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Title: JM-286: The changing world
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three scenes of old-fashioned values and fashions now being replaced.

Title: JM-129: Will It be Conservative or Progressive?. 129
Summary: This cartoon depicts President Taft creating a message regarding railroad freight rates. In the 1910, a large portion of goods was transported on railroads in the United States. Railroad owners made large profits by charging rates to ship cargo from one location to another. One of the books in the cartoon is titled, “injunction”. This likely refers to the injunction granted by Judge David P. Driver against 25 western railroads located throughout the Midwest to the West Coast, who were all members of the Western Traffic Association. This injunction was granted in Hannibal, Missouri, as a result of an executive order from President Taft. This injunction prevented any of these railroads from raising or adjusting their rates in anyway. The special assistant to the Attorney General, Edwin Grosvenor, presented charges against these railroad companies in St. Louis, Missouri. These charges allegations of price-fixing and conspiracy between these companies to collectively raise rates. President Taft’s administration is known for a hard stance against trusts. Taft's predecessor, President Theodore Roosevelt, began this practice during his own administration. Another project begun during President Roosevelt's administration: the construction and governance of the Panama Canal is also shown in this cartoon. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-W011: Before and after
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a mother and father expressing their disappointment in their son, who is shown smoking a pipe and relaxing. In the next panel, the boy is depicted in a military uniform, and the mother and father express their pride.

Title: JM-278: Sure he can!
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Hoover asking Uncle Sam if he can lick unemployment hardships.

Title: JM-256: U.S. Supreme Court reversed by lower court
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a lower court jury finding no fraud in the Teapot Dome oil deal while the Supreme Court looks on, aghast at the decision and with their own conclusion of fraud.

Title: JM-135: Busy days for the professional stock trader. 135
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a stockbroker trying and failing to predict trends in the stock market.

Title: JM-275: The rich farm and the spreading thistles
Summary: Uncle Sam complacent as "dishonesty" grows in "U.S." fields

Title: JM-046: The country set to music
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting an outline of the United States set behind sheet music for the opening two lines of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee". The music notes on the bars all contain the names of cities.

Title: JM-306: G.O.P. conspires to sabotage Democratic success of polls next fall
Summary: Editorial cartoon in three panels: Elephant suggests British resource-sharing plan to Democrats.

Title: JM-106: Two ways by which peace may be restored without casting Russia a kopeck
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting two panels, each with a different solution to promoting peace. In the top panel, Rockefeller comes forward to Komura and Dewitte with carriages full of money. In the second panel, Carnegie purchases rights to build a library on Sakhalin Island from Komura, making himself poor, but allowing the two men to walk away from each other.

Title: JM-124: Map of the United States, as seen by the Finance Committee. 124
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a distorted map of the United States that emphasizes Eastern cities with everything else mislabeled or misspelled.

Title: JM-033: At the ringside
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Theodore Roosevelt speaking to a man in the center of a roped off area while reporters stand all along the outside of the rope-enclosed space.

Title: JM-150: Japanese Haggling. 150
Summary: This cartoon depicts a Japanese immigrant attempting to buy property from a white man. As negotiations continue, more Japanese owned stores appear in the background of the the cartoon.Eventually the white man’s disposition shifts from enraged to eager as he finally accepts the offer. This cartoon is offering perspective on the relationship between Japanese immigrants and white Americans in the United States, particularly California. The California Alien Land Law of 1913 was passed the same year this cartoon was created.This law prohibited "aliens ineligible for citizenship" from owning agricultural land or possessing long-term leases, but permitted short-term leases lasting up to three years. This law did not have a large tangible impact on Japanese citizens. However, the law remains relevant, because it reflects the discrimination against Japanese immigrants occuring in the 1910s. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-187: Political
Summary: This cartoon depicts various events during the Wilson administration. The top two panels imply a lack of force of the part of President Wilson. After World War I, President Wilson was an outspoken advocate for peace. One of his proposals to accomplish peace was the League of Nations. The League of Nations was an international body, which sought diplomacy and compromise between nations. The United States would never join the League of Nations, because many felt the League would compromise the sovereignty of the United States. The bottom panel of the cartoon shows a woman worrying about meeting the high standards set before her. In 1920, the United States government passed the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Women had first found a place in politics by engaging with moral and/or social issues such as education, prohibition, and abolition. By continuing to take a role as protectors of morality women were able to gain enough support to win the right to vote. While the federal government did not allow women to vote in elections until 1920, some states allowed women to vote in state elections. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-211: Will Japan want a "no limit" game?
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam threatening a Japanese diplomat over fair naval ratios in a proposal and showing the diplomat how the ratio would look with unlimited naval competition.

Title: JM-091: Museum displays of U.S. wealth
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a museum showing exhibits on U.S. wealth, such as a gold statue of President McKinley and an American flag made from precious gems.

Title: JM-310: Mother's Day in the White House and afterwards
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting FDR pledging not to send draftees overseas; Congress refuses to pass the motion.

Title: JM-294: The deadlock of the stand patterns and the sit downers
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting General Motors and strikers refuse to come to conference table.

Title: JM-018: The honorable mention for president, subject to revision
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a parade of contenders for office, ordered so as to be named alphabetically and in rhyme.

Title: JM-W013: "Say! Is this the old U.S.A.?"
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting two soldiers looking down into a hotel lobby scene. Men and women lounge around while a band plays and different men and women are presented to Fiorello H. La Guardia, the contemporary mayor of New York City.

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