A hard baby to bring up
Subject(s): Arbitration (Administrative law), Hanna, Marcus Alonzo, 1837-1904, Infants, Nurses, Straus, Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon), 1850-1926, United States
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An unruly infant labeled “Arbitration” cries, sitting in a high chair. Oscar S. Straus, as a nurse, is measuring out a spoonful of “Anti-Strike Tonic,” and a puzzled “Dr. Hanna” is standing behind the child. Caption: The child of the labor question worries its nurses.
Comments and Context
As Minister to the Ottoman Empire, Oscar S. Straus was influential in persuading Turkish leaders to, in turn, persuade rebel Muslims in the Philippines not to actively join the native rebels then resisting United States occupation subsequent to the Spanish-American War. With that diplomatic success to his credit, he was appointed to be a member of the International Court of Arbitration at Hague upon the death of former President Benjamin Harrison. Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Chairman of the Republic Party, spokesman for the party’s business interests, and nemesis of American organized labor (due in part to scabrous cartoon caricatures), tries unsuccessfully with Straus in this cartoon to delete strike provisions from arbitration treaties. In 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Straus Secretary of Commerce and Labor, the first Jew to be a cabinet secretary. Subsequently, President William Howard Taft returned him ministerial duties in Turkey. Straus’s brother Isadore perished on the Titanic; Isadore another brother Nathan owned Macy’s and Abraham & Straus department stores; Nathan, Jr., became owner of Puck Magazine in 1914, and before World War II was a friend of Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank. A great-nephew, R. Peter Straus, owned New York radio station WMCA and the publishing house Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, whose son, R. Peter, Jr., married the mother of Monica Lewinsky.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1902-05-28
Creator(s)
Period
U.S. President – 1st Term (September 1901-February 1905)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Page Count
1
Record Type
Image
Resource Type
Rights
These images are presented through a cooperative effort between the Library of Congress and Dickinson State University. No known restrictions on publication.
Citation
Cite this Record
Chicago:
A hard baby to bring up. [May 28, 1902]. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs.
https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o276230. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956. A hard baby to bring up. [28 May. 1902]. Image.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. March 26, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o276230.
APA:
Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956., [1902, May 28]. A hard baby to bring up.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o276230.
Cite this Collection
Chicago:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-prints-and-photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. March 26, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-prints-and-photographs.
APA:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-prints-and-photographs.
