Judge, 1915-01-30 · page 9 of 24
Judge — January 30, 1915 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This cartoon satirizes the "Made in the U.S.A." movement—likely an early-20th-century campaign promoting American-made products and economic nationalism. A father confronts his daughter about breaking her engagement to "the Count de Bonnie" (a foreign aristocrat). Her response invokes the movement's logic: if the family supports buying American goods for consistency, she argues, they should logically support marrying an American husband rather than a foreign nobleman. The joke mocks both the movement's absolutism and the daughter's cheeky application of its principles to marriage. It reflects contemporary tension between American isolationism/nationalism and the traditional upper-class practice of marrying European nobility for status.
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nm? THE LOGIC OF IT Father—And did you tell this reporter that your engagement to the Count de Bonnie is off? ; Dunghter—Certainly! You are in this “Made in the U.S. A.” movement, and we must be consistent. I want an American husband!