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bound issue from June 17, 1903; Vol LIII, no. 1372. Lithographs address labor unions, leaders, and corruption; the Russian Federation. Lithographs include "In the Court of Public Opinion" (title page; shows a police officer holding a hat labeled "Law and Order;" beside him is a union worker labeled "Walking Delegate" who has papers in his coat pocket labeled "Bribes" and "Broken Contracts." Both are standing before Uncle Sam, pictured as a judge in a court room); "Exposed to the World's Contempt" (shows a large and imposing womanly figured labeled "Spirit of Civilization" pointing with contempt to a man on a pedestal labeled "Russia." Below them, crowds are gathered around the dark, ominous "Russia" figure including John Bull, Uncle Sam, and representations of other nations)

bound issue from June 3, 1903; Vol LIII, no. 1370. Lithographs address the freedom of the press and Pennsylvania political corruption; donating to institutions like libraries and universities. Lithographs include "It Can't Be Shut Off" (title page; shows Samuel Pennypacker, governor of Pennsylvania, wearing a fools cap and blocking a lamp of "Publicity" with a sheet of paper labeled "Pennsylvania Gag Law." Behind him, the Harrisburg State House is shown with a blinded Matthew S. Quay shrinking away from the light); "A Word to Grand Stand Specialists" (shows Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller piling bags of money around the base of a statue labeled "Fame," buildings labeled "Library" and "University" are seen behind the statue. Puck is tugging at the coat-tails of Andrew Carnegie, suggesting they could do more for society than endowing places like a "Home for Consumptives," shown as a vignette on the right side of the lithograph)

bound issue from May 6, 1903; Vol LIII, no. 1366. Lithographs address the G.O.P platform regarding tariffs and trust reforms; international relations between France, Russia, and Great Britain in the 1900s. Lithographs include "I Wonder if It's Loaded!" (title page; shows an elephant wearing a "G.O.P" hat holding a double-barreled shotgun labeled "1904" and "Trust Issue," "Tariff Reform" in its trunk; the elephant has the gun pointed directly at itself); "Too Late" (shows a scene on a desolate shore of three individuals: on the right, a woman labeled "France" is huddled together with a Edward VII, King of Great Britain. The couple is looking disapprovingly towards their left where a disgruntled knight labeled "Russia" is standing. The entire scene is a parody of a scene in Wagner's opera Lohengrin)