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11 “I thank you” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 607.
12 “I ask you” Ibid.
13 Miller’s habits Ibid.; The Washington Post, 30 Sept. 1903.
14 The delegation trooped The New York Times, The Washington Post, and New York Sun, 30 Sept. 1903.
15 Editorial opinion Literary Digest, 10 Oct. 1903; The Washington Post, 30 Sept. 1903. The New York Times, same date, complained only that Roosevelt had not been tough enough with labor.
16 Radical unions New York Sun, 30 Sept. 1903; Gatewood, Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy, 164, 174; Ray Stannard Baker to TR, 15 Oct. 1903 (TRP). Baker had just begun a serialized exposé of union bossism in McClure’s.
17 “YOU MAY HAVE noticed” TR to Mark Hanna, 5 Oct. 1903 (TRP). Senate tinkerings with the treaty, before ratifying it in the spring, had necessitated reratification by Cuba and full consent of the new Congress. Healy, United States in Cuba, 205.
18 With no paved highways Federico Boyd, Exposición histórica acerca de los motivos que causaron la separación de Panamá de la Rep. de Colombia [Panama, 1911?], 37; Miner, Fight for the Panama Route, 336.
19 The President could Boyd, Exposición, 37; John Barrett to Caroline S. Barrett, 20 Nov. 1905 (JB); Marks, Velvet on Iron, 97–98. According to the New York Sun, 5 Nov. 1903, Panamanians paid higher per-capita taxes than any other Colombian citizens, yet received nothing of Bogotá’s annual levy on the railroad.
20 Panama’s political Philander Knox, “Sovereignty over the Isthmus, as Affecting the Canal,” 1903 memorandum (PCK); Marks, Velvet on Iron, 97–98; Richard H. Collin, “The Big Stick as Weltpolitik: Europe and Latin America in Theodore Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy,” in Naylor et al., Theodore Roosevelt, 296–316; TR, Works, vol. 17, 241–43; Parks, Colombia and the United States, 219–34, 397; Friedlander, “Reassessment.” For a revolutionary precedent in 1885, almost identical with that of 1903, see DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 124–30.
21 “This does not” TR to Mark Hanna, 5 Oct. 1903 (TRP). The words therefore and must do not appear in the published version of this letter. TR, Letters, vol. 3, 625.
22 It did not amuse At the time TR sought to discuss Panama policy with him, Hanna was desperately trying to raise campaign money on Wall Street. Mark Hanna to John Hay, 15 Sept. 1903 (JH), and to George Perkins, ca. early Oct. 1903 (GWP); Mark Hanna to TR, 4 Oct. 1903 (TRP).
23 This advice contrasted Review of Reviews, Oct. 1903. See also Lloyd J. Graybar, Albert Shaw of the Review of Reviews: An Intellectual Biography (Louisville, 1974), 124–25.
24 Roosevelt tried TR, Letters, vol. 3, 625–26.
25 “It is out of” TR, Autobiography, appendix to chap. 14. Weeks later, TR quoted these words to show how considerate he had been of Congress, if not Colombia, in October 1903. Friedlander, “Reassessment.”
26 “misconduct” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 626; Washington Evening Star, 7 Oct. 1903; William Nelson Cromwell to TR, 14 Oct. 1903 (TRP); TR qu. in Thomas Schoonover, “Max Farrand’s Memorandum on the U.S. Role in the Panamanian Revolution of 1903,” Diplomatic History, fall 1988.
27 Philippe Bunau-Varilla White House appointment book, 10 Oct. 1903, and Francis B. Loomis to TR, 5 Jan. 1904 (TRP). Loomis is often described as an old and close friend (and hence, wily collaborationist) of Bunau-Varilla. They had met a few times previously, but their correspondence in FBL makes plain that they did not strike up any intimacy until after 1904. Till then, their relations were stiffly formal. Note that Loomis’s above-cited letter is a “posterity document,” clearly demanded after the fact by TR.
28 a shrewd and aggressive personality TR to William R. Thayer, 1 Mar. 1917 (TRP); TR, Letters, vol. 3, 691; McCullough, Path Between the Seas, 162.
29 He knew that Schoonover, “Max Farrand’s Memorandum”; Francis B. Loomis to TR, 5 Jan. 1904 (TRP); Bunau-Varilla, Panama, 311. TR remarked years later, “There might have been a dictograph in the room.” Schoonover, “Max Farrand’s Memorandum.