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President Roosevelt sits at his desk and looks at three papers: “Panama Canal,” “Philippine Tariff,” and “Railroad Rate Legislation.” There is a picture of Abraham Lincoln on the wall. Uncle Sam directs several men, including a “R. R. trust” and a “obstructionist,” away.
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1906-01-11
President Roosevelt holds up a “railway rate problem” boy and grins. A boy, who holds a “tariff revision sentiment” hat, says, “I guess he doesn’t know I’m here.”
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1905-12-07
President Roosevelt tries to push Secretary of War William H. Taft onto an already overloaded Republican elephant, which carries a lot of baggage: “Philippine scandal,” “Panama Canal supplies,” “tariff reduction,” “Loomis Rex. Whitewash,” “Morton Railroad Rebate scandal,” “Anti-trust fiasco,” and “wood Manila.”
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1905-09
“The trusts” man holds “the big stick” and rides an elephant that attempts to straggle President Roosevelt. The elephant walks away from the “$acred tariff wall” and steps on a “Panama” man as it heads toward the “markets of the world.”
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1905-05-21
President Roosevelt holds “Panama Canal’s” hand and a “markets of the world” paper as they run away from the “$acred tariff wall.” A man labeled “the trusts” and an elephant watch from atop the wall.
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1905-05-17
President Roosevelt shakes hands with William Jennings Bryan, who stands beside a shabbily-dressed “Democratic” woman wearing attire labeled “Bryan’s coat.” Roosevelt holds a number of new, fancier, pieces of clothing, including a “federal license for corporations” dress, “Democratic principles” and “fixed rates” ribbons, “Sherman Law” shoes, and “anti trust law” and “anti rebate law” stockings.
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1905-01-27
President Roosevelt rides a Republican elephant and uses a “presidential power” spear to direct it forward on the “tariff revision” path. The elephant’s tail is attached to the “speaker’s desk” on which Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon rests.
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1905-01-15
Two senators bow to President Roosevelt who drives a cart with goods: “arbitration treaties,” “railroad legislation,” and “tariff revision.”
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1905-01
Uncle Sam and President Roosevelt look at a “tariff hedge” while Uncle Sam shows Roosevelt a picture of a cleaned tariff hedge with the caption: “as it should be.”
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1905-01-02
President Roosevelt reads a paper with “a few words about tariff revision” in a “President’s Message” theater. The crowd looks up at a “protected monopolies” man sweating.
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1904-12-06
Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, Rhode Island Senator Eugene Hale, and others hold up pitchforks to keep a Republican elephant standing up on “the high tariff pyramid.” President Roosevelt sits on the elephant’s head.
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1904-12-05
President Roosevelt sits at a desk writing on a paper as a number of paper are behind him: “international peace project,” “Panama,” “negro question,” “federal patronage,” “tariff revision,” “no tariff revision,” “war navy,” “reduced Southern representation,” and “Southern man in cabinet.”
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1904-11-17
Article marked titled, “Delay for Cuban Reciprocity.” Senator Gorman has consolidated the Democratic minority to oppose Cuban reciprocity, forcing the Republicans to agree to delay a vote for at least six months rather than face possible defeat of the reciprocity treaty. President Roosevelt intends to “keep the nation’s pledge” to Cuba and therefore plans to call for a special session later in the year to address the issue.
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1903-03-13
Several articles from the Commercial Advertiser are highlighted. They discuss the “terrible” precedent that President Roosevelt set by inviting the African American educator Booker T. Washington to dinner, and criticize Congress for its conduct during the most recent legislative session.
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1903-03-04
The “G.O.P.” elephant holds a tambourine labeled “Stand Patism” and hands out free baskets labeled “Tariff Graft” containing a turkey, duck, or chicken to ragged figures labeled “Coal Trust, Steel Trust, [and] Wool Trust.” A long line of trust figures await their turn. Joseph Gurney Cannon, Nelson W. Aldrich, Joseph Benson Foraker, and Leslie M. Shaw appear in women’s clothing as the “Republican Salvation Army” singers, singing “There are no flies on Dingley.” A man labeled “Protected Monopoly” stands in the foreground, at the edge of the platform. Caption: Distribution of Christmas goodies by the Republican Salvation Army.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-12-19
Joseph Gurney Cannon leads a procession including Nelson W. Aldrich, Joseph Benson Foraker, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Leslie M. Shaw who are carrying the golden ark of the Dingley Tariff, with figures labeled “Trust, Infant Industries, [and] Protected Monopoly” bowing as it passes.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-12-12
Senator Hanna had several meetings with leaders of the Anthracite Coal Strike and does not feel that there will be a settlement in the near future. He also reviews the political situation in Ohio. He hopes that President Roosevelt can attend the wedding.
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1902-09-29
Several photographs from Melville D. Landon’s (writing as Eli Perkins) “Primer on Tariffs” are shown.
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1904-07-05
A large bear labeled “The Trusts” is jumping over President Roosevelt as Roosevelt is trying to lasso it with a rope. Instead of Yellowstone Park, the sign reads, “The Tariff Park No Shooting Allowed.”
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1903-04-18
Senator Spooner provides corrections and suggestions regarding a draft of President Roosevelt’s letter accepting the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the upcoming election. Spooner arranges his suggested edits by paragraph and line numbers or by headings. Topics discussed include the Panama Canal, Cuba, the tariff, and the Philippines.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-15