to be crowds of people up the Potomac on that day, and moreover it is the day that Mrs. Roosevelt and I usually ride. I am much amused at the cartoons. Won't you see Hart Merriam when you come on and go over the white goat matter with him personally? Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Alexander Lambert, 36 East 31st Street, New York, N.Y.237 April 20, 1907. My dear Governor Magoon: Will you kindly go thru the enclosed letter from Mr. Sloan Simpson. He is an old friend of mine. It seems to me that he was entitled to definite action one way or the other within a reasonable time and that he has just cause for complaint. But what is more important is that the system should be amended sufficiently to secure reasonable quick and decided action one way or the other on all such request hereafter. Will you kindle have a full report made to me on the matter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles e. Magoon, Havana, Cuba. 238 April 20, 1907. Personal. Dear Will: Information has come to me in the case of Manning to the effect that is a very flagrant case and that consideration can not be shown him without its being necessary to show consideration to a number of other [*190*] cases, which, the undeserving, are yet not quite so undeserving as his. It is also stated that this may cause you embarrassment politically in Ohio. If such is the case I suggest that you simply let General Oliver and myself decide it. I know from experience that it does not pay to let any consideration but that of fitness prevail in these army matters. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War.239 April 20, 1907. My dear Dean Hurlbut: Ted was to have started this morning for Harvard, intending to stop over for a theater party in New York. But two more boils suddenly show signs of developing and the doctor earnestly advises that he should stay here three or four days more. Accordingly he is to give up his stay in New York. I hope he will not be more than a day or two late in getting back to Harvard. He is very much better than when he came here, but at that time he was so seriously run down that the doctor was a little concerned about him. I can not believe these two are going to amount to anything, in view of the improvement to his health, but the doctor wants to keep him under his eyes for forty-eight hours longer. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dean B. S. Hurlbut, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.240 April 20, 1907. My dear General Bell: I have had more than one unpleasant experience with field officers of cavalry regiments (in one case a colonel and in other cases, majors) who I found by personal observation were wholly incapable of undergoing any sustained physical exertion and were not able to even ride at any speed a moderately good horse. Of course such a condition of affairs is a disgrace to the army and might at any time be a serious danger. I think that hereafter in the examination for promotion of field officers, they should be required not only to pass the so-called physical tests, which really amount to nothing, but to perform various feats of horsemanship - riding, and, I should suppose, jumping, horses - and go out with troops and practice marches for a number of days. Moreover, I think we ought to take steps to get rid of the worthless cavalry field officers as well as infantry field officers that are now in the service. Could you not call upon the department commanders to report those field officers on duty with troops who from any cause have not been able to take part in the practical training laid down for the army in General Orders No.44,1906, and who have not made all practise marches therein prescribed, and to report what they understand to be the reasons why these officers have not done so? Can not the Inspector General of the Army report the officers who have been reported by him or his subordinates as not being 241 2 fit for active field service for any cause, together with a statement of any action taken on these cases? Later I should think that we could order all these men before a retiring board and put them thru not a mere physical test, but a test of actual endurance in the field and of their horsemanship. Could not the present examination boards be constituted into permanent retirement boards? Or would it be better to have you, on recommendation of the General Staff, carefully select the numbers of retiring boards? Would it not be well that on examining and retiring boards, in addition to the ordinary physical examination by the surgeon, they would consider certain field tests of riding and marching, as well as the medical record of the officer at his last station and the certificate of his last commanding officer as to his mental and physical fitness in the field? Are there any other ways that can be devised for getting the dead wood among the field officers before retiring boards? Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Major General J. F. Bell, U.S.A., Chief of Staff, War Department.242 April 22, 1907. My dear Mr. Pollard: I thank you for your letter of the 16th instant, tendering me honorary membership in your association, which I am please to accept. By the way, I presume you are already doing all you can to preserve the May-flower. I dislike to see people carrying around bunches of there beautiful flowers pulled up the roots. With all good wishes, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Charles Louis Pollard, 2420 Fourteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 243 April 22, 1907. My dear Mr. Goodwin: That incident is very amusing and I thank you for telling me about it. And now, my dear sir, I wish I could look forward to being with you in October, but I fear it is out of the question. One of the painful parts of my work is having to refuse so many invitations which I should like to accept were it possible. With real regret and many thanks, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Wm. A. R. Goodwin, Rector, Bruton Church, Williamsburg, Virginia274 April 22, 1907. My dear Mr. Vice President: I thank you for your letter of the 19th instant. The result is admirable. I congratulate you upon this fresh instance of your good sense, your judgment and your kindly tact. Half past two suits me entirely for the dedication exercises. I presume in that event we would lunch at your house before going to the ceremonies, and that immediately after the conclusion of the ceremonies you will take me to the tomb of president Harrison. With warm regards to Mrs. Fairbanks, believe me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks, The Vice President of the United States, Indianapolis, Indiana.245 April 22, 1907. My dear Mr. Schiff: Altho your letter was marked Personal I have taken the liberty of sending it, together with the brief of Mr. Cravath, to the Attorney General, because I had already referred to him the report of the Attorney General of Illinois on the Chicago and Alton matter to see whether or not any action on our part was called for. I have not gone over the case with the Interstate Commerce Commission yet. Thanking you heartily for writing me, I am, with regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, William and Pine Streets, New York, N.Y.246 April 22, 1907. Blessed Kermit: We have never had as late and cold a spring in Washington as this year. The trees and flowers are coming out in a nipped, half-starved way, and, tho spring is always beautiful everywhere, it has so far been less beautiful here than I have ever seen it. The flowering magnolias were out for a brief burst of bloom over a month ago in that hot spell in March. Then they were all withered by the frost, and the trees still have the brown, frosted flowers upon them, together with a number of young buds which have stayed as they were [have been] ever since, and I suppose will bloom later. In the woods the bloodroot blossoms have stayed [*155*] unchanged for five weeks; they have been in cold storage, so to speak. Mother has begun riding with me again. Ted finds us rather slow company and is apt to ride with other friends of both sexes. He was to have left us on Saturday, but developed a bad boil on his jaw and has had to stay here.247 Archie is recovering very slowly. I still hope that later we can have him put in two months' work so that he may be prepared to enter Groton next fall; but I dare not be certain. Quentin is as bouncy and merry as any cheerful small soul could possibly be. [*On*] While jumping Roswell one day he bruised his knee on the bars, and for the last week I have not jumped him, so as to give him a chance to get well. Your loving father, T. R Master Kermit Roosevelt Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts.248 April 22, 1907. Dear Jake: Really, when I read what you say of me I do not know whether to feel proud or ashamed - but perhaps, what is better than either, the feeling I have most strongly of all in the obligation put upon me to try so to act that you will not have cause to regret your championships of me, my dear Jake. With love from all. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Jacob A. Riis, Hotel Wellington, Seventh Avenue, New York, N. Y.249 211 April 22, 1907. My dear McGaffey: I have your letter of the 20th. I am concerned to hear about Mrs. McGaffey, but am glad that the operation bids fair to be so slight. Give her my warm regards. By George, I envy you your farm on the banks of the Fox! Indeed I should be particularly pleased to have the "Poems of Gun and Rod" dedicated to me. You know how I have admired them. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Ernest McGaffey, 599 West Melrose Street, Chicago.250 April 22, 1907. My dear Baldwin: That is a very cunning picture of young Theodore and I am much obliged to you for sending it to me. Good luck go with you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. E. F. Baldwin, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York.251 April 22, 1907. My dear Saint-Gaudens: I am delighted to hear that your visit was so successful. I am particularly pleased at what you say of the sailors. One of the nicest things that have happened during my Presidency was the act of the enlisted men of the Louisiana, after Mrs. Roosevelt and I had returned from our trip aboard her, in clubbing together entirely of their own accord and presenting a really very handsome silver vase to Mrs. Roosevelt. It was presented by a delegation of one chief petty officer and three jackies, who came to The White House to deliver it; and as I say, it was just about the nicest thing that has occurred at The White House this administration. Archie and Quentin afterwards took the four of them all over the city in our landau, which they promptly christened the President's "Land-Ho." The act showed such a thoroughly252 good feeling of comradeship on their part as to mark what I regard as the very essence of the real democracy - that we all of us stand together on an equality of self-respect. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Homer Saint-Gaudens, The Players, 16 Gramercy park, New York, N. Y.253 Personal. April 22, 1907. Dear Porter: I shall read that article with genuine interest, and even my first glance at it has shown me that it is the sort of thing that has not appeared for a long time in an English newspaper," and I am very glad to have it appear. I am going down the Mississippi for three days early in October, but I shall not get as far west as Chicago until then. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Robert P. Porter, The Times, Printing House Square, E. C. , London, England. 254 April 22, 1907. My dear Griscom: I was immensely interested in the account of your interview with the King. It is a very vivid presentation and Mrs. Roosevelt will be as much interested in it as I am. I was surprised at his hostility toward Nabuco, whom I like. I think Douglas' answer to your note about his engagement was thoroly characteristic. With warm regards to Mrs. Griscom, believe me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Lloyd C. Griscom, The American Ambassador, Rome, Italy. 255 April 22, 1907. My dear Mr. Legg: I remember you very well. I have at once communicated with Mr. sims to see if there is a place available for you. Of course I do not know whether there is such a place. I think you would do admirable work under Mr. Sims. sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Chester Arthur Legg, 10 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.256 April 23, 1907. My dear Mr. West: Naturally I am very much please by your letter and I deeply approach your having written it. my dear sir, if such a feeling as you describe really exists, on the one hand I count it as a reward greater than any other that I can possible have, and on the other hand (what is event more important) I deem that it puts upon me the obligation to do everything in my power so that people shall not feel that I have come short of what they have a right to demand. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Roy Owen West, First National Bank Building, Chicago 257 April 23, 1907. My dear Mr. Sims: The enclosed letter explains itself. I know Legg and think [?] highly of him. If you would be willing to write Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, of Harvard, you could get his statement of Legg's capacity. I do not know that you have such a vacancy as Legg requires. If you have and can give him a trial I think it would be well. Again heartily congratulating you upon your recent good work, believe me. [*180*] Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Edwin W. Sims, United State Attorney, Chicago, Illinois. Enclosure.258 April 23, 1907. My dear Bonaparte: Will you furnish me with those editorials in the Providence Journal and your correspondence in reference thereto? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, Attorney General. [128]259 April 22, 1907. Dear Sir: I have received your letter of the 19th instant, in which you enclose the draft of the formal letter which is to follow. I have been notified that several delegations, bearing similar requests, are on the way hither. In the letter you, on behalf of the Cook County Moyer-Haywood conference, protest against certain language I used in a recent letter which you assert to be designed to influence the course of justice in the case of the trial for murder of Messrs. Moyer and Haywood. I entirely agree with you that it is improper to endeavor to influence the course of justice, whether by threats or in any similar manner. For this reason I have regretted most deeply the action of such organizations as your own in undertaking to accomplish this very result in the very case of which you speak. For instance, your letter is headed "Cook County Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone Conference," with the headlines - "Death - can not - will not - and shall not claim our brothers!" This shows that you and your associates are not demanding a fair trial, or working for a fair trial, but are announcing in advance that the verdict shall only be one way, and that you will not tolerate any other verdict. Such action is flagrant in its impropriety, and I join heartily in condemning it. But it is a simple absurdity to suppose that because any man is on trial for a given offense he is therefore to be freed from all criticism upon his general conduct and manner of life. In my letter to which you object, I referred to a certain prominent financier, Mr. Harriman, on the one hand, and to Messrs. Moyer, Haywood and Debs on the other, as being260 2 equally undesirable citizens. It is as foolish to assert that this was designed to influence the trial of Moyer and Haywood as to assert that it was designed to influence the suits that have been brought against Mr. Harriman. I neither exprest nor indicated any opinion as to whether Messrs. Moyer and Haywood were guilty of the murder of Governor Steunenberg. If they are guilty they certainly ought to be punished. If they are not guilty they certainly ought not to be punished. But no possible outcome either of the trial or the suits can affect my judgment as to the undesirability of the type of citizenship of those whom I mentioned. Messrs. Moyer, Haywood and Debs, stand as representatives of those men who have done as much to discredit the labor movement as the worst speculative financiers or most unscrupulous employers of labor and debauchers of legislatures have done to discredit honest capitalists and fair-dealing business men. They stand as the representatives of those men who by their public utterances and manifestoes, by the utterances of the papers they control or inspire, and by the words and deeds of those associated with or subordinated to them, habitually appear as guilty of incitement to or apology for bloodshed and violence. If this does not constitute undesirable citizenship, then there can never be any undesirable citizens. The men whom I denounce represent the men who have abandoned that legitimate movement for the uplifting of labor, with which I have the most hearty sympathy; they have adopted practises which cut them off from those who lead this legitimate movement. In every way I shall support the law-abiding and upright representatives of labor; and in no way can I better support them than by drawing the sharpest261 3 possible line between them on the one hand, and, on the other hand, those preachers of violence who are themselves the worst foes of the honest laboring man. Let me repeat my deep regret that any body of men should so far forget their duty to the country as to endeavor by the formation of societies and in other ways to influence the course of justice in this matter. I have received many such letters as yours. Accompanying them were newspaper clippings announcing demonstrations, parades and mass-meetings designed to show that the representatives of labor, without regard to the facts, demand the acquittal of Messrs. Haywood and Moyer. Such meetings can of course be designed only to coerce court or jury in rendering a verdict, and they therefore deserve all the condemnation which you in your letters say should be awarded to those who endeavor improperly to influence the course of justice. You would of course be entirely within your rights if you merely announced that you thought Messrs. Moyer and Haywood were "desirable citizens" - tho in such case I should take frank issue with you and should say that, wholly without regard to whether or not they are guilty of the crime for which they are now being tried, they represent as thoroly undesirable a type of citizenship as can be found in this country; a type which, in the letter to which you so unreasonably take exception, I showed not to be confined to any one class but to exist among some representatives of great capitalists as well as among some representatives of wage-workers. In that letter I condemned both types. Certain repre-262 4 sentatives of the great capitalists in turn condemned me for including Mr. Harriman in my condemnation of Messrs. Moyer and Haywood. Certain of the representatives of labor in their turn condemned me because I included Messrs. Moyer and Haywood as undesirable citizens together with Mr. Harriman. I am as profoundly indifferent to the condemnation in one case as in the other. I challenge as a right the support of all good Americans, whether wage-workers or capitalists, whatever their occupation or creed, or in whatever portion of the country they live, when I condemn both the types of bad citizenship which I have held up to reprobation. It seems to me a mark of utter insincerity to fail thus to condemn both; and to apologize for either robs the man thus apologizing of all right to condemn any wrong-doing in any man, rich or poor, in public or in private life. You say you ask for a "square deal" for Messrs. Moyer and Haywood. So do I. When I say "square deal" I mean a square deal to everyone; it is equally a violation of the policy of the square deal for a capitalist to protest against denunciation of a capitalist who is guilty of wrong-doing and for a labor leader to protest against the denunciation of a labor leader who has been guilty of wrong-doing. I stand for equal justice for both; and so far as in my power lies I shall uphold justice whether the man accused of guilt has behind him the wealthiest corporations, the greatest aggregations of riches in the country, or whether he has behind him the most influential labor organizations in the country. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Honore Jaxon, Chairman, 667 West Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois.263 191 April 23, 1907. My dear Stewart: I have your letter of the 20th concerning Governor Hagerman. I would be much pleased if you would send me the unimpeachable evidence of which you speak. I send you herewith a copy of Assistant Attorney General Cooley's report, which explains itself. There was much other matter, which is not in such shape that I can easily send copies. In my judgment Curry, whom I have appointed in Hagerman's place, is a very much bigger man. In fact, he is in an altogether different class; and he is [of course?] as straight as a string. That the change is an improvement is not, to my mind, open to question. Always cordially yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Philip B. Stewart, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Enclosure264 April 23, 1907. My dear General: I have your letter of the 24th instant. You can hardly imagine what a real pleasure it was to make your appointment. With all good wishes, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Major General Wm. S. McCaskey, U.S.A., Department of Texas, San Antonio, Texas.265 April 23, 1907. My dear President Delurey: I very deeply appreciate the honor that you desire to confer upon me and I would most gladly accept were it not that I have had to decline similar offers this year from so many colleges. I received such a multitude of requests that I was obliged to state that I could not accept any, because if I accepted one it was well-nigh impossible to know where to draw the line and not to offend the others. Believe me, I deeply appreciate your courtesy, and that I am sincerely sorry not to be able to be present at commencement and accept the degree. With high regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt President L. A. Delurey, O.S.A., Villanova College, Villanova, Pennsylvania. 266 April 23, 1907. Dear Bob: That is awfully good of you. I am really sorry you could not have seen more of d'Eatournelle for he is an exceedingly nice fellow. Ted told me about the delightful dinner, which, naturally, he particularly enjoyed. He looks at you [*149*] with all proper awe and admiration! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Robert Grant, 211 Bay State Road, Boston, Massachusetts.267 April 23, 1907. Dearest Kermit: I am glad you are on the second eight. At the same time I doubt whether, no matter how much endurance you have, you will develop quite the physical strength necessary to try for the freshman eight when you go to Harvard; and so I am glad that this spring you will practice running so far as you are able, and will try in the mile run next fall. [*246*] I think you would do better in the two-mile, but if you really practice a little for the mile and make an effort to run it in Groton, it will help you immensely for the two-mile in Harvard. A man who is at all good at the two-mile has to meet very many fewer competitors than those who try for short distances, and so there would be a fair chance of your doing something. At any rate I am mighty glad that you have gone into both rowing and running, and I am still more pleased that you seem to be doing well in your studies. I do not mind if you do fall off a little this month. As usual, I am up to my ears in work. I am now trying to dictate the various speeches I am to make this spring, so that I shall be able to take a five-days' holiday at Pine Knot in May and to go back to Sagamore by the middle of June. Archie the other day plaintively remarked that he thought I was being more attacked now than I had been at any time before since I was President; and upon my word I am inclined to think268 2 he was right. The labor people insisted upon having a row with me, and after having made every effort to avoid it I concluded that it could not longer be avoided and that I had better meet the attack aggressively and fearlessly in my letter to the Moyer-Haywood Defense Association. Taft is back in splendid trim from his trip to Panama, Cuba and Porto Rico. It is the greatest possible comfort having him and Root with me. They are both really wonderful men. I most earnestly hope and I am inclined to believe that we shall be able to nominate Taft for President. Of course this is to be kept strictly quiet, as I can not, as President, take any part in getting him the nomination. Your loving father, T. R. Master Kermit Roosevelt Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts.269 April 24, 1907. [*198*] Dear Paul: I would not have said anything to have hurt your feelings, my dear fellow, on any account. The expressions I used had reference only to people like the writer in the Statist. There is a certain type of English critic who rather exasperates me. By the way, if you get hold of the last copy of Littell's Living Age you will see another good paper from the Economist. With all good wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Paul Tuckerman, 59 Wall Street, New York, N. Y.270 April 24, 1907. My dear Mr. Clarkson; I heartily congratulate the grandfather and the father, and I still more congratulate the little mother. I hope she is doing well. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. James S. Clarkson, Surveyor of Customs, New York, N. Y.271 Personal April 24, 1907. My dear Mr. Ward: These carnations are beautiful, and I thank you sincerely for them and for the more than kindly tome of your letter. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles Willis Ward, Room 9094, Metropolitan Life Building, 1 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. 272 Apr. 24, 1907. My dear Mr. Mulholland: I have your letter of the 22d instant, with enclosures. Before its receipt I had answered the attacks to which you refer. It may be that they are inspired from the source you mention. The very fact that I feel in a peculiar sense a devotion to the cause of honest labor, the very fact that I will do everything that in me lies to better the condition of the wage-worker, the very fact that I thoroly believe in unions - all these facts combined make me feel most strongly that in the interest of the labor unions themselves, primarily, and also in the interest of our people as a whole, we should in the sharpest possible way insist upon a wedge being driven in between the men who , like yourself and like so many other of my friends, are trying in good faith and in a spirit of273 devotion to the whole country, to raise the laboring man, and those who preach envy and hatred and bloodshed and violence, who are doing all they can to bring shame and disaster upon the country as a whole and especially upon the laboring man, the wage-workes. They should be repudiated by honest wage-workers with the same horror that honest men of property should show in repudiating the deeds of the capitalist who oppresses his own wage-workers or who debauches legislatures or swindles the general public. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John Mulholland, C/o Lorraine Hotel, Indianapolis, Indiana. 274 April 25, 1907. Confidential. My dear Mr. Bonaparte: I am very much interested in your estimate of the Borah matter. It agrees substantially with mine. I feel very strongly that there should have been no indictment against Borah unless we had reasonable ground for conviction. I send you a letter from Borah to me which he asks me to keep in my own possession, so do not put it on the files, but I expect you to read it. Will you bring it back to me Monday when we go over the matter together? I am particularly pleased that you liked my Moyer and Haywood letter. The average politician is of course a hundred-fold apt to denounce the iniquities of corporations than those of labor unions; and here I had to encounter such an insolent challenge from the extreme labor union people that I felt the time had come for me to speak straight out. 258275 I enclose a copy of the constitution of Oklahoma which I suppose you will have to go over very carefully. Will you give me a report on it soon? Trusting you will soon be all right, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, 601 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland. Enclosure.276 April 25, 1907. My dear Mr. Justice: I am extremely pleased that you liked that letter concerning the Moyer and Haywood matter. With regard, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John M. Harlan, Associate Justice, supreme Court of the United States. 277 April 25, 1907. My dear Mrs. Day: I am really obliged to you for the quotation. it struck me forcibly when you repeated it to me last evening out dinner. It was so pleasant seeing you and the Justice. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. William R. Day, 1301 Clifton Place, Washington D. C. 278 April 25, 1907. My dear Senator Gamble: I have just seen Senator Kittredge, who, as I told you, strongly objects to the appointment of Mr. Wagner as United States District Attorney. There seems as yet to be very little chance of making an agreement between you two Senators. I am thinking of simply saying that I will request you to suggest to me, as you have done, the name for the District Attorney, and Senator Kittredge the name for the Collector of Internal-Revenue. Will you kindly give me your views on this? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Robert J. Gamble, United States Senate. 279 April 24, 1907. My dear Governor: I am in receipt of your telegram and thank you for sending it. I am glad you like my letter int he Moyer-Haywood matter. With all good wishes, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. M. O. Dawson, Governor of West Virginia, Charleston, West Virginia. 280 April 25, 1907. Dear Connolly: I have just received your letter of the 24th. I do not know what review you refer to. The important review, as I understand it, is to-morrow morning and it is of course now too late for me to get you on for that. If I wired you, you could not possibly get thru in time. Is there some other review in connection with the Jamestown Exposition of which I do not know? Of course I will get you back as an enlisted man on any other of the ships for the purpose of completing your studies if it is in my power to do so. I paid not the slightest attention to the newspaper stories. You were going in for a [different] definite job, and it was not necessary for you to stay a day longer than would help you in realizing just exactly what the enlisted men of Uncle Sam's navy really are.281 Let me know of any way in which I can be of help. With regards to Mrs. Connolly, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. James S. Connolly, 793 Columbia Road, Dorchester, Massachusetts.282 April 29, 1907. My dear Mr. Brown: I am in receipt of your letter of the 24th instant in which you advise me that the directors of the Little Rock Board of Trade have elected me an honorary member. I take pleasure in accepting and I wish , thru you, to cordially thank the Board for the compliment they have paid me. With appreciation of your courtesy in the matter, I am. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Geo. R. Brown, Secretary, Board of Trade, Little Rock, Ark. 283 April 28, 1907. My dear Miss Scheffer: That Dutch sentence is one that I can understand without difficulty! You can hardly know how much real pleasure you gave Ms. Roosevelt and all of us the other evening. Present my regards to your charming sister and to your brother-in-law. With best wishes. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Corrie Scheffer, Care of Mr. Robert E. Ely, 23 West 44th Street, New York, N. Y. 284 April 29, 1907. My dear friends: I have received both of your letters and I thank you in behalf of Mrs. Roosevelt and myself. We wish we could accept your invitations but it just is not possible. With hearty regards and good wishes, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. and Mrs. William Barnes, Sr., The O'Conor-Barners Homestead, Nantucket Island, Mass. 285 April 29, 1907. My dear Mr. Sims: I would not dream of your changing any worthy man; but I want to thank you for your very nice letter. Will you write to Mr. Legg yourself and tell him just what the situation is? Of course, feel at entire liberty to do just exactly what you deem best n the matter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Edwin W. Sims, United States Attorney, Chicago, Ill.286 April 29, 1907. My dear Mr. Thurman: I thank you for your very kind letter. That speech of Mr. Ingall's literally astounded me and I am sincerely glad to have seen it. With renewed thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Allen W. Thurman, Columbus, Ohio.287 April 29, 1907. My dear Senator: I'll read not only your article in the Reader but your Galena speech, and what is more I know I shall read them both with interest and enjoyment. That was an interesting report from your friend Strohm. Sincerely yours Theodore Roosevelt [*219*] [Thanks for the ?] Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, U.S.S., Indianapolis, Ind.288 April 28, 1907. My dear Mr. Gardiner: That is all right. My only regret is that I was not able to attend as you desired. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Robert H. Gardiner, 88 Broad Street, Boston, Mass.289 April 29, 1907. My dear Mr. Justice: First let me thank you for your letter and for the copy of your report which I heartily appreciate, and for the newspaper clippings. More than once, my dear Mr. Justice, you have given me not only pleasure but strength. I look forward to seeing you whenever you can come North. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. A. H, Whitfield, Supreme Court, Jackson, Miss290 April 29, 1907. My dear Mr. Seligman: I have your letter of the 25th instant. I believe the People's Lobby have done good work and I have always found Needham an excellent fellow. I am glad you liked my letter anent Moyer and Haywood. With great regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, New York, N. Y. 291 April 29, 1907. My dear Lord Grey: It was awfully good of you to send us those apples. I wish I was to have the chance of seeing you and Lady Grey some time soon. Is there any hope of your getting down here? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [James? Bryce doing admirably I doubt if there would be a better ambassador for this ? time.] Lord Grey, Government House, Ottawa, Canada.292 April 29, 1907. My dear McGaffey: I do not care to see any book of yours before having it dedicated to me. I earnestly hope the Scribners will accept "A year on the Iowas Prairies;" and I shall be delighted to have it dedicated to me. The book had come and I of course value the photographs much. What a cunning little girl your small daughter is! With all good wishes and many thanks, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Ernest McGaffey, 599 West Melrose Street, Chicago, Illinois. 293 April 28, 1907. Dear Bishop, Indeed that is surprising. After reading the Sun's praise I am inclined to say that , nevertheless it was a good speech! But my dear fellow your good words I value most sincerely. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Joseph, B. Bishop, Isthmian Canal Commission, Washington, D. C. 294 April 29, 1907. My dear Captain Rush: Indeed, I am delighted to accept the book; in the first place because any work by or of Dr. Rush of course has a strong interest for me; and in the next place because it comes from you, to whom I owe such pleasant hours on the old Michigan. With great regard and many thanks, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Captain Richard Rush, U. S. Navy, 1831 Jefferson Place, Washington, D. C.295 April 29, 1907. My dear Mr. Higginson: I am particularly pleased to receive that Life of Charles Russell Lowell. To me he has always been one of the most gallant and attractive figures in the entire war. With hearty thanks for your continued kindness, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. H. L. Higginson, 44 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.296 April 29, 1907. My dear Mr. Taussig: Whether you expect it or not I must send you a line of acknowledgment and thanks for your kind and considerate letter. I value it highly. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. F. W. Taussig, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.297 April 28, 1907. My dear Mr. Von Briesen: I fully agree with you that we are both to be congratulated for having such a paper assail us. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Arthur von Briesen, 49 Wall Street, New York, N. Y.298 April 29, 1907. My dear Senator: Both Michigan and Illinois senators have been to me about that position. I suppose Mr. Daugherty is a Pennsylvanian. I am divided between my desire to do anything you ask and the feeling lest the Illinois and Michigan men may regard it as rather mean of me, altho I have made them no promise, to pass them by for you who have spoken to me subsequently. I shall go carefully over the ground and if I can appoint Mr. Daugherty I shall be really pleased. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. P. C. Knox, United State Senate.299 April 28, 1907. Personal. My dear Mr. McKelway: That is such a nice editorial of yours that you so kindly sent me that I must write a line of personal acknowledgement of it; and I want to take this opportunity of saying how particularly I appreciated your editorial on my letter concerning the Moyer and Haywood business. I think I like that letter considerably more than the Jamestown address because I was speaking to a present issues to "the instant need of things" and because I felt that politicians generally needed a lead on the subject; you, with your wide experience, need less than almost any other man to be told that the average politician is far more afraid of a labor organization than of any corporation. I had a particularly nice letter about the matter from Dolan, the head of the steam shovelers' union, by the way.300 Let me thank you again for the Jamestown editorial. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. St. Clair McKelway, 21 Monroe Place, Brooklyn Heights Brooklyn ,N. Y. 301 April 29, 1907. Dear Murray: The letter of d'Estournelles was interesting but it is not one that I can answer. I am glad you liked my letter to the labor people. Do bring Mrs. Butler to Washington. We can have you down on the 13th, 14th, 15th or 16th -- any day that you prefer; but on the 17th we go to Pine Knot. 130 Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.302 April 29, 1907. My dear Dr. Buttrick: I am sure that I shall got all I want from what you have enclosed to me. Of course I shall not try to go into the matter at all extensively. With regard and many thanks Faithfully yours Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Dr. Wallace Buttrick, Secretary, General Education Board, 2 Rector Street, New York, N. Y. 206303 April 29, 1907. My dear Captain Gleaves: I have been a very busy man and I have never really had a chance to read thru your Life of Lawrence until the other day; so I write this very belated note to tell you how admirable I think it. There are one or two small points where I should differ with you, but these are entirely unimportant. The book is as good a biography of any of our sailors as I know. Moreover, I like the philosophy of the book. Every man who reads it ought to think a little more soundly on such questions as war and peace and the need of upholding the navy, and indeed on the general question of governmental [foresight?] I heartily congratulate you on it, and congratulate us all that you wrote it. With warm regards to Mrs. Gleaves, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Commander Albert Gleaves, U.S.N., Care Navy Department.304 April 29, 1907. My dear Mr. Dolan: No letter could have pleased me more than yours. You took just the ground that a good, sane, American citizen ought to take. I do not regard a man as fit to hold public office in America if he is not a staunch friend of labor, but a strong friend of organized labor, a strong believer in unions; and the very fact that I believe with all my heart in the cause of the wage-worker and would do everything legitimate for him, makes me feel it incumbent on me to set my face like a flint against lawlessness and disorder and violence, and scrupulously to try to do real justice without regard to persons as between labor and capital, [?] rich man and the man who is not so well off.305 Let me repeat how much genuine pleasure your letter gave me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. T. J. Dolan, General Secretary and Treasurer, International Brotherhood of Steam-Shovel and Dredge Men, Chicago, Illinois.306 April 29, 1907. My dear Reid: Thank Mr. Ware personally for me and explain to him that what I was concerned with was not in the least Low's attack on me personally, but the fact that I thought he was doing what he could to cause trouble between England and America. His brother-in-law, Brooks, by the way, has always been one of my assailants, but so far as I know only within lines that are legitimate. He was rather too well received here. I shall tell Bacon that I think your [*162*] plan advisable. Your letter about affairs in England, France, and Germany was most interesting. Do write me from time to time along the very lines that you have written. The Montagnini papers were hardly noticed here, excepting that the statements about myself, Storer, and Meyer were cabled over - so we all congratulated Meyer 307 on being the second Jew in my Cabinet; and Nick Longworth, when we met on the tennis court that afternoon, christened him Mr. Meyerheimer. I have been riding horseback with Meyer and Bacon, by the way, and we had some jumping pictures taken. I send you three or four for the King, if you think he would care to receive them. He is such a thorogoing sportsman that they may possibly amuse him. I did not see what the Montagnini papers said about either the British Ambassador or de Stuers. It is difficult to keep patience with the peace advocates when they talk as foolishly as Carnegie does. With warm regards to Mrs. Reid, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Whitelaw Reid, The American Ambassador, London, England.308 April 29, 1907. My dear Governor Hagerman: In response to your letter of April 22d I accept your resignation to take effect forthwith. While the matters which I went over with you verbally, and which it is not necessary now to recapitulate, made it in my judgment necessary for me to request your resignation, I wish to say again that I am entirely convinced of your personal integrity and of your zealous desire to accomplish results good for the Territory and citizens of New Mexico. Much that you have done has been needed for a long while from every standpoint and was of lasting importance to do; and while I did not think that it was for the interests of the public that you should continue in your present position, yet I am glad to state that I believe there are many positions in the public service which309 you could fill with honor to yourself and with profit to the Government. Wishing you all success in your future life, believe me, Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. H. J. Hagerman, Santa Fe, New Mexico.310 April 29, 1907. Dear Bob: I wish you to see Fathers Kelly and Callahan, who have just returned from a trip thru South America. They say our Ministers are good men and are respected; but that on the whole the Consuls are a poor lot - except that at Rio, Anderson is a good man. They particularly object to the Consul at Buenos Ayres. I would like you to talk over at [*140*] length with the two Fathers their experiences in the different consulates, and let us see if we can not make a change in both methods and men. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Robert Bacon, Acting Secretary of State.311 April 29, 1907. Private. My dear Mr. Chief Justice: I have received from a number of sources in Arizona letters of which the enclosed, from a seemingly entirely responsible, and certainly a prominent, citizen, is a sample. I wish to ask you privately if the situation is as there described. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Edward Kent, Chief Justice, Phoeniz, Arizona. Enclosure.312 April 29, 1907. My dear Governor: Naturally your letter gives me real pleasure, and I thank you heartily for it. Excepting one or two letters of confidence and agreement from leaders of labor unions there is none that I prize more than yours. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John C. Cutler, Governor of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. 313 April 29, 1907. Sir: Pray express the assurance of my hearty good will to those engaged in giving a world character to organized Sunday School work. All good citizens must cordially sympathize with the effort to secure for the children of all countries, for those who will come after us and in whose hands the destinies of their several nations will lie, the education in things spiritual and moral that even more than the education of the head and the hand are necessary to the making of the highest type of citizenship. I wish all success to those, whatever their creed, who disinterestedly and in a spirit alike of common sense and of devotion to duty thus seek to train the future generation in the things of the spirit no less than in the things of the body. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Edward K. Warren, President, World's Sunday School Convention, Three Oaks, Michigan.April 29, 1907. My dear Mr. Keen: The enclosures received with your letter of the 29th instant are returned herewith, and I have pleasure in sending you the accompanying letter of introduction from the President for Mr. McRae. Sincerely yours, Wm. Loeb Jr Secretary to the President. Mr. Ed. L. Keen, Care Publishers' Press Ass'n, Washington, D. C. Enclosures. April 29, 1907. To the diplomatic and Consular Representatives of the United States Abroad: I take pleasure in introducing you to Mr. Milton A. McRae who is accompanied on his trip by his son Lindsay. Mr. McRae is President of the Publishers Press Association of the United States as well as joint owner of the Scripps-McRae League newspapers. He is a gentleman of experience in public affairs and of the highest business and social standing. Commending him to all proper courtesies consistent with your official duties, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 314315 April 29, 1907. My dear Burlingham: I thank you for your note. I have taken the liberty of sending it to Parsons who is himself a lawyer and a very good fellow. I have asked him to talk over the situation with District Attorney Stimson and Judge Hough - this upon the assumption that I appoint Judge Holt, as to which I am as yet undecided; for as you say it would be easier to find a man of real distinction for the position of Circuit than for the position of District Judge. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles C. Burlingham, 27 William Street, New York, N. Y.316 April 29, 1907. Confidential. Dear Governor: On the one hand your letter pleases me, and on the other hand it gives me concern. I do not believe that conditions have arisen which require me to alter the determination I exprest on the night of the election, nor do I believe that any such conditions [?]. But this does not mean that I am not in absolute and entire sympathy with your view of the present crisis in the Republican party. As you say, we can not submit to the domination in the Republican party of those selfish interests which have long felt that the Government was simply an instrument to further their ends; nor can we afford to let the Republican party drift on such an issue. As you say, the struggle should not be over men, but over policies and principles. We should be concerned with the nomination of any particular man only to the extent of knowing that317 in addition to his other qualifications he is sincerely and zealously devoted to the great progressive and reforming movement to which, as I look at it, the Republican party is now no less committed in the nation at large than in States like Iowa, and in which we can not tolerate a halt. If at any time you are to be here I should like to talk over the situation at length with you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Albert B. Cummins, Governor of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa.318 April 29, 1907. Dearest Kermit: We really had an enjoyable trip to Jamestown. The guests were mother's friend, Mrs. Johnson a Virginia lady who reminds me so much of Aunt Annie, my Mother's sister who thruout my childhood was almost as much associated in our home life as my mother herself; Justice Moody, who was as delightful as he always is, and with whom it was a real pleasure to again have a chance to talk; Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bacon, who proved the very nicest guests of all and were so companionable and sympathetic to every point. Ethel was as good as gold and took much off of Mother's shoulders in the way of taking care of Quentin. Archie and Quentin had, of course, a heavenly time; went everywhere, below and aloft, and ate indifferently at all hours both with the officers and enlisted men. We left here Thursday afternoon and on Friday morning passed in review thru the foreign fleet and our own fleet of sixteen great battleships in addition to cruisers. It was an inspiring sight and one I would not have missed for a great deal. Then we went into a launch to the Exposition where I had the usual experiences in such cases, made the usual speech, held the usual reception, went to the usual lunch, etc., etc. In the evening Mother and I got on the Sylph and went to Norfolk to dine at an absurd Marche hare tea-party dinner which was very 267319 2 pleasant nevertheless. It was given by the Tuckers but at the house of the Myers - a delightful old house by the way. There were four guests,including Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce, who were an hour late - and one,Senator Daniel who never came at all - this latter incident being accepted with unmoved calm by the hostess who placidly remarked "I think the Senator just naturally forgot". When the Sylph landed at Norfolk for the dinner we were met by General Grant to convey us to the house. I was finishing dressing and Mother went out into the cabin and sat down to receive him. In a minute or two I came out and began to hunt for my hat. Mother sat very erect and pretty, looking at my efforts with a tolerance that gradually changed to impatience. Finally she arose to get her own cloak and then I found that she had been sitting gracefully but firmly on the hat itself - it was a crush hat and had been flattened until it looked like a wrinkled pie. Mother did not see what she had done so I speechlessly thrust the hat toward her; but she still did not understand and took it as an inexplicable jest of mine, merely saying "yes, dear", and with patient dignity turned and went out of the door with General Grant. The next morning we went on the Sylph up the James River and on the return trip visited three of the dearest old places you can imagine, Shirley, Westover and Brandon. I do not know whether I loved most the places themselves or the quaint out-of-the-world Virginia gentlewomen in them. The houses, the grounds, the owners all were too dear for anything and we loved them. That night we went back to 320 3 the Mayflower and returned here yesterday, Sunday, afternoon. To-day spring weather really seems to have begun, and after lunch Mother and I sat under the apple tree by the fountain. A purple finch was singing in the apple tree overhead, and the white petals of the blossoms were silently falling. This afternoon Mother and I are going out riding with Senator Lodge. Your loving father, Theodore Roosevelt Mother has ridden Gray Dawn, and loathes him; she has become used to, and fond of, Audry; and Audry is an ideal lady's saddle horse Mr. Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Mass.321 April 30, 1907. Dear Fred: I know of Hand and think very highly of him. While in New York I should want to talk with Parsons about that judgeship. The first consideration would be to get the very highest type of man; but, subject thereto, I should like to get a man of whom Parsons and the really good, progressive fellow who are really trying to make the Republican organization stand for high things, would approve. So as yet I can not give any idea what it will be possible for me to do. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt F. G. Fincke, Esq. , 30 Genesee Street, Utica, N. Y.322 April 30, 1907. My dear Mr. Wight: I thank you for your letter and the editorials. What an utterly idiotic circular that is to which reference is made! I assume of course that it has been distributed for the purpose of injuring me. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Pearl Wight, New Orleans, La. 323 April 30, 1907. My dear Professor Lounsbury: That was such an admirable article of yours in the Atlantic that I must write you just a word of appreciation. I was always doubtful about "thru." I adopted it simply because I thought it better that I should not take any liberties with the well-thought-out plan of the committee. But I am convinced it caused more trouble than anything else in the plan. You understand, of course, that I did not abandon the simplified spelling. Congress provided in the appropriation bill that nothing printed in the Government Printing Office should be in the spelling in which I had had everything printed for the few months before they acted. I continue to use the new spelling in my correspondence as President. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Prof. T. R. Lounsbury, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Have you seen the letters of [Franklin?], which [?]324 April 30, 1907. My dear Judge Keogh: What do you know of J. Addison Young who is mentioned to me as a possible candidate for the United States District Court if I should make a selection from greater New York? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Martin J. Keogh, Justice of the Supreme Court, New Rochelle, N. Y. 325 April 30, 1907. My dear Mr. Taft: What do you know of J. Addison Young, who is mentioned to me as a possible candidate for the United States District Court if I should make a selection form greater New York? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Henry W. Taft, 40 Wall Street, New York, N. Y.326 April 30, 1907. My dear Mr. Heney: Franklin Lane, a very good fellow and a staunch friend of yours, has shown me the telegrams of which I enclose copies. I regret Hearst as one of the most dangerous men in America. If it be true that he or his agents have paid ballot box stuffers the facts certainly should be shown. Do you mind telling me what the situation is to which these telegrams refer? I of course know nothing of it. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Francis J. Honey, San Francisco, California. Enclosures.327 April 30, 1907. My dear Mr. Allen: I accept your resignation with genuine regret. I have known for some time that you were holding the office at a loss to yourself and have felt that you probably would in the end, for the sake of your family, resume your private practice. I could not help hope that it would not, however, be until the end of my term. With hearty thanks for the work you have done for the Government in the past, and earnestly hoping for you the success in your new field that you deserve, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Frederick I. Allen, Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 328 Personal April 28, 1907. My dear Mr. Ambassador: I have your letter of April 3d. Permit me first to congratulate you upon your appointment to your new post, and upon the distinguished honor accorded to you by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan in conferring on you the Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun. The news gave me personal pleasure, for, as I think you need not be assured, you won my high regard and esteem while You were Minister at Washington, and in particular during the trying months when we were thrown together so intimately at the time of the peace negotiations. A for the San Francisco incident, it caused me more concern than you can imagine. But such international incidents are from time to time inevitable as between any nations. The business of statesmen is to try to close them successfully and in a way to leave behind as little hard feelings as possible. You do not need to have me tell you of my high regard and admiration for the people of Japan and my resolute purpose to work in all ways for friendship and good understanding between the American and Japanese Governments and peoples. All nations have advanced far on the path of international goodwill and fair dealing in the later few centuries; but we all of us have still a long way to go. Fifty years ago even educated Americans and Japanese would329 2 have risked a good deal in going to one another's countries. Now, all gentlemen, all educated men of your country and of mine can visit or stay each in the other's land, as travelers or students, as scientists or artist, as professional men or merchants, and be sure not merely of good treatment but of heartiest welcome; and this whether it is the American who comes to Japan or the Japanese who comes to America. But as yet we are not at the point where it is possible that the classes of citizens of the two countries who are more suspicious and less broadminded should feel in the same way about one another; and above all is this true when they compete in their labor. This feeling is the same in Japan as in the United States. If tens of thousands of American miners went to Saghalin to take up the mines; if tens of thousands of American laborers went to Japan itself to compete with the laboring men there, a rivalry would be sure soon to spring up which could not be fortunate in its effect. There would certainly then tend to grow up in Japan the same feeling toward Americans that now influences you in forbidding Chinese laborers to come to Japan. I think it very greatly for the interests of both nations that the laborers of neither should go to the other. As I have said, my dear Mr. Ambassador, while we have all of us traveled far on the road of proper international relations, we have a long distance yet to go, and I feel that it is the part of wise statesmanship to go so carefully as not to jeopardize the future. A couple of centuries ago, when French and Flemish workmen came to England, being driven from their homes by religious persecution, 330 3 the English workmen, altho of the same creed, violently assailed them and protested against their presence even to the point of mob violence. Now, we have gone so far along that this danger has been past. I firmly believe that in another generation or two the danger of any trouble on any such grounds between Japan and the United States will have past - just as now what would have seemed impossible half a century ago has come to pass, and all Japanese and American gentlemen, men of letters, scientists, professional men, and the like, can meet together on terms of the heartiest friendship and goodwill; but if we should try to hurry things too much there would be risk of disaster. So I think that the laboring people of each country had better not, at this time, go to the other's country. With high regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Kogoro Takahira, The Japanese Ambassador, Rome, Italy.331 May 1, 1907. My dear Mr. Ambassador: This will be presented by Commander Albert Gleaves, U.S.Navy, who is abroad to inspect the torpedo factories in Europe with special reference to their management and equipment. He also wishes to investigate as far as possible the foreign systems of torpedoes and mines. I am personally interested in the success of Commander Gleaves' undertaking, and any assistance you may give him will be appreciated by me. As the subject of torpedoes and mines is usually closely guarded from outside scrutiny, I have no doubt that your good offices will materially aid in obtaining the desired information. For obvious reasons it is not deemed advisable to make this the subject of official communication. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Whitelaw Reid, The American Ambassador, London, England. 306332 May 1, 1907. My dear Mr. Ambassador: This will be presented by Commander Albert Gleaves, U.S.Navy, who is abroad to inspect the torpedo factories in Europe with special reference to their management and equipment. He also wishes to investigate as far as possible the foreign systems of torpedoes and mines. I am personally interested in the success of Commander Gleaves' undertaking, and any assistance you may give him will be appreciated by me. As the subject of torpedoes and mines is usually closely guarded from outside scrutiny, I have no doubt that your good offices will materially aid in obtaining the desired information. For obvious reasons it is not deemed advisable to make this the subject of official communication. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Lloyd C. Griscom, The American Ambassador, Rome, Italy. 254[*333] May 1, 1907. Mr dear Mr. Ambassador: This will be presented by Commander Albert Gleaves, U.S. Navy, who is aboard to inspect the torpedo factories in Europe with special reference to their management and equipment. He also wishes to investigate as far as possible the foreign systems of torpedoes and mines. I am personally interested in the success of Commander Gleaves' undertaking, and any assistance you may give him will be appreciated by me. As the subject of torpedoes and mines is usually closely guarded from outside scrutiny, I have no doubt that your good offices will materially aid in obtaining the desired information. For obvious reasons it is not deemed advisable to make this the subject of official communication. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charlemagne Tower, The American Ambassador, Berlin, Germany.[*334] May 1, 1907. Mr dear Mr. Ambassador: This will be presented by Commander Albert Gleaves, U.S. Navy, who is aboard to inspect the torpedo factories in Europe with special reference to their management and equipment. He also wishes to investigate as far as possible the foreign systems of torpedoes and mines. I am personally interested in the success of Commander Gleaves' undertaking, and any assistance you may give him will be appreciated by me. As the subject of torpedoes and mines is usually closely guarded from outside scrutiny, I have no doubt that your good offices will materially aid in obtaining the desired information. For obvious reasons it is not deemed advisable to make this the subject of official communication. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles S. Francis, The American Ambassador, Vienna, Austria.[*335] May 1, 1907. Mr dear Mr. Ambassador: This will be presented by Commander Albert Gleaves, U.S. Navy, who is aboard to inspect the torpedo factories in Europe with special reference to their management and equipment. He also wishes to investigate as far as possible the foreign systems of torpedoes and mines. I am personally interested in the success of Commander Gleaves' undertaking, and any assistance you may give him will be appreciated by me. As the subject of torpedoes and mines is usually closely guarded from outside scrutiny, I have no doubt that your good offices will materially aid in obtaining the desired information. For obvious reasons it is not deemed advisable to make this the subject of official communication. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Henry White, The American Ambassador, Paris, France.336 May 1, 1907. Personal. My dear Mr. Brown: Many thanks for your letter. I am inclined to feel that probably the page you sent me is better than the several pages, much too profuse in form, which I sent you. The enclosed letter (which please return) from Director North of the Census Bureau shows that I shall have to be careful in using the very Census material which was the basis of much that I therein said. I shall strike out the sentence of my speech to which in your letter you refer. With regards and many thanks, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 222 Mr. W. C. Brown, Vice President, New York Central & Hudson River R.R.Co., New York, N.Y. Enclosure.337 May 1, 1907. Sir: You are hereby designated as a representative of the War Department on the United States Geographic Board. Theodore Roosevelt Lieutenant Colonel Thaddeus W. Jones, [*222*] General Staff, War Department. 338 May 1, 1907. My dear Mr. Hagerman: Mr. Gifford Pinchot has presented to me your telegram to him in which you ask that it be brought to my personal attention, stating that hundreds of people have sent telegrams to the President protesting against my accepting your resignation, and stating furthermore that if my action is requesting your resignation is not revoked it will be a calamity to the Territory, and that if I will reconsider this action you are positive I will see the injustice and unwisdom of it from every point of view. This renders it necessary for me to write you very plainly. You made, as I am informed, a good Secretary of Legation at the Court of St.Petersburg. All that I have heard of your private life is to your credit. Furthermore, I believe that you have done certain excellent things while you were Governor; and of course I will permit nothing good that you have done to be undone. But I must add that as a whole I think you have been an unsatisfactory Governor and that your removal from the position is imperatively demanded. If it were not for my knowledge of your previous career and of your standing in private life, and my consequent reluctance to believe that your motives were as improper as certain of your acts would indicate, I should have 308339 -2- removed you instead of requesting your resignation. I have not thought it necessary to go into any matters as to which there was any chance of controversy, and the Department of Justice has been as anxious as I have been to show you all consideration, and to resolve every doubt in your favor. Assistant Attorney General Cooley in his report purposely omitted, as he informed me, the inference which he believes ought legitimately to be drawn from the facts that in the land grant transaction, wherein I believe your conduct was blameworthy, you were actuated in your improper and presumably unlawful action by your desire to secure the aid of certain Democratic politicians in the faction fight. I decided that in this matter I would give you the benefit of the doubt; and so as to your action in appointing six members of the legislative council to lucrative positions, altho there seemed to me no moral doubt that this amounted to the bartering of offices by you in return for legislative support. As for the hundreds of persons who have telegraphed me on your account, I can not say that I have seen all of the telegrams, but I have seen a great many of them. I have received an even larger number from persons in New Mexico who protested against your retention in office. I have also received numerous statements to the effect that neither set of telegrams was really spontaneous. There has been no single instance in which the appointment of Mr. Curry as your successor has not received hearty commendation.340 -3- I found that it was not necessary to consider anything save Assistant Attorney General Cooley's letter, from the Department of Justice. This sets forth a state of facts which your personal explanations, when before me, in no way relieved, and which make it impossible, in my judgment, to retain you in office unless I am content to abandon all idea of holding public officers in New Mexico, or indeed elsewhere, to my proper standard of official conduct. This report from the Department of Justice related to your delivery of certain deeds to the Pennsylvania Development Company. It appears that the grant of land, which was agreed to before you became Governor, was on its face grossly fraudulent; and that the transaction could not be completed save by your action, made with full knowledge of its fraudulent character. An investigation into the matter of these New Mexican land grants had been made by the Secretary of the Interior and submitted to Congress. The Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands of the House, Hon. John F. Lacey, on May 17, 1906, wrote to the Secretary of the Interior that the proposed grant would be a violation of law; the particular grant referred to being, as the Secretary of the Interior officially stated, in all essential respects the same as the grant you consummated. You state that this document was never officially called to your attention, but it appears that you certainly had knowledge of it when you acted; and it further appears that the Commissioner of Public Lands, in view of the report, exprest his unwillingness to delivery the deeds to the representative of the Pennsylvania Development Company, Mr. Hopewell. It was his business, and not yours, and you could only act in his absence; tho of course you could have removed him, if you341 -4- had been willing to remove him, for refusing to take the improper and fraudulent action which in his absence you took on his behalf. You, however, obtained an opinion from the Attorney General (the some gentlemen who the newspapers report as now organizing meetings to ask for your retention in office), which opinion Mr. Cooley rightly stigmatizes as "an absurdity", for as Mr. Cooley says, it is only explicable on the ground, either that the Attorney General thought that there was no absolute evidence of a violation of the law (a conclusion which it was inconceivable he could have reached or that you could have reached), or else that as there were difficulties attendant upon the enforcement of the law you should go out of your way to violate it. You took advantage of the absence of the Commissioner of Public Lands on official business to go yourself with the Attorney General, Mr. Reid, to his office and yourself to complete the transaction. It was there suggested to you by a clerk in the land office that the matter should be delayed until the Commissioner could be communicated with, as if you wired him it would be possible to get him back in Santa Fe inside of two days. You refused to permit this delay; altho there was absolutely no reason whatever for such refusal on your part. You directed the clerk to compute the amount due as payment of the principal and interest, and then asked him to deliver the deeds, to which he replied that he had no power to do so and that the seal had not been affixt to twenty-three of them. You then directed him to bring all the papers to your office together with the seal of the Board of Public342 -5- Lands, and in the presence of the clerk and of Mr. Hopewell, the beneficiary of your grossly improper and probably unlawful conduct, you affixt the seals to the twenty-three deeds and handing them to Hopewell asked if he considered that a delivery. Hopewell replied that he did, and handed them back to you with the request that they be recorded on the deed records of the Commissioner of Public Lands. You handed them to the clerk with instructions to have them recorded, and these instructions were carried out. The deeds were returned to you and you handed them to the attorney of the Pennsylvania Development Company. You accepted from Mr. Hopewell his personal check for $11,113.74, which you subsequently deposited in the office of the Commissioner of Public Lands. The Department of Justice reports that: "It seems entirely clear that Governor Hagerman's action was both illegal and improper. X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X "The act of Congress of June 21, 1898, supra, and section 1, chapter 74, Laws of New Mexico, 1899, supra, clearly made the contract illegal at the time Governor Hagerman alleges it was entered into. The delivery of the deeds could not have been enforced by the grantees, or by the Pennsylvania Development Company which was not a party to the contact. The Governor had every reason to believe, owing to his correspondence with the Secretary of the Interior, that the transaction was of very doubtful legality, in spite of the opinion of his Attorney General. It was clearly his duty, in my judgment, to withhold delivery of the deeds and let the matter be tested in the courts if the grantees named in the deeds saw fit to mandamus the Commissioner of Public Lands. His action in usurping the duties of the Commissioner in his absence was both illegal and unjustifiable. It was entirely competent for him to enforce the carrying out of his wishes by administrative methods, in removing a public official and appointing in his place some one in sympathy with his policies, but it was neither legal nor justifiable to adopt the course he did."343 -6- With the above statement I entirely agree. If I permit such an act by the highest officer in the Territory to go unpunished, I can not hold to account any subordinate official for any infraction of his duty. It was a grave question in my mind whether I ought not to remove you instead of merely asking your resignation. I resolved the doubt in your favor and requested your resignation. Under no circumstances would I reconsider this action. Secretary Root has handed me a long telegram from your father in which he states that he wishes me to delay my action on your resignation until you have had time to answer the charges made against you, which he further states are well known to be unfounded, and made by party freebooters to restore themselves to power. Apparently your father does not know, or disregards, the fact that these charges are contained in the statement above referred to from the Department of Justice and in the records of the Interior Department; that there is not the slightest question as to the facts which were admitted by you in your interview with me as well as in your interview with Secretary Garfield; and that you had a full hearing before Secretary Garfield and before me. Under these circumstances what your father means by saying that the charges are unfounded I am unable to imagine. If any "party freebooter", or any one else is guilty of conduct such as yours I will treat him just as I have treated you. With the gossip that your father repeats and the inferences that he draws there-from I have no concern. As to the charges he by inference makes344 -7- against others I can only say that any facts that he will give me against anyone I will consider if I have the power to do so. Charges of a very grave character were made to me against your father himself in connection with his land transactions in the past. Whether they were true or not I can not say, because a preliminary investigation showed that action on them would be barred by the statute of limitations. No one suggested to me the appointment of Captain Curry as your successor. The idea was my own, because I wisht under the extraordinary circumstances in New Mexico to find some man whom I personally knew and in whose uprightness, strength of character and knowledge of the people and the circumstances I could have entire confidence. Captain Curry was one of the best men in my regiment. He has been away from New Mexico for eight years, so that he is in no shape or way identified with any factional trouble therein. I do not even know his politics. During these eight years he has done distinguished military and civil service in the Philippines, not only having shown great gallantry in action but marked administrative ability when in charge of the Manila police force and afterwards in various other positions, including that of Governor in the provinces. As far as I know there has been universal approval in New Mexico of his choice; and approval of the choice of Captain Curry as Governor is incompatible with the existence on the part of those approving it of either the hope or the desire to see crooked methods obtain in the New Mexican government. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. H. J. Hagerman, Santa Fe, New Mexico. [*345] May 1, 1907. In accordance with the provisions of Section 5 of the Act of Congress to incorporate the American National Red Cross, I hearby appoint Beekman Winthrop, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, as the representative of the Treasury Department on the Central Committe of the American Red Cross.348 May 1, 1907. My dear Mr. Ambassador: I enclose you a copy of Benjamin Franklin's letter. I trust you have read that article by Lounsbury in the Atlantic Monthly. With warm regards, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Right Honorable James Bryce, The British Ambassador, Washington, D. C. Enclosure.[*347] May 1, 1907. Dear Florence: Many thanks for your note. I have asked Garfield to bring around MacVeagh to lunch with me Saturday if he is still here. It will be a pleasure to see him. I need not say how much we enjoyed having you and Grant here. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. C. Grant LaFarge, 124 East 22d Street, New York, N. Y.348 May 1, 1907. My dear Mr. Nevin: I must tell you how much I enjoyed the selections from your Indian opera. It seems to me to be a peculiarly good thing to try to preserve the old Indian songs and music in this fashion; and it is one of those characteristically American bits of work which appeals to me very strongly from the standpoint of American citizenship. Wishing you all success, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Arthur Nevin, Care of Mr. Gifford Pinchot, Department of Agriculture. 349 May 1, 1907. My dear Mr. McClintock: I enjoyed so much the Indian opera with your lecture and the lantern slides, and your repetition of the Indian songs, that I must send you a line to say so. I feel that you have done a real service in thus working for the preservation of the old Indian song and music. With many thanks, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Walter McClintock, Esq. , Care of Mr. Gifford Pinchot, Department of Agriculture.349 May 1, 1907. My dear Mrs. Eustis: that is a most attractive proposal of yours and I wish I could accept, but I an afraid it is simply impossible. I do not believe I shall be able to get off for another day this spring except for my five days trip to Pine Knot, which is about the only place I can really rest. I am sincerely obliged to you for your thoughtful kindness. Faithfully yours. Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. William C. Eustis, Corcoran House, Lafayette Square, Washington, D, C. 350 May 1, 1907. My dear Mr. Trucano: That is such a nice letter of yours that I must write to thank you. If, when I leave the Presidency, I can feel that honest citizens regard me as having done my duty in representing their interest as President, I shall be more than satisfied. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. C. J. Trucano. Cle Elum, Washington.351 May 1, 1907. My dear Mr. Straus: I send you herewith a letter from Assistant Attorney General Cooley on Mr. Reynolds' report. It seems to me that Schell should be at once discharged from the service; Jenkins censured, warned and transferred as recommended by Mr. Cooley; while the charges of blackmail against the three Chinamen mentioned should be investigated as far as possible, and meanwhile all three of them should be transferred to new districts. 82 I especially desire that the attention of the Bureau of Immigration should be called to the final paragraph of Mr. Cooley's letter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Oscar S. Straus, Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Enclosure.[*352*] Jan. 28th, 1905. My dear Sir: I have received your letter of the 25th instant. I appreciate the compliment paid me in my election as a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters, and take pleasure in accepting. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt. To Mr. Robert Underwood Johnson, Preliminary Secretary, Academy of Arts and Letters. 33 East 17 St. New York. (Original in the President's handwriting.)[*353*] May 2, 1907. Dear Austin: I am very much pleased that you like that letter. I had not the slightest hesitation in the matter. Some very good labor people called upon me today about it. I told them there was nothing I could say save to state that the letter represented exactly my views. and that I had written a letter along substantially similar lines to the Attorney General thirteen months ago - which I accordingly read to them. With warm regards to the real head of the House of Wadsworth, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Major W. A. Wadsworth, The Homestead, Geneseo, N.Y.[*354] May 2, 1907. My dear Governor: I have your letter of April 30th. In all such cases the rule is that the two Senators shall recommend. In Iowa the Senators and the Representatives generally have gotten together in recommending an appointee to any particular place. I am very much afraid that Senators Allison and Dollivery would resent any deviation from the general rule, but of course if there was any particular office in which you took a deep interest I should like to appoint the man you desire. Would you be willing to talk to Senators Allison and Dolliver on this subject or not? With great regard, and wishing I could write you in a more satisfactory manner, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Albert B. Cummins, Governor of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa. 316355 May 2, 1907. My dear Mr. Pagan: I need no newspaper article to tell me how well you have done your work, and I have always understood that in your own line there is no man in the Department of Justice who has rendered better services than you have. You are one of the men whom it is a pleasure to have in my administration. I am greatly interested to hear that your great-grandfather went from Virginia to serve under George Rogers Clark in Illinois. It is good blood and you are doing credit to the blood. With regard believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Oliver E. Pagan, U. S. Attorney's Office, Denver, Colorado.356 May 2, 1907. My dear Captain Curry: When you take office as Governor of New Mexico you will find matters much confused. Very bad practises had grown up under and preceding the administration of Governor Otero. Under Governor Hagerman some good things were done, but some things were also done quite as reprehensible as anything under the old regime, and the bitterness and friction were beyond belief. I am inclined to think that some of Governor Hagerman's advisers in whom he trusted were bad men, and some so exceedingly foolish that they might as well have been bad. I send you a copy of a letter I sent to Hagerman yesterday. As for your conduct of the office, all I have to request is that you do your duty just as you did it when a captain in my regiment; just as you have done it in the army and in the civil service in the Philippines; when you were Chief of Police at Manila, and when you were Provincial Governor. 225357 Of course, as a practical man, avoid needless and fruitless difficulties; but do not for one moment refuse to incur any enmity when a question of right or wrong is involved. See that there is absolutely fair treatment for everybody, rich and poor. Insist upon the highest standard of integrity and efficiency in every public officer, and the unflinching hunting down of every wrong-doer. You know the people and the conditions. You are in sympathy with your surroundings and under no temptation needlessly to arouse irritation or to run counter to local feeling without good cause, or to be misled by designing people who always wish to use the Governor for their own pecuniary or factional benefit. I believe that you will make the best Governor New Mexico has ever had. Pray let me see you as soon as you come to the United States. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Captain George Curry, Care Bureau of Insular Affairs, War Department. Enclosure358 May 2, 1907. My dear Mr. Henry: When you in company with Messrs. Coakley and Brown called upon me this morning I read you the letter I had written to the Attorney General on March 25, 1905 1906. At your request I gladly send you the following extract from that letter: "(Our duty in) if it should ever happen that we had any power in the matter, to see that exact justice is done these men. There must be no condonation of lawlessness on our part, even if the lawlessness takes the form of an effort to avenge the wrongs committed by the lawlessness of others. The sole question as regards Haywood and Moyer must be the question whether or not they can be shown to be guilty of this particular act, and their legal rights must be as carefully safeguarded as those of any other men, It is alleged that they were extradited from Colorado in a manner that amounted to a betrayal of their legal rights. I should like to have the District Attorney of Colorado, and if necessary the District Attorney of Idaho, give me such information as they can in this point. I should like to get from the District Attorney of Idaho any information that he can obtain as to whether or not there has been the slightest disposition shown by the authorities in Idaho to act towards these men in an unfair or improper manner, or to deny them their legal rights. On the other hand I should like to know whether there is any symptom of a miscarriage of justice in their favor. x x x x x The intemperate violence with which socialistic or labor papers like that of Debs', and I am sorry to say some labor organization, have insisted without any knowledge of the facts upon treating these men as martyrs to the cause of labor has unquestionably resulted in tremendous pressure being brought to hear bear upon the authorities of Idaho to discharge or acquit them whether guilty or innocent. x x x x x x x x So far as the unions are anxious only to see that exact justice is done these men, that they are given their full legal rights and not condemned unless proved guilty of this specific act, they are entitled to the cordial cooperation of all just and fairminded citizens. So far as by any action,[*359] -2- or by murderous and treasonable language such as that quoted above from Debs (and others) they tend to bring pressure to bear upon the State authorities and the courts, to obstruct the course of justice, and to render it difficult to convict the men if guilty, they are equally without stint to be condemned; and anything that the Federal authorities can do, in either event, to further the cause of justice is to be done." In response to your question it is I trust needles for me to say that if at any time you or anyone else can submit to me any evidence showing that there has been a miscarriage of justice for or against Messrs. Moyer or Haywood, which you believe it is in my power to remedy, I will at once bring such evidence to the attention of the Attorney General to have him give it the fullest consideration and to take there-on such action, if any, as it may be in the power of the Federal authorities to take. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John S. Henry, 1220 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y.[*360] May 2, 1907. My dear Mr. Daniels: I thank you for your letter of the 25th, with enclosure. It gave me peculiar pleasure, for I feel I am standing up, above all others, for the honest wage-worker, the honest union man, in the stand I have taken. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. William P. Daniels, 1647 Emerson Street, Denver, Colorado.361 May 2, 1907. My dear Norman: Pray accept my heartiest congratulations and give our best wishes to your bride. I gladly send you the photograph. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Sir Henry Norman, 33 ST. Thomas's Mansion, London, S. E. England. 362 May 3, 1907. I have your letter of the 2d instant. I shall only appoint a Republican. Will you see Stimson soon? I shall not consider for a moment appointing Hans, but I do want to get a first-class and as judge. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Herbert Parson. M.C. 52 William Street, New York[*363] May 3, 1907. My dear Mr. Hornaday: I am in receipt of your letter of the 2nd. I am very sorry, but I can not write a letter to anyone in the New York legislature, because if I begin to interfere about one item of State government I would be asked to interfere, as I am continually being asked to interfere, about hundreds of items. You know how heartily I sympathize with you in your efforts to preserve the buffalo, and you are entirely welcome to show this letter to anyone you wish. I would feel it an excellent thing from every standpoint if the State could appropriate a tract of land in the Adirondacks of amply size on which to establish a her of the biggest American mammal, the now almost extinct bison. With all good wishes, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt William T. Hornaday, Esq., 183d Street & Southern Boulevard, New York, N.Y.364 May 3, 1907. My dear Dr. Cronin: With your views, as you interpret them in your letter of the 2d instant, I am in entire sympathy; but it does seem to me exceedingly important that you should not give expression to your views in such a way as really to directly invert the lesson you seek to teach; this was the effect of part of your article. Most emphatically, "race culture" is important; but the thing we need to have instilled in those who would practice it is that there is no use in practicing it if at the same time they practice race suicide. Pray come to see me on Tuesday morning next at ten o'clock. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. John J. Cronin, Director of Health of the City of New York, 55th Street and Sixth Avenue, New York.365 Private May 3, 1907. My dear Senator: I liked your Galena speech; but I a good deal more than "like" the articles you are writing in response to Bryan. I think that in point of courage, goodnatured, sound and penetrating judgment, and far-reaching grasp of the situation, they are better than anything of the kind that I have come across by any public man in recent years. I am not given to hyperbolic statement, and such a statement as the above expresses my cool opinion. I have been immensely pleased both with the resolution and the moderation of your attitude. Your articles can be used as a tract by those who wish to see the existing evils cut out, and they can be used as a tract by those who wish to stop any movement of reckless violence nominally with the purpose of cutting them out. I do not see how you could have rendered 287366 a greater public service then in these articles. With warm regards, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, U.S.S., Indianapolis, Indiana. 367 Personal. May 3, 1907. My dear Mr. Dustman: I am not yet prepared to say what I can do in that matter. You do not need to be told how warmly I feel toward the Toledo Blade and toward Mr. Curtis, but I am not ready to say what ought to be done in the case at present. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. f. L. Dustman, The Toledo Blade, Toledo, Ohio. 368 May 3, 1907. Dear Murray: I have your letter of the 2d. Good! Come on the 14th, getting here in time to take dinner and spend the night. Dinner will be at [8:00] 7.15 o'clock. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. [*301*]369 May 5, 1907. My dear Mr. Secretary: I have received your letter of the 4th instant enclosing your report on labor issues on the Isthmus. I approve of the recommendations therein made and direct that the changes as therein outlined take effect as of May 1st, instant. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*238*] Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War.370 Personal May 4, 1907. My dear Admiral: I have been over Captain Swift’s case with every desire to do as you request. I have talked with Admiral Converse as well as with Acting Secretary Newberry. I do not see how I can take any action about Swift that I do not also take about Garst. In each case the Navy Department showed clemency. In each case the court-martial was composed of as fine officers as are to be found in the navy. At present it seems to me that it would be impossible for me to let off one of these officers without letting off the other, and very difficult to let off both without announcing that hereafter there would be no penalty for any accident such as the [?]. The responsi- 371 responsible officials in the Department strongly share this view, and do not think that I should disturb the sentence. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, U.S.N., Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Care Navy Department.372 May 4, 1907. My dear Bonaparte: I have your note of the 3rd in reference to the inquiry of Mr. Mitchell, Chairman of the Georgia Day celebration at the Jamestown Exposition. I should be particularly pleased to have Cardinal Gibbons give the benediction on that occasion. I hope you will soon be entirely well from your cold. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*274*] Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, Attorney General.373 May 4, 1907. My dear Mr. Reynolds: Referring to your report on the housing of the poor in the District of Columbia, I have decided, in pursuance of the recommendations therein made, to designate a commission of fifteen persons, as follows: General George M. Sternberg Dr. George M. Kober Mr. William H. Baldwin Mr. Frederick L. Siddons Professor George W. Cook Mr. Whitefield McKinlay Miss Boardman Mrs. Arnold Hague Mr. James Bronson Reynolds Mr. S. W. Woodward Mr. John B. Sloman, Jr. Mr. T. C. Parsons. Mr. Emmett L. Adams Mr. P. J. Brennan Mr. William F. Downey Can you serve as a member of this Commission for the purpose indicated? I earnestly hope that [*See p. 450*] 374 you can accept, as it seems to me that this Commission has before it a large field of usefulness. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. James Bronson Reynolds The Highlands, Washington. 375 May 4, 1907. My dear General Sternberg: I enclose you a copy of the report made to me by Mr. James Bronson Reynolds. I n pursuance of the recommendations therein made I have decided to designate a commission of fifteen persons, as follows: General George M. Sternberg Dr. George M. Kober Mr. William H. Baldwin Mr. Frederick L. Siddons Professor George W. Cook Mr. Whitefield McKinlay Miss Boardman Mrs. Arnold Hague Mr. James Bronson Reynolds Mr. S. W. Woodward Mr. John B. Sloman, Jr. Mr. T. C. Parsons. Mr. Ernett L. Adams Mr. P.J. Brennan Mr. William F. Downey Can you serve as a member of this Commission for the purpose indicated? I earnestly hope that you can accept, as it seems to me that this commission has 376 before it a large field of usefulness. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Brigadier General George M. Sternberg, U.S.A. retired, 2005 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington. Enclosure Same letter sent to each of the above.376A Same letter sent to each of the above. cllr. Wyatt- Please index each of these names. See p. 487 & 450377 May 4, 1907. My dear Mr. Brown: I thank you for both your letters. I am glad you have shown me those statistics and am pleased that you are to use them. But Director North's statement to me makes rather doubtful as to how far I shall go in using them. So make full use of them in your Syracuse speech; and if I use them it will be in different form. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. S. Brown, Vice President, New York Central & H.R.R.R.Co., Grand Central Station, New York, N.Y. [*336*]378 May 4, 1907. [*318*] Dearest Kermit: This week has past in a rather eventful way. I have again very busy. Have had a couple of afternoons' tennis and a couple of afternoons' riding. It is not the slightest use, however, of my attempting to keep in such physical trim as would permit me to take any violent exercise, for I simply have not the time. My work is absorbing. I resolutely decline to do most of the detail, leaving this to the heads of Departments; and I utilize some of the men under me until I am almost ashamed. It is only by doing this that I keep the great amount of time necessary in order that i may carefully go over and develop the really big policies, as they must be developed, in my speeches and then in the various successive executive acts which put these speeches379 into effect. My Cabinet now is just about ideal, and below the Cabinet I have a very fines set of executive officers. Mr. Owen Wister is here and as nice as ever, of course. To-day has been real spring; and when we walked around the grounds after breakfast the fresh young green of the leaves, the flowers, the fountain, the sunshine, the brilliant blue sky, the bird songs - all combined to make it one of those days when it is good just to be alive. Your loving father, T.R. Mr. Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts.380 May 4, 1907. My dear Bishop: You are very kind. I wish I could accept, but it is not possible for me to make another engagement this summer, even when there are so attractive accompaniments to the invitation as those you indicate - including the driving by the son of Nimshi. Present my regards to him, and particularly to Mrs. Potter, and believe me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Bishop Henry C. Potter, 347 West 89th Street, New York.381 May 4, 1907. Dear Moody: I send you herewith Morley's "Burke". It is his first book on, or study of Burke; which I think is on some accounts more interesting than his second, which, altho it covered the same ground, was not really a rewriting of the first. Morley was not as mature a man when he wrote this first study and had more of the faults of a somewhat fanatical doctrinaire untempered by responsibility in public life. Nevertheless it is a most interesting and illuminating work, and I think you will enjoy it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William H. Moody, The Connecticut, Washington, D. C. Enclosure382 May 6, 1907. Dear Gertrude: I have your letter of he 4th instant. I am very sorry to any that I do not know how to advise you. I have no means whatever of finding out about country places or small homes near Washington, Says such as are open to everyone. By advice would be such less worth having than that to be obtained from people who do not have my engrossing cares and who are familiar with the subject. I should suppose that living was cheaper around Washington than in the neighborhood of New York, but I am entirely ignorant as to whether there would be anything whatever that you could do have. You know, of course, that there is practically no field for women in the Government service have in a few cases where very special ability is383 required of a high technical kink, and in the case of stenographers, bookkeepers and the like, covered by competitive examination. I am very sorry I am not able to answer you in more satisfactory shape. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. L Gertruce R. Punnett Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. 384 May 6, 1907. Dear Leonard: All right; on your guaranty I will read the book - and if you know the multitude of books I have sent me you would appreciate the implicit confidence this implies in your judgment! With warm regard to Mrs. Opdycke, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. L. E. Opdycke, 117 East 69th Street, New York.385 May 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Thompson: No man who is President ought to wish any further reward; but if I wish for one. I could imagine none greater than to receive your letter and feel the spirit that lies behind it. Now, my dear sir, you have thruout my tern as President given me heart and strength in more ways than one, and I thank you most deeply. With all regard and good wishes, believe me. Mr. David D. Thompson, Editor, Northwestern Christian Advocate. Chicago. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt[*386] May 6, 1907. My dear Senator Kittredge: Senator Gamble will not agree to that suggestion. As I have repeatedly said, the district attorney ship is to be given to Senator Gamble as was arranged a year ago. After that you and Senator Gamble will be treated exactly on the same basis. When the present term of court is over Mr. Wagner will be appointed District attorney. Meanwhile, I would like to have you and Senator Gamble come together and agree about the remaining places. if necessary, meet with me. As to the Indian agents, as i have already said, I do not wish to treat them as standing upon a footing with the other positing, because of the peculiar needs of the service. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. A. R. Kittredge, U.S.S. Sioux Falls, South Dakota.387 May 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Frick: I have your letter of the 4th instant. I do not know what Mr. Ledyard's business is, but of course If I can properly grant a request of yours I shall only bo too glad; and I shall listen to what Mr. Ledyard says in the very earnest hope that I shall be able to do as he and you wish. Wish regard, believe me, Sincerely yours Theodore Roosevelt Mr. H. C. Frick, 640 Fifth Avenue, New York. 388 May 6, 1907. My dear Commander Sims: I have your letter of the 6th instant, with enclosures. That is first rate. I congratulation the navy upon it. and, my dear sir, I know you will accept my words at their face value when I say I congratulate the navy especially on having you to do for it what no other man could have done. Can't I send a letter of acknowledgment of what the Charleston have done? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Lieutenant-Commander William S. sims, U. S. N. Inspector of Target Practice, Navy Department.389 May 6, 1907. My dear Mr. Secretary: I have your letter of the 4th. Frakly, I think I deserve your praise! It was a might difficult task for me, because my feeling are yours. But i said nothing untruthful, and yet I think what I omitted would save me from any charge of lack of frankness. With warm regards to Mrs. Long, believe me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John D. Long, 337 Tremont Building, Boston, Massachusetts.[*390] May 6, 1907. To the Diplomatic and Consular Representatives of the United States: This will be presented by my personal friend, Mrs. Francis Kinnicutt, of New York, who has done valuable work in many fields of civic endeavor in the United States. I cordially commend her to you for whatever proper official courtesy you can show her consistent with you public duties. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt[*391] May 7, 1907. My dear Bishop Burgess, As an American citizen let me thank you most heartily for your sermon last Sunday Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Bishop Frederick Burgess, Garden City, N.Y.392 May 7, 1907. Dear Brander: Lounsbury's article did me good. No, I have nothing to add [to] about Cooper. If you happen to have my "Winning of the West," I speak there of some of his extraordinary lifelike backwoodsmen. I am very glad you will are to speak [?] [?] With warm regards to Mrs. Brander, believe me Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*15*] Mr. Brander Matthews, 681 West End Avenue, New York.[*393*] May 7, 1907. My dear Father Brann: It did me good to read your address on the parade of the red flag anarchists. You rendered a service to decent Americanism and to every man who believes in patriotism, and indeed to every man who believes in morality and in civilization itself. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Father Henry A. Brann, Rector, St. Agnes Catholic Church, 143 West 43d Street, New York, N.Y.[*394*] May 7, 1907. My dear Mr. Pringle: Nothing that has been spoken or written, that I have seen, of the Moyer and Haywood controversy has pleased me as much as your letter and editorial. In my letter I wisht to drive a wedge in between the honest, law-abiding laboring man - with whom I feel such hearty sympathy - and those worst foes of the movement who preach anarchy and lawless violence; just as I wish to see a wedge driven between the capitalist who is an oppressor or swindler, and the capitalist who strives to do right by all his fellows - the man who is an American citizen first, and a capitalist second. Above all I want to express my absolute agreement with your final paragraph, running as follows: "The Labor World has not a word to utter regarding the guilt or innocence of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone in their present terrible position. We hope they are innocent and will be proved to be so, but what we want to point out is that their innocence of the preferred charge against them will not, in our estimation, exonerate them from395 the charge of preaching an industrial and social policy that is damning to the best interests of the wage workers of the country." With all good wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John D. Pringle, Editor, The Labor World, 210 Third Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.[*396*] May 7, 1907. Dear John: That is an awfully nice letter of yours and I have sent it to Taft. Did you see my letters in the Moyer-Haywood business? I know you will approve of them. Here in the White House I am pretty well accustomed to being assailed, and you can hardly imagine how little I mind it. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John C. Greenway, Oliver Iron Mining Company, Coleraine, Minnesota.397 May 7, 1907. My dear Governor: It is a genuine disappoint to me that I am not able to accept your kind invitation to be present at the meeting of the Fifteenth National Irrigation Congress in Sacramento. If I were able to come I should consider it not merely a duty but a pleasure, for there are few movements in which I have taken a greater interest than that for the irrigation of the semi-arid regions. As you say, we have a magnificent empire west of the Mississippi, and it is being developed by Americans of the very best stamp. I wish I could be with them and their representatives to celebrate all that has been done in achieving this development; and not the least of what has been accomplished has been in connection with irrigation.[*398*] With all good wishes for the success of the gathering, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Geo. E. Chamberlain, Governor of Oregon, Salem, Oregon.399 May 2, 1907. Confidential. My dear White: I have your letter of the 7th and return Senator Borah’s letter herewith. Few things have given me more concern than that Borah matter. It was most unfortunate that this misconduct in connection with the timber stealing should have happened to come to a head just now. But of course it would have been criminal folly on our part in any way to let up on the timber thieves, in spite of my deep regret that anything should happen that might tend to produce a miscarriage of justice in the Moyer and Haywood business. As for Borah, both the Judge and the District Attorney, and of course the grand jury, felt that he was morally guilty, and Bonaparte is inclined to the same view; although Bonaparte is more doubtful than the400 District Attorney and the grand jury as to whether he can be convicted. It is a most painful matter. You have probably seen my Moyer and Haywood correspondence. Pray treat this letter as confidential. Of course there is nothing I can do except make a resolute fight against law-breakers, whether it is a case of dynamiters or big timber thieves. With warm regards, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. A. White, Emporia, Kansas. Enclosure.[*401*] May 8, 1907. My dear Bishop: No wonder your friends not merely admire, but love you - not merely respect you as a citizen, but are deeply attached to you in personal ways. I do not think you yourself realize how much such a letter as that you have written me must mean to anyone who receives it. I thank you, my dear sir, from the bottom of my heart. I am sorry to say that I did not myself send you those books, but I am glad somebody did. I have followed every phase of your illness with deep concern. With all good wishes, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Bishop J. L. Spalding, St. Mary's Cathedral, Peoria, Illinois.402 Personal May 8, 1907. My dear Lord Cromer: I thank you for the Blue Book, which has just come. It differs from most blue books in the fact that it is of real interest to everyone; [anyone,] and of course of more than mere interest to any of us who have anything to do with colonial work. You teach us much. I have been much concerned to learn that your health had forced you to leave Egypt. Is there any chance of your visiting this country? It would be a very great pleasure to have you at the White House. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Lord Cromer, Care of Foreign Office, London, England.403 May 8, 1907. My dear General Hamilton: Your first volume was interesting and was the best account, by all odds, that had appeared of any part of the Russian-Japanese war; but your second volume is even more interesting. I wish it were my good luck to see you. There is an immense amount that I should like to talk over with you. Nothing in your book imprest me more than the account, on page 301, of that little play given by the Japanese soldiers. It is a very gruesome play and not one that tends to excite undiluted admiration of the Japanese character; but it does give one a thoro realization of what it is that makes them such formidable fighters. I suppose we are all of us wondering now what effect the extraordinary increase of industrialism in Japan will have upon the qualities which[*407*] give them such an extraordinary soldierly capacity. Kuroki is just coming here and dines with me on Saturday. I shall speak to him of your book. Meanwhile, I am glad that our ships have been doing so well at target practice lately, and that the condition of the fleet seems satisfactory. With renewed thanks, and hoping that you will soon again be on this side of the water, and that I shall have a chance of seeing you, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Lieutenant General Sir Ian Hamilton, K.C.B., Tedworth House, Andover, England.[*405*] May 8, 1907. My dear Colonel Lyon: I am in receipt of your two letters of the 4th instant. At Dallas it is imperative that you suggest another name. Whether Robinson should be prosecuted or not, it is utterly out of the question to secure the confirmation of a man where the Civil Service Commission have reported as they have in his case and where the Senators are against him. Senator Culberson is opposed to Robinson to the end. Please hand me another name. Now, about Howze; I have done everything for him I can. I have twice given him good positions. It is not possible to give him a brigadier generalship at the present time, as his rank is too low and we would have to jump him over the heads of too many[*406*] other men. I have been over his case again and again. It was I who got him his commission in the volunteer service and afterwards sent him as a major to Porto Rico and now to West Point. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Col. Cecil A. Lyon, Sherman, Texas.[*407*] May 8, 1907. My dear Mr. Ambassador: I am very much obliged to you for that plaque of Roty's commemorating Carnot's death. I shall send it back to you as soon as I have shown it to the Director of the Mint. It is as striking a thing of the kind as I have ever seen. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. J. Jusserand, The French Ambassador. P. S. I return the medal.408 Personal May 8, 1907. [*251*] My dear Mr. Saint-Gaudens: I am sorry to say I am having some real difficulties in connection with the striking of those gold coins. It has proved hitherto impossible to strike them by one blow, which is necessary under the conditions of making coins of the present day. I send you a copy of a letter from the head of the Department of Coins and Medals of the British Museum [?]. I am afraid it is not practicable to have coins made if they are struck with more than one blow. Of course I can have a few hundred of these beautiful coins made, but they will be merely souvenirs and medals, and not part of the true coinage of the country. Would it be possible for you to get on to the mint? I am sure that the mint409 authorities now really desire to do whatever they can, and if it would be possible for you to go there I could arrange to have some of the Tiffany people there at the same time to see if there was anything practicable to be done. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt You notice what [?] says about our country [?] the [?] I have been on [???] I believe that with [?] [???] Mr. Augustus Saint Gaudens, Windsor, Vermont.[*410*] May 8, 1907. My dear Sir: I have examined the memorandum which you left with me in regard to the plans of the Committee of One Hundred. I congratulate the Committee on the progress made in this movement since I talked with you a year ago. Our national health is physically our greatest national asset. To prevent any possible deterioration of the American stock should be a national ambition. We can not too strongly insist on the necessity of proper ideals for the family, for simple living and for those habits and tastes which produce vigor and make men capable of strenuous service to their country. The preservation of national vigor should be a matter of patriotism. For this reason, and because many of the problems of public health are interstate in their character, the aid of the Federal Government is necessary to supplement the[*411*] work of State and local boards of health. Federal activity in these matters has already developed greatly, until it now includes quarantine, meat inspection, pure food administration and federal investigation of the conditions of child labor. It is my own hope that these important activities may be still further developed. While I could not in advance commit myself to the approval of my specific form of legislation, I can most cordially commend the endeavors of your Committee to bring these matters prominently before the public. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Professor Irving Fisher, President of the Committee of One Hundred. The New Willard, Washington, D. C.May 8, 1907. My dear Mr. Moseley: Referring to your letter of today I send you herewith the President's letter to Miss Guinan transmitting the medal of honor which has been awarded to her, which please have sent to her with the medal when the latter is ready. The letter to Mr. Hagen need not be signed by the President but can be sent to him by the committee. I return the draft herewith, and also the Committee's recommendations in both cases. Very truly yours, Wm Loeb, Jr. Secretary to the President. Mr. E. A. Moseley, Secretary, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D.C. Enclosures May 8, 1907. My dear Miss Guinan: Pursuant to the provisions of the Act of Congress of February 23, 1905, an act to promote the security of travel upon railroads engaged in interstate commerce, and to encourage the saving of life, you have been duly awarded a medal for extreme daring, whereby, on December 16, 1906, you imperiled your life in saving the life of another. I am pleased to convey to you herewith this medal as a testimonial of the nation's appreciation of your courageous and praiseworthy act. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Mary Guinan, 47 Montgomery Street. Middletown, N.Y. 412413 410 May 8, 1907. My dear Professor Fisher: I sent you my public letter. I wish to put one province about its being used, however. I emphatically disapprove of a Cabinet officer being created at the head of a Department of Health, and I would not be willing to have my letter used to create feeling for a new Cabinet officers to be at the head of a Department of Health. So please do not use by letter at all if your body concludes to agitate for a Department of Health. I believe that we could with advantage have a Bureau of Health, to be put under one of the existing Departments, but we need no additional Cabinet officers. on the contrary, they would be a disadvantage. While we do most urgently need a rearrangement of the bureaus414 and divisions of the present Cabinet, [and] we also need to have every executive officer of the Government put under some Cabinet officer. I am utterly against the creation of any independent bureau not under a Cabinet officer. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Professor Irving Fisher, President of the Committee of One Hundred, The New Willard, Washington, D.C.415 Private May 8, 1907. My dear Emerson: The course of De Young’s paper throughout has been infamous. I have understood all about it, and the reasons. I wish I could get down to the reunion, but it is not possible. All thru this Japanese business I have had implicit confidence that the Californians would do right when they got the situation really before them, and that all the self-seeking demagogues could not mislead them; and my confidence has proved to be justified. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Edwin Emerson, 915 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco. [*416] May 8, 1907. My dear Wheelan: Indeed I am more than pleased with your letter and with the extract it contains. It was very good of you to send it to me. With warm regards to Mrs. Wheelan, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. F. H. Wheelan, Oakland, California.[*417] May 8, 1907. My dear Mrs. Drummond: I have just received the beautiful copy of "The coming of Philibert," and naturally I am very much touched and pleased by the dedication. My dear Mrs. Drummond, I do not feel that I deserve in the least to be the object of such a dedication, but I appreciate it none the less. It will be an added pleasure to read the play in such beautiful form. With many thanks and all good wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Sara King Wiley Drummond, East Orange, N. J.418 May 9, 1907. My dear Senator: I have your letter of the 7th instant. Events have moved so fast in the valuation business that I think it is impossible to avoid taking a conservative ground it its favor. The Northern Pacific has offered a physical valuation of its road before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Two other big systems are making physical valuations themselves. I think this means there must [has got to] be a physical valuation. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, U.S.S., Indianapolis, Indiana. 365[*419] May 9, 1907. My dear Mr. Sloan: I am very much obliged to you for the little gold bear with the Big Stick that you have so kindly sent me. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. A. K. Sloan, Vice President, Republican Club of N.Y., 23 Maiden Lane, New York, N.Y.[*420] May 9, 1907. My dear Senator Knox: I find that Senators Cullom and Hopkins would really feel very badly if, after they had spoken to me and I had said that subject to the prior claim of Michigan I would do what I could for Illinois, I should then pass by Illinois an put in a Pennsylvanian on [*298] the Spanish Claims Commission. If it had happened that your letter had come first, my dear Senator, I would as a matter of course have given you the appointment and should have been more than glad; but I do not think you would want to give Senators Cullom and Hopkins the feeling the feeling that I had past them by. With real regret, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. P. C. Knox, U.S.S., Pittsburg, Pa.[*421] May 9, 1907. My dear Mr. Sullivan: I have your note of the 8th. It will be a pleasure to see you here Saturday morning at eleven o'clock. I much enjoyed seeing you yesterday. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*55] Mr. John L. Sullivan, The Arlington, Washington.422 May 9, 1907. My dear Mr. Brown: That is a very nice letter of General Dodge's, and I return it herewith. Curiously enough, I have referred to him in my speech as a railroad man who was a type of what a good citizen should be. I shall put in my speech the substance of what I sent you, but with certain modifications, including certain of your suggestions. Paul Morton has been over the speech and approves it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 377 Mr. William C. Brown, Vice President, New York Central Railroad, Grand Central Station, New York.423 311 Personal May 9, 1907. My dear Kent: That is a most satisfactory letter of yours from every standpoint, and I thank you for it and will govern myself accordingly. I think that Taft victory in Ohio knocks the Foraker business on the head. Privately, I think he shall probably be able to [nominate?] Taft. Give my regards to Governor Kibbey, and believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Edward Kent, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona.[*424] May 9, 1907. My dear Mr. Harlan: I have utilized your information in the speech I am about to make. Thanks. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. James S. Harlan, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D.C.[*425] May 9, 1907. Dear Taft: It looks to me as if Ward was the man to appoint. Now, how can we get at Platt? Will you mind seeing Parsons and talking over this subject? Would it be of use to get hold of Frank Platt? How would it do to have Depew spoken to? I think that the Ohio business has turned the trick all right. [*325] Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Henry W. Taft, 36 West 48th Street, New York.426 May 9, 1907. My dear Doctor: I am in receipt of your letter of the 9th instant, concerning the American School Hygiene Association, and in reply would say that I have the heartiest sympathy with the purposes of your organization and gladly accept the honorary membership so kindly offered me. With all good wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Arthur T. Cabot, The Shoreham, Washington, D. C. Sent to Somerset Club. Boston Mass.427 May 10, 1907. Cross index x x To the Stockmen of Wyoming, in Convention at Wheatland: It is with great pleasure that I send you my greetings. I am deeply interested in all the problems which confront you and am anxious to have your assistance in solving them in a way which will protect the interests of the stockmen and bring the greatest prosperity to the people in general. Public sentiment in favor of the conservative use of of all of the natural resources of the country is rapidly growing stronger and in my opinion the time has come when some definite action must be taken toward a proper control in the use of the public grazing lands. I regret very much the hardship that necessarily follows the removal of all fences which have been constructed in violation of the law, because I am fully aware that the best use of much of the public grazing428 land can only be secured by fencing it. But the law gives me no alternative, and I will continue to enforce it until such time as action is taken by Congress which will provide a means of properly regulating grazing on the public range. I am particularly anxious that every legitimate means shall be taken to encourage the establishment of homes upon the public domain. In all legislation affecting the use of the public lands the interests of the homestead settler must be carefully guarded. In every case the home-maker must be given first consideration. With this proviso, I will appreciate very much your advice as to the best practicable method of regulating the use of the public lands for grazing purposes. We all want to make sure of the proper care and improvement of the public lands for the greatest benefit of all concerned, and we all want a grazing system which may be put into operation with the least inconvenience to the stockmen who are now occupying the range. Theodore Roosevelt The above letter was delivered in person to Mr. Gifford Pinchot to be sent by Mr. Potter.[*429*] May 10, 1907. My dear Major: Your letter is very satisfactory and I am really pleased to know what you tell me. I shall send it to the Secretary of the Interior, and trust we can get action along the line you suggest. With heartiest good wishes for you and Mrs. Pitcher, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Major John Pitcher, Fort Yellowstone, Wyoming.[*430*] May 10, 1907. My dear Mr. Oliver: I have your letter of April 28th. I am sincerely sorry to learn of your sickness and I hope you will speedily be better. It is a real disappointment not to see you; I have been using your book as a tract in various quarters where I thought it would do good! I very earnestly hope that you will be able to visit us before we leave the White House, and of course be preference next spring. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. F. S. Oliver, Checkendon Court, Checkendon, Reading, England.[*431*] May 10, 1907. Gentlemen: I understand that Mr. Elon Huntington Hooker is up for admission to the Century Association. He is a Cornell man. I knew him well when I was in Albany, and have kept up my acquaintance ever since. He is an exceptionally fine fellow and just the kind of man whom I should like to see in any club to which I belong. I earnestly hope he can be admitted. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt The Committee on Admissions, The Century Association, 7 West 43d Street, New York.[*432*] May 10, 1907. My dear Mr. Hughitt: Do you really wish Kermit on that shooting trip that you spoke about? I want you to tell me perfectly frankly. With hearty regard, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Marvin Hughitt, 22 Fifth Avenue, Chicago.[*433*] May 11, 1907. My dear Mr. Secretary: I agree with you in reference to the action of the Commissioners of Claims in Cuba, and direct that Governor Magoon be ordered to allow the payment of these [*369*] claims as they shall be adjudicated, so that the whole matter may be settled before we leave Cuba. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. H. Taft, Secretary of War. Enclosures returned.434 May 11, 1907. My dear Mr. Straus: I send you herewith a letter from Assistant Attorney General Cooley on Mr. Reynolds' report. It seems to me that Jenkins should be discharged from the service; Schell censured, warned and transferred as recommended by Mr. Cooley; while the charges of blackmail against the three Chinamen mentioned should be investigated as far as possible, and meanwhile all three of them should be transferred to new districts. I especially desire that the attention of the Bureau of Immigration should be called to the final paragraph of Mr. Cooley's letter. Will you make a thoro investigation? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Oscar S. Straus, Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 351[*435*] May 11, 1907. My dear Mr. Goodwin: I have your letter of the 10th instant, informing me of my unanimous re-election as Vice President of the Civil Service Reform Association. I would a good deal rather not accept the Vice Presidency, but if you think it will benefit you while I am President to have me continue as Vice-President of the Association, I shall accept. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Elliot F. Goodwin, Secretary, Civil Service Reform Ass'n, 79 Wall Street, New York, N. Y.[*436*] May 11, 1907. My dear Senator: I sincerely thank you for the book and look forward with pleasure to reading it. It was extremely kind of you to think of me. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. E. J. Burkett, U. S. S. Lincoln, Nebr.437 Personal May 11, 1907. Dear Phil: You say you have gone into the Hagerman matter from the New Mexican and, so as to feel confident that the report of Mr. Cooley is in many essential points misleading; that you do not think it thoro and that you do not think it fair. Hagerman appeared before me to answer the charges. He did not attempt to traverse a single feature of [*?*]; he did not deny a thing it contained; and after being given the fullest opportunity, he had nothing to add to it and no real explanation of [*his conduct*]. As for the report not being "thoro and fair," I think it can perhaps be alleged against Cooley that it does not condemn Hagerman as unsparingly as undoubtedly would have been done if he had not been a man for whom, for outside reasons, Cooley felt kindly, and if we had not [*previously*] had such a good opinion of him as to make Cooley reluctant to say, and me reluctant to believe, what I am, however, now inclined to think was true, namely, that Hagerman went into this discreditable business as part payment to the head of the Democratic territorial machine for his support of him in his faction fight within the Republican party. You say that deceptive and treacherous and deceptive or not, is contained (let me repeat yet once again) in the report of Cooley, in the report from the Department of Justice of which you have a copy. Neither Governor 263438 2 Hagerman nor anyone else has been able to point out anything in which that report is inaccurate; still less "treacherous" or "deceptive." If I condone such conduct in a Governor it will be simple nonsense, and hypocritical nonsense at that, ever to take any action for any misdeed done by any subordinate officer. As for your friend who put papers in your possession which he now withdraws, and says he would deny their existence if charged with [?] I am naturally wholly unimprest by the possibility of anything these papers might contain. I regard it as nonsense for him to say that it would be "courting disaster for his interests to appear and take part in a fight which is lost; for a large number of these New Mexicans, including, incidentally, most of the remains of the old Spanish land grant thing, have openly and violently been taking part for Hagerman. (The newspaper, by the way, which you quoted as being in a sense a representative newspaper, has a proprietor and one editor on the list of those holding office under Hagerman.); My experience with that kind of an informer who says he is afraid to come into the public is that he is either a crook or is telling what he knows to be untrue. The hundreds of people who are violently championing Hagerman are not afraid that they would be "courting disaster for their interests," and unless your informant's interests will not bear looking into he need have no fear either. You say that the United States District Attorney, Llewellyn, "is without any manner of doubt to be classed among the worst rascals." I have an entirely open mind about Llewellyn and am having him investigated. Of course you understand that if he is "without any manner of doubt" one of the "worst rascals," there ought to be some kind of definite439 3 testimony to go on; and when you or anyone else furnishes me with a shred of such testimony I will follow it up eagerly; and even without it, I am now having his case lookt into. I have been much imprest by one fact in this New Mexican matter. Whether the motives of the men who wish to get rid of Hagerman were good or bad, they have certainly made no effort whatever to have any man who is not thoroly straight put in his place. Captain George Curry is, as a matter of fact, a Democrat. He has been for eight years in the Philippines. He served with distinguished gallantry in the field against both the Moros and insurgents. He has held with signal success a number of civil positions, including three provincial governorships and the headship of the Manila police force. Secretary Taft, General Bell, General Wood, and the rest of the best civil and military officers in the islands, speak of him in the highest terms. I am utterly unable to fathom the motives of the men who acquiesced in his appointment if they have the slightest hope or purpose of corruptly profiting thereby. My dear Phil, indeed I know that in what you write you are acting with entire frankness and loyalty, and you need not have any fear that I will misinterpret your letter. But remember also that what you say has been said to me with less or greater elaboration by hundreds of people in New Mexico, some of whom I believe to be good people, many of whom I know to be either bad people or foolish people; but not one of440 4 them has been able to offer the least justification for or explanation of the Governor’s conduct in the crucial matter brought to my attention by the Department of Justice. I have hundreds of letters as "frank" as yours; though I am [? ?,] very few of the writers are as loyal. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Philip B. Stewart, Colorado Springs, Colorado.441 May 12, 1907. Dear Mr. Saint-Gaudens: All right. Your letter really makes me feel quite cheerful. I should be glad, if it is possible for you to do so, if you would "refine" the head of Liberty, but I want to keep the figure of Liberty for at least one small issue of the coins. I look forward to seeing Mr. Hering. With hearty thanks, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Windsor, Vermont. 408[*442*] May 12, 1907. My dear Mr. McBee: I have your letter of the 11th instant, with enclosure. It was such a pleasure to see you the other day. The French Ambassador is an awfully good fellow. Now, I wish heartily I could say something about that movement, in which I believe so entirely; but if I did, it would mean that I should be asked to speak for a great many other good movements - not as good as yours, but still good - and it would be a serious embarrassment to try to discriminate between them. With all good wishes, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Silas McBee, The Churchman, 47 Lafayette Place, New York, N.Y.443 May 12, 1907. Dear Brander: In “Wilderness Hunter” page 455, and the first volume of “Winning of the West” page 127, you will find allusions to Cooper’s frontiersmen. I feel sure I have somewhere made an allusion to his Indians, but for the life of me I cannot remember where. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Brander Matthews, 681 West End Avenue, New York, N.Y.444 May 12, 1907. Personal. My dear Mr. Storey: I am really obliged to you for the “Hunting and Shootign in Ceylon,” and it was very good of you to think of me. I have just been in correspondence, by the way, with Selous, who I suppose is the greatest hunter of modern times, and who I hope is to bring out a book on the natural history of big game. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Harry Storey, Esq., C/o Longmans, Green & Co., 39 Paternoster Row, London, England.445 May 12, 1907. Dear Ted: Yesterday Lodge and Root and Meyer and I were out riding and when we came to the first jumping ground, with the brush hurdles and the stone wall, we met Ambassador Jusserand by appointment. Meyer has his new horse, a very fine one; I think an even better jumper than Roswell. We went a couple of times over the rails and the stone walls, first singly and then together, and then he took the big brush hurdle. This I could not stand; I don’t mind you and Fitz Lee and other younger people jumping things that I don’t, or even Mr. Bob Bacon, who is such a great athlete; but I could not have one of my Cabinet do it, and so I put Roswell over it. He refused once and then cleared it well, but with a very perceptible effort. I think that for such high jumping I am too heavy, for dressed and with the saddle it means that I 446 am about 230 pounds for him to carry. We have measured the hurdle, and from the take-off to the top it is just five feet, seven inches, which is a stiff jump to be taken at any time, and especially for a horse to take it in cold blood with weight on top of him. I suppose you are having to work very hard at your studies. I am rather glad that as assistant manager you have to go about in the launch, cheering after the crew. I am sorry we got beaten by Columbia yesterday, but I suppose as early as this we never are in shape. Brother Louis Frothingham was on here yesterday. I was glad to catch a glimpse of him. Your loving father, T.R. Yesterday evening I met Archie going in to his bath, and he cordially invited me in to see the livestock; there were tadpoles in a jar, four wee turtles in the bathtub, and a small alligator in the basin, Mademoiselle told me that he regarded the turtles with "avec beaucoup de tendresse", but found the alligator "antipathetique"-- I hope my spelling is right. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Dunster Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts.447 May 12, 1907. Dearest Kermit: Yesterday I took Rosewell over [a] the big brush hurdle which is just five feet, seven - the one you jumped on Mr. Bacon's Irish mare, and that both Ted and Fitz Lee have taken Roswell over before. He cleared it nicely, but had to make a perceptible effort; and I am really a little too heavy for him when it comes to taking as high a jump in cold blood. You would have been amused at the indignation of Mother and Ethel when I told them of it. Ethel at once said that she was going to [take] jump it, and was going to ride across country, and that I could not interfere; and Mother, looking very pretty, said very coldly that it was unbecoming my age and station; that it was exactly as if she should try to take Ethel's beaux away from her! This made Ethel, who had been feeling very dignified, chuckle a little, against her will, evidently at the idea of Mother suddenly taking Stephen Landon away from her. The weather is now clear and bright, but cool; very pleasant for exercise, but not such as to bring out the flowers. The only wealth of bloom this year so far as the trees are concerned has been on the dogwoods. As a whole the flowers have not done well - but then spring is always lovely anywhere, even when, as in this instance, it is the coldest spring I have seen. 378448 -2- General Kuroki and his suite are here and dined with us at a formal dinner last evening. Everything that he says has to be translated, but nevertheless I had a really interesting talk with him, because I am pretty well acquainted with his campaigns. He imprest me much, as indeed all Japanese military and naval officers do. They are a formidable outfit. I want to try to keep on the best possible terms with Japan and never do her any wrong; but I want still more to see our navy maintained at the highest point of efficiency, for it is the real keeper of the peace. Ohio is evidently for Taft, and I do hope he will be nominated, but so long ahead of course there is no telling. In New York there is quite a movement for Hughes. Hughes is a good Governor and would make a good President, but nothing like as good a President as Taft, and he has certain petty qualities which to me make him personally rather unattractive. The other day Pete got into a most fearful fight and was dreadfully bitten. He was a very forlorn dog indeed when he came home. And on that particular day Skip disappeared and had not turned up when we went to bed. Poor Archie was very uneasy lest Skip should have gone the way of Jack; and Mother and I shared his uneasiness. But about 2 in the morning we both of us heard a sharp little bark downstairs and knew it was Skip anxious to be let in. So down I went449 -3- and opened the door on the portico, and Skip simply scuttled in and up to Archie's room, where Archie waked up enough to receive him literally with open arms and then went to sleep cuddled up to him. Your loving father, T. R. Mr. Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts. [*To Mother's delight she caught me on your expression; aren't your schoolmates and the measles, "comates and brothers in exile"; she and Ethel were overjoyed that I didn't know [?] it came from; I feebly retaliated by asking them about quotations from the old English ballads, but I am bound to say that in the next outcome I was behind.*]450 May 13, 1907. My dear Mrs. Page: I enclose you a copy of the report made to me by Mr. James Bronson Reynolds. In pursuance of the recommendations therein made I have decided to designate a commission of fifteen persons, as follows: General George M. Sternberg Dr. George M. Kober Mr. William H. Baldwin Mr. Frederick L. Siddons Professor George W. Cook Mr. Whitefield McKinlay Miss Boardman Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page Mr. James Bronson Reynolds Mr. S. W. Woodward Mr. John B. Sleman, Jr. Mr. T. C. Parsons Mr. Emmett L. Adams Mr. P. J. Brennan Mr. William F. Downey Can you serve as a member of the Commission for the purpose indicated! I earnestly hope that you can accept, as it seems to me that the Commission has See p. 373451 before it a large field of usefulness. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page, 1759 R Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Enclosure. 452 May 13, 1907. To the Secretary of War: As I have personally observed some field officers who were physically unable to ride even a few miles at an increased gait, and as I deem it essential that the field officers of the line of the army should be at all times physically fit and able to perform the duties pertaining to their positions, especially in the field, and as I believe that such physical fitness can only be demonstrated by actual physical tests, I desire that you give the necessary directions to have the physical condition of all officers of the line who come up for examination for promotion to the grade of field officer actually tested for skill and endurance in riding, this in addition to the physical examination now required by law. I further desire that an annual or biennial test of the physical condition and skill in horsemanship of all field officers of the line be made under the personal supervision of the several department commanders when making their annual inspections. The tests should be thoro and should consist of a ride of not less than fifteen miles at varying gaits adapted to the terrain, not less than ten miles of which shall be at the trot and gallop. - approximately five miles at each, with such other exercises in equitation as may be deemed advisable. [*433*]453 -2- All field officers who belong to organizations which are required to engage in the field training prescribed by General Orders, No. 44, War Department, 1906, should invariably participate in all practise marches, encampments and field exercises. All absences from these exercises should be explained to the department commander, and only the most cogent reasons for such absences should be accepted as satisfactory. I think that all officers of the Inspector General's Department should hereafter be required to especially inquire into and report by name, affirmatively or negatively as the case may be, whether the field officers belonging to commands they inspect are believed to by physically fit to perform all their duties in the field. Theodore Roosevelt454 May 13, 1907. My dear Mr. Sullivan: I enclose you a list of the judicial appointments made by me, with certain comments in the margin. There is no body of appointments over which I exercise greater care. Not only I, but also my successive Attorneys General, Messrs. Knox, Moody, and Bonaparte, all scrutinized (and continue to scrutinize) with painstaking fidelity every individual appointment. We have the papers on file in each case, and will show you all about each case if you care to inquire; and when there was any reason to doubt about any man we usually sent a special agent to inquire about him. In most of the important cases I acted with some personal knowledge, and occasionally exclusively upon personal knowledge. Of course there were a number of cases where neither I not the Attorney General knew the facts, and where we could only rely upon the judgment of the local people. My belief is not only that the men I have appointed judges stand very high, but that they represent a considerably higher average than has been the case under any President for as long as I have been in public life - that is, for a quarter of a century. I shall be more than delighted to have them compared, position for position, with, for instance, the appointees of President Cleveland, or, for the matter of that, with the appointees of any President of recent years. My first consideration has in every case been to get a man of the high character, the good455 2 sense, the trained legal ability, and the necessary broad-mindedness of spirit, all of which were essential to a good judge. My appointees are confirmed by the Senate, and it is unnecessary to say that this meant that I had to consult the Senators before sending in their names; otherwise they would not have been confirmed. It has, however, been literally a case of appointing "with the advice and consent of the Senate," and not at the dictation of any Senator. in the [*most*] important cases the initiative has come from me, tho in many of the local cases, where I had no possible means of original information, the initiative came from the Senators. Political considerations have been in every instance not merely subordinated, but completely and entirely subordinated, to the considerations named above; and in a large number of cases they have been completely eliminated. They have never been given a weight that was not entirely proper. Some of my appointees have been men without any political influence whatever. Others have had political influence. I have rejected great numbers of those who had the strongest political backing. Of those that I have appointed, I think that the proportion of those who have turned out best has been as great among the men who had political backing as among those who had none. I made some brief comments upon the appointees in the order of their importance. On the Supreme Court I appointed Holmes, then Chief Justice of Massachusetts; Day, then on the Circuit Court in Ohio; and Moody, then Attorney General. I do not suppose that anyone questions the preeminent fitness of these three men. 456 3 Next in importance come the United States Circuit Judges. Of these I have appointed twelve. Of these, nine were at the time District Judges, including Kohlseat, of whom you spoke. While I am not certain, I believe that of the nine, seven were Republicans - the two or three, very independent Republicans - and two were Democrats. They had all been excellent District Judges. All have made first-class Circuit Judges. Of the remaining three, I appointed two (Richards and Van Deventer) from the Department of Justice here in Washington, both on the recommendation of Attorney General Knox, and both most admirable men - Van Devanter perhaps in particular. One man (Baker, of Indiana) I appointed from private life. He was one of the most distinguished lawyers in Indiana, and, as it happened, the machine was opposed to him. He has since, as I understand, become bitter against the administration because of a matter which I need not at present go into. With the above facts in view, I don't suppose that anyone will seriously maintain that [*as regards*] the appointment of Supreme Court and Circuit Judges there is anything save the heartiest commendation to be bestowed upon what I have done. I now come to the United States District Judges. Of these, my original appointments have been forty-one. As regards about half of them, I had not the same knowledge as about the men whom I appointed to the Supreme Court and the Circuit Court; and as to this half, [*while*] the Attorney General in each case has made all the inquiry he could, but we had to rely largely upon the representations made to us by the local people. Taking them in their order on the paper, the facts are as follows:457 4 From Alabama I appointed Jones, a Democrat, ex-Governor of the State; and then Hundley, a Republican, who had been a Democrat until the Bryan movement of 1896, and [*who*] was endorsed by practically all the bench and ninety per-cent. Of the bar of his district, and was, in the judgment of the Attorney General and myself, far and away the best Republican we could get. I didn't wish to appoint two Democrats. In California, Van Fleet was backed by the local organization. I knew all about him personally, as did Secretary Metcalf, who came from his home city; and I believe he was the best appointment we could possibly make. In Colorado, Lewis was appointed from my private knowledge of him, after careful inquiry, because I had become convinced that he was better than the man the Republican organization was backing. In Connecticut, James P. Platt was the son of Orville H. Platt. He was warmly recommended by Circuit Judge Townsend, as well as by the organization. He has made a good judge. In Illinois, Francis E. Wright was promoted by me from the Court of Claims, where he had made an excellent record. Bethea was promoted form the position of United States District Attorney, where he had done particularly well. Landis was one of two recommended by the organization. He was the brother of two Indiana Congressmen. After investigation I came to the conclusion that he was the best man to appoint, and he has been, without any exception, as good a man as I have yet found on the bench, or have been able to put upon the bench. In Indiana, Anderson was appointed against the wish of the local organization; in Iowa, Reed, in accordance with the till of the organization. 458 5 I knew nothing personally of either, but believed they were both good. They have been good judges. In Kansas, Pollock was appointed on the recommendation of Attorney General Knox, after he had most carefully gone over the whole situation. It was against the wish of the organization and over the protest of the big railroads. In Louisiana, Saunders, a Democrat, was appointed by me, on my personal knowledge, and chiefly on the recommendation of Justice White of the Supreme Court. In Maine, Hale [is] was a brother of the Senator and backed by the organization, but also by the entire Maine bar. In Massachusetts, Dodge was recommended by the organization, and his appointment hailed with the utmost satisfaction by the entire bench and bar. In Michigan, I had to turn down the organization candidate and appoint Knappen, who, from outside information, I had become convinced was head and shoulders the best man for judge in the State. In Minnesota, Morris was a Congressman whom I knew, and for whose character and ability I had the highest regard. There could have been no better appointment. In Mississippi, Miles was already on the bench. In Missouri, I promoted a Democratic judge to be Circuit Judge, and filled his place by an old man from the city bar of very high standing, who resigned in two years; and I then filled his place by a man of much merit, its [?] [?] the District Attorney, Dyer, a member of the country bar, being from Pike County. Dyer had been an excellent District Attorney. I knew him personally. The city bar did not like him and wisht one of their own number. The country bar was enthusiastically for him, (especially Pickering) and resented the attitude of the city bar in being against him. Like his predecessor, Finkelnburg, he is too old, but otherwise I believe him to be an admirable man. [?] In Montana, Hunt459 6 was appointed on my personal initiative. I knew him well and a finer fellow does not exist. The organization acquiesced in his appointment. In Nebraska and Nevada, Munger and Farrington were suggested by the organization - that is, by the Senators; and after careful inquiry we came to the conclusion that they were excellent men. In New Jersey, Lunning and Cross were both suggested by the organization, after much consultation with the Department of Justice and with the hearty assent of all the bar. In New York, George Ray was backed by the two Senators and the local organization of his country district. He had been for many years Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary. He has been an excellent judge. Holt, Hough and Chatfield were opposed by the organization, but in each case the Senators ultimately yielded [to my wishes.] They were chosen by myself after consultation with Root, the Attorney General, and the local leaders of the bar. In Ohio, Taylor and Sater were both appointed partly from my personal knowledge, partly from knowledge I gained about them from Taft and Day, the organizations favoring other men in each case. In Oregon, Wolverton was appointed in spite of the original opposition of the organization, after the Attorney General had consulted Heney and everyone else he could get at out there [in Oregon]. He is an excellent man. In Pennsylvania the appointments were made on the recommendation of Attorney General Knox. In Tennessee the appointment was made on the recommendation of the organization, and has proved most satisfactory. In Texas I knew the man personally and could vouch for his character. In Vermont everybody, including the Democratic members of460 7 the bar, advocated the appointment of Martin, as was true in the case of Whitson, in Washington. In Virginia, H. Clay McDowell, a grandson of Henry Clay, was first called to my attention by Fox, the novelist, who lived at Big Stone Gap with him. I lookt him up personally and found he was just the type of man to appoint. In West Virginia, Dayton was a Congressman, whom I knew well, and who was one of the very best men in Congress. He has been an admirable judge. In Wisconsin, both men were recommended by Senator Spooner, the Attorney General making inquiries and satisfying himself that they were good men. One of them was to fill the place of a Democrat whom I promoted to be Circuit Judge. In the District of Columbia, on the Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court, and the Court of Claims, I filled in each instance the Chief Justiceship by promotion, two of the three men whom I thus promoted being Democrats originally appointed by Cleveland. I had personal knowledge of all the men appointed and believed that without exception they were good men. Some of them were backed by the local organizations and some of them were not. In the Territories I generally acted upon the advice of my local advisers, save in Porto Rico, where I appointed the judges from my personal knowledge. All have done well. In Arizona the Chief Justice, Edward Kent, was also my own personal choice. He was living in Colorado at the time. He is a Harvard fellow, son of the famous Governor Kent, of Main, for whom "Maine went hell bent," and one of the most upright men I know. In New Mexico two of the men, McFie and Abbott, were known to me personally as possessing461 8 very high qualities. In most of the other territorial judgeships I had to act upon the advice of others, an Alaska, for instance, where I appointed Moore on Knox's suggestion, tho Gunnison I knew about personally. I can only reiterate my belief that these appointments and promotions, perhaps about one hundred in number all told, represent not only the most painstaking care, but what [I am?] firmly convinced is a successful effort to get as high-grade men as could be obtained anywhere by any President. If by "politics" is meant anything base or sordid, there was nothing of the kind in their appointment; but in the larger and more proper sense and from the standpoint of the interest of the community, I think that the appointment of almost every one of them was emphatically "good politics." Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Often there will be bitter, but entirely honest, disagreement as to the merits of the man. Thus in New York at this moment, the county bar almost to a man wish Ray promoted to the Circuit Judgeship and are much in irritated at the city bar's insisting as a matter of course upon Holt. Neither side has any patience with or understanding of the other's attitude. I am rather inclined to appoint an outside candidate The [?] case, by the way, offers some other analogy to that of the Finkelnburg - Dyer appointments in Missouri. Mr. Mark Sullivan, Care Collier's, 416 West 13th Street, New York.462 May 14, 1907 My dear Mrs. Flemer: I take pleasure in enclosing these documents, which will show that we are able to grant you request. Your uncle, Colonel Roosevelt, was a most excellent soldier and a most faithful public servant, and it is a real pleasure to me to be able to do as you desire. Take these documents to Quartermaster General Humphrey and he will arrange the matter for you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Lewis Flemer, 701 Maryland Avenue, N.E., Washington, D.C. Enclosure. 463 May 14, 1907 My dear Mr. Diekema: I am in receipt of your letter of the 14th instant tendering your resignation as a member of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. I accept it with regret at the loss of so excellent an officer as you have shown yourself to be, but with congratulations to the people of Michigan upon your election to Congress. It is a real pleasure to bid you welcome to Washington in your new capacity. With all regard, believe me Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. G.J. Diekema, Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, Washington, D.C. 464 227 May 14, 1907 Dear Nick: I have turned your letter over to Will Taft. I think there should be very careful consideration given to this question of the collectorship, and that all of you should weigh well the consequence of the fight before you go into it. Mind you, I am entirely willing to go into it, but I want to know that our people understand fully what they are up to before they take it up. I look forward to receiving your next letter giving the result of the Columbus conference. Tell Alice I never received the letter she wrote her mother that she had sent me. Is it true that “Aunt Ia” has published a fresh collection of correspondence? I am not particularly interested, because I think my465 most brilliant letters have already been published by the good lady! With love to Alice, Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt I have just seen Taft; he thinks that to change the collection now would cause much more trouble than good; I am inclined to think that this is true; at any rate we must be very sure of our ground before acting. Hon. Nicholas Longworth, M.C., Cincinnati, Ohio.466 May 14, 1907. My dear Miss Halsey: I am in receipt of your letter of the 13th instant, and enclose herewith the President's autograph acceptance of honorary membership in the Junior Class of Miss Mason's School. Will you be good enough to deliver the letter to Miss Nabb? Sincerely yours, Wm Loeb Jr Secretary to the President. Miss Jane Halsey, Miss C. E. Mason's School, Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N. Y. May 14, 1907. My dear Miss Nabb: Permit me to thank you for your letter of recent date, advising me of my election to honorary membership in your class. Will you convey to the members of the class my hearty good wishes and my cordial appreciation of the compliment paid me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Estelle Crawford Nabb, President of the Junior Class, Miss C. E. Mason's School, Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N. Y.467 May 15, 1907. My dear Mr. Secretary: Would it not be possible when the rate is established to let the representatives of the labor organizations go with the members of the Wage Board, or in some other way have access to the facts, so that they could make up their case! Mr. Gernon submits to me affidavits from Brooklyn which certainly seem to show that our rates there are too low, and it certainly seems as if in Philadelphia the wages should be as high as in Washington, while I am told that the same thing is true of Norfolk. Would you be willing to try to take this matter up yourself, even if you should find it necessary to upset to a greater or less extent the findings of our generally excellent Wage Boards, after you had gone into it yourself, listening in full to the representatives of the workmen on the one hand and the Wage Boards on the other? Mr. Gernon has been very fair and straight with me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. V. H. Metcalf, Secretary of the Navy. 92468 May 15, 1907. My dear Taft: I think we ought to act on that judgeship soon. Really, I almost question whether it is worth while trying to get at Platt. Can’t we get at Depew? I think we ought to nominate Ward soon and get the thing thru, as the general impression seems to be that he is the very best man we can put in. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*425*] Mr. Henry W. Taft, 40 Wall Street, New York.469 Personal May 15, 1907. Dear Elihu: I want to close up the O’Brien matter as speedily as possible. What answer has he made? I would like to make the offer to Egan at the earliest moment. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*310*] Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of State.470 May 15, 1907. Dearest Kermit: The enclosed letter explains itself. Evidently the choice is between fishing in Wisconsin, and duck and chicken shooting in Minnesota or Dakota in the fall, I suppose at the beginning of September. I will find out just what the dates are for the chicken shooting, if you write you prefer this. At last spring seems to have really begun. The last two days have not been hot, but they have been warm, the warmest weather we have had since March. Mother and I with Ethel and Senator Lodge had a beautiful ride yesterday. The azalea (I always rather like its old New York Dutch name of pinkster) is in bloom and the woods are beautiful, while the bridle trails thru them along Rock Creek really add very greatly to the pleasure of riding. Fifteen years ago there were no wire fences around Washington; the country was not built up; and Lodge and I used to go everywhere, jumping an occasional fence; but this no longer can be done and the bridle trails in Rock Creek Park are really the best substitute. I have pretty well done my hardest work. (At the moment I am having a slightly irritating time with well-meaning but foolish friends who want me to run for a third term. The curious thing about it is 447471 -2- that there are plenty of people who really think they want me to run for a third term, who, if I did run, would feel very much disappointed in me and would feel that I had come short of the ideal they had formed of me. I think the talk will all die out and I do not want to make another statement just at the moment. If necessary, however, next winter I shall make another statement so emphatic that it must put a stop to any further talk.) I believe that we shall be able to nominate Taft; but of course this must be kept strictly to yourself; for it is thirteen months ahead of time and no one can tell how things will shape themselves. All we can do now is to express a hope rather than to plan a definite scheme of action; for something may occur to nominate a new man. When I do not ride I usually play tennis in the afternoon with Jusserand and a couple of other men. Your loving father, T. R. Mr. Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts.472 May 15, 1907. My dear Mr. Cortelyou: That is a very interesting Australian paper and I am obliged to you for sending it to me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 80 Hon. Geo. B. Courelyou, Secretary of the Treasury.473 May 15, 1907. My dear Mr. Williams: The enclose letter form Mr. Kinzel explains itself. It will be noticed that Mr. Hickman stated that he rifled the registered letter in question of $8.00 hoping to put the blame on Harris, a negro railway postal clerk, and that he did this because Harris was a negro. I regret to say that I am forced to agree with the opinion of the Post Office Inspector that this is not a case in which Executive clemency can with propriety be extended. From Mr. Kinzel’s letter it appears that Hickman only confessed after having been interrogated at some length by Kinzel, and therefore that the confession was not voluntary but drawn out from him by Kinzel while the latter was trying to trace up the missing funds. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*67*] Hon. John Sharp Williams, M.C., Yazoo City, Miss.474 May 16, 1907. My dear Judge: Let me thank you for your letter of the 10th enclosing the letter from Mr. Scanlon, which I return herewith. Let me also thank you for the admirable work you have done in the elk teeth matter. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*213*] Hon. Henry A. Melvin, Grand Exalted Ruler, B.P.O.E., Oakland, California Enclosure.475 May 16, 1907. My dear Judge: I congratulate you upon the way in which you have opened your work, and thank you for writing me. With all good wishes, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Oscar R. Hundley, Judge, U.S. District Court, Anniston, Alabama.476 May 16, 1907. My dear Admiral: I accept your resignation with real regret and wish to thank you personally for the admirable work you have done for the Nation as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. With all good wishes, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt, [*467*] Rear Admiral George A. Converse, U.S.N., Chief of Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department. (Thru the Secretary of the Navy.)477 To be written out by hand May 16, 1907. My dear Marshal: It is with deep concern that I learn of the death or your wife. it is very sad. I know how devoted you and she were, and i hate to think of the six motherless little children. Pray accept my most sincere sympathy. Faithfully yours Hon. John R. Abernathy, United States Marshal. Guthrie, Oklahoma.478 May 16, 1907. My dear Mr. Roulhac: I thank you most warmly for your more than kind letter. I deeply appreciate it, and I appreciate all that it means to have the goodwill of the man capable of writing it; I congratulate myself on your serving [?] my commission. With all good wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Thomas R. Roulhac, Sheffield, Alabama.479 Personal May 16, 1907. 372 My dear Mr. Attorney General: Governor Frank Frantz will see you on Monday. I enclose you a telegram sent to him by the attorney for the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. I have told all of these gentlemen that I should not express myself one way or the other about their constitution; that now was not the time; that such has been your advice to me, and that I also understood that you did not intend to express yourself one way or the other on the constitution. I do not suppose that you will give any offhand opinion on the decision of Judge Pancoast. If possible, I should like to have you wait and talk it over with me anyway. I do not know as it is any of our business, and we are under no obligation to help480 those utterly wild creatures out. I will see you on next Thursday morning. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte Attorney General. P.S. I also enclose you two letters addrest to Representative Watson about the Oklahoma constitution. Enclosures 481 May 16, 1907. My dear Governor: I have received the invitations kindly sent to me thru the Governors of Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin, Asking me to accompany the Inland Waterways Commission for a trip on the Mississippi, so that I may personally familiarize myself with certain features of the situation which the Commission has been appointed to consider. I deeply appreciate these invitations. Let me say a special word of appreciation of the invitations which come from the Governors of Florida and Oregon, both of whom, altho the States of which they are Governors are not on the Mississippi River, show their realization of the enormous importance of improving this great national highway because of the benefit that easy and cheap transportation thereon will mean to all the Union, and because they believe that the improvement of the Mississippi River and its tributaries will tend to bring about the improvement of the other navigable waters of the country, as factors in commercial and industrial development, and as affording one of the best possible methods of regulating railway rates. Others of the Governors who have written me swell upon the fact that the people of the West feel a peculiar interest in the project of the improvement482 not only of the Mississippi but of other navigable rivers fitted to be public highways of commerce, because they think that such improvements will help toward the solution of many of the problems attaching to railway transportation. The basin of the Mississippi taken as a whole, from the Gulf to the Great Lakes, from the Alleghenies to the Rockies, constitutes the greatest agricultural empire that men have ever cultivated, and an equally great system of water highways is needed to supply any inadequacy of land carriage for the products of this region. Unless something unforeseen occurs to make me alter my plans, I intend to accompany the members of the Inland Waterways Commission on a three or four days' trip at the beginning of the next October down the Mississippi, from some point in middle Illinois or Iowa to Memphis. I feel that the problems before the Commission concern vitally not only the people of the Mississippi Valley but the people of our entire country, and anything I can do to help forward the rapid solution of those problems and the proper utilization of our great waterways I am glad indeed to do. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John I. Moore, Acting Governor of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas. Similar letter was sent to each of the following: Hon. John I. Moore, Acting Governor of Arkansas. Hon. Napoleon S. Broward, Governor of Florida. Hon. Charles S. Deneen, Governor of Illinois. Hon. Albert E. Cummins, Governor of Iowa. Hon. Edward W. Hoch, Governor of Kansas. Hon. Newton C. Blanchard, Governor of Louisiana. Hon. Wm. T. Cobb, Governor of Maine. Hon. Joseph W. Folk, Governor of Missouri. Hon. George L. Sheldon, Governor of Nebraska. Hon. John Burke, Governor of North Dakota. Hon. Frank Frantz, Governor of Oklahoma. Hon. George E. Chamberlain, Governor of Oregon. Hon. George I. Crawford, Governor of South Dakota. Hon. Malcolm R. Patterson, Governor of Tennessee. Hon. Thomas M. Campbell, Governor of Texas. Hon. J. O. Davidson, Governor of Wisconsin.483 May 17, 1907. Dear Alice: I was delightful to hear form you. Hand is a fine young fellow, but I have concluded that Ward is the man to appoint. Everyone is agreed that he is the very best we could get for the place. It was delightful to hear from you, dear Alice, and I trust you are well. With warm regards, believe me, Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Alice Lee, Westport, Lake Champlain, N.Y. 484 May 17, 1907. My dear Mr. Conway: I need hardly tell you how the little fellow enjoyed his unexpected fishing trip with you the other day. He cannot go with you on Saturday because he is just starting for a ten days’ stay down at Pine Knot with is mother and myself. I am much obliged to you for your kindness to the little fellow. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. Moncure Conway, 1714 13th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 485 May 17, 1907. My dear Mr. Ambassador: The beautiful copy of Jusserand’s book has just come, and I thank you so much for it. It is really very handsome. But, my dear Mr. Ambassador, may I not ask you to put your name in it? I venture to send it back for that purpose. Much tho I value it for the beauty of itself, I should value it much more with your name inscribed. It was delightful seeing you at lunch yesterday. With high regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Joaquim Nabuco, The Brazilian Ambassador. Enclosure. 486 May 22, 1907. Robert B. Roosevelt, Sayville, N.Y. Accept our hearty congratulations for both mother and daughter. THEODORE and EDITH ROOSEVELT. (President's private acct.) May 15, 1907. Dear Speck: I send three or four jumping photographs which the Emperor may possibly care for. If so, would you give them to him? One is of Ted; the others of myself. In one the horse fought for his head so that I had to pull him to the left to prevent his going over the right wing, so that this picture looks somewhat of a reflection on my hands; but it is so spirited that I send it anyhow. I hope you are well. Give my love to the Baroness; and if you see the Emperor present him the assurance of my cordial regard and admiration. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Baron H. Sternburg, The German Ambassador. Enclosure. 31487 May 18, 1907. My dear Mrs. Gaff: I enclose you a copy of the report made to me by Mr. James Bronson Reynolds. In pursuance of the recommendations therein made I have decided to designate a commission of fifteen persons, as follows: General George M. Sternberg Dr. George M. Kober Mr. William H. Baldwin Mr. Frederick L. Siddone Professor George W. Cook Mr. Whitefield McKinley Miss Boardman Mrs. Thomas T. Gaff Mr. James Bronson Reynolds Mr. S. W. Woodward Mr. John B. Sleman, Jr. Mr. T. C. Parsons Mr. Emmett L. Adams Mr. P. J. Brennan Mr. William F. Downey Can you serve as a member of the Commission for the purpose indicated? I earnestly hope that you can accept, as it seems to me that the Commission has [*375*]488 before it a large field of usefulness. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Thomas T. Gaff, 1520 Twentieth Street, Washington. Enclosure489 May 15, 1907. Dear Lee: Here are some jumping photographs which I have just had taken; they may amuse you. I could not get photographs of my best jump, over a stiff brush hurdle - five feet seven inches high; but in the shade. The horse did mighty well to take me over that hurdle, for with my saddle my weight must be close on to 220 pounds. With warm regards to Mrs. Lee. 102 Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Arthur H. Lee, M. P., House of Commons, London, England.490 May 15, 1907. My dear General Hamilton: When your second volume came I was so busy that I had the chance to send only a word of acknowledgement, altho I had already read it thru with a good deal of care. Since then I have gone over it most carefully together with the first volume; for it seems to me that more is to be gained from your description of the Japanese army than from all the other descriptions I have read put together. The reports of our own attache, for instance, the excellent and instructive, can not give the real heart of the Japanese army as you do, and it is their heart that renders them formidable. I wonder if you will mind my saying that in this second volume you have in noteworthy fashion avoided all possibility of exciting criticisms such as were excited by some of the comments in your first volume, and yet have placed every fact before the readers in so forceful a manner that it is purely their own fault if they do not make the comments themselves. I was very much interested in your remark that if either the Japanese or Russians had been so accustomed to the effective use of the rifle as were the Boars, the results of the hand-to-hand fighting could not but have been different. The other evening Kuroki, who is visiting the Jamestown Exposition, sat beside me at the White House. Thru his 491 2 interpreter I told him that the the fighting in which I had taken part consisted of mere skirmishes, against Spaniards and not against Russians, yet there was one point that interested me in connection with bayonet charges; that my men were dismounted cavalry, without bayonets, who assaulted trenches held by infantry with bayonets; and that I had tried my best to impress upon them that no man with a cartridge in his gun (provided only he remembered that there was a cartridge in his gun, or remembered to put one in) [*needed to*] have the slightest nervousness about a man with a bayonet - in other words, that the man with a bayonet could only beat him if he got rattled; and both Kuroki and the translator, who had been on Oyman's staff, became much animated over this and agreed most emphatically. Kuoki had read your first volume, but your second volume, he said, had not been translated into Japanese. His aid had read the letter, however. Both profest to like the volumes very much. I told them that I did not know any book by any foreign observer served as was the case with this book of yours as regards the Japanese army. Kuroki imprest me a great deal. He had a fine face, a face which according to our idea was one of great intelligence and benevolence; while certain of the men with him, tho evidently good fighting men, might perfectly well have borne high rank in the armies of Genghis Khan.492 3 The Vice Admiral who was with him was a good fellow, too, and spoke English. It was rather impressive when Kuroki and the Vice Admiral visited Washington's tomb and laid a wreath upon it, for this ceremony was one with which all their upbringing put them in complete sympathy. I was rather surprised to find that Kuroki had not heard of [*?*] or of his feats in the Turkish war, and this again made me think of your statement as to how much more the office counted than the men who filled, it in the Japanese armies. Kuroki said of the Cossacks that all of Japanese were surprized at their ineffectiveness; that they would doubtless have been formidable sixty years ago, but not now. I asked him if he realized the immense fighting superiority shown both by the English infantry and the English cavalry on the pitched fields of the Crimea, when pitted against the Russian horse and foot. By the way, a general who is able to improvise verses in the way you do ought to appeal to the Japanese on more than one ground. I asked Kuroki to take a ride with me, but he did not care to. I should not have allowed him to jump, but I venture to send you three or four photographs I have recently had taken while jumping a young Virginia horse. He sometimes fights for his head, with the result that the especially spirited picture which I enclose seems a more severe reflection on my hands than it really is. Last Saturday he made a very high jump with me, much higher than any shown in the photographs, taking me493 4 over an exceedingly stiff brush hurdle five feet seven inches high. As I weigh two hundred pounds without my saddle, I think this speaks pretty well for the horse. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Lieutenant General Sir Ian Hamilton, K.C.B., Tedworth House, Andover England. Enclosures 494 May 15, 1907. My dear Mr. Ambassador: If you think the King would care for the enclosed photographs, pray present them to him. The one where the horse is fighting for his head as he goes over the bars I have some doubts in sending, because I suppose my hands are not quite what they should have been at the time; but really I do not think I was much to blame as the horse is a young one and went very hard at this particular jump, fighting for his head, and I had to pull him short to the left in order to prevent him going off over one of the wings. I was very much interested in the clippings you sent me. It is not extraordinary that the English, who were so censorious about our system of government when California made things unpleasant for the Japanese in disregard of the treaty-making power of the [*331*]495 central government, should themselves utterly fail to see that New Foundland is now occupying a precisely similar position when Bond complains that her municipal regulations are not regarded by the English Government; Canada and New Foundland by their relations to the British Empire continually put the British Empire and ourselves into false positions. The thing I have taken most interest in recently was my encounter with the ultra labor men and socialists over the Moyer-Haywood-Debs matter. I do not know whether it got into the English papers, and therefore I do not know whether you saw it referred to. With warm regards to Mrs. Reid, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Whitelaw Reid, The American Ambassador, London, England. Enclosures. 496 May 22, 1907. My dear Mr. Slocum: I thank you very much for those mementos from the Congo. It was kind of you to send them to me. With regards to Mrs. Slocum, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Clarence Rice Slocum, 1750 Q Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.497 May 22. 1907. My dear Mr. Ambassador: Let me again thank you for the book, now so valuable not only in itself but because of having the name of the donor in it. With all good wishes, believe me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*485*] Mr. Joachim Nabuco, The Brazilian Ambassador, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.498 May 22, 1907. My dear Mr. Nagel: I have your letter of the 20th instant. Next October I shall visit Saint Louis, altho rather hurriedly. I shall make but one private appointment, and that is to see Adams with you, if that time will suit you. I trust that this arrangement will be satisfactory, otherwise, I should prefer to have you both wait until I return to the White House after my trip on the Mississippi River. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles Nagel, Security Building, Saint Louis, Missouri.499 May 22. 1907. My dear Mr. Tucker: I am greatly obliged to you for your courtesy, but we have to leave that afternoon in order to return to Washington early Tuesday morning, the 11th. It is very kind of you and Mrs. Tucker to invite us. With warm regards, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. H. St. George Tucker, President, Jamestown Exposition Co., Norfolk, Virginia.500 May 22, 1907. Dear Cabot: I have your letter of the 21st enclosing a letter from Edgar R. Champlin, with a copy of the Japan Daily Mail. Frankly, I am not much imprest by his letter or by the article. He gives two bits of advice. One is to increase our visible navy in the East. This is enough to show that his military judgment is absurd. He actually wishes us to repeat the decisive and vital blunder of Russia in dividing her navy and putting part in the Pacific. His second bit of advice is that we shall discourage the American purchase of Japaneses bonds. It would be interesting to learn how he thinks this could be brought about. As for the book, the review of which he sends, its thesis seems to be that both England and Japan have [*201*] 501 entered into their present treaty as an offensive one against America. As regards England, this is so wildly absurd that it needs no comment. I shall soon be out to ride with you. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. H. C. Lodge, United States Senate