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Puck, v. 53, no. 1357

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Taking his medicine

Taking his medicine

President Roosevelt gives the Republican elephant labeled “G.O.P.” a spoonful of “Trust Legislation Tonic.” On the elephant’s abdomen is a “Reciprocity Plaster.”

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Cartoonist Pughe suggests that by early 1902, President Roosevelt was manhandling his party, advancing a modified high-tariff policy and forcing trust-busting medicine down its throat. However, reciprocity had been President McKinley’s new policy trend when he died; and, as far as trusts went, neither the party nor the nation yet knew how much farther than the Northern Securities case the president would go.

The new Dreibund

The new Dreibund

Uncle Sam, John Bull (cartoon figure of Great Britain) and William II, Emperor of Germany, stand before Mars, the god of war, who is lying on the ground, asleep. Caption: “Sh-h-h! ‘Let sleeping dogs lie.'”

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In the years preceding World War I, nations of the world formed alliances by open or secret treaties, ostensibly to secure peace, but often to establish spheres of influence or buy time for other goals. The “Dreibund,” a German term for three-part alliance, never happened, at least with Great Britain who seriously mistrusted Germany (and vice-versa), not the United States, especially vis a vis Germany. The size and latent awful strength of Mars, suggested by Keppler’s cartoon, was unleashed a dozen years later on the European continent.