The Republican Star's Dilemma, 1889
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- Box 1, Folder 34
- Scope and content:
bound issue from June 5, 1889; Vol XXV, no. 639. Lithographs address the Temperance Movement and the Republican party; American manufacturing, high tariffs, unemployment, and labor; Benjamin Harrison's appointees. Lithographs include "The Republican Star's Dilemma" (title page; shows a well dressed woman holding a purse labeled "Republican Party" walking out of a "Political Stage Door." To her left is a man holding a bouquet of flowers labeled "Liquor Vote," to her right a man holding a bouquet labeled "Prohibition Vote"); "Our Choked-Up Home Market--The Inevitable Result of Over-Production with No Outlet" (shows an oversized, worried Uncle Sam sitting on a throne depicted as "American Industries." Below him, mechanisms in his throne are overproducing "steel rails," "manufactured fabrics," and "manufactured goods." A crowd ["Unemployed Labor"] is gathered behind a "high tariff wall" raising their fists in anger at a Uncle Sam); "Public Office is a 'Family Snap'" (shows a group of senators huddled together under a "Ministration Patronage" umbrella held by James Blaine, shielding themselves from a rain storm. Behind them are various senators gawking at the group, who all have papers falling out of their pockets depicting various levels of nepotism)
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