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# "Oh, How Slow!" - Judge Magazine, May 1897 This political cartoon satirizes the slow progress of tariff legislation. A tortoise labeled "U.S. Senate" moves at a glacial pace, carrying enormous cannonballs marked "Tariff Bill" and "Dingley Tariff." Two distressed figures sit nearby—one holding a sign reading "Labor Suffering From a High Tariff," the other appears to be a judge or official at a desk marked with "Tariff Discrimination" regulations. The cartoon criticizes Congress's sluggish handling of tariff reform while American workers and citizens suffer economic consequences. The title "Oh, How Slow!" expresses frustration with legislative delays on this pressing economic issue. This likely references the Dingley Tariff debates of 1897, which eventually passed to raise protective duties.