Judge — March 2, 1907 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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# "A Sad Case" - Judge Magazine, March 2, 1907 This political cartoon satirizes President Theodore Roosevelt's aggressive regulatory agenda. The grotesque caricatured figure labeled "Buga Boo Roosevelt" represents Roosevelt as a deranged, wild-eyed threat to Wall Street and business interests. The figure holds a flag labeled "Conservatism" while clutching what appears to be corporate stock certificates. The small figure labeled "Wall Street" cowers in fear below. The accompanying text lists Roosevelt's threatened actions: ordering horizontal railroad rate reductions, squeezing railroad stocks, preventing new securities issues, investigating corporations, and indicting every stockholder—presenting his regulatory program as chaotic and tyrannical. The caption attributes Wall Street's financial panic to Roosevelt's "delirium tremens," mocking both his aggressive policies and portraying business anxiety as justified hysteria.