Life — March 14, 1912 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Explanation of "Presidential Booms Materializing" This satirical article discusses potential female presidential candidates, a prospect the text suggests is gaining serious consideration. The accompanying cartoon depicts **Lady Liberty or Columbia** (the female personification of America) riding a woolly lamb labeled "WOOL," referencing the protective tariff debate. The poem below the cartoon uses the lamb as metaphor: Republicans favored tariffs to protect domestic wool production, but the cartoon suggests this policy enriches business interests while ordinary citizens suffer ("Get of the lamb, Old Fool!"). The article lists female candidates endorsed by various organizations, treating female presidency as both inevitable and economically consequential—mocking how business interests mobilize around political change regardless of actual qualifications.