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Title: JM-175: Don't drop the pilot!
Summary: This cartoon show Uncle Sam talking with President Wilson, Force, and Politics. Uncle Sam is insisting these parties do not allow someone to take the principle of arbitration outside the “ship of the state”. Arbitration is a form of dispute resolution that gained popularity during the world wars. It was a quick and efficient way to resolve personal and commercial disputes without the time and effort associated with moving a claim through the traditional judicial system. The United States government began to use arbitration as a way to efficiently solve disputes involving wartime resources. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-268: Supposing American tourists in France tried to adopt the stalling on the payment plan
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting an American tourist finishing a large meal at a French restaurant. When he is handed the bill, he offers to pay for it on condition that another man who owes him money pays him back. The restaurant owner kicks the tourist out, and a policeman comes over and asks what happened.

Title: JM-201: Making a bad situation worse
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting undesirable immigrants coming off a ship near Ellis Island while an army of the unemployed Americans watch them.

Title: JM-176: The daily bread line 1913
Summary: This cartoon depicts a line of men waiting for food during the winter. One of them is holding a sign that says, “He kept us out of work”. This sign is a play on President Wilson’s campaign slogan, “He kept us out of war”. There were some areas of United States economy struggling in 1913, making many individuals unemployed. In 1913, many criticized President Wilson’s economic initiatives to be harmful to workers, and contributing to increased in unemployment. Such initiatives included further limiting commercial trusts and requiring investigations be made when particular businesses changed the wages of their workers. These investigations would be used to evaluate the costs of the factories, which was needed to determine guilt of criminal acts. In response to these initiatives, many factories closed operations or began to limit the changes that could be made to workers’ wages. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-C008: Scene at a railroad station with main street in the background
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting men and a boy standing on the platform of a railroad station watching a man draw a diagram of a ship. Behind the station platform, a line of shops on main street are visible.

Title: JM-039: The radio vote of America
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a politician giving a radio speech. After the speech, his derogatory comments about the American people are overheard, and he is defeated by the greatly populated "Radio Vote", which is shown in the last panel.

Title: JM-067: The Ladies' League of Anti-Vice Crusaders
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a meeting of the Ladies' League of Anti-Vice Crusaders being interrupted by a policeman.

Title: JM-121: Come on in, Boys! It's Finable Out There.. 121
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting good men, sheltered by the letter of the law, calling to unhappy criminals outside in the rain.

Title: JM-008: "I wish I had waited"
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three scenes of men who purchased land, stocks, or furniture in the first panel only to express their disappointment in the second panel, when things are rough and what they have has decreased in value.

Title: JM-161: The refining influence of speculating in war stock
Summary: This cartoon shows two impressions of the same family living in the United States during World War I. The top panel displays the family before they bought war stocks. The bottom panel shows them after they purchased war stocks. In the top panel, the mother and father are lamenting on the carnage of the war, causing the death of millions in Europe. The couple is horrified at the seemingly senseless loss of life. In the bottom panel, the couple are thrilled the war is expected to drag on, because the value of their war stocks will continue to increase and provide a temporarily sustained income to the family. This cartoon is meant to illustrate Americans’ disturbing lack of empathy at the mere promise of profit. The United States notoriously made large profits throughout most of World War I selling weapons to use in the war, while remaining neutral in the conflict until 1917. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-237: Labor day. 237
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a Labor Day parade with a flag that has a Swastika made of hands on it.

Title: JM-056: The wide tire ordinance
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a car, containing four people with dismayed expressions, sharing the street with several wagons. In the second panel, a courier shows a wagon businessman an ordinance impressing the necessity of equipping wagons with wide tires while the other people in the office look on in surprise.

Title: JM-W019: "I had 'em eating out 'o my hand, Winnie, when along came this Independence Bug and now I can't do a thing with them!"
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting FDR speaking to Churchill on the phone while worrying about Independence enthusiasts who are trespassing on the lawn in front of the White House.

Title: JM-279: The politicians idea of relieving the distress of unemployment and the burden of over taxation
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam trying to think of a way to give the unemployed jobs. Politician suggests to Uncle Sam that unemployed collect new taxes.

Title: JM-321: The ideal ally
Summary: Editorial cartoon set after WWI. While the spoils are broken up, Uncle Sam wishes for one island, but the spokesperson stepped out. Now Japan holds most strategic islands.

Title: JM-017: Three scenes pertaining to a political convention
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three different scenes revolving around a political convention. In the first panel, men cheer and remark how they have been cheering for thirty-five minutes for someone and are trying to reach forty. In the middle panel, a man receives his bill at a restaurant and says that he will have to either go home or go hungry when he next goes to a political roll call. In the third panel, a KKK member appears to a platform maker while he is in bed warning about mentioning the group.

Title: JM-180: In the national army parade today, you are likely to see the man you'll all be cheering and voting for in years to come
Summary: This editorial cartoon depicts people watching the National Army of the Republic parade outside the window. A man wonders who will be "the Grant of this war." This is most likely one of the many parades held by military forces while the United States was fighting in WWI. This cartoon is captioned. “In the National Army Parade today, you are likely to see the man you’ll all be cheering and voting for in years to come”. The “Grant of this war” is a clear reference to Ulysses Grant, the eighteenth president of the United States from 1869 to 1977. Ulysses Grant was a general in the Civil War, and he is often given much credit for the Union’s victory. After being appointed General-in-Chief by Abraham Lincoln in 1864, Grant would accept General Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, which effectively ended the Civil War. This cartoon suggests the future leaders of the United States would likely have served in World War I. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-W007: They all belong to the same union
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting figures labeled "Women", "Labor", "Capital", and "Fighting Men" all reaching towards an American Flag above them.

Title: JM-205: Contention in Progressive Party candidates in 1912 and 1924
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting two panels set at different presidential elections. In the top panel, Robert La Follette sulks inside while Theodore Roosevelt marches outside in a 1912 Progressive Party parade. In the bottom panel, the spirit of Theodore Roosevelt accuses La Follette of having no right to carry the Progressive Party banner in a later parade, also with representatives from the Socialist Party and the Farmer-Labor Party. In 1912, La Follette was hoping to be the presidential nomination for the progressive wing of the Republicans, but his supporters abandoned him in favor of Theodore Roosevelt when the former president announced his return to politics, and Roosevelt became the 1912 presidential candidate for the Progressive Party instead; La Follette supported Wilson in the election. When the Progressive Party re-formed, after World War 1, they chose La Follette as their presidential candidate at a convention in Ohio in July of 1924; the Socialist Party and Farmer-Labor Party joined La Follette's progressive platform.

Title: JM-058: The "Hobo" test
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a line of men walking to the Salvation Army Lodging House. Upon seeing a sign that claims all applicants need to bathe at the Municipal Bath House, many of the men turn back.

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