Trusts, Industrial

The two Roosevelts

On the left side of this cartoon, President Roosevelt carries a large “public interests” scroll on his back as he walks up stairs: “courage—Monroe Doctrine upheld,” “opposition to graft—regulation of trusts,” “Cuban freedom—Northern Securities decision,” “honesty in the public service,” “Cuban reciprocity,” “Panama Canal,” “justice for capital and labor,” and “patriotic purposes.” Caption: The Roosevelt as real history will picture him. On the right side of this cartoon, Roosevelt holds a sword in his teeth and rides a horse, leaving men labeled “trust,” “Cuban,” and “Filipino” on the ground. He drags “Panama” by a rope. Caption: The Roosevelt as the demagogues now paint him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-04

Ouch!

A man with a paper labeled “oppressive trusts” stubs his foot on a face in the shape of President Roosevelt’s face and with the label of “Sherman Anti-trust Law.” Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw and Attorney General Philander C. Knox, who holds a “merger decision” paper, look on. “Congress” is in the background.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-04-16

Col Roosevelt, the elephant trainer

President Roosevelt stands in the center of an arena with an angry Republican elephant and men labeled “trust” around the circle. Caption: “Behold my own original and greatest act of the twentieth century, entitled he won’t step on the trusts! While the elephant will seem to be about to crush the trusts. Not a hand, foot, toe, nor hair of their heads will be touched by this sagacious animal!”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-04-17

“There’ll be hot time” in Chicago next week

President Roosevelt holds a “presidential nomination 1904” paper and rides a Republican elephant with a “Cortelyou halo” that pulls a “campaign fund band wagon.” New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt and Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge ride smaller elephants while Secretary of Commerce and Labor George B. Cortelyou holds a “reform in elections” stick. Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw and Attorney General and recently appointed Pennsylvania Senator Philander C. Knox are dressed as jugglers. The entire party walks toward the Republican National Convention.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-17

A caller during vacation

A man holding a suitcase of “rural G. O. P. suggestions for anti-trust planks in the party platform” goes to ring the doorbell of the “White House Trust Busting Headquarters.” There is a sign on the door: “Closed until after election.” President Roosevelt looks out at the man from the window.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-20

Roosevelt’s puzzle

President Roosevelt looks at a small “trust” man surrounded by a “protective tariff” as he sits at a table. In the background, a man takes “campaign funds” away. Caption: Problem—To get at the Trust without disturbing the Tariff.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-25

Theodore the toreador—I hope the prevention of cruelty to trusts won’t stop this show

President Roosevelt uses a “stuffed, very stuffed club” to fight a “trust” bull with the legs of two men in suits. Uncle Sam looks on and says, “Fake!” Caption: Theodore the toreador—I hope the prevention of cruelty to trusts won’t stop this show.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06

The silly season. Grand band concert after the circus.

President Roosevelt plays a trumpet while Indiana Senator Charles W. Fairbanks plays a cello at “the great one-man show concert.” The words “Chicago convention” are crossed out. There is “music for the Roosevelt march to the tune of ‘Mr. Dooley.'” Fairbanks’s music is for the “second fiddle to the tune of Roosevelt to be played very soft and low.” A “trust” man looks on and puts a bouquet of flowers on the stage.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-25

Take that plank back!

The top left-hand corner includes a cartoon from the New York Herald on July 9, 1904, in which William Jennings Bryan takes the “money” plank away from a platform where William F. Sheehan and David B. Hill are nailing different planks down. In the larger cartoon, Alton B. Parker tells Bryan to return the “money” plank. Sheehan, Hill, Charles Francis Murphy, Thomas F. Grady, William Bourke Cockran, and a Tammany tiger look on.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-12

All are on the band wagon

A number of men are in a wagon driven by a donkey. General Nelson Appleton Miles looks backward while the trusts hold Alton B. Parker in his lamp. August Belmont and David B. Hill are up front directing the donkey. A Tammany tiger sits beside Parker.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-21

All ready for the campaign

A giant “the trusts” man, dressed in a grass skirt, holds Alton B. Parker in his arm. David B. Hill looks away as a much smaller August Belmont stands beside “the trusts.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-23

“Coming events cast their dreams before”

President Roosevelt sleeps as he is surrounded by a number of dreams about reelection, the Panama Canal, Tammany Hall, business and labor, and trusts.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-12

A blood curling history of merciless marauders and infant industries

A number of trusts are on a large “grab” ship with J. Pierpont Morgan at the front. Morgan looks through binoculars and says, “Saved,” when he sees Attorney General Philander C. Knox in a small vessel filled with cotton. Knox tips his hat to the ship. Meanwhile, a man labeled “the common people” peers out of the lower deck and says, “Help.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-12

The sandwich man

Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna wears a sign that reads “I am not a candidate” on the front and “But I am willing to be one; trust contributions received here” on the back.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-14

His only life preserver

“The naughty trust” has a “Hanna for president” life preserver tied to his back. “The public” stands in the shadows and holds up a shoe.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01

His shield of defense

President Roosevelt holds “the law” sword and an “anti-trust shield” that has several arrows headed toward it: “sugar trust,” “ship yard trust,” “Wall St. promoters,” “oil trust,” and “steel trust.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01

“He’s left me the hard ones”

“1903” flies away as “1904” tries to crack the “Teddy” nut. Beside him is a large bowl of other nuts—”land frauds,” “postal scandal,” “graft,” “trusts,” “Panama,” “tariff,” and “canal”—with a label of “‘left overs’ with the compliments of 1903.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01

Bad reading at trust headquarters

“The trusts” sits at a desk and holds a newspaper with the heading of “Root’s Chicago Speech” as a telephone says, “York for Roosev.” Newsboys bring various newspapers: “Instructs for Roosevelt,” “Penn instructs,” “Indiana instructs for Roosevelt,” “Ohio instructs for Roosevelt,” and “Michigan.” Above the desk is a sign that reads, “Anything (even money) to beat Roosevelt.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-02-25

Chorus of political trust-hunters—”He’s skun! And we were going to spend the whole summer showing how to do it!”

President Roosevelt stands in a log cabin holding a “Supreme Court” knife. On the outside is the hide of a white rhinoceros—”the illegal combine.” William Jennings Bryan watches from behind a fence with a Democratic donkey and several other candidates who hold signs that read “We will skin the trusts,” “We are the only trust busters,” “We are on his track,” and “Down with trusts.”  Caption: Chorus of political trust-hunters—”He’s skun! And we were going to spend the whole summer showing how to do it!”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-10

Congress on his hands

President Roosevelt holds “the strenuous life” bag as he carries a large man labeled “Congress” with “financial legislation,” “Cuba,” “labor,” and “the trusts” papers in his pockets.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11