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Title: JM-139: For chairman of the convention. 139
Summary: This cartoon shows Lady Justice presiding over the Republican Convention for the 1912 primary election. Former president, Theodore Roosevelt, was running against president incumbent Taft. President Roosevelt seems to have more delegate votes than Taft, but Taft would ultimately be renominated for the presidency. Roosevelt claimed Taft stole delegates that should have been awarded to him, making him lose the election. After losing the Republican primary, Theodore Roosevelt began his own party, the Bull-Moose Party. Taft and Roosevelt would eventually split the Republican vote, which allowed Woodrow Wilson to be elected as president in 1912. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-184: Peace talk
Summary: The cartoon shows the interpreted process of peace talks during World War I. The top panel shows the German people being dragged to peace by the Kaiser Wilhelm II. The second panel shows the Reichstag calling for peace after the kaiser orders them to begin discussions. In 1917, the United States had entered World War I, and Germany’s and the Axis powers’ chance of victory was becoming smaller and smaller. This made them more willing to negotiate for peace than in previous years of the war. The third panel shows the American stock market falling in value. This drop in the stock market was caused by the peace talks. Supplying weapons and other resources in World War I significantly improved the economy of the United States. Many factories and other means of productions had been created solely to meet the needs of the global conflict. As World War I came to a close, the United States large profits from the war effort began to decline. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: The Contemporary American conception of equality among men as a social and political ideal: oration delivered by President Charles William Eliot of Harvard university, June 2, 1909, before the Alpha of Missouri.

Title: JM-026: At 70% naval efficiency in the United States
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a man representing Congress in front of a blackboard showing the naval efficiency of Britain, Japan, and the United States. Britain and Japan both have 100% efficiency, but the man crosses out the 100% mark by the United States and replaces it with 70%, remarking on how this will please voters and reduce costs. Uncle Sam and Hughes watch from the window and express shock.

Title: JM-025: Presidential nominees are always chosen in leap year
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a woman titled "Presidential Nomination" asking a man to be hers. In the bottom panel, lots of men chase the Presidential Nomination up a tree. The pursuers are trying to catch her and asking her to be theirs.

Title: JM-092: Three scenes of government and individual greed
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three sets of panels, with each set containing an individual cartoon. In the first set, Uncle Sam is shown letting the U.S. Natural Resources flow freely from a pipe in the first panel, and then barely letting any resources come through in the second. In the second set, a group of men and women call a man representing "Capital" in a "Special privilege" car greedy; in the next panel, businessmen call a worker demanding more pay greedy and wonder when times will get back to "normal." In the third set of panels, a man running for Congress promises to have a rigid economy, but behind closed doors he expresses doubts about his ability to support a budget system.

Title: JM-277: The changing world
Summary: Before 1929, people bought all stocks, now no one will buy even good deals

Title: JM-C009: Couple going to the theater for "Hearts Aflame"
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a man and woman walking together toward a movie theater, where others are already entering. The advertised movie is "Hearts Aflame". Men in shadows stare at the couple heading toward the theater. The movie title might refer to the 1917 film "Love Aflame", which was also known as "Hearts Aflame".

Title: JM-W016: The money question clouds over Fort Knox
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Morgenthau of the Department of Treasury and the International Food Conference both demanding money. Fort Knox is shown heavily guarded, with large question marks floating over the top of the building.

Title: JM-299: War hatreds are nearly as long-lived as religious hatreds
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a rude carpetbagger after Civil War; elderly veterans fraternize.

Title: JM-084: Brittania boasts about subsidizing merchant marine, while Uncle Sam stands by unused merchant marine
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting figure representing Britannia standing on a boat with fleet of British ships behind him. He tells Uncle Sam, who is standing on non-moving ships decorated with cobwebs, that he subsidizes his merchant marine. Uncle Sam replies that he does not.

Title: JM-C007: Cheering crowd at a football game
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the crowd at a football game. All of the audience members are cheering or waving flags, except for one man who is seen working on his nails.

Title: JM-323: The bonds of matrimony and government war bonds
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicts people rushing to get married. They are unsure whether to invest in war bonds.

Title: JM-192: Nope!
Summary: This cartoon shows President Woodrow Wilson boarding a train. Uncle Sam is attempting to also board the train, but it seems he does not have a reservation. The bag President Wilson is carrying is titled, “League Covenant”. This bag most likely refers to President Wilson’s ambition to form the League of Nations, an collection of nations working together to create international unity. The League of Nations existed from 1920 to 1946. The United States never officially joined the League of Nations, because congress feared its membership would limit the United States’ national sovereignty. At the time, many Americans suggested joining the League of Nations would not benefit the United States. However, there was also a population of Americans, including Woodrow Wilson, who believed The League of Nations’ efforts towards international peace would offer great benefits to the United States. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-159: The value of ideals. 159
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting William Jennings Bryan lecturing to earn money in the aftermath of his loss in the 1900 senatorial election. Bryan charged $500 per speech or lecture, and he was the most popular speaker on the Chautauqua circuit from 1900 to 1912.

Title: JM-013: The Changing World
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three scenes showing contrasting different periods of time. In the top two panels, Wilson is shown first speaking to a cheering crowd in contrast to speaking inside a room with unenthusiastic people listening. In the middle two panels, the Arc de Triomphe is shown first in a barren landscape in contrast with lots of people marching in a procession through the Arc, cheering and waving flags. The final two panels shows a boy reading "A Story of the Plains" while sitting on a haystack in contrast to a boy reading the same story on a comfortable chair.

Title: JM-190: America would like to know
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam questioning President Wilson about when "America gave its word to the rest of the world" while holding a paper containing a quotation from part of Wilson's interview.

Title: JM-005: Why cotton goods are so high
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam announcing that the price of wheat should be fixed as a war measure and being met with agreement. In the next panel, he suggests fixing the price of cotton for the same reason, and the "Southern Democrats in control of Congress" get angry at the suggestion.

Title: JM-020: "Which do you love best?"
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a pollster bearing a resemblance to Uncle Sam asking Ohio which of her favorite sons she loves best. A group of other people watch from the other side of a fence.

Title: JM-083: Some expert advice on the Panama Canal situation
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting four people: a farmer, a woman editor, a man editor, and a scientist seen in separate panels writing their opinions on the Panama Canal and ideas for what it might be used for.

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