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bound issue from February 4, 1903; Vol LII, no. 1353. Lithographs address the coal industry and miner strikes; Dingley tariff and free trade. Lithographs include "The Modern Sword of Damocles" (title page; shows Damocles, frightened, wearing a crown labeled "Industry," standing beneath a large sword labeled "Coal Strikes" hanging by a thread); "A Question of Duty" (shows President Teddy Roosevelt standing next to Uncle Sam in a room labeled "U.S. Custom House", Teddy is pointing towards a customs official who is inspecting the bags of a Filipino man just inside a door labled "Philippines Prohibitive Tariff, Seventy-Fice Per Cent of Dingley Rates." The customs official is searching for "Philippine Products" which have high rates due to the "Dingley" Tariff. In the background, a woman is seen exiting left through a door labeled "Cuba Reciprocity" and a man leaving through a door to the right labeled "Puerto Rico Free Trade")

bound issue from June 10, 1903; Vol LII, no. 1371. Lithographs address Mark Hanna and his departure from Secretary of State under President McKinley; the 1904 presidential election and potential topics for the G.O.P. Lithographs include "The Skipper Out of the Berth" (title page; shows Mark Hanna as an old sailor smoking a pipe while sitting on a dock, Hanna is looking towards a ship labeled "Ship of State" sail to sea); "Picking His Way" (shows an elephant labeled "Republican Party" walking on stilts labeled "Senate" and "House," the elephant is wading through a path covered in eggs labeled "Monopoly," "High Tariff Excuses," "Labor Question," "Post Office Scandal," "Protected Trusts," "'Bad' Trusts." A sign in the background is labeled " To Washington 1904")

bound issue from June 24, 1903; Vol LIII, no. 1373. Lithographs address the stock market ["Bear Market" and Wall Street Bull]; social norms and relations between men and women. Lithographs include "The Triumph of the Bear in the Wall Street Arena" (title page; shows a scene in an arena of a bear and a bull fighting as gladiators; above them, a group of sheep are seen pointing and spectating. The bear has one foot on the bull and is about to pierce it with a sword labeled "Raids," a iron shield in his other hand protecting him); "Goggles Have Their Uses" (shows a series of vignettes surrounding a main scene on the right hand side of the page. The main vignette shows a fashionably dressed older, unattractive woman putting on a pair of goggles before she takes a drive in her automobile, groups of young and older men are around her--their faces showing apprehension. The surrounding vignettes show the woman driving and gaining the attention of men around her, her face hidden by the mask. After she reveals the mask, exposing her older and unattractive looks, the men react with horror)