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bound issue from August 15, 1888; Vol XXIII, no. 597. Lithographs address George F. Edmunds and a tariff bill; taxes, war tariffs, monopolists and trusts; the Republican Party and protectionism; the death of Philip Sheridan, officer in the U.S. Army and Union general in the Civil War. Lithographs include "It Won't Do!" (title page; shows Republican senator George Edmunds wearing a red cape, red hat, and blue dress and heels and carrying a "Senatorial Tariff Bill" wrapped around a angry devilish character. Edmunds is reaching into an angelic, sleeping baby's crib and trying to grab a "Mills Bill" being held by the baby); "Protection for Capital Only" (shows a "protective policeman" wearing a "Republican Party $" belt guarding a "Monopoly Building." Inside the building are various portly, well-dressed capitalists discussing business and smoking cigars. The policeman is leaning on a barrel labeled "'Fat' from Rhinebeck." Beside the Monopoly Building are dilapidated, run-down homes with poor people starving and begging for help. A capitalist is carrying two bags labeled "Tax of Necessaries" and a blub labeled "War Tariff" away from the poor); "Sheridan's Last Ride" (shows a memorial scene for Philip Sheridan, General of the Army)