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Title: JM-296: Problem of conduct
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three American businessmen profiting from WWI. In the next panel, they turn away from promise of wealth and say "Never again" since the costs to nation not worth it.

Title: JM-242: Chairman Butler reports to his chief. 242
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting William M. Butler reporting to Calvin Coolidge.

Title: JM-012: Some idle thoughts on the law
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting six unrelated panels. In the top one, a judge and his staff each point at the person smaller than they are as the person responsible for the leak. In the next panel, Theodore Roosevelt is shown saying he has nothing to say that is fit for publication. In the panel next to him, a large man points to his hand, titled "subsidiary committee" as to the place the blame should go to. In the next panel, a man is being charged $5 under "Anglo-Saxon Law for Chicken Embezzlement". the next panel shows a man, representing a corporation, sitting in a jail cell with his hand hanging outside the bars so only part of the corporation is being punished. The last, bottom panel shows a man on a cart pulled by a donkey waiting for a large train to travel past him.

Title: JM-094: At the office of the Harriman Rex Railroads
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three panels showing the office of the Harriman Rex Railroads. In the first panel, a newcomer enters the office and speaks to Harriman. In the next panel, Harriman and the other men in the office throw up their hands and smile at the new man, who is established in the office with his own desk in the last panel. E.H. Harriman was known for his prowess as a railroad executive and especially for being the "savior" of failing railroads, including the transcontinental Union Pacific Railroad.

Title: JM-304: Different depictions of Dewey
Summary: 12 portraits of Dewey with different hair and mustache styles.

Title: JM-141: The great spring take-off. 141
Summary: This is a satirical piece commenting on a series of tariffs on fabrics, especially those used in the clothing industry. A tariff on cotton caused great outrage among the middle class, especially women. Most antagonists of the bill stated cotton was too essential to clothe the people of the United States to unnecessarily drive up the cost. Unlike other fabrics, wool had been able to move through the United States without having a new tariff placed upon it. It appeals to the common man’s (and woman’s) feelings of the lack of need for wool rather than cotton esp in the summer months like May. The author is writing to hear then President Taft’s and former President Roosevelt’s opinions. This is because President Taft and his former leader, Theodore Roosevelt both favored the passed tariffs on fabrics. President Taft himself signed the tariff on cotton and was heavily in favor of supporting tariffs rather than income taxes, which were just beginning to be commonly employed in the United States. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-233: One of the mysteries of golf. 233
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting golfers being judged by onlookers in Chinese.

Title: JM-203: Big Bills
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three scenes showing the reparations against Germany preventing the country from holding civilization again, the crime wave hitting Chicago even when one man believes he has ended it, and the G.O.P. elephant looking for a candidate but finding Taft being friendly with Wilson.

Title: JM-317: Those purge tactics are hearing an awful political kick-back
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a man reading primary results: purge politics not patriotic.

Title: JM-C010: The changing world: Books that caused fear now and then
Summary: Editorial cartoon consisting of two scenes. In the first scene, a Victorian woman is recoils from a "Ouida" book presented to her by a man. In the second scene, a woman in 1920s attire shows a sweating man a book titled "Sex Problem". "Ouida" was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé, who was known for her literary salon and the scandalous books she published toward the beginning of her career.

Title: JM-191: Don't wreck that car!
Summary: This cartoon shows railroad employees fighting with railroad employers in a car named “U.S. Prosperity”, which is carrying the United States in the back seat. There were many railroad employee strikes in the first half of the twentieth century, usually protesting against poor pay and/or working conditions. Railroads were one of the most efficient methods of transportation, especially the transportation of goods. This made railroads critical to the health of the United States economy. In the corner of this cartoon, President Woodrow is yelling at the employers and employees to not wreck the car. While the role was not extensive, the government did take an interest in these railroad disputes, and made sure they were eventually settled. This intervention was usually performed to ensure the railroads would continue to ship American goods throughout the United States. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-173: National defense
Summary: The top panel of this cartoon depicts Congress attempting to slow Uncle Sam driving a automobile and is used to represent the fast moving sentiments for national defense. The donkey is being used to suggest the actions of Congress are aligned with the democrat interests of the time. National defense is passing through pork and casting it to the side. The word “pork” is being used to describe projects and/or funding given by Congress to benefit certain areas or populations in the country. An example of pork would be Congress awarding money for a damn to be built in a specific state. The bottom panel has two possibilities that stem from the sentiments of the top panel. The scenario on the left depicts a man dissatisfied with increased taxes that Congress would have to impose to fund national defense interests. The scenario on the right shows the same man having to pay tributes to an invader. The bottom panel suggests that tax increases for national defense are in the best financial and personal interest of citizens. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-200: Our foreign relations after the war
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam eating a large meal while kings wearing tattered robes look in through a window.

Title: JM-085: The war department - "Great scott, that dispatch must mean ladrones instead of insurgents. There are no insurgents out there."
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a military man confused by the wording of a special dispatch about fighting in Manila. Three pictures hang on the wall behind him distinguishing the perceived differences between an "Amigo," an "Insurgent," and a "Ladrone." The special dispatch claimed that the fighting was started by "Insurgents" instead of the "Ladrones" classification the man remarks that the report must have meant.

Title: His Majesty's most gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament
Summary: The speech concerns the commerce between Great Britain and the American colonies.

Title: JM-143: Awkward mistake in the date. 143
Summary: This cartoon portrays President Taft writing a message to Congress. In 1912, President Taft ran for reelection, most notably campaigning against his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt, in the Republican primary. President Taft would eventually win the Republican primary. After losing that election, Roosevelt ran for president after creating his own party, the Bull-Moose party. The campaigning between Roosevelt and Taft was rigorous, and they ultimately split the the Republican vote in the 1912 presidential election. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-028: "Call Judge Landis!"
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting six scenes of people in difficult situations calling for Judge Landis. In the first panel, Organized Baseball is lying in a hospital bed and onlookers call outside the frame for someone to send for Judge Landis. In the second panel, locksmiths having difficulty with a Building Deadlock call for Judge Landis. In the third panel, a figure labeled "Stocks" tells Wall Street that he isn't feeling well and asks for Judge Landis. In the fourth panel, the 18th Amendment claims to have too many doctors and calls for Judge Landis. In the fifth panel, the Grain Exchanges flinch away from the painful dentistry of Farmers and ask for Judge Landis. In the last panel, two men are gearing up for a fight and wonder if they should call Judge Landis. Landis is the same judge referred to in JM-213: https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A419248 .

Title: JM-287: Uncle Sam will soon be alone with his recovery diet and digestion
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam bloated by huge output of legislation by 73rd Congress.

Title: JM-274: Guiding hands
Summary: Radio guides plane; British officer beats Indian; Hoover calls extra session.

Title: JM-W002: New York expects you to do your duty
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a group of men and women standing at the banks of the Hudson river with a war drum and banner. They are calling across the river at Westerners to urge them to join in the war.

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