Judge, 1901-10-26 · page 9 of 16
Judge — October 26, 1901 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This Judge magazine page satirizes President McKinley's advocacy for reciprocal trade agreements. The central figure is an elephant (the Republican Party symbol) being ridden by McKinley, who waves proclamations about reciprocity—the policy of mutual trade concessions between nations. The satire mocks McKinley's repeated emphasis on trade expansion as a solution to economic problems. Multiple text boxes labeled "To Reciprocity" contain excerpts from his speeches, suggesting he's obsessed with this single remedy. The cartoon implies McKinley promotes reciprocity as a cure-all for labor demands, market saturation, and industrial competition, while downplaying practical complexities. The tagline "McKinley and You Can't Go Wrong" is ironic—suggesting blind faith in the president's trade policy. The overall message critiques what the cartoonist saw as oversimplified or propagandistic promotion of reciprocal trade as the answer to American economic challenges in the McKinley era.
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No nation can be indifferent to any eae | {yo ReciPRociTY_((( What we produce beyond our domestic consumption must have a vent abroad. The excess must be relieved through a foreign outlet, and we should sell everywhere we can and buy wherever the buying will en- large our sales and productions, and thereby make 8 greater, demand for bome labor— The construction of & Pacific cable cannot bbe longer postponed.— McKinley's Last Speech. T) ecieocry (Cy Pigeopatt VSS Our capacity to produce has devel ‘our products ‘oped so ly and \ have 20 alles “that the problem of ' e markets f persia oor | Srrent and e The quest for trade is an incentive to iamediate attention, broa: men of business to devise, invent, im- sullghiened policy wi kee none Ae RES: prove, and economize in the cost of pro- duction. Business life, whether among ourselves or with other peoples, is ever a sharp struggle for success. It will be none the less so in the future. Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy and antiquated processes of farm- ing and manufacture, and the methods of business of long ago, and the twen- tleth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century. But though commercial competitors weare, commer- clal enemles we must not be—McKin- dey’s Last Speech. ea between the coast of the Uaked States and South Auser ican ports ~AfeKinley's Last Speech: Sackett Withales Litho & Pg Co Kew York ITCH WORD OF THE TIMES! (KINLEY AND YOU CAN’T GO WRONG.” comicbooks.com