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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.”
This Keppler cartoon about Russia’s troubling habits is from the interregnum between the Boxer Rebellion and the Russo-Japanese War.
A ship labeled “Labor” sails into dark clouds labeled “Employers’ Disclosures” on a sea labeled “Oblivion.” Laborers on board the ship are pushing over the side a man labeled “Walking Delegate” who has papers in his pockets labeled “Bribe, Graft, [and] Blackmail.”
The iconic symbol of the Walking Delegate — roving labor organizer and representative, and sometime provocateur — was a staple in political cartoons dating back to the first Joseph Keppler, founder of Puck Magazine; and Thomas Nast of Harper’s Weekly. He was identified with selfish goals, graft, and instigator.