Sugar trade

Congressional puzzle: – find Cuba in the cartoon

Cartoon shows a ticker tape machine labeled “Tariff Law 1897 Dutch Standard.” On the right, the head of the American Sugar Refining Company, Henry Osborne Havemeyer, surrounded by three overstuffed bags labeled “Sugar Trust Profits,” cuts the ticker tape into dollar bills that fall into a feed trough in front of the GOP elephant and the Democratic donkey. Republican Speaker of the House Sereno Elisha Payne holds the tail of the elephant while James D. Richardson, a Democratic Congressman holds the tail of the donkey.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Bass, W. L. (William Louis), 1865-

Sereno Payne robbing a safe

Cartoon shows Republican Speaker of the House Sereno Elisha Payne standing on a crate “1902” in front of a safe he has broken into. In the safe, labeled “Republican Pledges 1897 not to be opened until 1922,” are compartments “Steel,” “Tin,” “Sugar Trust Dutch Standard,” and “Domestic Sugar.” Payne chisels open the domestic sugar compartment. Inside the safe door is inscribed: “July 19, 1897. We will not disturb the tariff in the next quarter of a century. Sereno E. Payne.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Unknown

Strenuous justice

Cartoon shows blindfolded Justice holding a scale labeled “Republican Administration.” On the heavier side of the scale is a baby labeled “Sugar Trust” wearing a bracelet “12 1/2 [cent sign] and sucking on a bottle labeled “Tariff Law 1897 [paragraph] 209, Dutch Standard.” The lighter side of the scale holds the island of Cuba covered in gravestones and a label “War Bill $300 millions.” The cartoon implies that the Republican administration of Theodore Roosevelt favors the sugar trust over Cuba and the debt incurred during the Spanish American War.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Bass, W. L. (William Louis), 1865-

Will not return today

Cartoon shows an empty office chair at a desk , possibly that of Henry Osborne Havemeyer, with a calendar ‘Mch 26″ and a notice “Will not return today.” On the wall are “Orders” : No. 1 A 1/16 on raw; No. 2 for cartel buyers cable to Germany; No. 3 to brokers. Buy Java stock, refuse beet and Cuban sugar; No. 4 For lobby, Congratulate Washington; No. 5 for brokers, Am. Sug.R. Co. bear – stand ready to buy all offers; Trust Democratic disinclination to untie a Republican Cuban knot.” On the floor lies a sheet of paper “Telegram A. S. Ref. Co. [i.e., American Sugar Refining Co.] 117 Wall St.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Unknown

In the interests of humanity and the American sugar refining combine

Cartoon shows Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Elisha Payne sitting on the Republican side of the U.S. House of Representatives chamber dangling a fishing line over the Democratic side. The fish hook is labeled “Fake Tariff Reduction.” Payne sits on a book with a page protruding, “Dutch Standard [paragraph] 209” which refers to the Tariff Law of 1897.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Bass, W. L. (William Louis), 1865-

Sugar trusts profits, Dutch standard hill

Cartoon shows Theodore Roosevelt, Republican Speaker of the House Sereno Elisha Payne, Long, and a man holding a sugar beet pushing a barrel “Sugar Trust Profits” up a hill “Dutch Standard Hill.” A man at the top of the hill holds an umbrella “Color restrictions.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Unknown

Brussells conference, cartel magnate

Cartoon shows a man in German dress “Cartel Magnate” jumping a rope “Brussells Conference” turned by a barefoot man “Cuba” and Republican House Speaker Sereno Elisha Payne. The cartoon refers to the 1902 Brussels Sugar Convention where discussions included the topic of a German sugar cartel that received trade advantages over Cuban sugar.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Unknown

The best of friends must part

Cartoon shows former journalist Assistant Postmaster General Robert John Wynne with hat in hand before the New York Press building that also houses “Republicanism,” “Protection for Home Industries,” “Straight Republicanism No. 20% democracy,” and “anti-sugar trust.” Wynne holds a rolled sheet of paper behind his back “To Wynne, Administration appointment.” In the background are the U.S. Capitol and the Post Office tower in Washington, D.C.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Unknown

Sugar trust. Herald (N.Y.) April 26, ’02

Cartoon shows a group of Senators looking at fireworks “Beef trust Ignus Fatuous” as the head of the American Sugar Refining Company Henry Osborne Havemeyer watches from atop a pile of bags of sugar trust profits. Over the Senators, “Roosevelt & Knox, professional distracters.” Over Havemeyer, “Senatorial sugar trust – Cuban investigation. Teller resolution.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Unknown

Cuba and the U.S. sugar trust profits

Cartoon shows a man “Cuba” lying on the ground tied with ropes “Platt Amendment” and “Dutch Standard [paragraph] 209.” The head of the American Sugar Refining Company Henry Osborne Havemeyer, surrounded by bags of sugar trust profits, holds a pair of scissors while Henry McCall, President of the Sugar Planters Association, covers his eyes and whistles.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Unknown

Withholding the goods of the last ditchers

Cartoon shows Theodore Roosevelt holding sheet of paper “Senate messenger. Call around April 23.” while exchanging another sheet of paper “Report beet sugar. Secty of Agriculture March 26” with Henry Osborne Havemeyer behind his back. Havemeyer holds a pair of scissors and rests on bags of money “Sugar Trust Profits.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Unknown

Wire tapping

Cartoon shows a bicycle messenger rushing from the White House to the Capitol with a roll of papers. As he speeds along papers labeled “Remove 16 Dutch veto,” “Must not hurt sugar trust,” and “Annexation is the policy Feb. 17, 1902” blow away. Cartoon implies that Theodore Roosevelt is sending a message to Congress regarding tariffs, the annexation of Cuba and protection of the sugar trust.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Bass, W. L. (William Louis), 1865-

The Cuban Gordian-Knot

Cartoon shows Theodore Roosevelt and Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Elisha Payne tightening a knot in a cord “Tariff Law 1897 [paragraph] 209 16 Dutch” around the waist of a man “Cuba” holding a “cane knife.” On the right, the cord is cut into money by the head of the American Sugar Refining Company, Henry O. Havemeyer. The money falls into bags labeled “Sugar Trust Profits.” On the left, the head of American Crystal Sugar Company, Henry Thomas Oxnard pulls on Roosevelt’s coat tails. A sugar beet protrudes from the back of Oxnard. A legend at the bottom provides quotes concerning the Roosevelt administration, sugar growing and refining interests, Congress and Cuban industrialists related to reciprocity, Cuban annexation and trade.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Bass, W. L. (William Louis), 1865-

Star gazing

Cartoon shows President Theodore Roosevelt and Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Elisha Payne arm in arm at the end of a pier “Sugar Trust Tariff Law 1897 [paragraph] 209, 16 Dutch.” The pier is held up by posts labeled “Trust” and waves below are labeled “political oblivion.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Bass, W. L. (William Louis), 1865-

Then he (Thayer) went away back – and sat down

Cartoon shows Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Elisha Payne and a Republican elephant sweating in the top of a tree labeled “Sugar Trust.” The roots of the tree are labeled “Dutch Standard,” “Cartel,” and “Bounty.” Below the tree stands Democratic Representative John R. Thayer holding a Democratic donkey wearing blinders and wearing a blanket labeled “Resolution March 12th.” Cartoon refers to a congressional resolution introduced by Thayer to leverage divisions in the Republican party. The resolution called for an investigate into whether the sugar trust would be the primary beneficiary of Cuban reciprocity.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Bass, W. L. (William Louis), 1865-

Why not wear brogans? Shoes are too small

Cartoon shows Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Elisha Payne standing on two documents, “Tariff Law 1897 [subsection mark] 209, 16 Dutch % reduction enrich sugar trust,” and “Annexation policy, assist Cuba, do not hurt the sugar trust.” The cartoon refers to Payne’s political positions on the US annexation of Cuba, tariffs and support for the sugar trust.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Bass, W. L. (William Louis), 1865-

Not one for reciprocity but millions for investment and annexation

Cartoon shows man “Sugar Refining Trust” pushing a wheelbarrow full of bags of money labeled “For Cuban Investment.” A child “Philippino” rides atop the money.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903

Creator(s)

Cuban-American Reciprocity Bureau

Amending the treaty Enmendando el tratado.

Cartoon shows a boar “Bliss-Palma Protocolo” being de-tusked by Cuban Secretary of State Manuel Sanguily and “Beet Remolacha.” The de-tusking tools they use are labeled “Art. VII” and “Art. IV” referring to portions of a proposed treaty between the United States and Cuba related to sugar.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903

Creator(s)

Cuban-American Reciprocity Bureau

Will he ever wake up?

Cartoon shows a dreaming man representing Cuba next to a sugar knife “Industria” with a sugar refinery in the background. In his dream a man “Sugar Trust” walks arm in arm with Cuban ambassador to the U.S. Gonzalo de Quesada.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Cuban-American Reciprocity Bureau

In the interests of humanity and the American sugar refining combine

Cartoon shows Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Elisha Payne sitting on the Republican side of the U.S. House of Representatives chamber dangling a fishing line over the Democratic side. The fish hook is labeled “Fake Tariff Reduction.” Payne sits on a book with a page protruding, “Dutch Standard [paragraph] 209” which refers to the Tariff Law of 1897.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Bass, W. L. (William Louis), 1865-