The Perennial "Protection Game", 1892
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- Box 1, Folder 47
- Scope and content:
bound issue from October 5, 1892; Vol XXXIII, no. 813. Lithographs address British free trade, taxes, tariffs, protectionism; free ballot initiatives and control of elections; Benjamin Harrison and the GOP; Republican losses in various U.S. states, including Maine and Vermont, and the failures of the Republican party. Lithographs include "The Perennial 'Protection Game'" (title page; shows McKinley speaking to a "unsuspecting taxpayer," warning the taxpayer of an Englishman walking away from them holding a briefcase labeled "British Free Trade"); "The Great Republican Bluff" (shows Benjamin Harrison standing on a tree stump placed atop a platform labeled "I and the Republican party are in favor of a Free Ballot and an honest count of Harrison's letter of acceptance." A bag is placed next to Harrison labeled "Peck's Doctored Statistics." To the right of Harrison is a group of angry spectators are seen pointing at a fat, rich character wearing a belt labeled "Boodle" holding a object labeled "Control of Elections" and a cane labeled "Bribery." The "Boodle" is sitting on a platform labeled "Republican Supremacy," which is being held up by two layers of men labeled "Steal of Senators in Dakota," "Steal of Senators in Montana," "Dudley," "1888" and "Steal of Senators" in other states); "The Grand Old Party of Inexhaustible Excuses" (shows a vignette of various Republican senators making excuses for the "growing demoalization of the Republican Party")
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