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A man labeled “Infant Industries” is having a seizure in front of Uncle Sam and Columbia. Columbia, holding a purse labeled “High Protection,” is giving him a hand-out while Uncle Sam reaches into his pocket. Caption: Whenever he spots an easy-looking couple, he flops and has one.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-03-20
The Statue of Liberty has been knocked from its pedestal and is lying in the harbor. It has been replaced by a golden cow wearing a crown and a necklace emblazoned with a “$.” The illustration is captioned with a large question mark.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-07-03
A swarm of mosquitoes labeled “Trust” flies over a swamp labeled “High Protective Tariff.” An insert shows an oil can labeled “Revision Downward Oil – Wilson Brand.” Caption: Pour oil, and plenty of it, on the thing that breeds them.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-07-24
A child-like figure labeled “American Industry,” supported by an infant walker on wheels labeled “High Protection,” holds in one hand a bottle of “Payne Aldrich Baby Food” and in the other a rattle shaped like the U.S. Capitol dome. On the tray of the walker is a broken elephant, an eagle, a bull moose, and a donkey. Caught underneath the support is an Uncle Sam doll. Caption: His delusion is that he cannot walk alone.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-07-31
Woodrow Wilson pulls a leg labeled “The Tariff” that is caught in a woodpile labeled “The Trusts.” The Democratic donkey observes from the far end of the woodpile. Caption: “The tariff is the center of the problem of the Trusts and of the present cost of living.”–Woodrow Wilson.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-08-07
A gigantic man wearing a crown labeled “Protected Monopoly” holds upright a wooden figure of an American laborer labeled “Protected American Labor” and a sign that states “Protection Maintains for American Labor the American Standard of Living.” The wooden figure holds a dinner pail in one hand and a booklet labeled “Savings” in the other. A diminutive man labeled “American Laborer,” in the left foreground, looks at the viewer and gestures with his thumb back at the wooden figure. On the right, from a ship at a dock, a stream of “Foreign Labor” disembarks, passing through a gate labeled “Starvation Wages,” and heading for factories in the background. Caption: How much longer can he get away with it?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-08-14
A man labeled “Protected Monopoly” lies on a bench in an Egyptian temple next to a large bloody sword labeled “Closed Mills” with which three man, labeled “Labor,” have been slain. Each lies next to papers labeled “No Orders the Prices Come Down, Cancelled Orders, [and] Consumer Balks.” At one end of the temple are the faces of “Sherman, Aldrich, [and] Payne.” In the distance are factories.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-02-15
Uncle Sam is marrying a woman labeled “Canada” with President Taft as the clergyman. When Taft asks anyone who objects to the marriage to speak, all the guests in the church (they all have hogs heads) clamor to object. Caption: Clergyman Taft — Into this common-sense estate of Reciprocity these two persons present come now to be joined. If any man can show just cause why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now sp– / Chorus of Tariff-Protected Monopolies — We object!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-03-08
The Liberty Bell lies on its side in a barren landscape with a large man labeled “Monopoly” sitting on the top. The crack in the bell is labeled “Plutocracy.” Many different groups of people, including a group of women, carry clappers for the bell. The clappers are labeled “Socialism, Tax Reform, The Oregon Idea, Woman Suffrage, Free Trade, [and] Protection.” Caption: Take your choice; but while that crack is in it, the Liberty Bell will never ring clear.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-06-28
A large man, holding a cat-o’-nine-tails labeled “Schedules” and wearing a crown labeled “Monopoly” shaped like the dome of the U.S. Capitol building, sits atop a U.S. Customs building in front of which is a large pile of “Tariff Tribute” money being deposited by disgruntled citizens. Standing to the right is a large Statue of Liberty pointing to the streams of citizens and laughing. Caption: “It is to laugh!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-07-05
A group of highwaymen labeled “Trust, Express Company, [and] Protected Monopoly” rob a stagecoach labeled “The Consumers’ Coach.” The driver, labeled “Congress,” is throwing them a pouch labeled “U.S. Parcels Post.” Caption: What else do you expect when the driver is in league with the highwaymen?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-07-19
Based on painting by Henri-Paul Motte that depicts Rome being saved from an attack of the Goths by squawking geese, in this cartoon “Lobbyists” are ascending the city wall around “Ottawa” and handing bags of money down to be delivered to two men, wearing top hats labeled “Protected Trust.” The building tower is labeled “Reciprocity” and the squawking geese are kept in an enclosure labeled “Independent Press.” Caption: As the geese saved Rome, publicity will save reciprocity.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-09-20
President Taft stands behind a chair on which a diminutive George W. Wickersham is standing. Wickersham is using a stick labeled “Sherman Law” to beat a toy labeled “Monopoly” on the table in front of him. The toy shows a wealthy businessman holding money bags sitting in a bowl. Hanging on the wall is a “Sectional View” of the toy showing that it is weighted at the bottom with “High Protection,” stating “The Reason Why” it does not stay down when Wickersham hits it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-11-08
An article breaks down the party platform of the Democratic Party into several points. The points discussed include the general principles of the party, questioning of power held by few that effects many like trusts/monopolies, the glorification of war to the American youth, unfair tariffs, equal rights for all men, any repeal of the 14th or 15th amendments, and labor reform in regards to women, children, and railroad workers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10
Lyman Abbott is pleased that Congress is moving towards legislation on the trust question. George Kennan is writing articles for Abbott on the situation in Delaware, and Abbott would rather see two Democratic Delaware Senators rather than a Senator tainted by Addicksism.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-11
Senator Fairbanks informs Attorney General Knox that his bill to expedite trials and anti-trust cases passed the Senate. Knox then directs this information to President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-04
Jeremiah Whipple Jenks has received information on a potential Democratic anti-trust bill for the voluntary incorporation by the federal government of corporations doing interstate business. The Democrats believe that such a bill will create embarrassment when rejected by Republicans but will also be too rigid to be approved. Jenks suggests the Roosevelt administration examine a similar bill passed in New York to prepare for the Democratic scheme.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-02
Senator Fairbanks reports that the judiciary committee has favorably responded to Attorney General Knox’s bill to advance anti-trust cases.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-03
John C. Shaffer thanks President Roosevelt for his courtesy during Shaffer’s time in Washington, D.C., and congratulates President Roosevelt on influencing politicians towards business and economic legislation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-01-17
Albert Shaw sends an article he wrote entitled “The President and the Trusts” and believes that arbitrating the Venezuelan crisis at the Hague will be “a great triumph of American statesmanship.” Shaw wishes President Roosevelt a merry Christmas, but adds that Butler’s wife is very ill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-23