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A huge J.P. Morgan carries a cornucopia filled with railroads, ships, telegraph lines, and steel rails as examples of the broad range of industry he controls. As he strides forward, the German emperor and the King of Great Britain are brushed aside. Caption: The modern trust king brings dismay to the old kings of Europe.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-05-21
Theodore Roosevelt was pleased to receive Samuel Crothers’s essay. Roosevelt agrees that divine right is not something that fits with the democratic character of the United States where ballots change rulers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-11-14
German Emperor William II, with wings made from swords and handguns, and holding a sword labeled “Absolutism,” stands on a cliff with other “Pillars of My Throne” identified as a soldier labeled “Military Force,” a police officer labeled “Police Persecution” carrying a club labeled “Royal Crusher,” an old man with a magnifying glass labeled “Legal Arbitrariness,” Joseph Pulitzer wrapped in paper labeled “Subsidized Press” and “Reactionary Methods,” a well-dressed man labeled “Privileged Nobility,” and a teacher labeled “Drill in Subserviency.” They are illuminated by a large sun labeled “Divine Right.” The “vision” on the right shows a scene in “Transvaal” with a female figure wearing a Phrygian cap and holding a flag labeled “Spirit of Freedom” rising in the clouds of smoke issuing from productive factories.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-01-29
William II, German Emperor, stands among papers, looking puzzled, holding a long sheet of paper that lists successful U.S. military campaigns during the Spanish-American War. Caption: William the Greatest–Himmelkreuzdonnerwetter!! That those Yankees should do these things without a consecrated ruler to tell them how!!!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-08-10
William II, Emperor of Germany, is caught by Germania with his fingers in a jar of jam labeled “Buttinkeit Jam” that he has taken from a cupboard where other preserves are kept. On the shelves are jars of “Imperial Assumption Jelly, Meinself Und Gott Preserve, Divine Right Jam, [and] Absolutism Jelly.” Caption: Wilhelm–Ach, Mutter, I promise dot I von’t do id again! / Germania–Vell, rememper!! If you do, den I gifs you a goodt someding vot you von’t forget!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-12-09
John Bull stands in the “House of Lords,” looking over a curtain at an old man wearing a crown and robe, clutching a large book labeled “Mediæval Traditions of the British Peerage” and a large scroll of paper labeled “Hereditary Right to Obstruct Popular Legislation.” At his feet are papers labeled “Peoples’ Measures.” Caption: John Bull–Roseberry [sic] says he can be mended, but I guess he’d better be ended!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-12-12
William II, the German Emperor, wearing a robe and a large sword, and holding a crown and a scepter, looks puzzled over why these symbols of authority no longer command the respect he thinks they deserve. Caption: Medieval Wilhelm–‘T is passing strange! – here are all the attributes of me kingly power; – me crown, me sceptre, and me royal robe – but the people won’t revere them as of yore. By my halidome! – is Divine Right played out?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-06-05
Print shows German Emperor William II talking on a telephone labeled “To the Hague.” He is holding papers that state, “Plan of Arbitration Submitted by the United States.” He is wearing armor and a robe, his sword is between his legs, and a halo is fixed over his head. Caption: Emperor William (to German Peace Commissioners): Bombenelement!!! Be careful about that arbitration talk! What would become of my divine right? The decrees of God can not be arbitrated!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-07-05