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Since it is so close to the end of his presidency, it is out of the question for President Roosevelt to send a representative to the upcoming Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress meeting, organized by John T. Burns. Roosevelt affirms that he believes in dry farming, but is “not competent to express” any further opinion on the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-12
A gigantic boar, wearing a crown with “$” and a shawl labeled “Plutocratic Greed,” holds the U.S. Capitol dome labeled “Special Privilege,” inverted to form a bucket from which it is sowing seeds labeled “Abuse of Power, Arrogance, [and] Contempt of Law” onto a field sprouting “Socialist votes.” It is stepping on an American flag and a Liberty cap.
As Puck magazine grew bolder, more radical in its pronouncements, and more extreme, almost brutal, in conceptual presentations, it occasionally seemed to take on socialist tones.