The Modern Sword of Damocles, 1903
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- Box 2, Folder 31
- Scope and content:
bound issue from February 4, 1903; Vol LII, no. 1353. Lithographs address the coal industry and miner strikes; Dingley tariff and free trade. Lithographs include "The Modern Sword of Damocles" (title page; shows Damocles, frightened, wearing a crown labeled "Industry," standing beneath a large sword labeled "Coal Strikes" hanging by a thread); "A Question of Duty" (shows President Teddy Roosevelt standing next to Uncle Sam in a room labeled "U.S. Custom House", Teddy is pointing towards a customs official who is inspecting the bags of a Filipino man just inside a door labled "Philippines Prohibitive Tariff, Seventy-Fice Per Cent of Dingley Rates." The customs official is searching for "Philippine Products" which have high rates due to the "Dingley" Tariff. In the background, a woman is seen exiting left through a door labeled "Cuba Reciprocity" and a man leaving through a door to the right labeled "Puerto Rico Free Trade")
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