Busy William
Secretary of War William H. Taft holds crying baby “Cuba” while rocking on a rocking chair and says, “I wish this kid would quiet down—I want to get back to that dear Ohio!!” To the left of the rocking chair is a bottle of “political dope” and a book entitled, “How to Soothe Cuba, Vol. I.”
Comments and Context
Little is known about the elusive cartoonist N. Eingen. In this cartoon in the Woman’s National Daily of St.Louis and University City, Missouri, he displayed more sympathy than usually accorded any member of the Roosevelt Administration.