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Thomas Collier Platt and Chauncey M. Depew appear in 16th century theatrical costumes in a scene from a Shakespearean play. Caption: Falstaff Depew (to Prince Hal Platt) — I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought.–King Henry IV.
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1906-01-10
Thomas Fortune Ryan, J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Edward Henry Harriman appear as sheikhs listening to a diminutive Grover Cleveland, labeled “Insurance Arbiter,” standing at a desk, shaking a stick at them. Caption: What shall we do with our ex-president? – Anything but this.
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1906-01-24
Henry Huttleston Rogers, John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller Jr., and J. Ogden Armour, sit in a theater box during an opera. Two women labeled “Law” and “Justice” sing and dance on a stage to the direction of a man wearing legal robes and a wig, labeled “The Courts” and holding a violin and bow, in the orchestra pit. Caption: An act that is sure to get a laugh.
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1906-01-31
A band of pirates on a beach gather around their booty of treasure chest and bags of gold coins. Among the pirates are John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr., Henry Huttleston Rogers, Henry Morrison Flagler, and Frank Rockefeller and William Rockefeller, two brothers of John D. The pirate ship labeled “Standard Oil” is anchored just off shore. Another ship burns in the distance. All these “pirates” were executives of Standard Oil, or connected to J. D. Rockefeller. Ida Tarbell’s muckraking book The History of the Standard Oil Companyrecently had been published, and the nation was interested, and scandalized, by the doings of the Rockefellers.
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1906-02-07
A duck with clawed feet, wearing a medal labeled “The Senate,” carries peacock feathers labeled “Probity, Incorruptibility, Statesmanship, Patriotism, [and] Highmindedness.” Caption: The Senate is indignant over the attacks on it in American magazines. A suggestion under consideration is that some able expounder be selected to deliver a response to the criticisms.–Daily Press.
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1906-02-21
A large mean-looking man labeled “Coal Trust,” patterned after Charles Dickens’ character “Bill Sikes” from the novel Oliver Twist, holds a club labeled “Control of Rail Roads” in his right hand and looks down at a cowering man/dog figure labeled “Independent Mine Owner.” On a table on the left is a bottle labeled “Rebates.”
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1906-03-07
The sun, with Theodore Roosevelt’s beaming face, is partially covered by smaller planets having the faces of Elihu Root, William H. Taft, and Charles W. Fairbanks. Other “planets” in the background include Leslie M. Shaw, Joseph Benson Foraker, and another that is unidentified. Caption: Political astronomers are watching some aspiring planetoids.
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1905-08-30
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, sits on a throne, wearing a large skull topped with a cross as a crown. A Japanese man offers him papers labeled “Peace ‘with Honor’,” and a Jewish man, holding bags labeled “Jewish Loans,” stands in a palace doorway in the background. A basket overflowing with papers labeled “Jewish Petition [and] Protest against Kishineff Massacres” is on the floor. A paper on a desk states “Cost of War to Russia $1,042,500,000.”
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1905-09-06
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, riding on a hobby horse labeled “Shaw’s Orations,” calls out to fleeing citizens in a valley to stand their ground in the face of a weakening “Stand-Pat Dam” in the background. Caption: Secretary Shaw — Courage, stand-patriots! You can save the dam yet!
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1905-09-13
A group of football players, labeled “Steel Trust, Tool Trust, Tobacco Trust, Clothing Trust, Leather Trust, Oil Trust, Coal Trust, [and] Beef Trust” tackle a “Consumer” with a football labeled “Tariff Revision” during a football game at a stadium labeled “Stand Pat A.C.”
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1905-09-27
A ship labeled “Life Insurance” is being taken over by pirates labeled “Pres. $100,000, 1st V.P. $50,000, 2nd V.P. $40,000, 3rd V.P., 4th V.P., 5th V.P. [and] Sonny,” who are forcing scapegoats to walk the plank, an “Old Clerk, Office Boy, Pensioner, Janitor, Scrubwoman, [and] The Goat.” The ship figurehead shows two men labeled “Hendricks & Kilbourn.” Caption: After the investigation the strictest economy.
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1905-10-11
President Roosevelt, as a southern plantation owner, rides on a donkey, holding an umbrella, a jug of “Corn Lickker” behind him. William Loeb walks behind, holding the donkey’s tail. In the background, perched on a tree, is a bird labeled “Vardaman.” Caption: “Way down South in the land of cotton.”
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1905-10-18
James Rudolph Garfield, Commissioner of Corporations, is an artist finishing a large mural of a bull, “Saint Bovine,” sitting on a cornucopia overflowing with cuts of meat. Caption: Suggested decoration for the Senate Chamber at Washington.
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1905-03-29
Czar Nicholas II of Russia clutches against his chest a doll that is wearing a crown labeled “Autocracy” as he races through the woods in a troika pursued by a pack of angry, ravenous wolves.
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1905-04-05
A depressed old man wearing formal clothing sits on the sidewalk on small railroad cars labeled “Street Railways.” In his pocket is a paper labeled “Expiring Franchises” and protruding from a bag another paper labeled “Leases.” A bundle at his feet is labeled “Boodle.” Mayor of Chicago, Edward F. Dunne, is standing in the background with a broom.
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1905-04-26
John D. Rockefeller, holding a bag labeled “Foreign $ Missions” close to his side, sits on millstones labeled “Standard Oil Millstone” grinding or squeezing money from people caught between the two stones. With his left hand he offers a copy of the Bible to a native man. A diminutive figure below, labelled “Jr,” is Rockefeller’s son and namesake, who methodically was assisting and assuming projects of the trust magnate.
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1905-05-03
The Democratic Donkey, as a woman, sits in a pew in a church with William Jennings Bryan preaching “Jeffersonian Simplicity” from a pulpit. On Bryan’s left are Alton B. Parker, Henry Watterson, and William Randolph Hearst, and among those on his right are New York City Mayor George B. McClellan Jr., former Representative Tom Watson of Georgia, Representative John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, and Senator “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman. All are preaching except Hearst, who righteously looks up to the heavens. In the background, the sun illuminates a stained glass window labeled “Our Thomas” and showing Thomas Jefferson. In a far corner of the church, Grover Cleveland is asleep. Caption: The Democratic Donkey (drowsily) — He-e-e Haw! What a lot of ways to be saved!
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1905-05-10
Meiji, the Emperor of Japan, peers over the top of a large globe from the east toward Europe where the rulers of several nations stand with Nicholas II, the wounded and crippled emperor of Russia. There is concern among the European leaders about where Japan will turn after defeating Russia.
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1905-05-17
Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, as Don Quixote, sits in a chair, reading, with a sword in raised right hand, with visions of former (and current) presidents, as well as some of the social ills that he hopes to correct. Caption: Our esteemed Vice-President takes his candidacy seriously.
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1905-05-24
A bloated old man, his hat labeled “Trusts,” sits on the “U.S. Customs” building. The tiny figure of Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw is in his vest pocket, and he is anchored to an “American Consumer” bound by the “Dingley Tariff.” He is distressed as Uncle Sam takes a giant stride across the ocean to “Europe” where he can purchase “American Goods Cheap.” Caption: Uncle Samuel — I’ll buy Yankee goods, yew bet! / The American Consumer — Aw, why don’t you buy at home and be a patriot like me.
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1905-06-07