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ROOSEVELT’S LETTERS TO LODGE BARE MANY SECRETS Fight With Trusts Was Unflinching Great American President's Innermost Thoughts, Politi cal Strategy Revealed in Intimate Corespondence. Hot Political Battles (This series of the Intimate personal letters of Theodore Itoosevelt and Ren ntor Henry Cabot Lodge will con tinue Sunday and dally for 10 weeks. Probably the most spectacular, as well as the most beneficial achieve ment in the career of President Roosevelt was his fight with the cor porations—his crusade against "preda tory wealth.” The conflict reached Its climax In his second term as presi dent of the United States <1905-1909). The letters of Roosevelt and Lodge bearing directly upon the struggle with the great corporations have been selected for today's opening Instal ment of the series. When Roosevelt was governor of New York and in a quandary as to whether he should consent to run for vice president In 1900, he confided to I.odge his first realization that the corporations were lined up as his ene mies. They planned to make him vice president so as to rid themselves of his activity ns governor. Thomas C. Platt, republican boss in New York state, was never averse to doing what the corporations wanted, and he got behind Roosevelt’s vice presidential candidacy.) STATE OF NEW YORK. EXECUTIVE CHAMBER Albany, Feb. 3, 1900. Hon. H. C. Lodge, Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C. Dear Cabot: Now this letter Is to he strictly secret. I have found out one reason why Senator Platt wants me nominated for the vice presidency. He is, I am convinced, genuinely friendly, and In deed I think, I may say really fond of me, and Is personally satisfied with the way I have conducted politics, but the big monied men with whom he is in close touch and whose campaign contributions have certainly been n» inconsiderate factor In his strength, have been pressing him very strongly to get me put In the vice presidency so as to get me out of the state. It was the big Insurance companies, possessing enormous wealth, that gave •l’ayn his formidable etrenth, and thsy to a man want me out. The great corporations affected by the franchise tax have also been at the ■senator. In fact, all the high monied interests that make campaign contrl mtlons of large size and feel that they should have favors In return, are ex tremely anxious to get me out of the state. I find that they have been at Platt for the last two or three months and he has finally begun to yield to them and to take their views. Outside of that, the feeling here Is very strong against my going. In fact, all of my friends In the state would feel that I wae deserting them, and are simply unhble to understand my considering It. I appreciate en tirelly the danger of this position, but after all, I suppose there is no work without an attendant risk, and It does not seem to me that 1 am ready to leave a real piece of work for a po sition in which there Is not any work at all and where I really do not think there Is anything for me to do and no reputation to make. Ever yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. •Louis F. Payn. the state Insurance commissioner, had been appointed by Oovernor Frank R. Black, so Roose velt Inherited him and his reputation of conducting the state Insurance de partment for the benefit of the cor porations. When the new governor assailed him, Payn retorted by accus ing Roosevelt of improper political \I*< KRTISF.MK.NT. Healing Eczema With Cranberries The mild acid juice found In Cran berries seems to kill the tiny skin parasite which is the direct cause of Eczema and most skin irritations. With the cause removed, the healing takes place quickly, ( ranoleno Heal lng Cream, used externally, Is based on this discovery. In this cream the cranberry juices have been combined with soothing, cooling, healing oils. It instantly stops the Itching and speedily restores the skin to Its nat ural health and color, ('ranoleno Is sold by druggists, 35c, $1 and 12.50 nr sent postpaid on receipt of price Samples free. Address: Cranolene, flirard, Kan. j A - _ T 1Z? * *• — deals. So It went. Tayn's supporters were the politicians of machine stripe. The better elements were behind the governor. February 6, 1900. Personal. My Dear Theodore: You know me too well to suppose that 1 am going to find any fault be cause you have decided against my opinion. I think you are a great loss to the ticket, and I think the vice presidency la the belter |>ath to better and more Important things, but of all this you must be the final Judge iitftl you are quite as likely to he right as 1 am. In fact, T have grent faith In your own Instincts and when ever the time conies to help you In any other direction, of course I shall lake hold Just the same. I wish 1 could think of somebody to go on the ticket which would add strength to It. Always yours, H. C. LODGE. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. (Not long sfter this, before being persuaded to take the vice presiden tial nomination, Roosevelt wrote to Lodge regarding Senator Platt s atti tude. l’latt was not In a pleasant frame of mind. “I told him. ' wrote Governor Roosevelt, "that if the cor porations began to ride ugly 1 should give (horn the roughest handling that they had had yet. I had said inciden tally, that while they undoubtedly had great Influence In conventions and could affect my renomlnatton, J did not think they could affect my election at all.” In due course Roose velt was elected vice president, end he became president when William McKinley was assassinated In 1901.) Seattle, Wash., May 23, 1903. Personal. Dear Cabot: Edith writes me thst she thinks you are better which has relieved me much. Evidently ehe haa been a good deal worried about you. Well, thank heaven, tomorrow 1 turn my face toward the east, and 10 days afterward my work will have oeafed. This has been a great trip, anrtll believe a very useful one. but T nm so * Jaded and nerve weary and bored that It almost seems as if I could not go through the remainder of the speechmaking. It has been very interesting out here, however. Most of the people out here believe that Cleveland will he nominated on the democratic ticket, and that he will he a very formidable man to beat —probably the most formidable dem ocrat. If nominated he will drive certain democrats away. For In stance. the governor of Nevada and the mayor of Carson, both democrats, told me that they should vote for me it Cleveland were nominated; but I find that Plerpont Morgan and other Wall street men have been announc ing oj>enly within the past fortnight that they should support Mr. Cleve land against me with all their power. They would draw a great many votes both from the dishonest rich and the1 fool respectable classes. Meanwhile Hanna* seems to he showing his hand definitely In Ohio. I regard his Interview as Insincere. He has a perfect right to be against me, openly and avowedly, hut it Is nonsense to oppose my endorsement on the grounds that he alleges. Puget Sound is a most marvelous and beautiful body of water, and the snow-capped mountain chains which surround it make a fit background. Give my love to Nannie. Ever yours, THEODORE ROOSEELT. Hon. H. C. Lodge, •Mark A. Hanna, the campaign manager of the McKinley campaign and senator of Ohio—regarded as one of the ablest representatives of the corporations ever In publlo life. WHITE HORSE WASHINGTON. Helena, Mont., May 27, 1903, Dear Cabot: I have had a great reception here In the west, and yesterday at Spokane made what I consider my best speech, which I think will be given out per haps under a Butte headline In the papers tomorrow. If so, I would like you to read it. I made It particular ly with reference to having a knock down and dragout fight with Hanna and the whole Wall street crowd, and I wanted them to understand that If they so desire they shall have all the fighting they wish. At the lame time 1 wished the labor people obso lutely to understand that I set my face like flint against violence and lawlessness of any kind on their part, Just as much as against arrogant greed by the rich, and that I would be as quick to move against one as the other. 1 think I made my position clear. The big New York and Chi cago capitalists-and both the crim inal rich and the fool rich—will do all they can to beat me. This whole Incident has served one temporary useful purpose, for It has entirely revived me. 1 was feeling Jndf-d and tired. The trip has been very severe and I have gotten so I cannot sleep well—which always tells on one. But this last business gave tne a new and vivid Interest In life. Now, thank heavens, L have little more than a week left. The last three days In Iowa and Illinois will he the worst. Give my love to Nannie. Faithfully yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Hon H. C. Lodge, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. P. H. Tell Murray Crane* that early In July I may want to see him. ber haps to have him meet President Mellen of the Northern Psclflc, and one or two other friends, eo as to be gin taking measures concerning New York. That 1* the etate which I think needs most looking after. •W. Murray <Irene, paper manu facturer, had been governor of Masea chusette, 1900-1992, anil wae active In republican pollllra. He afterward be came United States senator sod ns anmed national Importance as a po litical leader, UNITED STATES SENATE, Committee on the Philippines. Nahant, Mass., June 2, 1903. Private. Dear Theodore; The opposition to you smong the capitalists la confined to a group of Wall street and Chicago people, hut even In Well street there la a large body of men who are with you. and 1 do not find here on State street any manifest hostility on account of your merger case, rather the contrary. Creighton and Marquette Teams to Meet in Debate Here Tuesday Robert cPatton zf/zomaz ~s£us$eZl wmm? widmuam —. n • ..... Joseph J9u 11 MATSUO PHOTOS The debating- teams of Creighton and Marquette universities will meet at Creighton auditorium Tuesday eve ing in the first homo debate of the season for the local team. The ques tlon will be: ‘TteBolved, That Congress Should He Empowered to Override by a Two thirds Majority Vote Decisions of the Supremo Court Declaring Acts of Congress Unconstitutional.'■ Representing Creighton In the nega five will be Thomas J. Russell, Joseph A. Ball and Robert A. Patton. The affirmative will be upheld for Mar quette by Eustacs Brennan, John Mo leak! and Cyril McKinnon. The Creighton team Is composed of veterans, well seasoned tu the foren sio art, Patton and Russell have rep resented Creighton In the Missouri Province league for two years. Mar quette holds victories over T.oyola and Rippon college to date. Debating has aroused strong Inter est at Creighton this year under the direction of Debate Coach Puls. The rivalry that has always existed be tween Creighton and Marquette has created great Interest In this week's contest. Creighton's affirmative team re cently defeated Clrlnnell and Des Moines university. The program Tuesday night will begin at 8 o’clock. Wilfred Flemming will be chairman. Judges will be former Mayor Kd P. Smith, V. E. Chatllalft, debating coach at Centra! High school, and R. M. Marre, prin cipal of Smith High school. For example: I had a letter from Charles Jackeon, who la abroad, and who la a broker and a Htate street man, saying he thought you were en tirely right In the merger rare and that it waa a comfort to have a man of such courage In the While House. I waa talking with flardner Jgine yesterday of I,ee, Hlgginson A Co., where they are all for you, and he Is strongly for you. He talked with me most earnestly about the lmportanre of our earrying the eountry next time. Blit he said one thing whlrh seemed to me not without lmportanre. He told me that when he was In Chleago some of the railroad men there were afraid of a general strike and asked him with great anxiety if he thought you would enforce the law as Cleveland did If there was any lnteferenee with carrying the mails. He said that he told them that be had no doubt os to what you would do, hut that of course he could not speak with authority, and he wanted to know what I thought. I told him that there waa no earthly doubt that If there should be a strike and an attempt to interfere with the running of mall trains that you would enforce the law as rigidly as Mr, Cleveland did and a good deal more quickly, and that you had an attorney general who was Just ns courageous and de termlned as Mr. Olqey ((Clevelands attorney general) or anybody else. He said he should write them what I said and that 1 would greatly relieve their minds. Ke>t* Them Hlglit. Now, this Implies an Important point. They have given out the idea that you are entirely given over to the labor side and that you are wholly prepared to make war on capital and that you will not treat the labor men In Hie same way you would capital if they violate the law'. Our Wall street friends sre at great pains to spread this Idea and l was glad to have the opportunity to contradict It and to learn that you had made a speech slong that line, which I wish could have been reprinted here. T am glad you rnnile It clear In that speech that the law will ho enforced without respect to persons. Of course It seems absurd that any SUCh Idea should he put forward, hut you know well enough what these men will do. partly through intent and partly through sheer flight. A great many of them Imagine that because we brought (he merger suit we propose to go to work to destroy every railroad system which has bought or leased their lines and there of throw the whole country Into con fusion. I think this Idea will dlaap pear as lime goes on, but It 1* well to know of |t. I ran only repent what 1 have at ready said In icgard to Cleveland. I think hs would he tha ssslest man for us to beat that thsy could poaat hly put up l do not believe' he will hs nominated, but f have no earthly fear of him. Always yours, H. c. i-onon. To the President. (The following teller Is a part of one which dealt with a variety of sub Jecta—quoted In a l iter Instalment of the series I'lllhu Root was secretary of war In Roosevelt’S cabinet, and Leslie M Hhnw, secietary of the treasury. The lain .1 l’lerpont Mor gan was head of tha W all street bank Ing house hearing hts name ! Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 6, 1903. Personal. Dear Cabd: The financial situation here looks ugly. What the outcome will be no one can prophesy. Secretary Shan feels that as yet things are not threat enlng. Boot la Inclined to think the dnnger Is much greater. At present there Is nothing I or anyone else can do. The panto Is due chiefly, almost solely, to the speculative watering of storks on a giant scale. In which Pier pont Morgan and so many of hla kind have Indulged In during the last few years. Of course. If the panic spreads so as to affect the business world I shall have to pay for It, • Alwava yours, THEODORE ROOSEVERT. UNITE DSTATES SENATE. Committee on the Philippines, l.ondon, September 13, 1903. PeraonnI. Dear Theodore: The country will certainly not for get your attitude In regard to the big corporations. That is impressed on the public mind anti will give us great strength at the polls. All those people will be, In my opinion, quite ready to support you when the time conies 1 am certain that they desire to do so already, from what Coffin* said to me about Morgan before I left. Whether the Sun can lie controlled Or not In the end. I do not know, but It has been so violent that I doubt If It now has much effect except to help you. The Wall street situation seenta to tie much better. The last report looks like a fairly good crop, and I think we shall work along with a dull and dragging market towards an Improved condition next apring. The shrinkage of this summer, which has been en tirely due to the causes you mention, will, I think, prove to have been a good thing, and by cheeking the spec ulation to have slopped a p.tnle. which If It had broken upon us next year would have been very serious. Always yours, H. C. ROUGE. P. S When I read io Nannie nlaiut your tendings front books of sporting ete. to Quentin and Archie Instead of saying what -he ought to have said: "What a pleasure for them '—she re marked; "How Theodore must en.loy it." pest love to Edith Charles Coffin, head of ilie General Elect rlo com pan j . (In the New York stale election of 1906 william R. Ilearst was Charles E. Hughes a opponent for Hie govet norshlp. John R Moran was demo eratlo candidate for governor of Massachusetts and district attorney of Suffolk county. Herbert Persona had been elected chairman of Hie New York county eonimlltee over Remuel K. Qulgg. The Influence of II. n Odell, Jr., aa New York state Ihiss, had been assailed successfully, deeplte political sponsors of vast wealth like B. if. Harrlmnn and Tliottisa K Ryan » THE WHITE HOt'flE W AHIHNHTON. October 8, 1906. 1 lent' Paled : Perhaps you are right about It" listing been proper for me to bear down harder upon Ilearst and Moran <u| upon their typo, In my Harrisburg #t#ch. Rut of course it wan a speech that I hoped would do good to the party, and I did not know how far It was wise to go In denouncing our op ponents by name. In New York this year. In securing the election of Parsons over Qulgg. and the triumph in Brooklyn of the anti Udell forces the chief dangers we encountered were caused by the lav ish use of Harriman and Ryan money by Qulgg and Odell, and many of the Wall street financiers quite openly say they would just as lief hav“ Hears! as Hughes, their attitude be ing that they object as much to the discovery of rascality and the sup pression of bribery and theft as they do to blackmail and robbery. Do you wonder that I feel pretty hot with them? Of course I could not feel hotter with them than I do with the Hears!s and Morans; and In this same speech you may have noticed that I spoke of demagogs and agita tors Just as I did of reactionaries. Always yours, T11 KOI KIRK ROOSEV El/I'. Hon. 11. C. Lodge, I’. 8. S-, Nahant, Mass. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON. October 31. 1906. Dear Cabot: In New York I think the situation doubtful though I eannot help be lieving we are going to win. The man agers have at the end suddenly grown utterly panic stricken. They are yelling for me to speak. I think I have arranged by authorising Root to speak for me and he Is going to make a corking speech. We have suffered very much from lack of funds. You would be dum founded to know how universally the rich men have refused to contribute, for the most part hardly concealing the fact that they would be quite as willing to have Hearst as anyone In the republican party as long as I am at the head. In-their hearts they take the ground that to take legal pro ceedings against them when they violate the law and to endeavor to have them pay their proper share of the taxes is as much of an outrage as to excite the mob to plunder the rich. As you know. In San Francisco many of the big oorpt rations have deliberately stood by the labor union party, saying with utter cynicism lhat they preferred the chanch of occasional violence If they could temper it with corruption, to an hon est government that would permit neither corruption nor violence. The more I see of the very rich men act ing singly or In corporations, the more firmly I feel that they are of no advantage to the country and that the movement in which, thank for tune. I have been steadily engaged for some time was absolutely neces sary. With best love to Nannie. Faithfully yours. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Hon. H. C. Lodge. Nahant, Mass. (In the panic of 1907 President Roosevelt was continually attacked by spokesmen of "thq Interests " He had carried on Investigations of railways. Including the Harriman lines and other corporations, like Standard Oil, against which the government had brought suit. They were bitter. Oil friends deserted him. Constant were the appeals from bankers and capi talists that he cease his pursuit. He stuck to his guns, however, and went after the law violators. It was on April 2. 1907, that E. H. Harrlmnn's discharged employe made public a let ter In which Harriman said that T. R. had sought his aid In 1904 to raise a fund of $250,000 for Roosevelt a presi dential campaign. Mr. Roosevelt promptly gave out correspondence showing that hts communications with Harriman had related entirely to the New York state campaign of 1904 and not the national canvass. He characterised Harrlmnn's sssertion about the $250,000 fund ss "a delilier ate and wilful untruth." At the time there was much preliminary skirmish ing for the coming presidential nom ination of 1908. President Roosevelt was for William H. Taft, hut Senator Bola Penrose, of Pennsylvania, was grooming Senator P. C. Knox, while the more or less radical republican aspirants Included Senator R. M La Eollette, of Wisconsin, and Governor A. R. Cummins, of Iowa. Also a seeker for the highest honors was Senator J. B. Foraker, of Ohio, who later was discovered to he a Standard Oil lawyer while occupying his sen ate sea'. Alee President Falibanka, too, was on the list of the willing). HOTEL TOURAINE BOSTON April 7, 1907 Dear Theodore: I h«\e thouglii a great deal of you. I have sometimes opposed your replying to people, but you were ab solutely right to answer Harriman, It Was essential. I knew some time sgn that Pen rilse wSs consolidating the Pennsyl vania delegation behind Knox's can dldacy. 1 knew the plan was to con trol the convention, hut was told the ohject was to defeat TjiFollette or Cummins and I know that at that lime they meant to support Taft, feeling that they itould not elect Kalrhitnka or Foraker. Taft's refusal to have anything to do with Foraker, I rather think, precipitated matters. I do not think they liked Hughes This may end bv forcing you in or der to save not only your policies ami the party but your friends. They have plaved their game with paralysing stupidity. You ore bleseed in your enemies Think of the luck of having Hie question in the public mind come between you snd Harrl man! But we must beat them now This M ite 1* for you, of course, and Is friendly to Taft next I think. Our best love to you and Edith. Ever yours. HC. I,. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON April 9. 1*07. Dear Cabot: t can't help longing to see you, end to lalk over Hie llnrrlninu affair. Willi nil lls ramifications It has been an uglv Imslne-s; but there ere res sons vvliv 1 am not altogether sorry lhat it has happened Ever yours. T. R. WHITE HOUSE AV ASl IINOTON April 18 1907, l >ea r t ’« hot: 1 >»vv tome friends who had been In New York recently; they say that New York's view of me—the view of the clubs, of high finance, and of tlie "educated lntellgence"—is one of hatred, terror, but above all horror. They now think that 1 have become partially Insane through excessive drinking! Ever yours, • T. K. THE WHITE HOrSE, WASHINGTON. Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 4, 1907. Dear Cabot: The other day In talking to a rea sonably intelligent friend, who is In Wall street and who is heroically en deavoring to stand up for me against the general opposition, 1 found that he himself was under the impression that I had started the insurance In vestigations, and that the present feeling against property and menace to our prosperity was due to this un wi«e action on my part. 1 explained, in the first place that 1 had nothing whatever to do with starting them; that in the next place it was the ras cality that was shown and not the investigations that caused the trouble. He declined to accept either view Ever yours, T. R. Hon. H. C. Lodge, 17. 8. R. Nahant, Mass. (When panic actually struck "The Street" in 1907, the president agreed that it was no lime for beginning any more suits against the corporations "at tlie moment." lie did not blame himself, however, for the panic. One of the big business men whom he re spected was Thomas Jefferson Oool idge, Boston merchant, mentioned In the following letter. It was at this time that Roosevelt delivered his fa mous Provlncetown speech, August 20, 1907, in which he advocated a na tional Incorporation law for corpora tions engaged In Interstate business. Me slso advocsted lews which, while increasing the supervisory and regu latory power of the government, would permit useful combinations made with absolute openness and with the approval of representatives of the government. "It is advisable." he said, "that there Rhould be a clause in these lews providing for criminal action and for punishment by Imprisonment as well as by fine . . . Our elm is to help every hon est man, every honest corporation, and our policy means in its ultimate analysis a healthy and prosperous ex pension of business activities, of hon est business men and honest corpoia tlons ") THE WHITE HOI'SE, WASHINGTON. Oyster Bay. N. Y.. Aug. 14, 1907. Dear C'abot: I quite agree with what Mr. Cool Idge says. I do not think that my ac tion, or Indeed the conditions here, are the chief elements in the trouble, for this trouble is acute on the bourses of Paris and Berlin, and Brit ish consols are lower than ever be fore. while British and Canadian rail way securities have depreciated, al though not as much as our own. It does not seem reasonable to claim that this is due to my actions. But the very word "panic" denotes ab sence of reason and assuredly we shall lie held responsible for any trouble that may ensue. My Provlncetown speech Is given to tlie press I would lmve gone over it with you very gladly if there had been time. I did go over It with Root and accepted tlie only two sug gestions he made District Attorney French, who strikes me as a good fellow, by the way, read It and heart ily approved of It. At the same time, if. before I had sent It out. tlie pres ent flurry had occurred, it is pos sible, although not very probable, that I would have devised something to say idling the line that Mr. Cool idge suggests I confess, however, It Is a very difficult thing to know quite how to say It. I agree with you thoroughly about the undesirability st the moment of going on with any new suits. Cooildgs put his finger on the diffi culty when he said that it would not help much for me to announce that no corporation that obeyed the law would suffer Tn my Provlncetown speech I have said this identical thing. 1 have also stated that we are acting In the defense of property. I enclose you a copy of the speech. 1 do not see how It can cause legltl mate alarm, but I am well aware that the present alarm Is largely Illegiti mate. Of course show the speech to no one. Kver yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, lion. !i. C Lodge, P. 8. 8. Nahant, Mass. EAST POINT NAHANT Aug 16, 1907. Dear Theodore: I have just received your letter and speech. Tlie speech is nit right. The opening Is fine and all the rent strong and sound, it is hard to' sec how any right thinking man can take exrep lion to (lie principle so strongly laid down. I am still tn a perplexity as to how "tile reassuring words" which people want could be phrased. 1 am glad you put tn the sentence about tlie honest corporation having noth ing to fear, although what alarms the stock market is tlie fate of the cor poration that lias violated tlie law. An additional sentence to the effect the administration has no Idea of multiplying suits or raking up technical evasions or attacking and harassing corporations as such gen erallv. would have done rio harm and might have been soothing. I am amused to sen that our speeches are entirely different and yet preach the same moral. My text Is the compact of the Mayflower not the Puritan. I attack socialism, urge control of corporations, the meeting of new questions in new ways and the observance of law and especially of the fundamental law of the consti tution of which the compact was the exemplar—all briefly of course, 1 hope you will like It. Poor man, you will have to listen to it and 1 laugh sardonically as I think of It. By the way, one thing will get you into trouble. You speak of the "Pil grims" as "Puritans," an almost un pardonable sin in the eyes of the de scendants of the former. So look out for squalls. Yours, II. C. I,. THE "WHITE HORSE WASHINGTON Oyster Kay, N. V„ August "3, 1907. Dear Cahot: I think the day at Provincetown was a success in every way. The New York newspapers are simply crazy about my speech. If you read them, the Sun, Times, World, Evening Post and the remainder, you would think I was a fribble, a demagog and a mis creant, all three. I send you a very rough draft of a \ memorandum relating to Japan which' I have thought of putting Into my, annual message or of using In some' way in connection with Japan. Root] has been so under the weather this > summer that It has not lreen possible for me to consult with him In any of these matters. Give my love 1o Nannie. Ever yours. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, lion. H. C. Lodge, R. S. 8. Nahant, Mast. THE WHITE HORSE WASHINGTON Oynter Bov, N. Y'., August 27, 3*07. Dear Cabot: There are one or two government | suits which we shall have to under-; take, but I do not want to have them j talked about at all until w> have] actually gone into them. Y'ou have; probably seen how everybody has been clamoring for me to have the main offenders Indicted instead of pro. eeding by suit against the corpor ation. which they say mainly dam ages the innocent stockholders. Well. Kellogg * was out to see me yesterday i and It develops that we may have to] indict certain high officials of the1 Standard Oil con pany. When we do, ; the same people who are now d • manding the indictment snd Im prisonment of the offending officials of corporations will say that w> are further trying to depress the market. Every yours. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Hon. H. C. Lodge U. S. S. Nahant. Mass. * Frank B. Kellogg, the "trust buster" of Minnesota, now ambassador to Great Britain. He was appointed by T. R. as special counsel for the government In several antitrust (cases, including the suit against the Standard Oil corporation, as a com bination in restraint of trade. THE WHITE HORSB WASHINGTON Oyster Bay, I.,. I., September 4. 1907. Dear Cabot: It L’ evident that my Provincetown speech did not ruin matters, for they have improved steadily since. 1 do rot think that this is a case of propter hoc. hut It at least shows that the Sun. Time*. Evening Post and com pany were wrong as regards th* In fluence they asserted It would have. Ever yours. T. R. Hon. H. C. Lodge, R. S 8 Nahant. Mass. iEvery now and then Roosevelt's enemies sprang fanoiful r hargee about him. The allegation that he was a hard drinker was recurrent. It was entirely disproved in the course of the • ult brought by him for libel egaln«t William Rome* Jr., after lie left the White House The Standard Oil i on trlbutions mentioned In the following letter, had been Individual campaign gifts after Roosevelt gave orders that no Standard till monev should l>e ac cepted for his 1904 campaign. Letter* published years later proved th.it he had given such orders I THE WHITE HORSE. WASHINGTON. Oyster Bay. N. Y' . September 21 1907 Dear t^abot: The addition of the morphine habit to my Insanity and drunkenness give* the story a brand new flavor. Reallv. it sometimes look* to me a* If tbe*e high financiers in New Y'ork were themselves Insane. I can with mod j KI-MOIDS -FOR INDIGESTION Instant Relief! | MADE BY SCOTT A BOWNE MAKERS OP SCOTT'S EMULSION ———a—» Jj est pride claim that New Vork la . ahead even of Beaton on this point, ^ because Wall street Is much more genuinely representative of New Turk than State street is of Boston. The delicate thing about those 1 *• ters concerning the Standard Oil con tributions Is that the committee re. fused really to act as I requeate,!. They made no answer to me for « long time, then told me verbally that no Standard Oil contributions for try campaign would le accepted: but 1 think they did accept Individual con trdutb ns from the different person* anil applied them to the New Toik state and congressional campalg However, In my letter I made It per fectly plain to the committee that no one had anything to expect in the way of favors because of a contribution, or '■ j dread in the wav of punishment if he <i I not contribute, and the let ters mat be bandy at some time. Ever yours. TIIE()I>i iltE ROOSEVELT. Hon 1 r. (Lodge, Nahant, Mass, (The panic reached its peak In N>> vernber, F'07, when many banks in New Turk and through the count closed their doors. The president a r 1 his se ret.ary. George H. Cortely. had meanwhile sought In varlo a ways to end the trouble. The admin istration repeatedly emphasized Pa view that not all corporation* w< a bad that it would do nothing to con done the offense# of the bad ones, h :t that It would protect those obey) ; the laws and respect Just proper - rights at all times Said Rooaevep in an address at the opening of the Johnstown exposition, Aj a "This great republic of ours shall ™ never become the government of a phrfr, ra'-y. and It shall never become the government of a mob."t THE WHITE HOfSE, WASHINGTON. October 27, 1907. Hear Gabot and Nannie: I wa« verv much touched that y r should hr. ve remembered my birthday. T have much to tell you both when I see you. Things look rather squally in a flnsnci-ii way *t present: t t thlr.es alwiiv* look squally in o <■ way or another. Cortelyou is doing evert‘ ting he can. We have to at : 1 the result. I th'ir ughlv enjoyed my fortnigt.■ • hr! in the cane-break#. In spite * the fact that It took me 12 days before I g> t n-.y bear. Now I am up to ; ears In work. Ever yours. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Hon. and Mrs. H. C. Lodge, Nahant, Mass. iTo be continued tomorrow, when tlie early letters written by Theodore Roosevelt from Ills Dakota ranches in 188i| lH86 will he published — letters full of western adventure mingled with the polilica of the day.) Chapter of Yk alton League to Be Organized at ^ork York, Feb. 2X —Some of Yor» * sportsmen and lovers of outdoor i fe are interested in organizing a chapter of the Izaak Walton League of Arn ica. Dues will tie low enough to per mit all interested to become members. 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