bound issue from May 8, 1889; Vol XXV, no. 635. Lithographs address Benjamin Harrison's presidency and nomination of office vacancies; tipping staff; monopolists, high tariffs, taxation, U.S bonds, and a monetary surplus. Lithographs include "Treed!" (title page; shows Benjamin Harrison clinging to a tree branch, trying to avoid a swarm of angry, barking dogs below him. Harrison is holding a basket with papers labeled "Offices" falling from it. The dogs below him are barking at him in anger, some wearing collars labeled "Office Seeker" and "Place Hunter." Behind them, the U.S. Capitol is seen in the distance); "The Growth of the Tipping System in America" (shows a wealthy man surrounded by various workers--maids, bell boys, policemen, mailmen, barbers, etc.--begging for tips); "Getting Rid of the Surplus" (shows two individuals, a republican and a working man, standing on either side of a marble pillar. On the left is a republican handing a paper labeled "The U.S. Treasury, Pay to the Order of Monopolist Principal and 29 percent premium on bonds" to a "Premiums Paid Here" counter. On the other side of the pillar is a working man handing "Taxes on Necessaries" to a teller)
