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Cartoon shows President Roosevelt hunting two large bears labeled Trusts and Cuban Tariff. A dead bear labeled Coal Strike is off to the side, the Cuban Tariff bear is running away and the Trusts bear is standing in front of Roosevelt.
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1902-11-15
Translation written on the image: “nation, inconsolable, weeps before the [tomb where] lie its ideals.” The cross on the tomb reads, “RIP La Independencia Absoluta, Junio 5 1901.” The figure weeping at left holds a wreath with ribbon that says, “Those who did not vote for the Platt law.” The Platt Amendment (to the Army Appropriations Bill) defined the conditions under which the United States would withdraw its military presence from Cuba. It placed significant limits on Cuba’s sovereignty. The Cuban Constitutional Convention accepted its terms in June 1901.
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1901-06
Cartoon depicts President Roosevelt trying to hold onto a giant bear labeled Trusts while holding a sword by his teeth labeled Reciprocity.
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1902-11-16
A man sits writing a treaty as various countries look over a fence at what he is doing; Uncle Sam sneaks around the corner of the fence. Caption: The Shot in Reply.
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1902-10-30
Cartoon shows Uncle Sam looking at a smoking cannonball as President Estrada Palma looks on benevolently from Cuba. Translation: “The episode is sparkling: raised on the fence above, are many eyes and ears expectant. Uncle Sam grows impatient but good Estrada Palma tells him: Sonny, be calm: let me count and recount.”
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1902-10-31
Cartoon shows Uncle Sam having a drink from a bottle marked Reciprocity with a Cuban grocer. Translation: “The Drunkard thinks one way, the Grocer another.”
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1902-10-28
Cartoon depicts President Roosevelt hunting with a rifle labeled “The Message.” A bear is running away from him labeled “Cuban Reciprocity.”
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1902-11-08
President Roosevelt is shown playing a ring toss game. The ring he is holding is labeled “Presidential Power,” and one of the canes he is trying to toss it on is labeled “Cuban Reciprocity.”
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1902-07-08
A ring fighter named “Cuban Reciprocity” with “Ways and Means” and “Administration Promise” is knocking out the “Sugar Beet” trust.
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1902-03-12
Cartoon depicts the Republican elephant trying to help Rathbone out of a Cuban prison when President Roosevelt notices the escape attempt.
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1902-04-02
President Roosevelt stands next to a large mug marked “reciprocity for Cuba.” Members of Congress stand off to the far side, arguing.
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1902-06-07
President Roosevelt is shown splitting a log labeled Republican Party, using a wedge labeled Reciprocity. Caption: The more conservative republicans say the Cuban question is too small to split the party, and they hope to see the old-time spirit of rallying together at the last minute prevail. But the opponents of reciprocity say they will stand out forever. – Washington dispatch.
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1902-06-14
Uncle Sam carries a giant scroll representing President Roosevelt’s message to Congress regarding commercial relief for Cuba. Men representing the “beet sugar” industry and “anti-reciprocity senators” are knocked out of the way as Uncle Sam marches on.
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1902-06-14
President Roosevelt stands and listens outside a door marked Congress with a giant hammer labeled “Cuban Question.” Uncle Sam stands behind him holding a giant scroll marked “Ship Canal” and “National Enterprise.”
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1902-06-15
President Roosevelt rides in on a horse with “Plain Duty” and “Cuban Reciprocity” marked in the clouds behind him. Congressmen scatter out of his way.
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1902-06-16
President Roosevelt rides his special message up to the Capitol building. Caption: The President is once more in the saddle for Cuba.
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1902-06-16
President Roosevelt, holding a whip labeled “Special Message,” tries to make a tired-looking Republican elephant do a trick to the music box labeled “Reciprocity.”
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1902-06-19
President Roosevelt stands next to a giant “Sugar Beet” which is labeled “Do Not Move.” A small man who has lost his hat labeled “Cuba” lies crushed under the beet. “Congress” is arguing behind the beet.
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1902-06-26
President Roosevelt is pointing out the “Path of Duty and Honor to Cuban Relief” to the Republican elephant, but the animal is pointing to the “Sugar Beet Trust” instead.
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1902-06-23
President Roosevelt, holding a knife labeled “Pittsburg Speech,” comforts “Cuba” as they look over a garden wall at a ripening melon labeled “Reciprocity.”
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1902-07-05