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President Roosevelt pokes a Republican elephant that is already bleeding from a number of other spears adorned with flags bearing messages pertaining to currency. It is also shackled by a “fraud” and “graft” ball and chain. Roosevelt says, “Hang it!! Some some activity, I don’t care for your pain!”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10
A “Democracy” woman is chained to “factional leadership” while a scaled and monstrous “apathy” approaches from below. Caption: Wanted, a Perseus! There she stands, poor soul,/Watching the red-gorged monster’s slow advance—/While ever he nearer and nearer creeps/And the gods laugh and the deliverer sleeps!
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-15
An angry Father Knickerbocker, symbolic figure of New York City, performs a feat of strength by breaking chains that bind his arms and chest. The broken chains spell “Raines Law” and “Hayseed Legislation.” Caption: Father Knickerbocker is in training for this “Sandow Act” (referring to similar feats of strength by bodybuilder Eugen Sandow).
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-06-09
A sword labeled “Removal of Duties on Meat” is suspended by a chain labeled “Republican Congress” above a bull labeled “Meat Trust” feeding from a dish filled with coins labeled “Arbitrary Profits.” Caption: Unlike the sword of Damocles, which was suspended by a hair.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-02-23
Trade union laborers, some in chains labeled “High Tariff” and “Tariff,” and one standing on a block labeled “Trade Unions,” are being auctioned by a man labeled “Protectionist Statesman” to capitalists and manufacturers, including Cyrus W. Field and William H. Vanderbilt. In the background is a row of factories. A sign states “Quotations. Average wage for skilled workman $7 a Week or $359 a Year.” Caption: “Going – going – lower – lower!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-01-02
James Gillespie Blaine is pictured as Tantalus chained to a large rock labeled “Mulligan Letters” and standing on rocks labeled “Guano” and “Northern Pacific R. R.,” yearning to reach a table laden with food and drink labeled “Presidential Cake, Patronage, [and] Spoils.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-10-08