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Three men labeled “Riot, Lynching, [and] Violence” burn a female figure labeled “Law and Order” at the stake. She is bound to the stake with ribbons labeled “Prejudice” and “Defiance.”
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1903-07-22
Uncle Sam holds a paper labeled “Protest against Russian Outrage.” He is standing with his back to a slightly open door revealing a skeleton labeled “Lynchings” and holding a handgun and rope in his closet. He looks at the skeleton, realizing he is caught in a double standard.
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1903-07-29
A female figure labeled “Prosperity” holds a cornucopia labeled “Legitimate Business” overflowing with coins and papers labeled “Increased exports, Good crop reports, Higher wages, Larger R.R. earnings, [and] Trade ascendancy.” She is rising from the flames of “Watered stocks, Wildcat schemes, Mad speculation, Undigested securities, False values, [and] Overcapitalization.”
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1903-08-05
The Russian bear blows soap bubbles labeled “Promises” through a meerschaum pipe with a Chinese face, using liquid from a bowl labeled “Manchurian soft soap.”
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1903-08-12
An American yachtsman shakes hands with Thomas Johnstone Lipton, with the America’s Cup between them. Caption: The American Sportsman — If we can not keep both, we would rather lose the cup than lose you, Sir Thomas.
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1903-08-26
Uncle Sam uses a magnifying glass to see in his left hand a diminutive man labeled “Rumor Monger” yelling “Panic, National Disaster, Failures, [and] Ruin” into a megaphone labeled “Wall Str.” Caption: Uncle Sam — Well! Will this nuisance ever learn that the country governs Wall Street; not Wall Street, the country.
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1903-09-02
The “Dem. Party” donkey with six followers places “Cleveland’s cradle 1884” into a river. Pyramids are visible in the background.
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1903-09-16
Thomas Johnstone Lipton beats a hand-drum labeled “American Progress,” trying to wake John Bull who is sound asleep in a chair. Caption: “There is no more loyal Britisher than myself; but I can’t close my eyes to one thing, and that is we are a decaying nation, commercially, as compared to your country, and the United States is the greatest country on the face of the earth to-day.”–Speech of Sir Thomas Lipton.
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1903-09-23
President Roosevelt stands at a flag-draped podium on the right, pointing to two men on the left, each with a foot on a female figure labeled “Law” lying on the ground. One man has papers labeled “Dishonest Corporations” and the other has papers labeled “Union Tyranny” and notes extending from his pockets labeled “Bribe” and “Graft.” On the front of the podium at which Roosevelt stands is a quotation: “If alive to their true interests, rich and poor alike will set their faces like flint against the spirit which seeks personal advantage by overriding the laws, without regard to whether this spirit shows itself in the form of bodily violence by one set of men or in the form of vulpine cunning by another set of men.” – President Roosevelt’s Speech, Sept. 7.
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1903-09-30
A puppeteer labeled “Russia” with marionettes labeled “Bulgaria” and “Macedonia” engage in a sword fight. The Bulgarian puppet is about to cut the head off the Macedonian puppet who has dropped his sword. Hanging on the side of the theater, to the left, are three puppets labeled “Roumelia, Servia, [and] Roumania.” Caption: A continuous performance since Peter, the Great.
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1903-10-07
New York Mayor Seth Low directs the bombardment of a Tammany Hall bunker flying a flag labeled “Tammany Graft.” Several men, among them former President Grover Cleveland, and Charles V. Fornes, pass shells labeled “Clean record, Capable administration, [and] Just return for taxes” for an “Anti-Tammany” howitzer. They are behind a sand-bag bunker labeled “Honest Government” and are flying the flag of “Municipal Reform.” Caption: “That ammunition fits our gun only.”
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1903-10-21
Tammany Hall boss Richard Croker, as a pirate, nails a new figurehead labeled “McClellan” to the bow of a ship labeled “Tammany.” The old figurehead labeled “Van Wyck” lies on the ground.
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1903-10-28
On a desolate shore, a woman labeled “France” is playing the role of Elsa in Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin. She is embraced by Edward VII, King of Great Britain, who is playing the role of Lohengrin, and they are looking at a nasty knight labeled Russia playing the role of Telramund. The swan is in the background, chained to a stake on the shoreline. Caption: Elsa-France (to Lohengrin-England) — O, why did you not come sooner – before I was pledged to Telramund?
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1903-05-06
In a Chinese restaurant, a man labeled “Russia” is eating from a bowl of food labeled “Manchuria.” In the background, a Chinese man tells Emile Loubet labeled “France” and William II labeled “Germany,” who are standing outside the door, that whoever comes first, gets served first.
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1903-05-13
General Nelson A. Miles tries to push over a monument that states “To the Army in the Philippines in Recognition of a Difficult Task, Well Done.”
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1903-05-20
A larger-than-life-size man, the representative for the “Employers Union,” gestures toward a sign on a wall around a construction site. The sign states “Notice – The right to lock out is as absolute as the right to strike – Employer’s Union.” A labor union “Walking Delegate” is standing with two laborers. They are shocked at being locked out and unable to work.
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1903-05-27
Samuel W. Pennypacker, governor of Pennsylvania, wearing a fools’ cap, tries to block the light of “Publicity” with a sheet of paper labeled “Pennsylvania Gag Law.” The light from a lantern held by a hand labeled “Press” is exposing Matthew S. Quay, a senator from Pennsylvania.
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1903-06-03
Marcus Alonzo Hanna, as an old sailor sitting on a box on the dock, smokes a pipe and watches a ship labeled “Ship of State” sail out to sea. Caption: “Smash m’ gaff! Who’d ‘a’ thought the old ship could sail like that, without me?”
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1903-06-10
A larger-than-life “Spirit of Civilization” points with contempt to a man on a pedestal labeled “Russia.” Standing around the pedestal are John Bull, Uncle Sam, and symbolic representatives of other nations.
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1903-06-17
A bear and a bull appear as gladiators in an arena. The bear has one foot on the bull and is about to plunge a sword labeled “Raids” into the bull. Sheep at the edge of the wall appear to be signaling death to the bull.
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1903-06-24