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Puck, v. 58, no. 1490

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The way of the transgressor is–

The way of the transgressor is–

A large bull labeled “Beef Trust,” wearing a crown, sits on its haunches, with its front hooves crushing a “Cattle Raiser” and a “Consumer.” A jester labeled “Anti-Trust Laws” is flogging it with two bags or balloons labeled “Fines” attached to a stick. Caption: “There, you bad, wicked Beef Trust! Take that!!”

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Some of the major political battles of 1905-06 were pressed by President Roosevelt, and some issues came to a head; of course the political confrontations were engaged in synergistic fashion to varying degrees. One of the most intractable of issues concerned the Beef Trust, meat-packing monopolies, and pure food and drug matters: everything from manipulated prices of meat to adulterated canned food and drugs. These issues were all related, and exacerbated by “muckraking” writing by Upton Sinclair (the meat industry), Samuel Hopkins Adams (medicines and drugs), and others.

“Home, sweet homeski!”

“Home, sweet homeski!”

A tattered, but happy, Russian army returns home after the end of the war with Japan. In the background, the rising sun of Japan is visible on the horizon.

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Comments and Context

Carl Hassmann’s double-page cartoon in Puck at the end of hostilities in the Far East — where the bold symbol of Japan, the sun, clearly rises; it is not setting, as history learned — is a very sardonic portrayal of the international situation. If anything, his depiction of the defeated Russian army as happy, though sotted, as retaining riches and even singing and occasionally smiling, was scarcely true, even in a cartoonist’s metaphor.