Tariff

President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit to say that he is glad Ted visited Kermit at Groton, and, if Kermit works hard, he can finish school at home next year. Roosevelt says he is having problems with the Panama Canal because of clashes between Secretary of War Taft and Chairman Shonts. Massachusetts is going crazy over the tariff as well. Roosevelt says he is getting plenty of tennis, rides, and scrambling walks. He adds that Edith has been reading a lot to Archie and Quentin and the next day African hunter Frederick Selous is visiting.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1905-11-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit to tell him that after reading his letter, Edith is okay with inviting Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ferguson to travel abroad with the family. Nick and Alice returned from their honeymoon trip and Ethel is now moved into Alice’s room. Cousin Sheffield Cowles has the measles and Roosevelt is going to visit although his eye is bothering him. Roosevelt says that he has been working very hard and has a hard time with passing the rate bill, the Philippine tariff bill, and some of his nominations in the Senate. Archie and Quentin went to a dog show.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1906-03-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Two articles in The Minneapolis Journal discuss the nomination of President Roosevelt and Senator Charles W. Fairbanks as the Republican candidates for president and vice-president. Given Roosevelt’s “accidental” rise to the presidency following the assassination of William McKinley and his subsequent nomination as presidential candidate in his own right, the vice presidency now has more importance than it has at any point since Martin Van Buren held that office. A third article discusses the addition Senator Knute Nelson’s amendment regarding the Dingley tariff to the Republican party platform.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-24

Creator(s)

Unknown

The Commercial Bulletin has interviewed a number of New England leather manufacturers, tanners, and shoe makers about a proposed removal of tariffs on the relevant products. The companies are generally in favor of removing duties on leather and shoes if it would mean a removal of duties on raw hides, although there is substantial disagreement. On the reverse side, the paper also lists prices of various commodities.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-02-21

Creator(s)

Unknown

Sereno E. Payne, in the role of British Major John Pitcairn, commander of an occupying troop of British soldiers in Massachusetts in 1775, stands before a group of Patriots under the banner “Mass. Tariff Revisionists.” Caption: Major Sereno Payne Pitcairn (of the Stand Pat Lobsterbacks) — Disperse, ye villains! Ye rebels, disperse! Damn you, why don’t you disperse?

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-04-18

The gigantic figure of Bluebeard labeled “Protected Monopolies” holds a set of keys identified as the “Keys to Rate Regulation, Meat Inspection, Pure Food and Anti-Trust Laws.” He is speaking to Theodore Roosevelt, dressed as “Fatima,” and pointing to a room labeled “Tariff Revision.” Caption: Blue-Beard — With these keys, my dear, you may go as far as you like, but don’t let me catch you in that room!

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-08-15

A group of children play on the lawn in front of the “Home for Infant Industries.” They are labeled “Sugar Trust (eating “Dingley Baby Food”), Clothing Trust, Tobacco Trust, Steel Trust, Beef Trust, Paper Trust, [and] Coal Trust.” Some are playing in a rough manner with dolls labeled “Small Dealer, The Public, Independent Producer, [and] Consumer.” Another doll, “Cattle Raiser,” has been tossed aside. In the background on the left, a woman labeled “Dingley Tariff” is sitting in a chair with a child on her lap. In the left foreground, Joseph Cannon is speaking to Theodore Roosevelt, who holds a paper labeled “Tariff Revision.” Caption: Uncle Joe Cannon — Oh, Sir, you would not turn these helpless, half-grown babes out into a cruel world, would you?

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-08-23

A group of football players, labeled “Steel Trust, Tool Trust, Tobacco Trust, Clothing Trust, Leather Trust, Oil Trust, Coal Trust, [and] Beef Trust” tackle a “Consumer” with a football labeled “Tariff Revision” during a football game at a stadium labeled “Stand Pat A.C.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-09-27

Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, as Don Quixote, sits in a chair, reading, with a sword in raised right hand, with visions of former (and current) presidents, as well as some of the social ills that he hopes to correct. Caption: Our esteemed Vice-President takes his candidacy seriously.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-05-24

A bloated old man, his hat labeled “Trusts,” sits on the “U.S. Customs” building. The tiny figure of Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw is in his vest pocket, and he is anchored to an “American Consumer” bound by the “Dingley Tariff.” He is distressed as Uncle Sam takes a giant stride across the ocean to “Europe” where he can purchase “American Goods Cheap.” Caption: Uncle Samuel — I’ll buy Yankee goods, yew bet! / The American Consumer — Aw, why don’t you buy at home and be a patriot like me.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-06-07

The newly elected Democratic governor of Massachusetts, William L. Douglas, appears as a gladiator holding a sword labeled “Popular Approval” and a shield showing the Seal of the State of Massachusetts. In the arena, he faces a dragon with the head of a bull and fashioned out of industrial parts labeled “Leather Trust, Flour Trust, Beet Trust, Steel Trust, Cotton Trust, Tobacco Trust, Oil Trust, Woolen Goods, Iron, Copper, Steel, [and] Glass.” The dragon’s back and tail are labeled “Monopoly” and “High Protective Tariff.” On the ground between its front legs is a woman labeled “Fair Trade.” Standing in the audience are Republicans O. H. Platt, Henry C. Lodge, Nelson W. Aldrich, Nathan B. Scott, John C. Spooner, and Redfield Proctor.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-12-14

A troop of senators, as Confederate soldiers being led by an officer on horseback labeled “Trusts,” march down a street past the house with “Barbara Fritchie” labeled “Dingley Tariff” leaning out the window, waving a flag labeled “High Protection.” Caption: “Who touches a hair on yon swelled head / Dies like a dog! March on!” he said.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-02-22

An elderly woman labeled “Tariff Revision” angrily shakes her umbrella after being left standing on the railroad station platform as the “Republican Special” departs in a cloud of dust. Two men standing on the back of the last car are laughing at her.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-07-06

Judge Alton B. Parker pulls a donkey to safety across a bridge constructed of planks labeled “Conservatism, Sanity, Tariff Reform, [and] Anti-Trust.” Falling into the chasm are William Jennings Bryan, hanging onto the “Financial Plank,” and David B. Hill. The donkey’s bridle is labeled “Telegram.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-07-27

President Roosevelt appears as a knight on horseback carrying a lance labeled “Reciprocity” over his shoulder with a sack labeled “Campaign Funds” hanging from it. In the background is a giant ogre labeled “Infant Industries” sitting against a castle with a club labeled “Dingley Tariff” nestled against his right arm. Over the castle is flying a banner of “High Protection,” and a despondent maiden labeled “Fair Trade” is standing at the top of a tower.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-10-05

The Republican elephant collapses under the weight of Republican and/or Roosevelt policies, including a large crown labeled “Imperialism,” a “Big Stick,” a basket labeled “Odellism,” a mail pouch labeled “Postal Scandals,” a box of “Gloves & Gaunts,” a large cannon labeled “Militarism,” a question mark labeled “Philippines,” a disk labeled “Extravagance,” a thick wad of papers labeled “High Protection” bound together by “Dingley Schedules,” and finally a bloated man labeled “Trusts.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-10-19

A large, bloated man, wearing an apron labeled “The Trusts,” stands next to a large cauldron labeled “Tariff Reduction.” Standing in front of him is a diminutive, emaciated man labeled “The Philippines” holding a cup labeled “25%.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-12-09

An ostrich labeled “Republican Party” tucks its head in a hole labeled “‘Stand Pat’ Policy” as a tornado advances from behind with dark clouds labeled “Tariff Reform.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-01-06

Uncle Sam offers a bouquet of flowers labeled “Reciprocity” to a woman labeled “Canada.” Uncle Sam is being held back by a businessman labeled “Trusts” whose feet are planted against a rock labeled “High Protection” and is pulling on Sam’s coattails, while the woman is being held back by a military officer labeled “Toryism” pulling on her fur wrap.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-03-02

President Roosevelt as a good samaritan offers a bottle labeled “Extra Session” to a fallen figure of rolled-up papers labeled “Cuban Reciprocity Treaty.” The U.S. Capitol is visible in the background.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-11-11