Judge, 1909-12-11 · page 8 of 16
Judge — December 11, 1909 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This cartoon satirizes the **Protective Tariff** debate of early 20th-century American politics. The image depicts foreign manufacturers (represented as menacing figures labeled with "CANNON" and other identifiers) attempting to enter the United States, carrying goods and battering down a barrier marked "TARIFF BILL" and "LET HE[R] ENOUGH ALONE." The accompanying article reports that foreign silk-dyeing and pencil firms plan to establish U.S. factories—news that *pro-tariff* advocates warned against. The cartoon's grotesque caricatures of foreigners suggest the threat posed by foreign competition. **The satire's point**: The cartoon mocks anti-tariff sentiment, arguing that protective tariffs are necessary to keep foreign manufacturers out. The figure labeled "CANNON" likely references Joseph Cannon, a prominent tariff opponent. For modern readers: this reflects historical debates over whether tariffs protect American workers and industry or merely increase consumer costs.
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(Prom the New York Keenina Poat, A'bitter op- ponent of the Protective Tarif) FOREIGN PLANTS COMING HERE. Lyons Silk Dyeing and German Pencil Firms to Start Factories. INGTON, November &— Indications point to a heavy influx of foreign manufacturers to the United States, and the establishment here of facto- ries of many articles now produced abroat and marketed in this country. According to Deputy Consul Hanauer, at Frankfort, manufacturers al- ready have taken steps for the opening of factories in the United States, and he reports that the fear prevails in Franco, Germany, and Switzerland that workmen will be drawn to Ame steps the cost of to have opened ni of factories here ‘The movement is not confined to the nilk industry, if Mr. Hanauer reports that a wi in Nurembureg likewise @ factory that will to control this trade, 4, VINTH AVENUE AND MAninON SQUARE, NEW TORR THE TARIFF BILLI KEN—EVERYBODY PLE Omicbooks.com