January 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: I am sorry to tell you that it is quite impossib for Mr Roosevelt to help you in that matter, nor does know any way in which you might secure the necessary assistance. All he can do is to suggest that you see your Congressman and find out if there is anything he as these matters are almost entirely in his hands. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Howell D. Boyd, 2111 - 82nd Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.January 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt was very much interested in your letter and he appreciates all that you have written. He only wishes it were possible for him to suggest some men who might furnish the money for doing just the work you desire to have done, but unfortunately he does not know anyone who would be able and willing to invest the necessary capital. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr S. D. Burrows, Bozeman, Mont.January 10, 1913. Wm. F. Cochran Req., Woodbrock, Md., My dear Mr. Cochran:- I have just received your letter of the 9th inst. I have refused to be interviewed on the subject of Mr. Munsey's publication, not because I felt any hesitancy as to what ought to be thought of it, but because I was reluctant to say what I thought. As you know, he has been very earnest, active and liberal in his advocacy of the Progressive cause in this State, has contributed a considerable portion of the campaign funds, and provided us with the only newspaper of any consequence in sympathy with our cause to be found in this State: it seemed to me expedient, therefore, to handle him tenderly in anything which might be said for publication, and yet I did not know how I could do this if I said anything at all about his suggestion, for the latter seems to me very ill advised und likely to produce results the very opposite of those [which] he apparently he desires to effect. I think it very probable and, indeed, have been expecting with great confidence, that as soon as Ir. Taft left the White House, the Reprblican organization in Maryland would either go to pieces or fall into altogether different hands. As soon as we have a Democratic President, Mr. Stone and Mr. Hanna will cease to be political factors, and the certainty that absolutely nothing can be gained by keeping up an organization in the hopeless situation of the Republican party here will, in my judgment, operate to cause a rapid disintegration of what is left of that party, provided only that the Progressives perfect their organization, re-affirm their principles and let the Republicans land the Democrats as well for that matter) severely alone for the time being. Mr. Munsey's pronouncement 7914W.F.C.-2. ment and the tendency which one or two of the minor leaders of our organization have shown to express approval of its proposals may, and I fear will, tend to prolong the agony of the Republican demise by leading Governor Goldsborough and Senator Jackson, and those now, or soon to be, in control of all that is left of the Republican organization, to hope that, if they hold out, we may come to them instead of their coming to us. I think, however, that the general and somewhat emphatic repudiation of Mr. Munsey's views by all the Progressive leaders who have spoken on the subject so far as I have seen, will render them less mischievous than they otherwise might be. I very strongly urge that you keep the "tidy sum" which you have "set aside" in your "budget" for the benefit of the Progressive Party sacredly devoted to that use, for I feel confident that it will be sorely needed and will|prove extremely useful. I have written an article for the "Evening Sun" to be published tomorrow, on "The Party of the Future" which I hope may have a beneficial effect on the situation, and I remain, as ever, yours most truly, Dictated. 7915January 10th, 1913. My dear Madam: Mr Roosevelt wishes it were possible for him to be of assistance to you in that matter, but unfortunate he does not know anyone who would be likely to want to buy the ranch in question. He is really sorry not to be able to be of service to you. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mrs Leora Cornell, Farmville, Va. 7677January 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter to Mr Roosevelt. Much depends upon the way a man looks at that matter. Mr Roosevelt is of the opinion that the people should be allowed to elect the President themselves and continue him in office just as long as they wish him to be their President. The question of whether the term should be four years or six years is a matter quite open to discussion. Mr Roosevelt is in favor of the people being the real rulers in this country, and therefore the people being the real rulers they would have an opportunity anyone whom they desired to be their President and to elect him just as often as they wished to do so and to recall him whenever they did not wish to continue him in office. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr. William Dougherty Milbrille, N.J. 23954 January 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: It is physicially impossible for Mr Roosevelt to reply to all the letters which come to him asking him to endorse various movements and send messages of various kinds to various meetings. Enclosed however you will find an extract from a speech he made at the laying of the corner stone of a Y.M.C.A. in Washington on November 26th, 1908. In the address which he delivered on that occasion Mr Roosevelt spoke of the Y.M.C.A. as follows: "The Young Mens Christian Association reaches both classes that are reached by the churches and the classes that the churches fail to reach. It brings in men of different types for it appeals to many different sides of human nature. There is possibly nothing needed worse in all our cities and towns than well organized Young Mens Christian Associations, which will stand for character building in a three fold way in which the Y.M.C.A. endeavors to do its work. It pays far better to support the secretary of a Y.M.C.A. in a comunity than to pay the salary of a policeman. Homes are made sage and the community is lifted to a higher level by lifting young men to better ideals of life." Faithfully yours, Mr Ernest Eagenstrom 23955 January 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your letter and to say that if he does hear of such a as the one you name he certainly will remember your application. However he very seldom hears of any vaca of any kind or sort, and much though he might like to help various friends to better their position in the you suggest, he is just about as helpless as he can be Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Thomas S. Forsyth, Fredericksburg, Va. 23956January 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter to Mr Roosevelt and to say that you will find his position on th Intiative, referendum and recall stated in articles in The Outlook, printed in the issues dated February 24 and August 1912. You will also find what he has said recently on these subjects in the enclosed speech. If you desire to read the articles I have mentioned in The Outlook, you will be able to find a file of The Outlook in almost any public library. Faithfully yours, Secretary George S. Frank Esq., 47 William Street, New York City. 23957January 10th, 1913. My dear Madam: I wish it were possible for me to send you a favorable reply to your letter, but at the present time I so overwhelmed with work of various kinds, that it would be quite out of the question for me to write such a preface to your book as you suggest. I cannot go into anything new or add in any way to the work I already have on hand. With regret, Faithfully yours, Mrs. Frank Gardner, State College Woman's Club, State College, Pa. 23958 January 10th 1913. My dear Sir: Herewith I beg to send you a copy of the address which Mr. Roosevelt delivered as President of the American Historical Association. Faithfully yours, Secretary. Mr. Mark G. Holstein, 141 Broadway, New York City. 23959January 10th, 1913. My dear Madam: Mr Roosevelt has read your letter and he wishes me to acknowledge receipt of it and to say that it would not do for him to give his opinion upon any book unless he first read the book through. It would neither be fair to him nor to the author to do otherwise and at the present time he is so overwhelmed with work of various kinds that it is a physical impossibility for him to read the book you have written. He only wishes he could respond to your request but his doing so in your case would not end the matter, as there are many good friends of his who have recently asked him the same kind of favor, and whom he has been compelled to refuse. Of course if granted the favor in one case he would not feel at liberty to refuse all the others who ask him. He is really sorry not to be able to do as you wish. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mrs H. S. Howland, 164 Wildwood Ave., Upper Montclair, N.J. 23960January 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your letter and also for your kindness in letting him see a copy of your poem. He only wishes it were possible for him to suggests some way in which you might get it published, but of course no magazine editor would take his say-so in the the matter. Each magazine editor reads over the poem and articles submitted to him and trusts entirely to his own judgment as to whether or not they would be suitable for publication in his magazine. Nor would it be possible for Mr Roosevelt to express any opinion upon the merits of the poem, for the simple reason that if he were to do so in your case he would have to do the same things for hundreds of other friends who write to him asking for similar favors. He is really sorry not to be able to do as you ask, and he appreciates all that you have written. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Gordon Noel Hurtel, Atlanta, Ga. 23961January 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: You will find Mr. Roosevelt's opinion as to the necessity of an adequate Navy in his published Presidential address, and messages to Congress. These volume may be consulted in any public library. Faithfully yours, Secretary. Rev. J. L. Jones, Parkplace, Ore. 23962January 10th, 1913. Dear Miss Kellor: I wonder if you have any pamphlets or leaflets that you could send in reply to the enclosed. Faithfully yours, Secretary. Miss Frances A. Kellor. 23963January 10th, 1913. My dear Madam: Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your letter and to express his regret that unfortunately he could not go into that matter himself, nor does he know anyone would be unlikely to take an interest in the propose. He is really sorry not to be of any real help to you. Faithfully yours, Secretary. Mrs. John March, Orange, Cal. 23964January 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for your recent letter and to say that he read with into all that you have written concerning that tariff and women suffrage. With most of what you say he is in though agreement, although there are some points which are open to discussion. He appreciates your writing to him. Faithfully yours, Secretary. Mr. R. V. Morton, 212 Main Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. 23965 January 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your letter and also for its enclosure. Unfortunately it is a physical impossibility for Mr. Roosevelt to discuss all the details of organization of the unlimited questions which are put to him at various times, and he has asked me to say that he think your best plan would be to get into communication with the managers of the Progressive Party at their headquarters at the Manhattan Hotel, New York City. They are the only people who could give you any really satisfactory advice in the matter as far as the Progressive Party is concerned. Faithfully yours, Secretary. Mr. John E. Patton, Ooltewah, Tenn. 23966January 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your letter and say that he has read it through with much interest, It is however impossible for him to express any opinion upon the plan you outline. Before doing so he would have to make a very extended study of the question you touch upon and this he has not time to do at present. He really sorry. Faithfully yours, Secretary. Don P. Pennywitt, Esq., Chicago, Ill. 23967January 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your letter and to say that it would give him much please if you could call at The Outlook Office on Thursday morning next at 10.45, or at 12.30. He will not be in town Monday. Faithfully yours, Secretary. Mr. William Savacool, Manchester, N. H. 23968January 10th, 1913. My dear Madam: I am sorry to tell you that Mr. Roosevelt has no book plates, nor has Mrs. Roosevelt, and I am therefore unable to comply with your request. Faithfully yours, Secretary. Miss Helen B. Sullivan Dayton, Ohio 23969 January 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter and to say that Mr Roosevelt paid his own expenses on his African trip and he also paid the expenses of his son Kermit. The other members of the party were sent by the Smithsonian Institute, as their special representatives, and the Smithsonian Institute by means of funds they collected for the purpose, paid the expenses of these men. There were five members of the party, and consequently Mr Roosevelt paid two-fifths of the whole expenses and the Smithsonian Institute three-fifths. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr A. T. Von Schack, 535 West 159th Street, New York City. 23970January 11th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt has no photographs of himself, and he [has] been nearly overwhelmed with requests for them. All that [he] can do is to promise that if you will send him one of his photographs, with stamps for return, he will gladly [autograph] and return it. He is obliged to make this answer to very many people, and regrets his inability to send each of them photograph as desired. You could obtain one from Messrs Pach Brothers, 935 Broadway, New York City, or from Messrs [?] & Ewing, Washington, D. C. Faithfully yours, Secretary Rev. H. D. Collins, Oakwood, Ga. 7337January 11th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for the invitation which you extend to him on behalf of the Hunters Fraternity of America to make an address on January He wishes it were possible to accept, but at present he is unable to go into anything new of any kind or sort. He is really sorry to be unable to send a more favorable reply. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr A. A. Anderson, 80 West 40th Street, New York City. 23971January 11th, 1913. My dear Sir: Since writing his former letter, Mr Roosevelt finds that he will be in New York both on Wednesday January 22nd and on Thursday January 23rd. If, however, you still would prefer to come to lunch with him on Thursday January 22nd, he will be very glad to make that arrangement with you. Otherwise he will lunch with you on Wednesday as already arranged and as he will be in town, perhaps you and Mrs Coolidge could meet him at the Harvard Club at one o'clock in order to take lunch with him there. Either day will suit Mr Roosevelt equally well, and he will leave you to make your choice. Will you please let me know which day you will prefer. Faithfully yours, Secretary Max Farrand Esq., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 23972January 11th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt has asked me to thank you for your note just to hand and to say that he would be very glad if you your daughter and Mr Robinson could take lunch with him at Oyster Bay on Friday January 17th, or if you prefer it, on Sunday January 19th. On Friday you could take the train leaving Pennsylvania Station New York at 11 o'clock a.m., and on Sunday the train leaves at 11.16 a.m. Will you please let me know which day the three of you prefer. Faithfully yours, Secretary Percy Mackays Esq., 26 Walker Street, Cambridge, Mass. 23973January 11th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for the invitation which you extend to him on behalf of t[he] Parkin Cahpter [Chapter?] Epworth League to visit your city and make an address. He wishes it were possible to accept, but at present he is unable to go into anything new of any kind [or?] sort. He is really sorry to be unable to send a more fav[orable] reply. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Charles A. Parris, Brockton, Mass. 23974 January 13th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your lett and to say it will be a pleasure to meet you and your two The Outlook office when you come on to New York about East time. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Allison Bailey, Brookline, Mass.January 13th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordiall[y] for your letter and also for the two enclosures. He will read over the enclosures and see if there is anything he can do in the matter. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr John F. Cutler, San Francisco, Cal. 7262January 13th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt has asked me to acknowledge receipt of your letter and to express his regret that unfortunately h[e] is unable to let you have any portion of his collection either of hunting guns, hunting outfit or anything else relating to his African trip. Nearly all these[those?] things hav[e] been sent to Washington and his guns have been loaned some- where else. He is really sorry not to be able to comply with your request. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Louis W. Buckley, Des Moines, Iowa. 23975January 13th, 1913. My dear Mr Herd: I am a little bit wary about your name Progressive Republican! I want to see all good Progressives, whether ex-Republicans or ex-Democrats, join with us in this fight. However, I do not like to say anything in public for I do not know what the situation is where you are. Faithfully yours, Mr William B. Herd, Union, N. J. 23976January 13th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of yo[ur] several letter and particularly of the one enclosing you article on the high cost of living. He agrees with a good deal of what you say, but he would not feel at liberty to express an opinion upon the whole article, or upon the methods which you advocate in the article. I am returning article to you herewith. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Edwin B. Jennings, 72 Trinity Place, New York City. 23977January 13th, 1913. My dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter to Mr Roosevelt and the enclosure. I am sorry to tell you that [it] is quite impossible for Mr Roosevelt to endorse the [movement] which you are leading. It would never do for him to go into such matters. He is really sorry. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr O. P. McPherson, Gloster, Mass. 23978January 13th, 1913. My dear Mr Mills: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your [letter] of January 9th, and to express his regret that [unfortunately] he is unable to come to that dinner on February 8th. He [o?] wishes it were possible to do so, but his accepting one [such] invitation would mean that he would have to accept all [similar] invitations, and this at the present time it would be very [unwise], and as a matter of fact, physically impossible for him to do. He appreciates your writing to him concerning matter. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr W. Wirt Mills, The Evening Mail, 23979January 13th, 1913. My dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter from Mr Roosevelt and to say that he has already acknowledged the books to Dr Murphy. He was glad to get them. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr J. Le Roy Smith, Philadelphia, Pa. 23980January 13th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for the invitation which you extend to him on behalf of [the] Alfred B. Kittredge Memorial Committee to visit your city and make an address. He wishes it were possible to [accept] but at present he is unable to go into anything new of [any] kind or sort. He is really sorry to be unable to send a more favorable reply. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Tore Teigen, Sioux Falls, S.D. 23981January 13th, 1913. My dear Sir: Herewith I am enclosing a letter addressed to Mr James Ford Rhodes by Mr Roosevelt, asking him to accept the presidency of the Massachusetts Progressive Party Club. I hope you will be successful in your efforts to [g?] Mr Rhodes. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr W. P. Thore, Boston, Mass. 23982January 14th, 1913. Dear Mrs Robinson: The best man in British East Africa to give advice regarding a hunting trip is Mr Leslie J. [Tarlton] of Newland, Tarlton & Co., Nairobi, British East [Africa] He is the man who did most of the planning for Mr Roosevelt's trip. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mrs Douglas Robinson, 9 East 63rd Street, New York City. 23983January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially letter and also for your kindness in letting him have an [?]ity of reading that story. He particularly appreciates y doing so. He only wishes it were possible for him to suggest someone who might be willing to publish the story, but of no editor would take his say-so in the matter. The best p and really the only plan is to write a letter to any magazines think might like to publish the story, telling them that you would be glad if they would read it with a view to such publication. Mr Roosevelt much appreciates all that you about the Michigan situation and of your own connection with fight. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Joseph E. BaylissJanuary 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: I sent your recent letter on to the managers of the Progressive headquarters asking them to do whatever they could in the matter. Of course it is quite impossible for Mr Roosevelt himself to do anything and he must rely upon the managers to do everything that they are able do, although he fears that the many requests of a similar nature which they receive will make it impossible for them to act favorably. Faithfully yours, Secretary D. Walter Bell Esq., Ben Avon, Penna. [*4016*]January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for your recent letter. He was particularly pleased with what you wrote about your being one of the Roosevelt Presidential electors from the State of Washington. He congratulates you heartily and is glad that the work of perfecting the organization is going on. That is one of the things most vital to the complete success of the Progressive movement in the near future. Most of Mr Roosevelt's works have been published in twenty-two volumes by the Review of Reviews Co. Astor Place, New York City. In addition to these volumes Messrs Charles Scribner's Sons have published a few books as also have Messrs G. P. Putnam's Sons. You could obtain full particulars of the books by writing to those publishers. If after you obtain any of Mr Roosevelts books you care to send say one or two of the volumes to Mr Roosevelt he will have pleasure in autographing them and returning them to you. Faithfully yours, Secretary William J. Biggar Esq. [*4602*][*4602*] January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: There is nothing whatever that Mr Roosevelt can that matter. It would never do for him to try to inter in affairs of that kind. He is really sorry. I am returning the papers you enclosed herewith. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr John F. Boyce, Jeffersonville, Ind. [*4438*]January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Your letter to The Outlook has been handed to me. Mr Roosevelt never made any such statement as the one you quote. He has very many times states that it is the duty of every honest man in this country not to support the men of the Republican Party who engineered the stealing of the Party from the people in the Convention last June. He has stated that he welcomes any man, whether ex-Democrat or ex-Republican, who is interested in seeing the continuance of the principles enunciated by Abraham Lincoln. He has added that he does not believe the rank and file of the Republican Party can support the men now at the head of that party. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr B. K. Bush, Bay Center, Wash. 1145January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for your letter and also for your kindness in sending him on that clipping which he was very glad to get. He intends to touch upon that matter in his Lincoln Day speech in New York. Faithfully yours, Secretary William F. Button Esq., Hastings, Nebr.January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for the invitation which you extend to him on behalf of St. John's Lodge to visit your city and make an address. He wishes it were possible to accept, but at present he is un- able to go into anything now of any kind or sort. He is really sorry to be unable to send a more favorable reply. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr A. Church, 810 Broad Street, Newark, N.J. 6353January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your recent letter to him regarding your paper. He has been ma some inquiries into the matter and so far he has been unable to do anything that will be of material help to you. He however see that your letter receives every consideration is possible and if he finds that there is anything he can he will let you hear from him straightaway. He appreciates your writing to him. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Robert Clark, Pine Apple, Ala. 7568January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: I do not know if you ever received back the photo concerning which you wrote a few days ago. As a matter I do not recollect seeing such a photograph although it been one of a large number which continually arrive and are automatically returned after Mr Roosevelt has autog them. We have no photograph in this office nor has Mr Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, and if you have not now receive your best plan will be to get into communication with th postal officials regarding it. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr S. B. Coston, 292 West 4th Street, New York City. 7678 January 15th , 1913 . My dear Sir : Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your recent letter and to express his regret that unfortunately he has not the time to undertake further work of any kind or sort . He is al- ready up to his ears in the work he is now doing and it is impossible for him to add to . With regret , Faithfully yours , Secretary Mr George Derby , 29 East 22nd Street , New York City . 23984 January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt your recent letter and to say that in some way it go mislaid among the large number of other letters which arrived about that time. He is really sorry. If the is anything he can do in the way of sending a message that would be useful, he hopes you will let him know. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr W. B. Dobson, The Michigan Bull Moose, Alpena, Mich. [*23985*]January 15th, 1913. Dear Mr Farrand: All right, Mr Roosevelt will expect you and Mr Coolidge at the Harvard Club on Thursday January 23rd at [?] o'clock. Faithfully yours, Secretary Max Farrand Esq., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 23986January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordia[lly] for your letter. He thinks that your best plan is to go and see Mr Theodore Douglas Robinson, chairman of the Progressive State Committee, 16 East 28th Street. Mr Robinson would probably be able to put you on the track doing just such work as you desire to do. Mr Roosevelt particularly appreciates your writing to him. Faithfully yours, Secretary Dr W.D. Grant, 23987January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your letter and to express his regret that unfortunately he cannot go into that matter. If he were to do so in your case he would be approached by hundreds of other friends who desired similar favors, and his granting it in your case would make it difficult for him to refuse it in others. He is really sorry not to able to do as you ask. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Isidore Grossman, 244 West 23rd Street, New York City. 23988January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt receives every day a number of requests for subscriptions to various causes in which he believes, I am sure on thinking it over you will see how impossible is for him to comply in each case. He is by no means a rich man, and he is already doing all that it is possible for to do in keeping up with the demands made upon him which is already practically committed to and which he cannot well refuse. He is really sorry not to be able to do as you a and trusts you will understand and appreciate why he is unable to help you. Faithfully yours, Secretary Rev. William Henry Hayes, Oxford, Mass. [*23989*]January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for your kindness in sending him the extra pages for that book. He much appreciates your doing so. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr C.F. Hubert, Fowler, Ill. 23990January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: On account of the large numbers of letters which Mr Roosevelt has received recently it has been impossible to reply to all of them by return mail. That is why no earlier answer was sent to your former letter. Mr Roosevelt would be very pleased to see you if you could call at the Outlook office on Tuesday afternoon next say at three o'clock. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr E. Jordan, 172 East 116th Street, New York City. 23991January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you cordially your letter and also for your kindness in offering to him see that address on the Constitution of the United States and Canada. At present, however, he is so over with work that he would not have time to read it and therefore he will not trouble you to send it. Later on he [will?] not be so pressed and then he would like to have the opportunity of reading it. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr George F. Kunz, 409 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 23992January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your recent letter and to say that he thinks your best plan is to do just that you have done and get into communication with Mr O.K. Davis about that matter. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr S.M. Ladd, 124 Third Street N.E. Washington, D.C. 23993January 15th, 1913. Dear Mr Miller: I wish you would read the enclosed letter and the let me know if there is anything that Mr Roosevelt ought to do in the matter. Of course he does not want to write letters of this character unless it is all right for him to do so in every way. Sincerely yours, Secretary George E. Miller Esq. [*23994*]January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: If you will call at The Outlook office on Tuesday morning next, say at 12:30, it will give Mr Roosevelt much pleasure to see you. Faithfully yours, John T. Murphy Esq., Philadelphia, Pa. 23995January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for the invitation which you extend to him on behalf of t Washington and Jefferson College to visit your city and an address. He wishes it were possible to accept, but at present he is unable to go into anything new of any kind sort. He is really sorry to be unable to send a more favorable reply. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr [?]. M. Murphy, Washington, Pa. 23996January 15th, 1913. My dear Madam: I am sorry to tell you that until you write Mr Roosevelt exactly what it is you wish to see him about it will be quite impossible for me to arrange an appointment for you to call. He is just as busy now as he ever was. Faithfully yours, Secretary Miss L. M. Ott, 190 Riverside Ave., Newark, N.J. [*23997*]January 15th, 1913. Dear Mr Parker: Do you happen to know the address of Olive Metcalfe? I believe he lives somewhere in Mississippi. With thanks for your courtesy, I am Faithfully yours, Secretary John M. Parker Esq., 816 Union Street, New Orleans, La. [*23998*]January 15th, 1913. Dear Payne: Herewith is a letter which you may like to reply to. I believe you wrote just such a history. Anyway I hope you will either write to the woman yourself or ret the letter to me so that I may reply to her in some satisfactory way. Faithfully yours, George Henry Payne Esq. [*23999*]January 15th, 1913. Dear Mr Perkins: Is there anything that can be done with the enclosed letter from Mr Clark, of Pine Apple, Alabama? I am also sending you herewith a letter from C. G Cotey, which you may like to see. Mr Julian Harris of Georgia has written asking if members of the Progressive investigating committee to go abroad this Spring have been selected. He wants to know if anyone has been named from the South. Faithfully yours, George W. Perkins Esq. [*24000*]January 15th, 1913. Dear Mr Pinchot: Is there anything in the enclosed. Perhaps you will let me have word sometime if you know anything abou the organization, so that I may place the information be Mr Roosevelt. Sincerely yours, Secretary Hon. Gifford Pinchot. 24001January 15th, 1913. My dear Mrs Ritter: If there were anything that I could do to urge Mr Roosevelt to attend and speak at one of your meetings, I certainly do it. It is not however that Mr Roosevelt does realize the importance of the meetings you propose to hol The fact of the matter is that if he accepted an invitation from you he would cause grievous disappointment to hundreds and indeed thousands of other friends, whose invitation he has had to refuse. If he were to accept one he could fairly decline all the others. I am really sorry there is nothing further that can be done in the matter. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mrs Charles W. Ritter. [*24002*]January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your letter also for the book and to express his regret that unfortunately he is unable to grant your request. It would never do for him to grant a request to one man to express an opinion upon certain book, as his doing so would mean that he would rec hundreds of similar requests, which it would be physically impossible for him to attend to. He is really sorry not to be able to do as you ask. Faithfully yours, Secretary Rev. A. T. Robinson, Ocean Park, Cal. [*24003*]January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt was particularly pleased to have an opportunity of reading the letter you enclosed with your recent letter to him. He appreciates all that your friend wrote to you. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Charles W. Schaeffer, Dayton, Ohio. 24044January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me thank you for your recent letter and to say that the best papers for you to take are the New York Press, Philadelphia North American, Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Tribune, the best magazines supporting the Progressive movement are The Outlook and Colliers. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr R. Lee Sharpe, Carrollton, Ga. [*24005*]January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your letter and to say that he was very pleased a day or two ago to see one of the editorials which you wrote. If he hears of any Progressive newspaper that desires to get into communication with a good man he will certainly let you know straightaway. He will bear your letter in [?] Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr R. H. Burton Smith, Sioux City, Iowa. [*24006*]January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me thank you very cordially for the invitation which you extend to him on behalf of the Maritime Association of the Port of New York to make an address. He wishes it were possible to accept, but at present he is unable to go into anything new of any kind sort. He is really sorry to be unable to send you a more favorable reply. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr W. U. Taylor, Maritime Exchange, New York City. [*24007*]January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Major Haig has written to Mr Roosevelt stating th you and Mrs Thomas and your niece are to be in New York for two or three weeks. Mr Roosevelt would be very pleased if he could have the pleasure of a call from you and if you and Mrs Thomas could come into The Outlook office on Tuesday next, say at 3 o'clock, he would greatly like see you. Faithfully yours, Secretary D. A. Thomas Esq., Ritz Carlton Hotel, [*24008*]January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your recent letter inviting him to become connected with the order of Backswoodsmen which you are organizing. He regrets to say however that at the present time he does not wish to become connected with any further organization unless he is able to take an active part in the work it is doing, and unfortunately at the present time it is physically impossible for him to add in any way to what he has on hand. He never cares to lend his name to any society unless he is able himself to go into the matter and see whether he approves of all the work which is being done and is able to take an active part in such work. He is really sorry not to be able to send you a favorable reply. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Thomas Milburn Upp, Tompkins Corners, N. Y. 24009January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me thank you very cordially for your letter and to express his regret that unfortunately he is still unable to make the visit you suggest. As matter of fact he is just as busy now as he ever was. If at any time in the future he can do what you wish he will have pleasure in letting you know straightaway. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Fritz von Holm, 14 John Street, New York City. [*24010*]January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter to Mr Roosevelt and also of its enclosure. I am sorry to tell you that at the present time Mr Roosevelt is so overwhelmed with work of various kinds that it is a physical impossibility for him to take up the matter you write him about. He does not think it would be advisable for you to come over here and make those lectures unless you were fully prepared to pay all your own expenses. So far there is very little interest in this country in that matter but Mr Roosevelt and many others look forward to the time when a much greater interest will be displaced by the general public. I am returning your paper herewith as you may like to have it back. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Fritz B. von Schellendorff, Fursten Strasse 2 I. Munchen, Germany. 24011January 15th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me thank you very cordially the invitation which you extend to him on behalf of the Methodist Brotherhood to visit your city and make and address. He wishes it were possible to accept, but at present he is unable to go into anything new of any kind or sort. He is really sorry to be unable to send a more favorable reply. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Francis W. Westwood, Wenonah, N. J. [*24012*] January 17th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to say that he would be very glad to see you if you could call at The Outlook office on Thursday morning next say at 11 o'clock. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Alfred C. Chapin, 24 East 56th Street, New York City. 6352 January 17th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your telegram and to say that unfortunate he will not be in town until Tuesday next. It would give him much pleasure to see you either on that day or on Wednesday or Thursday, at The Outlook office any time you care to call. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr H. L. Maynard. 24013 January 18th, 1913. Dear Mr Harvier: Mr Roosevelt has read your recent letter with a good deal of interest. He is to be in town for a week or two in February, and if possible he would like to see you and some of those labor men you speak about, so as to have a full talk about the matter. Faithfully yours, Secretary Ernest Harvier Esq., 1193 Broadway, New York City. [*24014*]January 18th1913. January 18th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt is very desirous of seeing you for few minutes to discuss a matter of prison reform about whi he was recently sent a letter from Arkansas. Would it be possible for you to come into The Outlook office to see him on Tuesday next at 3.30? Faithfully yours, Secretary Orlando F. Lewis Esq., Prison Association of New York, 135 East 15th Street, New York Sity. 24015January 18th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your invitation to visit Tuskegee Institute, but unfortunatel it is impossible for him to accept. He is really sorry. Faithfully yours, Secretary Hon. Seth Low, 30 East 64th Street, New York City. 24016January 18th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt your letter and to say that it would give him much pl to see you if you could call at The Outlook office on Thursday morning next, say at 12.30. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr H. Lloyd Polsom, 314 Broadway, New York City. 24017January 18th, 1913. My dear Madam: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you and the other ladies for the very kind telegram which they sent to him. This is the first he has heard, however, that he is expect to visit Montgomery in the near future. As a matter of fa he has made no such engagement, nor is it possible for him to do so for at least many months to come. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mrs S. B. Stern, Equal Suffrage League, Montgomery, Ala. 24018January 19th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt desires me to thank you for your letter and the enclosure. He is a Contributing Editor to The Outlook and has nothing whatever to do with the acceptance of articles for publication in that magazine. Such matters [are?] in the hands of the Managing Editor, and if you so desire you can get into communication with him at The Outlook office. Faithfully yours, Secretary Rev. W. A. Byrd, Rochester, N. Y.January 19th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for the invitation which you extend to him on behalf of the American Club of Toronto to visit your city and make an [??] He wishes it were possible to accept, but at present he is unable to go into anything new of any kind or sort. He is really sorry to be unable to send a more favorable reply. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Paul Fitzpatrick, 119 West Wellington Street, Toronto, Canada. 24019January 19th, 1913. My dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your recent letter [??] Mr Roosevelt, together with its enclosures. On account of the great pressure which he is under at the present time, unfortunately it is a physical impossibility for him to go into anything new of any kind or sort. I am therefore [ret???] your enclosures herewith. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Ferguson Marshall, Harpers Ferry, West Va. 24020January 19th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt has received your letter asking him to contribute to your columns, but he feels sure on thinking it over you will see why he is unable to do so. He is now Contributing Editor to The Outlook, which publication has the exclusive right to publish anything he writes. If he were make a single exception by contributing to your publication he would be immediately inundated with applications for articles on various subjects from all over the country. He is sorry not to be able to do as you ask. Sincerely yours, Secretary Mr G. M. Sauder, Dalton, Ohio. 24021January 20th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt is approached by so many hundreds of people to read manuscripts, or to give advice as to public that if he were to respond favorable in each case it would become a burden too great for him to bear. As you will readily realize on thinking it over, if he granted one such request he would be compelled in common fairness to respond to all others. He is very sorry, but it really is impossbile for him to do as you wish, though he much appreciates the circumstances. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr A. N. Greene, Wabaunsee, Kan. 24022January 20th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for the invitation which you extend to him on behalf of th Committee of the Inaugural Masonic Charity Ball to visit your city and make an address. He wishes it were possible to accept, but at present he is unable to go into anything now of any kind or sort. He is really sorry to be unable to send a more favorable reply. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr H. A. Greene, Box 149 Masonic Hall, New York City. 24023January 20th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt desires me to thank you very cordially for the invitation which you extend to him on behalf of pupils of Monmouth College to visit your city and make an address. He wishes it were possible to accept, but at present he is unable to go into anything new of any kind or sort. He is really sorry to be unable to send a more favorable reply. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr J. T. McBane, 209 S 8th Street, Mommouth, Ill. 24024January 20th, 1913. Dear Mr Perkins: I do not know if there is anything you can do in this matter, but I am sending the letter to you in case there is. Sincerely yours, Secretary George W. Perkins Esq. 24025January 20th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your letter and to say how pleased he was by what you wrote. He would write you a personal note, but at present it is a physical impossibility for him to attend to all his correspondents and he therefore hopes you will accept this note as an expression of his thanks and acknowledgment. Faithfully yours, Secretary Dr C. Roberts Richie, Brewster, N. Y. 24026January 20th, 1913. My dear Sir: Every day, almost without exception, Mr Roosevelt receives a number of letters asking him to obtain positions various kinds for those who write to him. Now, I am sure thinking it over you will see how impossible it is for Mr Roosevelt to render help in this way. He is no longer in office, and has nothing whatever to do with the disposal positions of any kind or sort, nor does he know anyone who be able to render such help. It is therefore with regret he is compelled to send an unfavorable reply, such though may sympathize with the needs of the applicants. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr John A. Ross, 17705January 20th, 1913. My dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter to Mr Roosevelt and in reply to say that Mr Roosevelt was born on October 27th, 1858. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr J. Wichkan Rure, Mattituck, N.Y. 24027 January 20th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for the invitation which you extend to him on behalf of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church to visit your city and make an address. He wishes it were possible to accept, but at present he is unable to go into anything new of any kind or sort. He is really sorry to be unable to send a more favorable reply. Faithfully yours, Secretary Rev. S. Townsend Weaver, Washington, D. C. 24028January 21st, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for the book which you have kindly sent him. He appreciates your courtesy. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr J. Boyarsky, 231 East 6th Street, Los Angeles, Cal. 4134 (inverted in bottom right-hand corner)January 21st, 1913. Dear Mr Burns: This will be presented to you by Father York of Huntingdon, who is the best citizen in Huntingdon, and who has started a first-class forum there. He is an A 1 man, and just our type, and I cordially commend him to you. Faithfully yours, William J. Burns Esq.January 21st, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your letter of January 16th about that russet leather saddle. He would like on McClellan-Whitman saddle with twelve inch seat with stirrup leathers but without sweat leathers. He want just the ordinary stirrup straps attached. He would like this sent to Lady Colvile, care of J. Crocker Esq, care of East Africa and Uganda Corporation Kilindini, British East Africa. If you will let me have a note of the charges I will see that a check is sent to you immediately. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr R. Birnie, War Department, Washington, D. C. 24029January 21st, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt is approached by so many hundreds of people to read manuscripts, or to give advice as to publication that if he were to respond favorably in each case it would become a burden too great for him to bear. As you will re realize on thinking it over, if he granted one such request would be compelled in common fairness to respond to all others He is very sorry, but it really is impossible for him to do you wish, though he much appreciates the circumstances. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Will F. Huff, 125 Harrison Street, Munroe, La. 24030January 21st, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for your kindness in sending him a copy of your book "Die Holden Afrikas". He looks forward with a good deal of pleasure to reading it. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr W. Langhold, 24031January 21st, 1913. Gentlemen: Mr Roosevelt has received the enclosed letter from Captain Stigand which he immediately sends to you[.] I also enclosed the foreward to Captain Stigand's book which Mr Roosevelt has written. Faithfully yours, Secretary The Macmillan Company, New York City. 24032January 21st, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your le[tter] and also for that manuscript. He has read it himself [?] has turned it over immediately to one of his co-editor[s] and has asked him to read it with a view to having it published in The Outlook. Mr Roosevelt would much like you to bring Mr Natalish in to see him tomorrow (Thursday) morning, [say?] at eleven o'clock if that time is convenient to you. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr John M. Oskison, Colliers, New York City. 24033January 21st , 1913 . Gentleman : Early in February Mr Roosevelt will be coming into New York for a few days and he will then be willing to come across to your studio for a few minutes to have his picture taken . Faithfully yours , Secretary Pach Bros . , 935 Broadway , New York City . 24034 January 21st , 1913 . My dear Sir : Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your letter and to say that it would give him much pleasure see you if you could call at The Outlook office tomorrow ( Thursday ) morning say at 11 o ' clock . Faithfully yours , Secretary Mr James E. Shepard , Hotel Victoria , New York City . 24035 January 21st, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for the invitation which you extend to him on behalf of the New Labor Temple Committee to visit your city and make an address. He wishes it were possible to accept, but at present he is unable to go into anything new of any kind or sort. He is really sorry to be unable to send a more favorable reply. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Harry Streesser, Omaha, Nebr. 24036 January 21st , 1913 . Dear Mr Woyl : Mr Roosevelt wishes me to say that he would be very glad if you would come in and see him at The Outlook office on Friday morning next , say at 11 o' clock . Faithfully yours , Secretary Walter A . Woyl Esq . 24037 January 21st, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your letter in reference to your question as to what Mr Roosevelt meant by that sentence about President Jackson, which occurred in a book on the Naval War of 1812, which he wrote thirty years ago. To answer this question it would be necessary for Mr Roosevelt to sit down and write a history of Jackson's administration. Until Mr Roosevelt went over the matter again, he would not be prepared to say whether or not he entirely agreed with the judgment he thus incidentally expressed thirty years ago. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr John J. Whitehouse, Springfield, Mass. 24038 January 22 , 1913 . Dear Mr Valentine : I received your letter and I will write at once to the State Chairman of the Progressive Party according to your suggestion . I am obliged to you for having made it . Faithfully yours , Mr Edson B . Valentine , ?enton Harbor , Mich . 24039 [*File under Vessy*] January 22nd 1913. Gentlemen: I wish I could be present at your meeting of the members of the Progressive Party from Minnesota and the adjoining States. I am particularly sorry not to be with you because I feel that just at this time it is imperatively necessary for every true Progressive to make it clearly understood that this party has come to stay, and that under no circumstance will there be any amalgamation with either of the old parties. We welcome all progressives [into our party and will treat all alike on equal terms.] We believe that there are literally millions of progressives now associated with the Democratic and Republican parties who agree with our principles, and who will sooner or later throw off the shackles that bind them to dead machines and join with us to become the only living force in this country effectively working for social and industrial justice. Those progressives who still remain in the ranks of the old parties can accomplish little or nothing for the cause they and we have in common until they realize that their place is with us, and that the only way to secure the triumph of progressive principles is to come into the only party that is sincerely and wholly in favor of those principles. The attitude of President Taft, Mr Barnes, Mr Penrose, Mr Guggenheim, Mr Crane and the other men responsible for the theft of the Republican Convention last June shows that they are 240402 wedded to reaction. The speech made by Mr Taft at the banquet of January 4th in New York was a reaffirmation of the principles of pure toryism, to which the Republican Party has now abandoned itself. That party is bound hand and foot to the bosses who have stolen its organization from the people, partly to perpetuate themselves in power and party to serve the cause of their masters the great representatives of privilege in business. There is nothing whatever in common between the Progressive Party and the Republican Party as now constituted. I fully believe that the bulk of the rank and file of the Republican Party are honest men whose proper place is with us. But they can only become effective in the fight for decent conditions in this republic by joining with us. Any attempt to bring the Progressive Party into union with the Republican Party is on its face not merely mischievous but impossible; for in guiding, purpose and spirit the Progressive Party and the [present] Republican Party are as far as the poles asunder. In no long time I believe that the division between the forces of wise progress and of reaction in the Democratic Party will become so marked as to render it evident to the people of this country that that party is powerless to work effectively for the common welfare of all the citizens of this nation. The Democratic Party can accomplish nothing of worth save in so far as it abandons the principles which it has maintained in the past, save 240413 as it repudiates its platform [of last Summer] and the policies enunciated by its candidates who stood on that platform. It can accomplish nothing save by acting in strict accordance with the Progressive platform, [and] in adopting not merely the principles of that platform, but the methods advocated by the Progressives for putting those principles into effect. In the matter of the tariff, we stand for protection against extortion. We believe it is as wrong to make the tariff improperly high as to make it improperly low. We hold that the only safe course to pursue is to find out the exact facts through as permanent non-partisan commission of experts, and with these facts before us provide protection adequate to equalize conditions of competition between this people and foreign nations both for the farmer and the manufacturer in such fashion that we shall maintain for labor an adequate standard of living. We hold, as our platform has said, that the Republican Payne-Aldrich bill was unjust, and that Democratic programme of a tariff for revenue only [if honestly adhered to] would inevitably produce the most widespread industrial and commercial disaster. As regards the great interstate corporations doing a national business, we demand strong national regulation by a Federal administrative commission which shall maintain permanent and active supervision over industrial corporations of public importance, such as national banks and interstate 240424 railroads are now supervised. Under this system the Sherman law will be strengthened, and its inhibitions rendered specific and effective, while at the same time all business that is conducted on honest and legitimate lines would be amply safeguarded. No plank of our platform is more important than the dealing with social and industrial justice. In State and in Nation our representatives should now strive everywhere for such measures as the prohibition of child labor, a minimum wage for working women, the establishment of an eight-hour day for women, one day's rest in seven for all wageworkers, an eight-hour day in continuous twenty-four hour industries, [and] the substitution for the convict contract labor system of a system of prison employment for governmental consumption only and the application of prisoners' earnings for the support of their dependent families. These and kindred measures such as State provision for widows left with dependent children and the adoption of workmen's compensation laws and laws for the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age, are part of our settled programs. The farmer should be with us. We favor protecting him by the tariff just as we favor protecting the manufacturer and the wageworker. We are resolute to foster the development of agricultural credit and cooperation, and in all ways, direct and indirect, to promote the welfare of those who live 240435 in the open country, and to bring within their reach the benefits of better farming, better business and better living. It would be idle to attempt again to set forth all the policies contained in the Progressive platform. Suffice it to say that in my deliberate judgment that platform was the greatest utterance of true democracy in the interests of the welfare of mankind that we have seen since the death of Abraham Lincoln. To talk of our amalgamating with either of the old parties is as idle as it would have been to talk of the Republicans in the days of Abraham Lincoln, the progressives of their days, amalgamating with either the Cotton Whigs or Bourbon Democrats of that day. There shall be no retreat from the position we have taken. High of heart and strong of hand, we front the future, [and] the future is surely ours. [Sincerely] Faithfully yours, Governor R. H. Vessey, South Dakota, Mr James Sutherland, South Dakota, Judge M. D. Purdy, Minnesota, Mr Hugh Halbert, Minnesota, Mr Henry W. Wallace, Michigan, Mr Charles P. O'Neill, Michigan, Mr Henry F. Cochems, Wisconsin, Mr Norman L. Baker, Wisconsin, Mr A. Y. More, North Dakota, and Mr D. Carroll, North Dakota. 24044[*File under Vessy*] January 22nd 1913. Gentlemen: I wish I could be present at your meeting of the members of the Progressive Party from Minnesota and the adjoining States. I am particularly sorry not to be with you because I feel that just at this time it is imperatively necessary for every true Progressive to make it clearly understood that this party has come to stay, and that under no circumstance will there be any amalgamation with either of the old parties. We welcome all progressives into our party and will treat all alike on equal terms. We believe that there are literally millions of progressives now associated with the Democratic and Republican parties who agree with our principles, and who will sooner or later throw off the shackles that bind them to dead machines and join with us to become the only living force in this country effectively working for social and industrial justice. Those progressives who still remain in the ranks of the old parties can accomplish little or nothing for the cause they and we have in common until they realize that their place is with us, and that the only way to secure the triumph of progressive principles is to come into the only party that is sincerely and wholly in favor of those principles. The attitude of President Taft, Mr Barnes, Mr Penrose, Mr Guggenheim, Mr Cranne and the other men responsible for the theft of the Republican Convention last June shows that they are wedded to reaction. The speech made by Mr Taft at the banquet of January 4th in New York was a reaffirmation of the principles of pure toryism, to which the Republican Party has now abandoned itself. That party is bound hand and foot to the bosses who have stolen its organization from the people, partly to perpetuate themselves in power and party to serve the cause of their masters the great representatives of privilege in business. There is nothing whatever in common between the Progressive Party and the Republican Party as now constituted. I fully believe that the bulk of the rank and file of the Republican Party are honest men whose proper place is with us. But they can only become effective in the fight for decent conditions in this republic by joining with us. Any attempt to bring the 240452 Progressive Party into union with the Republican Party is on its face not merely mischievous but impossible; for in guiding, purpose and spirit the Progressive Party and the present Republican Party are as far as the poles asunder. In no long time I believe that the division between the forces of wise progress and of reaction in the Democratic Party will become so marked as to render it evident to the people of this country that that party is powerless to work effectively for the common welfare of all the citizens of this nation. The Democratic Party can accomplish nothing of worth save in so far as it abandons the principles which it has maintained in the past, save as it repudiates its platform of last Summer, and the policies enunciated by its candidates who stood on that platform. It can accomplish nothing save by acting in strict accordance with the Progressive platform, and in adopting not merely the principles of that platform, but the methods advocated by the Progressives for putting those principles into effect. In the matter of the tariff, we stand for protection and against extortion. We believe it is as wrong to make the tariff improperly high as to make it improperly low. We hold that the only safe course to pursue is to find out the exact facts through as permanent non-partisan commission of experts, and with these facts before us to provide protection adequate to equalize conditions of competition between this people and foreign nations both for the farmer and the manufacturer in such fashion that we shall maintain for labor an adequate standard of living. We hold, as our platform has said, that the xxxx Republican Payne-Aldrich bill was unjust, and that Democratic program of a tariff for revenue only if honestly adhered to would inevitably produce the most widespread industrial and commercial disaster. As regards the great interstate corporations doing a national business, we demand strong national regulation by a Federal administrative commission which shall maintain permanent and active supervision over industrial corporations of public importance, such as national banks and interstate railroads are now 240463 supervised. Under this system the Sherman law will be strengthened, and its inhibitions rendered specific and effective, while at the same time all business that is conducted on honest and legitimate lines would be amply safeguarded. No plank of our platform is more important than that dealing with social and industrial justice. In State and in Nation our representatives should now strive everywhere for such measures as the prohibition of child labor, a minimum wage for working women, the establishment of an eight hour day for women, one day's rest in seven for all wageworkers, an eight hour day in continuous twenty four hour industries, and the substitution for the convict contract labor system of a system of prison employment for governmental consumption only and the application of prisoners earnings for the support of their dependent families. These and kindred measures such as workmen's compensation laws and laws for the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age, are part of our settled program. The farmer should be with us. We favor protecting him by the tariff just as we favor protecting the manufacturer and the wageworker. We are resolute to foster the development of agricultural credit and cooperation, and in all ways, direct and indirect, to promite the welfare of those who live in the open country, and to bring within their reach the benefits of better farming better business and better living. It would be idle to attempt again to set forth all the policies contained in the Progressive Platform. Suffice it to say that in my deliberate judgment that platform was the greatest utterance of true democracy in the interests of the welfare of mankind that we have seen since the death of Abraham Lincoln. To talk of our amalgamating with either of the old parties is as idle as it would have been to talk of the Republicans in the days of Abraham Lincoln, the progressives of their days, amalgamating with either the Cotton Whigs, or Bourbon Democrats of that day. There shall be no retreat from the position we have taken. High of 240474 heart and strong of hand, we front the future; and the future is surely ours. Sincerely yours, Governor R. H. Vessey, South Dakota, Mr James Sutherland, South Dakota, Judge M. D. Purdy, Minnesota, Mr Hugh Halbert, Minnesota, Mr Henry W. Wallace, Michigan, Mr Charles P. O'Neill, Michigan, Mr Henry F. Cochems, Wisconsin, Mr Borman L. Baker, Wisconsin, Mr A. Y. More, North Dakota, and Mr D. Carroll, North Dakota. 24048 January 23rd , 1913 . My dear Mr Agans : That is very interesting . I thank you for having sent me the information . Undoubtedly it is the same family . Sincerely yours , Mr J. L. Agans , Pittstown , N . J . 4048 January 23rd , 1913 . My dear Madam : I am sorry to tell you that Mr Roosevelt is so overwhelmed with work at the present time that it is a physical impossibi- lity for him to go into that matter as fully as it would be necessary , nor would he be able after going into the matter with you to do anything really effective . With regret , Faithfully yours , Secretary Harriet M. Beckwith , The Wolcott , New York City . 3107 [*Theatres*] January 23rd, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for the invitation which you extend to him on behalf of the Association of Theatre Managers of Greater New York to attend their banquet on February 13th. Unfortunately previous engagement will prevent his being present. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr C. Burnham, Wallack's Theatre, New York City. January 23rd , 1913 . My dear Sir : Mr Roosevelt has asked me to say that he would very glad if you could come down to Oyster Bay on Saturday next and spend Sunday . You could take train leaving Pennsylvania Station New York either at 4.30 or at 5.30 . Will you please let me know as soon as you get this letter whether or not you will be able to go . Faithfully yours , Secretary Mr R . V Buxton , Hotel Vanderbilt , New York City . 4419 January 23rd, 1913. My dear Mr Davis: Good for you! I congratulate all the members of that delegation, and I only wish I had been there to mar through the streets of Boise with them, and have my photograph taken on the steps. I cannot help thinking that good will come out of this outrageous injustice. Faithfully yours, Mr Paul Davis, Caldwell, Idaho. 24049 January 23rd , 1913 . My dear Sir : It will give Mr Roosevelt pleasure to autograph that volume at any time you care to send it to this ? Faithfully yours , Secretary Mr Victor W. Hurst , Rochester , N . Y . 24050 January 23rd , 1913 . My dear Sir : Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for the check for five dollars which you very kindly returned to him ? which he sent you in over - payment of his subscription to the National Institute of Arts and Letters . Faithfully yours , Secretary Mr Samuel Isham , 471 Park Avenue , New York City . 24051 January 23rd, 1913. Dear Mr Mathews: Mr Roosevelt has asked me to thank you very cordially for your letter and also for your kindness in sending him that clipping from Wisconsin. He hopes you will give him the pleasure of a call whenever you are in New York. There are many things he wants to talk over with you. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Jerry A. Mathews, The Cleveland News. [*24052*] January 23rd , 1913 . My dear Sir : Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 15th , together with its enclosure . Unfortunately he is not in a position to be able to render the help desired . It would never do for him to go into such matter . Faithfully yours , Secretary Paul Mehner Esq . , Office of the Mayor , Bremerton , Wash ? 24053 January 23rd, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for the invitation which you have extended to him on behalf of the Jewish Civic Federation of the Bronx to attend a meeting on January 27th, next. Unfortunately it is physically impossible for him to be present, in addition to which h has not made any study of that bill so that it would be foolish for him to try and express any opinion upon it. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Bernard Rabbino, 1315 Boston Road, New York City. 24054January 23rd, 1913. Dear Mr Sullivan: Mr Roosevelt has asked me to say how pleased he is with the way you have gotten up that article. He was glad to see the second part of it. Sincerely yours, Secretary Mark Sullivan Esq., [*24055*]January 23rd, 1913. Dear Mr Whitridge: Mr Roosevelt has asked me to inquire if it would be convenient for you to have him at lunch on Friday February 7th. If that day is inconvenient, probably some other day would suit him equally well. I wish you would let me hear from you at your early convenience. Faithfully yours, Secretary F. W. Whitridge Esq. [*24056*]January 23rd, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordiall for your invitation to visit your factory. Unfortunatel his engagements will not permit him to do so. He is already doing all that he can in that matter, but in a different direction. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr W. Irving Wolf, 511 East 72nd Street, New York City. 24057January 24th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt received your letter a few days ago immediately get into communication with the managers of Progressive Party with a view to seeing whether ot not t could do anything regarding rendering the monetary help desire. Of course the one great need of the Progressive at present is to secure enough money to carry on thoroug organization work. Mr Roosevelt hopes however they will able to do something for you and if they are able to the[y] will probably get into communication with you direct. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr R. M. Cook, Richwood, W. Va. 6229January 24th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for your letter inviting him to beone of the guests at that dinner. Unfortunately a previous engagement will prevent his coming. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr F. S. Dellenbaugh, The Explorers Club, New York City. 24058January 24th, 1913. Dear Mr Hooker: Herewith is a check in accordance with the enclosed letter. You will notice that the man promise to pay ten dollars a year until the next Presidential campaign. Will you please return me the letter after you have read it? Faithfully yours, Secretary Elon H. Hooker Esq., 40 Wall Street, New York City. [*24059*]January 24th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your letter and to express his regret that unfortunately at the present time he is so overwhelmed with work of various kinds that it is physically impossible for him to spare the time for you to call and explain that matter to him. As a matter of fact he cannot undertake anything ne of any kind or sort at present. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Edwin B. Jennings, 72 Trinity Place, New York City. 24060New York, January 24th, 1913. My dear Assemblyman Shapp: It seems to me that in the interest of the people of New York it is now imperatively necessary that the Legislature of the State should undertake a thorough investigation into the labor conditions of the special industries severally designated as white goods, wrapper and kimona. In the dress and waist industry an investigation has already been arranged for within the industry itself by the joint action of the employers and the union. No such joint action has been arranged concerning the white goods wrapper and kimona industry, and it cannot be arranged until the employers in those industries recognise the fundamental need that the employees shall have the right to combine into unions recognized by the employers. This investigation should embrace all the conditions affecting the men and women in that industry, having especial regard to the wages, the earnings, the hours and conditions of work, drawing a sharp distinction between actual earnings and wage scales, and including contracting, sub-contracting and minor sub-contracting. I submit herewith a copy of a statement of Mr Harry A. Gordon, the counsel of the employers in the white goods industry. Mr Gordon claims that as regards the greater number of the establishments in the industry the conditions are good, and he courts investigation of them. He specifically admits that in some cases there is need of shorter hours of employment, of improved sanitation, and of a rise in wages - on all of which points all my other informants entirely agree with him. It is not my province, nor is it within my power, to pass judgment on conflicting claims as to the extent to which improperly low wages, unsanitary conditions and excessive hours prevail in this industry; there is no question that there are some factories in which the conditions are excellent, and in which the employers 240612 are fully alive to their duties towards their employees; there is also no question that in other factories the conditions are bad from every standpoint. I emphatically dissent from the position taken by Mr Gordon as representative of the manufacturers in their attitude towards trade unionism. This position is in effect that taken a number of years ago by a certain gentleman in the anthracite coal trade, and has since been known as the "Vicegerent of God" position, the position that the employer ought to treat his employees well and humanely, but should be held responsible only to God and his own conscience for his actions - a position taken throughout history not only by absolute monarchs who were good, but by absolute monarchs who were bad. The manufacturers represented by Mr Gordon express their emphatic opposition to the protocol or memorandum of agreement in the cloak, suit and skirt industry between the manufacturers and the union, signed September 2nd 1910. As I am submitting this attack by Mr Gordon on the protocol in question I must also add that his allegations of fact are challenged by such persons as Miss Wald, Mr Henry Moskowitz, Mr William J. Schefflein, Mr Julius Henry Cohen and others whose names can be given. The persons named are working continuously under the protocol and know whereof they speak. Moreover Mr Gordon states that his organization will not deal with or recognize the union. To my mind this is the critical point of difference. No man can inquire in the most cursory manner into the situation as it actually exists among these kimona and white goods workers without realizing that these young girls are absolutely helpless if they are obliged to bargain for their rights individually. They must possess the right of collective bargaining, and they must be able to establish for themselves relations with kindred organizations which will support them when they are wrongfully treated. Moreover, in my judgment, there must be a government body, like the United States Department of Labor, whose business it shall be to oversee the actual workings of the 240623 industry under these different agreements. Already this Department has made an investigation of the workings of the protocol in the cloak industry. I send you herewith a copy of its report. Objection is often made that individual unions misbehave themselves. I have not the slightest question that this is the fact. It is well to bear in mind Abraham Lincoln's homely phrase that "There is a deal of human nature in mankind." There are, and will be, individuals and organizations that misbehave themselves among labor unions exactly as among employers' associations. One of the prime needs of our present social situation is that the genuine believer in trades unionism, the genuine believer in the rights of the working men and women of this country - including especially their right to combine and to speak collectively to their collective employers - shall fearlessly point out and reprobate the act of the union that is wrong, including specifically any attempt to prevent the discharge of incompetent workers, or the just and fair maintenance of shop discipline. For the employer to discharge a good man as "incompetent", when the real reason is that the man has stood for the rights of himself and his fellows, is an outrage; and it is equally an outrage for the union to support the kind of workingmen whose actions within and without the shop represent applied anarchy. I visited bodies of girl strikers in Henry Street and in St Marks Place, and choosing at random listened to the stories of the different girls. In Henry Street the girls were mostly recent immigrants from Southern Spain and from the Turkish Empire. Those from the Turkish empire could not speak English, and although they were of Jewish faith they could not speak Yiddish, so that they were peculiarly helpless under our conditions here. Some of the girls were fourteen and fifteen years old, other sixteen, seventeen and eighteen. The wages were in one or two cases as low as $3 a week, and up to $5.50, $6, and $8 a week. I was informed that there were girls who worked for $2.50 a week, and there was one I saw who worked for $3.31 a week, and two or three who worked for $3 a week. One girl of fifteen earned $5 a week, but had to 240634 pay $30 for a machine on which she worked. Another, who had to pay $32 for a machine, worked from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and mentioned that in Summer she was charged 10 cents a week for ice water. Another girl who was earning $5 a week had a father in the hospital, and out of $5 a week was supporting two young children, her brother and sister, in addition to herself. These young girls from Turkey represented the lowest and poorest paid workers that we saw; their fathers and brothers being ignorant of English find it difficult to get employment, and the girls often support the whole family on their scanty sweatshop earnings. Some of the girls out of the miserable pittance paid them have themselves to pay for repairs to machines and for thread and needles. In St Marks Place the girls looked healthier and as if their lives were lived under better conditions - better conditions of course being a purely relative term, for the conditions as to many of the girls were very bad also. They spoke English. Many of these girls did not live at their homes, and in such cases the owner of the house in which they lived, whom they generally spoke of as the "missus", charged them $3 a month for lodging, this lodging sometimes consisting of one bed and sometimes of a place in a bed with other girls. I was informed that often three or four firls girls slept in one bed. One such girl, for instance, was earning $4.50 a week, $18 a month. Out of this she paid $3 for lodging, $2 a week or 9.50 a month, for breakfast and supper; leaving $5 a month for dinner or the midday meal, for car fare, for clothing, for medicine when sick, for dentist, for oculist, as well as for recreation if there was any. I mention the oculist particularly because the conditions of work are such that the eyes of many of the girls are affected. Now here were young girls, many of them undeveloped children, toiling excessive hours each day, often (as Mr George M Price of the New York State Factory Commission inform me) in dark unsanitary shops, without any adequate fire protection, sometimes under grossly insanitary conditions, generally for low wages, diminished in many cases by charges for machines, electric power, for needles and even for drinking water. These girls are to be the future mothers of part of our American citizenship of the next generation. Aside even from 240645 the feeling of deep sympathy for them personally, which must be aroused in any man who investigates their conditions, there is the larger question of the social good of the whole race. I do not think that either the National Government or the State Government can afford to ignore this question. We cannot as a community sit in apathy and permit these young girls to fight in the streets for a living wage and for hours and conditions of labor which shall not threaten their very lives. I very earnestly urge that a State Investigating Committee be appointed to inquire into the conditions of worj in the wrapper, kimona and white goods trades (the shirtwaist and dress makers investigation being proceeded with under their own protocol). This protocol just adopted in the dress and wait industry is a document for which I especially ask your earnest consideration. I enclose a copy. I especially ask your attention to the language used by Mr Julius Henry Cohen on the inside of the first page of that document as follows: "The protocol in the dress and waist industry - signed after deliberation - will bring peace and economic order out of anarchy and chaos. Let employers generally take notice. If they will but sit down and reason in conference with the rational representatives of organized labor, Dynamite and Sabotage will pass out of this land, and diplomacy and Voluntary Courts of Arbitration will take their place. Which is preferable? There is a crisis in our nations industrial life. Let us meet it as statesmen, not as anarchists. The reactionaries in both camps - Capital and Labor are the real enemies of society. Let us crowd them out. They have no place in an American Democracy." Surely this represents the ideal toward which we should strive, with the purpose of realizing it in each industry as rapidly as the conditions will permit. Our aim should be to establish hearty cooperation between employer and employed, individually and collectively, each side temperately insisting on its own rights, freely recognizing the rights of the other side, and both sides recognizing the larger rights of interest of the community as a whole. I ask for the investigation not merely for the purpose of publicity, but as a means for bringing about necessary legislation. Under the protocol of which I send you a copy, minimum wage boards are established by the the industry itself through cooperation between the manufacturers and the workers. I ask that the State not only further this idea but follow it by 240656 State action creating such boards in such industries where they have not been created freely by the action of those in the industry itself. The Legislative Committee of the Progressive Party will present to the Legislature carefully prepared bills providing for minimum wage boards and the investigation for which I ask will I believe furnish additional grounds for demanding the passage of such bills. (Signed) Theodore Roosevelt 24066New York, January 24th, 1913. My dear Assemblyman Shapp: It seems to me that in the interest of the people of New York it is now imperatively necessary that the Legislation of the State should undertake a thorough investigation into the labor conditions of the special industries severally designated as white goods, wrapper and kimona. In the dress and waist industry an investigation has already been arranged for within the industry itself by the joint action of the employers and the union. No such joint action has been arranged concerning the white goods wrapper and kimona industry, and it cannot be arranged until the employers in those industries recognize the fundamental need that the employees shall have the right to combine into unions recognized by the employers. This investigation should embrace all the conditions affecting the men and women in that industry, having especial regard to the wages, the earnings, the hours and conditions of work, drawing a sharp distinction between actual earnings and wage scales, and including contracting, sub-contracting and minor sub-contracting. I submit herewith a copy of a statement of Mr Harry A. Gordon, the counsel of the employers in the white goods industry. Mr Gordon claims that as regards the greater number of the establishments in the industry the conditions are good, and he courts investigation of them. He specifically admits that in some cases there is need of shorter hours of employment, of improved sanitation, and of a rise in wages - on all of which points all my other informants entirely agree with him. It is not my province, nor is it within my power, to pass judgment on conflicting claims as to the extent to which improperly low wages, unsanitary conditions and excessive hours prevail in this industry; there is no question that there are some factories in which the conditions are excellent, and in which the employers 240672 are fully alive to their duties towards their employers; there is also no question that in other factories the conditions are bad from every standpoint. I emphatically dissent from the position taken by Mr Gordon as representative of the manufactures in their attitude towards trade unionism. This position is in effect that taken a number of years ago by a certain gentleman in the anthracite coal trade, and has since been known as the "Vicegerent of God" position, the position, that the employer ought to treat his employees well and humanely, but should be held responsible only to God and his own conscience for his actions - a position taken throughout history not only by absolute monarchs who were good, but by absolute monarchs who were bad. The manufacturers represented by Mr Gordon express their emphatic opposition to the protocol or memorandum of agreement in the cloak, suit and skirt industry between the manufacturers and the union, signed September 2nd 1910. As I am submitting this attack by Mr Gordon on the protocol in question I must also add that his allegations of fact are challenged by such persons as Miss Wald, Mr Henry Moskowitz, Mr William J. Schefflein, Mr Julius Henry Cohen and others whose names can be given. The persons named are working continuously under the protocol and know whereof they speak. Moreover Mr Gordon states that his organization will not deal with or recognize the union. To my mind this is the critical point of difference. No man can inquire in the most cursory manner into the situation as it actually exists among these kimona and white goods workers without realizing that these young girls are absolutely helpless if they are obliged to bargain for their rights individually. They must possess the right of collective bargaining, and they must be able to establish for themselves relations with kindred organizations which will support them when they are wrongfully treated. Moreover, in my judgment, there must be a government body, like the United States Department of Labor, whose business it shall be to oversee the actual workings of the 240683 industry under these different agreements. Already this Department has made an investigation of the workings of the protocol in the cloak industry. I send you herewith a copy of its report. Objection is often made that individual unions misbehave themselves. I have not the slightest question that this is the fact. It is well to bear in mind Abraham Lincoln's homely phrase that "There is a deal of human nature in mankind." There are, and will be, individuals and organizations that misbehave themselves among labor unions exactly as among employers associations. One of the prime needs of our present social situation is that the genuine believer in trades unionism, the genuine believer in the rights of the working men and women of this country - including especially their right to combine and to speak collectively to their collective employers - shall fearlessly point out and reprobate the act of the union that is wrong, including specifically any attempt to prevent the discharge of incompetent workers, or the just and fair maintenance of shop discipline. For the employer to discharge a good man as "incompetent", when the real reason is that the man has stood for the rights of himself and his fellows, is an outrage; and it is equally an outrage for the union to support the kind of workingmen whose actions within and without the shop represent applied anarchy. I visited bodies of girl strikers in Henry Street and in St Marks Place, and choosing at random listened to the stories of the different girls. In Henry Street the girls were mostly recent immigrants from Southern Spain and from the Turkish Empire. Those from the Turkish empire could not speak English, and although they were of Jewish faith they could not speak Yiddish, so that they were peculiarly helpless under our conditions here. Some of the girls were fourteen and fifteen years old, other sixteen, seventeen and eighteen. The wages were in one or two cases as low as $3 a week, and up to $5.50, $6, and $8 a week. I was informed that there were girls who worked for $2.50 a week, and there was one I saw who worked for $3.31 a week, and two or three who worked for $3 a week. One girl of fifteen earned $5 a week, but had to 240694 pay $30 for a machine on which she worked. Another, who had to pay $32 for a machine, worked from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and mentioned that in Summer she was charged 10 cents a week for ice water. Another girl who was earning $5 a week had a father in the hospital, and out of $5 a week was supporting two young children, her brother and sister, in addition to herself. These young girls from Turkey represented the lowest and poorest paid workers that we saw; their fathers and brothers being ignorant of English find it difficult to get employment, and the girls often support the whole family on their scanty sweatshop earnings. Some of the girls out of the miserable pittance paid them have themselves to pay for repairs to machines and for thread and needles. In St Marks Place the girls looked healthier and as if their lives were lived under better conditions - better conditions of course being a purely relative term, for the conditions as to many of the girls were very bad also. They spoke English. Many of these girls did not live at their homes, and in such cases the owner of the house in which they lived, whom they generally spoke of as the "missus", charged them $3 a month for lodging, this lodging sometimes consisting of one bed and sometimes of a place in a bed with other girls. I was informed that often three or four firls slept in one bed. One such girl, for instance, was earning $4.50 a week, $1' a month. Out of this she paid $3 for lodging, $2 a week or $9.50 a month, for breakfast and supper; leaving $5 a month for dinner or the midday meal, for car fare, for clothing, for medicine when sick, for dentist, for oculist, as well as for recreation if there was any. I mention the oculist particularly because the conditions of worl are such that the eyes of many of the girls are affected. Now here were young girls, many of them undeveloped children, toiling (as Mr George M. Price of the New York State Factory Commission informed me) excessive hours each day, often in dark unsanitary shops, without any adequate fire protection, sometimes under grossly insanitary conditions, generally for low wages, diminished in many cases by charges for machines, electric power, for needles and even for drinking water. These girls are to be the future mothers of part of our American citizenship of the next generation. Aside even from 240705 the feeling of deep sympathy for them personally, which must be aroused in any man who investigates their conditions, there is the larger question of the social good of the whole race. I do not think that either the National Government or the State Government can afford to ignore this question. We cannot as a community sit in apathy and permit these young girls to fight in the streets for a living wage and for hours and conditions of labor which shall not threaten their very lives. I very earnestly urge that a State Investigating Committee be appointed to inquire into the conditions of worj in the wrapper, kimona and white goods trades (the shirtwaist and dress makers investigation being proceeded with under their own protocol). This protocol just adopted in the dress and wait industry is a document for which I especially ask your earnest consideration. I enclose a copy. I especially ask your attention to the language used by Mr Julius Henry Cohen on the inside of the first page of that document as follows: "The protocol in the dress and waist industry - signed after deliberation - will bring peace and economic order out of anarchy and chaos. Let employers generally take notice. If they will but sit down and reason in conference with the rational representatives of organized labor, Dynamite and Sabotage will pass out of this land, and diplomacy and Voluntary Courts of Arbitration will take their place. Which is preferable? There is a crisis in our nations industrial life. Let us meet it as statesmen, not as anarchists. The reactionaries in both camps - Capital and Labor are the real enemies of society. Let us crowd them out. They have no place in an American Democracy." Surely this represents the ideal to which we should strive, with the purpose of realizing it in each industry as rapidly as the conditions will permit. Our aim should be to establish hearty cooperation between employer and employed, individually and collectively, each side temperately insisting on its own rights, freely recognizing the rights of the other side, and both sides recognizing the larger rights of interest of the community as a whole. I ask for the investigation not merely for the purpose of publicity, but as a means for bringing about necessary legislation. Under the protocol of which I send you a copy, minimum wage boards are established by the the industry itself through cooperation between the manufacturers and the workers. I ask that the State not only further this idea but follow it by 240716 State action creating such boards in such industries where they have not been created freely by the action of those in the industry itself. The Legislative Committee of the Progressive Party will present to the Legislature carefully prepared bills providing for minimum wage boards and the investigation for which I ask will I believe furnish additional grounds for demanding the passage of such bills. (Signed) Theodore Roosevelt 24072LFADD January 24, 1913. My dear Mr. Townshend: Mr. Roosevelt asks me to say that he appreciates your invitation to address the Graduates' Club on Lincoln's Birthday and thanks you for it. His engagements, however, are such that it is impossible for him to accept. He particularly regrets this as your dinner is in remembrance of Lincoln, and there is no man whose memory he more delights to honor. I am, Very truly yours, Dr. Arthur B. Townshend, The Collingwood, New York City. [*24073*]January 24th, 1913. My dear Madam: Mr Roosevelt is very sorry, but it is quite impossible for him to answer the query you put. People write to him asking his opinion upon all kinds of subjects and to express his opinion in each case would entail an unwarrantable drain upon his time and energy. Besides this, he would not feel competent to express an opinion in any single case unless he was able to make a careful study of it beforehand and this I am sure you will realize is impossible on account of the very great pressure upon him at the present time. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr A. O. Weissenborn 24074January 24th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for your kindness in sending me a copy of the letter of November 9th which you wrote to him and which unfortunately must have been mislaid in the great mass of mail which [?] then arriving. He has no photographs of himself or otherwise he would take the greatest pleasure in signing a couple and sending them to Mrs Yates and Mrs Clark. He has some little pictures like the enclosed and he is therefore sending one for each of the ladies, with his best wishes. If they desire larger pictures they would be [al???] to obtain them from Messrs Pach Bros, 935 Broadway, New York City, or from Messrs Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C., [?] if they sent them to me I would ask Mr Roosevelt to 240752 autograph and return them. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Blinn Yates, Chicago Evening American, Chicago, Ill. 24076January 25th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for your very kind invitation to be present on that occasion. Unfortunately it is physically impossible for him to come. He is really sorry. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Albin R. Case, Jamaica, N. Y. 7501January 25th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your very courteous letter. He would not care to suggest names for the two boys, as he feels sure that you and Mrs Klemmer can do very much better than he could ever h to do in naming them. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr John A. Klemmer, Des Moines, Iowa. 24077[January 24th,] [January 25th,] 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you cordially for your kindness in sending him a copy of your remarks t the City Club of Philadelphia. Faithfully yours, Secretary Chief Justice Harry Olson, Municipal Court, Chicago, Ill. 24078January 25th, 1913. Dear Mr Pulsifer: Mr Roosevelt was very pleased indeed to have an opportunity of reading that letter from Mr Terwilliger. I am returning it herewith as you may like to have it back. Sincerely yours, Mr H. T. Pulsifer. 24079January 25th, 1913. My dear Dr Von Reithdorf: I am genuinely touched by your letter, and am pleased that you liked my statement regarding Mr Munsey's proposition. I appreciate all that you have written, and with all good wishes, I am Sincerely yours, Dr F. E. Von Reithdorf, Athens, Ohio. 24080January 27th, 1913. My dear Madam: On account of the number of letters which have recently arrived Mr Roosevelt has been unable to acknowledge all of t himself and a large number of them have had to be kept for later attention. Mr Roosevelt now asks me to thank you for recent letter and to say that there is nothing that he can [?] add to what you have already written as the objects of the [?] He wishes all success to you in your work. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mrs Frank Ambler, Colonia, N. J.January 27th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for the invitation which you extend to him on behalf of the Mont Reception Committee of Columbia University to attend the [rec??] on the evening of January 31st and make an address. He wish were possible to accept, but at present he is unable to go in anything new of any kind or sort. He is really sorry to be to send a more favorable reply. Faithfully yours, Secretary Alexander Cumming Esq., 557 West 124th Street, New York City. 24081January 27th, 1913. Dear O. K.: Mr Roosevelt has asked me to forward the enclosed to you He hopes that you will get into communication with someone in Colorado who will be likely to render the help which Mr [Tomli???] needs. Sincerely yours, O. K. Davis Esq. 24082January 27th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your recent le and also for the enclosure. Unfortunately he does not know magazine that would be willing to publish the article. You[r] best plan is to get into communication direct with any edito[r] of a magazine in which you would like to have the articles published, submitting it to them for their approval. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Ezra Day, Kansas City, Mo. 24083January 27th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your kindness in submitting those verses. They arrived too late for publication in The Outlook and he does not know any other magazi that would be likely to publish them at present. I am therefore returning them to you herewith. With many thanks, Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr George Edward Day, 28 Browning Road, Somerville, Mass. 24084 January 27th, 1913. My dear Mr Khayat: I must send you just one line to say how heartily I appreciate your kindness in sending me those two volu[xxx] of your poems and particularly for the one you wrote ab[xxx] me. I appreciate your courtesy and with all good wishes I am Faithfully yours, Mr Khalil Khayat, 95 Liberty Street, New York City. 24085January 27th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your kindne in letting him see those pamphlets and papers. He has had pleasure in reading them and he has now instructed me to re them to you which I have done under separate cover. Faithfully yours, Secretary Dr G. Frank Lydston, 815 Reliance Building, Chiago, Ill. 24086January 27th, 1913. My dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter to Mr Roosevelt and to say that you could see him at The Outlo office tomorrow (Tuesday) at 12.30, although I fear that will not be of any real help to you in the matter of se speakers. He has been approached by several people alre to secure speakers for them and he has not been able to render the necessary help. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr A. J. Mac Elroy, Rockville Centre, L. I. 24087January 27th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your letter also for your kindness in letting him read that paper. With of what you say he is in thorough agreement and he only wishe were possible for The Outlook to publish the paper or for him to recommend some other paper or magazine that might publish Unfortunately he does not know anyone who would do this, alth of course by personal correspondence you might secure its publication in some magazine. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Willard O. Mac Naul, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. 24088January 27th, 1913. My dear Madam: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially f your letter and to congratulate you upon the work you are d on the woman's page of "The Progressive". He wishes all su to the new venture. He only wishes it were possible for hi be of some kind of help to you in extending your influence, he would have no more influence than you would, for those p would not accept his say-so in such matters. Your best pla be to get into direct communication with them yourself. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mrs Mary D. Scott, 489 Sixth Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah. 24089January 27th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your and to say that he has taken up that matter with the Progre managers, although he fears that the calls upon them are so that they will be unable to be of any real help to you on a of lack of funds. he hopes however that they will get into [com]munication with you so as to find out if there is any possi of rendering the help you wish. Perhaps they have already communicated with you. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Fred L. Tomlinson, The Rifle Reveille, Rifle, Ohio. 24090January 27th, 1913. My dear Sir: I spoke to Mr Roosevelt about your calling and abo your wishing to have an appointment to come and see him. also communicated with Dr Lambert about the matter. Of c as you know Dr Lambert is Mr Roosevelt's family physician Mr Roosevelt asked me to say that he would not care to ta advantage of your kind offer. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr R. C. Weidlich, 16 East 43rd Street, New York City. 24091January 27th, 1913. My dear Sir: I believe you are desirous of obtaining Mr Roosevelt's remarks on prison labor from some of his recent campaign speeches. I think your best plan would be to get a copy of a letter which Mr Roosevelt wrote a few days ago to Mr H. G. Anderson, Secretary of the Board of Penitentiary Commissioners, Little Rock, Arkansas. I expect Mr Anderson will publish it almost immediately. In that letter Mr Roosevelt sets forth very fully his opinions upon prison reform, and it is the most complete statement he has made on the subject. Faithfully yours, Secretary Professor Stagg Whitin, Columbia University, New York City. 24092January 28th, 1913. My dear Sir: mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your letter of January 24th and to say that he would be very glad if you would come in and see him at The Outlook office on Wednesday February 5th, say at eleven in the morning, if that time is quite convenient to you. Faithfully yours, Secretary Vincent Astor Esq. 23 West 26th Street, New York City.January 28th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordiall for your kindness in sending him a copy of that photograph It was very good of you to do so. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr F. N. Boreo, Fleming, Mich.January 28th, 1913. Dear Mr Dresser: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your lette of January 24th and to say that he will be in The Outlook office almost any day and at almost any time from Februar 4th for the following ten days, and if you are in New Yor then he would be very glad to see you. Faithfully yours, Secretary Daniel Le Roy Dresser Esq., Newport, R. I. 24093January 28th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your kindness in sending him a copy of that book. It was very good of you to do so. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr E. H. Durley, 1515 West 7th Street, Los Angeles, Cal. 24094January 28th, 1913. My dear Sir: I am sorry to tell you that Mr Roosevelt will be at the office for the rest of the week or otherwise would give him much pleasure to see you. if there is thing you would like to state in a letter, if you cou it to me by twelve o'clock tomorrow (Thursday) I coul it down to Oyster Bay and let you have Mr Roosevelt's answer on Friday morning. I only wish it were possib arrange some appointment for you to come and see him, of course as he will not be in the office that is out the question. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Wallace H. Erskine, 186 Herkimer Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 24095January 28th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your cour in sending him a copy of that pamphlet. He appreciates yo doing so. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Earl Fredendall, Pomona, Cal. 24096January 28th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your letter and also for its enclosure, which is returned herewith. He proposes to take up that matter in his speech at the Lincoln Day banquet in New York. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr E. L. Gundlach, Chicago, Ill. 24097January 28th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your l and to say that it would give him much pleasure if you come to Oyster Bay on Sunday next and take lunch with hi He would particularly like to see you. You could take t train leaving Pennsylvania Station New York at 11.16 a.m Will you please let me know whether you will be able to Faithfully yours, Secretary Boyd R. Horsbrugh Esq., Abington, Penna. 24098January 29th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your letter and to say that he certainly hopes you will come in and see himabout 10 o'clock on the morning of Tuesday February 11th. Faithfully yours, Secretary William F. Cochran Esq., Woodbrook, Md. Special 24099January 29th, 1913. Sirs: Miss Ethel C. Roosevelt wishes to pay for a year subscription to the Scientific American, to be sent to The Berry Scool, Mount Berry, Lloyd County, Georgia. Will you kindly arrange for this and have a bill sent to Miss Roosevelt, at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island? Faithfully yours, Secretary The Scientific American, 361 Broadway, New York City. 24100January 30th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your courtesy in sending him a copy of your recent book. He l forward with pleasure to reading it. It was very kind of you to think of him in this way. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Frederick Lynch, c/o Fleming H. Revell Co., New York City. 24101 January 30th, 1913. My dear Madam: Herewith is a quotation from a speech made by Mr Roosevelt at Chicago on March 27th, 1912, which may serve the purpose which you desire. Faithfully yours, Secretary Miss Adeline Carrick Wells, The Newark Star, Newark, N. J. 24102 January 31st, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to say that he would be to see you if you could call at The Outlook office on Wednesday morning next say at 12 o'clock. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Herman Bernstein, 500 West 176th Street, New York City. [4123] January 31st, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt has asked me to send the enclosed papers to you in the hope that you will be able to give to Mr Weld the information he desires to secure. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr James D. Bulloch [4386] January 31, 1913. Dear Mr Chadbourne: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your letter and to say that he would like to see you about that mat[xxx]. Perhaps you could call at The Outlook office on Wednesday next, say at 12.15. Faithfully yours, Secretary William M. Chadbourne Esq. , 32 Liberty Street, New York City. 7696 January 31st, 1913. My dear Madam: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your letter and to say that although he thoroughly appreciates the circumstances he is unable to be of any real help to you in that matter. He does not have anything to do with filling positions on The Outlook staff, nor does he believe there are at present any vacancies. He is really sorry not to be able to be of service. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mrs O. P. Conger, White Plains, N.Y. 24103January 31st, 1913. My dear Alderman Curran: Mr Roosevelt was a good deal concerned at the letter you wrote to him and at the clippings. Of course he knows nothing whatever of the matter, nor is it possible for him to interfere in local contests beyond saying that he hopes there will be the freest possible opportunity for the voters of the party to make their own decisions as to leadership and as to whatever action they deem desirable in the interests of the party. If Mr Roosevelt were to try to settle all the local differences he would do nothing more than create even more confusion than originally existed. Faithfully yours, Secretary Hon. Edward T. Curran, 346 State Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 24104January 31st, 1913. Dear O. K.: Here is a letter which in some way got mislaid among Mr Roosevelt's papers at Oyster Bay. So far nothing has been done in the matter, but it would seem to call some attention from someone at headquarters. Is there anything you can do about it and is Mr McBrien a man who should be placated? He has written a long scroll setting forth what he terms his "sacrifices" for the Progressive Party. Sincerely yours, O. K. Davis Esq. 24105January 31st, 1913. Dear Mr. Dingley: Mr Roosevelt has asked me to send the enclosed letter from Mr Hichborn to you and also the enclosed extract from a letter received from Mr Curtis by The Outlook. Would you be kind enough to let Mr Roosevelt have your views upon both of them at your convenience? Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Frank L. Dingley, Lewiston, Maine. 24106 January 31st, 1913. My dear Mr Dresser: Mr Roosevelt will be in the office on Tuesday and Wednesday, and he would be glad to see you either mo[xxx] any time between ten and ten forty-five. Sincerely yours, Secretary Daniel Le Roy Dresser Esq. 24107 January 31st, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me on his behalf to thank you very cordially for your kindness in sending him a draft of the proposed Labrador "Animal Sanctuaries". He is very much obliged to you for yours kindness although he had already seen the pamphlets, as Colobel Wood has sent them to him. Faithfully yours, Secretary A. Butler Duncan, Esq. , Hempstead, L. I, 24108 January 31st, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of letter and to say that the only man whom he is able to [xxx] might be willing to come and speak for you on that occasion is Congressman Chandler, 60 Wall Street, New York City. I hope you will be able to get him. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr W. S. S. Graham, 2012, 215 Fourth Avenue, New York City. 24109 January 31st, 1913. Dear Mr Harvier: Mr Roosevelt would be very glad if you would come and see him on Wednesday morning next in order that he may talk over the matters mentioned in your recent letter. Faithfully yours, Secretary Ernest Harvier Esq. 24110January 31st, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordial for your letter of January 26th concerning the hundred c of his address which he desires to secure. Faithfully yours, Secretary J. F. Jameson Esq., Washington, D. C. 24111January 31st, 1913. Dear Madam: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to say that it will give him and Mrs Roosevelt much pleasure to lunch with you on Sunday Feburary 9th. You may expect them both on that day. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mrs Mary Cadwalader Jones, 21 East 11th Street, New York City. 24112 January 31st, 1913. My dear Judge: I am greatly impressed by your letter. I need n say to you that I have no patience with dilettantism and believe with all my heart in work. Now as to the particular matter of which you speak. I have never so much as heard spoken of. I have taken the liberty of sending your letter to Senator Davenport, who is chairman of the Legislative Committee, to which action I hope you will not object. I asked him if there is any such legislation proposed as th against which you protest. I will then communicate with again. Faithfully yours, Judge Virgil K. Kellogg. 24113January 31st, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your letter and to say that he will bear in mind all that you have written. He will take the questions up with one or two of the managers of the Progressive Party. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr F. A. Simpson, 1111 E Clay Street, Richmond, Va. 24114January 31st, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordiall your courteous letter and also for your kindness in sendi him a copy of the letter you wrote to Dr Murphy. He appreciates your action in the matter. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr William Stahl, Ozone Pure Airifier Co., Chicago, Ill. 24115January 31st, 1913. Dear Father Vattmann: In some inexplicable way your letter got mislaid for several days among some other papers and so Mr Roosevelt did not reply. He now asks me to inquire if he sent any letter to the High School about which you wrote, in acknowledgment of the letter you enclosed to him, and which also has been mislaid. If he has not done so, and there is still time to respond to the request, it would give him much pleasure to do so if you would let him know. He was particularly sorry to hear of your illness and hopes that by now you have completely recovered. I have to remind him concerning your request for a sheet of that manuscript. He is going to look it up, although he believes that there are very few sheets now left. But he will see what he can do. Sincerely yours, Secretary Father E. J. Vattmann, Wilmette, Ill. 24116[*[1913 Jan?]*] Form 260 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVER'S No. TIME FILED CHECK SEND the following message subject to the terms} on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to} SCHAUFFLER, CARE OF M. A. HANNA & CO., CLEVELAND, OHIO. CAN YOU PLEASE POST ME TODAY THE ITINERARY FOR COMPLETE OHIO PRIMARY TRIP. MR ROOSEVELT WANTS IT IN LIBEL ACTION. 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Beyond these limits the Company does not undertake to make delivery, but will, without liability, at the sender's request, as his agent and at his expense, endeavor to contract for him for such delivery at a reasonable price. 5. No responsibility attaches to this Company concerning messages until the same are accepted at one of its transmitting offices; and if a message is sent to such office by one of the Company's messengers, he acts for that purpose as the agent of the sender. 6. The Company will not be liable for damages or statutory penalties in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. 7. No employee of the Company is authorized to vary the foregoing. THEO N. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER MONEY TRANSFERRED BY TELEGRAPH AND CABLE TO ALL THE WORLD THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO IS THE LARGEST TELEGRAPH SYSTEM IN EXISTENCE. OVER ONE AND A QUARTER MILLION MILES OF WIRE AND CABLES. IT ACCEPTS MESSAGES FOR ALL TELEGRAPH STATIONS IN THE WORLD, SUBJECT TO THE TERMS HEREON. THE TWO TELEGRALPH POLES REPRESENT THE RELATIVE SIZE IN NUMBER OF OFFICES OF THE WESTERN UNION AS COMPARED WITH THE OFFICES OF ALL OTHER COMPETING COMPANIES COMBINED. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY ALL COMPETING COMPANIES February 1st, 1913. My dear Madam: Mr Roosevelt is approached by so many hundreds of people to read manuscripts, or to give advice as to publication that if he were to respond favorably in each case it would become a burden too great for him to bear. As you will readily realize on thinking it over, if he granted one such request he would be compelled in common fairness to respond to all others. He is very sorry, but it really is impossible for him to do as you wish, though he much appreciates the circumstances. Faithfully yours, Secretary Miss N. E. Thomas, 226 West 121st Street, New York City. 24118February 3rd, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your letter and to thank you of what you have written. That article was printed in Colliers Weekly by special arrangement with The Outlook and the contract which he has with The Outlook people still holds good, which gives them the right to publish eve which Mr Roosevelt writes. In addition to this Mr Roosevelt far too much on hand to add in any way to what he is doing. He is really sorry, and naturally appreciates the opportunity to giver him in asking him to write an editorial that would obtain such wide publicity. Sincerely yours, Secretary William Griffith Esq., The Monthly Magazine Section, New York City. 24119February 3rd, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt would not care to express an opinion that matter without going thoroughly into it with the [?] he was about to advise. It all depends what the man [w??] to do after he has been through the university. If you ever in New York you might call in and see Mr Roosevelt although I do not think he would be willing even then to give you any advice. Mr McBee would be I think an even better person to consult with. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Alex Guerry, Chattanooga, Tenn. 24120February 3rd, 1913. My dear Mr Hale: In response to pressure from Mrs Elliott, Mr Roose has consented to speak in Newport next Summer, although he not want to have the date fixed as yet. Faithfully yours, Secretary Matthew Hale Esq., Boston, Mass. 24121February 3rd, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt has written to Mr Butterworth saying that it would be a pleasure to see you at The Outlook office on Thursday morning next, any time betwee 11 and 12.45. Sincerely yours, Secretary Yandell Henderson Esq., 440 Prospect Street, New Haven, Conn. 24122February 3rd, 1913. My dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter to Mr Roosevelt. There is a good deal of truth in what you have written, but after all we have to face the fact that there thousands of girls who are now receiving wages so low as to it impossible for them to live respectably. Experience has shown how disastrous this system is and the time has now come when the State should step in and do something to limit the evil. The old competitive idea which you set forth is now a discarded political theory. Fifty years ago it was very good logic, but there are very few men who accept it now. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr L. Hinch, 723 St Nicholas Ave. 24123February 3rd, 1913. My dear Madam: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter to Mr Roosevelt. At the present moment Mr Roosevelt will even discuss making any further engagements of any kind. Certainly he will not enter into any tentative engagement to speak anywhere. As a matter of fact I do not think will ever be possible for Mr Roosevelt to speak at the Young Womens Christian Association in Toronto. He is engaged two or three deep to speak in that city, although I am afraid it will be necessary to limit his speaking engagements to two the day he comes - that is of course provided he ever does come. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mrs E. S. Kerby, 24124February 3rd, 1913. My dear Sir: I am sorry to tell you that Mr Roosevelt is so overwhelmed with work at the present time that it is a physical impossibility for him to spare the time to see you about that matter. In any event it would be quite out of the question for him to render any help or to be of any [?] to you. With regret, Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Fred La Croix, 25 Broad Street, New York City. 24125February 3rd, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt is very sorry, but he does not know the address of Mr G. A. Porter, or otherwise it would give him much pleasure to send it to you. Would not your best plan be to get into communication with the Department as they would probably have Mr Porter's address on file. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Clay Merrell, Texarkana, Texas. 24126February 3rd, 1913. My dear Sir: Will you please obtain from the chief of Ordnance, United States Army, Washington, D.C. (through Major Ames) a saddle which is now ready and pack for shipment to Lady Col in East Africa, and will you please ship this saddle from Washington to East Africa by your line, then by the Elder Dempster Co. of New York. I shall be glad to have a note o the whole of the charges and will then remit them to you on Mr Roosevelt's behalf. Faithfully yours, The Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., Washington, D. C. 24127February 3rd, 1913. My dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter to Mr Roosevelt. Unfortunately the Harvard Law Review of which speak never arrived. I am sending this line to you as you may possibly like to make some inquiries concerning Faithfully yours, Secretary Charles E. Shuttuck, Esq., Boston, Mass. 24128February 3rd, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt is approached by so many hundreds of people to read manuscripts, or to give advice as to publication, that if he were to respond favorably in each case it would become a burden too great for him to bear. As you will readily realize on thinking it over, if he granted one such request he would be compelled in common fairness to respond to all others. He is very sorry, but it really is impossible for him to do as you wish, though he much appreciates the circumstances. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Matteo Teresi, 279 North Street, Rochester, N.Y. 18189February 3rd, 1913. My dear Madam: Mr Roosevelt is approached by so many hundreds of people to read manuscripts, or to give advice as to publication, that if he were to respond favorably in each case it would become a burden too great for him to bear. As you will readily realize on thinking it over, if he one such request he would be compelled in common fairness to respond to all others. He is very sorry, but it really is impossible for him to do as you wish, though he much appreciates the circumstances. Faithfully yours, Secretary Miss Adeline M. Teskey, 96 Busmark Ave, Toronto, Canada. 24129February 3rd, 1913. My dear Madam: I thank you for your letter and also for the enclos both of which I have read with much interest. I only wish were possible for me to suggest some way in which you might the article published, but unfortunately I do not know any editor who would be willing to do this, especially now that election is over, and people are no longer interested in the matters. Faithfully yours, Secretary Miss Eleanora E. Tudor-Hart, Wells River, Vermont. 24130Faithfully yours, Secretary The Rev James E. Wagner. February 3rd, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt never answers questions like the one come in your letter. If he were to try to answer all such questions he would have little time for doing anything else. If you [?] to get his book on Realizable Ideals and read it over, I [f?] sure you could get some quotations from it that would be [sui?] to read on the occasion you mention. Or you might find equal suitable passages in some of his other works, most of which be seen at any public library. Faithfully yours, Secretary The Rev James E. Wagner. 24131February 3rd, 1913. My dear Dr Whitin: I am glad to learn that there is such interest all over the country in prison reform, and that in many States there is a demand for a change in the handling of the penal institutions and that in some States legislation looking to that end is to be introduced this year. As you probably know, the Progressive Party in their platform, adopted in Chicago August last, declared for "the abolition of the convict labor system; substituting a system of prison production for governmental consumption only; and the application of prisoners earnings to the support of their dependent families." There is a growing insistence throughout the United States upon the need for drastic changes in the handling of penal institutions. The basis of the "new penology" is justice both to the prisoner and to society. It is to the interest of both that the prisoner be secured his right to proper work, health, reasonable moral and mental training, and last, but by no means least, the right to rehabilitate so far as in him lies. Any prison system that does not give these rights fails to do its duty. 241322 One of the most objectionable points of our present prison system is the pardoning power. The question is whether it should be in charge of a pardoning board and taken away from the Governor, how such a board should be constituted, whether it should be elected or appointed by the Legislation or by the Governor. I will answer this question first. In the New York Times of January 1[?]th last appears an article which set forth portions of letters from some twenty governors in answer to an inquiry made by Mr O. F. Lewis, the general secretary of the New York Prison Association, as to the said Governors' experiences with the pardoning power and their recommendations. Practically without exception they advocated board of pardons, acting either in an advisory capacity or as an actual pardoning board. In the latter case, the Governor should be and always is, I think, a member of the board. The general argument of the Governors is that a Governor has too many important matters as the Executive of the State to enable him to do full justice to the petitions for pardons and commutation of sentences. Fundamentally the matter is much more serious than the incursion upon the Governor's time. The sense of justice of any community is very keen and not by any means always in proportion to the facts. Particularly sensitive are our people, 241333 as they should be, to the apparent abuse of the pardoning power. The board of pardons should be deliberative and not hasty in its action, and would be subject to criticism and scrutiny of the people of the State from the standpoint only of this as its sole function. Such a pardoning board should be non-political, and composed of men of high integrity and sound judgment. Then comes the question of how this board shall be constituted. The experience of the Northern States is that a prison board appointed by the Governor is preferable to an elected board. I believe that a prison board composed of three members, appointed by the Governor, and appointing their own execituve secretary and office staff, is advisable. If the right men are appointed they will give a large part of their time and thought to the matter. Of course conditions in different parts of the country differ, and on all such questions it is advisable that those who are seeking to solve the problem, should consult with men like Mr A. J. McKelway, who have made a thorough study of the whole problem and who are well acquainted with prison systems and with legislative and administrative difficulties in the various States. Then comes the question as to how best to employ the convicts. 241344 Undoubtedly the convict contract labor system should be abolished and the prisoners should be set to work to produce articles solely for governmental consumption. The problem of the best methods of employing convicts is different in different states. Only a careful survey of conditions in any one part of the state would enable me to answer authoritatively this particular question. Farming and outdoor life are of course advisable throughout the country. Governor Donaghey on December 27th last performed in my opinion a necessary act in pardoning some three hundred convicts in order to call attention to conditions obtaining under the lease system which were intolerable. In southern States I know that the negro convict offers a difficult and discouraging problem. This, however, I believe is no reason why he should be leased out, but rather why the State should particularly guard its honor in giving him such advantages as are possible under the direct administration of the State alone. The state must get away from the theory that financial profit from its prisoners is its first consideration. The protection of society is the primary purpose of imprisonment and the next purpose is reformation. The penalty must be wise and humane and the prisoner must be made, as far as possible, to be self-supporting while in prison or under imprisonment. The 241355 State should do its own farming, conduct its own industries, pay its own men and should not take a profit from its prisoners so long as they are not dealt with according to the best sense of justice of the twentieth century. The State should be able to sell its products as far as possible to its own institutions and to its political subdicisions, such as the counties, cities, towns etc. Prisoners should receive a reasonable amount for their work and should meet their own maintenance cost out of their labor. Over and above their maintenance cost, maintenance including all expenses attendant upon running an institution or convict farm, such as salaries, wages, food, clothing, lodging, but not large improvements such as additional buildings etc., the surplus should be used for the prisoner or for his dependent relatives. The inability of a state to buy sufficient acreage for all its prisoners, or to conduct convict camps, or to build a prison, looks to be very large inability so long as the State taking profit from the sale of each prisoner to a contractor or to a lease. If the State were absolutely prohibited from contracting or leasing out it would obviously find a way to handle its prisoners otherwise. It is all a question of emphasis and need. The State must find the money for the humane treatment of its prisoners. 241366 At present when a man has served his term in prison he is simply turned out into the world with his prison record barring him from honest employment and often times forcing him again into crime in order that he may live. It is highly desirable that some other plan for properly handling the discharged convict situation should be adopted. I believe the following principles to be sound. (a) The period immediately following the prison period is the most crucial time for the convict. He is often an outcast without money and with most of its tendencies directed toward his old associates. (b) The state spends a considerable sum on his imprisonment, surely it can wisely spend something on his after-prison period to prevent his again being a charge on the State. (c) The only method of keeping convicts under proper supervision is by parole, that is, conditional liberty under official supervision. (d) The parole of negroes will doubtless be attended by greater difficulties than the parole of white men in northern states, nevertheless, I firmly believe in it. (e) The problem of the rehabilitation of prisoners, or their decent conduct during the parole period is peculiarly a problem to be handled by a prison association or a prisoners' aid society. 241377 Such a society should co-operate with the state in developing volunteer parole workers, probation workers, taking convicts on parole, cooperating with state parole agents, paying out in installments to parolled men the money they have earned in prison, and in general developing this supervision. If there are dependent families of prisoners, the prisoners' aid society might well be the association through which the earnings of prisoners could be paid, or the association could work in cooperation with the poor law officials of the various counties or towns. The fact that a prisoner can earn money while under imprisonment is the greatest incentive to right living that can be given him. A further great incentive is the indeterminate sentence whereby the prisoner earns his own way to liberty through good conduct and progress. Indeterminate sentences are found on the statutes of practically all of the more progressive States in this country. I am a strong believer in the value of a thorough survey of prison conditions whenever a state is inclined to make any radical changes in its laws. Our principal trouble in prison reform is that reforms have been patch work. The time has come, it seems to me, for thorough-going studies followed by thorough-going reform. Faithfully yours, Dr E. Stagg Whitin. 24138February 3rd, 1913. My dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter to Mr Roosevelt. I am sorry to tell you that it will be impossible for him to comment in any way upon the book which you sent to him a short time ago. If he were to comment upon one book he would be called upon by numerous friends to do the same thing for books they had written, and I am sure on thinking it over you will see how impossible it is for him to start doing this kind of thing. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Samuel S. Wright, Scranton, Pa. 24139February 3rd, 1913. My dear Madam: On behalf of Mr Roosevelt I beg to acknowledge receipt of the letter which you have written to him. I do not know just what the circumstances are in the town in which you but I feel sure that there are facilities by means of which your youngest son could obtain the education which you [w?] him to have for the purpose you have in view. I should [?] your best plan would be to consult the minister of your [?] about the matter. He will probably know, or be able to [?] out the subjects that would be necessary for your boy to take to carry out your wish. If the boy's constitution is strong enough and if he is willing to work hard I do not see how he can fail to gain the education you wish him to. Faithfully yours, Mrs E. H. Zimmer 24140February 4th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt is approached by so many hundreds of people to read manuscripts, or to give advice as to publication, if he were to respond favorably in each case it would become a burden too great for him to bear. As you will readily on thinking it over, if he granted one such request he would be compelled in common fairness to respond to all others. He is very sorry, but it really is impossible for him to do as you wish, though he much appreciates the circumstances. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr W. J. Armstrong, 40 Columbia Avenue, Paterson, N. J.February 4th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for your kindness in sending him a copy of that little book entitled "Meccas of America". He does not recall any place of interest which he can suggest that you should include in future editions of the book. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr F. Moir Bussy, [or F. Moir Busey ?] Kings Avenue, London, England. 1131February 4th, 1913. My dear Mr Chipman: I wish I could accept your very kind invitation, but at the present time it is physically impossible for me to undertake any further engagements of any kind or sort, or to go into anything new. I already have as much on hand as I well manage. I appreciate your asking me, and am sorry to answer you in this way. Faithfully yours, Mr Charles P. Chipman, Colby College Library, Waterville, Maine. 7703February 4, 1913. Mr. Lucien L. Bonheur, c/o National Progressive Club, 1 East 40th St., New York City. Dear Sir: On my return to the city I find your valued favor of the 24th ult. inviting me to subscribe to the Lincoln Day Dinner, to be held at the Hotel Astor on Wednesday evening February 12th. I note that Col. Roosevelt will be the guest of honor and it was my intention to subscribe to the Dinner until I noticed that Comptroller Wm. A. Prendergast will preside. I regret to state that I must refuse to attend any Dinner ever which Comptroller Prendergast presides; a man who has deliberately betrayed the people who elected him to the office which he now 24141holds. You no doubt understand that I refer to the Subway question. Under any other circumstances I would be only too glad to attend the Dinner. I might add that I have no personal feelings against Mr. Prendergast. Very sincerely yours, 24142February 4th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt is approached by so many hundreds of people to read manuscripts, or to give advice as to publ that if he were to respond favorably in each case it wou become a burden too great for him to bear. As you will realize, on thinking it over, if he granted one such req he would be compelled in common fairness to respond to a others. He is very sorry, but it really is impossible f to do as you wish, though he much appreciates the circum Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr J. S. Crutchfield, Pittsburgh, Pa. 24143[*[1913 Feb 4?]*] February 4th, 1913. My dear Sir [Madam]: Mr Roosevelt is approached by so many hundreds of people to read manuscripts, or to give advice as to publication, that if he were to respond favorably in each case it would become a burden too great for him to bear. As yo will readily realize on thinking it over, if he granted on such request he would be compelled in common fairness to respond to all others. He is very sorry, but it really is impossible for him to do as you wish, though he much appreciates the circumstances. Faithfully yours, Secretary Miss Caroline S. Moore. 24144February 4th, 1913. My dear Madam: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your letter and to say that it would be a great pleasur to see you at The Outlook office on Thursday morning next say at 10.30. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mrs Frederick Nathan, 162 West 86th Street, New York City. 24145February 4th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt has received your letter of January 25th and has also read the statement you enclosed. He woul like to discuss the matter fully with you and perhaps you could come in and see him on Thursday morning next between 10.30 and 12.30. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr Emil L. Newman, 750 Prospect Ave, New York City. 24146February 4th, 1913. My dear Madam: Mr Roosevelt is approached by so many hundreds of to read manuscripts, or to give advice as to publication, if he were to respond favorably in each case it would bec burden too great for him to bear. As you will readily re on thinking it over, if he granted one such request he wo compelled in common fairness to respond to all others. H very sorry, but it really is impossible for him to do as wish, though he appreciates the circumstances. Faithfully yours, Secretary Miss Mary F. O'Grady, 548 West 164th Street, New York City. 24147February 4th, 1913. Dear Mr Robinson: Herewith I am sending you check for $120 received fro the Astor Trust Co, and also check for $25.00 received from Houghton Mifflin Co., together with the statements showing what these checks cover. Sincerely yours, Secretary Douglas Robinson Esq. 24148February 4th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt is approached by so many hundreds of people to read manuscripts, or to give advice as to publication, if he were to respond favorably in each case it would become a burden too great for him to bear. As you will readily on thinking it over, if he granted one such request he would be compelled in common fairness to respond to all others. is very sorry, but it really is impossible for him to do you wish, though he much appreciates the circumstances. Faithfully yours, Secretary Miss Etta C. Weber, Middletown, Conn. 24149February 5th, 1913. Dear Mr Bonheur: Many thanks for the tickets. It was very good of you to send them. Enclosed I am sending you a telegram just receive from Miss Jane Addams. You will see she says that it is impossible to come. Sincerely yours, Lucian L. Bonheur Esq.February 5th, 1913. My dear Mr Prosser: I do not like to take too much of a part, aside from my public utterances, in connection with the various bills before Congress. I will look into that matter and see if there is anything I can properly do. Faithfully yours, Mr C. A. Prosser, 105 East 22nd Street, New York City. 24150February 5th, 1913. My dear Mr Whitehead: I wonder if when Mr Roosevelt was campaigning thro Ohio during the primaries, whether you were on the train w him, and on what days and between what times. I am particularly anxious to know if you were on the train on t day he ended up at Cleveland. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr George G. Whitehead, Journal Herald, Delaware, Ohio. 24151February 6th, 1913. Dear Mr Cochems: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your lette regarding the speakers bureau. He himself does not want to accept any invitations of any kind or sort during the next six or eight months. He would however like to see you and if you could come in any morning either this week or next about 10.30 you would fine him here. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr E. B. Cochems, Progressive Service, Manhattan Hotel, New York City. 24152February 8th, 1913. Dear Mr Sullivan: Mr Roosevelt has asked me to send on the enclosed letter to you. Faithfully yours, Mark Sullivan Esq. 24153The Outlook 287 Fourth Avenue New York Office of Theodore Roosevelt February 10th, 1913. My dear Lieutenant Barnett: I am obliged to you for sending me a translation of that article from a leading Tokyo paper. How the New York Times could have been guilty of such a wicked falsehood, I do not know. I will be glad if you will have printed in the Tokyo papers a translation of the [letter to Mr Harry White, which I enclose to you.] enclosed statement which I gave in the London "Times". Again thanking you for your courtesy, I am Sincerely yours, Lieutenant Barnett, American Embassy, Tokyo, Japan. 6326February 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your letter and to say that he would be very pleased if you could come in to The Outlook office on Thursday morning next and take lunch with him at One o'clock. He hopes this day and time will be quite convenient. I wish you would have someone telephone to me as to whether or not you will be able to come. Faithfully yours, Secretary Alex Smith Cochran, Esq., 10 East 41st Street, New York City. 24154February 10th, 1913. Dear Mr Faulkner: Many thanks for your letter. Mr Roosevelt was very pleased with what you have written. I will keep your letter by me and when the time for trial of the action comes, I will let you hear further regarding the matter. With many thanks, Sincerely yours, J. W. Faulkner Esq., Cincinnati Inquirer, Outlook Building, Columbus, Ohio. 24155February 10th, 1913. Dear Joe: I am concerned to learn about Mrs Ferris, but I am glad that she is now better. Good luck to the entire Ferris family. Dawson County did finely, sure! With regards to everybody, Your old friend, J. A. Ferris Esq., Sidney, Mont. 24156February 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your letter and also for your kindness in submitting him a copy of synopsis of the moving picture play you have written. Roosevelt would be very pleased indeed if it could be worked out, but he would like to have it appear in the production that it was taken from an article by him which was published in Colliers. With this stipulation he would have no objection whatever to your proceeding with the matter, but of course you would have to get permission from Colliers to use the title. Faithfully yours, Secretary Mr L. L. Little. 24157February 10th, 1913. Gentlemen: Mr Roosevelt has asked me to send the enclosed additions to chapters 22 and 23 received by him from Capt Stigand. Captain Stigand has sent you the originals, but in case they have not reached you Mr Roosevelt thought that you might like the enclosed. Faithfully yours, Secretary The Macmillan Co. 24158February 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your long and interesting letter. He would like to see you about the matter if you could call in to the Outlook office on Thursday morning next, say at 11 o'clock, although he fears it will not be possible for him to do anything which would be really effective at present. He would however like to discuss the matter with you. Sincerely yours, Secretary V. S. McClatchy Esq., Gotham Hotel, New York City. 24159February 10th, 1913. Dear Mr Newberry: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to thank you very cordially for your telegram. He would be glad if you would come in and lunch with him at The Outlook office tomorrow (Tuesday) at one o'clock. He hopes this will be quite satisfactory to you. Sincerely yours, Secretary Hon. Truman N. Newberry, Waldorf Hotel, New York City. 24160February 10th, 1913. Dear Cal: Could you come to lunch with Mr Roosevelt on Saturday next at The Outlook office at one o'clock? Mr Roosevelt mentions Saturday as this will probably be the best day for you, that is of course if you can come at all. Faithfully yours, J. C. O'Laughlin Esq. 24161February 10th, 1913. My dear Sir: Mr Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your letter and to express his regret that unfortunately cannot do what you ask. It would never do for him to do that kind of thing and he feels sure on thinking it over you will see how impossible, and indeed improper, it would be for Mr Roosevelt to do as you ask. With regret, Faithfully yours, Mr Edward H. Walker, Atlanta, Ga. 24162