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The Haunted House [1907]

Posted: March 9, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows an interior view of a boardroom where the appearance of a ghost labeled “Spirit of Honesty” has frightened the men conducting business there, who are labeled “Corporation Lawyer, Fake Promoter, Secret Rebater [hiding under the table], Lobbyist, Public Service Grafter, Public Exploiter, Hypocrite, Employed Perjurer, Speculating Trust Co, [and the] Yellow Dog Keeper”. Also shown are the “Yellow Dog” and several sheets of “Watered Stock”. Hanging on the wall is a sign that states “Dont Knock – Boost”.

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Why It Goes Up [1909]

Posted: March 8, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows a large hand labeled “Protected Interests” with its thumb crushing the dome of the U.S. Capitol labeled “Congress” rocketing into the sky atop a pillar of fire with a devilish figure labeled “Cost of Living”.

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The Looking Glass

Posted: March 7, 2012 in Pirate Poetics
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The truth can be found
But it’s muffled by sounds
Which prick and then pound
Upon the illest of grounds

Look past the lies
Lost in deny
Architects of why
rEvolutionaries of try

All that I see — Not all that I believe
All that I perceive — Not all that I believe
With many words — Comes much deception
With fewer words — More honest reflection

I’ve seen the truth
Held by disguise
And looked past the lies
Lost in deny

In the silence of mornings night
Veils are pierced by the light
The state of denial
No inches — No mile
In the silence of a fleeing night
Veils will be torn by mornings light

May enlightenment guide you
Where darkness seeks to hide you
The truth can be found
But it’s muffled by sounds

Surely The World Is Growing Better [1909]

Posted: March 7, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows an imaginary battle where aircraft, battleships, and submarines are engaged in shooting at each other.

Caption: Whereas formerly we fought our naval battles on top of the water only, we now may fight them on the water, over the water, and under the water!

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The Melting Pot [1914]

Posted: March 6, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with two large hands labeled “Militarism” and “Jingoism” at center that are squeezing men labeled “Labor” and “Capital” over an inverted spike-topped helmet stuck in the ground and overflowing with their blood; there is a skull and crossbones emblem on the front of the helmet. Flanking the main scene are vignettes depicting, on the left, science, art (sculpture), and woodworking, and on the right, agriculture, art (painting), and blacksmithing.

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The Goat-Keeper [1912]

Posted: March 6, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows a man wearing a crown labeled “Money Power”, sitting on a throne at his place of business labeled “Goats to Satisfy Popular Clamor”, among goats in cages labeled “Insurance Goat, Political Goat, Clerical Goat, Banking Goat, Labor Goat, Trust Goat, [and] Wall St. Goat”, and at his feet is a wastebasket filled with papers labeled “Indictments”; a policeman labeled “The Law” is dragging a goat toward a crowd reaching for someone or something to blame, with one man pointing to a “Jail” in the background.

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What Show Have You Got, Little Man? [1908]

Posted: March 4, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows a man wearing top hat and tuxedo labeled “Stock Manipulation”, one hand resting on a deck of “Marked Cards” and the other on a stack of gambling chips next to “Loaded Dice” and a wheel labeled “Brace Roulette”, all on a playing table labeled “Wall Str[eet]“, behind him are money bags and papers labeled “Fiduciary Funds, Treasury Deposits, Other Peoples’ Money, Bank Loans, [and] Pools”; standing in the foreground and looking up at the man is a diminutive man holding his “Savings” behind his back.

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The Commercial Club of Washington [1905]

Posted: March 3, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows Nelson Aldrich as king of the “U.S. Senate” sitting on a throne with a diminutive Theodore Roosevelt kneeling before him bearing the “President’s Message”, around them senators are reading ticker tape or enjoying the success of their investments. The surrounding vignettes show Chauncey M. Depew as a doorman welcoming a man labeled “The Trusts” into the “U.S. Senate”, John D. Rockefeller sitting at a desk pouring over “Reports” and “Expenditures”, Charles W. Fairbanks as an office boy stopping Uncle Sam at the top of the stairs demanding who he needs to see and why, and two men stuffing papers labeled “Esch-Townsend Rate Bill, Tariff Legislation, House Bill” and others into a trash can.

Caption: Formerly known as the Upper House of Congress.

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The One Man Power In Our Jury System [1886]

Posted: March 3, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows an old hag labeled “Tradition” sitting in a chair labeled “Justice” and holding a large balance scale labeled “LAW” with ten men on the right and one smug man labeled “Stubbornness, Ignorance, [and] Prejudice” sitting in the tray on the left next to a sack labeled “Venality”; he outweighs the other ten. Uncle Sam is attempting to kick the man out of the balance; at his feet is a paper that states “‘Remember, you want twelve jurymen and we want only one’ (Monopolist)”

Caption: We shall see the day when Uncle Sam will kick the obstructionist out of the jury-box.

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The Endless Game [1906]

Posted: March 1, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows a game of chess between a hand labeled “Political Pull” showing a cufflink labeled “Brass Check” and a hand labeled “Reform”. The chess board is labeled “[Depar]Tment of Police” and some of the squares are labeled “Race Track, Suburbs, White Lights, Gambling District, Goatville, Financial District, Tenderloin, Red Light District, Lonely Beat, [and] Hell’s Kitchen”. The police officers, some in plainclothes, are labeled “Crooked Captain, Inspector, Sleuth, ‘Fixed’ Captain, Honest Captain, Grafting Captain, Honest Inspector, Plainclothes Man, [and] Sergeant”.

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