The Crafty Traders and the Easy Indians [1910]

Posted: February 23, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows Joseph G. Cannon and Nelson W. Aldrich dressed as a frontiersman labeled “Licensed Trader[" offering trinkets labeled "Pauper-Competition Scare, Steady-Work Yarn, Prosperity-For-All Bluff, Campaign Promises, Protection-For-Labor Josh, [and] Good-Crops-Due-to-Tariff Bluff”, to men dressed as Natives, getting in return furs and skins labeled “Graft-for-Monopoly, Right-of-the-Few-to-Tax-the-Many, Opportunities-to-Increase-the-Cost-of-Living, [and] Privilege-to-Levy-Tribute-on-the-American- Home”.

Caption: How pleasant it is to get something for nothing from the simple children of Republican nature!


Image Source → Library of Congress

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