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Title: JM-169: He kept us out of war!
Summary: This cartoon shows a democratic speaker addressing a crowd. The speaker is saying, “He kept us out of war”, which was President Wilson’s campaign slogan for the election of 1916 against Charles Hughes. There are various countries making comments behind the speaker. This first man on the left represents Japan. Japan is saying President Wilson would have gone to war with Japan, if he had allowed an act discriminating against Japanese immigrants in larger immigration legislation.The country next to Japan is England. England is saying that President Wilson would have entered World War I, if he had protected American shipping. This is a reference to the attack of an American ship, the Lusitania, by a German submarine. Japan and England were both Allied powers during World War I, and they are separated from the Axis powers, Germany and Mexico, by a wall. Germany is saying that President Wilson would not have needed to keep the United States out of war, if Germany had not been an aggressor against other nations. Next to Germany, Mexico is saying President Wilson would have declared war, if he had remained adamant on the salute if the flag. This refers to when President Wilson did not want to salute (and thus recognize) the Mexican government under the control of Victoriano Huerta. Despite his apprehension, President Wilson eventually returned the salute from a sense of precedent and duty. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-087: Undisputed sovereignty
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam looking across the Panama Canal while the U.S. flag flies above it.

Title: JM-W012: Trying to sign her up for international unity, financed by Congress
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting two men trying to sell books with titles about International Unity with Britain and a better League of Nations to a woman dressed in the colors of the American Flag. The men also claim to have already asked Congress for a billion dollars as a starter fund.

Title: JM-151: The President is working on his message. 151
Summary: This cartoon shows President Woodrow Wilson drafting his first States of the Union address to Congress. President Wilson was inaugurated on March 4, 1913, and he was the first president from the democratic party to be elected since Grover Cleveland left the office in 1897. President Wilson’s desk with ideas he wishes to accomplish while in office. Woodrow Wilson was a leader in the Progressive movement, which proposed society could be improved through legislative reform. President Wilson took office shortly before the beginning of World War I on July 28, 1914. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-283: Why not make a sporting event of some of out marriage and divorce statistics
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting crowds watching a marriage/divorce scoreboard with great interest.

Title: JM-011: If we don't look out, we'll teach this country how to worry along without coal and railroads
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting railroad and coal workers looking at highways and hydro-powered machines still working while both the railroad and coal industries are on strike and worrying about the future if the country decides it can move along without them.

Title: JM-247: Cartoons of the day. 247
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the cartoons of the day: personifications of the months being judged like contestants in a beauty pageant, a man crusading against the unclean shows, and a poor man and a rich man going to college.

Title: JM-123: Some schemes for stimulating the campaign. 123
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the presidential election campaigns of 1908 as a series of baseball games.

Title: JM-258: Cartoons of the day
Summary: Board depicting three different editorial cartoons. In the top panel, the islands of Fiji and Hawaii are shown as links between the United States and Australia. In the middle panel, two men and two women are shown listening to a radio declaring the Republican Concention meeting; a sign on the wall shows the date as June 12. In the bottom panel, a woman in a courtroom tells a judge that she is willing to do a couple of years of time in exchange for the judge letting her associates go.

Title: JM-316: The enquiring reporter
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a reporter who hears from various people how cool the weather is.

Title: JM-272: Make him show his cards
Summary: Germany, playing poker with Allies, offers to divide the pot, then quit.

Title: JM-199: Uncle Sam collecting tolls for the Panama Canal
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam standing behind a register to accept tolls for the Panama Canal. A man labeled "Shipping Trust" is angry and wants to go through the Canal for free, but Uncle Sam claims he cannot afford to run the canal if "rich relatives" can go through for nothing.

Title: JM-313: What beautiful winter weather we're having
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting FDR announcing shake-up of Churchill's cabinet to U.S. cabinet.

Title: JM-246: Design for a summer White House that might appeal to the President. 246
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the White House as a train car with Calvin Coolidge shaking hands with a bespectacled man.

Title: JM-040: The Financial Plan and Tariff Revision make an agreement
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a man holding a large "Financial Plan" scroll holding up his hand to a man walking away, tipping his hat, and holding a large "Tariff Revision" scroll.

Title: JM-075: The polite arts of diplomacy
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Baron Uchida, an ambassador of Japan stationed in the United States, and President Taft facing each other. Uschida has a secret treaty with Mexico in his back pocket, and Taft has a photograph of the secret treaty in his back pocket.

Title: JM-288: Cartoons of the day
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three panels containing different cartoons. In the first panel, Cardinal Mundelein is shown; in the second panel, a man beams at a newspaper claiming economic recovery; in the third panel, DuPont explosives manufacturers supports munitions control.

Title: JM-152: Make the punishment fit the crime. 152
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a congressman proposing that an import duty of a thousand percent be levied on Parisian furniture and works of art, using Ex-Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich as a punchline to talk about the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 that was strongly influenced by the Aldrich–Vreeland Act passed in response to the Knickerbocker Crisis of 1907.

Title: JM-006: Three scenes involving Henry Ford
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three scenes featuring Henry Ford. In the first set of panels, he is shown riding in a car with a cheering crowd behind him in comparison to another car passenger who the people are seen to be angrily gesticulating at in a different panel. In the second set of panels, a crowd is seen boarding a train; in the next panel, a man watching from a caboose watches as many cars drive on the road parallel to the train. In the third set of panels, Ford gives money to "Automobile Advertising" and is flooded with papers.

Title: JM-107: Missouri loves company but not a crowd
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a man representing Missouri sitting between two women, labeled "Niedringhaus" and "Kerens." Thomas K. Niedringhaus and Richard C. Kerens were two of the men vying to be on the Republican ballot for Senator in 1905.

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