Sheep

President Roosevelt leans on a fence and holds his rifle labeled “law” as he watches the “financial wolf” howl and an “investing public” lamb run away. Caption: Larger animal–“I’ve lost my little pet, and it’s all that cruel man’s fault.”

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Comments and Context

This cartoon by Luther Daniels Bradley was entirely inspired by the Wall Street Panic that was then cascading through nervous financial markets around the world and especially Wall Street itself, where there were daily scenes of numerous depositors clogging the doors of banks like the Knickerbocker Trust in order to withdraw funds.

President Roosevelt is on the hunt as a bear, a sheep labeled “the weakling,” and a rhinoceros labeled “new finance” run away while an octopus wrapped in a tree and a bull stay out of the way. In the background is a “muck rake” and a goat labeled “E.H.H.” on a mountain, “reserved for scape-goats.”

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Comments and Context

W. A. Rogers is a singular figure in American political cartooning. He never was a facile cartoonist or caricaturist, and his concepts seldom were persuasive; that is, the cartoons only mildly attacked or supported men and movements. For the most part he was more an editorial cartoonist, illustrating events and situations rather than attempting persuasion. This is one reason his cartoons illustrate more reference works today than many of his fellows. Yet he was highly regarded in his day, and worked for years at Harper’s Weekly and the New York Herald, substantial publications.

Alton B. Parker as “Little Bopeep” sits on a rock labeled “Esopus,” tending a flock of sheep labeled “Gold Democrat” with their tails labeled “Vote.” The sheep are entering a pasture labeled “Democratic Fold – Four Years of Clover.” A ribbon tied to the shepherd’s crook states “Gold Standard.” Includes verse: Little Bopeep has lost her sheep, / But she doesn’t have to mind them. / Let ’em alone and they’ll come home / And bring their tails behind them.

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Comments and Context

This cartoon is a textbook example of wishful thinking. Puck had advocated for years that an alternative be found in the Democratic Party — a conservative who advocated in the Gold Standard and “Sound Money,” instead of the radical Populist William Jennings Bryan, the presidential standard-bearer in 1896 and 1900.

David Bennett Hill, as a wolf wearing a sheep skin labeled “Parker Boom,” stands on a bluff overlooking a herd of sheep labeled “Democratic Patronage.”

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Comments and Context

Democrat David B. Hill had served as New York’s lieutenant governor, governor, and United States senator, but never as United States president, though not for want of trying, or ambition. He had a peripatetic career, supporting and opposing Grover Cleveland, supporting and opposing William Jennings Bryan, favoring both free silver and the gold standard. It was difficult to determine whether such malleable positions hurt his public support, or was his his attempt to gain support.

Theodore Roosevelt is pleased he was able to help Carl C. Young with the sheep and congratulates Young on his success.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-29

Theodore Roosevelt thanks General Robert Mackay Cadell for his letter and hopes to see him when he visits New York. Roosevelt is at The Outlook office on Tuesdays and Thursdays. He tells Cadell that Kermit Roosevelt is well and recently traveled to Mexico.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-15

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Frank M. Chapman for his letters, and writes about his African expedition and how his son, Kermit Roosevelt, defied his father’s advice and came out on top in the end.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-01

President Roosevelt tells Superintendent Pitcher, of Yellowstone National Park, that he thinks it best to kill off mountain lions only where they interfere with deer and sheep wintering and to leave them alone in the rest of the park.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-02-27

President Roosevelt invites Major Pitcher and his wife, Matilda Catherine Jones Pitcher, to the White House if they visit Washington, D.C., this winter. Roosevelt has heard that Major Pitcher has some “remarkable pictures” of his daughter with mountain sheep, and asks to see copies of the photographs if this is true.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-12

President Roosevelt is familiar with the situation at Yellowstone National Park and wants sheep kept out. Cattle and horses can continue to graze in reasonable numbers.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-05-07

President Roosevelt sends George Bird Grinnell the piece and the photographs. Roosevelt wants all of the photographs included in the piece. He emphasizes that grizzlies and black bears are shown in the photographs. Roosevelt urges Grinnell to be cautious in calling sheep animals of the plains, as this is a misrepresentation of the animal’s real character.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-09-27

A statement authored by William T. Hornaday criticizes the Sulzer bill which would allow for the sale of moose, caribou, and white mountain sheep meat in Northern Alaska. Hornaday reports that he and several prominent game conservation associations were shocked to discover that the legal sale of big game in Alaska had been occurring for some time.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-03-04

William T. Hornaday is having trouble finding support in Congress for the Game Sanctuary Bill due to a number of legislators who oppose federally established game reserves. Hornaday would like Theodore Roosevelt to write to “as many senators as possible” urging them to support the bill. He also hopes that Roosevelt can write an article, for widespread publication, which is critical of the current system of game preservation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-12-26

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

1908

Creator(s)

Raphael Tuck & Sons

Language

English

The Montana Homeseeker provides a narrative history of Pierre Wiebaux–a contemporary of Theodore Roosevelt and the Marquis de Mores–and the W Ranch–located on the border between Montana and North Dakota. While Wibaux made a fortune on cattle, the ranch is now a prime investment location for sheep herders and those in the wool trade, and a company is being organized for investors who would like to get into the business. Maps, photographs, and figures accompany the advertising material, illustrating the area and aspects of the sheep industry.

Collection

America

Creation Date

1906-09

Two men walk down Wall Street wearing hunting attire and holding guns and bags labeled “Democratic campaign fund” and “Republican campaign fund” respectively. Bulls and bears run away while a sheep with a top hat and an “immune” bow winks.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-10

John Campbell Greenway reviews his plans for traveling in southern Arizona and Mexico. He invites Theodore Roosevelt to join him.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1912-12-03

Two lambs stand at center in the image, the left labeled “T.R.,” and the right labeled “Waldo” (i.e. Rhinelander Waldo). Waldo was the New York City Police Commissioner, known for his intimidating anti-vice squads. In front of both are two dice, both showing sixes, with the die on the left labeled “Politics,” and the right labeled “Police.” Above both figures sits a crow-like figure sitting on a tree branch with money and card suits growing from it.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-10-07

A man labeled “Dingley,” holding a smoking blunderbuss labeled “High Protective Tariff,” stands over a dead sheep labeled “Wool Industries.” He was aiming at a wolf labeled “Foreign Products” that is looking over the top of a fence.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-11-30

A sheep labeled “The Law” stands over a lamb labeled “Consumer” that has collapsed in the snow and is either dead or dying. A large cluster of ravens labeled “Tariff Graft, Food Trusts, [and] Special Privilege” have gathered, waiting to scavenge on the carrion.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-02-16