Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

The threatened revolt in the jungle

A group of animals are gathered in a jungle, some showing the facial attributes of the rulers of “Austria” (Franz Joseph I), “Germany” (William II), and “Italy” (Umberto I). A monkey labeled “France” is speaking and gesticulating to “Japan, Turkey, Russia, Italy, [and] Austria,” while the British lion looks on disapprovingly from above. China is in the background, Spain in the foreground, and Uncle Sam appears as an eagle behind the British lion.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-12-07

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

Business is business

Uncle Sam stands on a sidewalk, holding wads of dollars. The street is lined with stores and shops offering goods from several European countries, and above each shop is a sign that gives the dollar amount of goods “Sold to Uncle Sam” in the previous year. On the street are representatives from “Austria, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, [and] England (John Bull),” hailing Uncle Sam. A penniless man labeled “Spain” is standing in the middle of the street. Caption: After careful consideration Europe seems inclined to admit that Uncle Sam is right – and a good customer.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-06-22

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

The next thing to do

Uncle Sam stands at the top of a wall labeled “Prohibitive Tariff” on land labeled “U.S.” He looks across a body of water at the “Chinese Wall” being torn down by European and Japanese rulers labeled and caricatured as “France” (Felix Faure), “Germany” (William II), and “Japan” (Meiji), “England (George V), and “Russia” (Nicholas II). Caption: Uncle Sam – By Jingo! That reminds me that I’ve got a wall like that; – I’d better take it down, myself, before other people do it for me.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-06-29

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

May the new year do better

An elderly man labeled “1898” carries a sack labeled “Nuisances” filled with diminutive figures labeled “Spain, R. H. Davis, Crank, Quay, Esterhazy, Paty de Clam, Mercier, Yellow Journal, Prize Fighter, Croker, Platt, Tanner, Aguinaldo, [and] Free Silverite.” Also shown is Joseph Pulitzer. Above are two angels carrying a putti labeled “1899” between them. One angel is labeled “Prosperity” and holds a cornucopia; the other is labeled “Peace” and blows a trumpet.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-01-04

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

Unconditional surrender

President McKinley capitulates to special interests and political patronage by offering his sword labeled “Patronage” to Marcus A. Hanna, Thomas Collier Platt, and Matthew S. Quay. The dejected members of McKinley’s cabinet, labeled “Alger, Sherman, Bliss, Gage, Long, Wilson, McKenna, [and] Gary,” are standing in the background.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-07-11

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

Shoulder to shoulder

A diminutive William Jennings Bryan stands on a street before two gigantic men representing labor and business, waving a red flag labeled “Repudiation” and a paper that states, “We demand that the Savings of Labor, Life Insurance Policies, and Business Obligations in general shall be Paid in Fifty Cent Dollars.” Caption: Labor and business must stand together to protect their interests […].

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-08-19

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

The wind won’t hold out

William Jennings Bryan sits on the side of the road “to Washington,” his bicycle tires going flat. At the upper left, a vignette labeled “How he started” shows Bryan starting his ride to Washington, on a bicycle with tires labeled “Free Coinage Wind” and “Populist Wind.” Caption: How he started. How he will finish.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-08-26

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

“Blowing” himself around the country

William Jennings Bryan stands on the back of a railroad caboose using a bellows labeled “16 to 1” to blow paraphrased fragments from speeches at rural citizens as the train passes. Some of these include, “[Our people] do not need the lessons of history!”, “They know it all!”, and “The popular intuition is better than reasoning and what the people say goes.” Traveling with Bryan are several newspaper reporters.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-09-16

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

Bryan’s gas

William Jennings Bryan as a soda jerk stands behind a counter offering a cup of “Boy Oratory” or “Bryan’s Free Silver Soda” to a farmer holding a “Vote” in his hand. A sign on the wall behind Bryan states, “Flavors. Anarchy, Repudiation, ‘Cross and Grown,’ Populism, [and] 16 to 1.” Caption: It won’t go down with the American farmer, as the Vermont and Maine elections show.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-09-23

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

We despise him for the friends he has made

William Jennings Bryan rides on the shoulders of the “Tammany” Tiger, carrying a banner that states “Repudiation and National Dishonor.” Accompanying him are, on the left, John Peter “Altgeld” holding a torch burning “Arnachism” [sic] and, on the right, Benjamin R. “Tillman” with a patch labeled “S.C. Primaries” over one eye and holding a pitchfork that appears to be soiled with manure.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-10-14

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

She is getting too feeble to hold them

An elderly woman labeled “Spain,” possibly María Cristina, Queen Regent, struggles to maintain control of two diminutive figures, one labeled “Cuba,” armed with a gun and sword, and the other labeled “Philippine Islands,” armed with a crude hatchet and knife.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-11-18

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

They can’t stop it!

William Jennings Bryan hangs onto a large wheel labeled “Prosperity” spinning very fast as part of an engine. James K. Jones is attempting to stop the wheel by sticking a piece of lumber into the spokes, but it is spinning so fast that the wood splinters in his hands.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-12-16

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

The new girl

A fashionably dressed young woman, carrying a bag labeled “1897,” arrives at the entrance of a building where she is greeted by a small man with a bespectacled, globe-shaped head, as another woman carrying a bag labeled “1896” and a paper that states “Very Bad Character – World” departs.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-01-06

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

The European “concert”

A crazed man representing the Czar of “Russia” sits on a throne, manipulating marionettes that represent “France” (Felix Faure), “Austria” (Franz Joseph I), “Italy” (Umberto I), “Germany” (William II), and “England” (John Bull) playing musical instruments.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-05-05

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

Firing up the wrong boiler

President McKinley holds an oil can labeled “Patronage” and turns the crank on a “Prosperity Engine” while Nelson Dingley shovels coal into a damaged “Protection Boiler” labeled “High Tariff Defeat 1890” and “High Tariff Defeat 1892.” Nearby is a brand new and unused “Sound Financial Policy Boiler.” William B. Allison pulls the handle on a large brass “Republican Whistle.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-05-19

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

The Tantalus of to-day

Uncle Sam as Tantalus is bound with ropes to posts labeled “High Protective Tariff” and “Free Silver Agitation” by two men labeled “Protected Manufacturer” and “Silverite.” The men are preventing Uncle Sam from satisfying his desire for “Prosperity,” depicted as a female figure holding a cornucopia, separated from Uncle Sam by an “Ocean of Politics,” and standing among factories spewing smoke along the waterfront.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-06-02

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

No rest for the wicked

A man beating a large drum and a woman playing the cymbals in a street in the middle of the night disturb the sleep of everyone in the neighborhood. The drum is labeled “Salvation Army.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-06-30

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

On to the abyss

A huge throng of people, some carrying banners labeled “Populism, Silverites, [and] Socialists,” eagerly follow a fairy labeled “Paternalism” carrying a transparent balloon or bag labeled “Government Support” as she floats toward a cliff or abyss.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-07-14

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

The open door

Print shows John Bull standing on the left at an entrance labeled “India” and Uncle Sam standing opposite at an entrance labeled “Philippines” inviting men labeled “Germany, Russia, France, Italy, [and] Austria” to enter carrying bags, boxes, and bundles of products for export and trade. Caption: In spite of all agreements, this seems to Puck to be the only way it can ever be settled.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-05-31

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

The socialists’ theory, and how it would work out

Print shows Uncle Sam, on the left, giving a bag of money to a man labeled “Socialist” and a bag of money to a man labeled “Businessman,” he tells them “Gentlemen, I have divided the wealth of the country equally among all the people. Here are your shares, now go ahead and be happy!” At center, “The Start”, the two men part ways with the socialist taking the path “To Idleness and Extravagance” and the businessman taking the path “To Industry and Thrift.” On the right, at “The Finish,” the two men again stand before Uncle Sam, this time the businessman is holding two bags of money and the dejected socialist is showing that his pockets are now empty.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-06-14

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909