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Appendix of TR “Trust Cartoons”
For Roosevelt cartoons from Puck, see http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/puckframes.html
May 2,1906: President Theodore Roosevelt depicted
as a volcano erupting and
spewing a dark cloud labeled “Tax
on Wealth,” indicating his effort
to tax ‘swollen fortunes,” startling an elephant labeled
“G.O.P.” to run away; on the left, is
a zen-like Vice-President Charles
W. Fairbanks.
May 23, 1906: Allegory depicting
Theodore Roosevelt as the infant Hercules fighting large
snakes with the heads of Nelson W. Aldrich and John
D. Rockefeller, the great trust barons Roosevelt fought against under his “trust-busting”
policy.
May 25, 1904; President Theodore Roosevelt stopping
Philander Chase Knox from cutting down a
tree labeled “The Trusts” with an ax labeled “Anti-Trust
Laws.” Illustrative of T.R.’s measured
approach to distinguish good vs.
bas trusts.
Rockefeller’s Standard Oil trust fell in the latter category
January 13, 1904; T.R. with a sword labelled “Public Service”
seeks to do battle with the Trusts headed by J.J. Hill, J.P.
Morgan, Jay Gould, and Rockefeller.
November 2, 1904; George B.
Cortelyou turning a vice to squeeze
money for Theodore
Roosevelt's reelection
campaign from a bloated man labeled "The
Trusts". T.R. was alleged to have accepted money from Trusts in exchange for
stopping/slowing anti-trust suits
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September 30, 1903: Depicts the growing abuse of large corporations, and their abuse of the law through bribe and
graft; T.R.’s podium include the quote: “If alive to their true interests, rich and poor alike will set their faces like flint against the spirit which seeks personal advantage by overriding the laws, without regard to whether this spirit shows itself in the form of bodily violence by one set of men or in the form of vulpine cunning by another set of
men.” President Roosevelt's Speech, Sept. 7.
March 8, 1905; depicts T.R. as a circus trainer trying to tame The Trusts, the G.O.P., Panama, Santo Domingo, & the Philippines.
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September 2, 1903; “A Timely Warning”; illustrative of the political dangers regarding the protective tariff; cartoon shows the Republican elephant
wearing a hat labeled “G.O.P.” and “High Protective Tariff” and a swimsuit labeled “Tariff-Protected Trusts,” wading offshore toward huge waves
labeled “Public Patience.” President Theodore Roosevelt is standing closer to shore with one hand on a “Reciprocity Life Line” and the other hand
raised, as he calls out a warning about going too far.
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