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Title: JM-267: Uncle Sam asks the country questions about defense
Summary: Uncle Sam is shown asking a crowd representing the American people three questions about opposition to war, if the country ought to defend itself, and if it should be prepared to defend itself. The crowd stands in support of the first two questions, but a small group sits down when he asks the third.

Title: JM-257: Both equally to blame for dragging religion into politics
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam saying that both the man who is for Smith since Smith is a Catholic and the man who is against Smith for being a Catholic are both being religiously intolerant.

Title: JM-055: When the old homestead, etc.
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a house growing smaller in comparison to the trees, outbuildings, and the couple sitting on the porch.

Title: JM-186: Three scenes about labor workers
Summary: This cartoon depicts three different scenes in separate panels. In the top panel, a business man is angry about workers' unions and wants them to be "smashed," but later, with the threat of a strike hovering over him, he signs his name on a wage increase form. Negotiation between workers and employers were becoming a more common occurrence in the 1910s. Unions and the notion of collective bargaining were beginning to be protected under the law. In the middle panel, a man's boss is happy to get more labor out of the man since prohibition. The man's family also claims to get more money out of him since prohibition, and the children show off their new shoes. This panel shows the desired result of prohibition, which was to eliminate the loss of prosperity and productivity associated with drunkenness.In the bottom panel, John Bull smiles while reading the English paper, which proclaims the growing labor party might control government at next election. Meanwhile, Uncle Sam reads an American paper, which proclaims the Farmer Labor Party has grown to contain three people. As Uncle Sam reads the paper, there is panic in the background. The Farmer Labor Party was a political party founded in 1920 from the larger, international workers’ movement associated with communism. As Uncle Sam reads the paper, there is obvious panic in the background. This last panel shows the significant difference in culture between the United States and England. England, like many other European states, was learning to tolerate the labor parties, and it eventually adopted the new parties into their political landscape. The United States was hypersensitive to any hint of communism, due to fears of a workers’ revolution. Unlike England, the United States constantly sought to limit the influence and growth of these labor parties as much as possible. This fear is seen by the Red Scare the United States experienced in the 1920s. The Red Scare spread mass fear of communism, and it sought to eliminate communism completely from American economics and culture. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-034: Missouri loves company but not that one
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a man labeled "Missouri" kicking a man labeled "New York Life Insurance Company" out the door of "Missouri".

Title: JM-W014: Ten Santas appear at home on Christmas during war-time
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the living room, which is decorated for Christmas. Ten Santa figures are crowded on one end of the room. The boy and girl stare wide eyed at the Santa figures while the older woman and man, who is in a military uniform, both have a hand over their mouths as though yawning.

Title: JM-W017: "I'll have to tighten your belt, Uncle"
Summary: A figure labeled "New Deal" severely tightens Uncle Sam's belt, while Uncle Sam protests. A portrait of the "New Deal" on the wall behind the two figures has the label: "God's Gift to Britain."

Title: JM-071: Man loses hat, misses train, becomes rich and is admired
Summary: Editorial cartoon showing four panels depicting a man. In the first panel, the man misses a train because he loses his hat and drops his suitcase. In the second panel, he is shown selling a paper to a man in a booth while a train conductor watches. In the third panel, he wipes sweat off his brow while other men surround him with happy faces and open arms. In the last panel, the man walks down a street with a new ring on his finger while others on the street point, stare, and smile.

Title: JM-022: How we have changed!
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Pinckney refusing one cent for tribute and proclaiming that all money should go to defense. He is contrasted with another figure who is proclaiming that all the money should go toward political gain and none toward defense.

Title: JM-236: Maybe that’s why he's getting busy. 236
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a personification of Death ordering Poison Whiskey to get busy.

Title: JM-029: Just before election
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Wilson campaigning against trusts in Delaware but not effectively fighting trusts in New Jersey. Marshall campaigns about reforms in Illinois, but then is shown gambling in Indiana.

Title: JM-082: The Siren
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a figure labeled "Conquest" whispering into the ear of a figure labeled "France" while a third figure, labeled "World Welfare" looks on with a frown and a hand held to her face.

Title: JM-264: According to the autopsy, she was constitutionally and economically unsound but meant well
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the "Farm Relief Forces" as mourners standing by the grave of the "Equalization Fee".

Title: JM-208: A busy day at the county jail
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting prisoners breaking out of jail right in front of the guards.

Title: JM-W024: In the Allied camp
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Churchill and FDR looking at a map of Europe in the top panel. In the bottom panel, Hitler, Togo, and Mussolini worry about the plane production in the U.S. as the "unpredictable" factor compared to their U-boats.

Title: JM-W022: After you, my dear Air Force
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam staring at a map of Italian islands where a U.S. soldier is stepping. He says to wait for the bombers to "soften it up."

Title: JM-322: These signs would save the President a lot of embarrassment
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicts a painter showing Mr. Early signs nixing 4th term questions in oval office.

Title: JM-252: The Nation Will Be All Ears Tonight. 252
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting J. Edgar Hoover accepting the position of Director of the Bureau of Investigation.

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-122: The Trust Conference in a Nutshell. 122
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the proceedings of the National Conference on Trusts and Combinations under the auspices of the National Civic Federation in Chicago on October 22-25, 1907.

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