And in the meantime-- / Kep. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows Uncle Sam imploring a man labeled "ISCC", sitting on a railroad bridge, to throw a life preserver labeled "Permission to Raise Freight Rates" to a man labeled "The Railroads" drowning in a river labeled "Increased Fixed Charges".

Caption: Uncle Sam Why don't you throw him that life-preserver? He may be drowning! / The Inter-State Commerce Commission Plenty of time! Let's first make sure that he can't swim.
Illus. in: Puck, v. 73, no. 1895 (1913 June 25), centerfold.
Copyright 1913 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.